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VOL. XIX. LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1896. NO. 39.
• R O A D S T R E E T C L O T H I N G HOUSE.
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money when he puts it into one of our Hats at the prices we
are now selling them.
1 4 4 N o r t b Q û c e o S t r e e t , - - L a i j ç a s t e r , P a.
NEWT. WINGERT, MANAGER.
LITITZ HI&H SCHOOL, 1896.
ONE OF THE EVENTS OF THE
YEAR.
EYE-STRAIN.
f A T T Q E —Overtaxed eyes, bad light when using them,
u v J D . run down system, or abnormalities of the
of the eye itself.
Q V I M P T P i M Q —P a i n o v e r o r i n t h e eyes back of
VJ 1 1 V 1 T I W i V l O . the head, blurring of vision, burn-ing
and itching.
P P M E I W ~ A v i s i t 1 0 o u r o p t i c a l DEPART-l
v C l V I C i y I . MENT, where we are fully equipped
to diagnose by the latest improved sci-entific
methods all eye defects and dis-eases
without drops.
If you require glasses we will furnish them.
If you require treatment we will send you to your physician.
I t C g r ^ E x a m i n a t i o n s a r e Free.
CHAS. 3. GILL, Oph. Optician,
Graduate of Indiana Medical College, Opthalmic Dep't.f
N o . 1 2 N . Q û ç ç q S t . , - L a o ç a s t ç r.
The Annual Commencement Exer
cises—Eight Pupils Graduated—The
Alumni Association Also Meets and
Talks and Eats.
The annual closing exercises of the
Lititz High School were most success-fully
conducted on Thursday and Fri-day,
May 28-29. The public meeting
of the Alumni Association at 2 o'clock
on Thursday afternoon, and the tenth
annual commencement exercises at 8
o'clock on Thursday evening, were held
in the Moravian Chapel. Two young
men and six young ladies were gradu-ated
and received diplomas. The
annual banquet of the Alumni Associ-ation
was given at the Springs Hotel
on Friday evening.
T H E A L U M N I M E E T I N G.
Many alumni and friends were the
appreciative audience of the most de-lightful
program, as follows :,
QUARTETTE-" O Happy Day."
MISSES MAKY TSHUDY, E L S I E H U B E R.
MESSKS. R O B ' T PILGRAM, F R A N K FRY.
P R E S I D E N T ' S A D D R E S S .
M E , F R A N K FRY, '91.
ESSAY—Links t h a t Bind Us.
M i s s R U T H GROSH, '95.
VOCAL S O L O - " Don't be Cross."
MR. R O B ' T PILGRAM.
RECITATION—" The Boat Race."
M i s s C A R R I E TSHTJDY, '89.
P R E S E N T A T I O N O F C L A S S O F '96.
I N S T R U M E N T A L S O L O.
M i s s R U T H GROSH.
ORATION.
MR. LOUIS SEABER, '93.
PIANO DUETT.
MISSES BRICKEK.
RECITATION-"Aunt Maria a t Eden Musee."
MISS A N N A BAKER, '95.
B A R I T O N E SOLO.
MR. MILES H . MURR, '91.
In the absence cf the the president,
Mr. John E. Gable, '92, Mr. Frank
Fry made the opening address. " We
feel that our efforts for to-day's meeting
have been appreciated and we thank
you for your attendance. We know
that while much that would make this
meeting successful depends on our own
work, yet it would be much like a
failure should we not be favored with
your presence. To-day's meeting
brings us together, friends and school-mates,
to talk of old times, what we
have done and what we will do—its
main object is to show that while our
school days are over and we have en-tered
upon life's ways, we have not
forgotten our alma-mater, Mr. Fry
made further remarks upon the won-derful
progress of these times, the in-ventions
and discoveries, and said that
there yet remained much to do.
Miss Grosh presented some pretty
thoughts in the essay she read. " We
are all bound each to the other by
some chain. Strong are the ties that
bind us as members of the same school.
We may go out into the world, forget-ting
many incidents ol school life, but
we will never forget those who shared
with us the honors of commencement
day. The links that bind us are of a
golden chain. The feeling of good
fellowship we enjoyed must be fostered,
or we will drift apart and gradually
lose sight of each other. This annual
gathering may mean but little to some,
to us it is a strengthening of the links
that bind us.
The annual oration had a peculiar
characteristic in its brevity.
At the close of the exercises, a busi-ness
meeting was held. The following
officers were elected :
Près, Mr. Morris Kauffman, '93;
Vice Pres., Mr. Elam Habecker, '92 ;
Sec., Miss Emma Stark, '95 ; Treaa.,
Mr. Luke Grosh, '94. The'Associa-tion
now has over sixty members, and
a deeper interest was shown in its
work than heretofore. This meetiug
was the most successful held since the
organization six years ago.
T H E C O M M E N C E M E N T.
At eight o'clock the Moravian
chapel was well crowded with the
parents and many friends of the grad-uates.
The stage was beautifully dec-orated
with potted plants and cut
flowers. From the ceiling to the sides
over the stage were suspended festoons
of gold and white-colored bunting.
Above the chairs arranged in a semi-circle
for the graduates hung a square
of sweet scented orange blossoms, with
" 96 " in yellow daisies in the center
of it. A great pyramid of begonias
and geraniums rose in the rear, while
in the front, to the sides of the stage,
were palms and ferns and Easter
lilies. Large bouquets of roses and
poenies gave additional effect.
To the music of the Grande Marche
Militaire, the graduating class, pre-ceded
by the pupils of the High and
Grammar schools, the teachers and di-rectors
marched to their seats. After
the song of greeting and a prayer by
the Eev. C. L. Moench, the following
program was executed :
Chorus—Greeting Song.
Prayer.
REV. C. L . MOENCH.
Chorus—Air f r om " M a r t h a ."
S a l u t u t a t o r y Essay—Looking for a Man.
L O V I N I A V . GABLE.
Oration—Lessons f r om Footrball.
J O H N M. PFAUTZ.
Girls' Chorus—Andalusian Festival—Bolero.
Recitation—The Knight a n d t h e Page.
J . FLORENCE K I L L I A N.
Essay—High Notes.
G. M A Y MIKSCH.
P i a n o Trio— Oberon.
I . L I G H T , F . BAKER, K . BOBST.
Essay—Parasites.
MABEL B. L E I B . •
Oration—The E n d Crowns t h e Work.
J . P A U L EVANS.
Recitation—Charity Grinder and the Post-mas
ter-General.
MARY A . PILGRAM.
Solo-Gaily I Wander.
G. M A Y MIKSCH.
Valedictory Essay—Clouds.
E . MAGGIE BRICKER.
P r i n c i p a l ' s Address.
A L I C E H . BRICKER.
Presentation of Diplomas.
REV. F . PILGRAM.
Chorus—Happy a n d Light.
Address to t h é Graduates.
DR. R . K . BUEHELE.
Chorus—Parting Ode.
Benediction.
REV; I . w . BOBST.
(Continued on Third Page)
BY THE WAY.
Interesting Notes and Comments on
Persons, Places and Things.
To BE buried alive seems to be one
of the most gruesome of subjects. The
very thought of it makes a person
feel canny. We do not like to thick
of a relative or friend as having been
interred before the spark of life had
left the body, yet many instances are
on record to proye that this revolting
mistake has been made in a number
of cases. Years ago a doctor's certifi-cate
of death was always considered
final, and that a mistake in such an
important matter could be made was
never thought possible. The outward
evidence of death was even thought
to be entirely sufficient and proof posi-tive
that the end had come. But when
bodies were exhumed and presented
evidence that a terrible struggle for
life had at some time taken place, peo-ple
became credulous and sought some
means whereby persons buried alive
would not have to suffer the horrors of
a death too terrible to describe. That
there is such a thing as suspended
animation is now freely acknowledged,
and the contrivances that inventors
are perfecting wherewith the person
who is thus interred may give warning
of his condition are now on trial and
will eventually rob death of one of its
greatest horrors.
* * *
THE primary purpose of all these
ghastly casket attachments is to pro-vide
devices that cap be applied to an
ordinary casket or i|s box in all cases
of doubt as to the death or condition
of the corpse. Another and very im-portant
object is to provide against
any tampering with the devices after
they are in place in the graveyard by
malicious or mischievously disposed
persons. One of the simplest forms of
these very peculiar devises consists of
a small tube screwed into the top of the
casket or its box and extending up-ward
to the surface, the lower end of
the tube being provided with an aux-iliary
tube for discharging air in prox-imity
to the mouth and nostrils of the
corpse. The upper end of the tube
projects above the earth and is pro-vided
with a cylindrical glass casing
in which is mounted a bright-colored
valve. This valve normally closes the
upper end of the tube leading to the
buried casket so that the air cannot
enter, and is mounted on the upper end
of a slender rod that passes down
through the tube into the casket and
rests-upon the forehead of the corpse.
Should the yictim revive his first
natural movement would be to raise
his head and elevate the rod carrying
the valve and thus admit air to the
casket to prevent his suffocation. When
the bright colored valve is raised by
the rod it can readily be seen through
the glass cylinder and thus indicates a
movement of the corpse to the watch-ers,
who take immediate steps to, res-cue
the yictim. After a stated time,
if no movement of the valve occurs,
the tube is drawn out and earth filled
in.
* * *
OTHER inventions there are, but
more complicated. One consists of a
small shelf whereon a lamp placed so
that its light willbe thrown directly
upon the face of the deceased. Through
a tube from the top friends of the sup-posed
dead, can plainly see the face at
all times and note if any changed ex-pression
takes place. Another tube
provides for the admission of air. A
very similar apparatus is also used in
which the hands of the corpse, rest
upon the cross piece at the lower end
of a rotable shaft that passes out of
the top of the casket to the surface.
The upper end of this shaft is provided
with an index finger that is adapted
to travel over a cylindrical index
plate. This index finger and plate are
covered by a glass case so that they
may readily be seen at all times. Air
passes down through the shatt directly
into the casket. If the supposed dead
person should turn in the coffin or
make any other violent movement he
would push the rotable shaft upward
and raise the index finger clear of the
index plate. Either movement of the
index finger would at once be noted
through the glass case and a rescue
commenced.
ALL the devices mentioned depend
upon an air communication between
the casket and the surface and a posi-tive
movement of the corpse to set the
devices in operation, but this is not the
case with an attachment recently pat-ented.
The most delicate movement
of the pulse of the supposed corpse will
admit air to the casket and sound an
alarm above the surface. This im
provement is a very important one, as
the reviving victim sometimes has not
strength enough to move any portion
of his body,and the other devices would
therefore be us•e le's s* i n s*u ch a case.
WHILE the very thought of being
interred alive is revolting and pro-duces
a " creepy feeling," it is a conso-lation
to know that in time these in-ventions
may be used in all cases
where there is the least doubt of
actual death. In cases where these in-ventions
cannot be used, another means
has been provided to escape death in
the grave. While it does not provide
for rescue in ease of suspended anima-tion,
it removes all doubt of burial be-fore
death. The invention consists of
«¡»long sharp knife set in the coffin lid,
and so placed that when the lid is
closed it will pierce the heart and thus
make the death a certainty. Most
people might have grave objection to
this means of insuring death, yet the
thought of waking up with six feet of
earth between you and life would
welcome even this means of insuring
certain death.
As THE subject is a grave one, why
peruse it any further. PHIL.
The Tornado at Columbia.
Thursday afternoon's tornado, be-sides
wrecking the Columbia rolling
mill, demolished Billmyer & Small's
planing mill, on the York county side
of the river.
The planing mill of Jackman &
Forry and the Columbia lumber com-pany
were unroofed, as were also a
number of houses.
At the rolling mill Isaac Haverstick,
aged 50, one of the puddlers, was in-stantly
killed.
Among the injured are Wm. Gas-per,
who is lying at the Columbia
hospital in a critical condition ; Wm.
Schleger, W. H. Ssvartz, Emanuel
Smith, John Hickey, Lucas Brown,
James McMichael, Walter Good,
Clayton Dietz, John Hippey,Benjamin
Hougendobler, John Moriarity, John
Waltman, Timothy McMichael.
During the progresa of the storm
Joshua T. Hughes, engineer at the
power station of the Columbia electric
railway, was instantly killed. A strong
draft of wind was blowing in a window
which Hughes attempted to shut. The
wind was so strong that it blew Hughes
against a large flywheel, dashing his
brains out.
The path of the storm was very
wide. After leaving Columbia, it
travelled eastward and a large tobacco
shed on the farm of Benjamin Bowers,
near Mountville, was blown dowD.
Trees were uprooted and fences and
sheds were blown down. From Mount-ville
it swung northward in the direc-tion
of Rohrerstown, leaving the same
path of wreckage in its wake.
The Kiss.
According to an old book of the
middle ages, the kiss was divided into
fifteen separate and distinct orders:
1. The decorous or modest kiss
2. The diplomatic or kiss of policy.
3 The spying kiss, to ascertain if a
woman has drunk wine.
4. The slave kiss.
5. The kiss infamous—a church
penance.
6. The slipper kiss, practiced to-ward
tyrants.
7. The judicial kiss.
8. The fedaal kiss.
9. The religious kiss (on the cross or
bible).
10. The academical kiss (on joining
a solemn brotherhood.
11. The hand kiss.
12. The Judas kiss.
13. The medical kiss—for the pur-pose
of healing some sickness.
14. The kiss of etiquette.
15. The kiss of loye—the only real
kiss.
Scripture Against the "Wheel.
PIQUA, O.—The use of the bicycle
and the employment of gold as a filling
for teeth were condemned as unbe-coming
by the Old Order of Dunkards,
in session at Covington, near here.
The questions were propounded for
discussion in the public council. The
bicycle problem was attacked first.
Is it advisable to own or use a
bicycle ?" was decided in the negative
after a long discussion, on the author-ity
of Luke xvi., 15, and Romans, xii.,
The first authority is the more
direct, and it is as follows:
And he said UDto them: Ye are
they which justify yourselves before
men, but God knoweth your hearts;
for that which is highly esteemed
among men is abomination in the sight
of the Lord.
The bicycle is highly esteemed
among men; therefore, says the Old
Order of Dunkards, the bicycle is an
abomination.
" Is it right to have the teeth filled
with gold ?" was the final question.
It was decided that gold tooth fillings
are an adornment and must be
eschewed.
AMONG THE MORMONS.
Death from Blood Poison
Is often caused By the absorption of
poisonous fats used in ordinary toilet
soaps.
Magic Sapo contains neither animal
fats nor vegetable oils and is absolutely
free from poison. It will cure all Skin
Diseases, Chaps, Freckles and Pimples
and is unexcelled as a toilet soap. Ask
your druggist or dealer for it. Price 10
cents. Sold at the Lititz Drug Store
A Lititzite Writes and Tells What He
Saw in Utah and Salt Lake City.
History tells us that in the spring
of 1847, the noted " Brigham Young "
and his Mormon followers, lured hither
in search of a spot where they might
worship their God and live undisturbed
according to their own ideas of gov>
ernment and religion. "Utah at that
time being a territory, a town site was
selected on a very picturesque hillside,
twelve miles from the " Great Salt
Lake," which I will describe later on.
In my extended travels, even through
the tropics of southern California, I
cannot recall a more beautiful location.
The slope is gradual, surrounded on all
sides by ranges of the Unitah Mount-ains,
whose peaks are covered with snow
during about ten months out of a year.
Imagine the sight, standing in a valley
whose bottoms are decked with fra-grant
wild flowers, made more beauti-ful
by a noonday sun, then to raise the
eye skyward and see towering peaks
covered with snow, which sparkles
like a mass of crystal. This picture
makes an impression upon the mind
that will never be forgotten.
Since the first stake was driven by
Brigham Young in 1847, Salt Lake
City has developed to a population of
50,000 people, the majority of whom
are Mormons, With the exception of
the buildings erected in pioneer days,
the architecture is of the modern type.
The streets are broad and macada-mized,
the side walks are principally
of the patent kind and are shaded with
maple and tallow trees.
Brigham Young, the founder, now
lies at rest in a lot 150 x 150, located
on Canyon Road, in the heart of the
city. Right near is Brigham Street,
the principal resident street of the
city, so called in honor of the first born
of his favorite wives. The lot is sur-rounded
by an iron fence eight feet
high. In the center lies his remains,
six feet beneath the green grass, the
spot being marked by a fiat tombstone
about the size of the one that covers
the vault of General Sutter in the Mo-ravian
grave yard at Lititz. There is
an uncertanky regarding the number
of wives he had, but it is estimated by
good authority that he had eighteen.
However it is known to be a fact that
he was the father of fifty-six children,
the majority of whom now reside at
Salt Lake and Brigham City, seven-teen
miles distance. Quite a number
of his wiyes are living, and were well
provided for at his death, as well as all
of the children, all of whom were edu-cated
at a private school house built
under his direction at a well selected
spot, on the corner of Brigham street
and Eagle Gate Pass, directly opposite
his man.sions, which are built of stone
with a plaster coating, decorated in a
very odd manner with brown and yel-low
paint. Up until 1893 it was be-lieved
among the Mormons that it was
just and right for each man to marry as
many women as he could comfortably
support, hence the number of wives
was governed by wealth, some having
but one, but the majority five and over,
In 1893, when the "Evans Law
went into effect, the government put a
stop to this, compelling each man to
live with but one wife, the favorite of
course was selected, but they are com-pelled
to support all they had prior to
the time the Evacs law was enforced.
Think ot the jealousy that existed wheu
the selections were made.
The Mormons believe in the Old and
New Testament, but have yery curious
beliefs regarding religion. I find them
to be very hospitable and as a rule
very intelligent. From general appear
ance they could not be distinguished
from any other denomination. In a
large enclosure called Temple Square
we find the Mormon Temple and
Tabernacle ; here is where their wor-shiping
is done. A large cobble stone
wall, twenty feet h'gh surrounds it,
and covers an area of one square block.
The tabernacle seats 20,000 people,
and is built in the shape of a dome.
Herein is stationed one of the largest
pipe organs in the world, which is ac-companied
by a trained choir of l'OOO
to 1500 voices. This choir we will
remember was awarded a medal at the
World's Fair at Chicago in 1893.
The temple very closely resembles a
Catholic Cathedra!, and is. built of
j light stone and elaborately decorated.
I It is used for ofEcial business only and
j no one but church officials and the 12
apostles are admitted,and then only on
special occasions. Forty years were
spent on its ercction. On the very
highest steeple we see a golden image
of Gabriel, with a trumpet in his right
hand. It is their belief that on res-surrection
day this image will give
three blasts on the trumpet and pro
claim the news throughout the land
The Mormons always speak of them
selves as the " Latter Day Saints " and
of Salt Lake City as " Zion." Each
ward of the city has an individual
meeting house,, where services are held
every evening at 7 o'clock. Services
are held in the tabernacle every Sun-day,
from 2 to 5 o'clock P. M. They
do not believe in me iicine, but when
one of the flock becomes ill, oils are
applied externally, and pains are sub
dued by touch of the hand,consequent-ly
they are advocates of faith cure.
The largest hotel in Salt Lake City
is the Knutsford, on which $1,000,000
were expended, and completed in June
ot 1891. It ¡3 eight stories high, with
a frontage of 165 feet and a depth of
250 feet, has 300 rooms and 100 private
baths, comparing in modern grandure
with the principal hotels of the east.
Twelve miles from the city, is the
Great Salt Lake, which has developed
to a very acceptable wateriog place,
the principal bathing places being
Saltair and Garfield Beach. Expen-sive
pavilions have been erected at both
places and are well patronized by lov-ers
of the briny-deep. The water con-tains
a very high per centage of salt,
hence the bather floats like a cork.
One need not be a swimmer to venture
in the deepest parts, as it is impossible
to sink. All you need do, is fold your
arms, lay on your back and float until
wearied. However care must be taken
not to swallow the water, for it is so
strong that a very small amount would
strangle the victim. No one ever
drowns, but a great many strangle to
death.
Not wishing to tire the readers, will
conclude by saying that if any desire
special information, regarding the
quartz or placer mines of Mexico,
California, Utah or Colorado I will be
pleased to furnish the information de-sired
on application.
Very truly yours,
PAUL E. WELTMER.
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Tbia la What Happens When tLe Arc
tight Is Burning.
The electric aro light, with its in-tense,
steady brilliancy, is now so
familiar an object that few stop to
think how wonderful a thing it
really'is. Here is light enough to
illumine many square yards nearly
as well as daylight does, proceeding
f r om the points of two little carbon
rods as large as one's finger. What
ia the stato of the carbon in that
small spot? Professor S. P. Thomp-son,
in a recent Cantor leoture be-fore
t h e Society of Arts in London,
tells us that it has actually melted
there, something that was until re-cently
thought impossible. More-over,
he says that when the light
hisses, tho liquid carbon is really
boiling. Tho facts that lead him to
these conclusions aro quoted below
from the report of his leoturo that
appears in Industries and Iron:
"Captaiii Abney bad found tho
white surface of tho luminous crater
to be always of an equal degree of
whiteness, which obviously means
that it is always of an equal degree
of temperaturo. The only thing that
could account for there being a fixed
temperature for tlio crater surface
was the fact that carbon is at the
surfaco in a state of volatilization;
that tho carbon is evaporating off
from tho positive carbon into the
aro or flame. At that surface you
necessarily must have the tempera-ture
at which carbon evaporates,
just as you cannot have the surface
of ice under ordinary conditions
either hotter or colder than the tem-peraturo
which is taken as zero of
the Centigrade scale. My present
view of tho physical state of the arc
crater is that tho solid carbon below
is covered with a layer or film of
liquid carbon, just boiling or evap-orating
off.
"When hissing takes place, a new
state of things is set up. If you
watoh a short, hissing are, you will
see a column of light concentrating
itself on a narrow spot, and the spot
keeps moving about and is very un-stable
in "position as well as in the
amount of light it gives out. The
contracted spot from which light
seems to start pits deeper into the
carbon. Mrs. Ayrton made the ob-servation
that the crater surface,
after tho aro lias been hissing, is
found to bo literally honeycombed,
When tho are is hissing, you can see
littlo bits erupted out, and the hiss-ing
seems to bo comparable to the
hissing which takes place in water
just when it is beginning to boil. If
you have sorno water being heated
in such a way that there is not more
than a certain quantity of heat giv-en
off from tho surface, you have
the water evaporating quietly, but
you cannot get more than a certain
quantity of heat given off per
square inch of top surface of the
•water in that quiet way.
If you force more than a cer-tain
quantity of heat to pass off
per top square inch of the water,
you find tho water begins to break
up internally, and you have bubbles
formed below tho surface; the sur-face
breaks up, the bubbles aro
thrown out, and you have a noisy
phenomenon. I think you will find
there is exactly the same kind of
difference between the silent aro and
the hissing aro as between quiet
evaporation and noisy boiling.
There is a sort of decrepitation, as
the solid particles aro being torn
asunder to make way for something
coming out, when the aro is hiss-ing.
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O y e r the Staie.
Ex Postmaster Calvin G>odman, of
Reading, is dead.
The fair of the Media Fire Comj any
netted over $1000.
John Botzon, one of Reading's most
efficient firemen, is a deaf mute.
A Reading Alderman fined a young
man $3 for swearing on the street.
A Pittsburg preacher said : " The
bicycle is a good thing, a blessed
thing."
Commander Ballington Booth, of
the American Volunteers, spoke to a
large audience at Norristown.
The grave of Dr. Kerlin, at the
Pennsylvania Training School, near
Media, was dccorated by Bradbury
Post. _ _ _ _ __
No Borough Water Plant for Ephrata.
The Supreme court of this State
handed down a decision sustaining the
court of this county in the case of
Sener and others against the borough of
Ephrata, in a suit in equity, in which
the court was asked to restrain the
borough from issuing bonds to the
amount of $30,000 for the erection of
a water plant. The esse had been
argued before our court in April, the
principal argument against the issuing
of the bonds being that the borough
had no authority to do so because it
made the borough debt greater than is
permitted by law. The court made a
decree enjoining and perpetually re-straining
the burgess and town council
from making, signing, sealing and de-livering,
issuing or selling the bonds
for the purpose intended. The court
further decreed that if any bonds have
been issued that they be surrendered,
delivered up and canceled. The de-fendant
borough was ordtred to pay
the costs. The borough authosiiits
appealed from this decision, aud now
the decision of the Supreme court, sus-taining
the lower court, settles the
matter for some time to come, no doubt.
Character in Walking.
Quick steps are indicative oi energy
and agitation.
Tip-toe walking symbolizes surprise,
curiosity, discretion cr mystery.
Turned in toes are often foui>d with
pre-occupied, absent-minded persons.
The miser's walk is represented as
stooping, noiseless, with short, nervous,
anxious steps.
Slow steps, whether long or short,
suggest a gentle or reflective state of
mind, as the case may be.
The proud step is slow and meas-ured
; the toes are conspicuously turned
out; the lege straightened.
Where a revengeful purpose is hid-den
under a feigned smile the step will
be slinking and noiseless.
Obstinate people, who in argument
rely more on muscularity than on in-tellectual
power, rest the feet flatly
and firmly on the ground, walk heav-ily
and slowly, and stand with the legs
firmly planted and far apart.
Why Gold is Used for Filling Teeth.
I t is not generally understood that
there are scientific reasons for the em-ployment
of this metal. Gold can be
welded into a solid mass while cold. It
can also be pressed into the smallest
cavities and depressions. When oi.ee
the cavity is properly cleaned and the
gold carefully put in, care beicg taken
that it fills every particle of space, t ie
union of teeth and filling is nearly per-fect
as possible without the action of
heat. A gold filling may be built up
to almost and size or shape required.
None of the acid secretions of the
mouth or stomach have any «ffect
upon it.
The St. Louis Cyclone—Terrible Loss
of Life and Property.
St. Louis is partially recovering
from the awful cyclone that partially
deyastated the city on Wednesday of
last week. The Mayor and others are
beginning to count the cost in money
to the city of the awful storm. Of
course, it runs up into the millions,
some estimates placing it as high as
$20,000,000.
The principal losses are in the dis-trict
between Russell and Cholteau
ayenue, Jefferson avenue and the river,
and the fury of the iornado is told more
graphically than in words by the tables
showing that in this stretch of territory
alone no less than seven thousand resi-dences
were either totally or partially
destroyed.
From detailed reports received by
the United Press from official sources
the following tabulated statement is
prepared ;
Dead in St. Louis, 176; unknown
dead in St. Louis, 8 ; fatally injured,
in St. Louis, 18 ; missing, in St. Louis,
—Mirth on an empty stomach
urally results in a hollow laugh,
Identified dead in East St. Louis,
142; unknown dead in East St. Louis,
3; fatally injured in East St. Louis,
19.
Total fatalities, 388.
Injured in St. Louis (estimated),
1000
n a j . Injured in East St. Louis (esti-mated),
300.