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WOMAN EARNED HER LIBERTY Unlooked-For Suffering Endured by Stowaway Who Was Making H?er Way to Freeaom. i Gone was the Bosporus and in its place we saw the leaden waters of the Black sea. From the porthole of i Josef's cabin - we could distinguish i many miles west of us the coast line j of the country in which White had ' spent three years, according to Capt. j ; Alan Bott's "Stowaways, Inc.," in Asia, j Feodor soon left us, for he had to i bring other stowaways to the light of j day. From every concealed cranny of the vessel men and women, almost as ; light-hearted as ourselves at deliver- j ance from the Turks, were coming into 1 the open. One of the stowaways, a passport- ? less woman whom the aged captain j was taking with him to Odessa, did j not rejoice for some time. As hiding : place for her the old man had chosen j a deep locker in his chartroom on the j bridge. There she had remained for ; the last two days. Now, Kosa, the kitchen wench, knew nothing of the j captain's lady. That morning, not ! wishing to send her own particular stowaway?a Turkish deserter with ! coal-blackened face, untrimmed beard j and decidedly odorous clothes?back j to the bunkers, where he had spent ! the previous day, she thought of the locker as a temporary home. Dump- j , ing him inside the locker, she fas- j tened the lid and ran back to the j kitchen. The Turkish deserter landed with some violence on the captain's j lady and both received a bad fright as they clutched at each other in the darkness. Yet the lid could not be removed from the inside and the woman's, screams were unheard outside the j little room. The air in the unventi- ; lated locker grew more and more j stuffy. Finally the woman fainted. < The Turk, tired after a long spell of cramped wakefulness in the bunkers : and the kitchen, composed himself . philosophically and went to sleep. AGED MAN CLAIMS RECORD > New Hampshire Nonogenarian Still Able to Swing Ax Both Lustily ; [ and Expertly. j Friends of Frank Mozrall, ninety, ; of Franklin, N. H., claim that he is the champion woodchopper of his age in the New England states. Despite his { near approach to the century mark he is able to swine an ax with the best of the choppers of the New Hampshire : woods, those who know him best say. ; Mr. Mozrall was formerly a hotel man. Since his retirement a favorite pastime of his has been to walk a distance of five nriles from the home of his niece to a wood lot and there chop ^ wood. It is claimed that he cut almost five cords of wood in a week, which is considered a record for a man any- j where near Mr* Mozrall's age. Mr. Mozrall helped to build the first bridle path from the Profile to the summit of Mount Lafayette, and was one of the best-known guides in the mountains years ago. He has guided some of the best-knowrn people of the country in their explorations of the White mountains. It is only recently that he has come into fame as a wroodchopper. ^ i Mr. Mozrall's memory is most excellent and his general health.is excep- ; tionally good for a man of his advanced years.?Boston Post. j Syntnetic Vine- and Acetic Acid. Acetic acid is now used in great quantities in making acetate of eel- 1 lulose for airships. Before the war : this was obtained by distilling wood, 1 but it no longer suffices. A synthetic S way of making acetic acid was dis- i covered and now the price is much j lower than it used to be. The process is simple; it calls for the production of acetic aldehyde by a reaction of water with acetylene, and the j oxidation of the aldehyde gives acetic j acid. Three French companies are now ! using this process and La'Nature says j , they bid fair to drive the distillers of j wood out of the field, even planning to produce a synthetic vinegar that shall ; be much cheaper than the natural ar- j tide. j Strong Ptca. The local scout executive had vis- I ited the school for the purpose of or- : ganizing a troop. He talked to the I boys for a time and then taught them : several yells, some for their school i and some for the principal, all of which ma le a decided hit with them. 1 A few days later they asked their j teacher to invi e him hack, hut she ' refused, pi can t that their time was \ i needed for th? .r regular school work, j Another few days and their request ; was repeated, only to meet with J:he < same refusal and the same excuse. It was almost a week before the r ! subject was again mentioned, and j thei^ the genius of the class did it. "Say, Miss YV ho began, j "don't you feel like you would like to i be yelled for again?" Remarkable! An amorous young man met a math-! ematical maid .it the Christmas dance.1 He was as keen on flirtations as she : on nroh'ems. and he asked her, in j r ? the conservatory, to tell him her age. i "Eow old am I?" replied the girl.; "Well, when I am as old as my sister ! was when she was as old as I will be when she is twice as old as I then was I will be twice as old as I now am." j The young man, eager to please,< looked it her in polite astonishment and^exola lined: "Nsrerl" I AS LITERATURE IS "MADE" Kipling Manuscript Shows Author Possessed of at Least One Great Quality of Genius. There turned up, the other day, in a sale of manuscripts a particularly interesting specimen of literature in the making. Mr. Rudyard Kipling sent it in typewritten copy to the editor of the National Observer, Mr. Henley, and it appeared under the title "Tomlinson" in January, 1892; but between the coming of the typewritten sheets and the appearance of the printed poem a good many things happened to the manuscript, some due to the author and some to the editor. One imagines Mr. Henley editing Mr. Kipling, a situation which the author anticipated, for against certain lines he had written admonitions and dire threats, although there is no evidence to show whether Mr. Henley let the lines stand because he liked them or because he was terrified. In another item in the same sale one sees that Mr. Kipling first wrote the poem "Cleared" in the character of an Irishman, but when he saw it in proof he altered the phonetic spelling. Which indicates, incidentally, the capacity for taking pains which is an important factor in successful authorship, even if it fails to stand, despite a wellknown quotation, for the whole of genius.?Christian Science Monitor. "BABY" AIRPLANES FLY FAST Planes 'That Can Make Ninety-Six Miles an Hour Are Now in Use in Europe. p Just as the era of adult automobiles was followed by the creation of baby motorcars, so now in the aerial world there is an influx of baby airplanes. In the park, in the fields and in various other open spaces miniature aircraft are having tryOuts all over England. One of these midgets, called the "British Crowweighs 220 pounds, and flies with almost the speed of a full-grown airplane. Another baby, called "the pocket airplane," is so small that a man can span its wings. It is 16 feet long, and the inventor, Austin Whipple, says it will achieve a speed of 96 miles an hour. A feature of this baby is that it can be j folded for transport and carried in-! side a trunk. The French are also dabbling in liliputian aircraft. An infant monoplane Is turned out by a French firm at Garsay with a span of a trifle more than 13 feet, thus being two feet smaller than the "British Crow." Fitted with a ten horsepower ABC engine, it has a speed of 62 miles an hour, and can land at the low speed of 20 miles an hour. The average retail price of these little brothers of the Capronis, Handley Pages and Vimys is from $1,D00 to $1,200. Monumental "Toppers." Though there is a revival of the silk j hat, which many people thought the j war had made extinct as a species of j headdress, few would argue that it makes a fit subject fpr the sculptor. J Yet there are several top-hatted statues about. One at least is in the United States, ft is a statue of President Lincoln. He is bareheaded, but his "topper," a very unfashionable specimen, is carefully laid on the seat at his side. But perhaps the funniest; specimen is in the Central square at j Glasgow, Scotland. It represents a re-' spected citizen, James Oswald, mem-1 ber of parliament, and he carries his "topper" in his right hand, held firm- j ly by the brim and upside down. The street urchins find this "topper" irre-; sistible. If the policeman is round the j corner they play pitching pebbles into Mr. Oswald's hat. Some of them* are ] expert at the game and the hat has! to be emptied of stones quite fre- j quently. Eight Thousand Swiss. Only 8,000 Swiss soldiers fought in the war. That number entered the . French service. j But that is not the whole story. Out, of the 8,000, 300 survived, including j many wounded. The rest, 7,700, were ; killed. A thousand of them held up a German advance one day at Verdun;' held it up until the last man of them i was killed. | * 4. r.A roorc oorn fho cfnrv nf Wil? i AUUU L OV _> ecu. o u(,u u>v uiv.j ~ ^ .. liara Tell and the poem about Arnold von Winkelried were in most of the school readers that young Americans cut their eye teeth on. The 8,000 Swiss who fought in the war well established the right of that! story and that poem to remain in American school readers.?Life. Lost His Place. Old man Bitzer conducted a furni- ; ture store in a neighboring town., j Bitzer. like many others of his race, j liked his beer, so one day between j customers he stepped into the barber i chop, and while waiting his turn de- ' cided he would have time to enter a saloon next floor and have a glass of I beer. On returning to the barber I shop he was much vexed to find his | turn taken by another, and after a few I gruff remarks said to the barber: j f I "When a man goes out and comes right eway back in. is he out?"' Some Ordeat "What's the matter? You look .pale and feeble." "Been through quite an ordeal. Was up to Flubdub's heuse last night*' "Well?" "And drank some home-made wine manni'aetured by his wife'and smoked two of his Christmas cigars."?Louisville Courier-Journal. ( I MONEY TO LEND ?on? REAL ESTATE j File Your Application Now. | Home Building & Loan Association j J. F. Carter, J. W. Barr, J. C. Kearse, Pres. V. 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