The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 3, 1903, Page 6

WILHE:. MINA IS HAPPY MONK HAS ODD DUTY. Subjects of the Queen of Holland Dee a i : clare That Her Husband Is Franciscan Friar Teaches War to Gent to ia Youth of Britain. } —— sitors to Holiand have one thing impressed upon them while they are @ives Instructions to Stadents from in that tight little country, and that Gunmaker's Shop Who Are Pre- is that the queen and her German paring to Follow a Mili- j husband live happily together. Al tary Career. | though the Hollanders are not partic- jularly fond of the prince consort, nevertheless they do him the justice to say that he is good to his wife, and that all the stories about his bru- tality to her are absolutely untrue. | At the palace at The Hague the at- enough, our Roger ‘Bacon, who is said tendants assure visitors of this very to have rediscovered gunpowder, was a| ©@rnestly. “The queen is a happy wo brother of the same order. | man,” they say; “she has no domes According to the manager of Messrs. tie troubles,” and then they exhibit Vickers, Sons and Maxim's works,| the private dining room, in which the some difficulty has been experienced in chairs of Wilhelmina and her hus- i finding anyone to read with engineer-|>®2d are placed side by side at the ; ing students the examinations | t#ble, because the queen is taller than which the firm hold—examinations of | hem husband, and this places them on the same standard as those passed by |® level. - engineer students in the royal navy. This palace at The Hague is full of f At or near Erith there are no educa-|the magnificent wedding presents ; tional establishments with professors} Which were sent to Wilhelmina upon . or masters to undertake suca work. | ¢€F marriage to the German prince So Father Edwin—such is the Fran-|>Y the various crowned heads of Eu- . ciscan's name—teaches mathematics, | P®- natural science, and applied mechanics They are also shown many beautiful | pr A curious mingling of the medieval with the modern exists at Erith, Eng- land, where articled pupils of Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim are coached Dy a Franciscan friar. Curiously LO MORON ate eB AE R— for to apprentices of the machine-gun | Paintings by the best Dutch artists, firm. The monastery of which the and in a little morning room there is father is an inmate stands on a hill in|® Stained glass window and a por- the Carlton road, near Erith—a ten| ‘alt of the queen's mother and the minutes’ walk from the works. Here music box which was one of little Wil- live seven of the order in a building spemnaighe playthings before her a® which has the appearance of a new age ag Me the throne, suburban library, except that it rests ey have quaint customs in Hol- land, One of these is in placing the x es of its own a amid the trees o} laundry at the top of the house. The The father, a tall, robust, elderly | ‘lthes are sent away to be washed man, has a beard worthy of his call- and bleached, and when they are re ing, and wears the brown serge gown turned they are drawn up to the laun- and hood of his branch of the order—|‘Y by means of @ pulley, and dan- the Capuchins:— Possessing university gle_for - time right in the drawing qualifications, he held for 14 years the eae by ai to the infinite delec- professorship of higher mathematics at be ion of the guests, But, as an off- St. Peter's college, Agra. This insti- * to this peculiarity, the bathroom, tution was affiliated to the Rurki Col- when there ts a bathroom, which Is lege of Civil Engineering, which does not often, is placed in the cellar, It n . is a dry cellar, where potatoes and Kk » er's Hill, Father , fe > sauna several | °UCh things are stored, and the tub is an immense tron thing with a cover mathematical works. The friar gives five hours a day to{ ‘Dat !@ divided into halves. teaching his pupils in the parlor of the HOPES TO AVERT CONSUMPTION monastery. Most of them are from the works and go in she evening. Pref. von Behring Thinks He Can Make the Human Body Prof. von Behring, of Berlin, the famous inventor of the diphtheria serum, believes he has discovered a means of making human lives im- mune from consumption by innocu- lating them with a harmless tubercu- ‘osis serum which can be obtained from cattle, The professor refers to this matter tt present with the greatest caution, 1s he does not wish to excite over anguine hopes, and refuses to an wer any inquiries before his investi- zations have been completed. Prof. von Behring has been in- estigating consumption in {ts various ‘orms. He contends that tuberculosis nfection is in no wise identical with tuberculosis consumption. He is credited with having found inoculation successful in preventing tuberculosis in cattle and bases on these experiments the hope of being similarly’ successful in protecting hu- nan life. Evanstos, Ill, House of Worship Starts an Innovation Which Proves a Success, Free lunch as an inducement to attend church has proved a sluccessful experi ment at the First Presbyterian church otf Evanston, On a recent Sunday night there was coffee and sandwiches, and 2 pleasant social chat, and after that there were religious services, for which every- body remained. The “spread” was laid out on tables in the church parlors, where half an hour later the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor held Its weekly meet- ing. As a result of the Sunday evening luncheon the Christian Endeavor society added more than a score of names to its roster and held an unusually enthusiastic meeting. “This is no prayer meeting,” an- nounced President Robert Candee, of the Christian Endeavor society. “That will come later. Now, just pitch in and help yourselves.” “Please pass the lady fingers,” stam- *meringly murmured a blushing co-ed, which helped to break an ominous sil- ence. “There, I’ve gone and forgotten my Scripture text,” declared another co-ed in dismay, as she poised an olive between her fingers. “What shall I do?” “Ah, but I have provided for that,” sald Secretary Jeannette Lee. “There is a Bible at every plate.” So, between the sandwiches and the ice cream, texts were gleaned and lessons learned. It was a happy combination— the luncheon and the spiritual food. as CLAIRVOYANTS IN TRUST. Seers of New York Combine to Inflae ence Sales of Certain Se- curities and Stocks, The clairvoyants of New York have just formed a trust, or what serves the purposes of such an organization, even if it does not deserve to be called by that name. Unlike the Chinese laundry irust, its object is not to fix prices. The trust of the seers has another purpose, All of the members are notified by the head officer that certain stocks are to be recommended to clients seeking en- lightenment as to the best means of in- vesting their money. Sometimes sev- eral companies are on the list. Daily reports are made by the prest- dent to the members as to what the na- ture of their advice should be. Of course, this combination does not work only for the benefit of the companies, The clairvoyants get their rake-off. But, naturally, they do not profit so much as the companies, one of which made $60.- 900 last year through this branch of its business, WORSHIP IN MOVABLE CHURCH Presbytery of New York Erects Pore table Structure for Mission Work —WIl Seat About 200 Persons. The presbytery of New York has launched a novelty in church construc- tion in the house of worship just com- pleted in the borough of Bronx. The house is portable. It can be taken down and rebuilt on another site. The presbytery does not hold title to the land on which the church stands, and could not find another site in tke neighborhood so favorable for the planting of its new mission work, The church is 65 feet long, 25 feet wide and 20 feet high, and will seat about 200 persons. The roof is of as- bestos, and the building of yellow pine. The sections are bolted and there are neither nafls nor screws. Smokeless Humanity. Germany has already sold the sultan of Turkey 100,000,000 cartridges and 170,000 pounds of smokeless powder, PRACTICE FUNERAL REFORMS. Stanford University Professor Who Called Lavish Burials Barbarous Is Given Simple Interment. Encased in a plain, unpainted pine box that did not cost more than $2.50, Prof. Max Wright, recently instructor in mod- ern languages in Leland Stanford, Jr., university and son of wealthy parents, was buried at Grand Rapids, Mich., the other day. The simple burial was the re- sult of the unusual philosophy of life cherished by Prof. Wright. He believed the present custom of lav- ish funerals barbarous and wrong and directed before death that $200 of his money, that would be spent ordinarily for a funeral, be used for a public foun- tain as a monument to his memory. There was no minister and no religious service. The father performed the duties of the undertaker and hauled the body to the grave in a plain wagon. There was no expensive clothing on the corpse, and the mourners rode in open carriages. At the grave Dr. P. B. Wright, father of the deceased, addressed the relatives and friends, explaining the reasons for the simple funeral. af To Test Fireproof Theater. . Coquelin, the celebrated French ‘ actor, is about to embark upon a career as an inventor. At a dinner party re- cently he explained that he had dis- covered a method of constructing a fireproof theater and is building a small theater, with scenery and all other accessories, in which he will be locked up with the architect, who is the co-inventor, and will have the building fired. This test, he claims, that line. The Washington Post re- marks that her hesitancy about inter- ‘veterans wearing and is looking for further business in | tween the two. | ne , being only a small fraction of a sec- HOW HE LEARNED TO SHOOT. Raw Kentucky Reeruit Could Beat Best of Army Marksmen—Seeret ef His Kaack. “Among a big batch of recruits as- signed to my company a while ago,” said a captain of infantry stationed at a far western post, according to the Washington Post, “was a gaunt, gawky Kentucky lad, of the” mountaineer class, and not much above 20 years of age. He was growing so fast that he was as clumsy as a St. Bernard pup, and he fell all over himself in drill. Notwithstanding his perfect willing- ness, he was so inapt a soldier that I attached him to my quarters in the ca- pacity of dog-robber or striker. Soon afterward my company was sent out for target practice on the ranges. My striker from Kentucky beat out every man in my company, some of them the ‘distinguished marksman’ medals, in a common canter. He was as crackerjack a rifle shot as I ever saw in the army and I'd be will- ing to bet that there’s not a shootist in that team that lately won- the Palma trophy in England that could outshoot him. The gawky Kentucky boy’s performance on the range filled me with amazement, as it did every- = ————— _— body else who watched his marvelous shooting, and when he was through I e : \ To guard against imitation the word Budweiser is branded on the corks of all bottles of original Budweiser. Accept no imitations of the “King of Bottled Beers.” said to him: “‘Look here, boy, where did you ever get a chance to practice such fine shooting” “ Pinkin’ rev’noo officehs, suh,’ he replied with a grin, ‘Yo’ all fuhgits, suh, that Ah'm f'om Kentucky.’ ” IMPORTS OF FRUITS. WHEAT, CORN, OATS, FLAX, TIMOTHY SEED, Vast Quantities of Lemons, Oranges New jach Year, Mr, Frank W. Hawthorne, tn anarti- | cle on “Feeding a Great City,” in Pear- \ son's, gives some surprising statistics. CLOVER SEED He says that for the first six months in ' 1908 New York's lemon imports were ms 356,340 pounds, valued at $1,367,074— all from Italy. From all sources New York received in the year from July 1, . 1902, to July 1, 1903, 1,875,000 boxes of ‘ Any time you have any to lemons. \ offer give us a chance. Imports of oranges at New York during 1902 reached 24,412,424 pounds, valued at $411,307, More than half WILL G. REE 6 of them came from ports in the \ , the remainder from Italy; but In 39 AVIOC > WO. scattering lots Cuba, Mexico and f; N Costa Rica figure, as well as Great | ¥gey, SLSIS SSI grPr Britain, Spain, the Netherlands and] ™ (SLSIDAILIA SLD Germany, and Hong Hong sent us 3,418 vounds. For the first six months of 1903 New York's imports of oranges agere- gated 7,328,074 pounds, valued at $123,- 264—nearly all from Italy. New York imported in 1892 a total of 5,829,711 bunches of bananas valued at $1,636,274, The British West Indies sent 2,862,728 bunches, Costa Rica 1,152,100 bunches, Colombia 877,249, San Domingo $2,455, and Cuba 355,179. For the first ix months of 1903 the receipts at this port were 2,537,551 bunches, valued at $876,779. TERM HAD A QUEER ORIGIN. SOOM FOR SAL AT= O K STORE About 75 Women’s and Misses CLOAKS cost from $4.00 to $10.00 YOUR CHOICE $1.50 All the all wool Dress Goods as Serges, Waterproofs, Suitings, Zibilenes ete. Also fancy Waist Goods and White Waistings Ata Price That Will Move Them Our blankets were all bought before the rise in cotton and will be sold at less than wholesale price. Only the first quality of ‘Rubber Boots and Overshoes at prices less than elsewhere B<=Please remember the Place Baa How a Quarter of a Dollar Came to Be Known as “Two Bits"— The “Thrip.” x “Did you ever hear the expression ‘two bits’ used as an equivalent for a quar- cer of a dollar?” asked a New Yorker of a reporter for the New York Mail and Express. “The term is commonly used in the south and west. Not one person in 1,000 even of those who habitually use the term knows its origin, “Even as late as the close of the eighteenth century the silver coinage of the United States had not superseded the Spanish ‘milled’ dollar in the west] @J and south. Fractional currency was particularly scarce and to obtain this the Spanish ‘milled’ dollar was cut up to make change. Halves and quarters, of | @ course, suggested their own names, but when the quarters were cut in two the word ‘eighth’ was discarded for ‘bit,’ a small slug having the value of 12% sents. Many curio collectors have these} 4 slugs In their possession, although, of course, they have long since gone out of use as currency. “So with ‘thrip,’ used in New Orleans} # and the vicinity as an equivalent for the nickel or five-cent piece. ‘Thrip’ is merely an abreviation of ‘threepence,’ the coin of that value once in general use, representing about the same amount of money as a five-cent piece.” BOTH WRONG. a, a cS 2 > : Missing Time Between Greenwich and Paris Found at Last After id Painstaking Investigations. The investigations concerning the longitude differences between Greenwich and Paris have now been completed. The work has been of a particularly ar- duous and protracted nature, necessitat- ing enormous calculations, says the Sci- entific American. Altogether, the English and French observers have carried out 230 observa- tions, equivalent to 80 nights’ work each. Two English and two French observers have been engaged upon the task. The observations were made at Greenwich and Paris simultaneously, and, in order to obtain similar results, the instru- ments were frequently interchanged. The results of these observations have proved both the Greenwich and Paris existent meridians to be erroneous, the calculations finally worked out just be- The discrepancy, however, is very mi- ~~ ‘ehould satisty any skeptic. Wreeks fm the Alr, If Prof. Langley will look over the models in the patent office he will ob- serve that he is far from being the only man who has had flying machine dis- eppointments, vening to prevent a Balkan war is still a mystery. ; New Speed A speed of 114 miles an hour has been developed on a German rall- road. Here is a new mark for the auto- |mobile acorcher to alm at, BUDWEISER OR SORE, South Side Square ond. 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