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THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1909. 'r. SY rfXHUA TOOO ( WALLACE I -r-es fcr . To Editor Oregonlan who seldom take a vacation away from Truth. Dear Sir: S. Wanda, Japanese Socialist, are peeved about ex-Pres. Eliot, of Harvard, Mass., because he wear sidebeard like Hon. Chance Depew. This ear-whisker decoration, say Wanda, are only worn by respectable people. No respectable person can be intelligent. Why, then, should America make such wrong reverence abont Hon. Eliot merely because he are famous? "Y&a think maybe-so you got more wisdom than Hon. Profs?" 1 require sneerly. ' "O surely do!" report Wanda. "I am a Socialist." "And yet this Hon. Eliot are a gent of very high-brain educa tion," I snuggest for humble reproach. "Prof. Eliot are merely educated gent." dib Wanda with Carl Marx eyebrows. "He are educated, perhapsly, in books & typewriting; he knows all news about Athens & other second handed Hebrew cities but what do he understand about Life as it is actually shot off?" . I am speechless to reply. , , "What do he know," consume Wanda, "about mule-riding among cowboys; about home-life of muckrakers; about manufac ture of straw hats? Have he ever been engineer on a trolley car? Have he ever been cashier of a bank during a running stampede of panick? Have he ever been an Italian tenor in grandy operas or a fire quencherln hook-&-ladder jobs? Answer is. No!" "Have you had experience in such situations?" are soft queery for me. "Togo," say Wanda with quinine voice, "if you feel insulting can you at least look sympathetic." "Why, then," I require, "are you so vixen to this Hon. Eliot who are noted everywheres as a good & tamed teacher?" "Because-so," say Wanda, "this Hon. Eliot explain how he intend to saw down Education till it are only 5 feet long. This can be put on any pine shelf, over beds or hammocks so that persons what requires to be educated merely needs to chew them 2 yards of books and beholt! he have got Harvard & Prince ton & all Carnegie Libraries Inside his soul After reading the , 6 feet of tender thoughts and hard words all you need for do is to see a few feet-ball games & learn a college yall to be just as good as a Yale graduate. "This pressed-down Edication," corrode Wanda, "are so easy that it appear deceptive. After walsting a long and distinguished lifetime being Pres. of the Education Trust, what for do Hon. Eliot wish to sell Harvard canned Sc. say it is better thusly than In fresh state? What for he wish spoil Prof. Lowell's knowledge factory by offering 4 years of education in 5 feet of space? This are more worser than Hon. Carnegie do when he throw mean curses at Hon. Tariff, after he had piled away considerable millions from that Patriotic Institution. It is only after them Capitalists resign that they tell people how easy it is to do so." "Ho.weverly," I reciprocate, "it would be sweet comfort-feeling to read that Eliot Bookself & suddenly discover you got a lib eral education." "So bosh to think!" consume Wanda. "I have already read several of them 5-feet books, and I ain't got no liberal education in branches I needs." "What branches you wish to be educated in?" are question for me. "I wish to learn-how to be a Cook," report Wanda. "You could not get such knowledge from a Liberal Educa tion," I say so. "What are a Liberal Education?" dement him. "A Liberal Education," I define, "are one what give you high-toned thoughts about syntax, poetry & writer what wrote t scandalous plays for amusement of Queen Elizabeth." "Do It teach you to be a Cook or any other money-making Jobs?" decry this Socialism. "O surely not do!" I otter. Then It are not a liberal education it are a stingy educa tion." corrode him. "Maybe-so you could collect a better bookshelf than Hon. Prof. Eliot?" I snap off earcastly. Where Should Education Be Sawed Off At? "I could make a better shelf to educate Cooks," say Wanda modishly. "This could be boiled down to 3-foot bookshelf and could have a Telescope-Valise Edition in case Hon.. Cook should wish to leave home suddenly. Following would be nice list for this: Mrs. Roar's Cook Book By Mrs. Roar. How to Make Agreeable Salads' from Potatoe Peel By Marlon Harland. 101 Delicious Poisons by Harvey P. Wiley. Complete Works of Edw. K. Bok. The Complete Bacon By Wm. Shakespeare. 0 Isles of Grease! By Lord.Byron. t When Knighthood Was in Flour By Charley Majo'r. Marriage a la Mode By Mrs. Humpley Ward. "Why you include that Humpley Ward book in this?" I re quire. "That would not teach no Cook lady how-do it to cook." "Perhapsly not," suppose Wanda, "but she could read it dur ing time when potatoes was boiling and thusly learn how superior she was to most American families." 1 make note of this phenomenal. "Trouble with College Profs," add on this propagander, "is that they are not aware what a Liberal Education actually should be. When a Boss is liberal he give nice salaries to per sons, don't he 'do? So, when a Education is liberal why should it not give sbme cash to somebody? Because it should! If I learn some book-knowledge what give me from $10 to ?35 weekly wealth, ain't I got a education what is liberal like a Boss? Sure have! Doctors should read doctor-book, preachers should con sume preach-book, plumbers Bhould chew plum-book to learn how-do to get jobs. Supposingly I should wish to loin Sneekret Service & be a Detective. Supposingly I should read all them Eliot Books to prepare for this. I go around to Spy Office & Hon. Captain of Gnm-policmen say to me, 'Are you thoroughly educated up in spying, sneaking, smart trix & all sly whisker dis guises?' 'Absolutely all,' I report 'Have you read Complete works of Sherlock Holmes?' require that Rubber Sole Chief. 'Not done so,' I confuse. Why not done so?' bat out this cunning sloth. 'Because,' I motter, 'works of Hon. Sherlock was not in cluded Into that Hon. Eliot B feet of education what I studied to be a Detective." 'Retreat out of here & make room for some other Irishman," dlb this high Officer; so I must depart away jobless & with a very sad frame round my mind." "Wanda," I reproach, "attempt to think, if possiblel Realize, please, how all great brains Is collided together in that small space of Eliot bookshelf! Hon. Milton, champion poet of Eng land, and Hon. Ben. Franklin, champion printer of Philadelphia. All brite sayings & sweet talk of literature is there. Would you not read this for libera education?" "I will not read nothing what will not get me no jobs," deposa Wanda. So he part off for read Help Wanted colum in morning Journal. Mr. Editor, many brickbats & other arguments has been shot off at this Eliot bookshelf. Many persons is raising howel & yall because several of them books they has never heard of . before. Why should they enjoy rages for this? All famous writers can not be so well known as Hall Caine; and yet their works may be very nice for reading & recitation. Other persons is decrying that it are Impossible to jam a entire College education Into a 6-foot row of voms. Answer for me is "How truthless!" . "Very few youthly boys obtains much as 2 yards of wisdom In 4 years at College! If any College Ladd should return with 5 feet of learning In his brains, he would con tain about 4 ft. 11 Inches more wisdom than the average Uni varsity Child generally arrive oack home with. If Hon. Eliot wish to hammer up a bookshelf to contain a neat college education for American youths he better cut it down from 5 feet to 5 incties and fill of this space with Spaulding's Feetball Manuel. And when brite college days is over, I bet my bootware I can tell which end of that Shelf will be nearly chewed to pieces from too much study. Trouble with that 5 foot Bookshelf, Mr. Editor, is that it .are too long instead of too short. Most Libraries is like most Tariffs they are always improved by some slight reduction. More Geniuses has learned how to do so from 5-foot bookshelfs than from Carnegie Libraries.. Hon. Lincoln start his education) with a law-book, a Bible & a Dictionary of the American Language. When he got through with them books he knew more law and more religion than Senator Aldrich will ever get with the entire Congressional Library to draw off of. Hon. Mohammed, famous heathen who started a riot in Arabia & are still respected in Turkey, never read but one Book In his life and that Book he wrote himself. Hon. J. D. Rockefeller, who have just given $53, 000,000 to Education and ought to know better, got his entire College Course out of two books what he kept locked lovingly In the cash-box at home. One of them books was "Lives of the Saints" and the other "Old Scrooge." - Sydney Katsu, Jr.. tell me about Hon. Rob Crusoe, brave cruiser, what got hit by so many adventures that I are surprised some Editor do not write him into some Sunday papers. Fol lowing are it: . . JAPANESE SONNET ABOUT HON. ROB CRUSOE. ' V, I Hon. Rob Crusoe . .. Were a quite rude & tarrish Sailor .-.-- Who sprang out of Glasgow, Scotch. He were a. diamond in the tough. He were an expert rum-drunkerd & understood sware-words & chew-tobacco habits. His face was all scars and the rest" whiskers. He wore gob-nailed Shoes, if any. - When out sailing oceans He preferred to talk bad Grammar to Pirates And so muchly shocked Hon Capt. who owned that Ship That he-say, ' "Sakes of living! I hadn't never should hire no such rawcuss, educationless, muckerly flat-brow like Hon. Rob Crusoe!" This Sb.Jp On what Hon. Crusoe worked Were a gun-boat What went each morning to So. Sea Isles for capture bananas deport them back again to London. But one day . V . Hon. Boat couldn't do so, thank you, because WHOOSH!!! . ' ' A tense whirlicane wind aroused up And bumped that Hon. Gun-Boat to distraction where it sinked down with sad grones. All passangers, officers, etc., ' N - . Enjoy drowning, - . Except Hon. Rob Crusoe who were too ignorant to know when he was dead. S3 he swash in deeply waves ( With aimless emotion of swimming. Pretty soonly what see? A huj Box came floating over tidy waves. ,- It Were 5-feet lengthwise & distinctually marked: "LIBERAL EDUCATION BOOKS From Prof. Eliot, Harvard, Mass." "This would be good floater for me." Decrop1 Hon. Crusoe with wet guggles; So he set on this Box full of Books And eat tobacco 10 hours , When finally he arrive at a desert Isle Which were the first time ; Hon. Crusoe ever got anywheres on a Liberal Education. This Desert Isle Were a neat size for a bachellor Sailor & a few cannibble. So Hon. Crusoe decide to remain until he could go; And he built a cottage of banana-skins And hung up them 6 feet of Education Over Hon. Hammock, , Where he could take slight reads When he hadn't nothing else to do. And he hadn't nothing else to do , . For 35 years. One day, some extreme years later, Hon. King of England Jump up from throne-chair &. require, "Where have Hon. Rob Crusoe been away to all this eutir while?" "Who in London is Rob Crusoe?" require Chief Admiral. "He were famous 35 years of yore As the most flat-browed, ignoramerus, tough-jaw, unintelligent, illiterated & Soapless Sailor What ever floated off," say King. "Too bad," corrode Hon Admiral. "He must be detained on a Desert Isle, Somewheres," , So Hon. Admiral sent off 2 battleboats For enquire from all Islands For Hon. Rob. ' i Of finally they knocked at the right Island ; , And 40 refined cannibbles of Harvard appearance Came to shoreside "We wish to rescue Hon. Crusoe," say Navy Capt. "Presently, in a moment after we have dusted his vest he shall appear out," Report Hon. Cannibbles. So all battleboats, officers & honest Brlttish sailors Await by cabin door "' ! For Hon. Crusoe to approach out. Of finally, one elderish, studified Gentleman With haughty eyeglasses to nose, Frockaway coat, civilized pants, his beard creased in the center and carefully pollshed-off appearance Of Gov. Hughes & Ambassador Hayashl Appear at door holding by left arm A volume of Brite Sayings by Hon. Ralph Emerson. "Did some person or persons enquire to look for some Individual by the appellate pronoun of Hon. Rob Crusoe?" he require. easily. "We done!" reject all Sailors with salutes, "Where did he went to?" "I am him!" report Hon. Rob with lavander necktie. "Impossible to be," report Hon. Capt. of Ships, "That Hon. Rob Crusoe we lost were a untidy Person of goatly habits Who looked like Hon. Sharkey And talked like Jo-Uncle Cannon. t ' How then could you remain with yourself for 35 years On a Desert Island And yet be thusly changed From a rough Sailor , v To a smooth Scolar?" ' For reply Hon. Crusoe V -. Merely shove open his Cabin Door And make finger-point To that 5-feet shelf of educated Books. We are all well here, excepting of I. Anazuma, Japanese barber, who was seriously bitten by a razor. Hoping you are the same, f Your truly, A; HASHIMURA TOGO. i (Copyright, 1909, by P. F. Collier & Son.) LORD ALFRED TENNYSON CONTINUED FROM FOURTH PAGE metaphysical; and this brings it at once Into close relation with "Paradise Lost." They are the two most famous poems with the exception of Dante's Divine Comedy which deal directly wtth the mysteries- of faith and reason, the doc trine of God and Immortality. There Is a point, however. In which we must acknowledge an essential and abeoluta difference between the great epic and the great elegy. something deep er and more vital -than any contrast of form and meter. - "Paradise Lost" la a theological poem; "In Memoruim" is a religious poem. The distinction la nar row, but deep. For religion differs from theology as life differs from biology. Milton approaches the probem from the side of reason, resting. It is true, upon a supernatural revelation, but careful to reduce all its contents to a logical form, demanding a clearly-formulated and clone ly-linked explanation of all things. and seeking to establish his system" of truth upon the bRsis of sound argument. H; method is distinctly rational; Ten nyson's is emotional. lie has no linked chain of deductive reason, no sharp-cut definition of objective trutlis. His faith la subjective, intuitive. "Where proof falls him. he will still believe. When the. processes of reason are shaken, dis turbed, frustrated; when absolute dem onstration appears Impossible, and doubt claims a gloomy empire in the mind, then the deathless fire that God has kindled In the breast burns toward that heaven which Is its source and home, and the swift answer of immortal love leaps out to solve the mystery of the grave. Thus Te-nnyson feels after God, and leads us by the paths of faith and emotion to the same goal which Milton reaches by the road of reason and logic . And now when you turn to look back on your study of Tennyson, what are you to think of him? Is he a great poet? Tour reply to that will depend on whether you think the 39th century is a great century. For there can be no doubt that he represents the century bet ter than any other man. The thoughts. the feelings, the desires, the conflicts, the aspirations of our age are mirrored in his verse. And if you say that this alone prevents him from being great, be cause greatness must be solitary and in dependent. I answer No; for the great poet does not anticipate the conceptions of Ms age: he only anticipates their ex pression." He eays what is In his heart of the people, and says it so beautifully, o lucidly, so strongly, that he becomes their voice. Now if this age of ours, with Its renaissance of art and its catholic admiration of the beautiful in all forme, classical and romantic; with its love of science and its joy in mastering the secreta of Nature; with its deep passion of humanity protesting against A LIFE OF LOVE ANSWERING LOVE. AND HONOR FOLLOWING GOOD W6RK 1809 (August 6) Born, the fourth of 12 children, to the Rev. George Tennyson, rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire. ("It was a veritable nest of nightingales." Leigh Hunt.) . 1S1 To school at Louth (for four years "How I hated it!") 1S20 Studying with his father, "enjoying the run of a library more vari ous and stimulating than the average country rectory could boast." 1818 (February) Matriculated at Trinity, Cambridge, wnere he mads many famous friends, showed much Interest in questions of the day, though leaving a reputation as a poor scholar and without a degree (.February 31.) 1830 In this and . the two following years traveled considerably with Arthur Henry Hallam. who died suddenly at Vienna, September j 15. 1833. ("For a while it blotted out all joy from my life and made me long for death.") 1S33 For nine years "lay fallow," writing little and publishing noth ing: living at Somersby, in Epping Forest, at Tunbridge Wells and' Maidstone. ("Hope, a poising eagle, burnt Above the unseen tomorrow.") 1842 "Arrived," with his third collection of poems; elected to the "Anony mous Club," welcomed at Bath House, and one of the Holland House circle. 1845 (September) Pensioned by Peel with 200 a year. 1550 Succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate, 21st in the line of Chaucer, and Spenser, Jonson, and Dryden. The post was first offered Samuel Rogers, but he declined on the score of his age 87. ' 1850 (Jtine 13) Married at Shiplake .Church to Emily Sellwood, after a courtship of nearly a score of years. ("The peace of God came into my life when I married her." "She was a living inspiration at the ' heart of the poet's everyday life." Annie Fields.) Four years his junior, she survived him four years, dying August 10, 1896. 1551 (April 20) Birth and death of their first son. In the Summer of the year husband and wife were on the Continent together, return ing to make their home at "Chapel House," Twickenham. 1852 (August 11) Birth of Hallam Tennyson. F. D. Maurice and Henry Hallam stood his godfathers. 1853 Bought "Farringford House," at Freshwater, Isle of Wight "close ,by the ridge of a noble down." 1854 (March) Birth of Lionel Tennyson. 1855 (June) Honored with an Oxford D. C. L. I860 From this year almost to the close of his life the poet spent from one to' five of every twelve months in travel. 1862 (April) His first interview wtth Queen Victoria. (Her journal car ries this characteristic record: "After luncheon saw the geat poet Tennyson in dearest Albert's room for nearly an hour; and most interesting It was. Asked him to sit down.") ; 1869 Made Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1868 (April 23, Shakespeare's birthday) Laid the foundation stone for "Aldworth," near Haslemere, Surrey. ("It lifted England's great poet to a height from which he could gaze on a large part of the English land which he loved so well, see it basking In its most affluent Summer beauty, and only bounded by 'the inviolate sea.' Year after year he trod its two stately terraces with men the most noted of the time." Aubrey de Vere.) 1884 Marriage of Hallam Tennyson and Miss Audrey Boyle. 1SS4 (January) Made "Baron Tennyson," by Gladstone, having twice earlier ('73 and '74) refused the honor. 1S86 (April) Death of Lionel Tennyson. 1SS9 In this year, afftr the news of Browning's death, the Laureate seemed to lose much of his keen Interest in life, and till his death lived more quietly than ever, walking much. Visiting a few friends, dabbling with water colors and reading Jane Austen. 1892 (October 6) Died in the moonlight of an early dawn having fully lived the truth. In his S3 years, of his own lines: "How excellent to bear into an old age The poet's ardor and the heart of youth - To keep to the last sleep the vow of truth. And leave to hands that grieve a glowing page." 1892 (October 12) Burled In the Abbey, beside Browning, and before the tomb of Chaucer, with "Cymbeline" laid in his dead hands. West minster's nave was lined by men from the Balaklava "Light Bri gade" and the pallbearers were: the Duke of Argyll. Lords Duffer in, Selborne, Salisbury, Rosebery and Kelvin: Sir James Paget; Dr. Butler, of Trinity; Dr. Jowett: the historians, Froude and Lecky. and the United States Minister. Robert T. Lincoln. "Fame blows his silver trumpet o'er thy sleep. And love stands broken by thy .lonely lyre; So pure the fire God gave this clay to keep. The clay must still seem holy from the fire." social wrongs and dreaming of Bocial re generation; with its introspective spirit searching the springs of character and action; with its profound interest in the problems of the unseen, and its reaction from the theology of the head to the religion of the heart if this age of ours is a great age, then Tennyson is a great poet, for he is the clearest, sweetest. strongest voice of the century. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward. All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! "Was there a man dismay'd? ' No tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd. Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to -do and die. Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, ' Cannon to left of them. Cannon In front of them. Volley'd and thunder'd: Stdrm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well. Into the jaws of death. Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their Eabres' bare. Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sab'ring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged In the battery-smoke Right thro" the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shattered andsunder'd. . Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of" them. Cannon to left of them, 1 Caannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd: gtorm'd at with shot and shell. While horse and hero fell. They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. ' When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six .hundred! CROSSING THE BAR. Sunset and evening star. And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar. When I put out to sea. But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep , Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell. And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, "When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far. I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have cross't the bar. BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. Break, break, break, j " On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my.tonguo could utter The thoughts that arise jp me. O, well for the fisherman's boy.. That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad. That Be sings in his boat on the bay I And the Btately ships go on .To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand. And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, - At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Xev York's Working Girla. Annette Austin in Smith's. Most girls show very plainly after five minutes' talk with an employer whether they are fitted to carry on The work for which they are applying satisfactorily or riot. The flighty, careless girl is sure to bear the marks of her slipshod- ways in her dress or her speech or her manner. There are loose buttons hanging from her coat, perhaps, or a showy, expensive hat topping an unkempt pompadour. She is eager and voluminous in lier speech. but vague in her answers; anxious to im press with her ability, but unable to state definitely any piece of work that she has actually accomplished. She would be amiable, doubtless, and faithful to the post, but she suggests a path strewn with mistakes and hairpins. The girl with affected, fastidious man ners is an equally dangerous proposition to the employer. She is refined and neat, but she may upset the office equilibrium any day with her "artistic temperament" in a spell of "the blues." There are other undesirable types in the flirtatious girl with her restless eye, the giggling girl, the flip girl,' and the girl with a chronio chip on her shoulder, all known to the interviewer by their unmistakable hall marks. But over against them all, in refreshing contrast, is the girt who will do; and -one recognizes her instantly by her bright sane and sensible demeanor. That Lemon. Washington (D. C-) Star.' "Who's got the button?" was the game That childhood loved to play. . 'Twas innocent, but just the ame It whlled the hours away. And eager cries would loudly ring "" Amid the hurrying throng; It was a very sfmple thing . And yet in Interest strong. - Maturity brings different sports. With riotous unrest; , Men of all tempers and all s?rt Put fctrtune to the test. And various plans we deftly frame To shun the losers' ways. , '"Who's got the lemon?" is the game That everybody plays. . - Devices of Dog Thieves , Kidnopping of Canines in London Reduced to an Art. JLM ODERN dog-stealing Is a fine art, 11 and fo London and the provinces therA Kro tiiMnAR whern stolen canines can be left until an opportunity occurs for getting rid of them, said a detective the other day. Until quite recently a little kitchen in a crime stricken slum of Whltechapel was given over entirely to the purpose of dog storing. When a thief brought in his prey the master of the "home" allotted a. large soap box to the animal. Each dog in the kitchen was supplied with a kennel in the shape of a wooden box; Inside of which was a bowl of water, with a tray for food. I believe the keeper of the "home" charged two shill ings a week for each dog lodged and boarded there. A large number of stolen dogs are shipped to the Continent Belgium is the best market, for dog sales are held in several of the principal towns ever week-end. Fancy dogs fetch very good prices in Holland. Dogs which will not fetch more than 5 in this country will sell for as much as 30 in the land of the windmill. Up to a short time ago, 'there used to be a great market for English dogs in Paris, every English dog being looked upon in the French capital as a "thor oughbred." Whether a dog had a pedi gree or not, if it was English bred it must be a "thoroughbred." and, accord ingly, would command a fabulous price. There is scarcely any market now in Paris, however, the people there having discovered that half of the dogs sent over from London and sold, as "thor oughbreds" were next door to mongrels. Dog-thieves work in various ways, and they have to be exceedingly careful when on business bent, for it. is not every canine that will allow a strapger to approach it Many a good dog will take a piece ,out of any man's leg if he attempts to whistle It off, and so it is desirable and necessary to make friends, as it were. There are many ways of doing this. A dog-thief seeing a dog in a park, for instance, which he thinks will fetch a good price, will, if the animal Is be ing led on leash, follow it and its mas ter or mistress home. Later on the stealer loafs around the -house and finds out where the dog's kennel is and also its name. 'One dark night he pays a visit to the dog. whispers its name In a sweet tone and throws the animal a piece of juicy meat After the dog has had two or three such pieces of meat it may allow the stealer to untie its chain from its kennel. Then the dog follows the man. Wrhy? Because the stealer has about him a peculiar scent which will Induce a dog to follow him for miles. A year or two a dog-thief managed to secure a place at a West-end. dairy. His business was to deliver milk at the best houses in the early morning. and he used to carry an empty can of a good size on his rounds. If a small dog came to the door It was snatched up and put in the can. A bit of liver on the bottom of the can kept the animal quiet until the milkman-thief was In the next street where a .con federate was awaiting him in a trap with a cage to hold dogs ingeniously hidden under the seat 1 tninK tnis rogue secured no fewer than 40 dogs some valuable, some not by means of the can trick before .he was captured and sentenced to a well-merited term of imprisonment. A dog-stealer will not risk selling the animals lie steals as they are. He carefully alters their appearance. Here is an example of dog faking: A bull terrier was stolen from a West-end square, and when the thief had got it In the privacy of his own home he set to work to disguise it Upon its back he produced big patches; of liver Color by burning its back with caustic. A mark or two on Its ears and a few on Its paws completed the disguise. If a stolen pug dog lacks the line down the back that would make It val uable, the dog faker places the animal in a wooden cage .having a piece of wood at the top with a slit of the same dimensions as the line that is wanted on the dog's back. Through this silt a very powerful dye is introduced and made fast with nitric acid. The appli cation of the acid causes the dog apr-. onies, but the faker does not stop to consider that. Tit-Bits. Most Widely Circulated Books. London Globe. The most widely circulated book in the whole world, we are informed by a Paris contemporary, is a Chinese al manac, printed In Pekin at the Im perial Press. The edition consists of 8,000,000 copies, which are sent into the provinces, and so great is the interest, taken by the Chinese in the publication, so high the confidence reposed in the in formation contained, that of the S.OOO.mO copies not one comes back to the printers. Nothing approaching these figures is at tained by any publication In the Western world. The work which attains the widest cir culation in Europe and America is the Bible, and next to the Bible In popu larity comes "Don Quixote" and then "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This is difficult of acceptance today, although 57 years ago the claim ot - uncie iom wouio ito have been questioned. The fifth In order of merit belongs, according to the Munich News, to an alphabet book, published at Essen by Baedeker, which has run through law editions. More Literary 'Confessions." Denver .Republican. It was thought that the "confessions" type of magazine article had run its course and had been decently, if not rev erently, laid away to final rest in the oemetery of abandoned literary Junk. But apparently the literary confession writer has as many lives as a cat for in one of the current magazines is "The Confessions of a Rebellious Wife," in which is found the following gem: "The happiest women I know are widows whose husbande have left them property. It is a rea! pleasure to m to see them enjoying their independence, spending their money just as men do. 'I date my . real life from the time of my husband's death,' says a clever woman of my ac quaintance wnose husband made ' her scrimp while he was alive and left her a fortune. And jet jhe loved ber hus band. ''
