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1871 when Miss Edna Stone, the lS-
IEkkYHE year-old ward OF Mr.. and Mrs.
~ Walter Johnson OF North va
kima avenue, Tacoma, left for New York to
become the bride o a young Englishman.
Frank Bennett. who rescued her from
drowning at the risk of his own life two
years ago.
Bennett, a truant member of q well-to-do
English family, had been led to sign as an
able seaman on an English sailing ship
by a spirit of adventure inherent in the
youth, relates the Seattle Times. Miss
Stone, a pretty orphan girl, was the ward
of the Johnson family, who were camping
during the summer near the drydock on
Quartermaster harbor. While learning to
paddle a canoe during the month OF July,
1906. Miss Stone was upset, her canoe over
turned and the girl thrown into the water
by the swell of a passing steamer. Ben
nett, a short distance away, on the dock
at Quartermaster, saw the young woman's
plight and swan to her aid. Miss Stone
knew how to swim and kept herself afloat
until the sturdy young Englishman came
to her assistance.
Two days later the British ship left the
drydock, loaded wheat in Tacoma for the
United Kingdom and left Puget sound under
N was JOAhA NiAiCA
but his heart was In the keeping Of the
pretty young woman whose life he had
saved. The girl had also been a victim of
Cupid's darts. Letters bearing first the
postmark Of old England, later the stamp
OF Calcutta and more recently that of an
African seaport told the Tacoma girl OF her
daring sweetheart's progress until he at
tanned the position he now occupies, that
of superintendent Of construction for n
wealthy gold mining company whose mines
are located In Africa on the west coast
about 100 miles north of the equator.
This month young Bennett has his annual
leave Of absence. He arranged for the
Tacoma girl to meet him in New York and
become his bride. Their they sail for Lon
don and after a honeymoon trip, which will
include Paris, Berlin and the old continent
capitals, the young couple will sail for
Africa. Bennett recently fell heir to a
title ard a fortune, but he prefers to COM
plete certain mining work in Africa pro-
vided his Tacoma bride finds life in the
mining paunn ponganfal
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
What women Are DoinE.

mn - 6NG JULIE
DR.. Eleanor Lawney, DR.. Frances G. Blu
chanan and DR.. Alice b. Guthrie are the
leading members Of the new medical as
ISOLATION formed a few days ago under the
name OF the Woman's Colorado State Med
ical society.
A woman'sI hospital has just been opened
IN Berlln and has a staff composed entirely
Hen women Women 1--WE sisters, F5anziska and
ceived the plan and created the hospital.
Miss Ina Richmond has been appointed
manager of the Magherafelt gas works,
in Dublin. Ireland. She is the first woman
to hold that post. She first entered the
postal service. Later she studied gas man
utacture and distribution. She is said to
line of work in Ireland.
Mrs, Russell Sage and other women Of
large means have pledged $4,000 to the
cause of woman suffrage in the United
Of Sl2,OOO a year for the next five years.
The annual receipts Of the American
woman Suffrage association have grown
from 1854 in 1892 to $25, S62 for 1907.
At the late examination for admission to
the bar IN Boston, eleven young women
we're applicants, the largest number. which
that a canvass of the graduates in nearly
al the large schools shows beyond doubt
mat teaching is no longer the favorite oc-
cupation OF young women.
Miss Dorothea Klumpke of California,
the astronomer, who was the first woman
70 win the degree Of doctor OF mathematics
III france, mas a special building for her
exclusive use in the great observatory
garden OF Paris. One of her duties Is to
photograph the stars on that section Of
the heavens known as the Paris belt. For
this purpose she has made frequent bal
loon ascenslohs.
Mrs. ]. L. Peetz of Monon, Ind, edits a
paper on which only women are employed.
She did not choose her employment. but
took the place of her brother, who owned
the. paper and, falling Ill, would have been
obliged to abandon the paper If Mrs. Peetz
had not taken II in hand. She has had the
pleasure of booming her husband for a
municipal office and Is credited with hav-
ing secured his election through her edi-
Impossible as II NAV seem, Mary Ander-
son entered on her fiftieth year on Tues
day, July Is, and the statement is borne
out by documentary evidence of her birth
at Sacramento in 1853. Twelve OF those
years-from her sixteenth to her twenty
eighth-were spent on the stage, and all
London rushed to see the young actress.
who, III she were not a heaven born genius,
was delightful to look at. But the glamour
OF the footllghts soon palled. Miss Ander-
son settled down to a calm life at old-fash-
of England, where there is an American
de Navarro's native land.
Leaves From Fashions Notebook,
1t is estimated that there are $50, OOO. 900
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

possible upon the body of the skirt, and
the softest of lingerie materials are used
for the purpose instead of the crisper
lawns, but these. Of course, are the ex-
treme models, and the ordinary wash
petticoat for wear with long skirts is
much like that Of yesteryear, only more
closely fitted and always laundered with
out starch.
AS Tor wearing a petticoat as 1t is shown
In the shop, with the waist size adjustable
and the fullness pulled up with strings, no
woman with the slightest notion Of careful
dressing will consider such a thing possible
The ready made petticoat must be fitted
as smoothly as a glove around the waist
and down over the hips If an uptodate
frock is to look well over it, and the great
est care should be given to this detail.
With the rise OF the limp petticoat, taffeta
has lost its undisputed supremacy as petit
coat silk. To be sure the ~taffetas them
selves have softened wonderfully during
the last few years and a good chiffon taf-
feta does not have the cracking rustic once
coveted and now
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especially artistic the stockings and slip
pers may also match.
A prospective bride can put all the money
she wishes in good stockings and gloves.
for these she can wear until the last thread
is left. AS to shoes, she should be chary
OF buying at this season OF the year. be-
cause the autumn styles change even as
you look at them from October until
Thanksgiving.
The American woman is very particular
about the fashion Of her shoes. She is
anxious not to be out of date. All kinds
OF good-looking foot gear are designed for
her whims, and II is rarely true that the
output of one season matches that of an
other.
The bride can buy russell pumps, which
she will always need; suede slippers for
the house and a pair of patent leather half
shoes for dress occasions, but she had
better stop there, even If her money hasn't
given out,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

Many of the new
French lingerie pet
o ats dispense
with the d e r
support and its
narrow frill, hav-
ing merely a deep,
single fiounce set
as smoothly as
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

limper and limper, less and less obtru-
sive. The concessions have been made in
the interests of self-preservation, for
have not the ultra modish abandoned
petticoats altogether in connection with
many OF their frocks and adopted tights
in their place?
But the majority OF womankind has
held fast to the petticoat and insisted
only that that garment should adapt itself
to existing modes, should not declare by
superfluous wrinkles or fullness its pres
ence under the c~linging sheath fitting
dress skirt, should not give a wide flare
to skirt folds that ought to fall straight
above the feet. Nine women out of ten
still wear a petticoat under even the most
directoire of frooks, but it is a humbled
and chastened petticoat, a garment self
e%ffacing, noiseless, fashioned of soft ma
terial, a mere ghost of its former ag-
g~ressive self.
The lingerie petticoat must have no
starch today. It's upper part must be
fitted closely, it's flounce must be set on
with little flat tucks instead Of stirring
or so cut and shaped that It joins the
skirt without fullness. 1t must not be too
ample either, this petticoat ~flounce, and 1t
must fall In the softest of folds around
the feet, affording a support to the bot
tom Of the dress skirt, yet not forcing a
sweep upon II.
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suFah Is used by the manufacturers
china silk is rated among pettIeoat mater
inls and even crepe Is made up into petit
coats. though its tendency % stretch makes
II less desirable than firmer silken stuffs.
The group Of pettieoats sketched here
illustrates some OF the new ideas. All OF
three models we're In white. but som Of the
same models were offered IN other color
ings. though the white petticoats were
better for general use with light frocks
than any OF the delicate tints.
Each OF these models had the glove fit
ting TOP, fitted as nearly as possible with
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
Sheath Skirt Brings Change in Petticoats

he fashionable petticoat has
been forced to change its char
acter during the last year, he's
lost its bouffaut self-assertive-
ness, its crispness. its rustic,
and has grown gradually
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

Moreover, a vast
majority of the
ready-made petit
coats are fashioned
of taffeta and will
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
DoInaa.

Chop fine a sufficient quantity Of cold
cooked chicken, lamb, or mutton; add an
equal amount of boiled rice, season to
taste, and add as much milk or white stock
blended with the yolk of an egg, as will
make a thick paste. Fill lettuce leaves
with this, roll them UP, and cook in water
or a little stock for one-half hour. Drain
them. arrange on a dish, and pour a sauce
over them of a lemon, yolk Of esq, parsley
and the juice Of a lemon.
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was never author OF q
prettier romance than that
which neared its elimination
when Miss Edna Stone, the IS
year-old ward OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Johnson Of North va
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
Curious Capers of Cupid

Helnze methods ana misfortunes. He pur-
chased the Heinzs stock and placed con-
troll Of the institution with the Largely
family again. He has since been elected q
director,
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C o 2 to be
m a d e from that
material. but other
silks have entered
into the petticoat
field and are find
ing ready accept
ance among wO-
m e fastidiously
modish. The soft
satins are exceed
In x lV M ular
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
Woman Suffrage in America.

JULIA WARD HOWE. presi-
dent of the New England
Woman Suffrage association,
answers in a London paper the
attack on the movement in
mari nv Mre Hv,.-k~..
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

Leaves From Fashions Notebook.
1t is estimated that there are $50, OOo. 900
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24

A lung specialist was talking about
a famous scientist who had contracted
consumption frem a lot of consumptive
monkeys that he had been experiment
ing upon
This should be a lesson and warn
ing to us ALL he said. ''for nothing il
more dangerous to the lungs health
than to have monkey about the
house. Practically all monkeys have
consumption in this climate, and it IS
just as easy to take consumption from
q monkey as from man or woman
1t is the same with parrots They, too
have consumption. and they, too, are
most apt to give the disease to those
who pet them. As for me. rather than
live in the same house with pet mon
key or a pet parrot would take cot
in the hopeless ward Of some con-
sumptives' hospital" New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24

be readily changed to permit the use
Of alcohol as well as gasoline In the
same engine.
Experimental work does not include
tests of the special designed alcohol
engine. which should show better
economy in the use of alcohol
Gasoline cannot be used readily In a
special designed alcohol engine using
high compression on account OF pre-
ignition.
The odor of the exhaust of an engine
when using alcohol is not as unpleas
ant as when using gasoline.
Alcohol is much more pleasant to
handle.
There is much less danger from fire
when using alcohol tEan when using
gasoline owing to the fact that alcohol
does not vaporiZe rs readily rs gaso
line, and its flame may be extin-
guished with water.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
TEN BIG PEPPERS.

1.-THE ten peppers weigh ten pounds and
completely fill a sixteen quart standard
peach basket
gantic fruits are as good in quality as
they are large in size, being sweet.
mild and pleasant in flavor
The Magnum Dulce variety probably
comes as natural cross between Chi
nese Giant and an old wrinkled, sharp
favored. but large fruited variety
known as Elephants Trunk or Pro
cops Giant, as it was grown from
seed gathered by Mr. White where the
two kinds grew together. Elephants
Trunk sometimes grows seven or eight
inches long and is so irregular in form
as to be useless except as Il curiosity.
but the blend with the Chinese Giant
has produced a fair fruit that grows
as large as a cocoanut under good cul-
tural treatment. The Magnum Dulce
pepper has been in commerce about
three years and is gaining in favor.
The plant is large and vigorous, not
checking in growth with the first fruit.
as docs Chinese Giant. and is highly
productive. The large peppers sell
readily, as their unusual size and fine
appearance make strong impression
on the purchaser.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
A Wsddinu Day Reminder.

William James. the famous rsychoi-
ogist of Harvard, said at dinner in
Boston:
"An odor often brings back men,
cries that we had thought buried fol-
ever. AS we regard some strange
landscape 1t often seems to us thar
we have been just here before The
oldest, the most momentous associa.
tons oftentimes attach themselves tc
the most trifiing things.
"Thus at Thanksgiving dinner that
| once attended the hostess said to a
sour faced man on my left:
"'May | help you to some of the
boiled rice, Mr. SMITH
"'Rice? No. thank you-no rice for
me-, Smith answered vehemently. 1t
Is associated with the worst mistake Of
my life"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
LARGEST PEPPER.
Gigantic Fruits In Extraordinarily as
Superb as Size.

Gigantic Fruits In Extraordinarily as
Superb as Size.
Since the Introduction about seven
years ago of the Chinese giant pepper
very large pepper fruits have become
common at exhibitions and in the gar
dens of careful amateurs. Some are
veritabe monsters, but Rural New
Yorker says 1t knows of none larger
than shown in the accompanying cut,
In which ten peppers of the Magnum
Dulce variety, grown by the origina-
tor, T. NJ. White of New Jersey. en-
tirely fill a sixteen quart standard
peach basket. The ten peppers to-
gether weigh just ten pounds, the lar
gest one reaching one and a quarter
pounds and measuring six inches in
diameter. or eighteen inches in circum-
ference, and is seven inches long.
Twenty-one of these great peppers
filed bushel basket and sixty-seven
an ordinary apple barrel. These 81
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
The Tobacco Industry.

According to report of the secretary
OF agriculture, the tobacco crop this
year declined to 645,213.000 pounds. II
per cent below the average in quaint
ty, with a value of $67,00O0OO, or 6
per cent above the average. The crop
is smaller than for many years.
A leaf approaching Sumatra tobacco
in texture has been produced in the
Connecticut valley. In Florida a wrap
per leaf has been produced which is
taking foremost rank as real COM
petitor with Sumatra leaf. Hundreds
of acres of land in Texas and Alabama
are now producing the finest filler leaf
Of the Cuban type, and methods of fer
mentation and handling tobacco in
Ohio have been revolutionized.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
FIELD MICE.
Preventives That Secure Practical I'm
munity From Their Ravaees.
By DAVID E. LENTz

muhity from ihelr haVages.
By DAVID E. LENTZ.
Field mice because of their small
size, secretive habits and great fecun-
dity often become menace to farm
and orchard crops in many parts of the
country. Preventive measures if care
fully carried out are sufficient to avoid
serious losses. OF first Importance in
orchards and nurseries always is clean
tillage. So well is this understood by
the majority of experienced nursery.
men that by clean tillage the securs
practical immunity from the ravages
of mice except in winters of deep and
long lying snow. If grass and weeds
are destroyed in fence corners and
waste lands near the nursery complete
immunity from mice ravages can be
depended upon even in winters of
deep snow.
Unfortunately nurserymen cannot
control the lands which environ their
trees. and when snow falls to a con-
siderable depth prompt measures are
sometimes necessary to keep mice
from destroying them. This can be
accomplished most readily by drag
ging heavy log or stick of timber
several times around each block of
trees. packing the snow so firmly that
mice cannot tunnel under it. Where
this precaution is taken promptly after
the first snowfall subsequent falls will
require but little attention.
Lime and Sulphur Wash.
Reports recently received by the bio.
logical survey seem to indicate that
the ordinary lime and sulphur wash
recommended for the winter spraying
of trees to destroy the San Jose scale
is an effective preventive of the at
lacks of both mice and rabbits. Per-
sonal observations during the winter Of
19060T indicate that this claim is well,
founded. Several correspondents state
that they have tried the wash success
fully. and the matter is worth further
investigation. The wash is very cheap
from | to > cents a gallon when pre-
pared in forty-fve to fifty gallon guam
titles and is easily applied to the
trunks of trees either in the form of a
spray or by the use of brush. The
Ingredients of the wash are twenty
pounds of unslaled lime. fifteen
pounds of flowers of sulphur and wa
ter to make forty-tive to fifty gallons.
'gae mi&ure should be boiled in an
M .cttle at least an hour and APP
led 10 The trees while warm.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
EXCLUDING Rats From BUILDINGS.

The best way of excluding rats from
buildings. whether in the city or coun-
try, is by the use of cement in con
struction. AS the advantages of this
material are coming to be generally
understood its use is rapidly extend
ing to all kinds of building. Dwellings.
diaries, barns, stables, chicken houses,
icehouses, bridges, dams. silos. tanks.
cisterns. root cellars, hotbeds. side
walks and curbs are now often made
wholly of concrete In constructing
dwelling houses the additional cost of
making the foundations rat proof is
slight as compared with the advan-
tages. The cellar walls should have
concrete footings and the walls them
selves be laid in cement mortar. The
cellar floor should be of medium"
rather than lean" concrete, and all
water and drain pipes should be sur
rounded with concrete. Even an old
cellar may be made rat proof at com
paratively small expense Rat holes
may be permanently closed by mix
ture of cement. sand and broken glass
or sharp bits of stone.-David L. Lantz.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
WINTER SH0EING.
4igh CaIks Frequent Source of Lame-
ness In Horses.

bSSS Ia itStSSSs
BY WILLIAM DICKSON, V. S.
In the winter shoeiag of the horse in
many sections of the country the shoe
Is required to discharge double duty
in the case of all classes of horses-to
afford foothold as well as guard
against undue wear. The common pat
tern of shoes. fashioned with toe and
heel calkins, or calks, faulty though it
be, is probably the one that best suits
the requirements of the case.
1t should, however, never be lost
sight of that the shorter, sharper and
smaller the calkins are so long as they
answer their purpose the better for
the foot that wears them. 1t is only
from that portion of the catch which
enters the ground surface that the
horse derives any benefit in the shape
of foothold. Long calllins which do
not penetrate the hard, uneven ground
are so many levers to compel the ami
NAL to ring his feet, rack his limbs
and infiict untold tortures on himself.
l am of opinion that the presence of
navicular disease, dire malady from
which horses used in agricultural la
Dor should enjoy a practical immu-
nifty, is traceable largely to the habitual
use during our long winter months of
needlessly large calkins. only frac-
tional parts of which find le..gment in
the earth or ice during Pr ,fession.
Effect of Very t..sh CaIks.
When horse is shod with exag-
gerated calkins the toe and heel calks
are or ought to be the same height to
start with at all events. Very often,
however, they are not. and even when
they are the toe calk wears down on
animals used for draft purposes far
more rapidly than its fellows at the
heel.
The result is that the toe is de-
pressed while the heel is unnaturally
raised. The relative position of the
bony structures within the foot is al
tered. and the navicular bone, which is
not one of the weight bearing bones,
is brought within the angle of Incl
dence of both weight bearing and con-
cussion. influences which it was never
intended to withstand. The bone be-
comes first bruised and then diseased;
the tendon to which 1t was designed
that it should act as a pulley, which
passes over and is in constant contact
with it, becomes also implicated, and
what is technically known as navicu-
lar arthritis 0ameneSS of the fore footl
is then engendered.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-01-24
LIGHT AND POWER.
The Comparative Values of Alcohol and
Gasoline.

The Comparative Values of Alcohol and
BY Messrs. DAVIDSON and KING. Iowa
State college.
The new law permitting the with
drawal from bond. tax free, of domes-
tic alcohol when denatured or render
ed unfit for a beverage by the addi-
ton of certain materials repugnant to
the taste and smell aroused no little
interest concerning the use of alcohol
for fuel and light and many inquiries
upon the subject. The agricultural en-
cheering section has for some time
been conducting experiments to learn
something of the value of this fuel for
lamps and internal combustion en-
gines. Following is summary of the
experimental work as far as complet-
ed in regard to the comparative val
ues of alcohol and gasoline in the pro-
duction of light and power:
The higher heat value of "a per cent
alcohol is but 6S to II per cent that Of
gasoline.
The lower heat value 0he value more
nearly attained in practice) of "a per
cent alcohol is but 66 to 90 per cent
that of gasoline.
When used for the production of
light. "a per cent alcohol will produce
from % to So per cent as much light
as an equal volume of gasoline.
Alcohol of d per cent purity must
be sold for from II TO II cents per gall
Ion to compete with gasoline for light
ing purposes at 20 cents per gallon. the
present retail price of gasoline in
Ames.
Alcohol when used in a generator
lamp will produce from two to four
times as many candle power hours as
kerosene in wick lamp.
1t was found impossible to SCOT the
mantels of any of the lamps with al
cohol
Alcohol of 81 per cent purity when
used in engines designed for gasoline
has but 6S to So per cent the value of
gasoline in the production of power.
To compete with gasoline at 20 cents
per gallon for use in gasoline engines
"a per cent alcohol must be sold for
from 10 to II cents per gallon and 90
per cent alcohol from IL to 10 cents
per gallon.
None of dhe engines could be started
readily with alcohol, although a few
could be started with less difficulty
than others.
After having once been started with
gasoline and warmed up the carburet-
ors as designed for gasoline vaporized
the alcohol successfully, except in one
instance
No doubt the gasoline carburetor can