I TOPICS OF
THF TIMES
aw
Tie til J hvn laid a doing fk,"
write th poet Which It luiporUut,
If tru. .
Chicago achool uhlldrn are Uucht
how to rook beef. 4 Why MH ehu thein
tow to gel lit
Th mail Dim wor hla ;afflnlty's
name in hi but tarn) cvldaatty had
something oh hU mind, '
. r.-srsesrtjTjcm. ; ,
Xy Colib will receive it.QOO a year
or thru year, which goe to ihpw
that It it th bits that get th money.
A man In California caught young
octopus. Tb accounts did hot specl
(y whether It wes of tb milk or beef
variety. '
1 Kentucky rats more bmp than
any auto In th Union, and yt aba
baa uhatltyled tbt lctrlo cbalr for
tba fallow.
William Rockefeller announce that
tba Standard Oil Company la cuing to
teat tba Sherman act. Tba Hbarman
art mut be a pretty good act.
On of tba acleutUt announce that
there I a fortune In klnimd milk.
Itirhaiw b II wher tb baaltb d
pertinent doesn't watch vary clonal.
Tb movmnt to cultivate vacant
lota la comtuendebl on. They
bould rerlalnly b abl to ralat aoina
thin battar than crop of oytr and
tomalo can.
(BSSBSX!SSSHSSS
A cbemlctt analysis how that M
per renl of a cup of tea la watr. Thl
do not refer to boarding bouaa la,
which contain vea a greater percent
ag or wtr.
A ha did not ft tb andttranr
ti of a ninety mil boraabark ride,
on of tb rear-admiral of tb navy
I to be retired Would It not bava
Wen more appropriate to try biro on
wlotmlng? -xsanssssa
A Maaeachusetta eoraralanoj of In
v obligation ha found that tba cost of
living I In Canada than It la In
thla country. Hut of count the bat
ting average of the Joy of living In
tbt country I higher.
&;raiissss!ssss i
n a New York court a baby' cry
aed It fatoer from going to prlaon
by moving the pity of the Judge. It tt
bad Inn a good baby that never
cried, ibla wouldn't bv happened,
which make tb moral of tb Mory
rather mixed
Some mll boy In Gotham IN
up a playmate and ant hi clothing
on Or and only prompt rcu by pas
rriby saved him from serious In
Jury Tb lltll tormentor wer dl
mined wlib a reprimand, which
how why aom people think Solomon
knew what ha we talking about
"CSyuey Smith." th famou v
gcllat. who conducted s aerlea ot uo
ceful rellglou meeting In America
)at winter. I.a been leading a ten
day' mlavlon In I'srl. Tbt I tb
Brat time I rice Moody and Ssnkey
vlalted tbeclty In UJ that Frotesisnl
revival meeting bav tucen held In
tb French capital.
aressssssrsssasssai
The national tloua of Representa
tives ba passed a bill creating an art
CMnmlaaton which aball exercls pow
er of aupervtalon over tb esthetic
Ida of urh work of tb governmunt
the erection of public building,
the placing ot ttua and other moo
umenia, and tb laying out of pub
lic parka. Tb lack ot auch a body
I apparent In almott vry American
city.
A paaaag In Sir Ernest Shackle
ton' account of bl antarctic Journey
Illustrates the way In which bardahlp
roeter ympathy. During thrv
month of bl experience near th
aotitb pole ha and bl men ufferd
auch extreme of hunger that, a they
ant nibbling acb bl alngle blacult, a
crumb dropped by any on of them
"would be followed by all pair of
aye," and If th owner had not no
ticed the loa. hi attention would be
called to It. "W mad up our mind."
be recently told a London audlnnr,
"that never again would w e a hun
gry peraon flattening hla oa agatnat
cook shop without giving blm some
thing to eat"
A young man to b a success should
train hlmaelf never to let anything
awarv blm from bl purpoae. and
whan one h undertake to do a thing
be (bould fallow It up to th vary nd.
llocsuae olhera may predict fallur la
no reaaon for a young man to aaaum
that a tak cannot b brought to a sue
reaaful termination. Da honeat and
bov board In all you under tak. Thl
will tnd you wll In caaa that your
da require a rigid Investigation on
th part of your auperlor. D so
ergetlo and ahow th kenat lnlrat
la your work and k all of th know
Mia that you can. Th tlm will
com In vry man' llf wha h will
be called upon to how hi ral worth.
Opitortunlty In aom ea may
th man, but th man for opportunity
generally I th ma a who ba learned
hla Uieaon of thrift and nergy ed
Ingty well. B honeat In your dealing
both wltb your employer a well a
ho you do bulna with, a a
breach of lru la th hardt mUtake
for a mau to llv down. Stick to your
vocation, atudy . try to prov It and
declare to yourwlf that If you win
you will not llp a cog, but will nakt
other follow a fast a they mad you.
'i 'i . mams:axatxasea '
Prealdwit Kmurltu Eliot ot Harvard
Unlvenlty wa recently quoted aa fa
voring a law to uthorlao phyalclau
to put hoplna patient out of their
mtaery by palnlea mean. II denle
tb accuracy of th report. 11 aya
be doe not bellev lu the right of one
peraon to kill another to nd bl
agony, but ho doe bellnv that we
bould avail ourexlve of anodynea,
ven though their un in a bopelaaa
caa may ahortao th brlnf remaining
pan ot lite. Title) amount to much
th aanie thing a tba statement al
leged to be erroneou. except that Dr.
Kllot seem to hint at aulild rather
than profenelonal murder. Tb patient
may tak anuilynf until bl pain I
relieved and rlak fatal conawjuencc
But It mua be remembered that many
agonld patleni are In a condition
which IncapaclUtiia tbi'tn tot' volun
tary action; and moat of them could
not procure the powerful ancdyna re
quired without a doctor's preacrlp
tlon. What Dhttll the doctor do In tuch
a caaof Hball h give the medicine
with th irlmry object of Mlnvlng
the pain and rlak the killing? If tbt
patient din would the preaent law ex
onerate the phyalilan? Would tba
court and Jury prraum. a In th caae
of a (erloua aurgh-al operation, that
tb Intent waa merciful and not homi
cidal In caae of an arraignment and
trial th verdict would undoubtedly
b Influenced by th clrcunutance.
Tb turgeon who perform what I
calld a mJor operation. Ilrt notify
ing the patient and bl friend that
th effect may be fatal stthougb be
bopwi for recovery, I never moleeted
If th (uffnrer dl-a under th knife.
Wby may ha not take chancra with a
drug aa well a with a aaw or cutting
InatrumrntT Probably no change In
the eilntlng law la needed to cover
reasonable caaea. Wher th part lea
are all reputable It will uaually be pre
sumed that the exlgenclea of the caa
required tba medtrament and that th
death waa tb Incidental and not tb
premeditated outcom.
LOWXB 8T AS D A R D Of ' UVIHO.
War Uefmt frmmrmi ftm at
Ilia k frtvmt, rraf. UaMW Saye.
Ther la very little Improvement In
igbt toward lowering the high prlcea,
declare I'rof, Trank J. Good now of
Columbia I'nivereity in tb Delinea
tor. When eaatern farm wer culti
vated at a profit price of agricultural
com mod 1 1 tee were much higher (al
low a jr being made for the then pur
rhaalog power of a dollar) than now.
And price will have to go consider
ably higher han now before those
farma can again be profitably culti
vated. It would appear that In tie mean
time th people will be obliged to ad
Juat themaelvea to the changed condi
tion. Tbt will probably Involve
lowering of th (tandard of living, tb
Increeut of the rural aa compared with
tbe urban population, the development
of eaatern agricultural landa and of
local markata evnrywber throughout
tbe tountry and the abandonment of
our preaent expenalv cyatem ot dis
tribution. It will tuevltahly be accompanied by
comlderabl dlatree. particularly In
th cltle. The aufferlog due to thl
procve of adjuntmcnt may undoubt
edly be eoniewbat alleviated by ener
getic action on the part of the govern-'
ment wltb reference to the violation
of lawa prohibiting monopoly and re
atralnt of trade, and by (he removal
at one of all dulti-e n food product.
llut, until the adjuittment baa been
made, price will probably continue to
Increase, and. after It has been made,
will remain higher than they used lo
be, For It lit hardly conceivable that
agricultural couiliiodltlea can perma
nently be old at the prlcea to which
the preaent generation baa been ac
cuatomed unlea aom almost revolu
tionary change In agricultural meth
od ar made.
The lletlseheat.
Th hedgehog I the Heor ol
taste which, like 8ni Wellt-r knowl
edge of London, are "cxtenalve and
peculiar," y the Scotsman. Scorn
ing faatldlouanens, It can make a hear
ty meal ou nearly any Insect and I
one of the vertebrate which can
tackle th cockroach. For eftVctusl
extermination of beetle and cricket
It I uiuftil aa a mongooii anions'
th rata, but It la not generally known
that It ha a partiality toward enakes
and adder.
Th method It employ for the at
tack ar interesting Having come
upon tbe adder, It good that roptll
to th offeiulv and at the first dart
Immediately roll Into a ball. The ad
der 1 then left to attack the plno,
In which encounter It nuturally comes
off second bent. After awhile, when
th hedgehog feel that hla antagonist
ha exhausted hi power, it once more
open out nd make a bite at the ad
der'a back, thereby breaking It spin.
It then proceeds to crunch th whole
ef tbe rcptiloi body by mean or It
powerful Jawa, and arter that It 1
ld to start at th tall and devour Its
pry.
A Mere Advaaeed ae.
Mr. Caller Do you know th wo
man next door well enough to apeak
tof
Mr, Bubbub Well enough? I know
hr too well to peak to, Boston
Evening Transcript,
Waara Ik lmeaoMs.
Jack Who wa the bet man at
your wedding? ' ...
Tom-My wife; but I didn't know It.
-Boaton Evening Transcript .
Everybody Ukos to attend a wd
ding with th possible exceptlon ol
tb bridegroom
Navyrs New rea
With tb policy of building two
hip a yar w bav adhered to tb
plan of building thm by division.
Th North Dakota, Delaware, Utah
and Florida will consUlut on fleet
division, and they ar on In type.
Tb Arkansas and Wyoming, and tb
two ahlpa authorised by thla Congress
will complete another division, and
wilt b'asntlally of th gam general
typ. Ja th Interval, howavar, sine
th North Dakota aod Dekwar wr
planned a uew factor of Uuprovtmcnt
ha been furnished by th Bureau of
Ordnanc In tba damonatratlon tha
w can make a 14-Inch gun that will
lead tbo world for power and penetra
tion. Tbl was tb Ida of Rear Ad
miral Mason, and on hi authority
Congress a year ago appropriated
$100,000 to mak a 14-Inch rlfl and
Uat It Thl was don In th course
of a tew month, and th gun proved
to bo auecessful beyond all that bad
been expected of It It necessarily
follow that tb next ships to b built
must carry H Inch guns.
Th new ship, th Nevada and Ok
lahoma, will be S4 feet long and
feet beam. Their draft will be JgJ
feet Their displacement will be at
least M.0O0 tone, and probably 27.000.
Th speed will be Zl knoU. th coal
load J.OoO ton, and they will carry a
complement of 7& officer and 1,600
men. Th armor will ba 11-Inch on
tb belt and on tbe barbette and c
Inch on th tides. There will be, in
addition to th ten 14-Inch runs, sev
enteen 6-inch guna A a floating
fortrti tb ihlp will thu bav two
gun tor every sector and with over
lapping range. A 5-inch gun ha been
placed at tb atern to protect from
torpedo attack. A lmllar provision
would be made at tb stem but for tbo
difficulty of putting a abutter there
that will keep out water la heavy
ra.
There will be no auperstructure for
turrets. Th middle turret aft and tb
rear turret forward ar railed abov
their neighbor o that helr gun
may fir over them. Thla la an Ameri
can Idea. Foreign navle ar Juat be
ginning to adopt it Year ago tb
uertmposed turret was believed to
be a good thing, but tt waa doubted If
heavy guna could be used In th super
Impoted turret. And tbera was doubt
If thev could ba ued In turrets raised
above other turreta, although not su-
perlmpoaed over them. To Mermlne
th matter one for all In th presence
of much debate about It, a practical
trial of the matter waa made.
It wa' rlalmed that the concussion
from the 11-inch run would kill any
living being within th lower turret.
At (list cats and dog were placed in a
turret on the old monitor Florida, now
the Tallabasaee, and the big gun were
KINO OF KIM0 8 COOKS.
Hew nmtaU aoverela)' Meats Are
rrre by f 10,000 Cf.
Mr Mttnavnr th tif1 iuwib At Ylupk-
Inrham nl-M rwv-imlM mii Imnnriaftt
TU-Htt th lh Mill kniiuknM Hta J-
ary Is 110.000 per annum and he Is
recognised as being ons of tbe greatest
culinary srtlata in the world. The
royal kitchen and the whole kitchen
stsff are under bis complete control.
upening on in main aitcnea at eu
lI.Im nf It are half Hnun mllr
kitchens, and on th other aid ther
m fiuir nfflfM. m-hr ftha clrlral
work In connection with th kitchen
epartment are attended to. una or
hee office I Mr. Menager'i prlvat
room,
Mr Monairer dnea not live In liurk-
Ingham palace, but ha hi prlvat
residence cioa 10 u. uo arriving at
th palace uaually about 11 o'clock In
the morning hla Drat care I to In
pect the lunch menu for that day,
hi,.h ha been nrenared by hla first
aslatnut, and alao tba menu for break-
faat the following morning. He tnen
prepare tbe dlnuer menu for th fol
lowing day a task that occuple him
uaually a couple or hour.
Mn tain rilnnpr at tha roal tabl
ar ever tb earn. Certain dlabea are
from time to time repeatea, irequenuy
y tpecml request ot tn King, oui
i,. i niv he termed th general
cheni of each dinner I alway dif
ferent. On of the aide kitchen 1
reserved aolely for Mr, Menager ut.
where ha carrle out experimental cu
linary operatlona and I constantly
ilaboratlng and working out new Idea
Some dlihea bav taken him montna
of preparation before be ha decided
to put them Into th menu Thre I
nna ,,n Pi 1 1-111 f SaUC Which Mr. MCO'
tger Invented gom yar ago to which
the king ha a particular uaing. r.
Manager wa mklng experiment for
over three year before he served thl
unci to the royal table.
fired. The cats and dogs sustained no
Injury from the concussion, although
th former were somewhat shaken by
tba contact with tbe Utter once or
twice. Then a few mldihlpmen war
put In tb turret and again th big
gun ware fired, and again with no bad
results. Then, to mak a final and
permanent teat of the matter, three
tough old rear admirals were put In
and fired over, and when they came
out all right the principle waa held
to be established tbst heavy guns
could be Bred In an engagement over a
neighboring turret without any 'dis
tress to tb Inmate. That teat ha
been of Incalculable value to our navy,
and aa a consequenoe the two new
ship will be so arranged that they
can lire four of their huge gun ahead
or attern.
Tbo 14-Inch rifle weigh C3.S ton, or
liil.TOO pound. With turret and
mount each turret of the new ships.
Including the two guns, will weigh
bout 600 tons. About as much more
I to be credited In weight to the ar
morplate. It Is calculated that the
SS.OOO-ton ahlp will carry ten 14-Inch
gun without difficulty. Remember
that In tbe matter of ammunition the
Increase ot weight la as the cube of
the calibre. Wher the It-Inch gun
throw a projectile weighing 800
pound, these monster gun will hurt
a shell weighing 1,400 pounds. Thla
calls for storage capacity and weight
carrying ability In th new ship. But
tho 1 4-Inch guns are made ao that
Thar ar many dishes, by th way,
which can be taated now her except at
th royal table. Tbe secret ot their
preparation I known only to Mr. Men
ager, and he guard uch secrets with
great care. None of his assistants has
the lesst notion ot how these special
dishes and sauces are prepared. They
simply bsve the handling of the raw
material and each assistant carries
out different directions In Its prepara
tion for the table.
Tbe dinner menu la submitted every
day to tbelr majesties for approval;
but this Is a mere matter of form, for
neither the king nor queen ever thinks
of altering or Interfering with Mr.
Menager' arrangements.
At S o'clock a report la laid before
the great chef by the order cook ot
tbe various meats that have been or
dered In accordance with Mr. Men
sger's instructions ot tha day before,
and also what la called a kitchen re
port 1 given to him by the bead as
sistant cook which Is a detailed state
ment ot the manner In which the din
ner for that night la to be prepared.
After seeing thst everything Is In or
der for their evening's work, Mr. Men
ager generally leavea th palace about
4 o'clock, returning at 6: SO, when he
never fall o make a personal Inspec
tion ot th varlou ranges, ovn and
tovea and take a careful note of the
temperature in each.
Tbe preparation ot the royal .dinner
ta then begun. Mr. Menager remain
In the kitchen while the work la go
ing forward, keeping a keen eye on
everything and everyone, and lsaulng
from tlm to tlm Instruction to hi
firt lieutenant At 8: SO exactly a bell
U rung and the tervant who are to
bear th dishes to th atat dining
room enter th kitchen.
At o'clock 'dinner I aerved, and
Mr. Manager' work for th day I
ovef. H remain In hi prlvat room
until 10 o'clock, when he receive a
message from the king commenting
the dinner. Tbl Is a ceremony hut
I Be Greatest Afloat i
XM I If-aVAV MCVADA Wf
tby do not of themselves or la their
carriages Increase the weight In the
ratio that tho projectile la Increased
The powder charge for these guns will
be from US to I7U pounds The Bu
ilt velocity In foot seconds will be
Z.600. With a trajectory sufficiently
high their rang might be, as Is often
claimed, 25 miles. For good, every
day fighting, however, they will do
soma good hitting at eight or ten
mile.
Do you want to bav some Idea of
th terrible fighting efficiency of these
new Dreadnoughts the moat powerful
that the world has yet aeenT Well,
tor a comparison, tak the Connecti
cut which only a tew yearn back say
ten was our greatest ahlp. Sh ha
four 12-lnch gun and can throw In
fir minutes 40 shell weighing MO
pounds. That la 32,600 pounds, or over
16 tons of death and destruction. As
suming that the service of the 14-tnch
gun will be somewhat slower than that
ot the 12-Inch, It Is doubtless sat to
say that the tea 14-tnch guna on either
the Nevada or tbe Oklahoma will de
liver 80 (hell In five minutes, or 11.
000 pounds of projectiles,' with their
deadly load of high explosive, any
pound of which detonated in the psy
chological place on the enemy's ahlp
would alnk It Tod can rake the sta
tistics of the navies of the world and
yon will nowhere find anything ap
proaching the force of thla fir. It Is
nearly twice that ot the best Dread
nought In the British navy to-day.
majesty never forgets to perform.
London Answer.
DAKOTA'S MIXED hf ARRIAOl.
t'aloaa WUM Mm aaeV taataai
W)ata No Ftooth !.'
In the Dakota when a white man
wed aa aboriginal woman and public
ly acknowledge her as hla wife he
provide her with as good a home and
clothing as be can afford, aad he
treats her as he would treat a white
woman. He sees to It that she learns
to cook, to sew and to keep house, and
In other ways tries to educate and
uplift her.
SUI1 more Interesting Is tha fact
that these mixed marriages Involve
little or no social disability. The white
husbands are rarely. If ever, barred
from associations with the whites be-
Cftuss of their wives.
To be sure, a man known to be liv
ing with an Indian woman who 1
"without benefit of clergy." la, aa n
rule. In the language ot o Whit
River plainsman, "purty nigh ostrich
lacd." But this would be true tt he
were known to be maintaining simi
lar relations with a white woman.
"Such loose-hitched tie-ups used to
be kind o' common around here,1 said
my White River man. according to a
writer tn Everybody', "and nobody
thought much about 'em. But there's
ao many sehoolma'am com out here
from New England and other places
that folks don't stand tor that sort o'
thing no more."
Legally married Indian wives pay
no more social penalty than do their
white husbands. Generally, the little
red hen atlcka to her home and doe
not go out with her white husband for
a social evening as often aa would a
wifs of her own race. But thla 1
largely a matter of Indian tempera
rrent .
Aa for the half-blood children, a
they grow up they are aaked to the
country dance or the picnic with th
white young men and women at the J
The new ships will probably have
the "peach basket" fire-control towers,
which have now been Installed on
nearly all the battleships. Just at
present there Is a division of opinion
aa to the value of these towers, and .
there are two schools of thonght la
th navy aa to them. A special board
la at work to get all the data possible
as to the advantage and defect of
these towers, and another board will
probably, ba appointed In the near fu
ture to conalder the matter and make
rocomendatlon aa to the future policy
In regard to them.
If the corresponding bureau of aa
olher country have accomplished what
the Bureau of Construction has done
since the beginnings ot the new navy.
25 year ago. It has been kept from
th current history of naval achieve
ment , No praise can be too earnest or
distinct for what these officers have
done for their country. Their work
redounds to the credit ot each pass
ing secretary and of the entire body of
officer In th navy. When the crucial
hour shsll come and the fate of the
nation may depend on the great naval
struggle for which countless million
and unflagging seal for many year
have been given In preparation, to
them will be due the victory. If It be
a victory. Their share la the result
will be, perhaps, lea ung than that
ot th men who command th ahlpa
and man the guna, hut a generous peo
ple will none the lea remember their
good work. Philadelphia Ledger.
community. Some of the handsome,
well-educated young halt-breeds are In
as much demand at social functions as
are those whose parents both belong
to th "auperlor race."
In the school", too, the half-breed
children mingle with the children ot
white famllle on equal terms and
suffer little. If anything, from race
prejudices or preferment
Wlaawallte aa XtwiMitna.
In Holland births, msrriages am.
deaths are Indicated by windmills.
When a miller is married hs stops his
mill with the arms of the wheel In a
slanting posltjon and with tbe sails
unfurled. His friends and guests fre
quently do the same with their mills
In token ot the ceremony. To Indicate
a birth the wheel Is stopped In a
slanting position, but at a more acute
angle than that of a marriage, and
with th two upper sail unfurled.
Should a miller die the sails of hla
mill are all furled, and the wheel 1
turned round until the arms form an
upright cross.' In which position they
are left until after the funeral.
- Setf-aadrtae.
"I srussa I'll a-n hark tn th ,,.!
said the gentle grandmother.
"Whats the trouble?" lnnulnul t..
son-in-law. "Aren't we treating yon
rlghtr
"Tea. But the haaehall
hers, and I won't be ahia to .-.
temptation to see the games."
"No. It I am seen in the grand stand
looking bals and hearty ru be almost
sure to spoil somebody's excuse for be
ing awar from tha offlr w. ...
- ' '
ton Star. .
' Willi..!,. (
He I akd your fathr' .nn...
by telephone. . .
She what did h say? '
He He said. 'I dnn't km k
r, hut It "a all right. Home Ufa. 7-
Bt the tlma von aa mrw
made jour mistake It la too late