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HAT AND SHOES CAN WAIT.
Boy Uses Money for Railroad Fares 1
and Wedding Fee.
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George Latham may have needed a
new hat and shoes, but if he did he t
overlooked the need in his desire to j
plunge into matrimony. George is> t
17 and felt that he could no longer ^
sigh and love and wait. So the youth g
coaxed money from his mother for }
the shoes and hat, but when he got
v it he sped to the home of Clara My- <
ers, the little daughter of a neigh- t
bor. (
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It was all settled in a jiny, ana uie
children were quickly on their way
to Elkton, Md. There they, somehow,
found a clergyman willing to
make them one. The hat and shoe
\ money paid the fee as well as the
railroad fares, and the pair returned
in fancied bliss. George's parents
will endeavor to have the marriage
annulled.?Trenton, N. J., dispatch
to Philadelphia Record.
A Still "Unsolved Mystery."
One of the tantalizing mysteries
in the life of George Washington is
^ whether he did or did not give ad.
vice to Capt. John Posey in a certain
perplexing matrimonial problem
which the captain submitted to
him. We are indebted to Mr. Paul
Leland Hawrth's interesting volume
on "George Washington: Farmer,"
for a verbatum copy of the letter in
which Captain Posey formulated the
Droblem. Captain Posey, who, it
seems, even in those early days, had 1
partially adopted the reformed spell- t
ing, wrote as follows: i
"I could have been able to Satis'
fled al my Arrears some months AGo t
by marrying an old widow woman in 1
this County. She has large soms 1
cash by her and Prittey good Estate. 1
l She is as thick as she is high. And 1
B gits drunk at Least three or four s
time a week. Which is disagreeable t
\ to me. Has vialant Sperrit when i
| f Drunk. Its been great Dispute in i
r 1 my mind what to Doe. I believe I 1
I shu'd Run all Resks if my Last wife i
/Vhad been Even temper'd woman, but t
her Sperrit has Given me such a r
shock that I am afraid to Run the ]
Resk again." ]
Now, the trouble with this histori- j
cal romance of the tender passion is i
that it stops right there. Absolutely
no record exists of any advice given 1
by Washington. We do not even :
know whether Captain Posey married
the engaging equilateral lady or
not. To be sure, there is indisputable
evidence that he was subsequently
in jail. This may or may not have i
/ been the result of matrimonial in- i
felicities incident to the lady's "vail- 1
ant Sperrit when Drunk." We have, t
in fact, Captain Posey's own state- i
J ment that his prospective wife's c
habit of getting drunk, three or four c
times a week was disagreeable to (
him, and that he had misgivings 1
touching her "vialant Sperrit" under \
such circumstances. t
But it is a blind trail at best; and t
an equally blind "trail is opened by
the fact that Washington undoubted- c
ly did about that time give the cap- s
tain the sum of four pounds. Of 3
course if Captain Posey got into a s
'? matrimonial mess and into jail by i
following Washington's well meant 1
r but unfortunate advice, it is open to ?
inference that the general may have t
felt there was an equitable claim to \
damages in the sum of as much as r
four pounds. c
But all this is pure speculation. In
the baffling absence of all other clues 1
to the denouement, the courtship of t
Captain Posey and the quadrilateral c
widow must remain one of the un- \
solved love romance mysteries of his- c
tory. Incidentally, however, we get i
a sufficient glimpse behind the J
* scenes of those remote days to jus- t
? tify the belief that Washington had i
other troubles than those merely in- s
cident to the birth of a nation and
dealing as president with jackass s
congressmen.?New York Times. \
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Plea to Set Clocks Forward. .
"It is a wonder to me," said John f
R. Edwards, of Portland, Me., at the
Shoreham, "that the government departments
in Washington have not
\ long since adopted the idea of saving
* daylight by the simple expedient of c
setting forward the hands of the i
clock. This scheme has been tried t
with great success in several com- t
munities in our State, and the argu- r
ments in its favor are so sound that i
it ought to come into general use. i
"In the summer time especially, 2
with the long hours of daylight, it s
would seem quite feasible for the big 2
army of Uncle Sam's workers to be- c
gin their labors an hour earlier than 3
the schedules now call for and like- s
wise cease their activities 60 minutes 1
sooner. Of course, this implies ex- t
actly the same period of toil. There 3
need be no confusion, for the .clock I
would register, for instance, 9 a. m., c
V,r,norh i r> yoolitv it WOlllfl b P. but 8 t
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o'clock. The gain, nevertheless, s
would be a real and not an imaginary ?
one, for that extra hour toward the f
conclusion of the day would bring an i
untold amount of convenience and i
comfort, especially to city workers." i
?Washington Post. s
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THE EMPEROR'S DENTIST.
low American Dentists Have Become
Famous in Europe.
Dr. Arthur Newton Davis, dentist
>y appointment to the Emperor Wiliam,
is now in this country, his naive
land. He refused to talk in New
fork about William or the state of
tffairs in Berlin. It is not likely that
le will talk more freely in Pickaway
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)hio, his old home. A prudent dencist,
even if he has not taken the oath
)f Hippocrates, keeps his mouth shut
f there is inquiry about the mouths
>f his patients, nor does he betray
he confidences of patients, who are
lever so confidential as during the
jreathing spell in the chair.
It should be a source of pride to
;he profession that the emperor in
spite of the furious German press reams
an American dentist. A pamphet
might be written about the glorous
deeds of American dentists in
Europe. In Paris Dr. Evans assisted
;he Empress Eugenie in her escape,
in Berlin in the eighties two Americans
divided in rule the American
colony, and one of them plugged and
)ulled and crowned the teeth of Bisnarck,
of the foremost generals livng
there, and of leaders in the court.
U Rome a dentist from Maine had
;he honor of caring for the teeth of
?ing Humbert and his beautiful wife,
[n Dresden lived a dentist who not
>nly gave comfort and relief to the j
Austrian court at Vienna, but to
Richard Wagner, and in his home
;he young Siegfried dreamed of beng
an architect.
What stories could not these dencists
have told! The life of Dr.
Evans has already been published,
out not all that he saw and did. The
?ashionable American dentist in Berin
came to a tragic end. Many poor
students of those years remember
gratefully his kindness, generosity
md hospitality. Montaigne gave a
grotesque illustration of the fact that
sings and queens after all are only!
nortals. These dentists could have j
jiven equally amusing illustrations, i
The hairdressers of Marie Antoinette
Dublished his memoirs; the valet ofVlaupassant
wrote entertainingly and
shrewdly of his master; why should:
lot Dr. Davis at some future day tell |
of the Emperor William in the chair,
vith diagrams of the royal teeth from
pear to year??Boston Herald.
Flies and the War.
Flies are now as much a menace
n Europe as Zeppelins and shrapnel,
iccording to F. N. Tonetti, a New
fork sculptor, who has recently re;urned
from the war front. As a
esult of his description of the agmies
endured by the wounded soliiers
tormented by these pests, 2,)00,000
boxes of flypaper will shorty
be sent to the war zone by the
vomen of the Vacation War Relief
o fulfil a need as great as that for
>andages or medicines.
"Beyond all words and all power
>f imagination is that great black
iwarm that hovers over everything,"
dr. Tonetti said. "They take away
ileep and appetite; they make life
ntoierable. Sometimes amputations
lave to be made without waiting to
;et back to the hospital, and then
he flies are an added danger. Everywhere
you see wounded soldiers tornented
by the flies, and often with>ut
hands to brush them away."
After trying various methods of
rilling flies while on duty in the ammlance
corps, Mr. Tonetti finally de- i
:ided that the long strips of flypaper
were the most efficacious, and he had
>ften caught as many as 70,000 flieo
n a single day by this method,
^.mong the other services performed
)y the sculptor w hile abroad was the
nvention of an extensor for use in
letting broken bones.
"What I have done is little," he
laid, "but the aid given by the
vomen of America, and particularly
>y those of the Vacation War Relief,
s wonderful. Our country will be
orever loved because of them."
Where is Your BinderV
Now that the grain crop has been
:ut, reapers and binders should be
)laced safetly away out of reach of
he weather. There is no machine on
he farm which is harder to keep in
unning order than the binder, and
f it is to be used another year, then
t should by all means be oiled well
md painted if necessary, and put
lafelv away until needed again. There
ire far too many right now standing
>ut in the weather. Mr. Farmer, if
rou appreciate your binder as you
ihould, get busy and see that it is
inder shelter and out of the way
vhere it will not get broken. Unless
'ou do you will be sure to have trou)le
next spring when harvest time
:omes again. Planters and distribuers
should likewise be put safely
iway, and care taken that no parts
ire lost. A thorough cleaning of all
'arm machinery which will not be
leeded again this year snouia De
nade, and when the time comes to
lse them again they will be in good
>hape.
PECULIAR TIMEPIECES.
Watches in Tliis Unique Collection
Have Interesting Histories.
The person of average experience
is more or less familiar with watches
which strike the hour, watches with
illuminated dials, stop watches,
watches with elaborately ornamented
faces and cases and other watches
which differ ffom the ordinary watch;
but a watch collector, Wiliard H.
Wheeler, has lent to the Central museum
of the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences a collection of 97
watches, any one of which is sufficiently
peculiar to deserve a place
among historic watches. The idea
of the collector in limiting the number
was to outline the history of
watchmaking rather than to exhibit
freaks, but among the specimens are
some with unique qualities and romantic
histories. The watch developed
naturally from the large encased
clock which stood in a cabinet.
Clocks became smaller so that they
could be hung on the wall, and finally
small enough to occupy only a little
space on the mantlepiece. Then
some punctual soul carried one on a
string about his neck, and with these
came a demand for further reduction
in size. These personal clocks
were elaborately jewelled. The English
Puritans wished watches, but
they coud not wear the conspicuous
timepieces common to their age.
Thereupon Tompion, the foremost
clockmaker of England, devised the
pocket timepiece, now known as the
w a tun.
Tompion was tne official watchmaker
to all the royal families oi
Europe, and since each king demanded
something different and was able
to pay for it, there are a large number
of freak Tompion watches, Tompion
became so famous that upon
his death England honored him witu
a slab in Westminster Abbey along
with her noted men. But Tompior
knew nothing of the stem-winding
watch; that came in the eighteenth
century, as did also the repeater
made to strike the hours automatically.
One of the most admired watches
in the collection was made by the
English watchmaker, Thomas Mudge
for Ferdinand VI, of Spain. It has
three cases?the outer being of leather
for hunting and other outdooi
pastimes, the second of plain gold
for wear about the palace, and the
inner of gold incrusted with jewels
On state occasions the two outei
cases were removed and the inner exhibited
for the gratification of Ferdinand's
love for display.
Another was made in Switzerland
in 1790, richly enameled and inlaid
with pearl, and inherited in 1800 bj
the Manchu Emperor, Kea-king. The
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imperial palace in Peking, on the
queen's dressing table, until during
the Boxer rebellion when the palace
was sacked. The chief feature of the
watch is a fountain which by the
movement of small bits of glass on
delicate wires is made to appear to
flow. This is thought to have caught
the eye of a looter, who took the
watch from the palace and sold it to
an employee of the German embassy
in Peking. Ke 6old it to Wheeler.
One watch with an almost tragic
history was made by Henry Louis
Drosz, the French watchmaker, who
went to Spain about the time of the
Spanish Inquisition. This watch is
wolind by shaking, and when he exhibited
it to the Spaniards, who had
seen nothing but key-winding watches
and few of them, he was accused of
practicing black magic. In vain did
he declare that when he shook the
watch he was merely winding it.
They contended that he was shaking
up the evil spirits. He was tried,
convicted and sentenced to death.
But the Bishop of Toledo pointed out
to the court that if the watch was
really operated by evil spirits it
would never need cleaning, and it
was shown that Drosz's watch would
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was thereupon released.
In the collection are watches of
many shapes?flowers, mandolins,
skulls, crosses, rings and butterflies.
One of Swiss make contains 1,741
matched pearls and 158 turquoises.
And there is a huge watch worn by
Lord Nelson, hero of Trafalgar, and
another engraved with the name of
George Washington.
He Heard It.
An Irishman, an Englishman and
a Scotchman once went up into a
tower to see which could see the
farthest through a telescope. The
Englishman, who looked first, said:
"Oh, Pat, I can see the minute
hand of a clock four or five miles
away."
"I can see the minute hand on the
same clock moving," said the Scotchman.
Pat stood in amazement listening
to his comrades. When he looked
through he was seen to smile. Then
he said:
"Faith, if I don't hear the same
clock striking."?Cleveland Plain
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