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for six years but think, think, think. Not once did he pick up tool to put any oi his theories in concrete form, but he got them on paper and kept them in his head. He altered his model and expanded on his original idea. He added more uprights and decreased the number of laterals. He decided to lengthen his glides and make them out of aluminium. and he added q couple of feet to the length of the ma chine. At last his thoughts reached the stage where they commanded actual con- struct1On to start, and he began in 1912.
 Now, after years of thought and study and ? years of actual work Ma chezis has his machine all but com pleted. The machine is feet inches high and 10 feet long,
 The inventor will say nothing regard Ing the operation of his machine for fear his secrets will be stolen. He intends to take patents out soon SO that he will be safe in giving the public the details
 He is firm in the belief that his prod uct will have a big commercial value de- veloping horse power enough to drive factory machinery and do all the work now done by stationary engine. He says he will explain its operation in de- tail and bare all his secrets to any one interested in it.
 All that he will say now is that the throwing of a lever will start the ma chine, and that large steel spring, so devised as to uncoil and coil alternately, Is its power. and these are obvious facts
 The machine as 1t stands now does not represent the inventors entire idea, there Is much wood in it that will be supplant- ed by metal tubing and rods. The in- ventor plans to start the machine on a thorough test not later than May l.
 Machezis is 32 years old, and has been in the United States since 1899.
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Ghost Defended Property

From London Tit-BltS.
 A strange ghost story concerning Burton Agnes Hall. a grand old place near Bridlington, Is recalled by the engagement of Lieut. Griffith Boynton, R. N, only son of Sir Griffith and lady Boynton Of Barmston, Yorkshire, and Miss Naomi Nightingale. only child of MT. H. E. Nightingale. of Cromwell road, kensington. Burton Agnes is the ancestral seat of the Boyntons. but on the death of the late baronet. Sir Henry, in 1899. the property passed to his only daughter, now Mrs. WiclSham- Boynton. Years ago the estate was inherited by three sisters. who, being very wealthy, decided to rebuild the old home
 1nigo Jones was. 1t is said, the arch- iteet, and Rubens Is reported to have assisted with the decorations. An ab- sorbing interest was taken in tho building by the youngest sister. Anne Griffith, but one day she was brutaily assaulted by tramp. and subsequently, died. She made her sisters promise that her head would be removed at her death and kept in the house. They forgot to do as she had wished. with the result that the most appalling noises were heard fin. the house. In their per- plexity the two sisters consulted tho vicar, telling him of their dying sisters request. He agreed that 1t ought to be carried out, so the body was unearthed and the head removed to the house. The noises at once ceased.
 Various generations from time to time tried to get rid of the head, but always the hideous noises recommended and continued until the greusome relic was brought back. At last Sir Henry Boynton (Mrs. Wickham- Boynton's Faf i. ! l. Al wall of the great hall, behind a beauti- fully carved screen which came from Bramston, the homo of Sir Matthew Boynton. first baronet, who married Anne. and since the skull has been in tered" the hauntings and manifes- tations have. 1t is. said. entirely ceased. On the staircase at Burton Agnes is the painting of the sisters and very quaint they look in ruffs and farthingales.
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fom. A fanatical peasant left the church in rage. returning with paw ing stone. and hurled 1t at Seniavina's head. scene resulted. The stone thrower was let so free. but Seniavina was again arrested and lodged in Perm jail on a charge of blasphemy. crawling In church and indictment to- disobe- dience. Later she was brought to Ekaterisburg. and there she remains. The other women lreachers have been left In peace; and thy ar said to be conducting vigorous campaign all over tho Urals. Also from Voronezh and Podolia at the other end of the empire come stories of women priests one of whom was beaten nearly to death by a mob.
 The woman priest movement has begun to extend beyond the peasant class where it originated. It is attracting young women from the so-called intelligence. i" Until lately nearly all girls of this class were revolutionary and atheistical. but during the past three years there has been a strong reaction. This reaction Is best expressed by the Moscow woman writer, Trina Schein, who says, in our once Nationalist intelligence is begin ring a mystical political move back to autocracy and mystical religious move. For the first time in it's history. Russian educated society is pious' The religious move shows itself both in lay and cleri- cal world In the lay world, the students of Kieff university and of the Moscow medical, legal and other courses" have demanded that there shall be theological courses. with right to women to preach. In the religious world the movement has affected the convents. A sensation oc- cured in February when two nuns, rela- tives of the late army reformer, Count Miliutin, eloped from the Moscow Nova Devitschi convent. They declared that they were going to preach among the poor The convent Is in a state of fer ment, owing to the desire of more nuns to follow the example of the first.
 St. Petersbury synod is strongly op- posed to this movement, but cannot sup press it. It fears to incur the enmity of women. who are the best supporters of the church. At a synod council meeting held last month, M. Matveyeff, a provn- cial consistory member. declared that in many provinces women are almost the only supporters of the church, at least among the peasants. The peasont men are mostly hostile or indifferent. On the basis of this the synod decided that the movement for women priests must be treated with caution; and that the vital point Is not whether women preach or not, but that if they do preach it shall be in orthodox spirit. So far, the women preachers are nearly all schismatics
 The synod in particular dreads their doctrine of celibacy for priests. for al- though the higher. or black" clergy themselves do not marry ceibacy for the secular clergy is regarded as specifi- cally Roman Catholic, and Catholicism is the only rival which the Greek orthodox church dreads. In order to check such heresies women are to be encouraged. Tho synod will not allow them to be ordained, but 1t Is willing for them to he- ceive theological education. This is
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How Polar Indians Live

From the Philadelphia Record
 tribe of Indians that scientists be- lieve lived comfortably when the ante- cedents of the present white race were battling among themselves and against the wild beasts of the stone age are to be represented at the University of Penn sylvania Museum by collection of tro- phies recently brought from Alaska and Siberia by Marshall Scul. an explorer, whose home is in Philadelphia
 So for as can be learned this Indian tribe dhe Chuckchees) have inhabited the cold lands of the north since time immemorial. and to the presence of rein deer in countless number they owe all their blessings.
 In Siberia. MT. Scull found that the Indians had trained, the reindeer as beasts of burden and traction. using the animals for food as well. Millions of them, in herds that foraged on the shrubs and grasses, were found by the explorer to have reached the domestic training of the COW in other parts of the world. The animals supply the Indians with milk. cheese and flesh food. and finally the hides are used for leather or made into clothing suited to the rigious climate because of the long
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ever privileged to behold but it's memory is often companioned with another of a sunset hour upon the Yanktse. Despite its queer shape and queerer rigging the Chinese sailing boat is picturesque in the extreme. The sails hang as Venetian or jealousy blinds and their Haunting in the breeze suggests the fiutter of the wind coquetting gonfalon. They tilt most grace fully. as though salaaming the shore and their broad stripes of bizarre coloring in- vite play of tone and hue that only a setting sun can fashion. Although sail boats, oars are employed in their pro- polling as frequently as is canvas and the oars are without blades. Usually the boats travel in groups. for their crews are socia'ble and when the breeze is de- iinquent the sailors sing a most plaintive "ki-yi'' to their wind-joss just as the boatmen upon the Nile chant an appeal to Mohammed to ease their labors.
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By c. F. MARKELL

rapidly. Many quaint stories are told of its fiuvial vagaries coupled with the quaint ideas of justice entertained by the Celestials. Upon one of these occasions a passenger steamer was carried upon a high Aux to the receding waters. vio- lent controversy between the rice farmer and the ship owners ensued which result ed in the latter purchasing the field as place of storage for the stranded craft
 A Chinese warship similarly circum- staneed was attacked by the farmers who with pitchforks vanquished the crew and used the vessel for winter fuel But, as a handsome woman, the river, despite it's whims is most charming to look upon. I have often thought that my entry into Venice by sea from Triest, with the rising sun glorrfying the parti-colored sails of the fishing craft constituted one of the most charming waterscapes that I was
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Natural Bullies Among Fish

Place a number of different kinds and size of turtles in a small space and the forbearance which is ex- hibited might we'll be lesson to man. Big and little will crawl about heed less of each others comfort or security from harm. says the Kansas City Star.
 small painted terrapin. for in stance. will chamber solidly over the head of 8 vicious snapper and the chances are that the latter will merely duck it's head or move to one side so that the claws of the former will not injure its eyes. There seems at such times a look of patient resignation or sullen submission. which would im- medately change to savage resentment and fierce attack if a man made a hundredth part of the commotion.
 These creatures appear to be able to distinguish between mo offense meant" and intentional mauling. While they submit to the one, they will fight over the other, if fight has not been previously crashed out of them.
 Carnivorous fish seem to be natural bullies. In a group occupying a re- StTlcLeQ space there IS nedTly alWdy0 one fish that will torment the others. Nor Is 1t the largest necessarily. There were for months two small-mouth bass and nine large mouth bass confined in the same tank.
 The smallest of the entire party, small-mouth bass of nine inches. hectofed the others continually and succeeded in reserving an entire half of the tank for himself
 The others were obliged to huddle themselves in a far corner of the re- mainder of the tank. The ten fish submitted to this treatment from the very beginning without the semblance of a fight. This particular bully never attempted to injure its victims. If one of them ventured beyond the prohibited line the autocrat would swim slowly forward and with open mouth push the venturesome fish back to It's quar- ters.
 When after a lapse of some months. the bully died one of the fish that had been it's humble subject took the leader ship and ruled just as absolutely. But all such despots of the fishy world do not avoid violence as did this particu- lar specimen.
 Some of them exercise their power with relentless crueity, and go to the length of forbidding those under their control to feed. even when the tor menting fish have already gorged to the utmost of their stretched capacity. Neither do bullies learn by bitter ex- perience to show forbearance.
 A certain seven-inch trout Is an in- life mserSble for an aquarium full of
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Turning Russian Women Into Holy Priestesses

Nizhni-I -Insarevo deposed its own drunken priest, Ilovaiski and put a woman in his place. Iovaiski entered the church dur ing service, and made scene with his supplanter. hTe villagers put him out Tile appealed to Yeneseisk consistory, which reported to St Petersburg, and St. Petersburg proposed to intervene. Be- fore it had time to take measures the movement in favor of women priests made tremendous progress, particularly in West Siberia and along the Russo-Siberian frontier; and it would take more than the efforts of Procurator of the Synod Sabler to root it out.
 The main cause of the spread is the propaganda carried on by the first woman priest in European Russia, Seniavina, a dealer in fruits and vegetables in the town of Perm. Senavina is a first cousin of the Siberian priestess. Matrlona, ana in that way she got drawn into the move- ment This seniavina. though she barely knows how to write. is no ordinary wom- an. She has surprising talents for preach- ing, apostolic earnestness. a remarkable command of the rugged dialect spoken in the Urals. and smattering of medical knowledge got from her father who was "Feldscher" at a military hospital
 Thus equipped, Seniavina started to reform the world; and she made great progress until she fell into a trap set by her enemies
 Seniavina started to preach in a wooden church. little more than a hut. on her fathers farm. The peasants Hooked to hear her and the local churches were deserted Trouble be- gan, for what may be done freely in the far Yenesei district is not poss- ible under official eyes in European Russia. The police closed Seniavina's church and arrested her. Shewas tried by the Perm assize court for "arro- gatfng to herself priestly dignity and was acquitted. It is a penal of Tense, said the court, for an unor- dained person to preach in church of the orthodox faith; but there is nothing to prevent anyone who makes no pretentions preaching in his or her own church. Seniavina was released. Her followers, mostly men (women re- main faithful to the men priests) carried her enthusiastically out of court; and Seniavina began a soul saving tour; and before last Christ mas had induced IS peasant women of fairly god education to become priests Seniavina declares that she has a divine vocation The official church, she says. is ruined by priestly intemper- ance and by the marriages of priests and 1t must be redeemed by women who will .take an oath never to touch liquor and not to marry. Women priests who are already married must leave their husbands. Seniavina proved her zeal by leaving her own husband She set up house in small hut near Perm, and all last winter this house was the headquarters of the woman priest agation.
 congres of adherents of the move ment was held at Christmas At first the propagandists were hampered for
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marked advance. The present plan . Is 10 found in ISleff and some other towns theological courses for women, which will later develop Into full theological seminarles NJ. Severin. a Wharkoff mer- chant of means. has offered $1oo0oo on condition that the synod allows women to be ordained. He says that the pres tige of the male clergy has fallen hope lessly low among tss ueasants and work ing class. and that If the church is ro be saved that can oly be by women. His own daughter. who is @ doctor. has specially studied theology and preaching in order. says NJ. Severin that in her charitable work among the peasants. che may be able ito combat doubt. strength en good resolutions and fortify tho dying"
 Copyright, 1914. by Curtis Brown.)
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MOSCOW. June 6--(Special. )--Holy MI Russia has found new path
 N to holiness in the shape of 0S&ey lady priests Forty odd moujik women.s dressed in sheepskins and armed with apostolical slaves are tramp Ing her eastern provinces calling on peat ant sinner to come and be saved, and warning the numerous mpenitent that they will inevitably be lost. Though the chief of these vigorous women now sits in Ekaterinburg jail preaching to the un- responsive walls the cause goes bravely on and now Procurator of the Holy Synod zabler. though he hates inodernity, is scout to found women's theological col- aege at Kieff in order that women may fit themselves to preach true tenets of mother cnurcn.
 The movement began last summer at Postnoye, near Nazimovsk, town on the Yenesei river. The priest of Postnoye got drowned during a fishing excursion. and left behind widowed spouse, Matriona. and an equally widowed church. It was hard to find a successor. Postnoye is not famous for learning; of 90 adult males only r can read; and of the nine who can write. most acquired their accomplish ment during terms of penal servitude. So when good diocesan Bishop Innokenti chose for Postnoye successor tc the drowned priest the successor would not go. He said that the drowned priest had been foru times beaten by his obstreper- ous flock. and that he had gone fishing and got drowned because his practitioners kept him on starvation allowance.
 So for three months Postnoye church lapsed into sin. Then Widow Matriona came to the rescue. The iron shield which is beaten as a substitute for bell ringing suddenly boomed forth. and when tho vil- lagers came to church they found Matri- ona installed as priestess. She wore gold cloth "risa," and looked-were it not for the absence of a beard-as good . parson as her husband
 In holy Russia, much less in unholy Siberia, these things mako a stir. Tho Postnoye flock would ordinarily have thrown their felt boots at a lady preacher, but they were so tired at being thrce months sermonless and likewise so amazed and flabbergasted that they list ened peacefully to Matriona's pious words; and went home in peace. They were so edified that the usual Sunday drinking bout with fiery "monopolka" passed off without fight; and so Matriona res mained priestess of Postnoye
 This event caused a great scandal, for Russians do not believe in sex equality in religion. Only certain heretical sects which are now extinct recognized women as priests. The aged and holy women who as prayers" (bogomolkD and "screamers" QxlikushD wander about the country are much respected. but their piety concerns themselves alone; and no Russian, however penitent. would consent to be saved by their ministrations. The event of Postnoye changed all this Peas ants of several neighboring villages in- stalled women priests. The village of
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This was the setting when I passed a fleet upon the Yangtse. The tiny forest of inclining masts lined a silhouetted fretwork athwart the golden disk that was sinking upon a couch of saffron. sal tree and girasol nodded silent good night and in unison with the dip of oar heard in the ''ki-yi" of the rowers their souls cry as compared their immensu- rate longings to the dreamy glister of the troubled water. born but to sigh and per- ish.
 The river frequently broadens in its course into wide lagoons small lakes and as approached one of these placid sheets of water where dreamy blue and pearly distance met involuntarily there sprang to my lips the quotation: "I spread my sail to enter on the mirror of the slky'' and near here I saw one of the most picturesque features of all China Little Orphan Island. Those of my read CTS who are familiar with Mont St. Michel. that jewel of the Manche, will have a slight conception of this tiny Celestial islet with an old monastery hanging upon
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Circumstances Alter Cases
From Judge,

Let me have some money. dear: | want to take a title trip''
 Cant afford it.
 Isn't that too provoking? was think ing of visiting mama to keep her from coming here"
 Why didn't you say % at firstr'
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Keeping It Dark

From Judge.
 Isn't IL very embarrassing? Mir. Skit- ties can hardly tell his wife from her sister who's come to stay with them"
 ''ls he worrying?"
 "oh. mol He'd Just as soon remain in the dark"
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After three weeks his son was brought back in perfect health. Such is the story. Yousoupoff gave Seniavina big sum of money. Seniavina devoted 1t all to the cause: and continued to make her own living by selling fruit in Perm market place.
 This self-denial increased her rep utation Trouble again brewed owing
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hair that is allowed to adhere fin inc curing process.
 The easy mode of life adopted by tho Chuckchees has led to almost absolute abandonment of ordinary means of live lihood. Cultural implements were found only rarely by MT Scull.
 The widespread knowledge of the rein deer and it's habits and the apparent subjugatlon of all of the great herds to the domestic life of the tribes gave rise to the belief that the animals training is the result of centuries of descent from the first herd domesticated by the Chuck chees.
 MT. Scull collected a number of articles used in the Indians kitchen, several weapons for hunting and fighting and A few samples of the reindeer-skin cloth- ing.
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to the hostility of the regular clergy. Seniavina fell into a trap. The priests of the local church of the Annunciation invited her to justify her faith" in thei chuch. Seniavina consented. She deliveed a long addess In which she epeated he assault upon the official chuch; and announced that she had odes fom heaven to ping about a e.
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it's facade as swallows nest to the caves of a barn and fantastic two-story pagoda crowning the apex of the pin nacle rock 300 sheer feet above the water. Cut in the cliff are staircases and galler- les which lead to red tiled temples trace ried balconies and deserted shrines but the bells were silent and all that broke the stiffness of the evening calm was the lowering of the black cattle from the reeds upon the opposite shore of the la- goon
 beautiful Buddhist legend has it that the rock was once a little orphan who grieved herself to death at the loss of her mother by drowning, and a tradition tells of woman who was once here marooned by flood and fed by cormorants until rescued by the pious river folks who m- portuned the orphans intercession with the gods. The spot was classic, 1t was. poetic and fitting plave for Deity to re- mark an orphans prayer I love to recall its memory, especially over a cup of tea, which. when It Is particularly excellent, I always call leaves of the second moon."
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want of funds, but after the cure by Seniavina of the son of the Buku
 Tartar millionaire. Agi-Yousoupoff. money came in plentifully. Yousou- poffs son. for three years, suffered clared that he was/incurable. Rumor reached Baku that peasant women in Perm were effecting miraculous cures, hemself. sent his son to be cured.
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WING to an enforced separation from my daily oriental notes I am unable to give my readers
 an itinerary in consecutive detail