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Topics of the Times About nine-tenths of what people ay doesn't amount to anything. The world could better hare lost a fleet of Petropavlovsks than one Yer- stchagtn. A scientist claims that he baa dla- coTered that fish can talk. Good grv cious, what 11 o they might contra diet! Meantime the Germans are busy whipping the Hereros, who In their Ignorance tried to drop - the black man's burden. A Tale professor la credited with saying that the masses eat too much. He said this, doubtless, for the ben- At of the classes. Mr. Morgan will not be missed so much as formerly during his trip abroad. Erects are not quite to Mor- ganlied aa tbey were. Then la something In the finger nail diagnosis. If you hare aches all over you, and your nails are thin and brit tle, you have rheumatism. It isn't quite bo bad If rheumatism attacks a man after be has lost his bearing; then he doesn't hare to lis ten to everybody's cure for it When a young man tells a girl he lores ber for herself alone It's equtva lent to an Injunction against interfer ence from the rest of the family. ' t U ways, and are corrupted thereby out of all likeness to their former scire. Take "garble," for Instance, It used to mean to select for a pur pose." There was once an officer called the garblcr of spices, whose bus- mess It was to visit the shops and ex amine the spices, and order the de struction of all Impure goods. Ills duties were similar to thoso of the modern health department Inspector who forbids the sale of decayed vege tables or tainted meats. The word cornea from a root meaning to alft The Impurltlea sifted out hare In the course of fenerations corrupted the term till a "garbled report" Is no long er a report from which all uncertainty has been removed, but one which Is full of misrepresentation and made misleading with deliberate Intent The word "yellow" is passing through a similar transformation In our very sight It describes the color of sun light or of beaten gold, of the butter cup or of the dandelion. But not many years ago one of the sensational news papers printed a series of colored pic tures illustrating the adventures of a "kid" that U what the child whs called wearing a long yellow gar ment The yellow pictures appeared week after week, till men began to use the term "yellow Journalism" when they desired to describe the Jour nalism that waa sensational, coarse and vulgar. Now we hare yellow pol Hlca and -yellow preaching, yellow base-ball and yellow warfare, and It bas got so that when one Is told that a woman wore a yellow gown to a party one does not know whether the color of the gown is meant or its ex treme vulgarity. Never was there a better illustration of the truth of the saying that a word la known by the company It keeps. A New Jersey man broke both bis legs while getting out of bed. And yet wires will go right on bemeaning husbands for staying up late at night A New York alienist declares that Hetty Green is insane. Tut! Tut! Hetty hasn't been going around vol untarily to baTe her taxes raised, has she? A woman sues for separation on the ground that her husband nerer kissed ber. Thl is a point upon which in telligent comment cannot be irade without seeing the plaintiff. The Academy of Medicine at Paris has decided that excessive meat-eutlng causes appendicitis. If this be true why abuse the so-called "beef trust" for putting meat beyond the reach of so many people? Young John D. recently said to his Bible class: "A man who la proud and puffed up la sure to fall." True. And a man who climbs too high on a slen der pole is likely to break it off and run it Into himself. , The Emperor of Austria has been chided by his physicians for working too hard. Pity the case of a poor old, tired emperor who can't put a substi tute on the throne for even a day or two for fear the sub won't give It back. Walter Wellman wants to know what has become of the writers of great American novels? They have probably found out that It pays better to write the kind of novels that the great American public seems to want. HlMTRiMMSP JUDICIAL DECISIONS. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Will those who hare been descant ing on the injurious effects of the "poi sonous sulphur" taken by Niedermeler, the Chicago desperado, in his attempt to cheat the gallows, try to recall how their mothers shoveled It into them, mixed, with molasses, when they were too young to protest effectively? Not a big-selling novel in two years, say the publishers. The searchlight is applied in every direction for a possible bidden genius. The typewriters of the land creak and get wheezy with the rapid production of rapid literature. Litterateurs who erstwhile scrapped for existence In Grub street now em ploy high-priced architects to build them mansions In Easy street Never was the apparatus for getting literary productions before the public so well developed. But the books A Swiss Inventor has devised a new life-preserver. That in itself, consid ering Switzerland's expanse of sea coast, is amusing; but the character of the device is still funnier. It is simply a rubber suit so weighted as to keep the wearer upright in the water, so inflated as to give buoyancy, and so provided with food and water, stored in pockets, as to make the happy wear er quite indifferent to his situation. With one of these suits a man would not need to patronize the seaside ho tels. It is hardly too much to say that Edward VII. has done more to assure the peace of Europe than all the other European statesmen put together. His action has bad a vastly greater effect than that of the Czar with his Hague tribunal. Not since the Crimean war bave England and France been so close together. The new treaty between those powers removes from the Held many of the vexed questions between the two countries. In North America nd Africa the relations between them have been so well defined as to make conflict impossible. Further, the in fluence of King Edward has been teadily exerted to promote friendly relations with France, and it is be cause of this preliminary work that the treaty became a possibility. President Roosevelt says the one and main lacking of the American boys la conservatism. By this be means, doubt less, that American boys aije lacking In solid qualities, that they do not believe in the good old vir tues, that they are prone to set their own pace, disregarding ad vice. The President is mistaken. The average American boy Is your true conservative. Attack his mother's re ligion or the institutions of his coun try and you will find out The average American boy bas been well brought up. And he believes In certain things with all his heart Mischievous? Yes. Restless? Yes. Loud sometimes? Yes. But you are mistaken If yon conclude that under his boyish gaiety there are no well-settled convictions. He may be by conduct a radical, but in princi ple and belief he is a stayer. And even though he may depart for a time from the teaching of his family be will return to it American boys are the finest In the world. They wake up to Intellectual power the quickest They are capable of greater enterprises at an earlier age; they bear heavier bur dens on younger shoulders; they are the largest wage earners; they are the most independent-acting; and withal. 1 they are made of the stuff of which the grandest and highest type of manhood comes. Because, while the American boy Is apparently light-hearted and care-free he is not necessarily frivolous. There Is a vein of true ore in him which a little mining will disclose. Sooner or later innate manhood will appear. At bottom he is all right Give him good home training and a show for his life and be will make a man of himself. The youths of other lands may seem more solid and conservative. It is be cause they are more stolid in tempera ment They are less Jovial and prank ish because tbey are slower in develop ment The American boy has Initia tive, He sees quickly. That puts him in the race before his cousin across the sea gets started. Bnt he has staying qualities also and he wins In the long run because of those qualities. If the President's idea of conservatism in boys is that our restive youngsters should sit still and let moss grow on their backs then the American boys are not conservative. A American Husbands. WRITER In the London Telegraph deplores the fact that the American husbaud of the "middle class" does not Interfere In domestic iffalrs and "seldom examines the accounts of :he grocer, the butcher or the baker and hard ly knows the cost of staple articles, of food." lie also regrets that the husband la extrava gant and "does not make his wife a regular allowance, but gles her as mucSs s he can spare, freely, but without system." These are simple extracts from the writer's long article and It shows the vast difference betweeu the American and the English husband. In England the husband thinks that he has to "keep tab" on erery penny and dole money out to his wife In gingerly portions and, to the American way of thinking, look upon hla wife merely as a servsnt. The writer In the London paper Is perfectly right In his report The American husband Is extravagant ne doei not bother his head with the price of meat and flour and potatoes and other thlags for the table. Why should be do so? He has confidence In bis wife, The culinary de partment Is not his department He runs things In uU office and allows his wife to run things at home. Both par ties are well content He bas no Interest whatsoever In the bill sent In by his grocer or butcher beyond paying it. lie knows that his wife has done the best she could. On the other band, the wife docs not concern herself with his business. She knows that the bills are paid promptly and that her husband Is satisfied. That la all she thinks about the business. The natural Independence of the arerage American girl would resent a husband's constant interference In bur household duties and expenses. She considers herself per fectly capable of looking after that end of the family, and she Is right This shows the difference between American and English girls. St Louis Republic. The obligations Imposed upon a man by a second marriage are held, In 8tate ex rel. Brown vs. Brown (Wash.) 02, L. R. A. 074, not to relieve him from the payment of alimony, according to the provisions of a dlrorct decree. The habitual and lutempcrate use of morphine, unaccompanied by any con duct reasonably Justifying an appre hension of danger to life, limb or health, Is said, lu Ring vs. Ring (Ga.t 02. L. R, A. 873. uot to be such cruel treatment as the law recognises as a ground for divorce. If a space Inside the building line Is permitted by the abutting owner to remain open and to be used as part cern that It is "not a good hand for bookkeeping." And yet It was this objection to the old, running, long hand that led to the Introduction of the vertical system, whose coudeuscd. legible form was supposed to adapt it perfectly to mercantile uses. The question suggested by the discussion of "vertical writing Is: How long will penmanship of any kind last? f tha sidewalk it la held lu Rachitic! How long will we need to teach it In the schools? Isn't vs. Clark (Pa.), (12 L. It A. U."l), that the typewriter supplanting It lu all departments of business he must exercise due care not to placo endeavor? I there dangerous obstructions thnt may To discuss Intelligently these questions we have first to ' result lu Injury to persous lawfully Ret rid of the notion that there Is anything sacred about ' on the walk. "penmanship." Following the law of evolution. If It be-1 A brBkeumn'on , r,Urolld , U0,L comes useless, It will have to go. As a matter of fact Isn't 'ln Murrny Vi 0ton & M iuiinail Its usefulness even now confined to social correspondence jjj j Uj fc A llot j0 IB. and bookkeeping? How long will It take to break downfa'umt t rU( of ,cCul,,ut from the mm social oarnori against me use or me typewriter ror 'proximity of a Jigger staud to a switch. The Hero in Politics. HE esse of Cantaln Rlrhmnnil PrB.-in Ilnhann 'T I shows that the war hero docs not always have I I the open sesame to the prises of politics. Young I II.Kann ,1..A - I. - . i.vuavu ini,iim I1UU1 IAIC UCI 1 J PUT Or IWO ago, and announced that he Intended to seek an election to Congress. One of his objects In Congress, as he recently declared, would have been to work for the construction of a bigger navy for the United States than England has. He would give this coun try the same pre-eminence on the sea that Great Britain has hsd for the past third of a century, even If this nece sltatedthe expenditure, within the next twenty years, of two or three billions of dollars. But Hobson's war record' did not prove to be so pow erful an asset as he and some others supposed It would be. He has been beaten by John H. Bankhead, of the Sixth Alabama District a very much less picturesque person, but a person who has had an experience of eighteen years ln Congress, and who served in the Legislature of his State many years before going to Washington, while Hobson never bas had any political service of any sort Like his companion In arms, Dewey, the hero of the Merrimac has bad bad luck in politics. The sailors in this country have been less fortunate than soldiers. Moreover, the war In which Hobson figured has given no political prize to anybody except President Roosevelt It furnished him the governorship of New York, and this led to the presidency. The chances are that It has no more political posts for anybody. Bt Louis Globe-Democrat Words are like men. They start jrelL bat now tad then they fall on Life Easy on This Railroad. There Is a small railroad ln Michigan which doesn't figure on the map. It Is only forty miles long and meanders through the countryside in a casual sort of way, touching such brisk vil lages as Parsons Mills, Sleepy Corners and Appledale. Trains do not run on this road they creep. The locomotives appear to be heirlooms of antiquity, say of the year 1000 B. C, and the an tediluvian rolling stock suggests the ark. The road is operated on the good old easy-going principle that haste makes waste, and it Is said, doubtless with malicious exaggeration, that a cow once poked her head through the car window and ate all the lunch ln a picnic basket while the train was going by. .One day a woman and her little boy took a trip on the road. By the time Dandellondale and the Junction were passed the pair had succumbed to en nui and slumbered ln their seats. "Tickets!" drawled a brass-buttoned Charon with a punch in his hand. The lady woke up and presented two tick ets, her own and the boy's. The con ductor eyed the youngster and re marked that he guessed he was much too old to ride on a half-fare ticket "Of course he is," the mother re plied. "But he wasn't when we start ed." Chicago Record-Herald. Not an Extensive Edition. "I think," said the first author, "that I shall write a two-volume novel as my next effort" - "Yes?" smiled his 'rival Tes, I think that will be a large enough edi tion." New York Daily News. A man can make his wife believe al most anything during their honey moon. ... ... WM Penmanship Become a Lost Art. ISCUSSION of "vertical wrltlns:" ln the schools. D which has been revived of late, naturally raises the question as to the future status of penman- huijj aa a uiraus vi revuruiug uie tails OI com mercial exchange or conveying the thoughts of men. Is penmanship destined to become a lost art "Vertical handwriting" was Introduced In the schools because it was supposed to be better adapted to the needs of our time than the old Speneerlan, running hand. It Is more condensed, and, if properly taught more legible than the old style. But now comes the parental objector with the contention that the "vertical" writing disqualifies the child for clerical positions In mercantile or banking con- polite correspondence May not the typewriter become as common and as necessary In the home as the sewing inn chine? As for bookkeeping, machines hare already been In vented for writing In books, and It can be but a question of time when mechanical Ingenuity will supply the perfect and practical bookkeeping typewriter. And then what will become of penmanship and the sticklers for a partic ular form of writing? Chicago Record Hcruld, T Mixed Marriages. HE people who have lately been agitating the 'luestlon of "mixed marriages" of various sorts meaulng by the term, marriages between people of different white races and different of a persoti rendered Insono by a negll cts are, or course, looking at the qucotlou g,nt injury, who knows the purposo from their own race or religious standpoint al-jaud physical effect of tho act Is held, together. This Is a matter lu which all tbe'n Daniels vs. New York. N. II. & II. where be does not know of It and la not chargeable with such knowledge ln the exercise of ordinary care la the performance of bis uutles. The mere fact that the witnesses who attest the slgnaturo of a inort gagcor and the notary public taking his acknowledgement are stockholders of, but not otherwise Interested In, the corporation named lu such uiortgago as grantee Is held, ln Read vs. Toledo Loan Company (O.), (52 I It A. 71)0. not to render the uiortgago void. A voluntary willful act of suicide baue, or all the good, depends on the point of view. Broadly speaking, the Interest of the American nation lies In a multiplicity of mixed marriages. The safety of the republic demands that there shall be no upgrowth of castes, no hard and fast delimitation of component ele ments. Our public schools are the greatest mixing agency on the earth. Our politics are themselves a mixed mar riage of races and cults. America Is the melting pot of the nations. R. Co. (Mass.). (12 L. It A. 731, to be such a new and Independent agency as does not come within and complete a line of causation from the accident to the death, so as to render one guilty of the negligence responsible for the death. A prima facie cose of negllirence. rendering pit Unlit ta tm ( in. . . ,. i . i . . i . . . . i t v uur Ju P"P lD rro" 'cn00' Jured by the explosion of a boiler and the busting. They mix. aud no one can stop them UU(ler the BjewalU( ,n tLft ,D(Mnce of from mixing. Nine out of ten of the young families known 'evidence that it exercised reasonable to every reader of these words are probably lu some sense ' ln Ul8 pmilllM.( u bed , ncugivus consmerauuiis aro more poieni war j Vi, 'Seattle (Wash.), CI L. R. A. 583, fusions. to mixture than race considerations, save wheu the race happens to bo African. But even religious bars fall before a fusion of elements which Is proceeding here on a grander scale, and In more rapid movement, than bas ever beforu been known. Lovo laughs at canons, at rules, even at anathemas. -! i, a - v . . ... . I remaps wouiu oiien ao Deuer xo oDey mem man io. was to be utilised. A note to this case scorn them. It all depends, In the last resort, upon the collates the other authorities on Habit Individual will. And we have here a land ln which Cupid Hy of municipal corporations for In Is as free as air, with no will or tradition or authority to juries to travelers caused by persona VTermaBier aim. -.ew iurs aim aim express. to be made out by showing that It consented to the maintenance of the boiler there Mnder conditions which were a violation of a city ordinance prescribing the structural work to lx used In caso the space under the walk Boy Bandits and Their Origin. m ii using tho space under the street Coal Is Still Supreme. The tPtldenev (n .nnnt.m llt'DP I. . I I.. .1. .1 ... " . "" mill- r .k Zu7 Z . ,,. . .. V "'ibustlon ' l when stored In bulk the three Chicago boy bandits and It shows ,n mnMM ofi B 1000 (oU op that there Is nothing worse for boys than .bouty appt,ar to bfJ a K)InPwnnt cigarettes. It Is the dime nove that glorifies unui)UJll poInt t0 mnko , fflrof of t the deeds of train robbers bank robbers andiga, engine as a large sl.e power unit other robbers. This may be the Initiation of public sentiment building for the suppression of publishing bouses that Issue such pernicious books. Four legal hangings and one prospective hanging In Illinois and Missouri and nine murders are the latest crop or mis ninti or printing, 'ino criminal press becomes as inri. PMnFVn ,.!, . "much a part of the care of the state as the criminal wliof0r a power station of any coiiHlderu- penorms me nomiciues. ine criminal piay stagoa at tne.ble size to carrv. to tide over iww-n.i.v for central station work. It was, how ever, made as such recently by a cen tral station engineer, whoso contention was thnt the nearly always present danger of spontaneous iKiiltlon In tlitt temporary Interruptions In the supply. from strikes or other causes, was cn- thoater Is also part of the machinery that supplies gallows' fruit A censorship' of publications and of plays Is likely to suggest itself to the public mind, although Uncle Ram's ( tiroly ellminnted by the use of ga supervision of the United States moils In some measure engines w'hlch took their gas from ten serves the purpose, tral krs plants. This Is a freo country In which no one Is allowed to Curlounly, however, the fact annenr incite to crime by public speech. Is any one to be per-, hero to have been overlooked that with mlited to incite to crlrno by public print? Hooks sold under ' the large gas englno plant will come. tne name or "ine uoy uanaiu" or similar titles will con- as an almost Inseparable adjunct, tho- tlnue to do their pernicious work until public authority muHt interfere. Illustrated Home Journal. FEED CALVES COD-LIVER OIL. Anlmala Make Great Gain on This Kind of Nourishment. An attempt Is being made to substi tute cod-liver oil for the natural fat of milk In feeding calves, according to the Philadelphia Record. Milk con tains, as is generally known, all the nutrients necessary for the full de velopment of young animal life. If one of these elements is removed It has to be replaced with a substitute of like kind in order to insure thrifty development. Butter fat and cream, of course, are the most highly prizpd and valuable of dairy .products and some resourceful individual suggested that thesfl might be extracted by press ing the whole milk through a separa tor and their loss be made up to the calf by adding an equivalent amount of cod-llver oil, another fat nutrient. Experiments have accordingly been ln progress for some time at one of the agricultural colleges ln Yorkshire and recent reports seem to Indicate that 'they are entirely successful. There Is but little labor Involved. The cod llver oil and skim milk Is a cheaper feed than the whole milk and the calves appear to thrive on It. During a feeding experiment embracing some 28 weeks It was found that the average dally gain of the calves fed on whole milk until tbey were weaned was 2 pounds; those fed on skim milk and oil and continued on an oil ration, 2.4 pounds, while those which bad been fed oil and milk but from which the oil was subsequently withheld gained only 2.1 pounds. On slaughtering the animals no in jurious effects on the flesh could be discovered. The dally ration that ap peared to be successful was made up of five quarts of skim milk and two ounces of cod-liver oil. Fortunately the calves do not develop that aversion to cod-liver oil which is natural to most human beings, but, on the contrary, readily become accustomed to it Why don't they put rubber, heels on boys' shoes? SOLDIERS SEATED WITHOUT CHAIRS. ' JlT T ' - .il """ Soldiers ln the French army have a drill to perfect them ln the art of sitting down comfortably without chairs. A dozen or more men stand in a circle each facing the bock of the next in line, at a carefully .calculated distance apart. At the word of command tbey sit down, each resting on the knees of the man behind him. In this way, as the accompanying picture illustrates, the weight Is distributed around the entire circle. Food 4or Fishes. A recent publication of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History makes a new departure ln the litera ture of scientific investigation ln Amer ica. This Is a report of the results of nu approximately continuous study of the minute plant and animal life (called the "plankton") of the Illinois River and "its tributary waters, car ried on for five successive years by the staff of the Illinois biological station. It appears from these studies that the ratio of the "plankton" of the riv er, year in and year out, was 2.7 parts per, million of the water in the stream, and its total average amount moving downstream past a given point reach es the astonishing aggregate of 75,000 tons per annum, or two and one-half tons an hour. This annual aggregate U about fifteen times the total weight f gus producer, taking the placo of tho- steam boiler now accessory to the steam engine installation, so that tho largo coal pile will remain In evidence as before, and the spontaneous Igni tion troubles as well, even with cer tain precautions against them, in the way of selcctlug and storing tho coal. Experience In some cases lins dictated the safe height to which coal of cer tain sulphur percentage may be bunk ed, but this height will vary with some other governing conditions easily enough imagined. The gns engine, therefore, will, after nil, havo to.de pend for favorable consideration upon Its several other well known good points rather thun upon tho one men tioned ln the opening Hues of till paragraph. Population of ItusMla In population the Kusslun Empire surpasses Japan nearly threefold. Ac cording to the census of 1807 the em pire had 120,502,718. Within the last half century the lucrease in population has been tremendous. In 1815 It was estimated at 45,000,000. At tho pres ent time it Is nearly 150,000,000. Ac cording to its different divisions the population was distributed by the cen sus of 1807 as follows: European Rus sia, 107,000,000 (Including 9,500,000 Poles and 2,500,000 Finns); Caucasus governments, 0,300,000; Siberia, 5,730, 000; Central Asia, 7,720,000. In Euro- of the fish taken from the river in i year. The conditions whlnh f annual production of this mlnuti penD Ru"8la tho averae annual ,n" aquatic life also seem to favor a larM Crease of blrth" over dcaths' accord oatch of fish, but no direct connection ln t0 I"ternat,on"! Encyc' of cause and effect is here made out P"" 18 'mm Bouls- The euiPr "Plankton" Is, however, an Indlspon ha fJ?tle' Zlth a PP"la!!0? f sable element In the food of fishes thi 0Ver 200,000, and they are: St Peters young of nearly everj Species In ou 1,480: M8C0W' 1147'245; water- being f" 4.14'218' upon it at some period of their Uvea ' ' ' w,u'' ana lev ana aamt flntma nt avA.0i , ' v. Dviviai BycviGQ JUUK, mg large use of It during the season 01 its greatest abundance New Yori Evening Post A Natural Inference, Tommy An unmarrlod man leads a single life, doesn't ho, pa? Father Yes. Tommy Well, then, does a married . After awhile, you find out what li best for you. Profit by your expert, man lead a double one? New York wice. I H wuui It Is cruelty to Insist that an unmu- No grown person should ver lata steal child take music lessons. a child.