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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-13

E. g. Mobile Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adverti- ser's circulation for the month of March, 1908. is true and correct, and compiled af- ter all returns from newsboys. news agents. spoiled and 1sft-over copies have been de- ductsd. E. s. NOBLE. sworn to and subscribed before me this fsEAIAl RIGA ALEXANDER,
 Notary Public.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
OUR LETTER BOX.
A TRIBUNE ROOM.

Dear Little Men and Little Women: l have a
very pretty bedroom. and 1t is mostly due to
the New York Tribune I thought perhaps you
would like to hear about il. | have saved all the
pretty covers which every Sunday on the
Tribune Magazine. My room is papered in dark
green half up and has a border of pink roses
trellis above this. l bought green car
bon paper. which comes about cents sheet, and
mounted about twenty Of the prettiest covers on
It,. leh ing about inch of the green all around
for border Then l bought green wire that
they use in making paper flowers ard some little
hangers which teachers use in school hang up
pictures by. ] drove in some tacks each end of
my room upon the rose border and stretched my
wire between them. After fastening the hangers.
two on each picture. | hung them the wire.
leaving about an inch or so between each picture
:or the roses tC show through The result is too
lovely for anything, and it easy to do.
Every one speaks of my pretty border and asks
where got the pretty posters. Hoping some Of
you will also fix your rooms this way. l remain
yours very sincerely.
MARION w WHITE (aged ID
10 BuTncoat street. Worcester. Mass.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

o,e vary much The most they can tell US ABOUT
this amazing process OF crystallization is that
atoms are very fond Of order They never gel
out Of order except on compulsion- with u.s. oi
o,,-ea the cornpuIsion usually has TO be the
other way: but atoms are different, II appears
and the atoms of all substances If allowed 10
mass from the liquid to the solid state under the
right conditions will arrange themselves IN GER
tain definite forms, each different substance
having i,s own plan of disqualification. Salt
forms the most beautiful little cubes. as any one
can see for him or her self by dissolving little
salt in water and letting it evaporate Glass; IL
cooled slowly enough, will crystalline IN stars
rLa water Gold forms exquisite crystals. all
made ND Of little ;riangles and all our precious
stones are crystals But none are 50 beaut1ui
&C those Of water. and whenever water freezes
il crystazes.
Whether it is up in the bosom of the air,
,.bere IL is easy to imagine that fairy hahoS
are moulding the atoms into fairy forms. or
,rbe,ber il is in our water pipes or on our skat-
ing ponds where don't expect strange things
.. honnen the same miracle is performed 1he
atoms as they pass from the liquid 10 the soho
s,a+e arrange themselves in six-sided forms
We don't see the crystals in ice because u'ey
ere crowded so close together. but tney are
there nevertheless. and are quite as "ohuefiu iui
= uo,, CRYSTALS Professor Tyndall calls them
the flowers of ice. and tells US that II a CON
cen,rated beam of sunlight or ray OF eieo'iio
light is passed through a block OF ice Il VA
=. ,he CRYSTALS here and there and enable US
>, s.e them. or rather the water of Whlch they
- for,,ed and which still retains the general
-, o< the crystal Little shining points ap-
go in the path of the light. and around each
g +. hesutiful water flower with six petals i"e
,r,sbt spot is a vacuum for the water TAXES up
Iess snace than the crystal did, ana ieaVes ai'
empty space in the centre
This brings us to another interesting ana very
;,nortsnt thing about these ioVeiy "ih'ei
san.rs We have seen that the atoms afe Fei'
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

GAY When there fs much wind stirring lhe
Delicate stars are broken they fall, ano "heii
II isn't ve-y cold they partly melt ana s'ich IL
one another. making the large, heaVy siio"
fakes that every one has noticed BuI "hei
snov falls on q calm. cold day have only 10
look cur coat sleeves, or mufs. or on the
window sills, the most exoulslle "hi'
Stars with six rays branching into ali sorls oi
elaborate and fowerlike designs. All this may
Dc seen with the naked eye, and with a Inaeiiiis
Ing glass or microscope one can see great oe@i
more the whole surface OF the crystals being
covered with EXQUISITE geometrical tracings ana
shadngs
II 1e examine a great many of these crystals
II great many different snowfalls we shaIi
mo most wonderful variety of peauiilui
iorns. Scientists have photographed over
thousand Of them, and probably we cc'iio go OH
-Ofeper finding new ones. The stars are tle
Oon-nonest forms. but they are not the oH's
enes- II takes e comparatively mild atmosphere
" make stars. The colder air produces soIu
crystals. which generally take the form Of thin
p.aees q ice that almost as beaut1uI WHICH,
seen under the microscope the stars Some
observers tell that they have seen little pyrd
N'os Of ice, and in extreme cold the crystals
0''en take the form Of needles. Double crystals.
e'nhectec by tiny rods Of ice and looking some
1-ine Ike fairy cuff buttons. are so common tldt
s'netinaes almost every crystal in a storm is Oh
SAs Kind. Occasionally triple crystals are
&c but they are much more rare
WIN all This wonderful variety there is an
suaiy wonderful similarity. For some reason
nobody knows water is welded 20 the nuffueI
snc Win tie exception Of q few three-sioeu
a HregRlar forms all its crystals are buiit oi.
Hs-sced plan. The stars have SIX rays anu
- heeoies and pyramids and little ice pia'
:. nave six sides. On the tops Of higi ihouN-
Or IN the Polar regions. the sho" III
se"uy falls in the form of fine white ous' "
od,e needles Neither the dust hof al"
0ies look as though they had any neIii'e
a but Il one examines them unoer 'no
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

floating on the surface Of lakes and rivers II
would sink to the bottom. Then new ice would
form at the top and would in turn, sink TO the
bottom, until the whole body of water was
frozen solid Then all the plants and animals
IN the water would die. and no summer would
be hot enough or long enough to thaw the ice.
And supposing that snow fell not in feathery
CRYSTALS like wool" ancient writer says
hut in hard pellets of ice, harder than any Ice
that we now know IL would make very poor
blanket for the flowers. 1t may seem IKE
moor blanket as ii IS, but simple matter OF
fact no covering of down on a babys cradle ever
rested there more gently and lovingly than does
her mantle of snow upon the 5osom OF the
earth 1t is warm for the very reason that the
down is warm, because OF the air entangled IN
it, and under its protection the roots and puins
and seeds that are TO clothe the earth with
beauty during another summer, and give food TO
man and beast, rest securely, wrapped In their
winter sleep.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

clever. They also strong giants. In
deed. giants nothing to them. and Tyndall
says that the force of gravtation which holds
the planets in their places is nothing. either.
Why do the water pipes burst when the water
made up their minds be stars. and do not in
stand in their way. The stars, naturally. take
up more room than the atoms did when they lay
close beside one another and delicate and frag
lie they look. they generally insist having
all the space they need. 1t is possible by put
ting a sufficient amount Of pressure upon them
to curb their aspirations but that condition very
rarely occurs in Nature-perhaps never. Per-
haps it is because she realizes how tremendously
important these tiny crystals that Mother
Nature takes such good care that they shall
have their own way, and ought to be very
glad that she does. 1t is inconvenient to have
our pipes burst, but il would be more incon-
venient perhaps, not to be able to live on the
earth at all; and that is about where should
he if water did not crystalline when it freezes.
1t would take a long time tell what ice and
snow do for us. but it is easy to that they
serve as a warm winter covering for the earth.
keep the heat which the earth absorbs from the
sun during the summer from escaping into the
air. just as our clothes keep the heat in our
bodies and thus they enable the plants and ami
mails beneath them to live through the winter.
Now if water did not crystalline and expand
when il freezes but went contracting as II
gets colder as most other things do. ice would,
of course. be heavier than water. and instead of
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
A STRANGE BURGLAR.

Dear Little Men and Little Women: One summer,
when we lived in the country, had a very queer
fright. Our house was situated near large wood.
through which railroad Tramps and
burglars were very common and many of the
houses around us were robbed and sometimes they
were burned We always bolted and locked our
doors at night SO We would be safe.
One night, quite while after We had been in
bed, mamma was awakened by queer noise which
sounded like some one trying pry open the shut
ters of the windows the first floor, the noise
going from one window another Mamma lis
tened for quite while and then my
father and uncles, and looking out of an open
window they dimy something go around the
corner of the house.
The then armed themselves with revoivers
and rifles. determined to away the burglar.
When the men went side of the house the
supposed burglar went 10 the other side, thus
keeping up sort of a wild goose chase. The men.
being upstairs, finally got tired of this, and made
up their minds to go dc and face the music.
They opened the front door just in time to a
figure go round the of the house. They
followed II, and were close upon il. when it sud
denly stopped and turned around II a cow.
She had broken away from the pasture and wan
dered around the house Her horns knocking on
the side of the house the prying at the win
dows.
We enjoyed good laugh strange
burglar. Yours truly, EMILY RANGER.
TiyoIi y. Y
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

microscope one finds that the particles Of dust
are the beginnings of six pointed stars and that
the needles have six sides.
When the regular growth Of the crystal has
not been interrupted in any way the six parts
are almost exactly like another. If one ray
OF a star branches out into feathery splcules
(frorn the Latin spiculum, a little ponD every
other raw will have exactly the same number OF
spicuIes arranged in precisely the same way, and
if one of the six parts of hexason. or slx-slQe1
plate is decorated in a particular way the other
five will be decora ted in the same way.
This is all so wonderful that it is worth While
stopping TO think about il little. How do the
atoms know their places in this marvellous sym
r7etry of skies? They are not supposed TO nave
anv mind but If unorganized mass OF human
beings were suddenly TO arrange themselves IN
one Of these complicated patterns they would ne
thought 10 be very clever indeed Wei. the
atoms are very clever. too, and there ISM I any
use in trying to find out how they manage H.
for nobody knows. People have tried 10 explain
IL. but as they didn't know anything about 1t
themselves their explanations did not help any
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
BARGAIN Hunting for ''Anfiques. -
Women Penchan Old Furnishings Spend Many
in shops'-Authentic Eoun

1-.or, = scarcely woman in the fashionable
49,. 81. does not boast Of some knowledge of the
--s,,,iof-v Of cid furniture. old china, tapestry
.s,rer revter and all the other odds and ends
=. ,he dealers are pleased to classify AN
.,,,.s and each OF them is extremely keen
.. ss~-e any specimen that VIII contribute 10 the
.,-l.-en.ss Of her favorite collection To acquire
- = piece at q reasonable price is triumph
. A.- mind and she tarries to impart the
- or i 70 ali her iutimafes-
M. or two of our countrywomen have imported
.sss,,-es from the Old World. and OF these Mrs
- Gardner Of Boston. has possessions Of such
,s,,,e that to escape the great duty that the Gus
- sso,,sa imposed her house had be classi-
c. &C 2 museum. and in accordance is open to
.h r,,hljc or certain days OF the month. AS her
r-ss-s are as great a treat her house. the late
80 cr early autumn when the bloom of rare
roU-ers Is sill luxuriant, is the time when the
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
LAST WEEKS PRIZE WINNERS.

Puzzle.-After taking out all words not the
names OF objects in the picture found the
three prize winners were Louise S. s Trevor aged
eleven years No. 2s East SD street. New York
City. whose list of twenty -eight words the
longest and neatest and who desires boys Trib-
watch The list is printed below The other
prize winners and their prizes are Mildred Housed.
aged years. No. l49 Hawthorne avenue. Yonk-
ers n. V twenty-seven words. interesting
book Margaret Mccain. aged twelve years. Pas
sale. n. j.. r. F. D. No l. twenty-five words. a
novelty collar pin
This list originally contained forty-two words:
Horse. house. halter, hair ham, hod, hammer hat.
hole. hose handkerchief hangers, horse fly or
hornet, hand. hinge. hem on trousers. hills. horI-
zon. heels. hat band. hole. handle heritage, head,
head stall hasp. hogshead and hoops
Things to Think About-The two prize winners
and their prizes in this contest Amy I-oewen-
thai. aged twelve years. No. 1S2 West 18th street
New York City. box of dainty note paper and
Goddard W Saunders. aged seven years Beech
mont. New Rochelle n. Y. sterling silver Trib-
badge.
The Tribune Skaters.-See letters published on
this page
our Letter Box-For prize winners letters
printed this page.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
NEw-YoRK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1908.

r,tb t.mptinr windows wherein exact copies OF
ANTIQUES are ranged amid a few that are realiy
OLD The imitation will be clothed IN tatterea
leather or damask. when upholstery occurs. OF oio
hair stuffing and rusty nails will be conspfcuousiy
exnosed These things are part of the cabinet
makers art Well known Is the fact tnat 70 give
leather or silk an old appearance small caiidrcn
with creased skirts are made to sit upon them
for hours at a time. and the story OF the poor
mechanic arrested in Paris and asked MS rsae'
which was make the worm holes IN antique
furniture. Is not without significance
1t should be remembered by those who search
without any knowledge that the Maynower was
only a small craft. and even had she been the SIZE
of the I,stania the furniture brought in her hold
and subdivided as generations passed "ould e'eh'u
ally mean only one chair or in each branch OF
the original family allowing for no breakase or
for the and tear of time Therefore May
flower furniture sold in Boston, Salem. Marble
head Newport any of the other well known
New England marts cannot be authentic. and IS
even at times badly copied. To find good pieces the
farm districts must be visited At the spriHS
vendues bargain can sometimes be picked up.
as the farmers. be they New England. Jersey or
Southern. likely to have some one good pisce
which some ambitious member OF the family bought
at the auction sale of some large estate and which
has been the cherished possession until change
OF residence compels the sale Of all the household
goods. 1t is noticeable also that only this one
piece will be found in each family; so buying from
the farmers is slow work and not inexpensive. for
while the actual price paid for the bureau or chair
Is small the carriage, freight and doing up bring
1t up to the cost of any from an antique shop
Seventh avenue has many second hand shops
where old plated ware and china drift through re-
verses and the former often needs only little
rubbing to bring back its original beauty. Lexing-
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

There are <eS men and women with Souls so
dead as not 10 experience some stirring of the
hear a. the coming Of the flowers in spring, pro
v16ed rhev are 50 fortunate as TO live where they
csn see than. But the flowers OF winter awaken
~ such ernlNons. They are trodden under foot
,rl,nou-n al unheaded and their beauty per
,shes without ever having gladdened human eyes
YET the flowers q summer are no lovelier. ana
;n some uays they seem even less wonderful
Unlike the flowers Of summer. the flowers OF
vinre- DO not come out Of the ground A great
raanv Of them OF the contrary. fall from the sky
Ike messages from the angels, and We may also
fnd them n our windows In the morning II our
rooms are not well heated. or perhaps in our
1-s-e- ritchers. while the surface OF every pond
snd river * sure 70 be covered with them When
8 great many OF them are collected together we
cal then snow and frost and ice, but no matter
what We call them. how different they HOOK
thsv gre all miracles Of beauty and all very much
sTke though varying infinitely in detail
snox CRYSTALS are the most beautiful OF these
p-i--e- flowers and also the easiest 10 STUDY
The best time to look for them is on stii colo
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
PRISONER-S BASE.

Ore of the most popular games played ice 10
Prisoners Base This is the way il is played
Two OF the best skaters il The company aro
chosen as leaders. These choose people for their
side till ali the players divided evenly under
the rival leaders Then the rival sides line up
quite distance apart. facing each other Then
skaters from each side skate over 20 the opposite
side ana try 10 get behind the enemy's line with
being touched. If they touched by an
enemy they prisoners and cannot return to
their line unless soule> one from their side
passes elenlys line and frees them Then both
the prisoner ard the person Who frees him may
return to thei- side Cuharrned- But II a man
skates D.. hind the enenys line .1nd no prisoner
is there Tree. he mus; skate OUT again without
a@Ing touched 70 return his own Sids. The garne
continues u-.tis Of tne twJ S-lsS has made al
the men on the Or0GsirA sida prisoners.
MARION HALLOCk aged ID
Clinton. y. y.
Prize-A Tribune watch
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
To PASS ON"

T s s friend has sent two pairs OF wEistiets
to keep some boys wrists warm. a mufHsr ana
two button bags. John KreIl. poems; F. c. NJ
box OF mems clothing. shoes underwear etc; Ms
A. B. stone fine mufler. Ms. Gorton. Of Yoz-
kers babys fannels; A 2 v. Plainfed. y j..
valentines and silks: some unknown friend. maga-
zines and scrap pictures; a good warm coat for
girl came from Miss Ella Doughty: new uuf,er.
without name; a book from Mrs 5. Draper.
bcx OF odds and ends" for shut-in. left at
the office. a fine winter dress for of the six
children os z widow from : n y Of Manhattan:
magazines from Brooklyn; a package of vools
etc without a name; bed socks, etc. from Annie
Miller of PIainfeld, y. J.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
THE TRIBUNE SKATERS.
A HOCKEY GAME.

Dear Little Men and Little Women: II the
month of February in the year 1901. The day
splendid. the ice perfect The sun shone down in
that kind manner it sometimes assumes in winter.
namely. to warm body and soul. kindle the spirits
and yet the other hand does not melt the ice.
but allows II to remain smooth ana CLASSY that
skates may have their full swing.
1t was the day of ays for d hockey game and
took up positions before our opponents
we were filed with a desire conquer
Back and forth few the puck Bang. a col
sion, Swish, swish -clatteT. bump. it in
truth a game make ones hair stand on end.
And it went, The defensive WORK on b'{'l
sides was splendid. But. aE:t'lick- click. swish
and the puck sailed through the goaL lIQ"
could lose such day. II was inpoS>iDe
and so we Won. Sincerely yours,
LENNON CLARK BRENNAN taged ID
II2 Winthrop Road. Brookline, Mass
Prze-A boys Tribune watch
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
HONOR LIST.

l. Marion Angel: 2, Ida App: 8, Olivia Bliss: T.,
Dorothy NJ Blondel 5. Katie Bauer; s, George Col
lins 7. Edith Carlson; s, Magdalena Dietrich 9.
Ethel Daniels; 10 Margaret Eldredge; II. Lillian
Fansow; L. Arthur Fanslow; l3. Katherine II.
GRAY: IA Simon Cioldstein; Is, James G Hefer; Is,
Marion Hallock: II, Anita Day Hotchkss Is, Anna
Heinsorn: - Celeste Keefe: 90 Agnes ID. King; 81.
Sadee LulI: % Katherine S. Lamb; %. Edward ".
Lane: "a Dorothy Marsh: 25. Carrie Mcorehead: 26.
bel D. Money: o. Robert Munson: S. Thomas
F. Maxon; % Frank P Neuner; 80, Elsie l.
Palmer: 81. Charlotte Pettengill; 81 Paul F Poole:
Philip E Rollhaus; Sc. La Verne Robinson; 81, May
Remington; So Coleman H Sherwood: 80. Barbara
Shedd: 90 Donald F. Steenson Al. Lowell NJ Spear:
a. Dorothy Street: 43. Alice Trotter: a. Julia B.
Tavlor: As Henrietta Vogel 46, Harold Voorhis:
A. Herman Vaupel; As. Irene Watson; 49, Margaret
A Woodworth: 30. Harold Wieland.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

who eG the greatest pleasure out of II. They may
never accumulate pieces worthy of the place OF
honor in a museum still they occasionally do find
some one thing of value that found its way TO our
shores with a Huguenot. Dutch or English settler
in early Colonial times and carried off into
the first little settlements in New England and
Maryland and that led TO the covering with pifch
any particularly beloved object. This pitching
was resorted to In rs. and Nine Yisscher and her
cousins, the Schuyiers, plastered over carefully
rare Chinese vases until no trace of design
visible the inside being done as well as the
surface. Only few years accident chipped
off a bit of the pitch from some bright bit OF the
floral decoration. and inqusitive younger mem
bers of the family promptly investigated and found
the vases Unharmed when the coating was re-
moved.
FASCINATING FARMHOUSE
Miss Daniel Schuyler, who lives at Rye, IN a
fascinating farmhouse the shores OF the SOUND,
has of the largest collections of genuine and
valuable antiques known this country, and is
fortunate in their possession from the fact that
they are heirlooms. Among them is a shell-edge
Chippendale tea table, at which General Washing
ton frequently took a cup of 'Bohea, with his
friend Philip Livingston (who Miss Schuyler s
great great -grandfather), in company with John
Jereulias Van Rensselaer, and Philip Schuyler. All
these persons were closely related by marriage and
white chairs in the drawing came by direct
descent. To Schuyler belonged remarkable
tension table, in three parts, each with centre
column from which spread four slender sprawlng
grooved legs. capped with brass, and having brass
rollers. The middle part has extension leaves that
pull from grooves support extra leaves,
and the ends can be pushed up and fastened. The
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
WORD SQUARE.

Arrange the following sixteen letters SO as 10
form a word square:
Tt " s n h.
RATION PUZZLE.
Each Of the twelve omitted words ends in ra-
ton:
Little Ruth in a very anxious state or MIND
for Christabel her dearest doll was seriously IL
At last, in moment OF -. she thought OF con-
sutinp her big brother Tom, whose --- II was 10
ne a doctor some day DR. Tom at once in
restons.. 10 her and delivered his opinion
without hesitation. using lot of big words that
would have convinced a more experienced
mother than little Ruth of his great wisdom.
MY dear madam he said after grave -.
.tbe child is suffering from the effects Of impure
food AS we never tell in this day and -
when our food is free from -, 1t is always well
TO eat with great -. for II IN better to starve
than TO be poisoned II Chr1staeel would take some
exercise to develop her organs OF - she might
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
Hotv TO 6gI,,7 q Prize.

Contest No. Things TO Think AboUtl.-Choice
of novelty belt pin. pearl head necklace,
sterling silver Tribune badge. embroidery set.
Tribune fountain pen. interesting book
rolled gold bracelet for the neaJest and besI TWO
solutions.
Contest No (Anecdotes of LncOln)-Choce of
sterling silver Tribune badge. q boys Tribune
watch. rolled gold bracelet a Tribune foun-
dent Lincoln.
Contest No. (Our Letter Box,.-A prize of 81
will be given for every letter printed under this
heading. The letters may contain incidents IN