Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 24, 1913, Page 10

ALFRED ROOKE, B0Y CORN 'How Nineteen Year Old Meriden Lad Won All Sweepstakes " Prizes on Dent Corn at New England Corn Exposition. Older farmers should not begrudge e farmers of the younger generation their successes and accomplishments, 3east of all their victories, when they shew their producets in competition with elder heads, and win out. being won by the older gemera- of farmers one would have the right to think that the farmers who e coming on the stage of action are ss accomplished in the art of farming gban their fathers. A nation, a state, 2 business or a profession that does not show a goodly number of great lights in the ranks of the younger men, is not a good omen for the future. The agricultural prosperity of the future is measured by the knowledge, skill and ability of the farmer—boys who are now growing up. Of late years we are constantly re- minded of the genuine ability and knowledge possessed by the young men in agricultur In fact, agriculture is ecially attracted to strong, energetic, progressive boys and young men; and the boy who has a love for the %oil and its products deserves the greatest encouragement, and all should enjoy seeing the honors going to the ounger generation, because it denotes Tapid progress in agriculture. Two State Winners. It is not a little significant that two young men—both under age at the time of their conquests—have surprised the country with their skill in growing corn. A few years ago—in 1908—N. Howard Brewer, of Hockanum, Conn., a boy in his ‘teens, sent a bunch of corn to the XNational Corn Show at Omaha, and when the exhibit came back it was loaded down with prizes, and the d who grew the corn was even more loaded down with honors. The performance of Mr. Brewer did more to stimulate corn growing in New Emgland, especially by the younger generation, than any one single factor. corn growing It gave an impetus to owt which materially helped in bringing about the origination of the New England Corn Exposition, and the holding of two great corn shows. The second show which was held at Boston last December brought out Alfred Rooke, a 19-year-old boy of Merlden. To win a grand sweepsiakes prize, open to all New England, is honor enough for : one corn grower; but to win all the grand sweepstakes on dent corn, both for New England and for the state, is an honor that does no< often fall to the lot of one individual. However. Alfred Rooke did the trick at Boston, and in doing it he is entitled grei There were rwo President Taft cups competed for at the exposition, both grand sweep- stakes—one for tiic best 10 ears of flint, and the other for the best 10 ears of dent. The latter was won by Mr. Rooke. The mnext most important sweepsiakes were for the best single ear of flint and the best single ear of dent. Here again Mr. Rooke walked off with the prize on dent. It is not, a little interesting that one man, M L Bowditch of Farmingham, Mass. all the grand sweepstakes on flint, as did Mr. Rooke win all the grand sweep- stakes on dent. Mr. Bowditch also won the famous Stickney trophy which was limited to a particular class in the flint varieties. In the sweepstakes class for the biggest ear of corn, Mr. Rooke won third. Coming now to the classes 1lmited to exhibitors from Con- necticut, Mr. Rooke was again in the front seat in the vellow dent section. He won first on the best 10 ears of vellow dent, which carried with it the governor's cup. In the single ear classes for Connecticut, Mr. Rooke won first on the best single ear of yellow dent. From the above it is seen that all the grand prizes on vellow dent, both for New England and for Con- necticut, went to this one exhibitor from Meriden. Walked Away with Prizes. In this connection it is interesting to note that the corn growers in the vicinity of Meriden and Wallingford, 1y walked away with the prizes at In addition to Mr. Rooke's there was the following in awards: In the shelling out from Connecticut Walter I. won first. Mr. Yale the best 10 .ears winnings, the list o contest Yale of Meriden. also won second on vellow dent: second on the best 10 ears 8-row yellow flint; third, on the best single ear S-row yellow flint, 7 to 10 inches long: second. on the best single ear vellow dent. Andrew Schwab of Yalesville won second on the best sin- gle ear of $-row vellow flint, 10 inches or longer: first, on best 10 ears 8-row vellow flint, 7 to 10 inches. In class C-6, 80 ears flint, Meriden grange won first and Wallingford grange won third; in the R0 _ears dent, same class, Meriden grange won second. Phelps Montgom- ery, of New Haven, whose farm in Hamden is just on the edge of Walling- ford, won first on best 10 ears white flint; also third on best 10 ears white dent. Poplar Hill Farm, Wallingford, won third on best ear white dent: first on best 10 ears white dent. Evidently, corn is 2t home on the red soil of Mer- iden and Wallingford, and grows to perfection in no le: degree than peaches and apples, the former, espec- ially, being a famous product of that section. Ninsteen Years Old. But to return to Mr. Rooke. Alfred Rooke has just turned 19 years of age. Already he has gained some honors in corn growing at the corn show held in commection with the last annual meet- ing of the state board of agriculture at PBridgeport, he won first on the best 10 ears of yellow dent. and first on the best single ear of vellow dent. Those who have attended the sheep shearing contests of the Comnecticut Sheep PBreeders’ Association have been astonished at the shearing performance of n me of Walter 1., Yale. In fact Mr. Tale is such an expert machine shear- is worth a day’s trip to see Of late years the lad who er that it him work. Barks Herbs That have great medicinal power, are raised to their highest efficiency, for parifying and enriching the blood. as 1.hey1 are combined in Hood's Sarsa- la. 40.368 testimonials received by actual copnt in two vears. Be sure to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs. Don’t You Know That 1 can suft your requirements In every way in connection with any con- wacting work or building whichk you way centemplate having done? IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT the only way 1 can comvince you of it is to see me and talk it over. My ssti- mates are very reasonable and my work is guaranteeZ. C. M. WILLIAMS, Telephone 470 216 Main Street \ F. C. GEER, TURER Phene 517 Neprwieh, Conn. ! i Were all the young man from Meriden by the | turned the machine for Mr. Yale was none other than the boy Rooke. the contest this year, Mr. Rooke, be- cause he had grown into man’s estate so far as the rules of the contest are concerned, entered the machine sher- ing class, and won third, his friend Yale winning first as a matter of course. Mr. Rooke does not own a farm, al though he is a farmer in every other sense of the world. His is father, who a tool maker in one of the silver fac-.| tories at Meriden, owns a small place of two acres on Buckwheat Hill, in the southern part of Meriden. The family lives upon this little place in the sub- urbs, and the boy Alfred lives at home. For nearly three years he has been em- ployed by Walter L. Yale, who owns a large farm a scant half-mile further south. About one acre of the Rooke lot—we can hardly call it a farm—is used to grow corm for the flock of 100 hens that are kept upon the place. The balance of the lot is used as a gar- den, hennery, and the place is well pro-' vided with fruit trees. The son Alfred has taken charge of the acre devoted to corn, and the oaly time he has had to devote to it has been mornings and evenings before and after his day's work at Mr. Yale's farm. The Farm. The place is upon an elevation com- manding a wide view of the surround- ing country. The soil is very charac- teristic of the soil in the meighborhood red rock. It ig not what one would call & dry soil, in fact the watertable is quite near the surface in that section of Meriden. The Rooke place has the ad- vantage of an elevation, and as the land upon which the corn was grown, slants quite sharply, it is naturally bet- ter drained than the level lands at the foot of the hill. Poultry is the only live stock kept at hom:; hence the manure from about 100 hens was used to grow the crop, supplemented by 4 top dressing of Bowker’s fertilizer. Corn was grown last vear upon the same piece of land. The hen manure is conserved im such a way as to prevent loss. It is gath- ered every day and kept in a small building erected for the purpose. Mr. Rooke does not know the number of pounds of hen manure he spread upon the acre planted to corn, but he said he put out about 100 bran sackfuls, that being the way he carried the manure from the shed to the fleld. To give the corn a good start, and to supplement the hen manure, he broadcasted a few bags of Bowker's fertilizer purchased of a dealer in Meriden. Just how much of the commereial fertilizer he used upon the corn he does not know, but he put on enough to make sure of a good crop, The Seed. There is a bit of history conmected with the obtaining of the seed. Some two years ago the younger Rooke—Al- fred—went to Illinois for a trip and while there he did a little work with a construction gang upon a railroad, and boarded at the home of a nearby farmer. This farmer had a bumper crop of large, bright colored dent corn grown from seed obtained in Kansas. Mr. Rooke bought four busheis of ears of the Ilinois farmer, paying $2 per bushel, and had it shipped to Meriden. Last year he planted the seed, or part of it, upon the home place. he crop was fair. The stalks were large and not all the ears came at full maturity, but the first year was one of acclima- tion, and this vear the seed taken from last year's harvest preved equal to the task of growing a thoroughly accii- mated variety. This year's crop, should find uniformly large, well-filled ears, very bright in color, even rows of kernels and very small cobs. Mr. Rooke had selected his seed corn with a great deal of care. He had many, bushels of splendid seed corn carefully husbanded in the chambers of the house, near” the chimney. Every ear was selected in the field from the standing stalks, and they were selected before the first frost. Only ears from strong, well proportioned stalks were selected to go into the seed room. To show how well the corn adapted itself to local conditions, this year's crop showed less stalk growth but a whole lot more of earing, and of a variety of dent that can be depended upon to produce two good ears to the stalk. A very large proportion of the stalks bore two good ears, and some bore two good ears, and a third about half size. In fact Mr. Rooke had several bushels of small ears represented by the third ears on the stalk The seed was planted May 29th, which is late planting indeed. The corn was planted by Mr. Yale's planter, and the rows were three feet apart. ‘When the corn was well up, Mr. Rooke went over the piece and thinned to one stalk in thé hill, leaving the plants to stand about 18 inches apart in the row. The crop received no special treatment during the gsrowing season, other than being cultivated and the weeds hoed out. Flat cultivation was practiced. As soon as the stalks were cut rye was sowed as a winter cover crop. The stalks were not cut and put into “shocks.” Instead the corn was husked from the standing stalks, the work of husking having been done late in October and early in November. As we have already mentioned, the seed ears—of which hé has a great many bushels—were taken out first, and special attentio ngivén to stalk and ear characteristic. The stalks, were of medium height, strong, stocky, and well supplied with foliage. There had been scarcely any “blowing over” which appeared unusual in view of the exposed situation of the fleld—squarel on‘top of a high elevation. 3 Prize Ear Hidden. . Had not Mr. Rooke gone to Baston in person he would have lost the grand sweepstakes prize on the best single ear of dent. He shipped his corn to the show and it arrived in ample time for the opening, which was Wednesday. Among other entries he sent 40 pounds to go into the shelling-out cont Saturday he went to Boston to see the show, not knowing that he had won a prize. The ribbons were upon all the prize exhibits. He looked for the single ear that he had entered in the single ear dent class, but could not find it. At length, after a two hours’ search he found it, properly tagged, in the shelling out contest, where it had been piaced by mistake by those who unpacked the exhibit. Luckily that eaf had not been shelled in the con- test, a8 he had several ears in excess of the 30 Ibs. heeded for the shelling- out contest. Also, luckily for him, he found the car in the presence of two of three of the principal officials of the show . The mistake being apparent, the judges were called in and the ear was awarded the grand sweepstakes. Lesson For Others. Alfred Rooke's success s a corn grower should be an fncentive to other boys to go and dob llkéwise. Mr. Rooke did not win by any hit or miss methods. Instead he made a study of corn—how to grow it, how to select seed, and how to improve and acclimate an unaccli- mated variety. That he was able to do thie on an aere of land in the back yard fon' a home in the suburbs, is greatly to his credit. In short, he practiced upon a small scale the meth- ods whigh Mr, Brewer practiced upon a large mecale, Farmers, young and old, whether large, or small, have much te learn from the accomplish- ments of Mr. Brewer of Hockenum and Mr. Rooke of Meriden, If yeu give veur best girl a pair of slippers for Christmas, Alense, be sure they are three sizes teo small. At SERVICES OF SILAS DEANE. Powsr., ; 3 3 & The Rev. George L. mfleif.s read a paper of muech i las Deane, ot,” before the Connectficut Ifis- torical society. brief outline of Mr. paper Silas Deane was born in Groto: school, engaged in business and b end and shrewdness became in ten years a man of wealth and power. Deane engaged in business with his ‘brother, Barnabas, and buiit the Silas Deane house in Weth a y before the Revolution. In 1761 he ‘Webb, who died in 1767. He _later married Hlizabeth, dauszhter of Colonel Saltonstall of Norwich. . The first conquest made by the Americans, the capture of Ticonder- oga, May 10, 1775, was largely due to the Influence and money of Silas Deane, who advanced £380 to the com- missary. Captain Elisha Phelps. In July, 1775, Deane Was chosen a dele- gate to the Continental comgress, and on August 22 left for Philadeiphia. In the deliberation and action of con- gress Deane bore a leading part, as became a man of his ability and en- ergy. : Washington Slept in Deane's House. Washington visited Wethersfield and slept at the Deane house the might of June 29, 1775. In the autumn of 1775 the project was discussed in con- gress of sending a man to France to secure foreign sympathy and 2id. Silas Deane, the Wethersfield patriot and business man, was the choice of the committee of congress, and he was accordingly sent with £40,000 to buy 106 brass cannon and arms and clothing for 25,000 men. N Arthur Lee, who arrived in Paris with Franklin late in 1776, was en- vious ambitious and unserupulous, and at once began to work against Deane. He wrote home that Deane WwWas ex- travagant and perhaps speculated with the funds in his hands. Deane brought home letters of hearty commendation from Beaumar- chais, Franklin and Vergennes. But cold looks, averted faces and violent partisanship met him instead of sym- pathy and appreciation. His wife, whom he had loved with singular de- vetion, had died during his absence. The Virginia and South Carolina frac- tions were arrayed against him. Deane explained his position before congress, showing how he had spent the greater part of his private for- tune for the good of the country, but the opposition of the Lees resulted in delaying any action of congress toward his vindication. To France Again. He went to France again to gain the needed information and found that the French government had been prejudiced against him. Ruin and disgrace threatened him on his re- turn to America, so that he became discouraged, morbid, misanthropic. Then came the publication of .the famous “Rebel Mail:” the “intercented letters” published in the “Rivington Royal Gazette,” ih which he argued that since France was weary of aiding us, the colonies so full of jealousy and faction, congress so incapable and our prospects of commerce so futile, it might be wise for the colonies to come to an understanding with England on some basis that would give them local self government, with the sta- bility of connection with the mother country. dn this time of gloom sim- ilar sentiments had been uttered by even such men as Franklin and Wash- ington. An Exile. These letters raised such a storm that Deane was driven from the so- ciety of patriots and made an exile. He escaped to Ghent, where he re- mained in obsecurity and poverty for a year and a half and then went to England. He remained in ¥England until his death, September 23, 1789, on the ship upon which he had embarked for America. TVr- bodw was carried ashore and buried in the churchyard in the town of Deal, where it lies in an unmarked grave. In 1842 congress voted $38,600 to the heirs of Deane in partial restitution of the fortume that he had devoted to his country. AN ANCIENT LIBRARY. A Find in a Ninevite Palace—Evidence of a Love of Literature._ Excavations have revealed to us some astonishing facts with regard to the literary attainments of the ancient peoples of the East. The most in- teresting of these finds were those encountered in the ruined palace -of ancient Nineveh. It was no mere religious literature | that was there discovered; it possessed far more solid elements. The tab- lets found on the site of the city that long ago crumbled into the dust show that the scribes studied their literature to advantage. Commentaries, diction- aries and critical works evidence a love of literature, not the mere mak- ing of books. The Nineyite library presents several curious features that for some time the archaeologists found it difficult to explain. In the first place, it Is pointed out, there are no tablets except state d ments or historical inscriptions, prior to the reign of Assurbanipal (B. C.'| 668-625), a circumstance that indlcates that the library wase founded in his reign. Then, too, the careful arrange- ment of the tablets in groups and sets, with an index or catalogue in many cases, shows that it was formed on a definite plan and was not a gradual growth during a long period of time. Finally very large numbers of the tablets have an endorsement to the ef- fect that they were “like the old copy.” The question arises, origin of these older works? The first indication was afforded by the. state- ment on certain of the tablets that they were copies of tablets from Babylonian cities, and the discoveries in the libraries of Babylonian temples of duplicates of tablets already known | to the archaeologists from the Assyrian library proved that the Babylonians had a similar literature. Copies of the ! Creation legends have been found at | Borsippa, and the Assyrian library had a copy of the Code of Hammurabi. It is clear, then, that it was Babylonia j that furnished the "old copies.” All doubt as to the Chaldean origin of the literary treasures of the roval library at Nineveh is removed by a tablet in the British museum. This consists of a letter written, appareni- 1y, by Assurbanipal, but probably by | the priest scribe who acted as the roval librarian. It was addressed to a cer- tain Shadunu; who was a man of con- siderable importance, and as is now as- certained, the head of a manuscript commission despatched to search for the tablets in the Babylonian libraries. It has been translated thus: ' 1 What was the “The word of the king to Shadunu: 1 am well; mayst thou be happy. The day thou seest this letter or mine take certain personals and such persons of | Borsippa, as thou knowest, and seek out all the tablets which are in their houses, and all the tablets lald up In the temple E-zida. Seek out the rare tablets such as may be found on your journey which do not exist in Assyria, and send them to me. [ am giving crders to the treasurers and prefects. Theu shall put them in a strong box. 0 one shall withold tablets from thee; and if there be any tablet or istele of which 1 have not made men- tion to you, and thou shall learn of it, and it is good fer my palace, séarch for it and get it and send it to me.” It thus appears that a commissien with unlimited pewers was despatched by the Assyrian king te search beth the temple and private . libraries of Babylenia and take frem them werks Native of Groton Married Nerwich Clark, of Weth- | nterest ‘The following is a Clark’s o Copysight. 1918, 1 the sky and the gutters. Adding to the blowing up of the kilied. door. 1. The Great War President—LINCOLN. : : ‘WAS in Richmesd when it Was swept by a sea of fire. I saw the flames like Dlaeing banners fluttering against stormy billows of smoke surging back- _ward and forward and up and down with the changing of I saw through the gloom the weird, black oolored troops es they galleped up the street I heard the screams and yells and curses of the rabble, erazed by the liquor which had been poured from barrels \nto the streets and which they drank from the flowing the demoniac horrors of the scene was the magazine, shivering every mirror " and pane of glass in our house. News of the fate of Five Forks had come to me, and the city was full of rumors that my Soldier was among I knew he would come back. But, oh! they ‘were anxious hours. The day after the fire there was a sharp rap ai the The servants had all run away. The city was full -of Northera troops and my environment had not taught me to love them. With my baby in my arm I answered the knock, opened the door and looked up at a tall, gaunt, sad-faced man in ill-fitting clothes, who, wich the accent of the North, asked: “Is this George Pickett's place?” “Yes,” 1 said. “I know that, Abraham Lincoln.” “The President?” I gasped. “This is Gea. Pickett's home, sir, but he is not here.” marm,” he replied; ‘“but I wanted to see the place. I am The stranger shook his head and said: “No, marm, no; just Abraham Lin- eoln, George's old friend.” “I am George Pickett's wife and thig is his baby,” was all I could say. The baby reached out his hand and Mr. Lincoln took him. A look of tender- ness alinost divine glorified that sad face. I have never seen a look like that on any other face. The baby opened his mouth and insisted upon giving his father's friend a dewy baby kiss. As he handed the little one back to me Mr. Lincoln, shaking his finger at him playfully, said: ; “pell your father, the rascal, that his Uncle Abe forgives him for the sake of that kiss and thgse bright eyes.” The tones of his deep voice touched all the chords of life to muslc, and T matvelled mo more that men who knew him loved him. He went down the steps, talking to himself, and out of my sight forever. But in my memory those Imtensely human eyes, tkat atrong, sad, tender face and that wonderful votce have a perpetusal abiding place. Sometimes in the flash of light we behold = & face a friendship that will never die. 3 Among my treasured poesessions ars some letters written by Lincoln, when practising law in Sprinsfield. to my Soldier, then 2 young cadet at West Point, where he was placed through the influence of Mr. Lincoln, having been ap- pointed from Illinols becanse he was studying law there at that time. The homely and humorouns philosophy of these missives, the honesty which breataas through every sentence, the cheerful outlook-upon life and the ready sympathy of the professional man with the boy Just on the threshold of life—all bring him before me is one Who Was near me and known as & friend. I look beyond the description he gave of himself: “Helght, 6 feet 4 inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an averags 130 pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes.” A free-hand sketch like that is easy, put memory fills the outlines with t:e subtle beauty of soui. the sunny view of 1ife, the deep and tender sympathy, ail making up a face of Infintte charm which puzzled artists but revealed itself to a little ohild, causing it to held out its arms to be tairen and present its lips to be kissed. After my Soldler's veturn, bewed by the bitter senss of loss, the leartbreak of defeat, came the awful news of Lin- caln’s death. “My God! My God!r” he exclaimed. *“The South has lost her best friend and protector now in the hour of need!” WHAT INTERESTS London’s Modern Troglodytes. The peril to which that noble Eng- lish temple, St. Paul's Cathedral, has been exposed by the burrowing proc- livities of Londoners, calls attention to the under-city of the world’s metro- polis. New York has its skyscrapers. London has its sub-sub-sub-(ad 1 fintum)-cellars. Every vear sees e tensive additions to the under-cit Abnormal demands on space, calling for buildings with numerous subter- ranean stories have evolved the under- ground man. There are many men living and working in London toda who see less of the sun than a collier. Troglodytes of a great city, they travel work, eat and play underground. Travelling by the tube, many city clerks work in offices situated in the “‘sub-basement,” eat their luncheon in an underground cafe, refresh them- selves at an underground bar, and play billiards in an undergfound ‘“‘parlor.” The greater part of these men's lives is spent underground, and they see more electric light than sunlight. The sub-city is growing, its population in- creasing. Underground trains, under- ground tramways, underBround cafes, and “short cuts” underground-are rap- idly being augmented. “If vou want to get on, get under.” they say in Lon- don. A present instance of digging for room is that of the new County Hall, which is slowly assuming shape and substance on the south side of the Embankment. It is one of the many new buildings in London remarkable for their underground space. And, away from London, there is at Oxford | a peculiar! example of downward ex- | pansion. The Underground Bookstore, | recently completed in the basement of the Radcliffe Camera of the Bodleian Library, has just been formally opened. In the coursc of an address the libra- rian of Bodley's, Falconer Madan, said | that the problem which had been faced ! was the overcrowding of the Camera basement with people and books, mostly books. The addition was a pioneer work. Mr. Madan believed it to be the largest underground book- store in the world. If it proved a suceess. as he expected it to do, he would prophesy that within fifty vears every rcollege and like institution in England would take recourse to the th beneath. The High Cost of Pictures. The recent six days’ sale in Paris of part of the famous Rouart collection | was noteworthy for the high prices! which in ‘many instances were paid Corot drawings have never previously brought such sums, and the same is likewise true of drawings by Daumier, Millet and others. At the Rouart saie estimated values %ere often exceeded | in the bidding. The chief sSensati was the sale of M. Degas’ Dancers at the Barrier” at nearly $85,000. a figure which far ovgrtops any price ever given for a picture in the life of its painter. Sir I.. Alma- Tadema is said to have sold one of the pictures, but not in the public market. for $43,000. His “Dedication to Bac- chus” went for $28,000 at Christie’s. M. Degas, since the sale of his “Les Danseuses a la Barre,” has been the hero of a thousand and one anecdotes in the Parisian pYess, after his very existence had been forgotten. A cer- tain mocking humor shows in the re- mark which M. Degas is credited with having made when the sale was over. He asked to be allowed to see, or rather to handle—for the painter is almost blind—the now famous picture. “Yes,” he sald, as he touched the sur- face with delicate finger tips, “the man who painted this was no fool, but who- s suitable for the newly established roy- al library at Ninevel, The destruction of Nineveh occur- red abeut 609 B. C., so: that the. li- brary had a life of only. about half a century—a fact that weuld account in a great measure for the freshpes~ of the tablets.—Harper's Weekly. OTHER NATIONS ever paid $85,000 for it was a thorough lunatic!” There in the fact that the artist sold for ninety-seven dollars this picture which brought collector and dealers almost a thousand times the sum. The ques- tion of artists’ copyright has once more become prominent. The Commission Education and Fine Arts received at the French Chamber a deputation from the Scclete le Droit d’Auteur aux Artistes, and listened to a proposal that a tax of two per cent should be levied in behalf of artists or their heirs on the prices fetched at the public picture sales. The Commission ap- proved the proposal and charged ome| of their number to draw up a favor- able report. A Triple Entente Newspaper Soon will appear the first number of a Triple Entente newspaper. The proprietor of the Journ: @’ Allemagne is acting on the suggestion made to him by Sir Thomas Barclay that an English paper ht render as good service to Anglo-German relations as the Journal d’Allemagne is rendering to Franco-German friendship When Sir Thomas' was in Berlin some time ago he mixed with a party of e sionists from France who were seeing the sights of Berlin under German guildance. The total number on that excursion, he believed, was about a thousand, scattered in groups of fifty each while in the kaiser's capital, and people of all classes were represented. One excursionist with whom. he spoke, a provincial notary, told him that in the centra) part of France, from which he came, the people had grown sick of the Franco-German feud, and thought it was time to begin making friends again. Sir Thomas has written for the new journal the inaugural article on the promotion of a better knowl- edge of Germany among Englishmen and a betiter knowledge of England ameng Germans. Sir Thomas founded the International Brotherhood Alliance for this purpose in 1905: it has done very good work already, and if it had a fund to refray the of a paid secretary it could do . As it is the Alliance is dependent on vol- untary co-opers: and al] it can do is to keep the existing branches ir touch with each other. “A determina- tion among civilized people to preserve the peace among them Thomas observes, stronge guarantee for its preservatipn. L such a determination ambng the British and French peoples there would have been no Anglo-French entente, nor will there be an Anglo-German entente till the leading citizens of the two countries make up their minds, as they did, in 1900 in Great F tain and France to bury the hatche: once for all.” A Packet of Pavers A Mystery. Little paragraphs in the new: papers must often be suggestive great possibilities to writers of nc so it may be wondered what Oppanheim would see in a rec of cels. -nt item in the Paris correspondence of the London Telegraph—of mystery, in- trigue, romance, adventure. H it is: “On the bench of the waiting- room at the station of Forges-les- Eaux a man, dressed like a workman, was lying in a drunken sleep. the train for Dieppe was signalled one of the other occupants of the waliting- room, a M. Colombel, in an endeavor to awaken the sleeper, shook him v orously by the shoulder. The move- ment dislodged a packet of papers, which siipped from the man’s breast pocket to the floor. Struck by the official nppearance of the papers, M. Colombel examined them, and to his stupefaction found them to be docu- ments relating to the national defence. He informed the authorities, and docu- ments and bearer were taken to the police station, where the papers were found to contain plans of the forts of Jarny-and Harricourt, and alse of the system of coastal defence at Havre. is something tragic| Phillips | When | TN O REE 3 .Try This Home-Made - .Cough Remedy | Costs Liftle, But Does the Work Refunded. *Mix ‘oné pifit of granulated r with finpmt of warm water, and r for 2 utes. Put 214 punces of Pinex (fitty pents’ worth) in a pint bottle; then add ihe Sugar Syrup.’ Take a teaspoonful e¥ery-one, two or three hours. -"You will find that this simple rem- edy takes hold of a cough more quickly than anything else you ever used. Usu- ally ends a deep “scated cough inside of 24 hours. Splendid, too, for whoop ing cough, “croup, chest pains, bronchi- tis and other throat troubles, It stim- ulates the appétite and is slightly lax: £896) Which Nelps'end & coughs This recipe makes more and better mh syrup than _you could buy read, o' for $2.50. I keeps perfectly a. tastes pleasantly. _Pinex is the wiost valuable concen: trated compound of Norway white piné extract, and is rich in guaiacol and all the nafural pine elements which are so healing to-tbhe -membranes. Other prep- arations will not work in this formula. _This plan of making cough syrup with Pinex and sugar syrup (or strained honey) has proven so popular through- out, the United States and Canada that it is often imitated. But the old, sue- cessful formula has never been equaled. A guaranty of absolute satisfaction, or money promptly. refunded, goes with this recipe. Your druggist has Pinex or will get it for you. Tf not, send to Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind, gave his name Their possessor, who he found the as (Gillet, declared that documents in a. chateau near Forges, in " which he had been working. In- quiries are to be made in that quarter. Gillet, who is sixty-two years of age, and by trade a slater, does not seem to realize the importance of the papers found in his possession.” A Turkish Republic Forgotten. Monaco is sufficiently unigue, doubt- There léss, but it has a r is a sort of. little = Anarch republic, a E republic, too, enclosed by the territory of the Christian territories of the Balkans. Perhaps the delegates St. Jame: >alace will discu future. The Berlin imply forgot its e e’ It is the small Island of Adah-Kale, on the Danube. near Belgrade, situated almost exactly at the point where the Hungarian, Ser- vain and Roumanian frentiers con- verge. This island once really be- longed to Turkey. The gentlemen who were repainting the map of the Balk- ans at the Berlin Congress overiooked Congress its-existence and it remained under the Turkish flag. But the Turks had now no means of reaching it, so it re- mained a bit,of no man’s land, a par- adise for those who have an inborn repugnance to paying taxes. The in- habitants of the island are all Mos- lems, and have no parliament, no government and no police. They lead 4. life which 3 good Anarchists ought to envy. Real Bandits of Corsica. No wonder the novelists set thelr sensational scenes in Corsica r the Corsican “‘Marquis”’ still shelters bri- gands of the real—not the histrionic— breed. Of such Is Jean Thomas Paolf, who for years has terrorized the region of Borgo, near Bastia. For a long time the police have been hot on hig track, and somehow- or other they learned that he had taken ref -in accord- ance with the best bri- gandage~in a cave in the hills near Borgo. The noint was to find the en- trance to his lair. = Paoli's watchdog played innocent traitor to his master. Ha is: a_sort of mythical monster in with which to ter- | rorize fractious infants to slumber, and | his description is in the hands and note-book of the guardians of the law. His shaggy mane and ferocious howf™were reeognized by the Brigadier Franchi, who, in e of the warning of his- sple ‘companion, the gendarme Freciani, boldly entered the forbidding | tunnel info which the dog had retired. The two had advanced only a few paces when bath fell—Francioni with a bullet under the rirht eye, Frecioni wounded in the right arm. They struggled out { the meighborhood. }of th rridor of death and sent to | B v reenforcements. Then a | siege ' began. First there was some questioff. 6f blowing up the cave with dynamite, but after long deliberation this idea was abondoned as likely to | invelve more danger to the besiegers | than the besicged. Then someone, re- |'calling; mo doubt, the penny dreadfuls | of his youth, suggested that the “ver- min’ showld e smoked out of their | 1air* No sooner said than attempted. The mouth of the cave was piled high ggots, and a dense column and eddied with tortuous re- | with ereen of‘acrid smoke swirle oring wind into S0 an hour passed by the time enough, it was reckoned, hyxiation of the bold- Then the smouldering “xed aside, and, sneezing the besiegers entered to | find no resistance—to find. in fact, | nothing_and _.nobody all, for, of | course Paoli's refuge was provided with the mecessary adjunct of any self- | respecting brigand’seeave—a. secret ex- 1 And now the police are scouring f t countryside with a column of cav- ! One’s unregenerate sympathies rehow g out te the Corsican bandit is certainly playving the game ac- cording to the rules of the best and | robustest authors for boys. and coughing, | He : For Coughs and Colds put - one on chest and another between shoulder blades. It breaks up the conges- ‘tion (the cause of colds) be- fore it can reach the lungs. 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