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NOVEMBER 28,1897.
{II ains lccwe South Norwalk as follows:
FOR NEW YORK—~ Accommodation
trains at 9.36 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07, 5.33,
641,811, 10.20 . 111. Express trains
at 4.55 5. 45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local).
7.13, (local), 7.56, (local), 8.17. 9.03 (local)
9.58, 10. 35, 11.37, (local) a. m. 12.47,
2.25, 5.05 5.55, 7.55 p. m. For VVashing-
ton via Harlem River 12. 53 a. to. (daily)
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 9.15 a. m.
5.48, (local), 7.23, (local) 9.28 p. m. Ex
press 4. 55, 5. 45 a. 111.
FOR NEW HAVEN AND THE EAST—
Accommodation trains at 6. 32, 7. 42,
8. 46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.37, 2.42, (to B’p’t),
4.20, 5.27 627, 7.28(toB-",pt) 8.41, 9.41
and 11.15 p. m. Express trains at _1. 11,
1.20, 9.,11 1005,1108 a. m 12.,02 3.05,
5:04 (Naugatuck Express) I. 10 p. m.
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.42, 9.12
a. m. and 7.15 p m. Express L11 and
1.20 a. m.
C. '1‘. HEMPSTEAD, Gen. Bass. Agent.
DAVID ' w “RAYMOND
IuIIIIl IIIIIIIIIII' all EIIIIIIJIIIIIE
II A Washington Slrceisoulh 1‘01va
~ identity "some Hotel
Small Doses '“
is my duty
WHY AND WHEREFoRE. - '
.1' i. no“ not. “he. Ice I came.
I kuou 1. ot “hither. I go,
But the I. 'l(.'- stands clear '
' ' ’l'hzlt l am here ' '_ ‘
LII this world of plenSure and woe,
And nut. of’ihe mist and murk
, Another trutil‘shines plain—-
It isiu my power - a '
Each day andllour .
To add to its joy orgaln.
,n
I know that the earth exists.
It is none of my business “by,
' lculluot- find out
VI" 11: Li it is all about—
l could but weste time to try, '
My lile 1s a brief. brief thing,
I mu here for a little space.
And while [stay
1 would like. if I, may.
'l‘o brighten and better the place.
The trouble, I think. with us all
is the lack of a high conceit:
If each man thought ‘
lie was sent to the spot
'l‘o mlke it. a. bit more sweet.
How soon we could gladden the world,
How easily right all wrong,
if nobody shil'ked '
And-each one worked
‘l‘o helphis fellows along;
Cease wondering why you came:
Step looking for faults and flaws:
Rise up to-day
III your pride and say: '
‘ I am part; of the first great cause,
However full the world.
There Is mom for an earnest man:
It had need of me
Or” it would not be— - ,
I am here to strengthen the plan."
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox in. Form.
. Y VON ETTE.
Yvonnette was a fair little girl 01
five summers, and ,with her wee, tight-
.r'
fitting white hood and tiny sabots was '
as pretty a child'as could‘have' been
found anywhere in Vendee.
Jean Maid, her father, a farmer on
the estate 'of Count de Mordine, had
quitted his home some weeks previous-
ly with several companions, with his
gun slung over his shoulder and a
stout club in, his hand, to hunt the boar
—at least, so he said. But it was in
1793; General Santerre’s
had invaded Brittany,'and Yvonnette's
mother had grave reason to.fear that
he had gone on an infinitely more dan-
gerous hunt.
Rumors of fighting had circulated
freely throughout the province, the
toscin’ clanged from church towers,
and in response thereto the youth of
the irillages were flocking to the stand-
ard of Cathelineau, whom the Bretons
had chosen for their commander- -in-
chief.
On the day on which this story opens
Yvonnette’ s mother was more thought-
ful and agitated than usual, so much so
that her trouble was noticéd by the
child, who demanded several times,—
“Where is papa?”
Receiving no answer to this and oth-
er questions, she at last drew her little
stool up to the window and sought con-
solation with her doll Rose. The lat-
ter 'was a beautiful Breton doll that
her father had, bought at the fair at
Auray a year before, and was Yvon-
nette’s inseparable companion and the
recipient of all. her con’fidences..
Suddenly shots were heard outside,
followed by several shots fired in quick
succession; The child was in no way
frightened. The clanglng of the bells,
the sound of firearms and the shouting
of an excited crowd were familiar
sounds to her, and were merely associ- v'
'ated in her baby mind with the holi-
days, when the grand lords and ladies
from the neighboring castle deigned to
take part in the. fetes and dancing
upon the village green. But Anne Ma-
10, her mother, white and rigid as a
taper, and her hands pressed tightly
upon her heart, was gazing out of the
window with wide, frightened eYes.
“What is the matter,
questioned the child.
“Hush, darling!” was the only reply
of the farmer’s wife, who suddenly re-
covered herself, closed the shutters, lit'
the lamp and dropped on her knees be-
side the bed.
Yvonnette watched her. wonderingly,
and her big blue eyes wandered from
the kneeling figure to the high gothic
fireplace, beside Which the cat was
purring and blinking contentedly. She
was about to follow her inclination
and go to play with him, when the door
was flung open and a countryman, pale
and bedraggled, with a. gun in one
hand and a flag in the other, burst in-
to the house and slammed the door he
hind him.
' “Papa! papa!" screlllnt‘ad Yvonnette
delighte'dly.
Anne Malo had sprung to her feet
and thrown herself iui'her husband’s
arms. _
“Whatever has happened," she sob-
bed. “I have been nearly wild with
anxiety every hour since you have
been away”
“All is lost!" responded the farmer
moodily. Take this flag and hide it
carefully. If ever the Blues should
find it here it would be all up with
us.”
He kissed the standard reverently
and ha‘nded it to her. As he did so a
few drops of blood oozed from under,
his cap and down his matted hair. .
“Jean, you are wounded!" exclaimed
Anne. ,
“No, it is nothing,” replied the Cho-
uan, picking up his gun. ,
“Where are you going?" she
manded; resolutely barring the'door
, with her body.
“To fight with the others." ‘
“You will do nothing of the kind."
“Wife. let me pass,” ordered Male.
“My comrades are waiting for me.
“Yell shall not go,” she repeated.
Then stooping swiftly, she picked up
the child and held her out to him.
“Youhaven’t even kissed baby," she
exclaimed, reproachfully.
Malo wavered.
"ThEy will think I am a coward " he
. groaned, staggering against the bed in
spite of himself, and leaning upon it
for support.
'must live for. Inc—for Yvorinette.”
,into her arms.
5 ed in gold upon it.
‘ mustached soldier
. diers of the Republic.
' If we catch any of the rascals they will
grenadiers,
. to the fire.
mamma?";,
, house
the door and hurried after his com;
rades.
in his own estimation, as his master.
de‘" ,3 you! "
It
led in Morbcco.
“John, you are wounded, I knew it
Come into the cellar and let me take
care of you, ” she entleated. ‘Tlle euc-
my might search 1'01 you, and you
“No, I must go,” he insisted, bracing-
himself with an effort; but his strength
gave out as he said it, and he reeled
She supported him into the obscure
cellar and laid him among the bundles
of straw. Then she returned. to the
dwelling-room. Now that be was no
longer their: she could act. 'She took
the' flag, broke the staff over her knee
and threw the pieces into the fire. Next
she hid the gun undela pile of faggots
in the comer -.Then pouring some vin
egar and water in a. bowl, she told the
child to be good and not make a noise
and went to attend to her wounded
husband. _
Yvonnclte continued to play with
her doll, but her attention was attract:
ed to a strip of the flag which the
flames had respected. It was a piece
of white silk with flour de lys emboss-
She drew it out
of the embers with a cry of delight,
and setting her doll upon her knee was
engaged in pinning the silk upon it in
the shape of a dress when the door
again opened and a. big, fierce, White
‘ in a blue tunic.
white breeches and high gaiters en-
tered. He was a sergeant of glow-
He glanced around the room and at
once noticed that the gun rack was
empty.
“One of those wolves who have been
pepperlng us from ambush evidently
lives here,” he muttered. “There’s a.
gun missing. A thousand thunders!
get a short shrift and no ceremony."
He tore asidethe curtains of the bed.
peered around and suddenly caught;
sight of ’Yvonnette, who, not in the;
least concerned, went on dressing her
doll.
The savage expression of his face
softened into a tender smile and he
went towards her.
“What a shame to leave her all alone
in the house at such a time as this,”
hemuttcred. He bent, took her in his
arms and kissed her.
“What's your name, little dear?” he
asked.
“Yvonnette, ” replied the child.
“Why, I’ve got a little Yvonnette.
too, just like you, and three little boys
as well, ” he said, and the lecollection
of his little brood in Paris brought the
tears into the soldier’s eyes.
At that instant he noticed the silk
on the doll, and the hard, fierce expres-
sion returned to his face again.
“Where did your. get that?” he ex-
claimed harshly, dropping the child"
and seizing the stuff.
“There," said Yvonuette, half fright-
ened at his change‘of manner, pointing
He rushed to the hearth drew some
of the half burnt pieces of the flagstaff
from the flames. with a piece of
scorched silk, and recognized them.
“Who do these belong to?” he went
on.
“To papa."
“Where is your papa?"
“There,’.: said Yvonnette, pointing to
the door.
“I’ve got one of them at last,” growl-
ed the sergeant, savagely, seizing his .
gun. “And if I don’t fill him with lead
enough to sink _him to the bottom of.
the sea inside of two minutes my name
is not Laderoute."
He. strode to the _cellar door and'
shook it. It was bolted on the inside,
and still further enraged he raised his
rifle and was about to splinter the frail
partition with the butt end of the wea-
[ white blood.
CANNIBALS OF HAYTI Do TRUSTS SENE__'__I=_IT 'I'I-IE PEoPLE.
A FRAGMENT OF DARKEST AFRlCA ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
Voodooism in Its Worst Form the Relig-
ion of the People of the Interior—The
Great Yellow Snake as Their Object of
of Worship.
Hayti is little more than a fragment
\of darltestt'Afl‘i‘Ca close by the _shores,
of .the United States, its inhabitants
Ex-Governor Flower Says They Do and i
, Gives Figures to Prove It. ,
'In the current number _of Gunton’s.
ex-Governor Flower'cf New‘York dis-
cusses = the relations of large corpora:
tions‘t'o the masses. He says {the
Standard Oil Company is probably the
. best example of the pure trust form of
being largely given up to the‘practice of '
the infamous rites of voodoo, while the
cannibalism incidental to that primii
.tive f01m of superstitious worship pre-
vails to an astonishing extent in every
province.
£0 slight me the relations, commer-
cial 01' otherwise, which connect Hayti
with the United States that such mat-
ters have obtained little ‘publicity‘in
this country. The worship of the
Great Yellow Serpent, with its inciden-
tal anthropophagy, as practicedon the
island, has attracted only occasional
“press notices,” as ,it' were. .Yet, there
is evidence to prove that scores, if not
hundreds of human victims, nearly all
of them children, perish annually. The,
whole republic is actually rotten with
this strange moral disease, and the best
authorities who have written about it
assert that the government “itself sup-
ports the abominable cult, using its
sectaries as a secret police.
The people of Hayti—the mass of
them, that is to say—have advanced
very slightly beyond the absolute say-
agery of their African ancestors. The
latter, when imported in the. eight:-
eenth centuryvas slaves to work on the
great sugarestates, brought with them
their religion, which-t—variously known
as “Voodooism, “Obeah'ism,” “Fetish-
ism, “Ju-Ju” and “Mumbo—Jumbo”—-is
one of the most ancient faiths in‘the
world. Practically all of the natives of
‘the Dark Continent, barring the Mo-
_ , .T'he wor- ’
ship of the serpent is its most conspic- '
hammedans, believe in it.
uous feature, and therGr'eat Yellow;
Snake—a harmless specie of Ophidlan
indigenous _to Hayti—rwas promptly
adopted as a god by the “imported ne~
groes. ‘It is supposed to be an incarna-
tion of the arch fiend.
The religious idea of the savage is
_ the propitiation of the powers of evil,
lest they injure him. This requires
sacrifices, and the most acceptable sac-
rifices, from the view point of the fiend,
is a living human being. In Hayti the
Great Yellow Snake is never thorough-
ly satisfied unless gorged with human
flesh, and infants are particularly ac-
ceptable. Hence the frequent slaugh-
terings of children in various provinc-
es of the Black Republic, particularly
at- certain seasons.
The population of Hayti is about
1,,000 000, and consists almost exclu-
sively of blacks, with hardly a trace of
To- day it is almost
as African as the most remote interior
of the Dark Continent. Here is the
true Western home of Obeah—a relig-
lon Which exercises a. most powerful in
fluence all over the West Indies, even
the best educated white peOple being
Infected with a. dread of its mysteri-
ous and truly diabolical powers.
'A brotherhood of sorcerers and pol-
soners extends allover Africa. Their
fraternity is of most ancient. origin,
and concerning many things they pos-
sess unusual knowledge. In particular,
they are acquainted with vegetable and
mineral poisons, including some drugs
unknown as yet to science. , By means
of certain mysterious decoctions they
are said to be able to produce insanity,
paralysis, idiocy, or slow decay of body
3nd mind in a victim. In Africa these
priests of Fetish commonly act as se-
pon when he hear‘d a sound that made Lcret police for the native chiefs, smell-
him turn his head.
Without realizing the danger her
father was in but instinctively fright-
ened by the gestures of the grenadler‘
Yvonnette had burst out crying
The sergeant looked at her and low-
ered his gun and a guilty flush suf— .
fused his face.
“I kissed her a moment ago and now i
I was going to kill her father,"-he
muttered. “Laderouto, you’re a blank- ,
ed, blanked, blankety-blanked cuss-
That’s what you, are."
He hastily gathered up the incrimi-
nating debris of the flag and' piled the
embers upon them. As he did so'a
company of soldiels marched up to the' '.
Sergeant Laderoute took Y-von-
nette on his arm aud'stood in the door- i
way to prevent them from entering.
“No one here but this little lady,"
he said. “Right about face—march!"
Then he kissed the child.
“For my own little Yvonnette’s
sake," he murmured. “Good-by sweet~
heart," and putting her down, closed
()Iiitl. asiinple Mutter.
Jilkins is the factaotum of an artist.i
who has made Some noise in the world.
and is quite as important a personage.
One «day a. lady called on the al‘llSt in
the absence of the latter and was re-
ceived by Jilkins.
“Dear me," she cried, glancing first
at an incomplete picture and then at
Jilkins “I declare it isvery much like
‘ “It is me " said Jilkins with a su-
perior all. “I sits for all his old men
That's what he's specially good ht."
“You must be a. very useful person to
your employer," observedthe visitor.
“So you th~ink.that Mr. Blank. R. A.,
is especially good at old men?" '
“Yes. .005 why? He's got nothing
to do! I order 'his frames, wash his
brushes set his palettes mix his calms
and sit there for him to look at How
can he help being good? lle‘s 1r
nothing to do but shove ila. paint 0,,
Woman is a subject new-1
it Would
ed a terribl‘t’i breach of etiqum'.
II);2*IIII;. . ,
a man about his wife. - . -. 2 l
lug out as witches any persons' whose -
destruction may be desired. The same
brotherhood runs the machinery of. the
Voodoo faith allover the West Indies,
and it is represented in many cities of
' the United States by “doctors” Who en—
ioy a. large “practice” among the col-
ored people, their prescriptions con-_
sisting mainly of “love potions,”
"spells” to destroy .enemies, “hoodoo'
charms, and other “material” of witch-
craft. ’ ' _
In Hayti this system of superstition
. is known as Vaudoux, the word signi-
fying an all-powerful and supernatur-
11 being, namely, the Great Yellow Ser-
p.ent All knowledge past and present
dwells in the reptile, but its will can
only be communicated through its
priests and priestesses. These person-
ages are generally distinguished by- a
peculiar knottingcf their curly wool,
which must be a work of considerable
labor. Commonly they lead most de-
'praved lives. Such is the terror in-
mined by the priests that few women of
the lower order dare resist their ad-
vances. Next to unrestricted licentious-
sees, the highest happiness frOm the
view-point of a bad negro ~is unlimited
rum, and in this luxury the offerings
' of his followers enable the witch doc-
lor to indulge to his heart’s content.
In Africa the sacrifices to Obeah are
Always of human beings; in the West
indies the influence of the whites has
brought about the substitution of'
‘_ :hicken cocks andngoats for such pur-
poses.
In Jamaica, during the last
twenty years, only two instances
auman sacrifice in voodoo worship
nave come to light. On the other hand
Ihe killing of children by the negro
lanatics of Hayti is extremely common,
I-nd no recent government on the 151- .
1nd cared .to grapple with the evil.
Indeed, a late Prime Minister was him-
Ielf one of the brotherhood 'of witch
loctors, and in 1867 the President of
:he republic, Salnave, joined the fra- _
.érnity for political reasons,~ bathed
-. ,Iimself in the. blood of goats, took part
I the most fearful debaucherles incl-
mm to the "sacred” rites, and even
ficed human victims, it is alleged.
eue Blanche in St. Louis Globe Dem-
Icr’..at
of.
organization. ‘ “It was the first in the
field, has had the mist abuse and
lived the longest, and hence is, the
most representative. , It was organized
in 1872, and prior to that time oil was
poor and even dangerous to use. Ex-
ploding lamps were of daily occur-
rence. With the organization of the
trust the capital that was previously
scattered among a. large number of.
small concerns. was concentrated, and
the skillful knowledge of’the ‘best com
cern was applied to the methods of all.
Immediately there began a. series (if
experiments for improving the quality
as well as reducing .the cost of refining
and transporting oil. Among these
economies was a. system of pipe lines,
by which oil’can ,be directly pumped
from the wells to the refineries at the
great- centers. There were him such
lines reaching New York, one each to
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo,
Cleveland, Pitt'sburg, and Chicago.
This was a. saving of over 50 per cent.
in the cost of transportation.
In other departments of the business
I find that. similar ecOnomies have been
developed. In the manufacture of bar~
rels the cost has beenreduced to an
aggregate of nearly $4,000,000 3. year.
In the manufacture of tin cans a saw-
ing of 50 per cent. has been made
since 1874. Since the company uses
about 30,000,000 tin cans a year, this
economy amounts to a saving of about
$4,500,000 annually. It'is the same
with the wooden cases, where the price
has been reduced from 20 to 13 cents
since 1874, an actual saving of $1,250,.
000.' As a. result of these economies
and improvements in the methods 'of
refining, which the greater concentra-
tion of capital has made possible, the
quality of the oil has been improved,
the explosive element ,. having been
eliminated and the illuminating quali-
ty greatly increased, and the price to
the consumer has been reduced from
24 24-100 cents per gallon to 614 cents
. per gallon, or over 75 per cent.”
, PRICES PAID TO MODERN AUTHORS
Kipling Leads the Market—Moro llIoIIey
in Hymns Than in Novels.
Rudyard Kipling - commands the
highest price ,of any living author, ac:
cording to the Pall Mall Gazette,
-Which says that it paid $750 for each
of his “Barrack Room Balladsfl’ and
that “The Seven Seas” brought him
$11,000. He has received 50 cents a
word for a 10,000-word story. Anthony
Hope charges $450 for a magazine
story, reserving the cepyright; Mr.
Gladstone’s price for a review is $1,900.
Conan DOyle received $35,000 for “Rod-
ney Stone,” Mrs. Humphry Ward $40,-
000 for “Robert Elsmere,” $80,000 each
for “David Grieve” and “Marcella,”
$75,000 for “Sir George Tressady,” and
$15,000 for gI‘Bessie Costrell.” Ian.
’ Maclaren has made $35,000 out of “The
Bonnie Briar Bush” and “Auld Lang
Syne.” Rider Haggard still asks from
$75 to $100 a column of 1,500 words
and will not write for less than. $10,000
The highest price ever paid for a
novel is $200, 000, which, the Pall Mall
G,azette says, was handed Over to A1-
phonse Daudet fer his “Sapho. ” Zola’s
first fourteen books netted _him $220,-
000, and in twenty years he has made
at least $375,000. . Ruskln’s, sixty-four
books bring him in $20,000 a year.
Swinburne, who writes very little,
makes $5,000 a year by his poems.
Browning, in his later years, drew
$10,000 a year frcm‘ the sale of his
works, and Tennyson is said to have
received $60,000 a year from the Mac-
millans during the, last years o'f his
life. Mr. Moody is believed to have
beaten all others, as more than $1, 250, -
000 has been paid in royalties for his
hymns. ' .
The Law for Parisian Barbers.
In Paris the IaWs make it imperative
that every barber shall cleanse his
hands thoroughly both before, and, af-
ter waiting on each customer, and that
the razor shall be dipped into boiling
water as soon as the man is shaved.
It also prohibitsvthe'use of combs
made of ivory,lcelluloid‘," tortoise shell,
"THE 'eEsoIJRc'EFUL SMITH;
Trade of Shoeing Horses. _
“I liVed at a little cross-roads ham- '
let, which was not even a post office,
on the line between New York State
and Pennsylvania, ” said a story- ~teller
to a Sioux (lity Journal reporter “Of _ .
course there was a. blacksmith shop
there. There was no‘ taverh, but the
blacksmith 'alsio had a. cider press, and,
he made the cider for all the farmers :5
for miles around. But neither -this nor
the profits of his shop could account.
for the rap-idfway in which he accum-
ulated wealth. As is well known, ap- -
ple cider, if allowed to stand long
enough, will become “hard,” and after
that it will turn into vinegar. This
cider dealer always had plenty of hard
cider on’ hand, but never had any
vinegar for sale. The farmers and
others Who stopped at his place could
always get a drink of hard cider, which
they took out of a tin dipper at 10c. a
drink, and the size of the drink was
something which attracted very little
attention. ‘-Hardly any kind of bever-
age is more intoxicating than hard
cider. The blacksmith required no li_~
cense to' sell hard cider, and he‘work-
ed the game to, the limit. His. place
became very popular, and the farmers
came from many miles around in both
states to get their horses shod at his
place. Many of them would come
home drunk, and their wives began to
p1 otest T hey always had to have
some excuse for having visited the
state line shop, and so the blacksmith,
after supplying them with a few dip-
perfuls of hard cider, would take the
shoes off their beasts and put on new
ones, whether they needed it or not.
For this service he would charge a
good round price. while in. many in-
stances it was noticed he made no
charge for the cider.
“But as is the way of all flesh, this
blacksmith died one day, and then his
bl; .ness secrets came out. He-left an
E'."'-1te or over $80,000, and in_the cellar
. ' the cider-press a. great number of
_empty whiskey barrels were found.
For years he had been putting whiskey
into his cider, and had been setting
new shoes on nearly every horse which
came along, willy nilly.”
WOODEN SOLED._ SHOES.
Used in Tin Mills for “ Doubling”——Tbo
Heat Would Burn Those of Leather.
Wooden soled shoes are getting to
be quite the proper thing in New Ken-
sington. Society circles don’t reco-
gnize them, as they are not just the
proper thing with which to whirl
through the mazy music of the waltz
or to step the fairy tripplings of the
pc‘ika. But for the purpose they are
intended they are all right and are
worn daily by dozens of men. These
shoes look heavy and cumbersome.
They have leather uppers, a wooden
sole from one-half to an inch in thick-
ness and on the under side of the sole
is an iron, horseshoe-shaped, guard to
prevent it wearing out too soon. The ,
workmen at the/tin mills use them in
"doubling.” When the hot shoot iron
comes through the roll the workmen
grasp it in the tongs, double it over
and stamp on it .to flatten it down at.
the fold. As it is almost at a white
heat a leather-soled shdewould burn
up in no time, so the doubler wears a
wooden soled one. He Only wears one,
as all the stann'ing ”is done with one
foot. They are as particular about
these shoes as about those for fancy
dress. They like maple wood soles,
because they are not so thick and
heavy as paper. The make of'the
shoe is important. It has to-be b0 -
teed to prevent sore feet. Altogether
they are rather particular about these-
homely Dutch—locking a ticles of foot-
wear and thEy costme $1 to $1. 50
each. —Kenningston, Penn, Keystone. ,
SAND TO PUT OUT FIRES.
More Effective Than \Vatet: and No Darn-
, age to the Building.
The fire departments of the differ-
ent cities have found water inadequate
to extinguish fire in skyscrapers. Mr.
Frank G. Cantose, of Boston, Mass,
has a new method of extinguishing
fires in tall. buildings. His invention
consists of a Wagon something similar
in appearance to a horseless fire-en-
gine. On this is mounted a platform
resting on posts, capable of extension.
bone or any substance other than
metal.
When not in actual use all scissors,
razors, clippers, hair brushes, combs -
and shaving brushes must be kEpt in
an oven heated to not less than 100
degrees centigrade, and the brushes
must invariably be immersed _in boil-
ing water immediately. after use. Pow-
‘der pufis are forbidden, and when pow-
der is used it must be distributed over'
the face by means of blowers.
The Boy from EerFamily Flat.
Teacher—Willie, that is not the way
to spell. “emperor.” You should not
end the- word with an"‘e-r.” If you
will notice, all titles denoting power
and greatness—at least most of them
—end with ”q-r."
Willie—0h, I See!
,Just ’like “jani‘ :
‘ .tor.”—Indianapolis' Journal.
A cannon for shooting sand rests on the
platform. The force required to throw
the sand is supplied by compressed air,
and the cannon is operated by one
man. This curious-looking “cannon”
' fire engine is propelled through the
streets by means of a gasoline, engine,
and the same power elevates the sand
from the body of the carriage to the
cannon on the platform above. A very
little sand will completely extinguish
the flames and do no damage to the
building.—-New York _World.
“The; "the QIIariel.’
Harry—I always believe in Speaking
right out when I have anything on» my
mind. .- .,
Fannie—Oh, well that is all right in
your case. You can do it without in— -
terrupting people very often—Chicago
. News.
THE ORlGINAL '-
Stamved “ Boss” , . . ,
' ,,_._Always the Same
Scheme by “'hi'cli He Grew Rich at an
Norwalk Chronicler