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stumble about. And meanwhile no-
Isaly gets served, nothing gets done,
and the hungry guests "look up and are
not fed." A little work, they think,
Î would be better than so much hurry.
♦ Topics of
♦ ♦
the Times *
FINDS AN AMERICAN TYPE.
Brltlvh Paper l'ralae« It, nw Miowu
Iiu Football hih I ftluNebull Cut«.
The existence of an American typo
1 is deuled by R. G. Lindsay of the Brlt-
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ish embassy at Washington in a recent
New York has been having nil exhibi
report on alien Immigration into th®
tion of nearly two hundred dolls, col-'
Another crisis Is feared In Portugal.
United States, published as a Blue
lected from all nations, ami represent
n V/,
The young King linlsts on paying his ing centuries of doll development.'
Book by the British government. Mr.
father’s debts.
Lindsay, who characterizes the peop
I kills nre In existence which date back
ling of this country by Immigration us
to
4000
B.
C.
They
were
found
In
A Pennsylvania girl recently ciughed
"one of the moat remarkable move
us, nnd ’he best never was and never will be devised by
THE YOUNG MAN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
Up a safety pin. They are the only Egyptian graves, and are simply minia
ments of population to be met with lu
those who do rot think. Sane methods should never be
ture
mummies.
But
the
oldest
dolls
01
By
United
States
Senator
Albert
J.
Beveridge.
kind that should be swallowed.
history," says on this point:
abandoned, no matter how quaint they are. They have
Mrs. Starr's unique collection are
The man who stopped thinklug stood for many years, and under them the enduring
"It must take many generations be
from
Peking,
and
came
from
the
pal
decades ago and who therefore be things of the world have 18*011 accomplished.
If making rubber from skimmed milk
fore Americans are physiologically dif
lieves that all questions ure spurious
Is a success, won’t there be danger of ace of the Dowager Empress. Mrs
By methods sometimes thought too slow our fore-
ferentiated from Euro]>eans as much,
except those about which he was
the formation of a skimmed milk trust? Starr has dolls representing Dutch
for example, as the French are from
fathers carved out results whleh stand as landmarks In
fishwives, women from Lapland equip
thinking lu his prime, but which the progress of the race, They were not always swift,
the Germans. There Is no such thing
ped
with
snowshoes,
Indian
soothsay
have been settled long ago, cannot but they Intended always to be right. Their Judgment
The present ruler of the district
as an American type, and even if in
even grasp the meaning of public and example should not be forgotten now. We should
around Mount Ararat has ordered a ers, Mexican runners, French lace
the towns of Europe It Is possible to
life to-duy. Indeed, the latter is a remember that the conspicuous Is not always great; that ; point out a tourist as
motor boat. Gracious! hasn’t the flood makers, and New England country
tin American
girls
of
a
century
ago.
One
Egyptian
real obstacle to the solving of our high places do not always make great men; the sound
dried up there yet?
recognition Is effected by mere out-
doll was made entirely of mud, except
present-day problems.
of water does not always mean the ocean, and the land ward marks, such as the style of
Such a man forgets that every scape may be painted on a husk.
In ills latest description of the war Its hair. Another was constructed ot
dress.”
a
single
a
bamboo
stick,
dressed
In
year
a
full
million
young
men
nnd
between the United States and Japan,
J. m.VEKlUGE.
1 entertain the flrm belief that the problems which
With tills opinion the British Medl-
of
long
garment,
and
with
a
mass
young women come of age, whose now dishearten us will be decided right. Political ques
Captain Hobson generously refrains
cal Journal announces dlsagreement,
tree
was
black
hair.
The
pith
of
a
minds, fresh and strong, are thinking new thoughts to- tions may sometimes go by unheeded, but the problems
from getting us licked.
which It sets forth in terms compil
carved into a charming doll, and Call
day, Just as his now obsolete mind thought fresh thoughts now confronting ub involve the elements of honesty and
' mentary to the physical development
fornla
seaweed
was
the
material
ol
in
bls
day.
The saddest sight In a none too joy
fair play. These are moral questions, to be decided by
of Americans. Says this paper:
Such a public man does not understand that the con- conscience and education. These two together are not
ous world is to behold two “Merry another. A perplexed lady came tc!
“In Illustration we would draw Mr.
the
teacher
of
her
grandchildren
with
stantly renewed intellect of the nation is yeasting wit h likely to go astray.
Widows" trying to crowd under one
Lindsay's attention to the photographs
new ideas, born of new conditions; and so he thinks that
umbrella and still call each other a weary plaint as to the Indifference
| of college football and baseball teams
of the two little girls to the sound
all new questions are really 110 questions at all, and
“dear.”
I In many of the American magazines,
knowledge which Interested their three ■ would dismiss them altogether if he could, Public men REINCABNATION—ITS MEANING AND PROOFS
By Annie Besant. 1 which exhibit a well-marked and. It
A Chicago baby Is to be rocked in a brothers. “The bovs love butterflies
must take their stand on public questions while those
' may be added, a fine t.V|H*. What 1ms
#1,000 cradle. Still it may not grow to and stones and shells ami plants, and
questions are up for decision, not after they are decided.
To many people the round of reincarnation
become ot’ the conventional Uncle Saul,
be more useful than some persons who will read every book I give them on
carries with It tin Ideal alien, almost gro
The public man who has no views is more dangerous
I
the long, loose-limbed creature er
were rocked In a sugar trough during natural science. They are eager to
tesque. Even men who In their youth studied
than the demagogue. The man who utters pleasing gen
know about everything, from the stars
their pinkhood.
'the humanities" and wore familiar with the j Punch cartoons, we know not. The
eralities instead of taking definite positions on public
In the sky to the weeds by the* road
many allusions to it In Greek nnd Roman 1 American of to-day presents a firm,
questions Is either a coward of a deceiver of the peo
Mrs. Fili Potter Stillman, who pur side. But Mary nnd Nelly—what do
authors, never regarded is serious the belief I square Jaw, broad brow and elea r,
ple, and usually he is both. Never in history was there
keen eye, which together usually rend
chased at $60 each thirty hats without you suppose is their one enthusiasm?”. such a day for young men in public life as that which
on which the greatest classical authors based
er recognition of his nationality a
wearing one of them, certainly showed she asked, dejectedly. "Dolls, I guess.” { has now dawned. There is so much more to be done than
their views of life and framed their canons
fine discrimination when she chose a said the wise teacher; “and a healthy
of morality. However deep their reverence ¡matter of no great difficulty.”
there ever was before, so many more hands needed for
passion It Is, too. We won’t Interfere
millionaire for a husband.
that work than ever before—clean hands, strong hands, for the master minds of antiquity, this universal belief
with the course of nature, denr Grand-1 trained hands, American public life is crying aloud for has been waved aside as a pagan superstition. Reincar
A Hungarian physician claims to mother-of-bovs anil-girls ; for until the
nation is found to be Interwoven with the texture of
men w ho are honest, Industrious and equipped.
fiave discovered that nearly all modern world turns the other way on Its axis,
all schools of philosophy and all systems of religion. It
ailments are due to the habit of sit and plants grow with their roots In
is imbedded In every scripture and forms the corner
BEFORE
PROSPERITY.
SANITY
ting. But that Isn't going to worry the the air and their blossoms In the
stone of common dally life. In India now, as in ths
By Ex-Gov. Black of New York.
men who never get up and offer a wom ground, we may expect our girl babies j
elder days, every peasant recognizes as an unquestion
Coni keeps best under sea water.
to
This Is a splendid country. Not one In his able fact that he has been many times reborn on earth,
an a seat in a street car.
The criminal class of London number
tory has equaled It in its past achievements and prepares himself for a coming rebirth; rebirth is
700,600.
LIVED AFTER HANGING.
or in the glory of Its future promise. But It an active factor in bls daily life.
Having a keen recollection of his fa
The palutlng of the Forth bridge
must turn In Its headlong pace and regather
ther, gay Paris looks upon the demure
When once we realize the grandiose scheme of human
costs $10,000.
its scattered senses if it would realize the evolution, then we see that what we cnll aln Is only Ig
Prince of Wales as an impostor. The .Vinny Instance« of It 'emcllalhm
Person« Who Have Been Executed,
wonderful future which Its past accomplish- norance, lack of experience, youth of the unfolding life.
present prince is a young man of good
Influenza, like cholera, always
Innumerable Instances of resusclta
ments foretell.
habits, and he has had efficient train
travels from east to west.
There is no height of splendor Into which man may not
Government Is a system which must be grow, for he truly Is God Incarnate upon earth, and the
ing by n wise futher who has seen tlon after hanging are recorded, accord
The sperm whale can stny under
ing to Tit-Bits. Henry III granted a
carefully thought out, and the results even Christs of the race are but the fair first fruits of the
"wilder” days.
water for twenty minutes.
pardon to a woman named Inetta de
of that deliberation must be cautiously applied. That is universal human harvest which the future shall dls-
A mole eats as many as 20,000
the plan which has built up on this continent a govern close. Power of brain, strength of will, deftness of fln-
From Peking <>011108 the news that Balsham, who was suspended from 9
earth-worms Ln the course of a year.
o'clock
on
a
Monday
to
sunrise
on
ment which we believe Is better than any other In the ger, nobility of character—they are all of our own weav
"Chinese rebels with French arms” are
In Saxony practically all of the live
world. We should not change it now except after long ing; we make the garments that we wear. Not one of
defeating the imperial troops.
We Thursday and afterward “came to."
stock Is stall-fed 300 days of the year,
Dr.
Plot
tells
of
a
Swiss
who
was
hung
and
careful
consideration.
tin.
miserable
wulfs
of
our
foulest
slums
but
shall,
by
knew that graft was rampant among
and the largest portion tlie full 80S
Foundations securely laid should not be uprooted In repeated births, rise to perfect manhood, to manifested
the Chinese officials, but grafting up thirteen times, without effect, on ac
days.
excitement. Plans conceived in the study should not be divinity. Such is the promise contained In the word
French arms upon Mongolian malcon count of the peculiar condition 6f his
St. Petersburg authority ? hr >-e 1s-
overruled In the stable. The best is none too good for reincarnation.
tents Is remarkable even In these Bur- windpipe, it having been converted Into
bone by disease.
sued an order forbidding the Bt mienta
banklsh days.
Annie Green, a domestic, was hangeo
of the cadet co |'| m to read “Sherlock
the citizens of the town assembled
THE VILLAGE BAND.
CHARACTER IN WALKING.
Holmes" and other stories of a sim
A young man has liecn expelled from at Oxford In 1650 and recovered four
In front of the calaboose, as the Town
the New York Produce Exchange be teen hours afterwards under a doctor’s It« Delight« Are Unknown to Boy« Hall was called. They had to go early Traits Which are lleadlly Disclosed ilar character.
Mrs. Cope, who was
Orsa, In Sweden, has In the course
because the band practice always drew
cause he advertised that he would treatment
by One*« Gall.
nnd Girl« Brought Up In Cities.
guarantee profits of more than 50 per hanged at the same place eight years
“When I was a little shuver and a lot of farmer boys In town, and the
"There’s a conceited man coming of a generation, sold $5,550,000 worth
later,
also
recovered.
On
September
2,
cent to people who would let him spec
didn't have anything to do In the day few seats In the council room were at down the streets," said the girl In the of trees, and by means of Judicious re
ulate with their money. Add another 1724, Margaret Dickson was hanged at time but go down and see that the a premium.
group on a corner. “How do I know? I planting has provided for a similar
Edinburgh
and
recovered
while
being
“Along about 8 o’clock "the band By his walk. I can tell the chief trait Income every thirty or forty years.
3:40 train got In all right anil had no
to the list of people who think It Is a
carried to the grave. She lived for where else to go nt night except on would also begin to congregate, and of any person’s character by watching There are no taxes. Railways nnd
shame that they can’t be “let alone.”
many years afterward, and was univer Thursday, when the Jonesville Cornet shortly afterward each man would try him or her walk. For Instance, If a telephones are free, and so are tho
sally known as “Half Hanged Mnggy Band met In the village council room out his Instrument. When the leather man walks with n heavy lift to Ills schoolhouses, teaching and many other
The Japanese vessel which the Chi Dickson."
.1
for weekly practice, I used to envy iuuged tuba player entered Into the hips he’s sure to bo obstinate. If he things.
nese seized off Macao a few weeks ngo,
A housebreaker named Smith was the city chaps and think I was having contest with the snare drummer which sinks down a little on Ills heels he has
because it had a cargo of rifles, was de hanged nt Tyburn in 1705. A reprieve
The French government has purchas
scribed in the dispatches as the “steam came when he had been suspended a a pretty rotten time of It,” said the could make the most Impression on a comfortable attitude toward wife and ed two bronze busts exhibited in this
er Tatsu Marti.” This was an error quarter of an hour, He was cut down, man from the little prairie town In the community and a few others play the world In general—In fact, he’s a bit year’s salon by Andrew O’Connor, of
slmllnr to “Yangtse-klang river.” bled and revived, William Duell, Illinois that has never made up the ers Joined In by running the scale, usu lazy. That woman coming down the Massachusetts. One Is a portrait of
“Kiang” means river In Chinese. hanged In London in 1740, revived and decrease 111 population caused by Ills ally In a far from perfect manner, the street now is a gossip. Any one could Robert Newman, and the other tho
“Marti" is Japanese for steamer, and is was transported. A man hanged in removal to the city. “Now that I can harmony wasn't any better than some tell that because of her mincing, fussy head of an exqui.'lte Italian girl. Mr.
gait. Indecision Is the chief character O'Connor last year obtained the mtslnl
usually put after the name of steam Cork in 1765 was taken In hand by a see bow city boys really do spend their of Wagner’s effects.
“It never feezed the citizens assem istic of that woman's character across of the second class by the salon
vessels to distinguish them from sailing physician, who brought him around In young days. I feel like giving three
cheers for my youth.
bled Inside and outside the calaboose, the street, Don't you see how she I Judges.
ships.
six hours, and we are told the fellow
“Tills Is not an informal talk on the though, and when the rehearsal finally swings her foot rather hesitatingly In
According to Edwin Warfield, lately
the air before she puts It down?
The possibilities of the matrimonial laid the nerve to attend a theatrics'
Governor
of Maryland, there's a dlf
performance
the
same
evening.
“The man who walks with his knees
advertisement have been once more dis
Richard Johnson, hanged nt Shrews
loading Is sure to be of the pious type ference between ex -Governors ami
closed by tlie revelations made In the
former Governors. An ex -Governor la
—the dlsngreeably pious type. I mean.
Laporte murder mystery. As an insti bury on October 3. 1696, obtained a
he who went after the office again ami
promise from the undersheriff to place
You
see
that
old
codger
who
Is
cross
tution which thrives by defrauding of
didn't
get It. A former Governor Is
him in tlie coffin without changing his
ing the road with his stomach seem
a few’ dollars the ignorant and weak in
clothes. After hanging half an hour
ing to lead the rest of him—well, of lie who didn't seek re-election and re
telligence It has been made especially
he still showed signs of life, nnd on ex
course It Is evident thnt feeding Is his turned to everyday life. "Ami I nm
familiar of late. But as an instrument
a former Governor,” added Mr. War
amination it was found he had
chief delight,
When nil Intelligent
of more serious criminal enterprise it
wrapped cords about his body connect
man walks his heads lends. That girl field, In a recent Interview In
still needs considerable advertisement. ed with hooks at the neck, which pre
who sways so Is self conscious. Yes, kee.
This ft is now to receive to the full. vented the rope from doing its work.
Tho English nnd American mile Is
thnt girl going down the street has a
■Wherever in America people can read The apparatus was removed and the
pretty walk, gilding nnd quiet, but 1,760 yards, or 5,280 feet. In France,
the story of Laporte will make its way. man hanged effectively.
watch out for her; she Is treacherous Holland and Belgium it Is l.tMM» meters,
The remote mining camps In Alaska
It may be offered in explanation ot
or l,0!H yards. In Hpaln It Is 1,522
In the extreme.
and the lumber camps in the North the cases mentioned that there was no
yards; In Russia, 1,167 yards; In
“
The
mini
who
puts
his
feet
down
ern wilderness, the lonesomest farms drop used at executions In thoso days.
especially solidly Is heavy nnd Horne China, 601» yards; In Norway and
ranches of the far West, the plantations
what stupid. That little person en «8- Sweden, 11,600 yards; In Germany It
of the South and the most Ignorant
Don't Fold Yonr Arm«.
Ing the road with n quick, clean step equals three English miles; In Italy,
districts of the great cities will each In
By folding your arms you pull the
Is energy personified, but he Ims the 2,025 yards; In Portugal, 2.250 yards;
their due time be full of the wonder shoulders forward, flatten the chest
sort of energy which hns no regard for In Austria, 8.267 yards, and In Den
and grewsome fascinations of this mys nnd Impair deep breathing, says the
the rights or feelings of others. The mark, 8,238 yards.
tery. The nnme of Laporte will fix it Family Doctor.
Folding the arms
THE VILLAGE BAND.
girl corning out of thnt store has ah
self in the memory of at least a gen across the chest so flattens It down that
ugly streak In her nature. Don’t you
eration. This ought to breed some cau It requires a conscious effort to keep
A college professor who had npont
3:40 go got under way It wasn't possible to get see how she puts her foot down un
tion, for a while, at least, in the minds the chest In what should be Its nat i pleasures
four years at Yale nnd two in Berlin
of the susceptible and gullible. The ural condition. As soon as you forget ( through, but a little confidential ''hat even standing room within fifteen willingly ns If she were saying: ‘I I
I on the joys of the band practice. I yards of the place. Sometimes the re won’t! I won’t!' I shouldn't advise acquiring Ills foreign education, Ilves
thought of the murderess spinning her yourself, down drops the chest.
with bls wife nt Kyoto, a city, In a
any man to marry her.
■wide web to catch victims by the fa
We cannot set ourselves ns others sen figure thnt I am qualified to speak on hearsal lasted until along on to mid
“Of course I don't pretend to know rented house, having n liftl«> garden, nt
miliar lines of the matrimonial adver tis. If we could, many of us would the subject, not only beenuse my fa night, but do you suppose any small
a total cost of 465 yen a year, or nlxiut
tisement Is one to fix itself In the Im he ashamed of our shapes. The posi tlier was leader of the band ami the boy got tired ami sneaked off home to thoroughly a person's character by his
$233.
This la divided ns follows;
walk,
but
I
do
discover
his
predom*
In
town
who
could
solve
the
bed
before
the
lights
were
put
out?
agination of the dullest.
tion you hold your body In most of the only man
inating characteristic.”
Rent. $120; house tux. $5; servant's
time soon becomes Its natural posi mysteries of an E flat cornet, but also lie didn't unless he went at parental
wages, $15; fuel. $13; light. $5; clothvH,
Creative.
It hapicns to be true that there Is a tion. Continuously folding your arms because I qualified as a member of the orders.
$25.
anil final, $30. Ills salary Is $400,
“
You
couldn
’
t
find
one
of
the
cltl-
band
myself,
having
with
some
diffi
A certain man coming from abroad
tendency In America to talk at such across the chest will develop a flat
nnd he la applying $100 a year to tlie
sens who would admit that there was Was taken up by the smart set.
culty mastered the alto horn.
length about doing things quickly that chest nnd a rounded back.
"I hail a uniform with Just as much another band anywhere In the world
“We’ll make a lion of him,” quoth debt lie Incurred to obtain his educa
much of the time which might be spent
Here nre four other hints which
ns
good
ns
the
Jonesville
organization,
gold
braid
on
It
ns
father
’
s
had,
nnd
they,
"for the distinction he will there tion. A people w ho can conquer domea-
In getting the things done is spent In should be made habits: K<>ep the back
tlc problems iih do the Japanese tlml
nnd
1
was
convinced
nt
the
time
thnt
uiMin reflect upon us.”
stead in boasting about how quickly of the neck close to the back of the when the Jonesville Cornet Band
But the man was too little. It takes no terrors In the ts*onomlc burden of a
they are going to be done, says the collar at all jiossible times. Always went over to the county seat to play nt there wnsn't either. I've heard bigger
war debt. Boston Glols*.
and bettor bands since then, but I nm niivli material to make a lion.
London (England) Daily Mirror. It ci rry the chest farther to the front tho Fourth of July celebration I walked
convinced that every member recalls
at
the
head
of
tile
parnde
and
was
the
‘
Then
we'll
make
a
monkey
of
him,*
happens to be true, also, that while than any other pnrt of the anterior
Tim« Mnveil,
the rohonrsnls I11 after years ns one said the smart set, determined to have
ordinary "slow and conservative” peo t> dy. Draw the abdomen In nnd up envy of all the small boys of my size In
"Does
your
husband spend ns much
of
the
delights
of
youth.
”
—
Utica
Globe.
some exercise for their creative genllua,
ple are pushing steadily forward and a hundred times each day. Take n tl e place.
time ns formerly nt the racetrack?*’
ita
nd
practiced
In
the
“
I
an
Id
the
Nor
was
the
world
the
worse
off.
leaching certainly, Inch by Inch, to dozen deep, slow breaths a dozen times
A Good Hoy.
"Not nenrly ns much." answered
village council room. That shows how
ward the end of their work, Americans each day.
Mr. Ryly—Why are yea decoratin' For, after all, It Is the contribution to young Mrs. Torklns. “He has a new
Important the bn nd appeared In the Mrs. Murphy?
the gnyety of nations that is especially
will very likely be explaining loudly
system nnd nearly nlways goes broke
eyes of the village.
The Main Trouble.
to everybody the advantages of some
Mrs. Murphy—Me b’y Denny Is corn needed.—I’uck.
on the first or second race.”—Washing
Wise
—
Oh,
give
us
a
rest
for
awhile,
“
The
council
room
bad
two
cells
at
invention which does the work so badly
in’ home the day.
Pnlnflllly Nnfilrnl.
ton Htnr.
and so quickly that It all has to be won’t you? Doubley—Well, every fel one end, that were never used except
Mr. Ryly—I fought It wuz for fol ve
Playwright Is her acting natural?
done over again. The speed of Ameri low has a right to his opinion, and— the time when fifteen tramps were years be wuz Sint up?
Boll down almost any man's prayers
Manager (enthusiastically) •Naitiral?
ca Is also very largely a matter of ex Wise—Yes, but the trouble is that he rounded up In the neighborhood fol
Mrs. Murphy—He wuz; but he got a Why, when she appeared ns the dying In five words, ami yon will find them
ternal appearances and of show. It Is can’t be made to realize that there may lowing the robbing of a clothing store year off for good behnyvure.
Punish my
mother last night an Insurance agent to tie: “Reward me.
in a nearby town. The band Instru
like the hurrying and scurrying of the be a wrong to It—Indianapolis News.
Mr. Ryly- An' sure,* It must be a who has her life Insured for $25,000 enemy.”
ments could, accordingly, be left in the great comfort for ye to have a good b'y and who was In the audience actually
mysterious waiters whom we have all
They always speak of love's young '
I A girl enjoys picking her way da In«
of us seen racing about In crowded res dream, because It so rarely lives to be ' cells with perfect safety, where they lolke that.—Tit Bits.
fainted. Ixmdon Tit Bits.
' tlly over a muddy crossing Just as
shared quarters with the polling
taurants. They rush here, they rush
After praying for what you want gi t much ns Imr brother enjoys splashing
booths.
A man wlm yells at the top of bls
there, these wonderful waiters; they old.___________________
through.
busy and do a little biiHtllng.
The theatrical manager has a pout 1 “When Thursday night rolled around voice seldom wins an urgument
knock over this table and upset that
I
*
chair; they drop things, and fall and show If It Isn’t a good on«.
I