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UNTACTFUL ADAMS.
The choleric John Adams had been
president for more thnn two yeurs, but
as long as Washington lived the coun
try refused to Jook upon any 0110 eisc
a its real head.
The wny of the transgressor mny be
linrd indeed, but it Ib a path of roses
compared 'w ith the thorny road the sue
'ccssor to a populnr idol must tread, and
when one reads the frankly expressed
opinion of Aduius' party friends nnd
party enemies one's sympathies go out
to the man upon whom Washington's
presidential mautlo fell.,
"ills superfluous highness" was the
title the opposition had suggested for
Jblmln the days when discussion raged
as to what the high olllrlals of the gov
ernmctit were to be culled. He had
great learning, great patriotism and au
unquenchable spirit, but overlying and
enveloping them all was n positive
genius for doing and saying iiiitactful
things, for appearing at tlio worst pos
. Bible advantage.
A member of his cabinet mice said
of him that whether he was "sportful,
playful, witty, kind, cold, drunk, sober,
angry, easy, stiff, jealous, careless, cau
tious, contldent, close or open" be was
"almost nlwuys so iu the wrong place
and with the wrong person."
The kindly Franklin characterized
him as "always honest, sometimes
great, but often mud.'v One less genial
remarked that oven in his soberest
moments Adams was "the greatest
marplot In nature." And John Itun
dolpb' of Itoanoke, whoso tongue added
the poison or ridicule to the bitterness
of gall, called hliu "that political Mai
vollo." Adams thought Washington's talents
overrated und on becoming president
In his turn was ambitious to rnako a
record brilliant enough to overshadow
him. It was certainly no easy tusk,
even without the handicap of Adams'
obstinate personality.
Ho knew that he was vain. "Thank
God I am so!" ho exclaimed. "Vanity
Is tho cordial drop which makes the
bitter cup of life, go down." Hut it
had its lingering after taste, and jusily
proud of his record having, as one
of his biographers puts It, "stopped
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from bimttnTcountry law otlFcTaud
proved himself a match for the diplo
mats of Europe" Adams resented tho
narrow margin by which lie had been
elected, calling himself with some bit
terness "the president of three votes
only."
A vice president can be removed by
nothing short of crime or physical in
capacity, and Jefferson remained, an
ever present and Irritating thorn in
Adams' side. Adams had found it
hard to learn und accept the passive
role demanded by tho ofhVe, and he evi
dently took some satisfaction in Im
pressing tho same uncongenial lessons
upon his successor.
Jefferson asserted that he was never
consulted upon any question of govern
ment after Adums bud been two days
In power. And he did not make the
churge In the humorous mood of a
Inter Incumbent, who used to declare
that his chief had asked bis advice
only once and that wus about the
wording of u Thanksgiving proclama
tion. "I believe he always liked nic." Ad
ams admitted in a retrospect of his
long career, "but he detested Hamilton
and my whole administration. Then,
he wished to bo president of the Unit
ed Suites, and I stood In his wny. So
he did everything that he could to pull
mo down. But If I should quarrel
n-lfh him for that I nilL'ht quarrel with
every one I had anything to do with
in UfC MU you ever near me
lines: "" '
"1 love my friend ns well ns you,
But nliy should lie obstruct my vlewT
"I forgive my enemies and hope they
may llnd mercy in heuven." "Our Na
tion In the Building." by Helen Nlco
lay, In Century Magazine.
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rather and Wesley.
One cleric well known to fame who
took snuff and loved his pipe was Sam
uel Wesley, rector of Epworth, Lin
colnshire, from 1(197 to nilo. He not
only smoked his pipe, but sang its
praises:
In these raw mornings, when I'm treut
iiiB rino, ' , , ,
Wliut can compare with a tobacco pipe?
Primed, cocked and tomtit, 'twould be'.ter
heat a man
Thnn the Until fagots or Scotch warm
ing pan,
Samuel's greater son, Jolin Wesley, did
not slniro the parental love of a pipe.
He spoke of the use of tobacco as "nil
uncleanly and -unwholesome self In
dulgence" and described sntilllng as n
"silly, nasty, dirty custom." Westmin
ster Gazette.
What the Well Revealed.
One of the Hist deep wells drilled lu
the west was put down near Huxley,
Nov., by the Central I'acillc railway in
1SS1, in a search for good water. Tho
boring reached a depth of 'J.7.rj0 feet,
but the water obtained was of very
unsatisfactory quality.' At 1.7X) feet
the drill encountered a bod of "petri
fied clams," and tho record, states, that
at 1.000 feet well preserved "redwood
timber" was found. Argonaut.
Ynt- onlv strike when the Iron Is lint.
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Assistant Cashiers.
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MOSES AMD SANITATION.
Ancient Laws as Effective as Modern
Rules of Hygiene.
There bus been gathered 6' collection
of facts to prove that the sanitary laws
of Moses were not only on a line with
the modern rules of hygiene, but In
souio cases In advance of them.
The .lew, thousands of years before
Christ, settling In a somltroplcal coun
try, was forlddden to eat pork or shell
fish, and mill; was designated us a
source of contagion. In the Talmud
a method of slaughtering animals was
proscribed which Is acknowledged to
day In our markets as the most sani
tary. rive thousand years before Koch gave
to the world tho results of his re
searches lu bacteriology the Mosaic
law pointed out the danger to man
from tuberculosis In cnttle, but did nut
forbid Infected poultry as food. It. was
only a few years ago that German spe
cialists discovered that fowl tubercu
losis was harmless to man.
The Mosaic law also enforced the
Isolation of patients with contagious
diseases and tho burial of the dead
outside all cities. These, hints the Gen
tile world did not fully accept until a
century or two ngo.
The wise lawgiver prescribed not
only fasting at certain periods of the
year, but the removal of nil families
In summer out to camps, where for a
time they could live close to nature.
Many of the laws of Muses were pre
scriptions Intended for the health of
both mind and body. Boston Tran
script NO EXCUSE FOR "AIN'T."
It I About the Worst Contraction In
the English Language.
"Ain't" is an Improper abbreviation
of "are not." British writers spell It
"a'n't." which properly Indicates Its
derivation. Americans make tt an In
clusive offense, using It for "am not"
mid "is not," as well as for "are not"
It Is unquestionably the worst Instance
of slovenliness in the common speech
of today.
Vet It Is by no means of universal or
even common use. It will slip occa
sionally from refilled lips, always with
a Jar to the enunclator, as well as to
tho hearer, liut tho habitual user of
"aln'ts" Is careless of refinement He
mny be an excellent eltlren who never
boats his wife nor kicks the e.it But
there Is likely to be soniethiug slipshod
alxmt him somewhere. For "ain't" Is
needless, as well as cacophonous. It
fills no void nnd mipplles no need.
F.ngllsh olwervcrs complain supercil
iously of the laxnpp of American
speech. American observers who have
listened to the marvels of T,nneashlro.
Yorkshire. IWoushlre and other shire
dialects are Inclined to resent any as
sumption of British superiority. But
It Is uono tho Uss desirable to ellml-
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Awkward.
A visitor to n hospital for soldiers
was surprised to hear one of the pa
tients being addressed by the nurses
by his Christian name, it being custom
ary to nddriss patients by their Bur
names only. Upon inquiry as to why
this distinct inn was accorded to the
particular soldier referred to the reply
received was:
"Well, we can't very well call him by
his surname."
"But why not?" queried the some
what astonished visitor.
"You see." was the overwhelming
answer, "his surname Is Love, nnd It's
rather awkward." London Tit-lilts.
Why Mosquitoes Like Blood.
The fact that mosquitoes so coni Inn
ally harass rich blooded creatures Is
due to the fact that they cannot lay
eers without the albuminous food
w!:!i '.: i; thus obtaiued. in tropical
countries il i- greatest enemy of the
mallaria hear'ng mosquito is a species
of bat which Is protected from tho In
sect's bite by its strangely shaped
hairs.
Tho bat is very swift of flight, and
the mosquitoes, especially those which
havo already made a supper of blood,
aro their Ideal food. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. Japanese Needlewomen.
The daughters of tho land of flowers
sometimes curiously reverse European
methods. They needle their thread In
stead of threading their needles, nnd
Instead of running their needle through
tho cloth they hold It still and run the
cloth upon It An English lady long
resident in Tokyo once wrote to a
friend that the impulse of her Japanese
mnlds is always to sew on cuff frills
and other similar things topsy tnrvy
and luslde out
Two Important Matters.
"Now, Kiltie, do you know enough to
keep your mouth shut?" asked the
fashionable woman of the girl she was
sbout to engage.
"Well, ma'am, I know enough to all
right, but the question Is, Do I get
enough wages to encourage me to?"
Tonkers Statesman.
Selfishness.
The selfish man suffers more from
his selfishness than,hc from whom that
selfishness withholds some important
benefit. Emerson.
v Regrets.
For all we know, the candy butterfly
may have moments in which It regrets
the fine times it had ns a caterpillar.
Puck.
Wisdom Is ofttlmos nearer when wp
toop than when we soar. Words-
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ONCE A SOVEREIGN STATE.
Now Noli la Simply a Fishing Village
With a Past.
One of the oddest and quaintest lit
tle independent suites that ever existed
in Europe the tiny republic of Noli,
founded before Koine and maintaining
Its liberty for many centuries until
Napoleon swept away Its privileges is
today merely a fishing village near
Genoa, but it is full of reminders of its
former greatness and affords a won
derful glimpse of mediaeval times.
Destroyed by the Carthaginians In 217
B. C., and who knows how often by
subsequent marauders, there seemed
no limit to her powers of recovery.
This quaint little fishing village main
tained Itself as a sovereign state for
centuries, took a prominent part in the
quarrels of Guclplus and Ghlbellines,
sent doughty warriors to the Crusades,
commanded the interest of emperors
and popes end only succumbed at last
to the armies of Napoleon. Dante
clambered hither over terrible hills on
hands nnd knees nnd revenged himself
by consigning Noli to his "Purgatory."
Everybody is rich in this poor man's
paradise, says the Wide World Maga
zine. During the anchovy months It Is
not rare for the 120 boats to earn $4,000
iu a night, or $75,000 In a season.
Through fish alone a man earns far
more thnn a clerk, besides which he
has no "appearances" to keep up. Un
der these happy conditions he soon ac
quires land and houses, which afford a
steady revenue while ho sleeps or
fishes. The earth here has only to be
scratched in order to bring forth
wealth, so rich Is the soil and so abun
dant the water.
PERILOUS ATHLETICS.
Sport That Wrecks the Heart an Evil
to Be Avoided.
"No one will gainsay the valuo and
pleasure of outdoor exercise graduated
to suit tho needs of every individual
throughout life," says the Journal of
tho American Medical Association, "but
tho species of overdoing called for In
the Intense competition of tho great
contests of our schools and colleges
can no longer be defended by plati
tudes regarding the alleged psychologic
valuo of its competitive features. Tho
tiuio has come when statistics regard
ing latent athletic injuries must bo
reckoned with and the lives of our
youths safeguarded by making a dis
tinction between saue sport and in
sane participation In tho Intolerable
strain of competitive games of the ex.
treme tyjie."
The si. me paper says the authorities
of colleges need to be reminded In nn
emphatic way, in the words of Dr. K.
N. Wilson of Philadelphia, that "no
form of athletic event Is snne that de
mands of the participants the semlcon
scions state of heart exhaustion at its
conclusion."
And it denounces the daredevil forms
of "sp6rt'T'tTiat depend for their thrill
on nearest possible approach to death
by the actors in them, such, for exum
pie, as "looping the loop" In nn aero
plane or driving a motorcar a hundred
miles an hour. Such, It says, are not
sport, but degeneracy. -
A Strange Situation,
"Humor is a very funny tiling," said
Binks.
"It ought to be," said the philosopher.
"Oh, 1 don't mean that way," said
Binks. "I mean that it is a strange
thing. Now, 1 can't speak French, but
I can always understand n French
joke, und I can speak English, but I'm
blessed If I can see nn English joke."
"Most people are," said the philoso
pher. "Aro what?" said Binks.
"Blessed if they can see an English
joke." said tho philosopher. "It Is a
sign of au unusually keen vision."
Force of the Imrjinstion.
There is a story of a man who was
tied up In a dark room and Informed
that he was to be put to death by
bleeding. His tormentors made a
small iucislon in his neck und arranged
for a stream of lukewarm water to
trickle down bis back for fifteen min
utes. At the end of fifteen minutes the
man died of exhaustion. He had not
lost a drop of blood, but he thought he
had. Such Is the power of suggestion.
London Saturday Review.
Erisraeli's Humor.
I was Introduced by particular re
quest to Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, a pret
ty little woman, a flirt and a rattle
Indeed, gifted with a volubility I
should think unequaled nnd of which I
can convey no idea. She told me she
liked "silent, melancholy men." I an
swered that I hnd no doubt of It
Letter of Benjamiu Disraeli to His Sis
ter. Different Effects.
"The same thing will make entirely
different Impressions on different read
ers," remarked the man who writes.
"Quite so," replied the lawyer. "Let
ters which bring tears to a girl's eyes
frequently make a Jury laugh." Wash
Aigton Star.
Paraguay Lacs.
! Lace making was taught the natives
of Taraguay by missionaries two cen
turies ago. Today in all towns of 8,000
Inhabitants ninny of the men and near
ly all. the Women and children make
lace collarets, handkerchiefs and la
dles' ties.
Accomplished.
Blobhs I never knew such a liar as
Longbow. Rlohbs-Tes. Thnt follow
could actnnlly eat an onion and Ho ont
of It Philadelphia l.'ecord.
Diversity of opinion proves that
tilings are only what we think them.
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