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“WALK SOFTLY AND
SPEAK LOW*
(Schenectady Union Star.)
In Berlin there la a place where at
all hours of the day you can see In a
grim spectacle the stark underside ut
war
it was already dark one afternoon
when I came to a building of red brick
which hail been the old war academy.
As 1 climbed the broad stone stairs lu
slde, two women In black were com
ing down, and one was supporting the
other, who was sobbing violently. On
the door above 1 found a lofty cham
ber. with lead-colored columns at
either end and pictures ol’ Prussiai
heroes upont he walls and celling Al
though this hall was crowded, all was
strangely hushed and still. Upon u j
placard on one wall was written In j
heavy letters, "Walk softly and speak I
low."
Down the center of the hall ran a
long semi- circular counter, behind!
which sat many elderly clerks, most of >
them in black frock suits. And fac
ing this counter In rows of chairs, sev
eral hundred men and women, tense
and silent, motionless as though at
some gripping tragedy, sat watching a
great red curtain at one end of the
chamber. This curtain was restless,
never still. Every few moments it
leaped part as a messenger came
quickly in Then a name would be
called out, and some man or woman
would pump up and go t<> the counter, j
would stand there rigid, listening. j
Here Germany learns of hpr dead. (
Forty-five hundred hospitals report
ed to this place each week, all pour
ing in the details which in scores of
busy rooms men and girls hy hundreds,
writing and typewriting copying,
comparing, checking, classifying with
Prussian precision, were building up
into neat typewritten little tales,
which on postcards every day werej
sent out by the thousands to German
towns and villages, to be read by
wives and mothers.
From every town and village, too, j
came a daily stream of inquiries, all of
which were answerd at once. It Is a
part of this uncanny, miraculous Ger
man system. It saves German wives
and mothers long terrible weeks of
yvniting for news, and so helps to keep
up the nation’s strength, Its courage
and endurance.—Ernest Poole.
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MAKES NATURE EARN LIVING
(Indianapolis News.)
That "the world owes us a living"
has often been hard, but it has re
mained for a Vermilion country farmer
to take steps to collect it. John Gra
ham is the man who is making nature
produce for him. Wild bees, wild ducks,
muskrats, foxes, skunks, and black
bass are laboring for this “nature
former," as he is known in the neigh
borhood where ho lives.
The "nature farm," a wild plum and
wild crab apple orchard of elevn acres,
lies twenty miles north of here and it
Is a part of the old Mann estate. It is
on the banks of the Norfork, and is
an excellent place for the raising of
skunks, ducks, muskrats and bees. The
black bass are native to the stream.
On the "farm" are 300 skunk9, 6C
stands of wild bees, 100 foxes, 100 wild
ducks, hundred of muskrat and thou
sands of bass. And what is strangest
of all to the casual visitor,there is no
odor. The ‘nature farmer” contends
that, despite the belief to the contrary,
skunks are among the most cleanly of
animals and gave off no offensive odor
unless they are in danger. They be
come domesticated on the “farm” and
are as docile as kittens.
On one side of the farm is a winter
house for the skunks, and nearby are
burrows for them. They feed on wild
plums, crabapples and scraps of meat.
Fish are sometimes caught for them.
Adjoining the skunk pens are pens for
the foxes. Apples and wild fowl are
fed them. Naturo has provided bees
Ifor the "farm.1' Trees in which the'
bees were found were moved to the
[farm and the bees go right ahead pro-i
vldlng for the farmer.
Corn bread, roasting ears, black bass1
and many other articles from the
"farm" recently appeared on the table
at n dinner. "That is proof positive,”
said Mr. Graham, "that nature will
provide for un 11 we only take the
trouble to coll <t what has been of
fered."
"THE DEAD DO NOT DIE.”
(I.ondon Observer.)
Maeterlinck, in a beautiful article in
the Figaro, tell* vs, reiterating the
message of the "Blue Bird," "The dead
lo not die.” One sees the loss of so
many young existences, and one Is
itruck with the feeling of despair that
such fine energies and r.uch hopes
should come to naught. Never has
'here been such a waste of human
treasure. For more than twelve
months, on all the battle fields, the (
bravest, the most ardent, the most!
devoted, have died. But. declares the
Belgian master, the virtues of the
heroes cannot die. Perhaps their hero
ism enters into us as the Papunsj
•bought. In any case, nothing is lost
—that is his teaching; we are the J
"ichor for their precious sacrifice
MYSTERIES OF THE STARS.
(.Kansas City Star.)
Prof. Solon I. Hailey, of Harvard
college,h as written an article “Qlob
aiar Clusters," in the annals of Har
vard college observatory, and study,
fo the layman it does not seem like
much of an achievement for so much
of effort. Night after night, month
after month, year after year he has
.vutched the changes taking place In 1
a single cluster of stars, has taken!
thousands of photographs, made thou
sands of Intricate calculations, has
compiled all so that it will he a per
manent record tor those who com> ;
after him, and yet he has not unrav
eld the mystery. Hut it is interesting.
•'Globular clusters" are swarms of
stars so far away that they appear on
tin- photographic plates taken through
telescopes as a "spattering of barely
discernible dots.” yet each dot is a sun,
many of them larger than our own
sun. and, us Mr. Hailey says, “The
number of stars visible on the plate
does not amount to the hundredth pan
of the total number of stars. Each
one of these clusters Is, therefore, a
gigantic system containing at least a
million stars."
He says further. “There is nothing
to indicate that even bigger and better
telescopes than those of todayr may
not increase the complexity of the
swarn of stars that greets the ob
server as ho looks into ono of these
universes within a universe."
The majority of globular clusters of
stars which Mr. Bailey hns studied are
so far away that the light which
reaches us from them left those great
suns “when the Pyramids were young,"
and the majesty of the universe awes
one when he realizes that the light
whclh enables us to make a photograph
of a star reaches us over such vast
ness of space that the thing which
8eems to be happening today la in real
ity an occurrence of thousands of years
ago. And Mr. Bailey believes that
there are yet other of those vast star
clusters so far away that they will
never be known by mon because their
light would have to travel far before
it could reach us that it will bo ab
sorbed in space and never get here.
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SUCCESS.
(Century.)
“One night at Lady Jeune's house
Joseph Chamberlain said to me that
he helleved any man of even mod
erate endowment could attain any
given aim which ho set before him with
unremitting effort and ‘enduring to the
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THE FIR8T BASEBALL QLOVE.
(All Outdoors.)
About 1867-68 a baseball team came
to Rockford, 111., to play our nine. They
called themselves the "TJnconquered
Clippers of Illinois,' and plastered our
town with big posters. We made up
our minds to give them a drubbing,
and at the end of the game the score
was Rockford 76, Clippers 0.
There was a little chap playing third
base who grabbed everything that came
near him, and held It, too I noticed
that he wore a kind of glove. When
the game was over I went to him and
naked what It was that he woro on
his hand. He told me that he wa« a
machinist, and had got his hand bad
j 'v hurt the week before, and he showed
me the wound in his palm. He said
‘he bova did not want him to play In
•hat game, but he got a piece of thin
sheet steel and made It slightly con
-nvc, but so that It did not quite touch
the sore place. He then made a short
glove to cover all the hand excepting!
the first joints of the fflngers. and,
doubled the leather In the palm, sol
'hat he could slip the plate between.
I asked him If It hurt, and he said
I t did not, and that he could take a hot!
one and hold It better with the glove
than without It That Is the whole 1
! -dory 1 don't think that Spaulding ever
talked to the little chap with the Iron
fist, as the boys dubbed the third base
man. but everybody In Rockford knew
about the mitt, and he may have got
he idea from him. Anyway, that was.
the first glove that any ball player
ever wore.
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ECONOMY OF BRITISH WOMEN, j
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(Boston Record.)
British women are taking an active
hand in securing that economy In In- '
I dividual small thing* which in the
aggregate comprise a 'great waste
fulness of public force in times of
j stress. For instance, as today’s news
| shows, the woman's war economy
league is trying to persuade people
to do without sweet meats. Bo much
for their own sex—reducing the con
sumption of sweet meats and also tho
use of skins and furs, feathers, orna
mental silks, etc For the men, they
suggest cutting down the expenditures
'or wines and spirits and for tobacoo.
\li of which is of far-reaching Inter
est. because reforms and economics
bred In necessity leave lasting conse
quences of benefit on all the com
munity wherein they are tried out.
Necessity is truly enough tho moth
er of Invention, but she has a large
and miscellaneous family besides
Economy and reform are among her
■'hlldren. We believe that If the wo
men of Britain do without sweet
meats for a year, and If the men do
without wines and without tabocco,
or If men and women reduce the con
sumption of these luxuries and in
dulgences. the restoration of pcaco will
find established a strong foundation
upon which to build a cleaner and bet
ter social civilization.
It is in humanity to pampor indul
Tencles. Sweet moats among the least
barmful, and other less Innocent In
dulgences, are the natural response
*o an inbred human leaning towards
solf-gratiflcatlon. It is tho constant
task of society through law or pre
cept to confine and direct these In
dulgences along safe channels. Some
times society does not do very well In
Its efforts. But tho pinch of war has
focused sharp attention on tho prob
ems involved, and with excellent re
sults. These results are likely to be
lasting.
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