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S2 THE MOKNTN'G OKEGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1904. TO RAISE HIS PAY Believe City- Engineer Should Have More Money. CHARTER MAY BE AMENDED Board to-Consider Movement at Meet ing Next Thursday Evening, Many Members Believing Higher Salary Is Desirable. SALARIES OF CITY ENGINEERS IN OTHER, CITIES. Houston, Tex. .-..J 3000 Seattle 3600 Salt Lake -2400 Denver 5O00 Omaha - 2309 San Francisco St. Paul 5000 Taccma' 1700 When the charter board meets next Thursday night an amendment to the in strument may be offered to raise the sal ary of the next City Engineer above $2400. Advocates of the amendment insist that an Engineer competent to do the large amount of -work attached to the office of City Engineer and to carry the heavy re sponsibilities of the position cannot be secured for the compensation allowed by the charter; at least, that the service of a competent and responsible City Engineer Is worth more than 52400 a year. The subject was first broached last Thursday night by J. N. Teal, who said that the salary paid at Portland is lower than the average of other cities. He point ed out that the cost of improvements car ried on through the City Engineer's De partment this year will amount to $1,700, 000 and that this sum is out of proportion with the $2405 salary of the man who 13 responsible for the work. Jj'our amendments are to come up at tlie next meeting, the most important of them being to exclude laborers, carpen ters and street-cleaners from civil serv ice. This amendment will encounter vig orous opposition, but if rejected by the charter Cramers, is likely to be taken be fore the legislative delegation anyhow. The recommendations of the board have no blading- effect since the board has finished the work for which it was appointed. Other amendments will be to require the City Auditor to send property-owners postal-card notices of the Council's reso lution to improve streets; to require de- posits of city funds to be secured by municipal or school bonds or other stand ard securities Instead of by security com panies, and to improve simultaneously sev eral streets within a given district by one proceeding. Poor amendments have already been adopted for recommendation to the Legis lators, as follows: One to permit the City Council to grant franchises for short extensions to street railways and for con nectlng tracks without holding such con cessions down to the rigid franchise pro visions of the charter; two to lessen the cost of advertising special assessments for streets and sewers, and one to faclll tate clerical work In the City Auditor's office after the Council has declared an assessment for a street or sewer. A. X. Mills, chairman of the board, ex pects to end the tinkering at the next meeting, and such seems the desire of those who have thus far proposed amend' ments. A committee will probably be ap pointed to wait on the Legislators and present the recommendations of the char ter framers. After that the Interesting question will be whether the Legislators will approve the amendments and whether they will accept amendments from other sources than the charter board. JAP LOSES A CUSTOMER. Gave a Patron His Views on Things Pertaining to Immigration. v "I wish all foreigners were in h 1, es pecially Japs," growled a red-nosed man In a First-street restaurant, last night. Among those who heard the remark was the- Jap proprietor, and he came up to the critic, smiled, and said, very polite ly: "From your accent I think you are yourself a foreigner, from Ireland prob ably. I seo that there is an agitation go ing on, to exclude Japanese from landing In America, but If you exclude Japanese, why not exclude English, Scotch, or Ger mans? Suppose a law were passed for bidding us entrance into this country. -would tho people of Japan not be Justi fied in refusing to receive any Americans into Japan, or any American goods? Wo are very good customers to America, and you people would, in that case, lose many millions of dollars. The Japanese gov ernment took time by the forelock, how- over, and years ago decreed that only a small percentage of Japanese would bo permitted to cross to this country. So that no horde of Japanese can possi bly come here, to the injury of Amerlcan labor. Wo Japanese are not so very ter rible as people after all. Look at the time we are taking- to capture Port Ar thur." But the red-nosed man paid U cents for his coffee and apple pie and fied. "Too bad," said the Japanese, speeaking In his fluent English, "I have lost a customer who came here to eat every day." MARTIN "WILL TELL STORY. Man Whose Throat Was Cut Admits He Was Not Held Up. H. R. Martin, who staggered into the police station on Saturday night with his throat cut and told the police a weird tale to the effect that ho had been as saulted by a hold-up man. yesterday confessed to Detective Kerrigan that the story was a fabrication, and stated that he would tell the true story today. The police are of the opinion that Martin Is delaying his story in order to enable a confederate in some crime to make his escape. The man stoutly refused yes terday to say more than the fact that he had told a He the night before. Officers are to search the vicinity where Martin was picked up. in the hope of finding something that may be used as evidence. The police are of the opin ion that Martin was wounded during the attempted commission of a crime and would have escaped had ho not been found by Officer Bullus. Tennessee's Old Sectional Divisions. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Speaking of curious divisions of states. I think probably Tennessee enjoys a more unique distinction because of a peculiar and mythical division than almost any othere state in the union," said a man from the long and narrow state, "and the fact has been the subject of much com ment in the state. The fact is the pe culiar division of the state has figured in more than one political contest, and Is even yet an Issue in the politics of the state. The curious part about the matter is that the .division of the state Into three parts. East, Middle and West Tennessee, is recogiuzed in the law or the state, ana the division has been recognised in the law since Tennessee became a state. For Instance, if the Legislature of the state passes an act providing for a state board of some sort, to consist of three members, the act will provide that one member shall be selected from each of the grand envi sions' of the state. In the last fight for a constitutional convention in Tennessee, made in 1S36 or 3897, one of the strong ar guments used was that favoring the wip ing out of the mythical lines which divide the state Into three 'grand divisions.- This division of the state, when you come to think of it, is in a measure necessary, be cause of the natural differences between the three sections of Tennessee. Really Tennessee ought to be cut up into three states. "West Tennessee is entirely differ ent from East and Middle Tennessee. Each section baa certain marks, certain peculiarities that are totally different from the others. Somehow the people are different, have different notions politically and otherwise, and as a result oi tnese differences fierce political wars are com mon between the sections. BROKE HEWS GENTLY. Smith Used Up Badly, but Mrs. Smith Courageous. New "York Press. 'What do you want, little boy?" "Is this where Mr. Smith lives, ma'am?" "Yes." "The Mr. Smith that runs the bank?" "He is an officer in a bank." "The Mr. Smith that went on a trol ley-car this morningr' T presume he went on a trolley-car. What "Is he the Mr. Smith that was in that street-car accident?" T haven't beard of his being- In any street-car accident." "Didn't hear that he'd sprained his ankle Jumpln out of the car when the train ran Into it?" "No. Little boy. you frighten me. What has " "Didn't hear how he run into a drug store fur a piece of courtplaster to stick on a little cut he'd got over one eye?"' "Not at all. For mercy s sane "He Isn't in. Is he, ma'am?" "No, he's "Name's Henry E. Smith, Isn't it?" "Yes. that's his name." "Then he's the same man. He won't be here for an hour or two, I guess, 'cause he's stoppln to have one ofhls teeth tightened that got knocked a little bit loose when he was Jumpln out of danger, y' know." "Little boy. tell me the whole story. I think I can bear it now. "Well, ma'am, he's in the hosplttle with four ribs broken, an one leg's In a sling, an his nose Is knocked kind of sideways, but hes gittln' along all right, an he'll be out again in about a month, an here's a letter rm the aoc tor tellin y all about It, ma'am. Our Great Language. Silk Bulletin. A little girl was looking at a picture of number of ships when she exclaimed "See what a flock of ships!" We correct ed htfr by saying that a flock of ships was called a fleet, and a fleet of sheep is called a flock. And here we may add, for the benefit of the foreigner who Is mastering the intri cacies of our language, that a flock of wolves is called a pack, and a pack or thieves Is called a gang, and a gang of angels is called a host, and a host of por poises is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called a troop, and a troop of partridges is called a covey, and a covey of beauties is called a galaxy, and a gal axy of ruffians is called a horde, and i hordo of rubbish Is called a heap, and a heap of oxen is called a drove, and a drove of blackguards is called a congregation, and a congregation of engineers is calltfd a corps, and a corps of robbers is called a band, and a band of locusts Is called swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd, and a miscellaneous crowd of city folks is called the public. High-School Fraternities Under Fire Chicago Yen eh era juiejpe Silly and Frivolous and PICT reading is afforded in a bun- die of affidavits and letters which have been filed In Judge Hanecy's court as portion of the records in the School Board case that has become known as "the legal war for the ex termination of the Greek-letter socie ties from the Chicago High Schools." Boys' become blase nnd-soclally sati ated at 16, and girls who wear short dresses at school become silly and friv olous froin wearing- low-necked gowns at dances. The schoolboy Lotharios be come "good spenders and persistent borrowers." The usual hour for the High-School parties to break up Is 1:30 o'clock in tho morning. Then, if na ture rebels and the gay carousers of the night before are drowsy and dull in the classroom, the teachers are met with rebellions' organized by the fra ternities and sororities. Such are a few of the sensational allegations in this packet of remarkable depositions and letters. In an affidavit couched in vigorous language School Superintendent E. G. Cooley compares the fraternity rebel lions to "the strikes that have recently developed in the schools," but he stops Just short of making the formal charge that the aforesaid disgraceful strikes are to attributed to tho objectionable secret societies, -which, however, he charges directly -with inciting insub ordination and disobedience. "The Greek letter societies are temp tations to extravagance dress suits for half-grown boys, low-necked gowns for girls and carriages for both; this is socially very bad form," says a woman teacher in a letter among- the files. Her letter was written in reply to a reauest from the attorneys for the School Board. "The societies multiply social func tions so that tho emphasis is laid not upon getting an education, but upon dances," the letter continues. "Our buds blossom too soon in this forcing pro cess, and health as well as learning suf fers. The poor, the shy. the stranger. the Jewish children, are all embittered by the sight of Joys which are denied them." In another paragraph this trenchant letter-writer, who is Katherine Gurllng-, a teacher in the Hyde Park iusb benool since 1S91, asserts that the managerial positions In the societies givo opportun ity for the development of defaulters la embryo. "The temptations to dishonesty am magnified by these societies, she says "Athletic and dramatic money has been handled in ways, to say the least of them, queer." Another woman teacher. Miss Lucy L. Wilson, of the West Division High School, tells over her name how she. with others, made a fruitless attempt at a reform of "the late-hour system in vogue at High-School dances mnd other social functions. Her criticisms of parents, as well as pupils, are scath ing and sensational. Parents Leniency Is Shocking. "In regard to social affairs in gen eral," she says, "it Is both surprising and shocking to know the license that parents allow their children. The fond parents are so ambitious for social pre ferment that some of - them seem to give little heed- to considerations of health and of mental and moral well-being. The usual hour for High-School parties to break up is about 1,:30 in the morn inir. I understand. "I tried once to make one of the social SAYS MEN ARE FEW Dr. Calhoun Explains Scarcity of Theological Students. NEED OF RELIGION IN HOMES Famous Pittsburg Clergyman Delivers Address at First Congregational Church on "The Coming of the Next Revival." "When will the next revival come? When the church comes back to prepara tory prayer and the platform of Pente cost. Pray for a. quickened church and penitent world," said Rev. J. P. Cal- REV. JOSEPH houn, D. D pastor of Homewood-avonuo Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pa., In addressing a union meeting of Christian workers and their friends of different de nominations yesterday afternoon at the First Congregational Church. The church building was well filled, and among those ministers who took part in the religious exercises were Rev. E. L. House. D. D.; Rev. E. P. Hill. D. D.; Rev. Henry Marcotte, Rev. J. W. Brough er, D. D.; Rev. W. S. Gilbert and Rev. in at uin JlemUcr .Become Boys BIase at Sixteen. meetings of our pupils a general affair and had it understood that all were to go home at 12 -o'clock. The members of the committee and myself succeeded In carry ing out our programme with considerable effort, but I gave up the problem, as I learned the custom of the three sides of Chicago was against me." Then comes this delicious bit of philos ophy from Miss Wilson: "I regard it as a distinct social and moral loss for young people to be together in a state of emotional excitement long after fatigue has set In. Then, too, older men aro sometimes present, who are not so safe companions in dancing as the schoolboys." With a dash of patriotism as a flavoring for morsel of toleration she adds: T do not like the young people to feel that school authority shows Itself only In repression, and wish the schools might have a wholesome social life, but we should be grateful to be saved from tho rising tide of these selfish, exclusive or ganlzatlons that smack more of the out worn aristocratic institutions of tho old world." That the fraternities have clubhouses and other meeting places which are not conducted with an adequate regard for "decency" Is asserted by Arthur L. Pen hallow, a teacher In Hyde Park high school. In his letter Mr. Penhallow does not mince his words. "The fraternities have rented club houses," he says, "near the schools, where they gather during the afternoon and evening, not. accoru.ng to what I have seen, for the purposes of study. They are apparently purely social organizations and are not always conducted with that regard for decency which characterizes more ma ture societies. I have noticed boys gath ered on the steps of fraternity houses making audible remarks in not particu larly good taste, to and about girl pupils of the school and instructors who were passing the houses. I have noticed also in many cases that the school work and be havior of pupils deteriorated greatly soon after they Joined those societies. High school work cannot be done satisfactorily if tno pupils attention Is permitted to be drawn away by Interests dlsconected with the school. "These societies, though comprising in their members only a minority of the pu pils, have through organization succeeded in the past In controlling the athletic In teres ts of the school. I think they have not been prominent In any literary ven tures. One society, it is true, attempted to publish a monthly paper. This, how ever, was not under any faculty super vision and in consequence 'contained often times items that should jiot have been in. sertcd. It showed also conspicuously that the society which published It had not chosen Its members for their ability In studies. 'To return to athletics. I have been in formed that in past years of two can didates of equal merit for a place on any team, one a fraternity and one non- fraternity representative, the fraternity member would be chosen every time. This was a well-understood fact in the school and in consequence many boys, nonfra- ternity, made no attempt to take part in any of the athletic activities of the school "Now, athletics are Justified in a high school only when they serve to develop the bodies and minds of certainly a ma jority of the pupils. This they have not succeeded in doing in Hyde Park up to the present, largely through the control exercised by the societies. "What I have said in regard to the fra ternities will apply in general to the sororities." Summarized, the conclusions of Mr. Pen hallow are that "the societies are subvers ive of discipline, cause inattention to the work of the school and attempt to create a ruling class." B. W. Hays. The church Quartet Im pressively sang Shelley's anthem, "Hark, Hark, My Soul." Dr. Calhoun Is a rousing, emotional speaker and Is known here as one who has been very successful In evangelistic and revival work In his home city. Pitts burg. "Next March, Dr. Chapman and his associates will start evangelistic wprk In this city, but they won't bring their re vival with them," he proceeded. "The revival must be here before Dr. Chapman arrives, in answer to the heart-broken cry of this people. When I traveled over this country during the last three months and listened to the sounds of the band of xnusic and beat of drum and read the speeches of different parties in the heat of a political campaign. I wondered If the political question was the question of the hour? Not so. There Is another question nearer to our hearts. We want to reach the unsaved. We want to devise means whereby we can bring the saving Gospel before perishing multitudes. Without it they are lost. We are here to preach the mission of the Son of God and to trans act eternity business. Do not our own churches and our own households .also need the remedy? "It Is difficult for a pastor to lead boys and girls to Christ, if they never hear the sound of worship in their own homes. "KV. Inctnnco tblnlr of thn thntiafinin In this beautiful city of youfs who never P. CAT. II O UN. - go to church. If you will not preach to them, who will? Will Jeremiah, Spur geon or Moody come down from the sky and preach the word of the Lord? For the sake of our households, churches and a perishing world, we must have a true revival of religion and that means .a peni tent world and a quickened church. Our own people, those of them who may bo cold and proud, should fall upon their knees. Oh. for a quickened, spiritual and praying church. How did the first dis ciples get their quickening? Bypraylng for the fulfillment of the blessing of the Holy Ghost. They did not get It at first. but they persevered and prayed, and on the tenth day the mighty baptism fell upon them, they heard the sound of rush ing wings and they began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance. I believe that God approves of meth ods sufficiently sensational to win the at tention of the people. Look at the meth ods employed at Pentecost. Pray and pray. The spirit of God will not honor a prayerless church or household. We are face to face with a decrease of students In the Gospel ministry, and one of the causes is a dearth of family religion. There should be a desire on the part of each mother here that at least one of her sons snouiu oe a preacher. Give us pray ing households, and we soon shall have young men coming out to preach the Gos pel. Away with the old-fashioned notion that we cannot have a revival. Have faith and God will save the city. Believe it," A service of prayer followed. Last night Dr. Calhoun preached In Taylor- street Methodist Episcopal Church and to night at 6:20 o'clock he will be tendered a banquet at the Men's Resort and Peo ple s Institute, Fourth and Burnslde streets. Tomorrow Dr. Calhoun will leave for Seattle. SCORES MUNICIPAL IN1CIPAL FRMJD. Rqckwood Tells of Rev. Arden Mrv Rqckwood Political Dishonesty. In Portland. In the course of his sermon last night in the Highland Congregational Church on The Race Question," Rev. Arden M. Rockwood, the pastor, adverted to conditions here in Portland regarding public Improvements. In speaking of public corruption in officers by which the property-owners suffer Mr. Rock- wood said: "You can see what it has been as you sec how in Portland. Men are try ing to profit at public expense, buying the officials and getting the fat con tracts. Here are city officials conniv ing with contractors In frauds which cost, the city much money, and what is worse, endangering the life and health of many. Streets whose paving has been condemned are taken up and re laid a little further on, bridges con tracted for at high prices and paid for with little regard to equity in the as sessments, street-car companies man aging the streets to suit themselves, good streets built only to be dug up within a few months to put in sewers and again to put in larger, and larger water pipes and gas pipes which ought to have been put In at the start, are bad enough here, where our citizens are Intelligent and interested in public affairs. It is no credit to us that condi tions are as .they are. Political dishon esty is just the thing that drives men to socialism as a remedy. blllty of those who havey large sums of money uuyinj up loose who nave con troL that makes the poor man think that there is no chance of his getting right and justice, and this is at the bot tom of the Socialist vote, which lias been growing so much larger In the last few years. We need to be con stantly on the watch or we shall lose some or our most vaiuea privileges. Our hope now lies in the triumph of fair-dealing and Integrity in political life." Raid on Camp of Hobos. ALBANY, Or., Nov. 27. (Special.) A .hobo camp near this city was raided last night by Sheriff White, Chief of Police McClain and Officer Cantwell, with the re- suit tnat xi nooos.passea me signt m ue City JaiL. Today the hobos were ordered to leave, the city, and all who are found lolterlnit around after they are dismissed fmm the 1a U will he confined on a. bread- and-water diet. DISPUTE OVER LAW Authorities Differ as to Power of Local Option Act GENERAL DECISIONS MADE Some Hold That Law Repealed Spe cial Acts Contained in Municipal Charters, and Others Say Acts Are Still In Force. Has the local-option law repealed the special acts contained in municipal char ters, whereby towns throughput Oregon have been licensing the sale of liquor? Some authorities hold that the special acts are still In force; others that they aro repealed wherever prohibition was carried in the election November 8. The latter position has been taken by the Cir cuit Court of Multnomah County in the box-ordinance decision. The opinion was rendered by Judge George. The question has arisen in Chemawa precinct, Marlon County, which "went dry." But because a special act of the Legislature, passed in 1901, authorizes the salo of liquor on the State Fair grounds in that precinct, Tilmon Ford, of Salem, holds that the State Board of Agriculture still has power to regulate liquor traffic there, notwithstanding the local-optidn law and Chemawa precinct's dry man date thereunder. Ex-Senator Simon takes tne opposite view, insisting that a gen eral act like tho local-option law suspends all special acts and "that the courts aro practically unanimous In , so holding." Representative A. A. Jayne. of Hood River, who was In the city a few days ago. Inclined to the same view of Til mon Ford. At Salem, on November 12, Circuit Judge Galloway. In decldjng the case of saloonkeepers who were arrested for selling liquor on Sunday, held that the special act In the city cliarter allow ing the City Council to regulate saloons suspended the general state law which prohibits traffic on Sunday. The Salem charter was enacted In 1903 and the general law In 1SSI, and therefore may be upheld for being a later enact ment than the other. Likewise the local- option law, having been enacted subse quent to all city charters In thi state. may be looked upon as having taken precedence over them. This was the opinion of the Multnomah court. If the Legislature this Winter should restore the special liquor acts that have been suspended by the local-option law,- they would take the precedence, and wherever applied prohibition elections could not be held. It is quite likely that municipalities will ask tho Legislature to restore to them their former power to regulate saloons, which they have been exercising under their charters. Towns that can prevail on the Legisla ture to do so will be exempt from prohi bition elections hereafter, or until the local-option act should be re-enacted for the whole state. Tho Multnomah court pointed out clearly that special liquor acts will re main In force until rendered Inoperative by "dry elections. The decision on this point ran as follows: Existing liquor laws, either of slate or city. yet remain In force for whatever they provide. until come prohibitive event results In letting them pro tanto aside. The law (local op tion) evidently intended previously existing laws as remaining operative except where set aA&i by virtue of adverse prohibitive elections. On Its face, the local-option act docs not re peal any particular section of previously ex isting law, and the doctrine of repeal by Implication can only be considered as special occasion may arise or require. It may be safely assumed that it repeals everything that la eo Inconsistent with It that the two cannot stand. The law itself, however, appears to assume a continuation from time to time of existing laws, and even contains special refer ences to a constitution of existing liquor laws; both, of state and municipalities, until a hap pening of certain contingencies which, make the provisions of the local-option law applica ble to such counties and precincts as may at subsequent liquor elections vote prohibition; and as to these counties and precincts the prohibition law takes effect hereafter on Jan uary 1. 1903. , BITTEN BY GARTER. Fate of Singer Betrayed by Press Agent. New York Press. With its leading figures a prima donna, a garter made from tho skin of a deadly rattlesnake, and a basso profundo who carried Indian snake root In his pocket for use in midnight emergencies, a tale was unfolded yesterday so thrilling In its varied aspects that a failure to print it would strike a blow at honest humor. The prima donna's private promoter of publicity was the unfolder. Shorn of names, thus ran the veracious chronicle: "Miss narrowly escaped death last week from poisoning by a rattlesnake garter which she wears; not a garter snake, but a rattlesnake. She is now con valescent and walking about the streets when obliged to with the assistance of cane. The true story of her lameness and close connection with death has Just leaked out. "She is a native of Salt Lake City, and last year spent her Summer vacation with party of friends on an overland trip by horseback from that city down through the Rocky Mountains by trail into New Mexico. While passing through the Mora Valley the party met one. evening Jim Hayes, a nephew of the famous 'Wild Bin." Hayes was so charmed by the remarka ble ease with which Miss handled her horeo that he presented her with two rat tlesnake skins as a souvenir of the meet ing. "On returning to this city Miss had tho skins made into garters of the clr cular kind. The skins were lined with soft quilted silk, and shortened so that the head and rattles met together In Kold clasp. But a fatal mistake was made in not removing tho fangs from the head of one snake! This snake, or rather garter. Miss wore on her right limb last Tuesday on her way to rehearsal. In getting off a Broadway car she fell to the ground. she savs because the car started too soon. This caused a tremendous shock. but above it all the prima donna felt a sharp pain, like that of a. needle, enter her body below the knee, investigation showed a tiny drop of blood oozing from the ipjured spot. Her experlenco In the West revealed the truth to her Immedi ately, and, unclasping tho offending hose supporter, .she fould In. the head of tho viper the fatal fangs! "Fortunately, however, she was accom panied by , basso profundo of the ' company, who has spent some time in Florida and is one of the few men the Seminole Indians have al lowed to see their sacred com dance. From his familiarity with these aborigines he became acquainted with their method of treating a snake bite, whether moccasin or rattler. He was carrying with him a portion of the snakefoot which those In dians use to cure this poison as a sort of souvenir of the many pleasant days he had sDent In the Everglades. "Coolly and calmly he applied this rooi according to the method of the Indians., But he first followed the precaution of making Miss remain -absolutely quiei uy pumut, m. a- w"iso w having her driven siowiy ana cauuoaiy to ner nome. tnai me resun oi & i has been beneficial and has saved mr me 1 Is demonstrated 01' me Td xmm. mm I beautiful woman la now abte to attend r THE PILLS THAT CURE NEURALGIA Fosc ibeae years say k "RiQygie, of ArDM&ory, mum, "I 9M(kfed from ncu sigi& sn my head. So m were the pais that Tbef began over my ftK and shot throaeh my heed and al most m& me W -y. Docfcxs nnre beet temporary iifftei bt I vk ampS com pktoly fcyix loses of Dr.Williams' Pink Pills for Pate People attack tac bean hear sals of the company with the assistance of a cane. "She has informed the street railroad company that she will bring suit for dam ages, and the question of the amount, con sidering the presence of the poison of tho snake in such a peculiar way, is expected to raise a new point in the Jurisprudence of the New Tork code. "The Meals for Poets." Chambers' Journal. The breakfast party became fashion able In the early decades of the last century, Samuel Rogers being one of the principal hosts. Round his table gathered all the wits and celebrities of the day. At his house In St. James' Place Byron and Moore first came to gether "over a mess of potatoes and vinegar." It was in his dining-room that Ersklne told the story of his first .brief and Grattan that of his last duel. while the Iron Duke described Water loo as the 'ibattle of giants." Rogers asked people, it was currently reported, by way of probation for dinner: but his breakfast parties were more social than his dinners which, comparatively speaking, were affairs of necessity or form. His Invitation notes were mod els of penmanship and conciseness. "Will you breakfast with me tomor row? S. R.," with the pithy invita tion to a celebrated wit, "Won't I? was the congenial response. He was fond of quoting Rousseau's profession of un gout fin pour les dejeuners the time of the day when we are quietest and talk most at our ease. Grevllle in his "Memoirs" notes one of these breakfasts in 183L "Sydney Smith, Luttrell, John Russell and Moore ex cessively agreeable. I never heard anything more entertaining than Syd ney Smith such bursts of merriment and so dramatic. Breakfasts are the meals for poets. I met Wordsworth and Southey at breakfast. Rogers' are always agreeable." Tired of Being Fired. Philadelphia Record. Peter was a good workman, but he would go on sprees. His employer was lenient, but when Peter turned up after having been absent for a couple of days without leave he discharged him. But Peter did not take his discharge seriously and went back to work as usual. Again he want on a spree, and again he was discharged and taken back. These little escapades bad been repeated four or five times within couple of years, when Peter walked into the shop one morning looking much the worse for his celebration. "Look here," said the employer, "you are dlscnarsea. "juook nere. saia Peter, "I am tired of this. If I am fired again Til quit the Job." And ha went on about his work and has not been "flired" since. Scott's Em44sk)n Scolds Enrateion Scott's Enwafetoa Scott's Emofeion Scott's Emufeion f the old siocy, told times without number and repeated ever and over again for the hst thirty years. But it's always a welcome story to those in need o strength and health. There's nothing in the world that stops wasting diseases as quickly- as Scott's Emnlsfon. WaTI mud yec a saaple, irea COTXaOV3C,sa Pearl Stoaat, NewYark, FACT Easily proved that POSTUM will rebuild a broken, down, coffee-ruined system Get the little book. "The Road to TVell- vllle," In each pkr. 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