FORMER RULER OF HAWAII
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, who, in person, appeared before the
house committee on claims at Washington recently and put in her plea for
$250,000 in payment for the crown land and estates which were taken from
her when she lost her throne.
TRAMPS SHUN TOWN
WEARY WILLIES” STEAR CLEAR
OF BURLINGTON, N. J.
Policeman McCormick Solves Problem
of Handling Case—Free Gentry
by Putting Them to Work
Cleaning Streets.
Burlington, N. J.—All hail Police
man Joseph McCormick! The teats
of Horatius, who kept the bridge and
other heroes of ancient history are
naught compared to the brave deed
he accomplished and, to think of it,
single-handed, too.
What did Officer McCormick do to
earn all this praise? Why, he tackled
the tramp problem single-handed and
now tramps tramping through Jersey
are heard singing "Gee, But This Is a
Lonesome Town” as they steer away
from the city of Burlington.
The town has been worried by
tramps for the past few months. They
would apply to the lodging house con
ducted by the city, obtain a hearty
meal, a good bed and then, with a
courteous “Thank you,” leave the
place next morning.
Many were caught “ringing”—that
is, trying to return the same evening
and work the stunt all over again.
Then McCormick took affairs in hand.
Seeing the matter required careful
thought he asked for a two-weeks' va
cation, that he might not be disturbed
in righting a municipal wrong.
The chief of police was aghast when
McCormick made his request, as his
absence would deplete the force and
the other policemen in the town would
have double patrol duty to do. but
granted the request.
In a few days he was back on the
job, a smile of satisfaction spread
over his countenance. The tramp
problem was solved.
Tramps who applied for lodging
and supper were surprised at the kind
way in which they were received.
Never in all their tramp lives had
they been escorted to the supper table
with such grace.
Then came a cot and then Lreakfast
in the morning.
Immediately after their morning re
past they were conducted to the city’s
dirtiest streets, given a broom and
told to sweep. One who rebelled was
immediately given ten days in the city
jail. The rest decided that discretion
was the better part of valor.
Tim tale spread. Every tramp in
the state soon heard of the methods
of Burlington, in treating the tramp
problem.
Needless to say the town is free
from tramps' for the first time in
many years.
WINNER GETS DIVORCE.
Land Office Must Decide If She Quit
Mate Illegally.
Platte, S. D.—The officials of the
federal land office must decide whether
Mary A. Melser, who won No. 1 in the
great Tripp county land drawing last
fat!, lias traded off her husband for
her $40,000 prize, or whether her for
tune has come to relieve her at a time
when she was about to be left without
support.
Mrs. Melser was granted a divorce
here upon the grounds of desertion.
It was while on a visit to her parents
in Lyman county that Mrs. Melser
learned of her good fortune. At the
time it was wondered whether, as a
married woman, she would be entitled
to file on the land since she had not
obtained a divorce.
But r?he asserted that she had not
lived with Melser since June, 1907;
that she had given him up, and that
she had supported herself since the
separation, and the divorce was
granted. Accordingly she will iile on
her claim when the time comes. Un
questionably other winners, coming
after her, will raise the novel question
of whether the divorce was not ob
tained for the purpose of allowing her
to claim her prize.
In any event, the proposals of mar
riage, which were stopped at the time
she was announced the winner by the
statement that she was married, are
certain to begin deluging the young
woman, who, as shown by her pictures,
is still youthful and fair to look upon.
LIMITS “SPOONING” TO DOSES.
Ad. for Cook Says 3/z Hours Night
ly Is Enough Before Marriage.
Carbondale, Pa.—Paying proper at
tention to the “spooning” proclivities
of the average cook, a householder of
this city, who has had a long and try
ing experience rvith servants, has in
serted this advertisement in a local
paper:
“Wanted—Girl or woman to wash,
iron, bake, cook, serve meals and do
general housework for two persons;
eight rooms and a bathroom to keep
clean; wages four dollars every Sat
urday night to one that can give sat
isfaction. One afternoon off each
week, besides every Sunday after
noon and evening, but must return
and get supper every other Sunday.
Gentleman friend may be entertained,
but not fed, seven nights a week from
7:30 to 11, no oftener or later; this
gives one whole day, 24 hours a week,
for ‘spooning,’ which ought to suffice
until after matrimony; then you’ll be
lucky to get one day a month. If
these restrictions seem unreasonable
do not consider this situation.’’
Here's Meanest Joke of All.
New York.—Robert Morgan, a vet
eran of the civil war and member of
the G. A. R., was the victim of a joke
which resulted in his humiliation in
a restaurant and his arrest. A
stranger invited him to dine, but
brazenly announced that he did not
know the old man when the waiter
presented the bill for the meal. When
taken to a police station, a police lieu
tenant was so impressed with his
story and his plight that he paid the
bill, which was for a comparatively
trivial amount.
EGG REVEALS GOLD
HAS MAP SHOWING SPOT OF
BURIED TREASURE ON SHELL.
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Ezra Delivers One Dollar for Gypsy
Wares and Gets Wonderful Se
cret in Return for His
Money.
Tyson, Vt.—Ezra Hurt, "who lives
about a mile east of the Corners, has
a hen which no amount of money will
buy. It is a scrawny, ill-appearing
fowl with bedraggled feathers and a
semi-bald head, and what is more it
has laid only one egg in its entire two
years' existence. Still, old Betsy, as
I he hen is called, has a niche in Ez
ra's heart, and gets the very best
grain the farm affords.
The secret of all this is that the
one egg Betsy laid contained on its
shell a raised water-line map of the
spot where old Jeremiah Burt, Ezra’s
great-grandfather, buried his gold at
(he time of the revolutionary war, and
with the aid of this map Ezra recov
ered the treasure. Just how much this
was no one has been able to lind out,
but it is known that the mortgage on
the farm has been paid off and the
Burt family is living in comfort.
The Burts gave up hunting for the
secreted wealth 40 years ago, after
they had searched and dug until they
were tired out. They knew that the
paternal Burt sunk his gold some
where in the earth, and went off to
war without telling his family w'here
he had placed it, further than that it
was on the farm.
Last summer a gypsy came along
selling beads and laces and offered to
go into a trance and solve the treasure
riddle provided Ezra bought a dol
lar's worth of her wares. Burt took up
the offer and in her trance the woman
said that some day an old scrawny
hen would lay aii ^>gg in which would
be found a map. If this were followed
the treasure would be found. Ezra
thought he was “stung,” but he paid
the dollar.
Nothing more happened until a
month ago, when Betsy was found in
the wood box behind the kitchen
stove. Horrified at the idea of having
a hen in her kitchen, Mrs. Burt shooed
her out, and was surprised to find an
egg nestling in the shavings. The egg
had peculiar raised lines on the shell,
and Ezra was called. He remembered
the prophecy of the gypsy and care
fully studied the shell. Sure enough
there was a map w'th a little star at
the base of an old maple tree in the
sugar orchard.
With a pick and shovel Burt set
forth, and an hour later returned
with a discolored copper soap kettle
heavy with gold. The family kept the
secret until the mortgage was paid,
when it became common property. All
efforts to get Ezra to tell how much
money he found in the kettle have
failed.
OPERATES ON AORTA; MAN LIVES
Los Angeles Surgeon Performs Deli
cate and Dangerous Task.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Twenty feet of
silver wire coiled inside of the aorta—
the great artery leading from his
heart—will probably save the life of
Richard Wheaton, a retired British
soldier, now a patient at the county
hospital. He is recovering from one
of the most delicate and dangerous
operations known to modern surgery.
Dr. D. C. Barber, superintendent of
the hospital, performed the operation.
The patient w’as suffering from an
aneurism. At one point in the aorta
the wall of the artery was so thin that
pressure of the blood had all but
blown it out. It was decided to in
terpose an artificial wall in front of
the wounded spot. The artery was
disclosed and a hollow needle was
thrust into it. The fine silver wire
was passed through the hole in the
needle. It was so line that when the
end came in c*. ntact with the opposite
wall of the artery it turned, and as
more wire was pushed in it curved
round and round, forming a spiral
the size of the artery, and this trav
eled along the tube, bridging the en
larged space.
He your real self and you will be
original.—Wood.
READING ROOM OF NEW OCEAN LINER
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Passengers on the new ocean steamship “George Washington," named in
honor of the first president of the United States, the latest addition of the
North German Lloyd fleet, could easily imagine they were in some sump
tuously furnished colonial homestead instead of on the boundless deep, as this
new transatlantic liner is to be decorated and furnished in a style which re
calls our own colonial type. The vessel will offer many innovations to ocean
travelers. It will make its first trip sailing from N^w York July 1.
SNOW PLOW AT WORK
The above photograph shows a snow plow driving through a drift. The
plow is hidden from view by the two great waves of snow it throws up in
front and at the sides, which greatly resemble sea waves.
POLAR FLOW CAUGHT
FRENCH SCIENTIST CLAIMS TO
HAVE SOLVED PROBLEM.
Magnetic Currents Traveling from
Northern to Southern Extremities
of the Globe May Be Used by
Man, Declares Expert.
Washington.—To make some prac
tical application of those vast mag
netic waves that are continually flow
ing between the poles of the earth has
been for centuries the dream of the
scientist and the student of the nat
ural laws of the universe. Since Ben
jamin Franklin caught the lightning
on his kite, and down through the won
derful development of electricity and
its application to commercial and
curative uses, investigators have
sought to discover and apply the
waves that connect the poles with an
invisible and never ending stream of
energy.
That this has been done is the be
lief of members of the medical pro
fession and other scientific men in
this city. Emile Bachelet, a French
scientist, recently from Europe, and
now in Washington, claims to have
perfected a machine which has har
nessed the magnetic waves as Frank
lin caught the lightning.
That the claims of Bachelet are in
dorsed by the medical profession and
by learned men of the physical
sciences is evidenced by the notice be
ing taken of the invention and the ar
ticles that are appearing about it in
different scientific and medical jour
nals of the country.
Briefly stated, the principle of the
invention is somewhat similar to wire
less telegraphy. Waves of magnetic
force that flow between the poles are
caught by the Bachelet machine, in
somewhat a similar manner that wire
less waves are caught out of the air
by the invention of Marconi. The in
vention. like other great discoveries,
is not complicated. One can sit in an
ordinary chair, between the two poles
of the machine and feel flowing through
his body the waves that are flowing
between the poles of the earth, though
they are. of course, greatly modified.
It is well known that magnetism
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and electricity are now conceded to be
the fundamental principle of all life
on this planet. The relation between
electricity and magnetism can be de
fined by saying that electricity is mag
netism concentrated, and magnetism
is electricity diffused.
While the Bachelet invention at
present is useful principally for the
cure of various diseases, it is stated
that the application of the method to
catch and utilize -he magnetic polar
waves will eventually open up a vast
held for other scientific study.
In the North American Journal of
Homeopathy for January Dr. Theodore
C. Wiggins, a praminent Brooklyn
physician, published an interesting
article of the Bachelet invention, and
gave instances of cures that have been
made by it.
Dr. Bachelet Is in Washington for
the purpose of securing patents on
his invention, which have already been
granted. The machine will be pro
tected by patent in all the countries
of the world, but the inventor intends,
according to a statement he made last
evening to allow its use by the medi
cal profession.
VANDERBILT PIGS ARE SOLD.
Millionaire Quits Raising Berkshires
on North Carolina Estate.
Asheville, N. C.—George W. Vander
bilt has learned from a dozen years of
experience that while it is pleasant to
be a gentleman farmer and live in a
French chateau, surrounded by white
stone roads, and have Jerseys and
blooded horses grazing on thousands
of acres of meadows, and thousands of
chickens in the poultry yards, and
Berkshire pigs of long lineage eating
the corn his high-salaried experts
grow, it does not pay in dollars and
cents.
Therefore he cut down the poultry
yard several months ago, stopped the
raising of dogs, and now it is an
nounced he has sold his fancy pigs and
will cease raising Berkshires because
vain were the persistent efforts to
make the piggery pay.
The pigs have been sold to W. ,1.
Cocke of Asheville, another amateur
stock raiser.
LET CHILD SMASH TOYS.
Englishman Warns Mothers Against
the "Crushing of Genius.
New York.—Suppose you are the
fond ana doting parent of a youthful
and imaginative child, to whom you
present a beautiful and attractive toy
which the child forthwith proceeds to
demolish, what would you do? Would
you admonish the child severely 0r
would you even he led to inflict some
sort of mild physical chastisement tor
what you consider the beginning of a
sinful trait?
If so, you would thwart an impulse
of scientific investigation; you wouhl
dash to the ground a spirit of inquiry
you would throw cold water upon tile
inclinations of an embryo explorer_
in short, you would be nipping the
budding genius ot your imaginative
child before it starts.
_ An this and much more Harold E.
Gorst, who lias come over from Lon
don to tell us how modern education
is at fault, explained to the members
of the Women’s University club the
other afternoon. What makes the
child break his toy, according to Mr.
Gorst, is not the instinct to destroy,
hut rather the craving to discover
what is inside and further the desire
of the young producer to utilize its
component parts by exerting ideas of
his own.
The whole trouble with education,
both on this side and in England. Mr
Gorct declared, is that the talents’ and
virtues which nature has bestowed are
interfered with by an artificial method
of stuffing the intellect with a lot ot
useless rules and dates which do noth
ing toward fitting the average person
for the place he is intended to fill.
"Remember this,” admonished Mr.
Gorst, “every lime you drive a fact
into a child s head you drive out an
idea of his imagination.”
HERMIT AWES BRIDGE MEN.
Thrice Foretells Destruction by Flood
and Names Exact Dates.
Muskogee, Okla.—On the banks of
the Canadian river, near Porum, in a
log hut, lives Pierre Davis, an aged
hermit, who has so accurately fore
told the weather conditions that work
men on the Midland Valley railroad
regard him with superstitious awe.
Three times he has predicted floods in
the Canadian river and every time his
predictions were accurate.
While workmen were completing a
new bridge to replace one washed
away the hermit made his first appear
ance. For a time he regarded the
bridge workers silently. Then he
spoke to the foreman of the gang.
“You see little water in the river
bed now,” he said; “but in thirty days
the floods will come and the bridge
will be carried away.”
Exactly 29 days later the flood came
and the railroad bridge was swept
away. The bridge was rebuilt twice
and twice washed away on the exact
d:.tes predicted by the hermit.
Undaunted, the company again re
built the structure, completing it on
December 3, and the hermit prophe
sied that no trains would go over it
until December 15. This prophecy also
proved true.
The hermit is a man more than six
feet tall and finely built, though age
is beginning to tell on him. He has
lived for 30 years in a cabin on the
banks of the Canadian river, and dur
ing all that time has never been fur
ther from his home than Porum, six
miles away.
BIG POOL IS VANISHING.
Earthquake Accused of Affecting Body
of Water in Maryland.
Baltimore, Md.—Big pool, or the
Chesapeake & Ohio canal, a famous
lishing ground and one of the finest
bodies of water in the western part
of Maryland, is gradually disappear
ing. For several weeks it has been
noticed that the water has been grad
ually receding and measurements show
that it has been sinking at the rate
of about eight inches a day.
The sinking of the water is a mys
tery. It is the belief of some that
the body of Martin Kinsell, the old
boatman who disappeared two years
ago, and who was believed to have
been robbed and murdered, was
throw'll into the Big pool, and'hat ‘.lie
decline of the waters will disclose the
whereabouts of his body.
Others think the recent earthquake
had something to do with it.
DEVOTE LIVES TO TWO LEPERS.
Parents Spend Fortune Hiding Dis
ease of Sons and Nursing Them.
Galevston, Tex.—A pitiful ease of
parental devotion and self-sacrifice has
been brought to light by the discovery
of two cases of leprosy in this city.
The victims are brothers, one 31 years
of age and the other 18, and they are
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Janies Younger,
who for nearly twelve years have kept
the secret of their sons’ affliction from
the public and have practically kept
them prisoners in their home.
Twelve years ago the family was
comfortably well to do, when the eld
est son contracted the loathsome dis
ease and became a prisoner in the
home. The parents cared for him and
sacredly guarded their secret, hive
years ago the other son was stricken.
Both are declared to be beyond cure.
The expense of caring for the two
lepers was a constant drain upon the
resources of the family, and their last
piece of property, the homestead, is
about to be sold for taxes. With the
discovery of the lepers by the authori
ties the aged parents, realizing their
hopeless fight, are willing to have
them sent to an institution for treat
ment.
Solve Live Bone Puzzle
Carpenter's Limb, Crushed Out of
Shape, Made Nearly Whole.
Oakland, Cal.—To piece together
the bones and flesh of a man's leg and
foot after they have been mangled be
neath the wheels of a freight car is
the unique experiment being made by
Drs. Hamlin, Smith and Reinle, who
were called to attend John Wright, a
carpenter, after he had been run over
by a train. Two wheels of a box cat
passed over Wright, crushing his right
leg between the ankle and the knee
and smashing his right foot from the
arch to the toes.
Wright is 49 years of age and re
sides at 17G6 Thirteenth avenue. He
was injured while walking from Mel
rose toward Oakland. He had taken
the wrong train from the Mole and
was walking back to East Oakland.
A box car, which had been shunted
down a switch, struck him, knocked
him down and both front trucks ran
over him.
The injured man protested against
the amputation of his leg and foot,
claiming that if he lost them he would
no longer be able to follow his trade
as a carpenter, and that he was too
old to learn a new one. Drs. A. t
Smith and George G. Reinle decided
to experiment and see if the injured
member could be saved. They called
in Dr. O. D. Hamlin, chief surgeon at
the Emergency hospital, and the three
surgeons are handling the case.
The shattered pieces of hone were
taken by the surgeons and placed in
the position where they had been be
fore the accident. After each vestige
of the bone was in its proper place
the mangled leg and the crushed foot
were inclosed in splints. By artificia
means circulation was restored be
tween the practically dismembered
parts. The doctors hope that the
shattered bones will ultimately heal
together and Wright will be saved the
use of his leg and foot, although they
will necessarily be weaker than foi
merly.
Praise and Pudding.
We are thankful for words of
praise, but pudding, as well as praise,
is essential to the well being of every
human being here below.—Western
School Journal.