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Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-17
Here's Hoping.

English pastors want to stop Jack Johnson from fightipg. It is to be hop- ed they will make better work of it than Jeffries succeeded in doing.- Denver Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-17
Over zoo Members at Moosup Sunday
 State Officers Present.

K. OF C. GATHERING.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

meet later on. 1t simply goes to show
how the sign language can be used in an
emergency, even if it be nothing more
than arranging a meeting between some
sailors who have got separated in the sub
way rush
1t has spread like wildfre, the interest
in semaphore signalling, and all over the
country. both by day and by night, is to be
seen the picturesque wigwagging of sig
nal flags in the hands of Boy Scouts who
are trying out the knowledge they have
gained of this fascinating sign language
BY day the flags are used and by night the
Costen light or torch. and from mountain
peak to mountain peak in the inland towns
messages are being sent and relayed per-
haps to still other points further distant.
Down in ShamOkin, Pa, the other day one
group of boys stood on Bunker Hill-not
Bunker Hill, Boston-and another on a
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

As they felt they must tell their story
to some one they decided to tell it to her.
And then all three went back upstairs to
look for the package again, and as they
passed Stella's door the settlement worker
heard Mary Alice's voice crying out, And
so it was a fairy gift; and so it was
fairy gift"
Then a thought occurred to the settle.
ment worker, and opening the door she
beheld twelve happily excited little girls
and the remains of a very beautiful Jack
Horner pie
She closed the door hastily before the
boys had seen and then told them that
they would best come down stairs with
her while she did some telephoning that
would make everything all right.
So the settlement worker looked out for
everything, which is a way such persons
have. The promise that she made the
store person over the telephone was so
satisfactory that the store person said it
would be all right and that she would
send another Jack Horner pie straight
up to Millicent Matilda Metz. The ex-
PLANTATION she gave Milliceut tMatilda's
mamma was so interesting that she said
she wouldn't scold the store person be-
cause of the pies delay, and the explana-
ton she gave the messenger office was
such a sweet pleading one t t they gave
the messenger boy another chance, al
though, of course, he didn't deserve it at
all.
And then she warned Johnny Trimble.
Don you tell Mary Alice that it wasn't
the fairies" she said.
No, ma'Gm," said Johnny, Il won't
tell her anything about it. And he
didn't.
And perhaps it was the fairies after
all. Perhaps the settlement worker was
a fairy and had done the whole thing.
Or perhaps the messenger boy was a
fairy and no one knew it. Fairies are
very strange beings and one can never
tell what disguise they are going to a.
sumo next
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play in a thousand and one different ways
in work as well as in play, but to show
that it is something more than a mere
pastime all that is necessary is to point
to such men as Chief Scout Seton and
Dan Beard. National Scout Commits
idea of the boy scouts, who are both Civ
ing up valuable time to collecting data
on the sign language for books that are
soon to be published.
More than this, Dan Beard. who is
president of the Campfire Club of Amer
lea. composed of such good scouts as
Theodore Roosevelt. Buffalo Bill, Buffalo
Jones and others. says that had they been
familiar with semaphOre signalling in
years gone by It would have been invalua-
BILE to them when trekking through the
wilds or camping far from the haunts Of
man. Take, for example, the case of one
of their party who once upon a time shot
a big buffalo in the wilds of the West. and.
being alone, was unable to get it back to
camp. Had the hunter been versed in
sign lie COuNl WIFI Ease
have wigwaGged his message from his
quarry to camp.
In case of such disaster as that which
swept away the village of Austin, Pa.
when the dam burst and telephone COM
munication was suddenly cut off, help
could have been summoned in an incredibly
short space of time by means of semaphore
signalling had there been those who un-
derstood it. 1t can be used in places. for
example, where the noise is so great as to
prevent one being heard; in speaking to
another across a long room. in hospital
wards or in the sick room, where the
sound of the voice would disturb the pa
tient. In these and thousands Of other
ways semaphore signalling is being used,
and the Boy Scouts are acting as the me-
dium for the extension of this very val
liable silent language which promises to
do as much to prevent catastrophe as to
promote happiness and pleasure
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

They both examined the beautiful pinL
rose. which they didn't know was a pie
at all. Then they took it out of its box
and looked at it more carefully, and next
they began calling in all the other little
girls in the tenement house to see the
wonderful strange rose thing and TO won
der about it.
And then, when there were just twelve
of them-yOu see, it did not take long to
collect twelve girls in Mary Alice's house
Stella said suddenly why, there are
just twelve Of US and there are just
twelve ribbons"
Yes" squealed Mary Alice, let's take
hold all together and pull with all our
might and wish very hard and close our
eyes just to see what happens"
She didn't tell Stella that it was 8
fairy gift and that that was why it was
necessary to close ones eyes and wish,
and. although Stella thought this was
foolish, she agreed to do what Mary
Alice suggested.
So they all took hold and pulled and
wished and closed their eyes and then
opened them.
And there was the beautiful rose all
pulled to pieces.
And there in their hands were the rib
bons with beautiful little packages at
tached to them.
And when they excitedly undid these
lovely little pink packages they found
the dearest little gifts imsginable-adora-
bic little dolls in satin frocks spangIed
with gold, funny scarf pins with queer
frogs and little bears perched on them,
tiny little sets of dominoes so small that
a doll could have played with them, beau,
tiful whistles and knives and chains and
a whole lot of other things, all different
from each tle.
And meanwhile where was that mes
senger boy?
He was a very much frightened mes-
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

the fairies should have appeared for the
first time to-day, because this was Mary
Alice's birthday. And, of course, since il
was a fairy package Mary Alice wasn't
going to let it stand there without looking
in to see what was inside She ap-
preached the package somewhat careful
ly and with trembling fingers broke the
cords which tied it up. Then she peeped
feartully into the box.
''Oh," she sQuealed, 'it's a beautiful
rosa great, big, immense roseI 1t is n
fairy package, it is, it is!''
Mary Alice danced around the room for
a moment with the box in her arms. Then
she ran hastily out of the room with it
to her very nearest neighbor, who WIS
Stella Widener. Stella didn't believe the
least little bit in fairies, not nearly as
much as Mary Alice did, but she believed
in great big paper roses, and so Mary
Alice de Iided to keep tine fairy part all to
herself and not to tell where the strange
birthday gift came from.
Look what I have for my birthday!'
cried Mary Alice, running in upon Stella.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

his who lived right near the Metz house
and who would be pretty sure to be at
home just then and glad to see him. 1t
would be best, thought the messenger
boy, to stop in and see the friend on the
way up to the house, because he might be
gone when he came back that way again.
And the next thing the Jack Horner
pie knew was that it had been left all
alone in a room on the top floor of a very
tall house. while the messenger boy went
up to take a look at the pigeons which
Johnny Trimble-that was the name of
the messenger boys friend-kept on the
roof
Then the next thing that happened was
that the janitor of the tall building came
along and locked the trap door so that
Johnny Trimble and the messenger boy
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
Sending Signals. Troop No. 8 ST.
Louis, at Bourbon, Mo.

1t is important, too. that there should
be no haziness in the mind of the sending
officer as to the exact position of the arms
and flags, for the least bit of shiftlessness
makes room for mistakes. If a scout is in
too great a hurry there is confusion and a
consequent waste of time, as the message
must be repeated.
To send message stand facing the per-
son or station receiving the signals and
hold the flags out at the full extent of the
arm so that the arm and flag shall form
one straight line valuable suggestion
in regard to the latter rule is to slide the
end Of the flag stick up the sleeve so that
the first finger Of each hand lies along it.
1t of course takes time to form the diff
ferent letters; in fact it takes more time
to become familiar with the various posi-
tiOns. But to do this it is we'll for boys
to get a sign manual and then practise,
one at either end of the room, until they
become more or less proficient in the
formation of the letters. 1t will be found
TO be great sport and a splendid way of
passing a rainy day. There is no reason
either why girls can't learn it, too, and
eventually the Girl Pioneers will doubt
less take it up to a certain extent, though
boys who strike the trail and go great
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
A PERHAPS FAIRY STORY 81
Or the Interesting Adventures Of Jack Horner Pie EZS

ET wasn't at all the kind of Jack Hor-
ner pie that the original Jack knew.
That was really edible pie, with lots
of -four and water and plums and but
Ter in it, and Jack plunged his thumb
way into the pie and brought out
really edible plum.
But this particular Jack HOrner pie
was the nowadays kind of Jack HOrner
pastry. 1t didn't look like a pie at all.
except that it was round. 1t looked a
good deal more like huge rose, for the
top of it was made of lovely pink paper
shaded and shaped like a rose. and the
sides were covered with green paper. From
under the top crust. which was the rose
part, there dangled number of beauti-
full pink satin ribbons.
In fact, it was a strictly party pie of
the sort that appears on party tables. so
that when the guests al the party pull
the satin ribbons altogether the beauti-
full rose crust gives way and out come
numbers of attractive packages in which
are little gifts such as guests at parties
are particularly fond of.
When the person in the store in which
Jack Horner pies grow gave this par
ticular pastry to a messenger boy TO
carry up to Mrs. Henry Metz's house
the person very decidedly warned the
messenger boy that he must be careful
of the parcel and must hurry with it. be-
cause there wasn't any too much time
to get there before Millicpnt Matilda
Metz's birthday party. which the Jack
Horncr pie was intended to grace. would
be in full swing.
So the obedicnt messenger boy started
out, and he was going along very we'll
when he happened to think of a friend of
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

couldn't get down when they wanted to.
The janitOr didn't know they were up
there, so he didn't mean TO treat them
badly. He just didn't like that trap door
being open, and he went away grumbling
about it.
And it was at this very moment. just
when the janitOr had put the trap door
down. that Mary Alice Trimble came
into the room where the Jack Horner pie
had been left. The pie didn't show at
all, because it was all done up in paper,
but it was a large, fine looking package
and it at once caught Mary Alice's eye.
How it came there she could not imagine,
for her brother was nowhere around.
Both her father and mother were away
md would not be home until night The
was at the day nursery. Tessie and
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

o become an adept in semaphore
signalling is just now the aim
Of every one of the three hun
dred thousand boys who have
allied themselves with the Rnr
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

Bessie, the twins. had not come home
from school. Joe and Tommy were out
selling their afternoon papers. jamie
had taken Genevieve and Patsy to play
near by. and Jimmie. who was so old that
he held the position of Office boy to a down
town firm, wouldn't reach home for an
hour or more.
You see, there were quite a number Of
the Trimbles and it took Mary Alice
quite a while to number them all over
and see whether any of them had brought
in the parcel or not.
When she had decided that none Of
them had brought the mysterious package
she came to the conclusion that it must
have been the fairies that the settlement
workers were always telling her about
She had been learning about those fairies
a long time and they were always, accord
ing to the settlement workers, to be de-
pended on to do unusual things; but so
far as Mary Alice had discovered they
had always been very shy of the Trimble
neighbOrhood and had never been seen or
heard of by any member of the house
hold
1t was particularly appropriate that
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

o become an adept in semaphore
signalling is just now the aim
Of every one of the three hun
dred thousand boys who have
allied themselves with the Boy
Scouts of America. for every
good scout must be familiar with wig
wagging, as with the sign language in
general. so that in case Of necessity he
will be able TO communicate with other
scouts when at great distances apart.
Nearly every boy who saw the feet in
the North River when the North Allan
tic squadron was stationed here few
weeks ago was fascinated by the sig
mailing carried on between the battle
ships of the great feet nv means of the
flags or Costen lights. This is the sema-
phore signalling which in addition to the
wireless keeps the officers of Uncle Sans,
big war hotilla in touch with each other
even when many miles apart
Upon this occasion nearly every detail
of business, from the arrival to the de-
parture of the ships, was communicated
by means of these signals. Even the
drowning of the seaman from the Eank- |
ton just as the ships were drawing
anchor to pass in review before President
Taft was made known TO the other ships
of the feet by means of the wigwag (
signals.
Another very interesting example of
semaphore signalling. unofficial in char
acter. was noted at thi- time when one
night at the Ninety-sixth street subway
station one-haIf of a detail of sailors on
shore leave failed to board an express on
which was the rest of the party. The
doors were shut in their faces, but, moth
ing daunted. the party on the platform
ran TO the window and began an ami
mated conversation by signs with those {
inside. telling them where they would
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

distances from home or camp will make
use of it more extensively than the girls.
In learning wigwagging there are nu-
merous "don'ts," to observe which will
aid the novice immensely, one of which
is that when the flags are close together,
as is the case in sending the letters o and
w, they must be kept separate and not
be allowed to cover one another; other
wise they will confuse the receiver. Then
the letters A, B and c must be made with
the right hand only and E, F and G with
the left.
Never bring the arms across the body to
form these letters, but this and all other
rules must be learned by experience and
actual practice, though it should be borne
in mind that sending is far more i'm
portant than reading. Reading can be
easily learned with a little practice, but
carelessness in sending is, like most bad
habits, difficult to get rid of. 1t is sug-
gested not to practise signalling before a
mirror, for naturally all the letters are
reversed, and when a scout comes to the
acHlal practice he will get sadly mixed.
A knowledge of wigwagging comes into
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

peak some miles distant and wigwagged
to each other the trail that was to be
followed by a hunting party just starting
out
On the occasion of President Taft's visit
to Milwaukee recently a detail of boys
from Troop |, Boy Scouts, stationed them
selves at the depot. and the moment the
President left the train and entered his
signals by Costen light and
wigwag were despatched to the pickets at
the corner of the Hotel Pfstpr bearing the
news, The President is here"
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

No one thought for a momen. of Mary
Alice or that she might have taken the
Jack Horner pie. The messenger boy
and Johnny Trimb'e ran out of the house
to look for a policeman to whom they
might tell the story of the lost pie, and as
they did so they ran straight into the
arms Of one of the settlement workers,
who was coming up stairs to make q
call.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

senger boy indeed when, after scrambling
down the fire escape of an adjoining
building, he and Johnny Trimble finally
got to earth and ran up to get the long
delayed package.
And when the package wasn't to be
found anywhere he was in a pretty poor
state, can tell you.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10

1t isn't difficult to learn semaphore sig
mailing, by which words are spelled out
with flags held in various positions for
letters. 1t requires practice and great
care in sending messages in order not to
confuse the mind of the receiving officer.
In sending a message there should always
be an assistant to read the message to the
sender, and the one reading it should have
some one to write it down, so his whole
mind can be put on deciphering the signs.
A field glass is, of course, essential in
order to read the signals at any distance.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
Answers to Puzzling Towns
and Cities.

The towns and cities in last weeks
puzzles were: - Marblehead, Mass. &;
Keene, n. H.; Lyons, Y. Y; Orange. n
j.; Raleigh. n c.; Fort Wayne, Ind;
Flint, Mich, and Auburn, n. Y.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
Tho Rajahs of Eus1ar.

The rajahs of Bustar are hybrid Eajputs, claiming to be of the family ri the moon, and have reigned iii Bus sar for between five and six hundred years. The family bears the name of i'athputty. and every year the rajan aas to sit on the rath at the festival oi 5Ae Dusseerah wearing the jewels ot She goddess Dunteshwarre, the tutelary ,9ddess of the state. which are brou1,ht rom Dantawara temple for the pur- pose
 Save for the jewels he is clad only in wreaths Of lowers," says writer in the Wide World, and when we saw him he looked very solemn-al- 2.Gst ashamed of himself-as he passed LS.
 .IE connection with this ceremony tore usrd to be brutal custom of 7f;i -ging the rath, a huge sort of jug Sernaut car weighing many tons, over ele bodies of live buffaloes, often only ;"ftlT killing them.
 This horrible practice was stopped y British officials"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
jndisoensabj0

Threr cane!s presented themselves at tll" dH.i; where the ark was tied up whereas but two animals of 8 kind had been called for
 One C! you fellows will have to step aSi'l~ shouted Noah very per. emptolily
 But tie free ships of the deseit amil"d knowingly.
 ''!,'' said tLe first of them "am tbs samel whirh shall pass through the eye of ne,tle sooner than a rich nlar shall ente. tho kingdom Of heaven"
 "l," said the second. "am the car4o which so many people swallow wisi struiuin@ at a gnat."
 "An4 l." said the third and ia~- 'om the camel whose back wns a- zen by the last straw
 Nhereupon Noah, peTceiviag l.a. Nnsterity could i'll spare any e t' a4d "0nld he lost for il1jS:1assss ithout them, graciousiy nude en- e.f.isn ip their fagor.- Puck
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
A L.eejena of Mount Crhi.

Wount Omj, on the border between western China and Tibet. has the long nst staircase fp the world On top ot the mouutain there stands Buddhist eempia, aro;2n,. which ge+her some oi the ho!ies; traditions Of that raAsioe and hich Is made q Mecca to t3e Chinese. To facilitate the ascent oi it's slippery sides some 200oo sfeps nave been cut in the mountain. form Ing singrp light up which the m grim tolls. Because of its tnateessi 5ility few Europeans have eyer yt~itea the spot. but number of frayelo2 have ascended the stairway and 1T, positive that it is no legendary .nyt! There is legend that in earlier tine the pilgrim was forced to ascend th mountain without artificial aids unti the monks conceived the plan of rs@ quiring every pilgrim who would g;tlu especial benefit of his journey to cal i, single step
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
Cliff of Natural Glass.

4 cliff of natural glass can be seen ia Yellowstone park. It is half mile eng and from 150 to 29o feet high the material of which it consists beina IS good glass as that artiGcially napu iattured. The dense glass wlira Solms the base is from seventy five l. hundred feet thick. while the unpps 2oltion, having suffered and surviret many ages of wind and rain, has natlt rally worn much thinner. Of course 2ae color of the cliff is not that of nal Hral elass-transparent and white buj F mostly black and in some places
 fled and streaked with brownish tce' and shades of olive green and brown
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
Exclusive.

At an evangelistic service at Glasgow 1ae preacher at the end of his add, ess srted, Now, all you good people whc mean to go to heaven with me. stand mp With surge of enthusiasm the audience sprang to it's feet, all buJ an old Scotchman in the front row, sFho sat still. The mortified evangelist wrung his hands and, addressing him, eaia, "My. good man, my good man. ion't you want to go to heaven?"
 Clear and deliberate came the an swer, Ave, Avn gangin, but no wi < pairsonalIy conducted pairty.," .,"-St. James Gazette
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
THE KALEIDOSCOPE.
azstrumert by Which the Presence oi
 Electricity Is Detected.

a5SStFuIheHe pJ WhlCh Inc FrsGence or
 Electricity Is Detected.
 Tte electroscope iS an instrument for cEle 0etcc lon of electricity. It depends for its action on the principle that bodies charged with like electricity ,s ael, while those charged with unlike electricity attract zach other. The ord nary pitb ball suspended on sns thread is the simplest form o{ the is stEument
 The most common type of elcetFc- scope IS that devised by Bennett ia ST87 and known as the gold leaf e(ec- troscope. It consists of two strips 0i gold leaf or thin aluminium foil stla. pended from the lower extremity of a conductor within glass bottle or tar The upper end of the conductor ter. inmates in ball or plate in case the Instrument Is to be used as condcns ing electrosrope. If body charged with positive electricity is brought nea. the knob of the electroscope the mega. tive electricity will be attracted to the knob and the positive repelled to the leaves, which diverge. If now the f1n. Ger is touched to the knob the positive electricity is drawn off and the leaves collapse, while the negative electricity is held bound Removing the charged body, the leaves will diverge again. charged with negative electricity. In GAis case the instrument can be used Co determine the nature Of n charge ot a body brought near it. as with pots'. i've charge the leaves will collapse and with negative charge spread farthGf apart. rt.-EIchange
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
Kindly Fruits.

The expression in the prayer book "k indly fruits of the earth" has for most persons no definite meaning on account of the difference in signifi canoe now attached to the word kind. ly from that used when the expression was first written. The word kindly in that connection meant as nearly as possible "of it's kind" and the express sion kindly fruits of the earth meant 'the fruits of the earth each after It's kind"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-09
Some Consolation.

He was frugal Scot and when tht collection plate came round q ppa' l. o forin io mistake for the naHbl. copper. Speedily discovering n. lis l..&e, however. he stepped softl, a~wI t.- nlsie and requested the oet @9sh 2 [ to give him back the coin, @'i'eoi | nest was politely but firny fused A shade of disappointneh' ted over the uortheruer's face az h' walked slowly back to his pew.
 "Aweel," he said, it's 2 loss hn there's some sma consolatieo 1T lectin' it's bad oue II nie >' go, me into trouble anywhere eiaea -- London Telegraph.