BRAINS AND BREAD. Intelligence an Important Factor in the Bake shop. The Staff of Life Produced by Makers la 1'oUMuml of Bat Little Sua taint ing Power A Three-Cent Lancheoa. "With brains, sir," was the celebrat ed rejoinder of Sir Joshua Reynolds to the question of an inquisitive and prob ably shallow young painter who asked him with what he mixed his colors. Is brains the ingredient that was left out of the loaves which were ex hibited at the pure food show? asks Kate Field's Washington. ' Four hun dred competing loaves all fell short of the standard, if it is reported fairly.' It is more generous to believe, however, that the standard has been raised by an intelligence which means to educate the community. In New York a few exclusive bakers advertise "high-class bread" at high class prices; actually it is not too good. But brains in Boston, joined with broth erly kindness, have produced bread which may challenge any competition and which is sold to the public in tiny loaves, perhaps better called long rolls, at one cent apiece;- faultless bread; sweet as the wheat can make it, but not sweeter; light and fine and close; ex quisitely baked in the mild, slow heat of a brick oven. This bread, such as the rich seldom taste, comes daily from the New England Kitchen for all who are so fortunate as to be able to send for it. - It is the product of the intelli gence and philanthropy of a society for the promotion of public health. When the kitchen was organized a few years ago its first six months' ' working was supervised by Mrs. Mary Abell, who had taken the Lamb prize for an essay upon sanitary and economic cooking. This essay, accompanied by recipes and menus for the poorest wage earners, is among the publications of the Syracuse public health society.- - Proof of the economy and excellence . of the cooking -of the delightful Boston Kitchen may be made by anyone who is hurrying, as I once was, to the Provi dence depot without time for lunch and with ideas above a railway station res taurant.. I was -provided with a small paper box. . I bought one of the little loaves I' have just described; it nearly filled the box. For another cent it was buttered.- What else could I carry? I was offered a slice of spiced pressed meat, such as is made very poorly in some houses and called veal loaf. But that was not poor, but delicate and savory. It was daintily wrapped in white paraffine paper, all ready to be handled neatly. This- was also one cent. Here was a wholesome, delicate and abundant lnnch for three cents. I thought of Franklin, opening his career in Philadelphia " with his big Dutch penny roll, and, like him, I indulged in some philosophizing. One hundred and fifty years of what we call "progress" separate us from Franklin. In those years the era of homemade bread, with ' that of homesDun clothing, has depart ed. , And still we have no good public bread only the chaffy and spongy baker's loaf, overraised, undermixed, deceitful and dear. Poor men cannot be fed with such bread, and so they wash it down with spirits. We are a great people and we have the greatest chain of lakes and the big gest rivers and the widest wheat-fields on the globe; but we are not able to give the multitude bread until it -has been turned into carbonic add gas for the profit pf the bakers. : - In feudal days the lord of the manor had the monopoly of the oven; no bread for the peasant" but that which was baked in his oven. By the independence and competition of the laborer we have attained the privilege of starving our-: selves. Is it not almost time to swing back to the public oven, -supervised by the best intelligence of the community, and secured against the greed of com petition? There is not wanted free bread to deprave the soul, or sour bread to deprave the stomach, or hitrh-class bread to suit the rich; but honest : bread, fit to be called once more the staff of life. - BIG PRICES FOR FURNITURE. Aaetle Talk of the Private Sole of Rich Men's Effects. A party of auctioneers en route from Chicago to Buffalo were in the smoking room of a Lake Shore sleeper the other night telling stories. ; "Selling horses ' and farm stuff by auction is all right," said one, "but for genuine fun give me the private sale of a rich man's furni ture. - When Anthony Drexel died there were a lot of things which had personal ' reminiscences connected with them which everyone wanted. It was finally ' decided to hold a family auction and sell them to the highest bidder. The ' first thing I put up was a small clock, ; worth, I suppose, about twenty dollars. ; '? 'Ill give five hundred dollars,' was the first bid. It came from a nephew. " 'Make it one thousand dollars," in terjected a younger son; " 'Fifteen hundred dollars,' replied the nephew. "The nephew won and got the twenty dollar clock for money with which he could have bought the finest clock in Philadelphia.' I never knew what the history of the clock was, but it must have had a peculiar one. Then I put up a big arm-chair. ' It was the chair Drexel had sat in for over twenty years and it had a valuable association for each one of the" family. A married daughter' and young Anthony Drexel were the ones who wanted it the most, and the bidding, which opened at one thousand dollars,' was - spirited and lively. I finally sold the chair to An thony for six thousand five hundred dollars. The day's sales brought in over twenty-five thousand dollars." "I never bad anything as good as that," said another auctioneer, "but I sold the Childs effects in the same way. The chief contest was over one of those old-fashioned tall clocks. Childs' eld est son finally bought it for eighteen hundred and fifty dollars, and it is now . in the Ledger oJCca in Philadelphia." ,. , SANGUINARY BEQUESTS. The Hearts of Great Warriors Left at Legacies. Bequests of hearts have been by no means uncommon. Richard Coeur de Leon bequeathed his heart to the canons of Rouen cathedral, and in July, 1838, this remarkable relic was once again brought to light after the lapse of six centuries; the heart, which is said to have been surprisingly large, says Temple Bar, was inclosed in boxes of load and silver, and withered, as it was described, to the semblance of a faded leaf. ;.. Brace's heart was, by his dying wish, intrusted to Douglas to fulfill a vow, which he was unable to execute in per son, of visiting the sepulchre of Christ. Douglas, "tender and true," promised to fulfill his sovereign's last request, and after' Bruce 's death, having re ceived the heart incased in a casket of gold, set forth upon his mission. Pro ceeding to Spain,' however, he fell in the thick of a fight with the Moors, having previous to his final charge cast the heart of Bruce from his breast, when he carried it into the ranks of the infidels, crying: "Onward as thou wert wont. Douglas will follow thee!" Brace's heart was afterward recovered by Sir Simon Lockhart, by whom it was brought to Scotland and buried along with the bones of Douglas in the Abbey of Melrose; When the remains of Bruce were disinterred at Dunferm line, in 1819, the breastbone was found sawn through so as to permit of the re moval of the heart. MUSIC IN A PHOTOGRAPH. A New York Musician Plays a Tan from e Picture of Wall Street. "I have a friend who is an amateur photographer," said a Wall street broker to a New York Commercial Ad vertiser reporter, "and one day he con ceived the idea of securing a snap shot 'of Wall street and its environs. Ac cordingly he secured the necessary permission and carried his kodak to the. roof of the Manhattan Life com pany's building, on Exchange place. He turned his lens eastward over the roof of the Stock - exchange and pressed the button. When the nega tive was developed it showed little else than a confused network of tele graph wires, chimneys and flagstaff's, but, undaunted, he developed his " pic ture. ' . Then he discovered that the photograph of Wall street bore a strik ing resemblance to a sheet of music, the .wires forming the lines of " the staves, and several linemen at work and the chimney pots and flagstaff's, in silhouette, taking the place of the notes. Contemplating his work with disgust, he was interrupted by the en trance of a friend, an amateur mu sician. Throwing the photograph to the musician, be exclaimed: 'What can you make of that? "That, said the musician, knowing ly, 'why. that is " "You can't play la my yard. I don't like you any more.' " "And he turned to the piano and rattled off the song." BLUE-GRASS IDYL. Two Kentncklans Settle a Difficulty aou a Bill In a Centlemaaljr Way. A blue-grasaadyl has beea circulating through the Southern society for several days. It is, says the New York Times, a tale of two Kentuckians one a Major, the other a Colonel who, after a night of tact at poker, determined to gratify an oft-expressed desire to visit New York. Thej came, and after .jwo days; of sight-seeing the Colonel saggrestedto the Major that a trip to New York would not be complete without a dinner at Delmonico's. The Major agreed. It was deemed that it would hardly be considerate to take Mr. Deltnonico unawares, and in order to preparo him for so unusual an event as a swell din ner for two the Kentucky gentlemen went to the restaurant early in the day, called for the head waiter and told him what they wanted. "Spare no expense," they said. They dined at six. It was a splendid dinner. They tasted wines of all kinds that they had never heard of before. They ate a great deal and drank a great deal and told each othor stories that both knew" by heart. The banquet lasted three hours. They called for their bill. The waiter placed a check, face down, on the menu. The gentlemen were toasting each other as the waiter did this, and when they placed their glasses on the table he was gone. They saw what appeared to them to be a scrap of paper on the menu and brushed it off. The old fel- lows were ignorant of the customs of French restaurants and they concluded that the menu must be the bill. The Colonel began to figure up the prices. It seemed that they had eaten a grout deal, but the names of dishes were in a language unknown to" them, and, any way. they were not in a mood to bother about trifles. But the Colonel gasped when he fig ured up the total. It was $960. "Great heavens, sah!" he exclaimed to the Major. "It is 8060. If we pay this we can't get back home." "We might," suggested the Major, faintly, "we might jump out of this window and run." "No, sah," said the Colonel, bringing his fist down on the table. "We are Kentucky gentlemen, sah. We will pay this bill, sah, and then, sah, we will shoot the landlord, sah " - Antiquity of the Harp. W. S. Macdonald, of Glasgow, in a recent lecture before the Highland society of London, traced the history of the harp from the shadows of mythol ogy to the present day. It is, he said, the first musical instrument on record and was the principal one of ancient and medieval times. All the skill and artistic genius of the Egyptians were lavished upon its design and decora tion. The Druids first brought the tone and pitch of the harp to perfec tion. It attained the height of its favor in modern times in 1819, when Sebastian Erard, of London, brought it to the front rank of musical instru ments. It has been inseparably con nected with the traditions and lore of the Gaelic people from time immemo rial. ... FORKS OF SALUTATION. Used by Various Peoples of the Earth. What to Do When Yost Meet a Slouz, a Zunl, a Polite Jap. a Haughty Per- . Ian. a Proud Spaniard or a -Native of Hot Orinoco Land. The North American Indians do not have many conventional forms of salu tation. Their etiquette generally is to meet in silence and smoke before speak ing, the smoking being the real saluta tion. But a number of tribes o. g.; the Sheshoni, Caddo and Arikara use a word or sound very similar to How! but in proper Htoration Hau or Hao. Most of the Sioux use tho same sound in com munication with tho whites, from which the error has arisen that they havo caught np and abbreviated the "How are you?" of tho latter. But tbo word is ancient, used in councils, and means "good" or "satisfactory." It is a re sponse aa well as an address or saluta tion. Tho Kavajos say, both at meeting and parting: "Agafani,"an archaic word the etymology of which is not yot as certained. Among tho Cberoki the colloquy is as follows: No. 1 says: "Siyu" (good). No. 2 responds: "Siyu; tahigwatsu?" (good; are you in peace?). To this No. 1 says: "I am in peace, and how is it with you?" No. 2 ends by: am in peaco also." Among tho Zunl hap piness is always asserted as well as im plored. In tho morn ing their greeting is: "How have you passed tho night?" in the evoning: "How have you come into the sunset?" The reply always is: "Happily." After a separation of even short durations, if more than ono day, the question is asked: "How havo you passed thoso many days?" The reply is invariably: "Happily," although .the person "addressed may bo in severe suf fering or dying. In quaint contrast with this Zuni custom is that of tho Japanese, where the party visited asserts tho pros perity of tho visitor. The host and hestess politely ejaculate ."Ohayo goxa rismosu!" "you havo come quickly!." which welcome is given even If tho vis itor has suffered delay and all kinds of mishaps. It is never contradicted, Per haps our expression: "You havo been long in coming," as indicating longing and waiting, is no more artificial. The wish of salute is often specific, connected with circumstances of envi ronment. The people of Cairo anxious ly ask: "How do you perspire?" a drj skin being the symptom of tho dreaded fever. In hot Persia the friendly wish 8 expressed: "May God cool your atfe!" that is. give you comfort in declining years. In the same land originates the quaint form: "May your shadow never bo less!" which does not apply, as often now used in Europe, to the siao and plumpness of the body ns indicating ro bust health, but to doprecato oxnosure to the noon sun. when all shadows are least. The licnorse in their lirar- of pros perity usd the form "Health and gain'" In some of the Polynesian isles lln prayer for roolm-ss is carried into ac tion, it being the highest pjliteness tu . a jar of water over a friend's bead. Accorvlmg to lluuiooldt uki morning salute on the Orinoco is: "How havo th mosquitoes used you?" The old religious views of the Persiaus are found in their wUhes: "Live forever!" and (still re tained in Spain, probably a direct legacy from the Moors). "May you live a thou sand years!'' They believe only in this life, and that through Divine favor it might bo unlimited. The Chinese sojourners in Utah fell into a curious blunder in using some o! our phrases. On meeting a resident at any time of day or night they called out: "Good-morning!" and on parting "Good-night!" even if it wero before breakfast; A similar error in imitation was niado by tho Zuni. When tho offi cers from Fort Wingate visited the Pueblo they wero naturally anx ious to roach tho trader's store, w they called out to tho first person met: "How are you? Where's tho store?" Tho Zuni caught up all tbo sounds a ono greeting, and in the kindness o! their hearts shouted them to all subse quent visitors. Tho salutation "How-are-you-give-me-a-matoh," has a like explanation. Moslems, while scrupulously saluting the meanest of their own communion, re fuse all friendly greetings to the Jews If inadvertently they have accosted one of that people with "Peace bo unto you," or tbo like, they will .hastily add "Death to you!" to which the Jew may respond, pretending to have heard only the beginning, by "The same to you." in a spirit somewhat different from that in which the same words are used by us in answer to '-'Many happy returns!" on birthday and other anniversaries. .It may be mentioned that where the Jews are in power they giro no salute whatever to one of the Goinx, but scowl at him. Peculiarity of the Salesman. "Tliercis one peculiarity about the average salesman or rfaio-woumn ( not saleslady yo.i might hi well suy snles geiitleiiiiin ns asf-' tttiy) wl.iich is very stupid and dccidedlv uxnHmT.uiu',' to tho customer," said a ludv tint oth r day. "I will givi! you an illustration. This morn, imc 1 went to a lar- Wore and asked to see a certain articl , savins that I want M to examine both the higher mid lowir priced qualities. The salesman showed me two pieces. One nt forty-five cents. He said, 1 1 niiswi r to my i.iiestion, that those, wero all he had. For certain rea sons they did not suit me, und alter some hesitation I said that I thought 1 ought to f.nd (something at about twenty-live cents a yard good enough for my pur pose. . " 'Well,' snid the man, 'I bcliovo wo have some at that price, but it is cheap,' and he brought out the very thing I was inseHrchof. 'Why didn't you show me that at first ?' I asked. - Well, it's cheap,' said -the stupid fel low ; and that was the only thing I could got out of him. "If I hadn't really wanted the article I would have turned around and walked out of the store. I have had that same experience time and again. Tho man was either trying to force me to buy the higher priced goods or was too indilierent to his duty to wait on me properly; in either camo ho was both stupid and exas perating." . . FAITHFUL BUT HELPLESS. Touching Tale of an Old Servant of Queen Victoria. In the "Life of James Holmes" may be found a pathetic story of a man named Darner, the scion of a royal house, who, in tho latter, part of the eighteenth century, was one of the queen's pages. She grew to have a very warm regard for him, but the time came when, on account of increasing age and infirmity, he was pensioned off, and some one else was put in his place. It griuved him much to change his habits, but he was in some degree con soled at being allowed to attend cer tain royal entertainments, and it was at one of these that lie distinguished himself by a somewhat eccentric action which greatly amused his "former mis tress. He was wandering forlornly about, alone, when the queen, ever mindful of her old and tried servants, hastened to ward him with extended hand and a word of kindly greeting. Ho took the proffered hand and held it for a moment, while he gazed with a smiling though puzzled expression at the queen. Then he said: "I know that face! I know it as well as I know any face, but pardon me, madam I cannot for the life of me recollect where I have seen it!" "Poor Darner!" said the queen, with a sorrowful smile, as she turned away. "Poor Darner!" The old man looked after her ' for a moment, and then asked a passing gar dener who the lady might be. "Why, the queen." Darner laughed. "I'm afraid," suid he, "her majesty will think I have forgotten her!" THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. Oar Country line More Than a Quarter of the World's Rlchee. The wealth of tho United States is more than a fourth as great is that of all of the rest of the world put to gether. So reports Prof. Francois, a studcut of political economy, in a re cent number pf Monde Moderne, a French publication. He places the wealth of this country at 813,000,000,000 francs which , is equivalent to about 102,000.000,000 and that of the other eighteen countries covered by his statistics at 1,144,700, 000,000 francs. According to this statistician the value of all property owned in England, including money in circulation, is 2J5,- 000,000.000 francs 48,000.000.000 less than this country's wealth. Third place is given to France with 225.000.000,000 and fourth to Germany with 101.000, 000,000 francs. Then come liussia with 127.000,000,000. Austria-Hungary with 82,000,003,000, Spain with co00.000.000 Italy Jwith 54,000.000, OOO.or milliards and as the French say of francs. These are the richest countries of the world. There are four in the list Italy, Spain, IUissia aud Austria-Hungary whose combined wealth is only a little larger than that of the United States. It is true that much of the wealth of this country is in the hands of com paratively few people. Even if the inequality were ns bad as reported by the worst of the discontents, the condi tion of the masses here would still be much better than it is in Europe. Wraith is more concentrated even in England than in the United States. TIr l !; .lus fact. An Altuiiiy littiT :rllif a:i nbcnituHliy britilil Imy in AniMiTiimu who tni'.rd nt the ho"i--f .mi num. wbrre be Icit nt l.b erty tiitlBlut i Ur .lenrtl. Tin re wt-rr mif ix-mmfu! t:i:.i s hi si'il. The lvt lilnl rvjiirii-.ly lor-titlc-ii ttinl Ihv nrr .il.vnys liu:ii v !-! t'.,d not offer him cm-, w rn;i;v b !:ul Kri;o!t.-:i tliHt there nrreauy in tir L ';!-. T.'teyouiiK visitor cniiciudril Hint ..'!ne thiuK won iil have te lie done au-i :-.!: "Auntie, pleie :ivr me r.n it-iij;i'.'' Site told Li i nt that hc haun t i:y or aiiKes, to which ho jirv:i.pl iv irplu-C: -You lie:'' KriKhteued to think hovr it sounded he mil home aud told h: mother, who immediately sent him Mck to mlns:r.e. The young niau improved matter!, by sayitiK: "Auntie, I am very sorry for what I said to you, hut but, auntie, you did lie." Albany Journal. The Indian medi cine man cures by charms and incan tations. He fright ens away the " evil spirit" who causes the sickness. He docs all sorts of things that civilized people would call idiotic and barbaric, but the civilized folks are not so very much ahead after alL They do just as foolish things as does the medicine man. They go along carelessly, and al low the little sickness to grow into the big sickness. Ther allow constipation to glow into indigestion, heartburr, dizzi ness, headache, lusomnia, and a nundred Uher distressing conditions. They do this .Tonent'y because they do not know thf. cu'ose of their trouble. It is a pretty safe : ule o .'ook for the source of 9-ioths of !nmaa sickness in this one simple and aprllinglv prevalent trouble. Another foolish thing that smart people do is to lake some alleged remedy for constipa tion and keep on taking it, day after day, month after month and year after year. Perhaps it is better to take the medicine than not to take it at all, but of course if ihey stop taking it, their trouble will come back. This last statement is true of every other medicine prepared for this purpose except Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets. One " Pellet " is a gentle laxative, and two a mild catharic. They are gentle and efficient in their action, permanent in their results. You don't become a lave to their use, as with other pills. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in plain En glish, or Medicine Simplified by R.V. Pierce, M. D..ChieT Consult ing Physician tothe Invalids' Ho tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. 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