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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Indian Servant Girls. ANEW solution of the servant girl problem In being discussed la the large cities of the West Indian girls, from special training schools, are being em ployed as servant girls. It Is said that the Indian girls who have been properly trained are found to be perfect embodiments of satisfactory domestic service. Five thousand or more Indian girls have been engaged from the various Indian schools of the Southwest to act as domestics In the homes of wealthy people In, Kansas lity, Chicago, St. Louis and Denver. Most of these girls are from the Chilacco and Haskell Indian schools. The Indian girls are physically strong. They are, as a rule, faithful, polite and unobtrusive. The Idea of employing Indian girl domestics Is now being seriously considered by some of the rich families of Eastern cities. Buffalo Enquirer. The Necessity of Courage. WIIEN a man Is depressed he may be sure that the Indulgence In physical actions characteris tic of depression, such as moping and sighing, still more increase his depression, while his first attempt at more sensible conduct will prove that the deliberate and at first artificial assumption of cheerfulness and activity will, after a while, actually bring about a more cheerful frame of mind. Slow move ments, slow speech, physical action of every kind deliber ately rendered slow, Is an antidote to the irritation of a man harassed and pressed with affairs, which good sense will suggest to him, although bo may know nothing about the psychological theory of attaining a desired condition of mental quiet by, at first, imitating the bodily gesture of a calm mind. On the other hand, the giving way to quick, Irritated bodily movements Is sure to cause an accession of irritability. New York Dally News. but there is a very good practical reason why he should not; he will lose his Job. It follows, therefore, that a branch of education so im portant that a man is Judged by all the world as Illiterate if he neglects it, should not be neglected in the schools. Our public schools and colleges are not Shakspeare facto ries. They are for the education of average people. Wash ington Times. . The Meat-Eater's Defence. THERE are certain esthetic persons who quail before a luscious blood red steak. These persons are hard ly abreast of scientific thought or else they would also quail before the corpse of the gentle asparagus. The asparagus Is undoubtedly a form of life and the distinction between the higher vegetables and the lower animals is hard to make. Bacteria, for instance, though usually supposed to fall In the field of zoology, are said to belong of rights to botany. The fact is that the vegetarian agitation served its purpose In emphasizing the good there Is in eating a fair proportion of vegetables and the evil there is In eating nn unfnlr proportion of meat. This pur pose being accomplished, exclusive devotion to a vegetable diet is perhaps no longer necessary except during sickness. No one, of course, can object to "an affection a la Flato for a bashful young potato or a not too French French bean" in a comic opera, but an affection of the propagan dist kind for fruits, cereals and vegetables as the antago nists of meats Is happily no longer a desirable feature of modern life. We are now allowed by the highest authori ties to enjoy the taste and stimulus of meat without com punction. Chicago Tribune. The Value of Spelling. SOMEBODY with views of spelling more original than orthodox has written to a Chicago paper to protest against the prominence given to this study In college examination pnpers. He contends that no professor or set of professors can Justly condemn a freshman for being a poor speller, so long as no stress was laid on this branch of education before the days of Samuel John son. In other words, If so great a man as Shukspeare had a right to spell bis own name In six different ways, and George Washington was shaky on orthography, a mere college student should be forgiven for not being able to master the Intricacies of twentieth century spelling. This sound plausible, and, Judging from the kind of work the pupils in American public schools turn out, there are many parents In this land who hold similar views. But the fallacy of the argument lies In the fact that the average high school graduate is not expected to be a Shakspeare or a George Washington, and that he Is expected In most cases to be the clerk or bookkeeper of an ordinary business man. His employer will not ask him If he can write immortal plays or lead on army. He will ask him to write a note to Mr. Smith nt such and such a number, Broadway; and that note will look ridiculous If the name of the street Is spelled phonetically. Of course there Is no reason, logically, why the clerk should tint introduce phonetic spelling In his office; The Use of Both Hands. MUCH of the mechanical work that Is now done with the right hand could be done as well with the left hand. It that member were sufficiently trained, and the division of labor thus made pos sible would not only result In more efficient work, but in an Increased quantity of It It is, of course, very evident that when both hands are equally dexterous, they may be used alternately, and the worker never need stop for rest; for as soon as one hand gets tired he can use the other. Just why one employs the right arm In so many things In preference to the left is a question which has not yet received a conclusive answer. The more commonly ac cepted Idea Is that the habit Is directly due to the fact that ti mother Invariably carries a child on her left arm, so that she, the carrier, may have the free use of her right arm. Then, again, there are those who say the physiological construction of the nerves and veins that enter the right aim is different to that of those which enter the left one, the nerves and veins of the right arm being more promi nent But despite the fact that an examination of the left arm of a left-handed person reveals the fact that his lef arm contains more prominent veins and nerves than hid tight, it is, nevertheless, impossible to say whether the phenomenon noticed Is the effect of the habit or the habit the effect of the phenomenon. Even a slight accident to the right hand incapacitates one nowadays from all manner of work, whereas, If the use of the left hand were cultivated as It should be, such misfortunes would lose much of their terror. St James' Budget Vast Increase of Wealth. THE Increase of wealth within the past wenty-flve years. In this country, has been enormous. By this statement we mean that the country is richer in everything that makes a country rich, but also and chiefly that there are now multitudes of very rich men where a quarter of a century ago there were only a few. Fifty years ago it was easy to name the individuals who had an income of flrty thousand dollars a year. Such an Income Implied productive property of more than a million. The American style is the most extravagant lw the world. It demands the best everywhere, and usually gets it and pays the highest prices for it Are we then a nation of spendthrifts, the rich people setting the pace and the rest following as fast and as far as they can? We do not think so. We are called money worshipers by some; and reckless prodigals by others. Neither charge is correct. There is a new scale of wealth, and there are many more people who have large possessions than ever before in our history. But there is as large a proportion of sensible and thrifty persons in the country as ever. There are fewer reckless spendthrifts, and more rich men who are bestowing vast sums of money In philanthropic and charitable works. The wealth which Is gathered is not hoarded. Much of it is distributed throughout the com munity, and a larger proportion than In former times Is given away in charity and philanthropy. There is also less self-denial and less saving, the severer virtues have been sent to the background, and charity and friendliness and hospitality are displayed and advertised. The good things which multi-millionaires are doing with their gold are pub lished far and wide, and "the woman with two mites" has little chance of commendation in comparison with them. What the end will be it Is impossible to predict. It is evi dent now that the rich are getting richer, that the cost of everything which rich people use and demaud is growing greater every day, and that competition has stretched be yond business, and entered social, and even church life, In ways that are offensive to good breeding and menacing to pure religion. Unless along with the new scale of living and personal expenditure comes a new standard of benevo lence and self-sacrifice, we shall only repeat in this repub lic the experience of other ages, and reap an evil and pain ful harvest Great wealth without mercy, charity and self devotion is not a blessing but a curse. New York Observer. AMUSEMENTS OF YALE MEN. Member of the Senior Clusa Take to Feeding Fqulrrels. The establishment of a squirrel com mons In the center of the Yale campus Is the Innovation that the present senior class has to its credit. Each class during Its stay of four years ou the campus plans to Introduce some novel form of amusement which shall thrive after it luaves the university and which Is always associated with Its numerals. In this way top-spinning, hoop-roll-Ing, crap shouting ami the several oth er amusements that have become part of the university undergraduate pro gram have been Introduced. The mem bers of the class of VMi, however, have the honor of Introducing the Urst amusement which has a tendency in the line of feeding the li unirrv Hint " housing the homeless. The Yule campus, with Its beautiful elms, has always been an Ideal home for the squirrels and the chipmunks and many years ago they, with their respective families, sought the peace supposed to be within the classic walls of Yale. But the Introduction of the Boston terrier as a roomer there, as well as a frequent visitor, frightened away many of these lively little ani mals, until a couple of years ago the sight of a squirrel was most uncom mon. Then a reaction set In, the terrier was ostracized or at least was curtail ed In bis Utwrty, aud the bright busy little animals were encouraged to re turn to their abandoned farms by the Yale boys. Then plans were made to keep frisky chaps on tho campus, with the result that what may very prop erly be termed a squirrel commons now exists. All during the early fall tho Yale men congregate In numbers n their respective fences, and with bags full of peanuts and wuluuts, entice the squirrels and chipmunks to come down to supper. Another amusement, which Is said to have originated up near the Sheffield sclentlllc school, Is pitching pennies. Pitching pennies lias been one of the frolics of the Yale campus since the Introduction of the first monkey Into New Haven. But the occupants of the freshman dormitories have originated a feature which Intensities the fun to the Yale mind. It took the Italian with the hurdy gurdy less than twenty-four hours after his arrival In town to learn that the fertile field for his labors was In the region of the Yule campus. And he soon came to realize that the fresh men were his best customers. As a result, directly after dinner, during the fall evenings, there are lined up a doz en of these musical artists with their several Instruments dispensing "Boolo Yale," "We Won't Go Home Until Morning," "Wo Must Love Some One," and other Yalo favorites In a distract ing chorus. . At first, when there were compara tively few Instruments In the city, there was fun enough In simply danc ing to the music or In tossing pennies from the windows, but as competition grew keen nnd more Italians appeared the fuu grew more furious. One night, says the Boston Herald, an old favorite held up his hand for the accustomed coin, and when It land ed It was hot. Instinctively ho tossed It up to be caught by the next fellow. who In turn let It fly. The boys heat ed the pennies In the fireplaces of their rooms, and then dropped them down to tho unsuspecting Neapolitans. Now there Is more caution on the part of the players, but every night the boys rain the red-hot coins down, and the grasping musicians pitch each of them up In the air to cool, as they hesitate whether to risk a scorched hand or allow their neighbors to become richer on account of their timidity. CRABEING IN MARYLAND. An Ingenious Me. ho i by Which Many Are Cnuight for the Market. Those who crab for market on the Choptunk river, Maryland, have nn In genious method of catching crabs In quantity. A rope about the thickness of a clothesline, several hundred feet long, Is kept colled In a keg. The closer tho cover the more pleasant the sail with the fisherman to the crabbing grounds, for at Intervals of two feet along the entire length of the rope he has untwisted It and Inserted between the strands short pieces of salted eels. The torsion of the strands holds them lightly In place. Each end of the rope has a keg buoy attached, together with a heavy stone. Arriving at the favored place, usu ally on oyster beds, ho throws a keg overboard and pays out his highly scented rope as he sails. When the other end is reached he anchors it with another stone and throws out another buoy. After lowering his sail, he waits a few minutes, then takes his stand on the bow of his boat. Alongside of him is his landing net, with a handle six feet long. He raises the buoy and stone and, hand over hand, pulls his boat along the line. When a crab, clinging to Its refreshment, comes In sight, he seizes his net, dashes It un der the crab and flings it into the boat. The wary crab may loosen his hold and dive for the bottom, but such Is the fisherman's dexterity that his net Is swifter than the crab. One seldom gets away. Several hundreds of crabs are often taken at each overhauling of the rope. When he has caught all he wants, says the writer In Country Life In America, he packs them lu barrels and sells them to a local dealer, who ships them to mar ket If a man has neither friends not enemies he has lived in vain." LEADS AN IDEAL LIFE. Happy Domesticity of Mary Anderson, I'ormir Qaeen of tho Stage. The home life m England of Mary Anderson, former qneen of the stage, Is ah Ideal one. Indeed her whole life seems like a romance. Born In poverty, she dreamed of success on the stage and achieved It In her youth. At the height of her fame she left the stage and settled down to the calm delights of private life, nor have tempting offers of additional fume and fortune been able to lead her back to the footlights. To talk of Mary Anderson to-day brings no suggestion of the famous stage queen. She has the same viva clous manner, the same heartiness, the same enthusiasm, the same readiness of speech, the same merry laugh, but her past is but a memory with her. Not a portrait In her surroundings suggest her as an actress, and of all the hun dreds of portraits taken In character she does not possess one. , Nor has she a program of any of her performances. She Is simply so happy In living to day that her past is almost blotted out, and not a little of her happiness comes from the fact that she married the right miiMiiiiijiiJViuJluv.l,'llwi'iiwMiyw MABT ANDERSON NAVARRO. man and lives a life of true comrade ship. They live where they please and go where they please and do as they please. They delight in outdoor exer cise and take their walks and rides, rain or shine. Her husband was her suitor for ten years before their marriage and has been her lover husband for that many more. He Is her opposite small In stature, dark, handsome and manly. He Is a graduate of Columbia University, New York. , Society sees little of the Navarros. They care only for their Intimate friends and relatives. They are fond of picture galleries, the gray old cathe drals of England and the places history has made famous. They have explored old London to the very core and know all the haunts of. the great writers. They made a flying trip to America In the spring of 1900. They are both fond of the theater, but Mr. Navarro is more enthusiastic about It than his wife. Of late years she has been cultivating her rich contralto voice and has written "A Few Memories," a history of her stage career. WHERE INTEREST DIES. GREAT DAM AT MISHAWAKA, IND. ' , ' ' ' !f The towns of South Bend, Elkhart Goshen and Mlshawaka, Ind., are soon to be supplied with more motive power from a big $1,000,000 dam In course of construction on the St Joseph River, about two miles above Mlshawaka. The big engineering feat is to be completed early in the sum mer. It Is a 10,000-horse power dam and will have a twenty-foot fall. The structure Is to be built entirely of wood, and it is said something like 80.000,000 feet of lumber will be used in building the big concern. The river will be deflected from Its channel through big sluices made of iron and con crete, while the dam Is in actual course of construction. Mlshawaka already has one 5,000-horse power dam which furnishes power for several big manufacturing plants. The new dam will be built across the river where the banks are high, thus affording a fine fall. When the structure Is completed It will back water up into Elkhart and Increase tlfe width of the river at that point considerably. Man on the Lookout for Errors in Grammar. We all know the critical person who Is ever on the watch for small errors of speech. Not content with being gram matical himself, he must teach every one else to be so. "I want to tell you something funny that happened to me this morning," said Spatts, cheerfully. "All right," said Watts. "Go on." "I started down the street after my laundry, and " "You mean you went down after your washing, I suppose," Watts interrupt ed. "I Imagine you do not really own a laundry." j "Of course, that's what I mean," said Spatts, a trifle less cheerily. "Well, J had went " WattH Interrupted him again. "Per haps you mean you 'had gone.' " "(Vrlnlnly. I had gone but a little ways when I " "I presume you mean a little way, not a little wnys," said Watts. "I presume so," wild Spatts,. but the chewf iiIih-h had nil gone out of bis manner. "As 1 was going- to say, I hud gone but n little way when I hap pened. It tickled me so I thought I'd Just luive to lay down and die." "I.le down and die, not lay down, Is the correct form of the verb." "Oh, yes, I know; but those kind of error neein to come natural " "Not lliomt kind of errors, my dear boy. Kuy tlml kind of error. But go on with your funny story. I'm getting IlltereHled." "Are you? Well, I've lost my Inter est In If. I don't believe there was anything funny, after all. Good-day." "Now, I wonder If I offended him?" Watts thought, us Spatts strode off. Tit-Hits. Hhopllliern ;it ilio Kirch. London shopkeepers have pursued for years, according to Truth, the pol icy of giving every woman detected purloining articles the option of being summarily birched by the manageress or being prosecuted, and In all twenty English women have accepted the or deal of the birch. In addition two young girls of foreign nationality, In consideration of their tender years, were treated to a milder form of chas tisement The manageress Is a very muscular woman and her weapon is a formidable one. No schoolboy ever had to write a good moral copy book text so often that he wrote it on the fence on the way boine. Hiccough. The good remedies ap plicable to different cases of persistent hiccough are: Capsicum In hot Infu sion, ten drops of the fluid extract of boneset in a tablespoonful of hot water every thirty minutes and frequent doses of Ignatla amara. Bad Wounds. Smoke with burned flannel on which has been placed a small quantity of sugar. Sprinkle a little sulphur over the wound, bandage, and it will beal Immediately. A very dangerous wound, made by a sewing machine needle, where the needle frag ments were found to have been bent almost double against the bone, was cured In this manner. The danger of lockjaw and extreme pain is thus averted. Diphtheria. The following precau tions are necessary In any case of this disease: The patient must be kept In a room alone and no one admitted unless needed to give medicines or attend in other ways. No other person should under any circumstances occupy the same bed. Doors communicating with other rooms which are occupied should be kept closed. It Is an. excellent plan to hang over the door a sheet moistened with a disinfectant solution. The per son who acts as nurse should not go near any well children, If such ap proach can be prevented, but If such contact Is necessary she should put on clean clothing after washing hands, face and hair with a disinfecting solu tion. Opium Poisoning. It is not general ly known that death may be caused in giving paregoric to children. Paregoric Is made up of one-sixth per cent of opium, the other Ingredients being anise, glycerine, camphor and alcohol. A dose of this drug for an Infant ranges from three to five drops and for an adult twenty drops. It Is a common remedy for cholera Infantum. Children bear opium badly, and some are very much more susceptible than others to Its Influence. It is a common thing for physicians to give it, however. There are about two grains of opium to an ounce of paregoric, and not more than one drop ought to be given an infant for cholera Infantum. Measles. Disinfection means the de struction of the disease germ and con sequent stay In spreading It. The best way to disinfect articles Is to destroy them by five. Things which It Is desired to preserve are usually rendered harm less by thorough soaking for an hour In either of the following solutions: Coroslve sublimate one dram, hydro chloric acid one ounce, aud water one gallon, or carbolic acid four ounces and water one gallon. Label each poison. Solution No. 1 may be used to wash the walls and furniture, but metals in con tact with It are Injured. A basin of ordinary soap and water and one of these solutions, half strength, should be constantly near for the nurse to wash her hands. Any article Infected by a pa tient should be placed in one of these solutions until It can be burned. In fumigating by sulphur pains should be taken to make the room as air-tight as possible that the fumes may not es cape. Clothes, bedding, etc., to be ex posed should be spread out so as to al low the fumes to reach every part of them. The amount of sulphur burned Is of great Importance. It should equal at least three pounds for a room ten feet sq'ir r and the amount should be merer O ::i proportion for larger roc-.-. MARITIME SHEEP RANCHES. Use to Which the Rocky Islands OS Maine Coast Are Put. When an Island off the Maine coast Is good for nothing else It Is turned Into a maritime sheep ranch, and much money is made in that way, men from other States having invested large sums In the purchase of Islands and stock. The sheep are turned loose and left to get a living as best , they can. The islands appear barren, but the sheep get along very well, and are In variably fat when their owners come with boats to take them off for slaugh ter in the fall. On some of the Islands there Is no water whatever, but the sheep get what moisture they need from the heavy dews, and where grass Is scrubby and scarce the animals cul tivate a fondness for various kinds of seaweeds, which diet is said to give an excellent flavor to the mutton. A few years ago much complaint was made by well meaning but poorly In formed persons of the supposed cruel ty of leaving sheep to take care of themselves, without shelter, on these barren, wind-swept Isles, but It has been demonstrated that the sheep suf fer no hardship whatever or they would not thrive as they do. It Is related by one man who had several hundreds of sheep on Metlnlc Island that he built, at considerable expense, a warm shel ter for them, because his wife was con stantly expressing the fear that the poor sheep would freeze to death on cold nights. The kindly sheep breeder found that not a single one of the ani mals hod taken advantage of the shel ter provided In one of the coldest win ters that ever blew on the coast of Maine. Sheep will huddle together where they like and cannot be Induced to go Into the sheds built for them on several of the Islands. In the fall, says the New York Trib une, the island ranchers go off In do ries and bring some of the fattest of the sheep ashore to market, tying their legs together and tossing them Into the boats like so many bundles, and at the same time new stock Is carried to the Islands. In the spring a trip is made to get the lambs and the stock is again replenished. The expense of sheep raising on the islands is small and the profits are correspondingly large. HOUSE IN WHICH ADMIRAL NELSON WAS BORN. The bumble residence at Burnham Thorpe in which was born Horatio Nel son, destined to live in history as the "hero of Trafalgar," Is the pride of Norfolk, England. It Is a remarkable fact that when a man prominent in British politics was recently asked who in his opinion was the greatest popular Idol of his country, he replied, "Lord Nelson." When asked who came next in the popular fancy, he again replied. WHERE NELSON WAS BORN. "Lord Nelson," and then added: "This may seem strange to an American, but It Is a fact that there Is really but one Englishman not now living concerning whose doings the average citizen of this country, from whatever section he may come, is prepared nt all times to wax enthusiastic. And that man is Nelson, the most emotional character perhaps In history, and yet a man of action out and out." At the recent cel ebration of the anniversary of his death every schoolhouse In England was dec orated with portraits of the great admiral. A Care lor Insomnia. Peppermin': water Is said to be an efficient remedy for sleeplessness. The theory of Its action Is believed to be founded on Its effect In withdrawing blood from the brain by attracting a full flow to the stomach. One enemy may do more damage than a hundred friends can repair.