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THE LEHIGH LEADER
leiiich
INDIAN TER
NOTES OF THE NEW STATE
The postofflce at Clare Grant coun
ly has been discontinued
Frank C Cooper of Guthrie ka3 been
appointed a railway jinil clerk
The salary of the postmaster at Sal-
tlsaw has been increased from 51200
to 1400
Walter Nix while swimming in a
water tank at Leger was drowned
His companions were unable to save
him
C II Newberry of Gage while tem-
porarily insane swallowed strychnine
His act was discovered too late to
save his life
A conservative estimate of (be
wheat crop of the territories for the
present year places tho yield at C)
per cent of a crop
The supreme court of Oklahoma has
taken Greer county out of the fifth
ludiclal district and added it to the
second
The Muskogee Bridge Construction
company with a capital stock of
5100000 has ben incorporated and
will put in a large plant there at once
The Buck Island has promised
South McAlester a new depot soon
If arrangements capnot he made for
the building of a union station the
road will build one of its own
Plans have been made for an elec-
tric street railway at Muskogee One
of the offictals has gone east to pur-
chase material
The Santa Fe railroad has opened
up a division freight office in Okla-
homa City in charge of F C O’Neil
formerly agent of the road at that
place
The physicians of Custer county
have perfected a county organization
The meeting was held at Arapaho
Another meeting will he held at
Thomas on the third Tuesday in July
Hobart's ministers are protesting
against Sunday' base bail Every
member of a bail club and all mana
gers have been served with a notice
that they will he prose-cuted if they
persist in violating the Sabbath
There were 180 teachers at the re-
cent session of the Choctaw normal at
Jones academy The appointment of
teachers for the coming year will not
be made until the dispcsitlon of the
510000 appropriated by congress is
known
Two highwaymen who attempted to
r hold up J W Updike at Ponca City
were later arrested in a camp they
-v had made and taken to Newkirk to
I- Jail They are believed to be the
men who bave held up other persons
V in this city and vicinity recently
Altus formerly Leger is to have a
l-new oil mill The contract has been
let to Oklahoma City contractors and
work will begin at once and pushed
as rapidly as possible The plant is
to ha first class in every particular
The republican editors of Oklahoma
met in Guthrie last week and named
the following delegates to attend the
national association in Chicago dur-
ing the republican national conven-
tion: O K Benedict Hobart J J
Burke Norman F H Greer Guthrie
and John Hinkle Ripley Another
meeting of the association will be
held arly In the campaign to organ-
ize for concerted action
Oklahoma City’s school census
Shows C729 school children within
die city limits
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the National bank at Nor-
man to begin business with a capital
stock of 525000
The competitive shoot of the south-
west military division will be held at
Fort Reno some time in August This
will be quite an affair in army circles
South McAlester was chosen as the
next place of meeting of the Twin
Territory Federation of Labor which
organization held its meeting at Enid
ast week ’
Citizens of Ardmore are very en-
thusiastic over the prospects of dis-
covering oil and gas within the city
limits An expert recently visited the
city and gave as his opinion that
both oil and gas underlaid the place
Upon the strength of his recommend-
ation a company has been formed to
start a drill
The body of -Frank Lane drowned
three weeks ago in the South Can-
adian river was recovered from the
water south of El Keno
Indian Agent Shoenfelt is daily ex-
pecting advice from Washington re-
garding the status of the Creek loyal
claim payment This payment was
recently held up on account of the
rolls
Fire destroyed an entire business
block in Nardin last week The loss
is about 510000-
Charles Kinzie aged 18 years was
drowned three miles west of Hobart
in Elk creek while attempting to
swim the stream oa horseback The
creek was hank full and the current
carried tho boy and his horse to their
death
'Arrangements have been made for
a course of lectures and concerts in
Anadarko next season under the aus-
pices of a well known iyceum bureau
in the east E L Beall is to be the
manager cf the course in that city
This is to be the first course ever
had there
and
Invention
The Finsen Light Cure
United States ‘Consul Frazier of
Copenhagen Denmark reports that in
he Finsen Medical Light institute
low' a state sanitarium 1307 cases
lad been treated up to May 1903 by
he Finsen rays Of these most were
lupus vulgaris and in about 1000
:ases the best results had been attain-
ed so that "in most cases one may
count definitely upon a cure" to use
the official language The doctors at
the institute are extremely conserva-
tive and never promise to effect a
cure but the records show that In a
majority of the cases where sufferers
have been encouraged by being ad-
mitted as patients cures have been
effected In the one case of the
American patients where the physi-
cians have not yet determined wheth-
er they can give relief it appears the
patient is suffering from a rather
deep-seated cancer but the Finsen
rays do not cure any but the most
superficial cancers
Protects From Gases
One of the greatest dangers with
tthich the coal miner has to contend
is tb generation of deadly gas in
the chamber in which he is at work
His lantern is so made as to guard
against an explosion of this' gas and
even to indicate its proportion in the
atmosphere but the miner himself
does not take the same precaution
to prevent inhalation of the gas re-
lying on his ability to run out of dan-
ger Often he is overcome in his
Sight and then the companions who
Supplies Oxygen to the Wearer
have escaped return to search for
him and carry him to safety before it
is too late to resuscitate him This
worK Is hampered by the presence of
the deadly gas in the mine and often
a man’s fellows not only fail in his
rescue but lose their own liveB
There has recently been introduced
an apparatus which makes it possible
for a man to go safely through a mine
charged with deadly gas and come out
without feeling any effects of the
fumes As here pictured it consists
of an air-tight hood to fit over the
wearer’s head and shoulders with a
compressed air chamber and auto-
matic feeding arrangement attached to
the hood The air for breathing Is dis-
charged gradually into the hood to re-
place the air which has been breathed
The wearer of this apparatus can
spend several hours if necessary in
the presence of gas which would kill
a man in a few minutes were it rer-
ir'tted to enter his lungs The in-
vention may also be utilized to enter
smoke-filled rooms affording protec-
tion to both the lungs and the eyes
Exposure-Timing Device
To the professional photographer
or amateur who is constantly at work
on his apparatus making several ex-
posures every day it is a Blmple mat-
ter to take account of the amount of
light which is available for affecting
the sensitive plate and gauge the time
of tho exposure properly without the
aid of any scale or a watch But for
those who use the camera infrequent-
ly and are liable to change the brand
of plates from time to time the scale
is almost a necessity Then after
the proper amount of exposure has
been ascertained he must guess at
the length of the fraction of a second
called for a very difficult thing to
do without having previously studied
it out by practice
Now however there is no necessity
for experimenting and guessing when
each picture is taken the operation
having been narrowed down to me-
chanical operation by tho introduc-
tion of a camera attachment This
timing device is operated in conjunc-
tion with the shutter-working buttons
being so connected that the act of
opening the shutter sets it in motion
and causes it to act on the closing
button at the proper instant This
timer cau be regulated to operate at
any fraction of a second or any num-
ber of seconds desired the operator
having only to set it by the gauge jast
before making the exposure
William E Mulholland of Juneau
Alaska is the patentee of this device
Atmospheric Electricity
Physicians have for many years re
agnized the fact that atmospheric elc
tricity disseminated by thunderstoc
keenly affects human beings and 1
vestigators have shown that positi’
electricity produces vigor and a fei
ing of general good health while
the contrary negative electricity h
a depressing effect We are subm
ted to these contrary- effects ac-cor
Ing to the state of the atmospher
sometimes negative electricity don:
hating at others the positive eleraer
it being possible to determine the ele
trical condition by means of delica
instruments
Cable for Alaska
Get Greely chief signal office:
’he army has according to Electri
decided to award the contract
about 625 miles of submarine cabl
i New York firm The cable wil:
used to connect Sitka Alaska i
Fort Liscnm near Valdez on Pr‘
William sound it will he shipper
-ail from New York to Seattle
r-i:i probably be laid during the c
ne smrircr
FLOOR PLAN OF BARN
Roomy and Comfortable and Can Be
Constructed Cheaply
J J F — Please publish a floor plan
of a barn 30 by 50 feet containing
thiee single horse stalls one box stall
feed room 10 by 12 feet and stalls for
about 20 head of cattle 2 A stone
cellar with 2-foot walls admits frost
How would It answer to stud it up in-
side and line it with matched lum-
ber? Aus — The accompanying plan
should suit J J F The upper floor
would have a 16-foot mow over the
horse stable a 12-foot drive floor and
a 22-foot mow over the cattle The
basement contains 3 single horse
stalls and box stalls 14 single cattle
stalls and feed rooms The writer
built just such a barn 36 by 48 feet
in 1897 the carpenter work of which
cost 5110
2 — If there were a four-inch brick
wall built on the inside of the cellar
Floor Plan of Stock Barn 30 by 50 Feet
with a three or four-inch hollow space
between the stone and brick it would
make the cellar very much warmer
and would be far better than one
lined up with lumber If the top were
ceiled over with matched lumber and
covered with sawdust it would keep
the cellar from freezing from the top
The only drawback to putting in a
wood ceiling is that it decays very
quickly The writer lias arched a good
many outside cellars with a four-inch
row of brick giving the arch a two-
inch rise to every foot in width
three-quarter-inch rods were placed
through the cellar at the spring of
the arch six feet apart to keep it from
spreading This was covered with
earth or sawdust the brick never rots
and makes a clean pure cellar
Manure for Potatoes
W D— I What is the best manure
to force potatoes? 2 Will new land
not yet broken produce good potatoes?
3 Would lime help to warm the soil?
Ia there any fertility in it?
Well rotted yard manuro with an
admixture of poultry manure is con-
sidered the best fertilizer for pota-
toes An application of ashes is also
good 2 New land is well adapted to
the growing of potatoes A common
method of preparing new ground Is
to plow it barrow it down well and
plant the potatoes with a hoe 3 if
the land is heavy and cold and appli-
cation of lime would warm and mel-
low it Lime is not a fertilizer It is
necessary for land to contain a good
stock of plant food before lime can be
of any benefit its function is to liber-
ate and turn over to the young plants
that plant food contained in the ma-
nure or fertllzer It is used also for
correction of acidity in the soil Be-
yond these mechanical functions lime
is not considered a fertilizer In a
strict sense of the word
A Frame Ice House
'B K — How should the walls of an
ice house be constructed and with
what should they be packed? How
can the roof be secured to be cool
enough for storing meat? The build-
ing is 12 by 12 feet with 8 feet posts
and sharp roof
A frame ice house should have a
space of six or eight inches between
the inside and outside boards this
space should he filled with dry saw-
dust In putting in the ice it should
be kept six or eight inches from the
inside boards and filled with sawdust
or dry straw well tamped down
You cannot keep meat or anything
above an ice house the ice must be
above the meat as cold always des-
cends 4You must have refrigerator
separate from your ice house You
can get them already and shipped in
sections so that you can put them
together yourself
Walls of Basement Stable
J J C — 1 How thick should the
walls be for a stable 30 by 40 feet?
2 Could I use large stones In the
bottom allowing them to rest against
the bank as high as the surface of
the grouud? How many barrels' of
Portland cement would be required
for two 40-foot wails 7 feet 6 inches
high?
1 The footing should be 18 inches
thick and the walls above ground 9
inches thick 2 Yes it is only above
ground that stones should be kept
away from the' face of the wall 3
Two wails 40 feet long 7 feet 6 inches
high and 15 inches thick at the bot-
tom end 7 inches thick at the top
would require 17 barrels of Portland
cement This is for walls without
doors or windows The concrete would
be one of cement to seven of gravel
with field stone as fillers
Looking to the Future
Among the large railroad systems to
recognize the importance of tree plant-
ing in order to guarantee a suppiy of
ties for the future is the Illinois Cen-
tral At a point near Duquoin II!
200000 eatalra trees were planted
three years ago These trees are
thriving and In a few years when tho
tbinning-out process begins mans' of
the ties in the Illinois Central rail-
road will be cut from thisfojvst cre-
ated in the heart of the Illinois
prairie The same road is planting
similar forests In Mississippi and eon-
t":rp!a:s tlic establishment of others
Did She Throw Him Over?
"That Charlie Pinchbeck is a mean
man”
"What has he done?"
“You know he's engaged to Tilda
Rickrack Well he found a ring
somewhere ft a bargain and gave it
to her It was too small for her
finger What do you suppose ho
did?"
"What?”
"Advised her td diet until 6he could
get it on" — Stray Stories
Must Look the Same
Little Sister was -complaining tear-
fully about something her mother had
told her to do
"Very well” said grandma “we will
trade off this mamma for another
one”
"All right" said little sister “but
we'll have her look just like my mam-
ma now won't we?”
Fortunate
Rescuer — How lucky it is I’m a good
iunner! Now I can save a life bj
'tunning for help!
When Subjects Rebel
For three weeks he had borne all
the horrors of spring cleaning wlthoui
a murmur Then his patience gav
way
“And you” sobbed his wlfe-r-"yoc
used to tell me I was your queen?
"Yes” he said with a wild glare it
his eye "but when a man find3 hit
queen has used his tobacco jar fot
pale oak varnish and his best-meer
schatim pipe for a tack hammer h
he begins to grasp the advantages of
a republic” — Stray Stories
Force of Habit
The master plumber had becomt
rich and was going abroad for hit
health On the voyage a school oi
whales was sighted and the plumbei
was seen to rub his hands in ecsta
cies
"Why is he so happy?” asked a curl
ous passenger
"He can't help it” whispered th
captain ‘He imagines each spout it
a burst of water pipe to be repaired
byhim at his old rates”
Those Melancholy Days
“1 wonder what inspired Bryant t
write the line ’The melancholy dayi
have come’ ” remarked Mrs Smither:
inquiringly
“Why in Bryant’s day the womei
did their housecleaning in the fall’
said Smithers
Evening Up
“I wish you would not give me sucl
short weight for my money" Baid thi
customer to a grocer who had an out
standing bill against him
“And I wish you wouldn’t give m
such long wait for mine” replied tlv
grocer
Willing to Oblige
“I may as well tell you younj
man” said Miss Spooner’s father
"that I always close up the house an
turn out the lights by 10 o’clock”
"Don’t bother to-night sir” repliec
Jack Nervy ‘Til attend to that for
you” '
An Unwilling Victim
I
Miss Q Ery— Who made your t'ous
ers little hoy?
Willie B Oiston — Madam why dc
you interrogate what is a self-evident
truth? I am the victim of my moth
er's good intentions
He Had Good Reason
The Bride— Tell me now dear when
you proposed weren’t you a little ner
vous for fear I should say “No”?-
The Bridegroom (who has married
for money) — I should think I was
Why I owed nearly 55000 and my
creditors were getting awfully crusty
Time Works Wonders
Sentimental Sue— Only last season
Maud declared she wouldn't marry
a man unless he was a hero
Tantalizing Tess — Yes but she has
outgrown that sentiment She’s look-
ing for an old fool with money thi?
season
More or Less
Biggs — Puffkins regards himself as
the one man in a thousand
Diggs — Is that all? J thought he re-
garded himself as the other 009
Cautious
“Do von let work worry you?"
“No nor I don't let worry :vnrk me
e’ther” — Cincinnati CoinTierc iat-TriU-ere
CHAPTER VII— Continued
Voices rose in angry questioning
but Randalin was too fear-benumbed
to understand what they said Nor-
man's keen eyes were turned upon
her and recognition was dawning in
their gaze
"The boy from Avalcomb! I would
have sworn to it that I had separated
his life from his body not eight-and-forty
hours ago” A gleam of eager-
ness came into his face and he bent
over her “You shall serve my pur-
pose by your obstinacy” he said un-
der his breath "You shall tell me
where your sister lies hidden and it
may be that I will grant to you a
longer life"
Her stiff lips could not have spoken
in answer had her paralyzed brain
been able to frame one She could
3niy gaze hack at him in helpless
waiting Through the hush a quiet
mice spoke 1
"You are eager in rising my lords"
't said
From the shelter half cave half
bower which had been contrived
mid the bushes a warrior of mighty
Tame had emerged and stood exam-
ining the scene The light that re-
pealed the protrndiug chin had no
leed to pick out the Jeweled diadem
o mark him as Edmund Ironsides
He repeated his inquiry "What is
the amusement my thanes? From
the clamor which awakened me I
had some notion of an attack”
Norman of Baddeby bent in a rever-
ence "Your expectations are to this
degree fulfilled my royal lord” he
made answer “Behold the enemy!”
Stopping he raised the red-cloaked
figure by its collar and held it up in
the firelight As a murmur of laugh-
ter went around he lowered it again
nd spoke more gravely "A hand
needs not be large to get a hilt under
ts gripe however The young wolf
s of northern breed He seeks my
lfe because ItNa skirmish a few days
gone by I had the good luck to kill
his father If it ”
He said more but Randalin did not
listen to him All at once Sebert of
Ivarsdale reached out and taking her
by her cloak drew her gently to his
side interposing his sword arm be-
tween her and the others Her head
drooped against his arm and her
hands ceasing their struggles rested
in his grasp like folded wings
It bad not taken a moment the in-
stant Norman finished his explanation
the Etheling was speaking quietly:
"As the Lord of Baddeby says King
Edmund it was I who stayed the boy’s
hand and it was I also who fetched
him into camp I found him after the
battle bleeding his life out in the
bushes and I brought him in my arms
like a kitten and dropped him down
by my fire Waking in the night and
missing him I traced him thither
With your consent I will attend to it
that he does no more mischief”
A momentary cordiality came Into
the king’s manner “My lord of Ivars-
dale! I am much beholden to you
Had any chance wrought evil to the
Lord of Baddeby while under my
safeguard my Conor would have been
as deeply wounded as my feelings”
The words of the Earl’s thane fairly
grazed the heels of the king’s words:
"The imp can do no otherwise than
harm my sovereign Should he bring
his tongue to Danish ears he could
cause the utmost evil I entreat you
to deliver the boy up to my keeping”
“I am no less able than the Lord
of Baddeby to restrain him” the Ethel-
ing said with some warmth "If it be
your pleasure King Edmund I will
keep him under my hand until the
end of the war and answer for his
silence with my life The life of my
captive is mine and I am the last
man to permit it to be taken because
he sought a just revenge I know too
well how it feels to hate a father's
murderer” He shot a baleful glance
toward a half-seen figure that all this
time had stood motionless in the
shadow behind the king
There was a sudden indrawing of
many breaths followed by a fright-
ened silence The only sound that
disturbed it was a growing rustle in
the bush around them which was ex-
plained when the old cniht Morcard
and some two-score armed henchmen
and yeoman-soldiers singly and in
groups filtered quietly through the
shadows and placed themselves at
their chief’s back
But though the king’s brows had
met for an instant In a lowering arch
some second thought controlled him
When he spoke his words ''were even
gracious: "I think the Lord of Ivars-
dale has the right of it The crime
the boy purposed was not carried out
and in each case Lord Sebert was his
captor I am content to trust to his
wardersbip”
Sebert’s frank face betrayed his
surprise at the complaisance but be
gave bis pledge and his thanks with
what courtliness he could muster and
releasing his passive prisoner pushed
her gently into the safekeeping of
the old cniht Yet he was not so
obtuse as to step hack as though the
incident were closed he 'read the
king's inflection more correctly than
that Holding himself somewhat stiff
in the tenseness of his feelings he
stood his ground in silent alertness
A rustle of uneasiness crept the
round of the assembled nobles Only
the monarch's bland composure re-
mained unruffled Advancing with the
deliberate grace that so well became
his mighty person he seated himself
upon a convenient boulder and signed
the figure in the shadow to draw
nearer
As It obeyed every one of the yeo-men-soidiers
strained his eyes in that
direction as though hoping to surprise
in the great traitor’s face some secret
of his power the power that had made
tnree kings as wax between his fin-
gers! But just short of the fire-glow
the Gainer paused and the hooded
cloak which shrouded him merged
him hopelessly into the shadow Only
the hand that rested on his sword-hilt
protruded into the light It was a
broad hand and thick-fingered as a
butcher’s and it was milk-white and
weighted with massave rings
Meanwhile the king was speaking
affably "As you did not favor us
with your presence among the Wise
Men my lord It is likely that you
do not know of the good luck which
has befallen our cause This prudent
Earl' who before the battle bad con-
cluded with himself that England
had so little to hope for from our
reign that he was willing to throw
his weight against us has found his
victory so without relish that he has
become our sworn ally
“In former days I think there was
some hostile temper between the earl
and you But I expect you will see
that under the stress of a foreign war
ail lesser strife must give way Bo I
desire that you will repeat in my
presence the troth already plighted
by these others"
He made a slight gesture and the
Gainer took a step forward Hesitat-
ing the Etheling went from red to
white Then with a swift motion he
unsheathed his sword and stretched
it out point foremost
“King Edmund” he said “in no
other way does my hand go forth to-
ward a traitor”
The Bternness that had underlain
the king’s manner rose slowly and
spread over the whole surface of his
person as he drew himself up in
towering offense
"Lord of Ivarsdale bethink yourself
to whom you speak!”
“King of the Angles the right of
open speech has belonged to my race
as long as the right to the crown has
belonged to yours So my father's
fathers spoke to yours under the coun-
cil tree and so I shall speak to you
wnilo I live”
Every eye was fastened upon the
two by the lire Freeman and his
lder or feudal lord and his depend-
ant? For the moment they stood
forth as representatives of a mighty
conflict and every breath hung upon
their motions
Then there was no longer any
doubt concerning the position of
Etbelred’s son He saw with dellber-
erate emphasis "The only policy
which concerns those of your station
is obedience"
“We of Ivarsdale do not profess
Buch obedience King Edmund Our
land we hold as our fathers held it —
from God's bounty and the might of
our swords When we have paid
the three taxes' of fort-building and
bridge-building and field service we
have paid all that we owe to the
state”
At last they stood defined the first
of tho feudal lords and the last of the
odal-born men Even through the
king’s loftiness it was suddenly borne
in that behind the insignificance of
the revolt loomed a mighty principle
mighty enough to merit force
"I observe that the men of your
race have not been of great import-
ance in the land It appears that
EthelrecI was able to do without the
rebel Lord 06 Ivarsdale”
"I admit that he was able to lose
his crown without him" the rebel’s
-so i retorted swiftly
The king's wounded dignity bled
in his cheeks he was stung into a
movement that brought him to his
fe"t
"This is Insufferable!” he cried
it was evident that the crisis had
ere Several of the thanes laid
I'eir hands upon their swords At an
almost imperceptible sign from the
old cniht the henchmen made a
noiseless step nearer their master
But the blood of Cerdic once fired
t
burned ioo rapidly for pollcyi Ed-
mund's Jaw was set in savage nen-
ace as ha turned and beckoned-
his guard Had he spoken the words
on his lips there Is little doubt what
his order would have been
Interruption canie from an unex-
pected quarter Even ns his lips were
opening that white taloned hand
reached out of the shadow and touch-
ed his arm
"Most royal lord! If it may he per-
mitted me?" Earl Edrlc said swiftly
His voice was very low and every
roughness had been filed away until It
flowed like oil Upon the King’s
wounded temper it appeared to fall
as softly as drops of healing balm
With his mouth still set he paused
and bent Lis ear There was a mur-
mur of whispered words
What they were no one ever knew
and each man had a different theory
but their result was plain to all Slow-
ly Edmund’s knitted brows unravel-
ed slowly his mouth relaxed into Its
wonted curves At last he had re-
gained all his lofty composure and
turned hack
"Lord of Ivarsdale I am not rich
of time and my present need is too
great to spare any of it to the chas-
tising of rebellious hoys Go back to
your toy kingdom and lord it over
your serfs until I find leisure to teach
you who is master” Making a dis-
dainful 'gesture of dismissal he turn-
ed with deliberate grace and entered
into conversation with the Mercian
At the moment it is likely that the
young noble would have preferred ar-
rest The utter scorn of word and act
lashed the blood to his cheeks and
the tears to his eyes With boyish
passion he snatched the sword from -its
sheath and breaking it in pieces
across bis knee flung the fragments
clinking into the dead embers
But if he had hoped to provoke -an
answer it was in vain the klrfg deign-
ed him no further notice Resuming
his seat Edmund continued to talk
quietly with the earl a half-smile
playing about his complacent chin
The old cniht bent forward and
whispered in his chief’s ear: "Make
haste Lord Sebert they will he
cheering in a moment the churls so
pleased are they at the thought of
going home- Hasten with your retir-
ing” It was a clever appeal Forgetting
for the moment humiliation in re-
sponsibility the young leader whirled
to his men A gesture a muttered
order and they were drawing back
among the trees in silent retreat A
few steps more and the bushes had
blotted out the Ironside and his
thanes
(To be continued)
CAMERAS ARE BARRED OUT
Snapshots Forbidden by Law in Ja-
pan Those Taking Them Fined
When touring in Japan the Ameri-
can will he wise if he leaves his
camera at home To use such an im-
plement in the southern Island towns
means its polite hut Immediate con-
fiscation and a punishment by fine
By great courtesy a display of pass-
ports and a proper degree of self-reproach
for having ignorantly disobey-
ed the laws one may at the end oi
twenty-four hours secure the return
of the camera minus the roll of films '
So strict is the camera regulation at
fortified ports that an English lady
who took a picture of the captain on
the bridge of one of the vessels in the
harvor of Mojl was approached sev
eral hours later by a member of the
harbor police and asked to deiivei
up her camera Protests were useless
and the camera was taken ashore the
films probably developed as they were
never returned and the camera was
sent hack the following day
On another occasion a traveler win
opened a small pocket camera in the
streets of Shimonseki was promptlj
piloted to the station house violently
protesting he had done no wrong and
that he had not attempted to make
any photographs of fortifications noi
soldiers diminutive and quiet
captain of police who spoke English
brokenly remarked solemnly “We
will see” and the tourist waited foul
hours while they saw
At the expiration of this time he re-
turned and said: "What you said was
true but we shall notwithstanding
he obliged to punish you with the ex-
treme severity of the law in this case
You have photographed no fortifica-
tions or soldiers but you have com-
mitted a crime” — and while the trem-
bling culprit blanched in terror he fin-
ished — “and your fine will be 80 sen”
(40 cents)
Keeping Voters from Polls
Some years ago an Englishman
when traveling in Spain fell in with a
member of the national parliament
who opposed the government There
had been a dissolution of parliament
and the Englishman asked the Span-
iard if he would be re-elected "Oh
no” he said "there is not a chance ol
it” Presently they arrived at the
principal town of this gentleman’s
constituency and he received a regu-
lar ovation on his way to the hotel
“Surely" said the Englishman “you
are mistaken you seem extremely
popular here” “Oh yes" was the
reply “I am very popular but I won’t
get in nevertheless” “How will the
government prevent your getting in?"
was the rejoinder “Oh they have
all kinds of methods I will tell you
one They will fix a polling place in
such and such a barn A large and
very fierce mastiff is kept there and
when any one likely to vote for me
makes his appearance they will let th
beast loose'
Inventor of Ice Cream
A French chef who prepared a snow-
like dish for the Due de Chartres in
1T74 is said to have been the first to
make that cool luxury known as ice
cream Lord Bacon was possessed of
the knowledge that there was a
process of congealation by means of
snow and salt but to him this was a
scientific fact and he little dreamed
of the idea that in after years this
congealation would pfove such a de-
lightful refreshment Iced drinks and
water ices were known to the Paris-
ian epicures fully a century and a half
before they were introduced into Eng-
land These dainties it is thought
probably came from the Far East by
means of some traveler who probably
had tasted sherbet
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