The independent-reporter., 1910-12-15

overtime making money for Christ
mas shopping, but you have to put
up an equivalent to get 1t.
L. NJ. Hurch of State Line, Miss.
pays taxes on his home in three coun-
ties and two states. His estate COM
prises about ~ acres, part of which
/ is in Greene and Wayne counties,
Miss, and the remainder in Washing
ton county Ala.
An uplift club in Philadelphia
proposes to give a silver button to
every member who remains sober for
one year. Five consecutive years of
sobriety will be rewarded with
gold button" But alas, those who have
arisen from the depths can never at
tain that badge of spotlessness, the
white ribbon.
In what is known as the federal
district of Mexico, within which lies
the capital the goyernment-own
telegraph system has a cardtelegram
service. For 1-2 cents cards on
which may be written 10 words are
sold and can be dropped in boxes.
Collections are frequent and the mes
sages are sent with the same celerity
as regular messages. The service is
used extensively for social purposes.
Eli II. Schreiner of Lancaster.
Penn, has kept record of the
number of rabbits he has killed in
the last 54 years. From 1856 to 1880
his yearly average was 210. Rabbits
Il in
says. and Il good days sport for a
man was 20 or 80. From 1880 to
1900 his yearly average WAS 100.
while In the past 10 years it has been
but so. In 54 years he killed $500
rabbits.
Ruth E. Colby, a 16-year-old school
girl of Windsorville, Me, has been
an exhibitor at the South Kensing
| ton agricultural fair since she was
s years old. She has exhibited but
ter, various kinds of cookery, plain
sewing and fancy sofa cushions,
patchwork quilts, tides, doilies, head
rests, etc. Last summer she moved
80 acres of grass with a moving ma
chine drawn by a pair of 3-year- old
Steers.
A novel method of church illumi-
nation has been adopted by Rev w
Spencer, vicar of Coseley parish
church. Staffordshire, Eng. Mr..
Spencer has had wind turbine Is
feet in diameter erected in disused
colliery estate adjoining the church
yard, and has installed an excellent
wind-driven electric generating plant
which not only illuminates the church
and vicaTage, but also provides cur
rent for blowing the organ.
Stephen F. Shaw of Saco Me, has
two pocket knives, one of which he
has been carrying since 1850 and the
other since 1869. The older knife Is one
that he found in Shrewsbury, Mass.
when a young man. The other is a
gift from cutlery drummer whose
acquaintance Mr.. Shaw made in 1869
while travelling In the west. Both
knives show the effect of age. Mr..
Shaw says that he has never lost
either of them.
If ex-senator Clark of Montana
thinks that his new $4,000 dinner
/
this country, he's wrong. John w
Mackay had made In 1880 service of
silver Furnished from his own
mines), the cost of which was more
than $4,000, and Mrs. Washington
Roebling had silver service made
as a present for her husband, that
cost more than $150000. Perhaps MIR.
Clark's Is the most costly china set.
Artillery and troops from Fort
Savatan, near ST. Maurice, Switzer-
land, while manoeuvring at an alti-
ture of nearly $500 feet were over
whelmed by a snow storm and oblig-
ed to abandon four guns. The men
hastily descended to the hnts at
Riondal, where they stayed snow
bound for two days. On returning
to the hills they failed to find the
guns under the snow and abandoned
the search. The guns will remain
there until the first melting of the
SHOWS In spring.
An Amish wedding. with all the
ceremonials of that sect was cele-
brated at the home of Elias Fisher
of Honey Brook, Chester county
Penn, recently, when his daughter
Lizzie Fisher. was married to Daniel
Kaufman. Rev. Gideon Stoltfus
performed the ceremony. after which
he preached a sermon that lasted an
hour. The wedding feast was an all
day affair and 1t took 10 geese. 1C
chickens, 80 pounds of beef, 100 pies
10 mammoth cakes and other acces-
sories to supply the dinner.
On taking office each of the state
officials of Siam Is Obliged to repeat
the following oath: May the blood
: flow from my veins, may crocodiles
deyour me, may | be condemned tc
+, carry water to the flames of hell il
vessels without bottoms. After
death may | enter into the body of &
slave. May | suffer the harshest
| treatments during all time in years
as the sands of all the seas. May
! be reborn deaf dumb and blind anC
afflicted with dire maladies. May
: also be thrown into Narok-the low
er regions-and tortured by Pres
: Yam, If break this oath.
t Itching piles provoke profanity bu
fanity won't cure them Doan's OiDt