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After talking with her awhile the reporter Introduced %Yer to a ment, room Mrs. Hammerstein told rectors. There have been few swifter or moré® dramatic descents from mil= | | lions to penury than that of Mrs. Hammerstein. She was made the sole legatee of her fu ry whose Possessions at one time were esti- mated to be worth between $5,000,- 000 and $10,000,000, and whose name was a household word on two continents. He was easily the great- est musical impressario of his time. He was the world's greatest producer of\grand opera. Such celebrities as | John McCormack, Orville Harrold, Tetrazzini, Cavalteri, Zenatello, Cam-= | panini and Mary Garden are said to | | Owe most of their success to Oscar | Hammerstein, and his widow bitter | | ly reports that they have done noth- | | ing for her. Nor havesher relatives | | been more kind. She says they are | narrow Methodists, and while they | | have made money, have had to work | hard for it, and believe that she | | should *work too. They resented her | | marriage to Hammerstein because the | most important thing they knew | about him was that he was a Jew. After graduating from a business | | college, Mrs. Hammerstein, who was Miss Emma Miller, got a job with an | important corporation In Syracuse, ' 1 - (ueen's vs. Eskimos Queen's' you are clever en ough to beat the Eskimos, but there is one Eskimo you can- not beat & NEILSON'S ESKIMO PIE Everyone in Kingston should ? try one of Neilson's Saladice Bricks--a delicious ice cream brick full of nuts and fruit. Sold by-- J. H. JARVIS Cor. Princess and Albert Streets, Phone 2373m, OPEN NIGHTS. Diamonds For Christmas What could be more ac- ceptable than a Diamond in either Ring, Stick Pin or Bar Pin ? We select all our monds unmounted and mount them i (our own workroom. Every stone is of faultless quality and our Buarantee Is of value to you. Diamond Stttk Pins from $14 \ Diamond Bar Pins from $15 Diamond Rings from . ..825 Dia | jut after she had been there a few | days a high official of the company |e violent love to her. We are not | | Sure, but in view.of subsequent ad- | | ventures of Miss Miller, it seems | advisable to put in a few dots hers, | {and to give an adequate account of | | her career a large supply of dots is | | necessary. She reports that she was | | soon disillusioned, and then went to | Buffalo as secretary in the law office | | of Henry Schwartz. After she had | been there thrée days a 'man' burst | | into the office and 'murdered Mr. Schwartz, and committed suicide be- fore the eyes of the horrified secte- | tary. Later, she says, with one of the Hechsdh delphia. After that she arrived in New York, twenty-six and beautiful, Shortly 'afterward she met Julian Swift, grandson of the founder .of the packing business. They visited his people {n Hoston, and in three weeks were married. They had to be married in Hoboken, just as she and | Mr. Hammerstein had to be married | in Jersey City, because, by an un- | usual coincidence, Miss Miller was the third wife of both of them;~and New York apparently holds some re- | actionary views as to the number of | Women a man can marry. She. dis | eovered that Mr. Swift had run | through' his money before meeting | her, 80 she left him in 1911 and | Went to London. One day, In the Savoy, Oscar Hammerstein was intro. duced to her, and in the evening ask. | ed her to go for a ride with him. | "Did you see much of him after | that?" the reporter asked. - | "From that time we were on,' | she answered calmly, | Returning to the United States | they were married. 'Hammerstein | had some time before accepted' a million dollars and a half from the etropolitan Opera Company to quit opera for ten years, and it was on that account that he sought an out- let for his musieal enthusiasm in London, but the people there clung to Covent Garden, so he returned to New York. There he laid plans for giving opera at popular prices on the east side, and mortgaged everything to build the Lexington Opera House. The Metropolitan people made no sign until he had sunk all his money in the venture and then they secured injunctions and the enterprise vol lapsed. Hammerstein tried to turn the house to other purposes, Lut fail. ed. He wanted to hang on until the time agreement with the Metropolitan people elapsed, but ill-health was | added to his other troubies, He be | she fell in ets, of Phila- | i HAT ! J] The Usual Tourist: Is this a quiet place? an: Well, it were, Sir, un> folks began coming here to be od tary came paralyzed, and gradually all his Possessions slipped away from him. He died in 1019, leaving a comiplicat- ed estate, from which the widow, however, has received only enough to keép her for the past three years. Now she is penniless. -------------------- Frenchmen Pull Wires, In the »Near East troubles the names of two men, both French efti- zens, stand out permanently. These men--Henrl Franklin Bouillon and Sir Basil Zaharoff----are not only dia- metrically opposed politically, but their characteristics seem to run in contraries. ' Te Boullon is leader of the Fremch Radical party, president of the partiam Council 4 'the war, and French statesman international note. He fis young, modern, progressive and energetio. Zaharoff is secretive, conservative to the extreme, is in his ent second year, and prefers 10 work be- hind a scréen. Publicity he ae ce -- + Silk. The fiber of artificial silk is clean- or, freer from defects and more uni- form in size and color than tue fiber | produced by the silk worm. s \ 5 A Finer Fish. Two Americans met in a Strand bar. hy," exclaimed one, "I thought you always . reckoned til's time of year to be' tarpon fishing, What are you doing over here? "After Bass," was the ling ans- | cage that she had just forty cents in her | purse, that she had left her hotel, | yer covering of | attacking the grajan. It Is § very mi- young Irish girl, who kindheartedly | offered to look after Mrs. Hammer- | stein until she could find employ- | Later on in the Irish girl's | the | story of her life, which has been of | | & sort that should interest movie di- | | | very important person, and during }. wer--London Morning Post. THEY DOCTOR NATURE. Have Plants as Their Patients, > It may not be generally known that there are hospitals where flow- ers, vegetables, and wheat are cured of thelr allments and restored to health. "Dropsy," or a superabundance of moisture, is probably the worst dis- that attacks wheat, and corn suffering in this way is placed into chambers through which currents of hot air are passed, and it comes out dry aud ready for the mill. Then there is a parasite which has the power of cutting through the the wheat and Men Who nute creature and djfficuit to find. The | "wheat doctor" lookm for it with a | magnifying glass, and when he spots less, and quite friendless and did not | it he picks it up with a pair of tweezers made of & split human hair. The parasite can ruin a whole field of wheat in a few months if left undisturbed. The "wheat doctor" is particularly busy In Canada, and about two mil- lion bushels of diseased wheat pass throush the hospitals in Ontario alone in the course of a. year. \ The "potato doctor" is another recent years he has done much to "'oust" the disease to which this vege- table 18 subject. tato parasite as well as the well- known Colorado beetie, though this | insect still baffles him to a great extent. The potato-beetle has devastated thousands of square miles of Amer- ican farms during recent years, and it has also visited this country. For- tunately the Government "doctors" prevented it from doing very much mischief on the potato fields of Canada. * = The "soil doctor" is a scientist who has spent years of his life studying the soll and all that #ppertains to it, and his study has resulted in some | remarkable discoveries. A little while back a microbe which has the extra- ordinary power of changing common or garden straw into first-class ma- nure was discovered. This 'microbe, which is in reality a minute animal, will attack straw and finally break it up Into chemi cals which are valuable in assisting the growth of crops. ------ When the Weavers Came, The peopling.of Canada was a real issue 4 century ago, after the last great war, just as it is to-day. We are reminded of this by a little | Pamphlet on St. Andrew's Church at Lanark, Ont., which has just cele- brated its. centenary. Emigration from Great Britain to Canada at this time, however, had the adaitional im- pulse of the complications following the industrial revolution when power was replacing hand-work in some of the principal industries. "The power-loom was replacing the-hand-loom," says the pamphlet, "which meant the destruction of the hand-loom weaver; and with all these changed conditions privation Was common among the working peo- ple. The British Government was appealed to, and, after due consider- ation, it was decided that emigration was the only solution of the problem. ! It wag about this time that our first settlers sailed for Canada, with the promise of the British Government of a grant of a hundrea acres Gor homesteaders, and one year's provi- | .8lons furnished at the King's store. | The cost of their passage out, and also that of the first year's supplies were to be pald back when the set- tlers were "able to do 80; but on account of the privation in this coun- try the Government later cancelled this debt. Those hardy pioneers were, for "the most part, discharged sol- dlers, weavers and mecnanics, and were mainly from Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire in Scotland. "In 1819 and 1820 they left their homeland to hew out homes for themselves in the unbroken forest. No doubt many were the sad parting Scenes as they left Scotland's shores for the last time. They were leaving not only their friends, out also their beloved church, with eloquent preachers, for which Scotland was noted, and for which it stil retains ® world-wide reputation." It was not long before the new-" comers took root, established their church and other institutions, estab- | lished good schools, and how they have become lemders in public life and in indpstry is common knoWl- edge. . -------------- "Exposes" Cleric. Stephen Leacock, the celebrated Canadian humorist, was unexpectedly | called upon to speak at a banquet in Montreal a few years ago. It was a" dignified occasion, at which over two hundred prominent educators and clergymen were gathered. The regu- lar speakers had delivered polished orations----long and learned. Not so Mr. Leacock. He got up 'siowly, glanced round the room as and suddenly exclaimed: "See that man overthere with the bald head!" He pointed directly at One of the most distinguished clergy- men in all Canada. Then he went on: "l used to have charke of the devo- tional exercises at MeGill University. It was my business to secure speak- ers. I asked that man to come and preach for us and he refused. Several | weeks later, I repeated my request and again he refused. Then I made up my mind to get him to come in Spite of himself. I wrote him an elo- quent appeal, begging hm to favor Us with his presence. He replied sooner than I-had . 'Dear Leacock: I'll come afid preach, but I'll be damned if I'Ik pray'."--Every- body's Magasin ii fou i ------------------ . Fish Cannot Hear, Many fish are capable of produc- ing sounds, some by the scraping of fing or other organs, some by means of the teeth, and some by means of sa miley ron the air-bladder, 0 fish can hear; it feel the vibrations set up by sound, The Right Man. ¢ General purpose man wanted, able |! occasionally drive motor lorry, small bicycle repairs, run small 8.3 engine, knowledwe et and general repairs. Care of two priv ate cars. Spare time in grocery warehouse. Permanent job for right man.--Provinclal Paper. finally | He had discovered | methods to destroy the ordinary po- | if seeking idspiration, i Shells Used to Grow Crops i OOO00w Three hundred and fifty thousand | tons of shells. such was the amazing quantity of { | | 4 { ammunition the British Had on' their | { hands In France, where it was piled { high on 3,500 acres { shells, representing 2,300 tons of | steel, about twenty tons of copper, {and more than 240 tons of high ex- plosives. What was to be doné with so vast an accumulation of "superfluous" THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. | When the war ended | 1 t ul . In a single heap | 1210 & tiny, six-foot pen | there were 60,000 rounds of 6-inch | material? Was it to be fired aimless- | !ly into the air or be cast into the | sea, there to provide a nine days' | wonder tor the fishes?? No. The lot | was bought for £2,000,000, and ever | since the work of converting it into | | material useful to British manuflac- | tricks. Their own flocks they know, | { turers has gone on steadily. Every month about 2,000 tons of ammunition, as such, disappears, and in its place there are heaps of me- | tals, chemicals, and so on, the com- ponents of such ammunition. Great is the number of commodi- | ties recovered. In addition to steel, irop, brass, copper, lead, aluminum, and many alloys, there are resin, numerous chemicals, gases, mechaal- | "follow the | cal parts, rag, felt, cord, ete. Every | constituent except one ig isolated and returned to England for utilisatiom | in the arts of peace. To obtain these results -- in con- nection with which as many as 10,000 men and women have been engaged at one time -- special mcthods are necessary, An unusual feature of the work is that cranes and other me- chanical lifters are no. Every shell, after being raised by hand, is transported by means of gravity, and thus the risk of an employed. | explosion is minimized as much as | possible. \ If it is shrapnel, the case is first removed and the propellant extract- ed. Then, after the fuse and the bush have been taken from it, away it goes to a bench with a V-shaped tap and a hopper underneath. : While it is resting here, nose downward, and at an angle of about 45 degfees, hammers play upon the exterior, loosening the contents-- shrapnel and resin--which fall on a wire screen over the hopper. ,The resin rains through the screen, while the shrapnel rolls over it and drops into a box. Next; the copper band, having been cut through with a cold chisel, is wound off, and, finally, the naked, harmless shell is stacked with hun- dreds of others in readiness for transport to England. " In the case of the high explosive shell, the distinetive operation is re- moving the bursting charge. This is enerally done by "washing out." he shell is inclined at am angle of 40 degrees, with its nose opposite a Jet from which hot water and steam are fed into the interior. The stream ' causes the explosive to break up, dis- | solve, and flow into suitable recep- tacles, In from three to thirty min- utes, according to the sise of the shell, the interior is clear;.but, as it is important that it should be quite frée from explosive, it is inspected three times before it is finally passed. German shells are a class by them- selves. When the. dumps were taken over there were large stocks of pro- Jectiles. As little was known about their construction, some research work was necessary before a start could\be nade in breaking them up. All difficulties, however, have long since been overcome, and German shells are now being used in many ways not contemplated by their makers. | Manifold are the uses of the com- modities recovered from ammunition. One of the most interesting, perhaps, Is that for the contents of high -ex- plosive shells.) From them ammon- dum nitrate! is {solated and evaporat- ed, and the regidue, which consists of the extremely dangerous T.N.T., is destroyed. The ammonium nitrate, | being a fertilizer, is sold as such, | and thus what might have been an | element in further devastating thé | countryside in Fradce is applied to { increasing the beauty and richness of England. ---- A New Disorder. An old countryman once treated himself to a sojourn in a big neigh- boring city. For the first time in his | life, he saw a school sirl go through | her gymnastic exercises for the amusement of the little ones at home. After gazing at her with looks of interest and compassion for some time, he asked a boy near if she had fits. "No," replied the boy; *'those are gymnastics." "Ah, how sad!" | sald the man. "How long"s she had | rem" 4 In the Wrong Place. The professor was pitting the fin- { ishing: touches on @arden-walk : ne was laying Sowa. Bartle, aged six, iad been watching Proceedings with sreat interest, and at length, deeming the time right for trial, started to cross before the mixture had time to dry. When, the professor displayed some slight pique, a pasger- by remarked, "Why, professor, I thought you liked children!" "I like them much in the abstract," the pro- fessor replied, "but not in the com- crete, in- Cir ae i 3 De erttatio in which the nervous young man is inclined to indulge. man received an important tment, and he wrote, "I hope appointiient' to the 'curatorsnip the museum of antiquities may duce you to trust your daughter my care." One pound of cork is sufficient keep a man afloat. gs sFsiS, An Excitable 2 tv thrilling, but I was horribly fright- ened. All the time I thought every moment wes going to be my next."-- Pearson's. | | Mr. Gladstone, ---- SHEEP- TRIALS. How Clever Animals Are Put Through T- Their Paces. Every shepherd thinks the world of his dog, and he is happy when trial time comes round, for then he may show off its prowess. Indeed, sheep-dog trials are quite large events In the north of England, and are attended by hundreds peaple from the country round. The test looks simple enough. Each | dog has to drive three half-wild sheep | Special | ground is, of course, chosen, and thix| may include a bit of rough hillside, | a stream or similar obstacle. Only a certain time is allowed, { and the dog that drives: home his sheep in this time, apd with the! least trouble, is accounted the win-| ner of the trophy. | No two shepherds have the same | methods of "signalling. thelr. dogs. | Some rely merely on the movement of | the hands. Others use different kinds | of whistles, or varying inflections of | the voice. But the dog understands the signs perfectly, | The dogs themselves are full of | but these thrée strange sheep: are almost sure to give them trouble. The "do& keeps well behind as long as the sheep stick together, but should one 'try to break away, he is on its heels at once. Sheep may leader" as a general thing, but some perverse instinct tells these three to break away and give their driver no end of trouble. Bome dogs are Intensely nervous during the trials. As soon as ever the people begin to applaud, they slink away In terror. And the chances are that these are probably the best dogs on the field under or- dinary circumstances. Other dogs are just as oblivious of the crowd and herd their sheep with a skill that makes one marvel. They hardly need to watch their master, so well do they know their task. ' One sees several different types of dogs In use. The most familiar is the "bob-tall" or old Englisa sheep- dog. This shagey dog is a perfect driver, though he is run closely by' the collie. In fact, many shepherds prefer the latter. A dog aeed not be a thoroughbred to be a good driver. Many have a mongrel strain in them. Everything depends on the training. ' 'A pup is often a better dog than its mother, while a splendid mother may have a pup that is quite useless for the shepherd's purpose. Though sent out with its mother, it never Picks up her tricks. The good sheep- dog has its aptitude for driving from irth. Cups and money prizes are gener- ally awarded to the successful shep- herds. It is not uncommon for a shepherd to win the trials two or three seasons running, but there is no telling when a newcomer may appear and astound the whole gath- ering by its skill on the trial-ground. There are cups in many & farmer's parior that bear witness to the prow- ess of Nell, the sheep-dog. A Gladstone Story. When Mr. Robert T. Lincoln came to England as the American Minister he soon became noted for the charm of his canversation. Mr™ Gl stone, Wwe learn from Mr. Chauncey M.| Depew, the veteran American states- | man, was anxious to meet Mr. Lin-| coln and enjoy a pleasant evening with him. 80 finally a common friend, Henry Labouchere, arranged for a dinner at his house, which was an hour's ride into the country from | Mr. Gladstone's town residence. Mrs. Gladstone, before permitting her hus- | band to go, made Mr. Labouchere | promise that Mr. Gladstone should be | back at ten o'clock. The diners had | no sooner sat down than some ques- tion rose that interested anll excited Mr. Gladstone, and he at once be- gan to talk. He talked long and eloquently; and there was no way of interrupting him without being rude, When the hands of the clock were nearing eleven, and Mr. Lincoln had had no chance whatever to interpose a remark, Mr. Labouchere interrupt-, ed Mr. Gladstone's torrent of words by saying, "Mr. Gladstone, it is now eleven o'clock; it is an hour's ride to London, and I promised Mrs. Gladstone to have you back at ten." Later, when the two were seated in the carriage, Mr. Labouchere said to | | | ed an evening with Mr. Lincoln. What do you think of him?" "Mey, Lincoln is a charming person," was the reply, "but he does not seem to have much conversation." 's Dolls' House. So many unauthorized and ine accurate statements have been print. ed concerning the Queen's dolls' house, naw in process of construe- tion, that Sir Edwin L. Lutyens has written to the press explaining the actual situation. The dolls' house, he says, which is really a minature v "Well, you have pass- | model, so exact in every detail as to give i i g= ; j I i iif ; g § £ § | i i of | i i f Preparotness, He--"My dear, it's no use for you to look at thos Sats; I haven't more than a dollar in my pocket." She--'You might have kn: when we came out that I'd want to 'a few things." No--"T 4id. "Boston Transeript. > ir MADE IN CANADA wr TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 10828. a ee -- _-- The Surety of Purity There arenomiraclesincook: ing. What goes into the food must inevitably come out. Even the baking perfection that results from the use of Royal Baking Powderis no miracle. It a simply the result of ab- te purity entering the food -- and emerging again, Royal is made from Cream of Tartar derived from grapes. It Contains No Alum Leaves No Bitter Taste TT ------------ A -- ee p----_--t : : | Three Minute Journeys | Where Eagles Are Caught in Nets -- __ Why Not Turkeys? Ching is not a nation of sports- men or hunters, ' but there is good hunting in some sections, particular- ly in Mongolia, the bleak province of the west. The chief sport is hunting eaglds, and the Mongolian hunters do it an unusual way. If you happened to see the Chin- ese deftly securing thelr game with- out guns or gunpowder, youn might th'nk of your ancestors, a few cen- turies back on the first Thanksglv- ing day. To our resolute forefathers, who had raved the terrors of a new country and, had to economize on ammunition, this mode of hunting would have been : of vital interest, And what a supply they could have 'saved a few centuries ago! How many more wild turkey they could have had if they had known the clever method of hunting which the Chinese employ to catch eagles! This is the way the do it: Each hunter has a tame eagle, which he carries on a perch, like the falconers of old. The eagle'q feat are securely tied to the perch. When the hunters arriyp/at the hunting grounds they spread a net on the ground and on it place the eagle's perch. ~The next procedure is to give the eagles their favorite raw fish In ab- undance. They fall on § greedily. Theswild eagles in the neighborhood ~~ ~as smell the fleh, and are attracted to it. When they see some of thelr kind devouring the fish they swoop down on them and fight to get some of the fish. At ts then Hat the crafty huaters draw the nets over the eagles and bag them alfve. : . a Ome That Cleopatra Missed. Australian opals, which eclipse all others, were first discovered by a hunter who wae following a kan- garoo. According to Dr. Isidore Kosmin- sky, who gives serious attentiéi to the astrological association of pre- cious stones, the opal is most fortun- ate for those who are born when the sun is in Leo, Libra or Aquarius. The modern prejudice against the opal as an unlucky gem receives small consideration from Dr. Kdz- minsky, who traces it to an ignorant prejudice that arose in Italy during the plague in the fourteenth century. So highly was it prized In anclent Rome that the Senator Noalus chose to be exiled rather than sell to Mark Antony for 20,000 sesterces an opal ring that lovesick Marc wanted to bestow on Cleopatra. ' Nonius had his precious opal bur- fed with him, and it was found a few years ago in his tomb.--Detroil News. . Mary Ann, My Mary Ann. Under a pleasing photograph of six undergraduates. of University Col lege the names in the caption were Mary, Muriel, Marion, Margaret, Marjory and Marjory. First time we ever heard of two girls named Marjory .apeélling the name the same way. This has a Swinburnean allitera- tion and a musical ring reminiscent of the old ballad refrains which used to tell of Hob, Dick, Marian and Marjory. But each girl has just one name. One name is well enough. It goes with learning, with a career; with Doctor in front, -it sounds well --Dr. Marion Smith, Dr. Maurie! Brown. Two more or less Christian names, however, have a diminytive effect. Sarah Belle or Anna May sounds like somebody that would fit into the crook of your Arm. A Tip. Mrs. A.: I've planned such a de- lightful surprise tor my husband. Mrs. B.: What {s it? Mrs. A.: He'll be getting his heavi- est-suit out shortly and I've put a quarter in one of the pockets.--Bos- ton Transcript. Buy prunes with care-- -- then cook this way To be sure of quality prunes, buy Misr- LAND Prunes. Then use a little care in cooking them. There is no fruit more deki- cious and healthful than M1strLawp Pru properly prepared. Here is the approved and easy way to prepare Mistiand Prunes. First wash Mustrawp Prunes, cover with warm watee ar, Lou, ove heat in the in Cook under not broken, Slow to the simmering thei ender, if pa Then es point andl develope the natural fruit sugars snd letle, If any, suger Is needed with Mirriasp Prunes, Bowens, 3