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FiWH mm DUE Troubles of Orleans Family Re- -^.> IT SGWLIZED, 'Young Frenchman in America Visited Pretty Viriginia Girls, Causing Head v of House or Bourbon MUCH Mortifi- cation—How Flirtation Started, Richmond, Va.—Recent cablegrams from Brussels setting forth the esca- pades of the Duke of Orleans and the duchess' suit for separation recall an Incident In his career In Richmond twenty years ago. ;One bright t'spring morning In 1893 something of a furor was created among the passengers on the little river steamer that plied between Nor- folk and Richmond when tbey learned the identity of three distinguished per- sonages aboard. They were traveling Ineog*,But$Boroe one recognized them as titer <jp^i : i-of Paris, his son, the Duke of .©Weans, and his nephew. Prince Heftry of Orleans. The elder had come bver to revisit battlefields on and nearjithe James river, where he had flgui*j§d. in 1862 when on the staff, with his. brother, of General McOleilan jgt the Union army. The count was re- _ ...vising his book OD civil war and deslr- A 1| s$k;a ifresb view of locale and atrnos / ^;'|>irj^Bre. They bad visited York town '™\>if|S^'Williamsburg in .which battles he * i'^4'hR8 taken part, and the itinerary was ^f DUKE AJTD DDCHESS OP ORLEANa r to take them ito Gaines' Mills and Fair Oaks, wbere he had fought gal- lantly. His son and bis nephew were band- some, dashing young fellows, who had seen service and bunted tigers In In dia. The old count pointed out and expatiated on Interesting places along the historic route, scenes of notable en- gagements. In which he had figured thirty years before, and became so ab- sorbed in the memories that he did not discover the keener interest manifest- ed by the young noblemen In two pret- ty sisters of Richmond, one a blond and the other a brunette, vivacious and fond of admiration. Misses Opbelia and Louise Bulling- ton betrayed sufficient Interest to em- bolden young Evan Chesterman. a fea- ture writer, to offer to Introduce them. S?6t Just then, though: the old count was watching the youngsters with rig- orous solicitude. He was stern, proud, a stickler for etiquette, never forget- ting that he was undisputed head of the house ot Bourbon. Before the boat reached Richmond, howeve'r. the plans were arranged by Chesterman for the party to call on the girls at home that evening. Weary from travel, the count was easily per suaded to retire early and was tucked away. His room at the old Lexington hotel was across the hall from that of the duke and prince. Nine o'clock found him snoring, while a cab with -•drawn-curtains was hurrying the party of three to spend the evening with the beauty sisters. Both the young noble- nien spoke good English, and a jolly party It was. with clever stories and love songs dashed off' In a glass of wine and the spice of adventure. When the prirty returned at midnight the count awoke to learn the truth, and things were blue around the hotel. Catching them sneaking Into their robms. he thundered his censure and threatened to disinherit the duke for so far forgetting himself as to visit strange women out ot his station and start gossip. \Picture the horrid American news- papers out with your escapades In ghastly headlines!\ he growled. \Ugh! I'm most shocked and mortified. And you. sir, heir' and head of the great house of BourhonT How It Happened. \A letter addressed to me and mark- ed 'Personal' came to my house yester- day, and my wife didn't open It.\ \How do you account for It?\ \She was out of town attending the \ wedding of one of her cousins.\—Chi- • caco Record-Herald. Ordered It. She (in restaurant)—I'm so hungry I could eat n house! He—Then that's what we'll have Walter, a porter- house, large, for two!—London Tele- graph. FiNDSr.HEABSE AT STATION, Women-Supposed to Be Dead-Changes' gjans For Funeral. . , Bellofohtt&pe,. O.—VYhen Mrs. George W, parr <&,'•, jtejidw! Springs alighted from a {rain ,$t West Liberty recently she was surprised to See a hearse, an undertaker and carriages, one being occupied by her mother and a clergy man, awaiting her coming. She found she was su'pposprl to have died and that the dearse was to take her body to West Liberty cemetery. A mistake In a telegram .was' 1 'the cause. Mrs. OBIT'S mother, Mrs., Eliza beta Shumate, received, a • telegram saying Mrs. Carr bad died Monday alght and that the body would .arrive at West Liberty. Mrs. Shumate had received, a letter previously in \wbich Mrs. Carr said she would visit her mother. Mrs. Shu- mate was prostrated when the sup posed'death message came. Her bus- band died suddenly a year ago, and her son passed away without warning recently, and she supposed ber last re malning child was also dead. When Mrs. Carr stepped from the train alive and well there wds a pathetic reunion. Many friends of Mrs. Carr were also at the'depot for the village newspaper bad published a column obituary no- tice. PORCUPINE TO BE DISPLAYED Another of Perry's Ships Discovered and Fitted Up. Cleveland.—The Porcupine, another vessel of the fleet which, under Com- modore Perry, defeated the British fleet in the battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812, has been discovered and is being repaired to take part In the centennial celebrations of Perry's vic- tory. Raised from the shore of the lake eight years ago and' hauled ashore by Charles G. Boltbonse, the Porcupine Is being refitted by Mr. Boltbonse and his cousin, B. 3. Ifenners of Cleveland. After the battle of Lake Brie the Porcuplue was used In the government revenue service on the great lakes until 1830, when she was sold at auc- tion to Senator Perry of Michigan. Senator Perry rebuilt the boat 'and used her In the lumber trade until 1847. Unfit for further use. the Poreu pine was turned adrift and Inter float- ed Into the harbor of Grand River, Mich-, and sunk. BY MU FREE It Loos- ens Golis as Girl Plays. Punxsntawney, Pa.—With the coils of a python twenty-five feet long tightening'gradually around his body, James Harve Stenger, manager for a carnival company, escaped being crushed to death only through the tpower. ot -music to soothe the reptlle» after the efforts of'six men had failed' to dislodge It. Mr. Stenger was superintending the unloading of a bos of snakes when the python escaped. Por an instant the reptile seemed to be dazed, and as Mr. Stenger took a stick and tried to push it through a door into u big glass case the snake turned like a flush. In an Instant the python entwined Itself around Mr. Stenger, pinning his arms to his sides. Six men went to Mr. Stenger's aid and attempted to pull the snake from his body. The folds of the big reptile, however, only drew closer, and Mr Stenger was on the verge of a collapse when Mile. La Boneto. who owns the reptile, appeared with a flageolet be tween ber lips. Stationing herself near the snake, sbe began to play a low, weird melody, at the same time swaying her body to and fro gently. Raising Its head, the python began to sway in rhythm with the player and the maslc. and. gradu- ally loosening its folds from Mr Stenger. it coiled on the ground with Its head swinging from side to side. Slowly approaching the snake. Mile. La Boneto, still playing gently, forcerl 1t Into the glass cage. In the mean time Mr. Stenger, who had toppled over unconscious when released from the folds of the snake, was reviver! and found to be uninjured. MAN DROWNED BY FISH. Tries to Swim River Carrying Forty Pounds ot Them. Newton. N. J.—Barry C. Pitman eighteen years old. was drowned In trying to swim the Paulinskill river with a catch of forty pounds ot all Kinds of fish strung about bis neclt He went down in tbe whirlpool neii' the Stillwater bridge, while friend* who thought his cries tor help were in fun laughed at him Tbey answered his second frantic cry, but too late. Pitman went spearing fish with Ed- ward Huff of Hardwlck township, by whom he was employed, and Lester Huff, brother of Edward. They had good lock, and at 2:30 o'clock decided they had enough to \call it a night\ Pitman suggested that tbey swim back and started first Stars and Stripes In the Flag. The flag of thirteen stars and thir- teen stripes was adopted by congress on June 14, 1777. The stars were at first arranged in a circle, but a few years later were placed in. rows. After the admission of Vermont and Ken- tucky to the Union the number of stars and stripes was increased to fif- teen each on May 1, 1795. the law to that effect being signed by President Washington Jan. 13. 1794. Tbe flag re- mained in that form through our wars with France, with Tripoli and with England, on the first voyage of an American warship around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope and in the writing of Key's \Star Spangled Ban- ,ner.\ On April 4, 181S. President Mon- roe signed the present flag law. and on July 4, 1818, the national ensign was made to consist, as at present, of thirteen stripes and of a number of stars equal to the number of states.— New York Tribune. AC1L0RS LEAD I0RIME3T01 Uiwrleij Criminals Far Out- er THREE-FOURTHS UNDER 30, Statistics Show That Married Men At- tempt Suicide More Frequently Than Unmarried Ones — Single Women Criminals More Numerous. New York.—Many more unmarried than married men commit crimes, ac- cording to the report of Henry D. Sayer, chief clerk of the district attor- ney's office. The report shows that ii. 1912 there were 789 convictions of married men in general sessions and in the criminal branch of the supreme court and that there were 2,068 'convic- tions of unmarried men. There were 66 convictions of married women and 100 convictions of unmarried women. Records show that in the last nine years there have been 18.406 convic- tions of unmarried men, while among men who bad at some time led a bride to the altar there were but 7,670 con- victions. The unmarried men excel In alinoaM every crime on the calendar. The most notable exception is In the case o;' attempted suicide. Last year the ratio was three married men to one unmarried. Tbe leport also shows that about three-fourths of the men who are brought .nto court are under thirty years of uge. Of the 2.807 men con- victed lasi year 940 were under the age of twenty and 1,278 were between twenty-one and thirty years old. Aft- er the age of thirty the ratio gradually decreases, there being but five men over seventy who last year were con- victed of any crime. Out of 26.079 persons comic ted in the last nine years ll.ur>2 were between the ages of twen'j ine and thirty and 8.293 were betwt n fifteen and twenty years. Aiming the women two-thr-lds of those convicted were.under thirty. It is nlso apparent from the report that in the last nine years there has been a gradual Increase in tbe number of young men of criminal tendencies, the number of convictions of male crimi- nals under the age of thirty having In- creased from 1.700 in 1904 to 2,200 In 1912. On the other band, the number of convictions of men over the age of thirty has remained about station- ary. The report shows that the ofllce dis- posed of 6,651 actions during the year. There wore 3.023 convictions In gen- eral sessions and the supreme court, of- which 2,383 were upon pleas of guilty and 640 upon verdicts after trial. There were 321 trials that re- sulted in acquittal. There were more convictions for murdet In the first degree than in •any otber year In the history of the coun- ty. Thirteen persons were convicted of first degree murder, while the high- est number appearing 1n the records of other years is eight. It is also wor- thy of note that for the first time on record In this county four men were Jointly tried and each found guilty of murder in tbe first degree. Tbe average sentence imposed was five years and sis months, and the total state prison terms amounted to 3.991 years. The longest sentences were for burglary in the first degree. There has been a gradual Increase in the length of sentences Imposed since 1904, when the average was four years and six months. The most frequent crime was grand larceny, with 660 convictions. Next came burglary, with 492 convictions. READING BRAIN OF DEAD MAN? Believed Thoughts Were Visible. Strange Request In Will. Cambridge. Mass.—Scientists in the Harvard Medical school are trying to read the brain ot the late Dr. Maurice Howe Richardson, ex-member of fac- ulty of that institution. The examina- tions are being conducted secretly in the neuropatlKiloglcal department and under the direction or Dr. E. E. South ard Dr. Richardson was a firm believer that thoughts ma^de definite lines lu the brain, and the present examination is being conducted in accordance with his wishes as expressed In his will He believed that a person's thoughts were recorded and were at the time of thinking visible on the outer walls of tbe cerebrum. He held that if these lines were read and the seat of the thought located it would make It pos- sible to correct defects in the brain by surgical operations. A Knight In Topcoats. The'late Sir Tatton Sykes, says the Manchester Guardian, had a way of his own of taking his walks comfort- ably. A visitor in the neighborhood of Sledmere would see the baronet set out for his morning round wearing two or three overcoats. When he felt warm enough he would take off first one and then another and lay it on the nearest hedgerow. The person who found an overcoat and returned it to the house always received the reward of a shil- ling, and no doubt the Sledmere boys were willing searchers. ' Overladen Apple Trees. Hutchinson. Kan.—Because the ap- ples are so thick on the trees in the big Reno county orchards gangs of men are being hired to go through the or- chards and knock green apples from the t-Wes. This is necessary, the fruit growers, explain, to prevent tbe boughs from breaking down under the weight of the growing fruit Dog Stops Court Case. Walla Walla. Wasb.-Leslie G. Kork- tnan's dog Ohlnner stopped a case in the superior court while he caught a mouse. The dog is a fox terrier and was in court with his master. The Bight of a fat mouse was too much. Court officials aided dim, and the case was resumed. ROOSTER INJURES BOY. One Eye Pioked'Out as He Tried to Protect Sister, South Norwulk, Conn.—Mabel, the four-year old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Griever Lent ot this place, was knocked down by a rooster, and her brother Victor, one year her senior, who went to her rescue, had one eye picked out and tbe other one seriously injured. Mabel had gone to collect eggs in the hennery when the rooster, a in rue Plymouth Rock, pounced on her and bore her to the ground. The roostwV spurs lacerated her arms and legs, nnrl she cried out in pain. Had she not held her arm over her face she might have fared the same as did b»r brother Her screams brought Victor to her side. He attempted to fight the roost- er, only to be knocked down and se riously Injured. The children's parents hurried to the scene. The father chop- ped off the head of the rooster nurl threw him in tbe river. Physicians hope to save Victor's fight eye, but the left Is gone entirely. MAN MAY HAVE BEAUTY. Board of Arbitration Gives Damages For Loss of It. Danville. III.—A board of arbitration in the case of a machinist, Charles Chick, against the Chicago and East- ern Illinois railroad, .under the com- pensation law, has decided that a man can possess beauty and obtain dam- ages for loss of It Chick was struck in tbe eye by a piece of steel last September when at work. The pupil was destroyed, and he asked damages for loss of time, for the handicap by reason of loss of the eye and loss of beauty. The railway company claimed that a man does not possess such n thing as beauty, but the board decided Chick's appearance had been damaged $200 and that he suffered $500 more in dam- ages to his eye and In loss of time. The board was comprised of five at- torneys named by the court and was headed by Arthur Hall, famous Dni- verslty of Illinois football coach. Is e Inhuman. Birmingham. Ala.-With the purpose of taking all of tbe thousands of Ala- bama convicts out of the mines, lum- ber mills and turpentine camps a state wide movement to abolish the obnox- ious lease system is In progress, partic- ipated in by the best element of citi- zenship In the state. At a great mass meeting addresses were made picturing the greed, graft and cruelty of the sys- tem, and announcement was made chat it wcjuld.be a fighj -to.„a finish between the state's humanitarian spirit on the one side and corporations and profes- sional politicians on the otber. The spirit of the movement was em- bodied in the question \Shall we send the man who has served his sentence back home a better citizen or drive him to slavery and criminal mania?\ instances were cited where men had been sentenced to long terms at mine labor for shooting craps, neglecting to work on the roads and stealing rides on trains. Mrs. .Inlla Tutwiler, noted for her work for prison reform in the south, sent a message of Indorsement, In which she pleaded for night schools for convicts, humane hygienic condi- tions and other reforms tending to make the life of the man in stripes en- durable. An executive committee was appoint- ed to carry the tight into all of the six- ty-seven counties of thp state and pave the way for a deciding battle In the next legislature. Captain Frank S White ot Birmingham, former chair- man of the Democratic state executive committee and for years general coun sel of the mine workers of Alabama, was made chairman of the committee Twenty other representative men ot influence throughout the state will help in a whirlwind campaign. In addition each county will have a strong commit- tee. For years there has bpen talk of ugly treatment of the convicts 1n the mines. lumber camps and turpentine mills. In half a dozen or more explosions in coai mines within a few years a hundred or more convicts had been killed. But no- body seemed to worry over their fate. The state leases about a thousand convicts to several largp coal mining and lumber industries and nets from it over half a million dollars a year after feeding, clothing and guarding the men. An average of thirty dollars a month is paid to the state. Each con- Wet is required to do a certain task. Pearl In Oyster Cocktail. Chicago.—Mrs. M. J. Anderson, wife of an attorney, while In the midst of an oyster cocktail found a pearl, it was taken to a jeweler's, polished and appraised at $1,200. \And to think.\ said Mrs. Anderson. \1 thought it to be a piece of oyster shell and was going to reprove the waiter \ Unappreciated. \See John,\ said Mrs. Slathers, with a happy smile, \I have taught the ca- nary every time I come near him to stick out his little bill to be kissed.\ \Humph!\ tnu\ Slathers, eying the bird critically. \Seems to me yon spend your time teaching creatures how to present their bills for my atten- tion. I got one from your milliner this morning, not to mention a dozen or two others In the same mail.\—Har- per's. Hopeless. A\ woman went to the police station to inquire about her missing husband. \What is his distinguishing feature?\ asked the superintendent. \A large Roman nose,\ she answered. \Then he won't be found,\ emphatic- ally exclaimed a policeman, \for a nose of that kind never turns up.\—Pear- son's Weekly. TAKEGHARLTOKT& ITALY FOR TRIAL Young American Faces Term In an Italian Dungeon, HOW HE MURDERED WIFE. Fight Against Extradition Occasioned International Interest and Threaten- ed to Embroil This Country With Italy—Lo«ig Fight at Last Ended. New York.—Porter Charlton, the young American who killed his bride In their villa at Lake Como, Italy, in June, 1910, and who tor three years has successfully fought extradition, nas been turned over to the Italian govern- ment and will be tried for his crime. in the Hudson county Jail at Jersey City Charlton was under espionage which was relaxed neither day nor night In the fear that he might try to take his own life rather than face a living death In an Italian dun- geon. He had no visitors save his de- POKTER CHARLTON. voted father, Paul Charlton, former United States judge at Porto Rico: bis mother and brother and his counsel. The crime for which Charlton must now stand trial created worldwide at- tention because of bis grewsome set ting and the prominence of the slayer's family. The tight against extradition occasioned international interest and at one time threatened to embroil this country with Italy. Porter Charlton wa_s a New York bank clerk when he met Mrs. Neville H. Castle, a divorcee and daughter ot Henry H. Scott, a Sau Francisco coal merchant The wooing of Charlton was ardent and rapid, with the result that the couple were secretly married in Wilmington. Dei., in April. 1910. A few days later they sent announcements to their friends and then sailed for Eu- rope on their honeymoon. Letters re- ceived by Captain Scott, attached to the coast artillery at Fort Myer, led to the belief that the couple were happy and peaceably enjoying themselves. On the morning ot June 10 the body ot Mrs. Cbarlton was found by fisher- men lu a trunk in Lake Como not far from the villa the pair had occupied. An investigation was started by tbe police of Cernobbio. and a Russian named Constantine Ispolatoff was ar- rested. When tbe authorities searched for Charlton he had disappeared. It was at first believed Charlton had met death defending his wife's honor and the lake was searched for his body. Then it was learned from the proprietor of the Hotel Suisse at Cer nobbio that a couple had frequently appeared there and registered as Mr and Mrs. Potter. Tbey had oftcr quarreled, and on several occasions the woman bad been seen weeping. Once the guests beard snrieks. and tbe pro prletor found Mrs. Charlton hidden in a closet Later her husband dragged ber to the street and the proprietoi asked tbe pair to leave bis hotel. These stories turned suspicion upon Charlton, and tbe police ot the entire world were asked to arrest him on sight None of the detectives assigned to the case was more indefatigable than Captain Scott. He swore to he revenged and obtained a leave of ah Sence. Scott thought bis brother-ln law might be on tbe Deutschland and Uraa on band when sbe docked. No trace of Charlton was found, and he strolled over to the Prinzess Irene He had never seen the object of his quest but a man on tbe pier answered his description, and he caused his ar rest He bad arrived under an as sumed name, but admitted bis identity when his own name was found stitch ed inside bis laundry bag. He then seemed glad that the strain was over. At police headquarters be made a Written confession, in which he said that, while his wife was \the best wo man in the world,'\ they often quar reled over trivial matters, and she would call him foul names. Tbe night of the murder she went into a temper, and In a daze he struck Per with a mallet he bad been using to straighten out the leg of a eoileu. He then placed the mallet and body in a trunk, drag) ged the trunk from tbe villa to a small pier and threw It Into- Lake Como. Foiled. Tramp—Good morning, lady. 1 thought perhaps I might be able to get a bite here Mrs. Snapp—Certainly not. Tramp—Oh, then I am laboring under a mistake. Mrs. Snapp—It strikes me you never labor under any circum- stances.—London Opinion. His Ground. He—Why are you going to marry that old fossil? She—I love the'very ground he walks on. He—I know, but isn't there any other way of getting It?— London Opinion. f^*' ? J^''* : '^^-;W'\''' : !*' ; . '•^'*' : : -•' ' ' ' •'''' • ,!'• »';.' . '' , ; ' ,,\.\-^-:\.-J .i y>* .'i! |jfi'ili|liri i'il i'l t'i^.Jiju-i.j.i i i|ij (mil J i •>,|'|«)|I,|»| ii I'II i i.l rati •\ , •v.' '- , .'£ ' . ..,!,'. .' ...if-*,: TO STOP !MPetiS^NAiJ0n!& Cummins Bill Would Jail Men Guilty of Lamar's Trick. Washington.-With a view to stop- ping the practice of impersonating members of congress and other public- officials, which practice was brought to the attention/^t the seuate lobby Inves- tigating committee by tbe confession of David Lamar., Senutor Cummins ot Iowa, member of the committee, has introduced in the senate a bill whose object is to deal with persons guilty ot such misrepresentation. The Cummins bill .woqld make prac- tically Impossible the impersonation of members of congress, such as that In which Lamar engaged, using the names of Representatives Palmer and Rior- dan for the purpose of driving Judge Robert S. Lovett and otber financiers into employing Edward Lauterbaeb as their counsel. Despite the confessed deceptive and fraudulent nature of the plot engi ® 1913, by American Press Association. DAVID LAMAR. neered by Lamar, there is no law to. reach it Under the Cummins bill impersona- tion over the phone or otherwise by any person of a member of congress or other public official will be made, a fel- ony, punishable by imprisonment of from three to five years; a maximum fine of $10,000, or both fine and im- prisonment. Similarly, impersonation over the phone or any one conversing from one state to another will be niade a felony. ..HUMUS' IN THESOfL : r5iii Valuable Substance I* Due to th» Praaonce of B»o4eria. ; We find a vast difference 'in the feo' tillty of different soils, writes C, ,1.. McArthur, assistant bacteriologist, ida r ho experiment station. Por instance, sand,' although it taay contain all the elements necessary for plant food, is- still found barren and without vegeta- tion. Garden soils, however, may con- tain less plant food than the sand and still be considered very fertile. This difference is usually due to the sub- stance known as humus. Where the hiiinus is present the different ele- ments are present in a form that plants can use. This humus Is the remains of previous plants and animals. When plants die that part which is not usetf for commercial purposes usually goes back to the soil. In much the same • way a great' deal of the animal body reaches the soil. As soon as this material reaches the soil it Is attacked by millions of bacte- ria, which are known as the decompo-, sition bacteria. . These bacteria soon cause a great many, changes in the ma- terial, each change tending to break down the complex into the more sim- ple compounds. A part of this material is set free in the form of gases and is lost In the atmosphere, hut the greatest part remains in, the soil as a partly de- composed mass and is known as hu- mus. Different'classes of bacteria continue their work on this material after it has reached the form of humus, decompos- ing it still further and building plant food ' and other substances from it Thus we' see that humus is continually changing. It is never the s.ame in two different fields, and it also differs from year to year in the same field. The addition of manure to a field' .does a great deal toward the formation of humus. It not only adds decompose ing matter to the soil, but it also adds ' large numbers of bacteria which form humus out of the 'material already in. the soil. Thus we'find that if it were not for the work of bacteria there would not be any humus, as the various plant and animal matter would hot de- \ cay. •.'';. CHOCOLATE AS A FQOO. Canton. O.—An ironclad agreement, backed by bonds pledging a $700 farm and $700 in cash put up by their re- spective fathers, promises to insure the wedded bliss of t Miss Elizabeth Boldi, seventeen years, and Casiau Bartt, Jr., twenty, of Youngstown. The young people themselves have no doubt in their minds that they will get along together. They have sw'orn eternal love to each other and declare that the agreement and the bonds are entirely superfluous. But the parents, noting the increase of divorce and the fact that there are many pitfalls tor the feet of unwary married young peo- ple, decided to do all they comd in a legal way to make the marriage knot so tight that it can never be untied. By the terms of the agreement Bartt's father promises that his son will never loaf, gamble, drink, play pool or dance witb any young woman other than his wife. He pledges a $700 farm. The bride's father has de- posited a cash bond of $700 with a bank that his daughter will make a model wife, will not gossip, run around witb other men and will cools to the husband's satisfaction. Caesaria, or New Jersey. What is now the state of New Jer- sey was part of the territory claimed by the Dutch under the name of New Netherlands. Before the English seiz- ed the country something had been done to settle this part, although it had not developed as might have been expected in the fifty years of Dutch occupancy. The Duke of York, as pro- prietor of the territory newly acquired, ceded in 1064 this southern portion ly- ing between the Delaware river and the sea to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. The new province was named Caesaria, or New Jersey, in honor of Carteret, who as governor of the island of Jersey had heroically defended it against the parliamentari- ans during the great rebellion. Too Dainty to Wed. It was a curious reason that moved Beau Brummel to cancel his engage- ment to marry. A friend asked him why he had broken off the match \What could I do, my dear fellow,\ the exquisite replied, \but cut the con- nection? I discovered that Lady Mary actually ate cabbage.\ It Should Be Eaten After a.nd Never Before Meals. • . , Chocolate is one of the most'whole- some of foods. But.it should be re- served for eating after meals. Nothing ' can be worse than chocolate eaten just before a meal, for then it ruins the appetite. Chocolate should .consist of equal parts of sugar and cocoa. When it contains, as most of that sold in the cheap candy stores does, more sugar than cocoa it loses much of its real food value. - '. -, '/ Koenifj, the great German chemist, who has done so much to enlighten the world on the value of foods by publish- • ing his analysis of them, says that chocolate contains 6.27 per cent of pro- tein, .02 per cent of theobromine, 21.20 , per cent of fat, 1.36 per cent of tar- taric acid 53.70 pep cent of sugar, 4.07 per cent of starch, 1.67 per cent of cel- lulose and 5.09 per 4 cent of other, car- bohydrates. Therefore it is highly nu- tritive. Athletes, polar explorers and tnoun- '• tain climbers know this well. In the Swiss Alps it is usual to carry choco- late in the pocket and to eat a little of it. whenever the climbers pause for a rest. But chocolate is fattening and' should therefore be eschewed by those ' who have a tendency to too great cor- pulency. It is an ideal addition to the diet of a vegetarian. '.''•' Chocolate and cocoa are alinost.as, stimulating as coffee and tea, but have none of the injuriods effects upon the nervous system which are for many people the great drawbacks of these drinks. Chocolate is best when made over- night and allowed to stand.—New York 1 * World. Tanbark as a Fuel. Perhaps the most important of waste fuels in the United States has been spent tanbark. A rough estimate, would indicate that this material generated, a few years ago an amount of- steam . that would have otherwise required the yearly consumption of abotit 2;00O,- 000 tons of high grade coal/ Yet this valuable fuel was at one time consid- ered a-mere detriment and' an:expense, to the leather industry. It was dis- posed of by dumping i t into rivers, filU ing in waste ground and, by making '• roads with it, often necessitating the' paying out of large sums for its.dispo- sition. This strikingly illustrates a case of how the improvement of a fur- nace converted a hitherto supposed ' combustible into a valuable' waste fuel • of the autocombustible class -and- shows how an enormous waste, was converted into an equally great econ- omy.—Engineering Magazine. • Not an Added Attraction. Neither does it make any difference how brilliant a woman may be, she can't make much of a success at en- tertaining a young man who had c-ome to see her daughter.—Galveston Hews. If They Could See It. If people could see stagnant air as they can see stagnant water, with the slime and disease obvious to the naked eye, the fresh air fad would be uni- versal.—Collier's. Fine Combination. The sweetest music in the world is a duet played upon the horn of plenty and the trumpet of fame.—Philadel- phia Record. The events of fortune are unexpect- ed and therefore can never be guarded against by men.—Axionicus. Fooling the Fox. The expression \as cunning as a fox\' has passed into the language: but, as is the case with most extra cute gen- tlemen, there are occasions when Mas- ter Reynard overreaches himself. Any visitor to the country who has ever examined a chicken house in the mid- dle of a field has probably noticed tw'o' or three short pieces of chain hanging over the hole by which the fowls en- ter. Although tbey form no obstacle to the birds, who push their way In without the faintest difficulty, ttfey Vill infallibly prevent a fox fro$n i'rajjdiiig • : the house. The latter in his suj&jjrloitf wisdom takes them to be a traafWnfs capture, and although he mayTsii out-• • side hungrily \licking his chop®. 48tJJ-'';f ing will induce him to put hjl Jfea'f»*' through tbe chains..- Truly a ea&0 of a little learning being aj dange.rous thing.—Pearson's Weekly. '•\ \ Seventy-fiva.yaar-oid'i&KKK: Qbra&jfr,'' . Flndlay, O.—Dressefl in a' homespan .. dress which she wove more than seVj. enty-flve years ago. Mrs'. PraWea : 'pi.- Founds, ninety three years old. was burled at Fputty's Landlflg, .fWii.f^aV Mrs. Fonnds was married twWsc ,ftodl tbe wore this dress on each occasion, - '•U ,v ._<•-; '.*! --a • f: •'• 4* m Shorn and Dyed. .•£}'•. T i \Then yon weren't always a,braefcV'i{, sheep?\ 'i\''V •': \No m;im: 1 started my career as 8'.:;• ',' Wall street Iambi\—Washington Ser*. '.<' '. aid. .-':'..' ,-•>' • I2*& ^MaS^ffl
