TOPICS OF TUB TIMES
A CHOICE BISECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
Comnirttla nntl Crlllrlani llnnril
Upon 1ii llnppriiliw "t the liny
lllaliirlrnl Mini .Vrm Nolm.
Unfortunately those who rook boats
flro not all drowned.
Thero In Imt ono mother's day In
tho )'mr. Daughter lias nil tho others
Tlio Ctilango tnnn who soya cntlng
In n habit Is mistaken. Hating Is lie
rodltnry.
China npiwnrs to bo
lior desire for progrosa.
Iwrrew money.
In onmcat In
Shu wants to
Gossip la ono of tho few tilings th.it
doesn't loan Ita taste nftcr being
vnrmed over acveral tlmoa.
Tho value of n llali na a Rtibstltuto
for beofatonk la 1 1 holy to toko eonio
of tho roiimnco out of this aummor's
fishing tiootry.
An Indlann novel Is t's father line
taken lo lltomluro. Indiana inny ndd
to Ita nohlovotnoiitn by allowing Hint
Jiorcdlty works both ways.
Wonder If that follow who Btolo tho
410,000 picture In California a few
days ago, did It to aatlafy tho crav
ings of a hungry soul or nn empty
ntomnolk.
Tho old theory that a fool nnd lilt
money nro aoon parted ahoutd bo re
vlacd. If tlioro wcro no foolt In tho
world (hero would bo loaa money In
circulation.
Ono man who thought opportunity
was knocking at hla door married Ills
ntcpmotlior. Now alio Is dead nnd ho
finds by rending lior will that ho has
boon dlaliilwrlted.
Count Ilonl do C5itellnne, having
.vtd n sudden nnd effectual orltnp put
In hla political iiRplrntlnna, may liavo
to touch Ida revered paronta for some
of (Imt (lou til annuity to help pay ox
Nmses. tszazrr i
If American customs urrteom nro
going to Imgln apologizing for nil Hit
tioublo thoy make for returning
Aniurlwin tourists, huw nro they go
ing to hnvo nny time loft for oxnmln
Jug tho baggage?
A llelglan aeroplane carrying two
men lms remained In tho air two
lioura nnd twenty in Inn ton, the longeat
flight by forty-five minutes. The
iuiMirda of nuronaiitlM hnvo no effect
on tho norvo nnd cnthiialnsm or tlvi
during aky pilot.
Tho northernmost grnvo of nil the
fiitmborlwa grave of mirth la tho Inst
Tiding plitca of Prof. Iloss (I. Murvln,
who lost hla life while n mombor of
niu IVnry expedition. A tnblot In hi
uiMiuory was dedicated nt Cornell Uni
versity recently nut! Commniuler IVnry
wna tho principal speaker.
An English novelist It In this conn
try to study tho women. Tho Aumr
Joan wouiiiii Just now seems tn bo tho
most interesting topic of ulvlllzcd oio
ntloii. HIIII, tlioro li no need to bo
Kulug lo imtaldrt writers for n full tin
iturslnmlliig of her. It dikes tho mi
tlvo Aiuerlemi lo npprocluto lior lull
wofth.
Tho tide of Immigration Is oontliiu
fug and lnorettslng. The Authorities
nt Wiulilimteu HHtlmwIe (hat the ar
rival during the prewnt year will
lie not lee thou 1.090,000, which will
mmie oloee lo the record. Tho tig
uriw were 1.0t7,m In HH. 1.IO0.TU
In 1000 mid IJMMIO In ItWT. The
nwli this yenr shows (hot the offset
or tho "panlo" of 1007 lute pretty well
worn off.
I'lilflskl nnd Koeclussko, two Polish
fioroo whoso mimes are iwitletiluily
revered by Amurlotins for (heir ser
vloes in our War of ludopeiuluncc, nro
now honored by monument nt Wash
ington. OnugrtNM voted tho uiouoy for
tho I'lilsskl monument, nnd wiiitrluu
Hons Uy the Polish-American societies
of this country paid for that of Kosvl
uszko, Slnre lKtS (hero bus been ii
monument to Koselusiko nt, Woet
Point, whore extenslvo fortifications,
imiter bis dlrectlen ns ehlof eiiHliieer,
were eenslrueled during the devolu
tion. The largest salmon pool: ever re
corded U announced nn tho Pad lie
roHst, where nbeut live nud one-fourth
million ease repruseut tho output of
the sangerles nearly half n million
mm mare Hum during the Inst pre
vious good seuenii, that of 1W4. Only
tiiiM before lu the history of the Imel
iieee lies the live-million nmrk been
loaehed. The run of smIuiuii In lUtfO
wus the largest ever known, and those
who study tho conditions soy that
tbe regulation wklih are now en
forced nnd tho operation of the
hatcheries nro not ouotigh to account
for all of the Increase. They ad
viuiro the theory Hint Hie depletion
of the HerliiK Sea seal hords has an
ImitortHiit bearing on tho Increasing
ealmou Btipply. The son) herd, as It
kous north to tho breeding-grounds,
follows the run of the salmon, and
tho fishermen assort that tho vora
cious seal kills his weight lu salmon
jvory day,
Tho fact that a business firm has
iiad tho temerity to eugago In a law
milt to resist tho imposition of the
"Hp," nud that It won its case, holds
out somo proapeot of ultimate relief
from this growing nuisance. A trav
ullng salesman of the couaorn had
turned lu, among other Items of Ida
ox pun so ueeount. a charge of flSO for
Hps to the waiters and other servants
of a fasblonablo hotel. Tho tlrm ro
luidlatcd the Item and refused to pay
any portion of tho bill unless it was
eliminated. The salesman sued for
the ontlro amount of his bill, and tho
court allowed it all excepting tho
tips. It held that the regular hotel
kill benefited tho employer, and was
noceasary, also tho railroad nnd steam
ublp fare, but that the Hps were a
luxury and unnecessary. Tho coun
sel for the salesman argued that the
tips were a necessity without which
tholr client could not bare lived at
the high-toned hostelry with that
pence and qulot of mind needed to
transact hla employer's business sat
isfactorily, but the court proved cal
lous to this line of sympathetic ron
soiling. Tho argument, however, re
voals ono of tho compelling reasons
for the giving of tiw. It la to nave
tho equanimity nnd ponro of mind ol
tlw giver. Ho would rather endure
tho Ilia of n depleted pockctbook than
to bravo tho acorn of tho arrogant
waiter, tho IiiboIciico of tho hall boy,
or tho contumely of presumed mean
nesa. This Is nlso ono busla of tho
extravagant living of tho day. It Is
prldo In keeping up appoarnncos. ThU
Is not altogether an unworthy mo
tive, but It Is ruinous to those
wlio cannot nfford It. It la quite unt
il ral for ono to wish to Im-o na good
a Iioiibo na hla neighbor, nnd not to
hnvo hla ladlea wnlk when tlioso of
hla neighbor rldo In their maehlnos
Hut if such luxuries arc beyond his
menna, only a stronger pride con come
to Ma relief and aavo him from bank
ruptcy. That la tho pride of paying
ono hundred con la on tho dollar, The
snmo high prldo can even nervo
man to resist the Insinuating demand
for a Hp from tho auperb servitor.
EFFECTS OF NEAR-FASTING-.
Mi Dnj-K' ".Nliinl" In Wlilrli tho Vn
(Iftil liiiliia lit U.-IkI.I.
Itoman Mlllor, a young jowalcr, la
trying aomuthlng new In tho fasting
lino fasting to gain flosli, tho Coin in
bus (O.) corrostiondent of tho Now
York Herald saya, This idea la not
lila own, but was suggested to him by
n phyalclan, and, atrange na it may
aucm, ho gained n pound nnd n halt
from Monday morning until Snturdnj
night.
llu nbatnlncd entirely from food for
the (Irat threo days of tho week, net'
Ing on the physician's ndvlcv, nnd
while ho lms eaten alnco then, It has
been but sparingly. After 1U break
fast Monday morning Mr. Miller nle
nothing whiitevor until Thursday
morning, nnd during these seventy-
two lioura drunk hut very little water.
Thursday morning ho nto tho Julcu
of nn orange, nnd Tliurdny nto n dry
crust of bread nnd drank some milk.
Friday bo nto two plecoa of bread nnd
drank more milk, nnd Saturday nlso
(I i nn k milk nnd nto two allies of
broad. He will llvo on this diet for
a week or so longer.
Monday morning Mr. Miller weighed
1014 pounds; Thursday morning, at
tho oud of hla seventy-two hours' fnat,
he weighed 127, nnd KHturdny night,
niter hla light bread nud milk diet,
ho weighed 131 pounds.
The mid effects of Him fasting wcro
felt tho third dny, Mr. Miller wiya.
1'ho II ret nnd second days he felt noth
ing more serious tlinu hunger, hut tho
third day wna extremely nervous nnd
restless the entire dny nud hail a slight
htmdncho. A good night's sleep re
moved this nervousness nud restless
ness nnd he felt lu excellent health
nud spirits when ho awakened Thurs
day morning,
Ills Idea la Hint from that Hmo on,
lind ho fasted lougor, tho III effects
would hnvo disappeared nnd that tho
only thing ho would have noticed
would hnvo been that' ho would hnvo
gradually grown weaker became of
the lack of food, lie broke Ills fast
only beonuso ho was acting" under the
orders of the physician, l-'rom now
on he will Increase his nllowniico of
milk dnlly until ho Is ready to u
back lo n meat nnd vegetable diet.
SrUTTINO A WCTimE.
One Where IIik lliilf I'rmnl
lireulrr limn I lie Whole,
There Is no imluter who lends him
self to "splitting'' so much as Itotll
colli I. e., a division of the iwnel Into
two perls so ns to form sonarst pic
tures. Years ago I sold to m Mr. Hut
tery of Uindon half a Botticelli, which
Is now owned by llerr Ksufnisun of
llsrlln. I have myself seen the other
half of the picture, as well ns the pic
ture In lis entire state.
lu ono case I can recall tho halt
proved greater than Hie whole. A cer
tain Signnr Ilarlll bequeathed a valu
able Ilottleelll to hie two grandsons,
who were twins. Hut although twins,
these two young men were rather
quarrelsome nud had no taste In com
mon. One pioposfd to ell the picture,
which bud been (minted for one of
their nnrestnrs, It Is said, by Ilottlcell'
himself. Tho other would not consent.
The llrst then proposed that the other
should buy his share and keep tho pic
ture himself. He took mo with him,
nud I assigned the value of tho pic
ture nt 6,000 lire, saying I would give
Hist far it. The brother declined and
suggested placing tho picture lu the
custody of an aunt pending nn adjust
ment of the terms. "Oh, very well,"
cried his brother, Hying into n passion,
If you won't buy und won't let me
soil there's only one thing to do." and
before anyone could Interfere he emp
tied three chambers of n revolver Into
the panel, completely destroying one
half of the composition, Including a
St. John and n Joseph. The picture be
ing sent to me to restore. I could do
nothing with it, nnd strongly advised
separating tho panel. Shortly nfter I
did so the owner died, nnd 1 disposed
of the work for G.000 lire to Adolph
Kami. It la now, I believe, in Itussla.
K. Iluiiono, In Strand Magazine.
The I'aiiul Svillt-I,
Whon they reached Montreal on tho
elopement Chicago seemed far, far
away, and thoy were both homesick.
"I will Just (olograph (ho letler 'F'
(o father." said tho bcautlfut bride.
"That will mean forgiveness."
"Hotter make It two 'F's,'" advised
tho young bridegroom.
"CJraclous, dearl And what will two
'Pa mean?"
"Why, forglvoiicss nnd funds." Chi
cago News.
CSurileuluit,
To dig and delve In nice clean dirt
Can do a mortal little hurt.
To llvo 'it)ongst lush and growing
tilings
Is llko to give tho spirit wings.
Who works 'mid roses soon will And
Their fragranco budding in his mind.
And minds that sprout with roscj
free
Well, that's tho sort of mind for met
People soon forget good advice
when an agent Is on the other side.
Old Favorites
Soincllmr, Diimi-ivlirrc
Unanswered yet, tho prayer your Hps
have pleaded
InviKony of heart those ninny years?
Docs fnlth begin to fall, Is hope de
clining, And think you all In vain those fall
ing tears?
Hay not the Hither lms not heard your
prayer.
You shall hnvo your dcslro sometime,
somewhere.
Unanswered yet? Hut you nro not un
heeded; The promlsos of Ood forever standi
To Him our dnyi nnd years alike are
equal.
"Have fH.lth In rjodt" It la your
Lord's command.
Hold on to Jacob's angel, and your
prayer
Shall bring n blessing down, sometime,
somewhere.
Unanswered yot? Nay, do not say un
answered; I'crhapa your part la not yet wholly
done,
Tho work began when your first prayer
was uttered,
And Clod will finish what Ho has be
gun. Keep Incenso burning at tho shrlno of
prayer.
And glory shall descend, somotlmo,
somewhere.
Unanswered yet? Nay, do not s.iy un
answered: Iter feet nro firmly planted on tho
Itock,
Amid the wildest storms she standi
undaunted,
Nor (limits lieforo the loudest thun
der shook.
fho knows omnipotence has heard her
prayer,
And cries, "It shall bo done, somctlmt,
somewhere."
Ophelia CI, Drowning.
llmr to
'tis time
,nU n Mil Have,
I should talk to
"Oh.
your
mother,
Sweet Mnrv." ssvs I.
-Ml .1,1.11 tit ,tttllAI-" UtM
Mary,
Ileglnnlng tn ory;
'for my mother says men nro deceiv
ers, And never, 1 know, will consent;
She my girls In a hurry who marry
At leisure repent."
Then suppose I would talk to your
father,
Sweet Mary," says I,
"Oh, don't talk to my father," says
Mary,
Ileglnulng to ory.
Tor my father he loves me ao dearly,
He'll never consent I should go
lf you talk to my fat her," says Mary,
"He'll surely say 'no.' "
"Then how shall I get you, my Jowel,
Sweet Mary," says I.
If your father and mother's so cruel,
Most surely I'll die."
Oh, never say die, dear," says Mary;
"A way l' s.ivo you 1 see;
Since my parents nro both so con
trary
You'd hotter ask me."
Samuel Iiver.
SCHOOL OF HADYOLOOY.
I'nr Weal Approval for Dr. IMnn
llnx'a Ui.lunn 31. N. I). I'litn.
Only n woman would dnro suggest
Hint tho enro of babies llvo, hungry,
crying babies bo studied by the girls
nt n university. Yet exactly this Is
what Dr. Kdna Dny suggested, nnd
tho University of Missouri set a going.
Miss Dny long may she shine over
the 'varsity's deiwrlment of home eeon
nmlcs! has started n course of tattl
ing, dressing, feeding and playing with
babies, nnd hopes In Install a day nur
sery also, nnd In-door and nut-door
playrooms and n scientific kitchen for
preparing children's food properly, the
Spoknne Itovlew says. Tho cour.o Is
no moro feminine recreation, but nn
accredited nnd serious study.
Though every brond-gnuged man ad
vocates larger life and wider sphores
for women, he nnd the wise, true worn
nu recognise that the home la lior first
sphere and regard right study nnd
rearing of children as nn enrlohlng
culture nnd as foundation laying for
tho state.
For yonrs past, however, womon'a
colleges have been criticized as not
equipping tholr sweet girl graduates
on tho practical side. Tho training
was not accomplishing nil Hint b
been expoctod In making tho new wom
an. The associations of their grad
uates allege tho need of n change In
(he courses at women's universities.
It was frankly acknowledged Hint utno
out of ten women marry and have
children.
Miss Pay nnd the University of Mis
sourt nnswer the criticism nnd meet
tho need. The university la the first
.State-supported school to tako this new
step In educating women The matter.
as every person knows who Is familiar
with the serious preventable mortality
among infants. Is n vital matter.
Napoleon said that what Franco most
needed wns moro mothers, mid he was
right. America nee-da more of Intelli
gent and trained motherhood. Ml
sourl's university helps to prepare fu
turo mothers for their share In the
world's vital work.
EDUCATION FOR THE BOYS.
N'hr Noun til SiimiII I'urmvr llewlup
.Miiiiimt-rlul Al)llll-,
Tho education acquired on tho small
farm broadens citizenship becnuse It
Is a many sided education and gives
conect Impressions of many phases of
life. All over tho world the small, in
dependent farmers nro stanch support
ers of conservntlvo government. Thoy
nio '.ntonso lovers of homo and opposed
to radical changes.
Ultimately the small farmer learns
to koep a reserve cash against emer
gencies, and theso aggregated accumu
lations become very Important factors
In the capital of tho nation, fsr they
nro more reliable than deposits from
commercial sources. The vast sums of
money necessary to carry on tho busi
ness of a nation nro not derived from
tho deposits of capitalists, but from
the aggregation of millions of thrifty
small depositors. This Is especially
true In Hngland, France, Germauy and
the United States.
It has been observed for years that
the sons of small farmers develop man
aging ability. From their earliest
yearn they nro compelled to do tnintri j
and to net Independently. It Is from
this source Hint the greatest number
of matiagora of tho varloua enterprlsca
of our country hnvo been drawn.
Tho great valuo of cdiiratlng and
trn nine youth for agriculture is so
universally conceded that It docs no
require discussion. Tho necessity of
presenting nnd Impressing better types
of husbandry upon adult farmers
through demonstrations under tholr
care la rapidly being accepted by tho
American pcoplo as n most Important
means of education for tho rural
masses and necessary to any general
and rapid advancement.
If nil la considered education that
"lends out," develops or trains the In
dividual, then tho nmount of education
acquired In even tho best schools
only a fraction of what tho averngo
man must know to succeed in life.
Is, then, of the highest Importance to
tho stnto Hint this greater mass of
knowledge Bhotild bo correct, broad
conservntlvo nnd clevntlng. Libera!
provision hna been mndo for schools
by tho atnto, by churches nnd by Indl
vlduat glfta, but the molding of this
greater knowledge to tho best Inter
ests of society tins been mainly left to
tho cnnrlco of Individual effort. The
slnto can with propriety specially fos
tcr such conditions of society, such
lines of Industry or such occupations
n8 evidently tend to mental nnd physl
cnl vigor, to breadth of understanding,
to the best citizenship and to tho stn
blllty of tho 'stnto. For theso ends no
more potent Influence has been found
than an Intelligent, prosperous nnd
contented body of thrifty small
farmers.
STRUQOLE AGAINST QEIIM8.
IIi-IIim-IIoiik nt n I'ntlit-r, a Victim tit
li rolloy f .Mrrllliulloit.
Tho first question I want to nsk par
ents Is this: What good nro a thou
sand atcrlllr.cd milk bottles going to
do you when you conic Into tho nur
scry nml aco your youngest with Hint
heavenly look upon his face sucking
his shoo?
It nil enmo over mo llko nn insplrn
Hon tho other day when I raw him
doing It that after nil, barring his
technique, tho little fellow wns right
In what ho wns trying to oxpross, Hint
la In hla general Idea of not being so
auspicious or tho Creator, n writer In
Mount Tom says. I did not pull down
his foot or tnko his shoo out of hi
mouth. I Just stood still nnd envied
him ns ho snt there In hla llttlo might
nnd In hla llttlo bliss, tho llttlo calm
god, n wholo Christendom of gorms
nround him, lotting himself hnvo be
fore his mother came In Just ono Utile
off moment of living.
I hnvo tried si mo (3 a. in. some
times, February) when I hnvo got up
to boll, to Impress this truth upon his
mother; but It hna donn llttlo good,
She still hollo nnd worries, Tho doc
tor every tlmo ho calls encourages her
to worry mid lvoll harder, nml now
Intcly alio has begun n process of dis
tilling nnd pnstcurhlng mo. She la
living In hourly terror before her own
bncllll nnd before my bacilli nnd tho
children's (seven entlro sols alio hna
to attend to In all) nnd It Is gottlng
to bo very liardo tell what to do for
lior. Tho germ theory does not seem
to mo tn bo renlly practicable exropt
for Infinite nnd omnipresent people.
It Is worro than the mnrphlno hnblt.
The moment n germ appears before
her or tnnkos a feint or rumor of be
ginning to appear within worrying dis
tance of us (300 miles) she throws up
her arms, utters a cry of despair and
falls lUt before It.
W&&V.V.VVVr.ir&irir&Z7irVV
g Wit of the Youngsters
Undo Henry So you nro going to
school now, Willie. Do you love your
teacher? Wllllo (aged 7) I should
say not. She's too old for me.
The Sunday school teacher had Just
explained to the Juvenile clnss Hint the
first parents were made from dust.
"Now, Kduar," she said lo n bright
llttlo fellow, "can you (ell me who the
llrst man was?" "Henry Clay," was
the prompt reply.
Du.lng a few weeks spent In tfie
country small Kva mlssod the tlsh
served each Friday for dinner at home.
"Grandma," sho snld one day, "don't
you have nny Fridays In the country?'
"Of courso wo do, dear," replies the
old lady. "Wo have ono each week."
"Well," eald Hva, "I thought perhaps
you didn't, for I haven't smelled a Fri
day since I've been hero."
Aluminum In Tllle,
The Increased faollltlea for extract
tug aluminum from clay havo brought
the price of that metal, which was
once $10 a pound, down to about SO
cents. Naturally It Is being used
more and lu moro various thlugs than
it was when tho price was so high,
one of the latest uses to which It has
been put being the warp In textile.
These are used for evening cloaks and
theatrical costumes. It makes tho fig
ure of a woman look as If It had been
dipped In silver. Of course, the metal
Is drawu Into very fine threads nnd is
the used in the textile smooth or
twisted.
Other things Into which It Is woven
are neckcloths, pompadours, shoes,
belts, noek tics, shawls, hats, otc.
Aluminum yarn Is now being woven
Into shoo strlug for ladles' shoes.
Tho Pathfinder .
'I' liu duly Coui-lusloii,
Tho story possibly npochryphal
Is told of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
the creator of Sherlock Holmes, that
one day n woman wished to consult
him about somo thefts. "My detect
ive powers," ho is reported by a writ-
or in tho Washington Star to havo re
plied, "are at your service."
"well, said tho woman," "frequent
and mysterious thefts have been oc
curring nt my house for a long tlmo.
Thus there disappeared last week a
motor horn, a broom, a box of golf
balls, a left rldtng boot, a dictionary,
and a half dozen tin pie plates."
"I see it," said the author. "The
case Is perfectly clear. You keep a
goal."
It la easier (o blame your hoodoo
than to admit your mistakes
Opinions of
TWELVE MILLION TELEPHONES.
T IS reported that
country 12,000.000 telephones, or ono for
overy two houses in
docs not mean that one-halt of tho real
donees In tho country contain an inatru
ment, alnco many business houses have a
largo number, but tho figures nro Instruc-
tlvo
nnd IllumlnntlnK. Practically
anybody In tho cities or towns nnd villages has a tele
phone, whllo tlioso in the country districts nro legion.
Tho astonishing fact is that each of theso phones Is
used on nn average alx times n day. Tho total number
of calls In n year runs up Into tho bllllotiB nnd Is not
appreciable by tho human mind.
This is tho moro remarknblo when wo consider that
forty years ago there wns no such thing ns n tele
phone, nnd oven twenty years ago tho Instrument was
not common outside of business houses. Now they novo
become ono of the necessities of life. Wo uso tho tele
phono not only In business, but for social purposes, for
shopping and marketing and for almost every purposo
whero wo used to use tho mnlls or do without. If by
nny catastrophe tho telephones of tho country should
be silenced forever It would amount to ii calamity of
the first magnitude. Wo hnvo adjusted our lives to tho
telcphono nnd could not do without It unless we made
new and undcslrnblo arrangements. Philadelphia Inquirer.
REGULATION OF THE AIR.
AWS hnvo been passd by Gormany, Franco
and Switzerland having to do with tho
traffic of tho nlr. Tho city of Paris has
fixed n duty for tho entrance of aeroplanes
In keeping with tho duties collected at tho
gates upon nulomoblles nnd horse-drawn
vchlclos. It will not bo long before legis
tm niiiiiijiinf
lation governing Hying will be general. Tlioro must bo
laws regulating speed and tho height to bo down. Lanes
of traffic will hnvo to be mapped out It thero nro to bo
ninny machines, Certain types may hnvo to bo kept
upon ono level white other patterns Journey through
their individual planes. The policing of the nlr Is going
to be n tough nut for tho lawmakers to crack. Stnto
boundaries nnd the borders of nations nro lo become ex
ceedingly Indcflnablo,
The most Interesting ono of tho difficulties so far
foreseen i elates to the ownership of tho nlr. Under tho
common law a property holder owns all tho ground be
neath him nnd nil tho nlr above. How Is ho going to
wnrn off the trespassers upon his ntmosphcro nnd how
Is he going to collect damage for trespass? Judgo
James W. Uernrd of tho r'upreino Court of New York
says a property owner can enforce nn order against
flying over tho land so fat ns the law gives htm flint
privilege, hut, tn enso of suit, ho will gain llttlo recom
pense. "Such nn owner," ho says, "could not collect
moro than six cents, unless tho neroplano did dmnago
to tho property. It would bo simply a case of Injury
without damages."
Automobile Inws
nro n Jumblo of
Tho spring publishing season In Ixn
don Is said to have been far from suc
cessful. Ono commontntor declares
Hint the real cniuo of this condition Is
Hint so few of tho books Issued are
of nny permanent vnlue. There's
something In Hist.
Augusta llulell Seaman's new book,
Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons',
li
a n uIa.ii . . .u.i. .. I . . , . Ii Ills Inrln
siege of l.eyilen In the days of Wll
Ham the Silent, and Ita young liero,
(lysbert CornelllMH. Is an actual hoy
of whom history lias given a brlof
glimpse.
Signer d'Annutulo has been staying
quietly In Paris, studying the life ol
the dressmakers employed In (Tie great
fashion establishments for (ho pu
pe.ts of his new book, "Amaranta."
Tho heroine Is a poor girl who leaves
her Italian home to seek employment
In Paris.
The third and last volume of Gen
eral Kuroiwtkln'a memoirs has up
pea red In Itussla. In this tie attacks
the Itusslan press for having, as he de
clares, contributed to the demoraliza
tion of the Itusslan troopa during the
war with Japan; and he ndvlsos that
lu future wars only events calculated
to raise the morale of an army should
be allowed to l mentioned In the
newspapers.
That unconventional book, "The
Martyrdom of Man," by Wlnwood
Iteade, nephew of the novelist Charles
lleade. has lately gone Into an elgh
teeuth edition. It was of Its author
that his uncle once said that he was
"heir to considerable estate and gifted
with genius; but he did not live -long
enough to Inherit (he one or (o madire
(he other." Wlnwood Roade wrote
many books of fiction nnd travel, but
only the volume mentioned above has
survived.
A now series of books to be called
the "Harvard Studies in Comparative
Literature" has Just been founded by
Professor Scho9eld of Harvard, who Is
to ba the goueral editor. It Is to com
prise works by Harvard graduates or
Instructors in the field of comparative
literature. Professor Santayana, the
philosopher, essayist and poet, will
start the series with a book on "Three
Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante,
and fiootUo." The series is to be pub
lished by the university.
H. Addlngton Hruce In "Daniel
Doone and. tho Wilderness Road" has
written a book which serves the double
purpose of a biography of Uoone am) a
Itudy of tho first phase of the territorial
growth of the United States. As biog
raphy, the work presents n complete
accouut of Doone'a life and an estimate
of his specific contribution to the prog
ress of the nation. As history, the
process of expansion In Its military,
political, economic and social aspects
Is considered.
Maxim Gorky has now married Mmo.
Andrleva. who caused his last visit to
America to end somewhat disastrously.
Mine. Andrleva was a noted actress
before she married Gorky, and It Is
reported that Gorky has renounced so
cialism, has been expelled from that
party as a renegade and that he Is
coming to America to star his wife tn
several of the plays he has written.
Editorials
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
thero nro now In this
the country. This
otorybody who Is
Stnto regulations
Slnco renouncing socialism It Is said
Hint ho no longer deserves tils ptou
donym Gorky, which signifies "tho bit
lor," ns ho hns become optimistic and
cheerful.
FROM ONE WIZARD TO ANOTHER.
Ilotr 'II um A. liilUuu Found lli
Jllnry or huiuuel l II, Mre,
In tho middle "80's" Thomas A.
lidlion took n house lu Grnmorcy
Park, Now York City, whore ho found
himself very woll situated for the lols
lire which ho always enjoys, being by
nature a reposeful man and not the
grinding dynamo that people so often
fancy him. Fow things suit better the
mood of Idleness than to poke aim
lessly nround mi old house that has
Its legible traces nnd signs uf human
occuiMiiicy, mid thus one day Hdlsoti
found himself In the garret uf the
house, whore somo old furniture had
been stored, n writer In the .Metropolis
says. Opening ono of tho drawers, he
saw lying within n flat oblong book
labeled "Dally Journal." To hla
astonishment this proved tn be noth
Ing leas than nn original dlnry kept
by Samuel F, 1). Morse, lnvontor of
the universal system of telegraphy
which bears his name. The entries
belonged to a brief-but most Interest
Ing period of his life, the year ISIS.
supplemented by transcripts of Ini
portant correspondence dated back as
far ns 1813, when the electro magnetic
telegraph system wns being construct
ed between Washington and Haiti-
moro.
Kdlson put the book away carefully
and took it with him when he estab
lished himself at his present country
homo In Now Jersey. He has now
placed it In the hands of the Ameri
can Institute of Electrical Engineers,
with the remark in his accompanying
lettor or July 22, laoa: "As this ap
poara to me to be a matter of great
sclentlflo and public interest, I feel
that thla Journal should be placed
where It may be accessible to others,
nnd I therefore tnko much pleasure
In forwarding the same herewith and
In presenting It to your institute In
the hope that It may be deemed worthy
of receiving a placo among the me
mentos of the telegraphic art In your
library."
That Edison himself, the great tel
egraph Inventor of our age, who stands
next tn line to Franklin and Morse
as master of the electrical forces,
should have chanced thus casually on
lost relic of his predecessor Is, to
say the least, a notable coincidence.
The first bride who ever mado a
honeymoon trip on a railroad In Amer
ica did more by that act to expedite
the building of the world's first trunk
line, declares C. F. Carter, In his book.
When Ilallroads were New," than the
ablest statesmen, engineers and finan
ciers of the Empire State bad beet
able to accomplish by their united ef
forts In half a dozen years.
The brldj who achieved so much was
Mrs. Henry L. Plerson of Ramapo, N.
Y. Mr. and Mrs. Plerson were In
Charleston. S. C, early in January,
1831, on their wedding tour. Wheu
Mrs. Plerson heard that a steam loco
motive was to make Its first trip with
train-load of passengers from
Charleston to Hamburg, six miles
away, she was eagor tp take the ride;
and her husband agreed.
The two curs were crazy "contrap
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and city ordinances. Add to them tho neroplane laws
soon to be enacted, and consider tho muddle of legisla
tion for which the busy llttlo gasoline cuglno must bo
hold rosponslblo. Toledo DIado.
RAISINO THE "MAINE."
HE loss of no vessel, naval or other, ever
mndo n greater Bonsatlon or was fraught
with graver consequonccs than the myste
rious destruction of tho battleship Main
in Havana harbor Fob. 1G, 1898. This
tragedy, which Involved tho deaths of 206
American sailors, mado inevitable tho war
with Spain a-d the freedom of Cuba. Now, nrtcr a
dozen year, Congress has paased an net appropriating
money for tho removal of the battered wreck.
Thla action la In recognition of a pcralstcnt public
demand, baBcd partly upon tho sentimental considera
tion that tho bodies of slxty-sovcn sailors wcro novor
removed from tho sunken hull, partly upon tho prac
tical ground that tho wreck Is n mennco to navigation,
nnd pi.rtly upon the feeling that the raising nnd exam
ination of tho hull will clear up any uncertainty ns to
the naturo of tho uxploslon which caused tho wreck.
A naval board of inquiry, nfter sitting twonty-threo
days, found that the battleship was destroyed by nn
oxtcrnnl agency, prcsumnbly n mlno under tho bottom
nnd somcwhnt on tho port side. This opinion was based
largely upon tho reports of tho divers, who found that
the bottom plates over a considerable area had been
bent lnwnrd nnd upwnrd over thirty feet. Tho Bpnnlsh
government mado nn Inquiry of Its own, nnd malntnlncd
Hint tho explosion was from within.
Tho ngltntlon for raising tho Mnlno has been continu
ous since 1808, nnd thero Is general satisfaction nt the
nctlon of Congress. Cuba is especlnlly plcnscd. It
probably would hnvo undcrlnkcn tho work Itself In bo
hnlf of tho appearance nnd safety of Ita principal har
bor had It not been deterred by lack nt money nnd by
considerations of International etiquette. Youth's Companion,
THE WORLD GOINO INSANE r
SANITARIUM specialist declares Hint 2CG
years henco tho entire population of tho
world will bo Insane. Anyone who follows
tho ovtdnnco of the medlrnl experts In n
murder ense will bo Inclined to bellovo
htm, mid to bellovo that the medical pro
fession will bo the llrst to succumb to do-
rnngeiiient. Fortunately, however, thero are many per
fectly sane persons, nnd there Is no fenr of nny such
terrible fate ns thla pessimistic physician piopheelos.
Medlcnl icluiico is constnutly advancing. Presently
tuberculosis will bo driven from the face of the earth.
Harterlology lms already defeated numerous diseases that
wcro onco dendly. 1'ventunlly dlscnso.its we know It to-day,
will no longer exist. Preventive medicine Is revolu
tionizing civilization. There Is no room for pessimism
lu tho medical profession, to whosu splendid optimism
humanity looks for Its greatest nld townrd tho Ideal
life which tho future must develop.-Chicago Journal.
tions" on four wheels, resembling
stage conch bodies as much as they
did anything olso; but tho train con
trived to got over the entlro systccn
of six miles and back again at a fair
ly satisfactory spied.
Tho bride was delighted. She couid
talk of nothing else. When sho re
turned (o Hcniapo alio gave her brother-in-law,
Klcazer Lord, nnd her fath-er-ln-law,
Jeremiah Plerson, such glow
ing nccounta of her railroad trip that
they wore tired with enthuslnsm. Tho
bridegroom hnd already becomo nlmost
ns ardent an advocate of railroads as
his bride.
Young Mrs. Plerson gave it ns her
opinion (lint If a steam railroad were
built It would be possible to go from
New York to Iluffslo In 21 hours. At
llrst tho men-folks were Inclined to
smllo at this, but thoy were thorough
ly Impressed with the value of tho lo-
ecvnotlve as desorlbed by this ardent
advocate.
Mrs. Plerson's girlish enthusiasm
was the determining factor which
crystallized tho Ideas of those men and'
led them to tako tho steps which final
ly resulted In the building of what Is
now known as tho Erie road, which, by
uniting tho ocoan with tho Great
Lakes, became tho world's first trunk
line.
No rallrotd had a more romantic his
tory than thla one, which had Its Incep
tion In so romantic an Incident. It re
quired 20 years of toll and anxletv,
sacrifice and discouragement lo get tho
lino through, but It was accomplished
at last, and the bridegroom and bride
were again passengers on a trip whlci
will live In history.
This time the bride was a handsoma
woman of middle ago, but sho was Just
as proud of her husband as she was on
that first trip, for ho was vice presi
dent of the road, the longest continu
ous line In the world; and the trains
did movo at a spood that would havo
carried them from New York to Buf
falo In 24 hours, Just as sho had
prophesied two decades before.
Dciitlat tu lUe Muntoilon,
If one wore to reason wholly frocu
appearances, the prehistoric mastodon
must have had an accomplished dentist
with modern appliances. This Is the
conclusion one might reach after read
ing an Incident cited by John R. Spears
In "Gold Diggings of Cape Horn." Tho
story was told to the author by a South
American miner, who himself fcund
tho curious deposit.
This miner, searching for gold along
the coast, found in an earth bank a fos
sil which proved to be a part of a mas
todon's lower Jaw, with two teeth In
place.
The bone was In such a decayed con
dition that the finder was about to
throw It away, when his eye fell on a
crack In the top and side of one of the
teeth. The cavity thus formed was
filled with a foreign substance, to
which the miner applied his knife, and
found, to his astonishment, that it was
pure gold.
The explanation of the curious dis
covery' Is probably as follows; Tho
gold, contained lu broken-down quartz,
was washed Into the cavity by the ac
tion of water, deposited there, and tha
fine grains united to form a nugget.
The old bone simply happened to be
lying in the track o! the silt.
The piece of gold thus formed weigh
ed about eight grams.
No girl Is entirely happy and satis
fied with her lover If she continues ta
say her prayers during her eagae-nns