The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-29

But after this 1 shall not care.
She's fair, and yet lif-I should die
I'd not put JOY beneath the ban;
Last night 1 heard her say that /
was such funny-lOOking man.
The inquisitive visitor to the studio
Of the famous but crotchety artist pro-
pounded the query: What do you
mix your colors with?''
with brains, sir" replied the
painter in dignif1ed tones.
An, commended the visitor, $50
you paint miniatures"
The Able Gorret, who climbed
every important peak in the Swiss and
Italian Alps, and who was the first to
ascend the Matterhorn from the Ital-
ian side, has died at Aosta, aged 70.
He taught Alpinism to the present
king OF Italy and was well acquainted
with the late King Humbert, who call
ed him 'Ghe Mountain Bear"
Able GOrret, who was born of
humble parents, began life as guide.
He was a man of superb physique, and
was noted in his younger days for his
feats of strength.
By studying at night he passed his
examinations as clerical student and
became a priest. He soon refnuuish-
ed parochial duties, however, and re-
tired to cottage in the mountains,
where he spent his time writing books
on the Alps and cEmOlng
He was an intimate friend of Tyn-
dali and many other well-known Eng
Hsh Alpinists of the old school.
The banana furnishes us with ink,
with handkerchiefs, with wax, with
blacking, with excelsior, with oil, with
flour, with window cord, with
brushes
The speaker, banana planter from
Jamaica, paused and smiled.
You don't believe me, do your he
said. Yet truly the banana tree is a
wonderful thing. Every part of It
serves some good use. Thus the long
leaves make fine excelsior. The
juice, being rich in tannin, furnishes
a good indelfble ink and good shoe
polish. The stems yield a fine quality
of hemp, and from this hemp there
are made lace hahdkerchiefs, cords
and ropes of all kinds, mats and
brushes. The oil is used in gliding.
OF banana flour, the -four ground from
the dried fruit, there is not use speak
ing-you are too familiar with it."
There recently 'Afed in Sioux City.
Ia. real son of the American revo-
luton in the person of Ira Lepper,
whose father served in the Mohawk
Valley in the campaign against Bur.
goyne. Mr.. Lepper was born in New
York state in 1925, and his family
went with the Leppers, another family
went by wagon westward, and in 1899
settled in Clayton county, Ia. There
went with the Leppers another family
named Walrod they built cabins near
each other, and in due course young
ira Lepper married Miss Walrod, with
whom he had played as a boy. A few
weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs. Lepper cele-
brated their sixtietfr wedding ami
versary, surrounded by the seven sur
vivors of their family of eleven chill
dre1. When Mr.. Lepper was discover
ed, "a few wears ago, by members Of
the Order of the Sons of the American
the society, but this he declined to do
which he said he could not help.
When the sentence dismissed with
ignomy' is passed upon an officer it
means that his brother officers NAV
never speak to him again during his
life. If the officer has a relative in
the servlce, no matter how close the
connection may be, there must never
again be communication between the
two.
If it is a young man who is thus
dismissed, and he has father in the
army or navy. thew are cut off for
ever, unless the father should choose
to quit the nations service also.
49, H.
ed 1t is Interchangeable. A man who
simply violates the laws of the coun-
try even to the noint of treason has
chance for pardon. but once he re-
ceives the document bearing the
phrase dismissal with ignomy" it
stands Just so long as there is breath
in his body.
''The servant girl problem knows no
geographical limitations" said George
Hudnafl of Sydney, Australia
"Just before left home a great
deal was being expected by our local
housewives from the experiment OF
importing girls from England, Ire
land and Scotland. Our New South
Wales government was in the scheme,
and arrangements had been made to
bring over sixty young women as a
starter 1ue girls are guaranteed to
be of good moral character, and when
they land an agent Of the government
will take them to homes previously
secured.
"A condition of their coming was
that each lass must be actually en-
gagged in domestic service, and ready
TO continue in that line of work The
government helped by getting them a
16.000-mile passage for only SIS They
are expected to arrive very soon, and
If this first batch turns out a success
our people will be glad to have some
of the same sort, for we are very
shy of female help