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UNABLE TO RESIST IMPULSE
Solicitor, Refused Funds, Showed His
Resentment In Decidedly
"Cheeky" Manner.

Business men are industriously pur-
sued by insistent people who make
trade of soliciting money for societies
and movements too numerous to men,
ton, and sometimes disappointed So
licitor shows petty resentment when
his demands are refused.
Recently one Of them called on
well-known restaurateur of New York
to obtain funds on some pretext, and
gained admission to the private Of
fee.
1t Is the habit of the distinguished
restaurateur, who rejoices in heavy
beard, to play with his whiskers while
talking intimately to callers. On this
occasion he kept pulling his whiskers
as usual while affably protesting that
the solicitors requests were tmpos-
sible.
Finally the caller became angry. He
reached over and pulled the whiskers
sharply several times.
"What does this mean?" gasped the
victim.
"Mean?" echoed the caller airily. ut
doesn't mean anything. You cannot
resist playing with your whiskers-
neither can l."
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Ichthyoi,

The importation of ichthyol, a pc
culiar asphaltic material found in Aus
tria, which finds application after ap
propriate chemical treatment as very
important medicament, has been, along
with many other products, cut off by
the war. The raw material comes from
O fossiliferous deposit near Seefeld, II
the Austrian Tyrol. 1t is carefully Sc
lected and subjected to dry distillation
The distillate thus obtained Is ther
sulphonated and subsequently neutral
lied with ammonia. The use Of this
material has greatly increased in the
last few years, and 1t has proved very
beneficial. Almost Immediately follow
ing the beginning of the war it's price
doubled, going to over 60 cents al
ounce. Already. however, firm in st
Louis has a material on the market
which has been favorably recommend
ed as an efficient substitute, closely re
sembling ichthyol itself-Unitet
States Geological Survey Bulletin.
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turies, when Scottish ladies took to
tea drinking and music, when the earl
of Kellie was considered an excellent
performer on the jew w's-harp, when Sir
Gilbert Elliott introduced the German
flute, when Lords Haddington and Col.
vile played the violin and cello, and
when Jane Maxwell, duchess of Cor.
don, Miss Jardine, Miss Murray of
Lintrose, Bess Burnet, Miss Hay of
Hayston and other fair women in
spired the muse of Robert Burns, or
fired the hearts of many literary gen.
tlemen, advocates and men of fashion.
1t is strange and rather tragic, this
utter change which has made a slum
of old Edinburgh and peopled so many
famous houses with the poorest
classes in the city, who know little of
the romance which clings to the walls
about them, and who live in the direst
squalor In rooms which once were the
apartments of illustrious men and
women. Students of history still
prowl about the lands artists come
anu 0hClSl AClS, IuO lOuTlSL WIFI Ills
guidebook searches about these wynds
for the lodgings of Boswell and Doc
tor Johnson, of Allan Ramsay and of
Robert Burns, who In Baxter close had
his share of deal table, a sanded
floor and chaff bed at eight pence
week" But tough the world of wit
and fashion has departed from Old
Edinburgh, though the society of mod
ern Edinburgh has not the glory of
its golden days, the city itself still
puts spell upon the imagination
even Of an Englishman-and, looking
down upon it from Arthur's seat,
where its beauty is outspread below
one, all the romance of a thousand
years Of history steals out from it's
hiding places, and legions of gallant
and noble and tragic and wise and
witty ghosts wander about those old
streets which lie in the deep valley
under the shadow Of the castle for
which England and Scotland fought
century after century, and along the
highway to Holyrood, where the Scot
tish kings and mobiles played out the
fantasy of life
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by one dear ghost-that third duchess
who was Prior's Kitty aur fair" and
who was gracious to {. company which
included the poet Gay.
High Street Now SIum.
There are famous characters to meet
in memory to the left and right of one
all the way along the Canongate and
the old High street. in every close
with its narrow entry leading to the
lands behind-those tall white
houses built like fortresses and dense.
ly crowded, which held within a small
area all that is famous and noble and
memorable in the story of old Edin-
burgh. 1t is slum now, where tat
tered garments hang out to dry, where
poverty is naked in crowded tene-
ments, from which On days of royal
progress, whenever carriage passes,
there swarms out legion of "barfit
BARNS" with shrill cheers and fiutter-
ing rags, but where, in days gone by,
the wit and fashion and rank of Edin-
burgh were closely. housed.
In Lady Stairs close the countess
who gave her name to the place kept
up great state in a little fiat, after
the unhappy days of her married life,
when her first husband threatened to
cut her throat with his rapier, and her
second husband struck her with his
fist. She was the leader of fashion
in Edinburgh when Lady Mary Wort
ley Montagu came to record her i'm
pressions, and a stately old dame
given to the strongest language in mo-
ments of anger.
Home of Famous Folk.
In Hyndon's close, where the earls of
Stirling lived, was the house of Lady
Maxwell of Monreith and her three
beautiful daughters, known as the
three romps of Monreith," one Of
whom, Miss Jane, afterwards the
duchess of Gordon, was once seen rid.
ing down the High street on a SOW
which Miss Elantine thumped Justify
behind with a stick! Here also lived
Lady Anne Lindsay. WhS yroE .tAuld
Robin Gray" and all flats in this and
other closes near by were the scenes
of fashionable little parties in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth CEN
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FROM THE TIN BOX
BY ALvAH JoRDoN GARTH.

Copyright. 1914. BY w. q. Chapman.)
Not friend in the world" said
Rufus Deane, desolateiy, at six o'clock
In the morning.
"A nest Of comfort and true hearts
to cherish me-" he added that same
evening.
For years he had lived alone, occu-
pying wretched attic room with a
poor family in the slums Long since
he had lost the use of both his lower
limbs. He had been confined to the
one apartment, his wants attended to
by his landlord, but living in the most
narrow way. Somehow he managed to
scrape up the few dollars required to
pay for board and keep each Saturday
night
Then that day there had come to
his lonely habitation pretty, neat, but
plainly dressed young girl
Il am Rhoda Leslie" she said Il
was Rhoda Merrill Do you remember
the name?"
"Merrill?' repeated Mr.. Deane 81
ought to! 1t was that of my best
friend, Robert Merrill
my father" said Rhoda, and her
eyes were filled with tears as she
noted the helpless condition of this
once proud and wealthy man. He
never forgot, and / never will. 1
thought you in another country, or
dead. 1t was only yesterday that |
learned about you-poor, an invalid,
friendless. Oh, sir!" and her eyes ex-
pressed the genuine love and graft
tude she felt, 'it seemed that l could
not come quick enough to your side.
You did everything for my father
when he was alive. He told me that
1t was your money that kept me at
boarding school for two years We
owe everything to you. See, sir, am
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Philosophy and Manllness.

Be philosopher; but amidst all
your philosophy, be still a man.
Hume.
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A Profession and a Home.

That a married woman can keep III
her profession and her home as vel
is being successfully proved by the
principal of one of the largest schools
for girls In New York.
She has a broom apartment rur
by a capable maid and a japanese
cook. She took up her teaching again
when her daughter was two years old
and has managed to prepare hel
daughter for college at the age of f1f
teen.
Anne Warner, the authoress. also
has been married three years and
does her writing at home by settling
her housekeeping by nine in the morn
ing and then shutting herself up II
her study to write until fiye-the
usual hours of a business man te
which she considers herself entitled
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just married to the dearest young fell
low in the world. When / told him
about you, he instantly ordered me to
remove you to our own little home.
We will be as your children, tenderly
caring for you all your life"
Then the tears of the astounded
and overcome old man mingled with
those Of this bright angel Of hope, who
had come to his succor at the darkest
moment Of his life.
She brought her husband with her
that evening, stalwart, honest-faced
young man, who moved about and
spoke at the behest Of her suggestion,
as though her sweet, loving voice
were rapt, directing music. 1t was
dusk when the closed carriage they
brought conveyed the old man to his
new home. He did not see that it was
located In poor street, he did not no.
tice that as they tenderly carried him
up the stairs the lower apartments
were furnished sparsely, indicating
rigid economy, If not scarcity of
money.
AS they placed him In wheel chair
and turned on the lights a rapt cry
came from his lips. ending in sob Of
mingled Joy and gratitude.
This is your home" said Rhoda,
sweetly.
"And welcome, thrice welcome, sir"
spoke blunt, plain Ernest Leslie. I'VE
realized how you could not get about
freely and have tried to make it CON-
Portable for you"
Comfortable, The bedridden old in
valid felt as If he had been lifted to a
new sphere Of perfect luxury. 1t was
a large, roomy apartment, newly pa
pered. Two neatly curtained windows
looked out upon pretty garden. There
were soft, warm rugs on the floor, a
fireplace. and as they brought up his
evening meal all this attention and
plenty reminded the old man Of the
days when he had wealth at his ready
command.
"You are the best husband In the
world!" said Rhoda, as they left their
guest comfortable and content in what
was to be his own special apartment.
Il love the old man because he was
good to you,' answered Ernest simply.
You are so willing to make sacri-
fees for others, Ernest" said Rhoda
fondly.
"Oh, we are young, and the pleasure
OF seeing this dear old man happy and
comfortable will compensate for the
loss Of few luxuries."
"He must not know how poor we
are" urged Rhoda earnestly. HE can
not leave his room, you know, to find
out"
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COSTLY MILE OF WIRE
ERECTED DURING SIEGE OF PORT
ARTHUR, IN 1905.
Estimated That Ten Tho sand Lives
Were Lost and Millions of Dollars
Expended In "condemning" tire
Right of Way.

There are many individual miles
Of city-built telephone line that have
cost well up in the hundreds of thou
sands of dc lars" remarked an ofh
Ger of the United States army who
saw much of the war between Russia
and Japan few years ago, "but the
mile of telephone wire that cost, be
yond all comparison, more money ant
lives than any other line ever BULL
was erected during the siege of Port
Arthur in 1905.
"For weeks and months the Japs
had been eating away at the defensei
of the Russian fortress, but with small
success The hills around the town
and harbor seemed to have been fash
ioned by nature for defense. The
Japs, though they had brought ur
their great IL and 14-inch siege guns
were able to make but slight impres
sion upon the forts and none at all
upon the town or the Russian fleet
that lay safe within the inner harbor
The trouble was that, though the
great guns-'Osaka babies they called
them, after the name Of the town
where they were manufactured
could easily carry from their position
into Port Arthur and the harbor, the
was intervening a great range of hills
from five to six hundred feet in height
and crowned with the most powerful
Notifications in the world to that
date. Hence, the gunners could no
get sight Of their targets.
Suddenly the Osaka babies con
menced to open fire upon the tow
and harbor, and the Russians smiled
for experience had shown them how
impossible 1t was for the shells tt
strike their unseen targets. But, te
their establishment, after shell o
two, one lit squarely upon the mali
building in Port Arthur and shortly
after one plunged through the deci
of battleship and sank her like 8
stone.
In a short time the town was
wrecked and the fleet, with half iti
ships sunk or disabled, had to put out
10 sea.
"For, from the telephone In the
aand of the Jap hidden on the sum
nit of 203 Meter hill there ran a wire
10 the batteries where stood the great
Osaka bahies,' and the whole thin
became as simple as a kindergarten
problem. The man with the telescope
observed where the shells from the
babies struck; he reported 1t to the
man with the telephone, who, in turn
.eiephoned it to the gunners Of the
babies They modified their fire un
Ter these directions and placed theil
great shells as accurately as though
They were firing peint-blank at a tar
get.
"It was the beginning of the end Of
Port Arthur, that mile of telephone
line running up the flank of 203 Meter
HILL 1t was but single wire mount
ed on poles so small that they were
invisible a quarter of mile distant
but it cost 10000 men and several mil
lions of dollars In ammunition and
other war-cost to condemn the righI
of way"
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BulIock's Freak Appetite.

A curious appetite has been dis
played by bullock owned by North
Lincolnshire (England) farmer. The
farmer found the hair had apparently
been cut of the tail of six Of his
horses, and constable was instruct
ed to keep a special lookout Shortly
afterwards the constable saw a bull
lock eating the hair OF q horses heels.
1t cleaned the heels, and then de-
voted its attention to the horses tail.
The tails of the other horses were
then found to show unmistakable signs
of having been bitten of, and hair was
found nearly all over the field.
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then-only their good Scots blood was
remembered, and the romance which
bound them to the hearts of the Scot
tish people. Women sold their jewels
for him. The clans came down from
the highlands to fight for him. On
the night before Prestonpans there
was great ball at Holyrood and the
Cameron pipes played to the tune of
"The King Shall Enjoy His Own
Again"
Along the Canongate.
Not far away, at the foot Of the
Canongate, is the White Horse close,
and the ancient hostelry with its high
steps and pointed gable where many
of Prince Charles officers put up be-
fore their march across the border.
The Canongate Itself, with its old Toll
booth and ancient houses, Is crowded
with the great characters of Scottish
history, and the very stones tell one
Of the scenes that were played on this
small space. The Scottish nobility
had their mansions here Through the
gateways at night came their retainers
with swords and bucklers and dirks.
Many a man felt the prick of bare
bodkin" at his throat 'twixt my Lord
Seatons house" and Playhouse close.
The torches fared about the coaches
Of the mobiles and many times a tall
tree grew up in the night outside the
Tolbooth to bear human fruit in the
morning.
The passerby stares up at Moray
house and at the long balcony below
its gables. 1t was on this very bal
cony that Lady Mary Stuart sat with
her bridegroom. Argyll, when gallant
Montrose was brought by In a gallows-
cart with his hands tied The cart
was stopped so that Argyll might gaze
upon his enemy; but when Montrose
turned and stared at him Argyll shift
ed his eyes, not daring even then to
look him in the face That was in
1850. Ten years later Argyll passed
this same house himself on his way
to the gallows.
Cromwell put up In this old house.
Queensberry house, nearby, has tragic
memories of its own, but is haunted
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E@DINBURGH is always haunted
80 by ghosts, to those who have
read little history, the novels
a of Walter Scott and the min
strelsy of old poets, says Philip
Gibbs In the London Graphic; but
when the king is there and old cere-
monies are revived in his honor, and
the spirit of the ancient chivalry of
Scotland is lighted up by this royal
visit, the ghosts walk so that one can
hardly fail to meet them down by Holy
rood and round about the Grassmar-
ket and the Canongate.
Once again lights are flashing in
the windows of Holyrood itself, and,
wandering this way by night for a
stroll under the stars, ones mind
gropes back to the romantic, tragic
memories of this house of ghosts. One
woman's face peers out upon one
from the dark shadows. There behind
the walls are those little -paneled
rooms in which she sat smiling and
hiding her heartache, where men paid
homage to her and schemed her ruin,
where poets made sonnets to her
beauty and preachers scowled at her
laughter. There, still, is the very
room, thronged on most days of the
year by loud-voiced tourists, where
she rose with her hands to her breast
at the clatter Of feet up the stairways,
giving the shelter of her skirt to the
Italian clerk, Rizzio, until Darnley, her
husband, put his arms about -ler and
kept her still while Ruthven and Nor
ton and Ker of Fawdonside butchered
their man In the chamber beyond.
There are other places in Edinburgh
where one is haunted by the spirit
of Mary Queen of Scots, whose beauty
bewitched the hearts Of men less dour
than John Knox and more chivalrous
than Boutwell,.
But as the carriages pass through
the gates of Holyrood and highland
soldiers swing their kits across the
courtyard, another figure, tall and
debonair, appears before ones minds
eye. One sees Prince Charles Edward,
who held his court here on his last
adventure for crown, in AS. The
faults of the Stuarts were forgotten
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Difficult.

French fashions have stopped com
ing over" says a New Yorker, "and
evening gowns for the winter viii In
consequence be less decollete. A good
thing. too. | said to woman at
dance last week:
"How beautifully your daughter Ii
dressed. Don't you find it difficult to
keep her In clothes?
Indeed I do!' my friend replied
Haven't you noticed the decollets
gown she's wearing tonight?'"
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Mrs. Gray's Hair Success

For Strengthening hair will stop
dandrnff and improve growth of
hair; put new hair on those bald
temples. Hair Strengthening and
scalp treatment, ST 90, in which I
specialize and guarantee success.
Mrs. r. w. GRAY'S Hair PorIor
1910 Bush Street, S. r.
Telephone West 4239.
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FOR SALE. at bargain, free and clear
two-story and attic with about one acre
ground; house has large rooms, steam
heat hot and cold water supply, gas and
electric lights. two baths. sewer connec-
lions, large porch in front and side OF house,
also fruit trees ON premises. cellar cemented,
sidewalk cemented, street macadamized;
house in first-class order; large chicken
coop on premises; any reasonable offer will
not he refused. Inquire J. G. GEESE, 9s5
Simpson st., Bronx. New York city.
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$50 BUYS lot in West Lyons Farms. near
Weequahic Park: other lots SIS, $40 and
500 per lot; no higher prices; SIS cash, So
per month; title guaranteed; new property
Just opened and we are selling at these low
prices 10 advertise West Lyons Farms and
introduce It to the public; the entire new
and beautiful development is open for your
inspection; no lots held In reserve, first
come first served: IN Newark take Main line
trolley to Lyons ay.. West Lyons Farms is
near the corner of Liberty and Long avs.
ARTHUR EVE, agent on property. or E. e.
MEACHAM & SON, Room 1899 Park Row
Building. New York city.
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HoUSE-Six rooms and bath, improve
ments plot 75x100; garden. fruit trees
and chicken run; bathing. fishing. etc; sac
rifice' So 500 $500 cash. balance easy terms.
Full particulars apply to GEORGE II.
RUCK. owner, 36s Brighton St, Tottenville,
Staten Island N. Y.
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SO LOTS; high land, ajoining railroad; for
factory or dwellings. manufacturing
town; plenty Of laboring hands. S. Z.
DAVIDSON, HaekensacS ST., East Ruth
erford N. j.; phone TIA.
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BUNGALOWS FOR SALE

ATTRACTIVE semi-bungalow homes: coy
well built, with all improvements; large
plot; healthful surroundings; four to seven
rooms. bath; $2,T50 upward. THE ROW
LAND-JoHNSoN Co. Passaic. N. ].
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
NEW JERSEY

COUNTRY PLACE, acres. fine Groom bun
galow, $50 peach trees. $50 chickens, In
cubators; hour from Jersey City $1,000; no
agents; OWNER. IL John ST.. Manhattan.
Room &C.
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UNION HILL


HOUSE, $500; 81, 900 cash.
800 Fourth St. Union Hill, N. ].
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REAL ESTATE WANTED

WANTED-To purchase house. walking dis
lance from Broad and Market St; give
particulars price. size OF lot and mortgage
b.. Box 81. Star office.
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roTTENYILLE. s. i.

SEA GRIT. N. COTTAGES FOR SALE.
MISS LEWIS. 500 FIFTH AYp NEW
YORK.
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
OR EXCHANGE


AT PLAINFIELD-Seven house; stable;
offered for my $500 equity? VIII
change for Newark property, automobile, or
what have you to offer? SAMUELSoN, go
Plane ST.. city.
BROOKLYN
TwO-FAMILY limestone house. all improve
ments; gas. electric light. parquet floors
separate furnaces. separate entrances. Will
exchange equity $4,000 and cash for New
Jersey farm. WILLIAM II. ROMMELL,
owner Liberty Corner. N. J.
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BOARDING


FOREST HILL, Lake st., 77s--Two iarzz.
weil-furnished rooms; also one smaller of1E
with board; fne location Phone 1925 B. q
Aston LUNCH, II AcADEMY&S ST
OUR MOTTO
Pure Food-Large Portions-clesnliness.
CLINTON Az. s02--Excelient aceammodz-
lions; with or without board, for hual-
ness men and women; convenient to trafn
and ali cars; special summer rates. also tatie
board.
COURT ST.. Te--Home cooking; q meals
81. rooms. 81 to fa- t5
WARREN MANOR. ST. WARREN ST
Cheerful large. airy rooms: ali nicely for
nfshed. excellent table, home cooking, 81
three trolley lines; near hoseFiile station
terms moderate. Tel. Branch Brook Sass.
BOARD WANTED
ROOM and board Ia private family; PrDt-
estaut; references Address SOUTH Box
e6. Star Office
YOUNG MAN. refined ana respectable habtts
wishes home IN private family. BOARD
Box 81. Star Office.
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RIDGEFIELD PARK HOUSE, 20 Overlook
av.; 40x170; rooms, bath; all improve
ments must sacrifice: Communication $3.50.
TROCK, 515 West Hist st.
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BARGAIN-Six-room house; heat. bath;
4ox1oo lot; $4,000; 5000 cash. TIMoNY,
Ridgefeld Park.
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AUCTION SALES
ACCIDENT INSURANCE

SEQ. 900; 1920 WEEKLY; cost $50 per year
T. A. SHEPHERD. 271 Market st.
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FACTORIES FOR SALE

FACTORIES and factory sites throughout
the State of New Jersey. LOUIS SCHLES-
NIGER, INC.
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LOANS-MORTGAGES

WANTED-Loan of $4,000 on improved
az STORY house; best location in city no
agents. Address LOAN, Box rs. Star once.
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FOR SALE-Horse, wagon and harness;
suitable for butcher or grocer. Sc Sey-
mour av.