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THE OREGON SUNDAY ? JOURNAL .PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 18. 1S03. What Ashland Is Doing to AtMci Characteristics r m : - v T .,..: "V .... 'V. X ' TT - ' . v - V i . I pjtelv Rer.o. I I HERE Is -presented herewith a I . summary of qualltlea or char 1 ' acterlstlcs revealed by signs In tha hands that will aid in an swering queetiona easily and quickly, ears Martini In tha St. . Lou la Olobe Democrat. ' ' ' Acqulaltlveneaa (Fig. 1). All fingers curved Inward; bead Una long and straight (a); no etretch between first finger and thumb (b). Vulgarisms 1 i1 , . ' . . From a' Letter to the London Tlraea. SIR: I do not think it haa ever : been aufBclently reoognlxed that "in thla matter of spelling and pro J nunclatlon tha rule everywhere la that the masses of the poor and igno rant are the arietooratlo conservatives. while the cultured and educated, are the radical Innovators. t Our older authors tried to spell pho netically. Just aa unlettered rustics do today. Archbishop Trench collected 18 different ways in which he found "aud den" epelted by our earlier writers. That "eold not-be done from the writings of ur un!veriItypTOfeaaoTB nowadays but It could be done from the tetters of our workhouse pauper. The same rule holda good aa to pro nunclatlon. which like spelling, gram- . tnar, the fashions Is always altering more or less rapidly. Any ona to years old and sufficiently observant could ' point to soma more or less distinctly -walked variations In pronun,rltlona having taken place within his own ex- -' " perience. - But the poor and Ignorant are far less affected by auch linguistic mod- 40oationa.ahan.are the erudite and the . . scholarly. So emphatically la this true that if our literary forefathers of the fifteenth or the alxteenth century were , to come to Ufe now they would be far better able to understand the speech of the Illiterate poor than that of tha ao- ': compllahed savant. What" w eaU "vul gar" pronunciations or "Ignorant pro vincialisms" are-usually the purest ' forms of old English pronunciation. Let . us take the following sentences of old ' classical English: We had auch a aight of rain, that the tvater In the river rla to a great hlghth; . and being afeared an accident might happen, I went to Squire Wllkina, and aaya I to tha maids in the kitchen, "Will - you-plaiBe- keep them chlldar from wraetllng and lepplng near tha river's edgeT I towld you that afore, and I'd toe obleeged to. you If you'd mind what I say, for if any of them geta drownded , it won't be my faut." "Whisht with your 1)0180," aaya the cook. "The squire . was in town since Monday, but he's tack now, and the chllder won't be let pluy there no more." "Tie, I aee the ' squire coming back. aLThursday," aaya I, "and I hard that he went to the the- ,'. aytre a' Tueaday. Ia that truer" "Troth It is." ' "Well, I'm bet if I know what took him there, and he ao deef." . The , oook waa making some wayk tay, but she didn't axe me to have any. - The Jiayt waa so great that the squire, she - said, never slep a wink all night. "He deserve it," says L "What call bad he to r "Sure - It -was- wonderful'., said the oook. "There was a murther' per- . .. formed on the stage; It made the master tinaisy to see how the people wep." "tie had no right whatsomever to go, and tils chllder running wild. I daresay now he'd rayther have stopt at home." . I do not pretend that the above rep resents any particular locality. - Some ' of the pronunciations are perhapa pe ' cullar to ona part of the British Isles and others to some other part Some ara very common In parts of Ireland; soma in carta of Scotland or of Eng land. But one and all, It wIlF reudTly' tie conceded, are now vulgnrlnm. and were any one to apeak thua In polite an- clety he would at once be shunned as' a blatant vulgarian. Yet every one of the above - word ia good and genuine old IwKlleh. sod may be' Juatlsed by an appeal to me beet of our early classic writers. , Let ua take these "vulgarisms" seriatim: "A sight or' This expression la used ty ,Tyndlein his translation. ofth New Testament. Where the authorised version has . "an Innumerable company of an gel a," he baa "a aight of angels." eb. x11:JI. " 'i "Rls" "The price . of corn Vis last market day," says Archbishop Trench, Is la en aense quite as good English aa the price of corn "rose last market dwy Kngllnh Peat and Present," p. "Hlghth" Aa lata aa the time of Charle II trite srord was In use. "That, to the hlghth Of this- great argument, I Br If. F. Esgleston. BHLANX.Uupusually tVWJ.., k!nd Providence to this splendid re- Kin. . ' location. It la near the head -V of the Rogue river valley una haa tha advantages of flna ell- Jaate... variegated, n1 productive mil.,, ana attractive acenio environment, near by is a country of mountain aplcndor and by tha Commercial club orgsnlsa traversed by beautiful streams leading tlon. which recently replaced the board down to the rich lowland which sus- of trade, than haa been apent In the tain, agricultural and horticultural In- almple . advertisement of the country dustrlee unexcelled In any country. - and Ita natural attraction. . Ashland's chief work In tha effort to The Idea haa been growing that cJtIo get her shareof , the Immigrants coming '"-Hl-J?1 S"LJ&i--h?i'-n-Jw ."l'tk'- hi known the natural advantage we enjoy. ' '. Ashland la known as the climatic cap. Ital of Oregoni and It la; aa the "peach- blow paradise." and It Is; as the educa- flonaLeenter of southern Oregon, haying the finest public schools, and It is so; - ea poe sensing the best gravity- water system on the -coast, and It la accepted . as true, ty those-who visit us from tha neighboring atatea; aa an Ideal spot for homes, unrivaled for the health ful ness of Its climate, a place f.or aweet repoae and escape from the rigor of winter and oppressive heata of summer; gon State Normal school and there have -The board of trade erected aa at as the center of the beat fruit region, been large expenditures for bettermenta tractive exhibit building at the railway especially berries, - applea. peara and of the water ayatem. - Within a few depot last year, and haa maintained a peaches. In tha west, and that la proba- weeka tha waterworks, which ara wholly fine - exhibit there since. ,,Thia baa bly .true. . It la certainly not excelled owned by the city, will comprise about proved a very effective agency la adver In ita natural adaptation to these fruits.- IS mllea of pipe lines. 1 Using tha country. . , Convewhot?litaf Adaptability (Fig. 1). Thumb flexi ble, especially so In first Joint (a); fin gers and palm flexible; head Una slop ing (b). Calculation (Fig. I). Fingers long and knotted (a); head Una long and straight (b); little finger long and square (o)- ' Conventionality (Fig. 4). Fingers straight and atlff and aet close together (a); palm atlff and thumb etraight (b). That Were may aVSsert Eternal Providence, and Justify the waye of God to men." Mil ton. - "Paradlee Lost." L L 14. And again, "Thou oft amidst their nlghth of noon changest thy countenance and thy hand." Ibid.. "Samaon Agonlstes," I, . . .. - "Afeared" "For sore afeared of hie death waa he." Chaucer, "Knlght'a Tale," 1, 460. ' "Plalae" "It la tolerably plain that "please' was pronounced as the French plalse,' as It still Is pronounced by the majority of English people." Karle, "Philology of the English Tongue," p. 17. ' ' : "Them"" "Put them things away' Is not bad, but only antiquated English." Trench, "English Past and Present," p. 19. " Childerw-TO chnderarepretty chllder." Beaumont . and Fletcher, "Knight of the Burning Pestle."- L . cf. Morris, "Elementary Lessons," p. 7. rihe oldest plural waa rl)rtrn,' which be. came 'chlldre,' 'chllder,' "children and chlldern -- - . "Wraetllng" "At wrestling ha would have alway the ram." Chaucer, "Pro logue," 1, Ml. "That, while twe pol eona wrestle, we may leave." Ben Jon son, "Be Janus." III. "All locks and gripes of wrestling." Milton. "Tractate on Education." "Lep" "Slep," "lep, "bet," common old English past lenses. (Sea Morris" "English Accidence," p. 147.) ."Towld" "I towld you what I hard say." Latimer. "Sermons before Ed ward VI." (Seventh sermon.) "Afore" "As I wrote you afore In few words." Epbeslans IIL, I (Romans L, z.) "Obleege" "Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers, be aleged. . And so obliging that ha ne'er obleeged." Pope, "Prologue to the Satlrea," 107. "Drownded" "Eaten of beasts, drownded in the sea,"- Bunyan, "Pil grim's Progress.' "Faut" "When Samuel bard of their faut ha went about to excuse their fautes." Latimer, "Sermons Before Ed ward VI." (Flfth' sermon.) "Whisht" "And when they perceived that Solomon, by the advice of his father,, was snnolnted -king, by and by there was all whisht; all- their good cheer waa done." Latimer, Ibid. - (Sec ond sermon.) Won't be e no more." The double negative la common In old Eng land cf. "There naa no dore that he nold heva of harre." (There was not no door that be would not heave off Its hlngea.") Chauccr'e "Prologue." xi Slow that, yet he should hear all thla Or they espy hit. "O yla, yls." Chaucer. "House of Fame." M 1, 117. "Bee" (for saw). i ' , "For by the mone she aelgh hit . wel wlfhalle." " Chaucer, "Legend of Good Women," II., 107. . - : "A' .Thursday" "I mun be married a Sunday." Cdall, "Ralph Royater Doyster." V., . , "Hard" "So I did not affirm It to be i'truewyet. .Jiard.'.,"l.harl aay sine or - another - murder. ltimer t (firth sermon). ,' . . .' ... "Theaytre" 'And forth Issued, as on the ready floor Of some theaytre. a grave personage." Spenser, "Faery Queen," III, 'II. "Troth" Troth both." Ben Jonson. "Sejanus," III. "Bet" "Old simple , form." (See "lep.") "Deef "But she waa somdel deef. and that waa ekathe," uor, "Pre- logue," Hi. - "Vi;ayke" "And wayke ben the, oxen In my plow." Chaucer, "Knlght'a Tale," t "Tay"-. ! i "And thou, great Anna, whom three realma obey. Poet sometime counsel take,' and some times tay." ' ' Pope, t'Rnpe df the Look." "Ax"--'You lovers axe I now this question.' Chaucer, "Knight's Tale," kt"' To supplement the bountiful gifts of . ZiZZ. IZhZ? ?r'-; - Z"":.m "i" ' '." VI. ,, ,',.,, r, v1M1. 'A , provenienta-' and In- nr.ura men itf auch work by public aplrttad eltlsena Improvement' la ' potent (n bringing " population; tnaf gftWI itrn.ti, r. ment -sidewalks and thoroucb sewerage of the city are very great advantages In promoting the growth of a town. , Acting upon this the municipal gov eminent ho s been buay In Improvement work. By the end of the year there will have been laid over three and one half miles of sewer llnea In Ashland since last April and mora are projected. The water system haa been extended. carrying the water to suburban tracts, which are being rapidly occupied by new homes, and to tha Southern Ore- Shown by Lines m the H Deceit (Fig. I). Little finger long (a): head line eloping and forked (b); band partially closed when sitting; also very eoft or flabby. Idleneaa (Fig! ). Palm fat and soft, with no knuckles visible, add fingers tapering, venue- large (a); moon large (b). . Melancholy (Fig. 7). Fingers long (a); mount of Saturn large (b); mount of mercury flat or missing (o); mount Polite "Hayf "In tha Earl of Surrey we find heat rhymes with great, and no doubt It waa a true rhytoe. - Surrey pro nounced heat as the majority- of - Our countrymen at least In the west coun try still do vis., as hayt." Earle, "Philology of the English Tongue," p. 17. ... .; -.. ...... .... "Slep" Three daya alep ha al on-on." "Old English Miscellany," p. 14. "Deaarvee" VDryden usually prints starve 'starve.' and 'starve' and 'deserve' were doubtless pronouneed starve and deserve. "-r-W. D. Chrlatle-Qlobe edition of Dryden's poems, 270. "Murther" (modernised to "murder In most editions of Shakespeare) "Mur ther most foul, as In the beat tt Is."--Shakespeare, "Hamlet." I, iv. . "Alse-Aiay" (See "plalse" "Tha peasant and the post that aerves at all assays. The ahlp boy and the galley alava have time to take their aiie." "Whatsomever" In the alxteenth cen tury -we often find -whatsomever.'" Mortis, "Elementary Lessons," p. 121. . "Rayther" "The rayther lamb ben sterved with oold." . ("The early lambs are killed with cold.") Spenser, "Shep herd's Calendar." . Tha foregoing list might ba largely added to, but it will be sufficient for our' purpose. The "vulgarisms" It ex hibits, be it observed, are not provincial isms, or the remalna of dying dialects: for they are common to England, Ireland and Scotland. They are. In fact, the cast-off garmenta once used at the head quarters of culture, authorship and roy alty, worn by the Hallama and De Qula reys of the Plantagenet age, by the Shelleys and Wordsworths of Tork and Lancaster times, by. the Rusklns and Macaulaya of the Tudor days, and by the Brownings and Tennysons . of th Stuarts, . and now preserved and atlll utilised by the large family of retainers, menial and domestics scattered abroad throughout the kingdom. Mystery of the THE most famoua ease of mysterl our disappearance Is that of the "lost dauphin." Louis XVII of France, hooks ana articles in numerable have been written to prove that- this unfortunate child of the Bour bons died in the prison of the temple. In-ParlBr-en - June 4, 17Wh-or to- prove that he did not die there at alL For the laat hundred yeara "falsa dauphins" have from time to time put forth their claims to be considered the rightful king of France, and though the controversy haa long ceased to be of praotlcal Im portance the old discussion Is occas- slonally renewed. , The orthodox belief Is that after the death , of his mother, Marie Antoinette, on the guillotine. In the "reign 'of ter ror," Louis, then a feeble child of 10, was brutally abuaedand.neElected.by his Jailer, and that, gradually succumb ing to the effects of ill treatment, he died on June t, 1795, and was "hastily burled In some obscure grave. On the other hand. It Is asserted that another child waa substituted for the dauphin. that 460,000 was given to the Jailer and that Louis was carried down the Seine In a boat. In their accounts of what happened to him then, the various pre tenders all diner. . : . In.-eupj.or tjaflhelheorythatLoula did escape there are certain well-authenticated facta. In one document, dated 112. Louis XVIII apes ks of himself as regent, not king, of Franca. No effort wns ever made to And the grave of Louis XVII, though the aupposed ashea of Loula XVI and of Marie Antoinette were exhumed and relnterred with great pomp In tha abbey of St. Denis; and there are other Indication that tha Bourbon themselves doubted very much iha death of the uncrowned king. Tfeera is slag some tuadicU svUeuoe to Once Ths Ashland Eleotrln Uht ramnur has InsUUed S practically pew lighting. plant and the streets of tha city ara provided with 144 street lights, which will be aoon Increased to , - rosatrtarahln street, and sldswalk lm provements ara projected and some are under way. With tha advent of tha hew year, when more money will be available. It la expected a better and mora expensive atreet Improvement will be Instituted. There la an unflagging Interest In the welfare of . the public school system, and Ashland always has a care that It shall be aa good aa It oan be made." The popularity of our publlo schools la a drawing card for newcomers and It la so appreciated by our eltlsena. ' From the foregoing It may be in ferred that Ashland la doing something to get a proportionate share of the tide of immigration to tha Pacific coast and the fact that her. board of trade was alert during thapast three yeara 10 am aavamages ox aaverusing, sup- piles the explanation of Aahland being tha largest town In Oregon south of Eugene. ". .. ';.-: of moon high and developed near the wrist (d); head line sloping to or Into the mount of moon (e); fingers often knotted. Narrow-mindedness (Fig. I). The quadrangle very narrow (a); head line atralght (b); fingers and thumb- con ventional (o). Religion (Fig. ). Finger of Jupiter atralght and pointed (a); good heart and head llnea (b). Antitoxin for Old Age spy ROLONQED youth Is a subject j i that haa received much attention y , by solentlsts abroad of lata and - given rlae to" manrTntereatlng experiment and theories. number of theaa theorlee aa to the process of old aa ara aet forth in a paper recently pre pared by Dr. Carl Snyder of London for the Monthly Review. One of tha authoiitiee he quotes. Dr. Demange, holda that old age ia essen tially a . case of insufficient nutrition, brought about by tha disorganisation and decay of the finer blood veaaela and capillaries.- But " Dr. Snyder arguea arterial- degeneration -la Dut a part of tha general decay, not a cause. A Russian physiologist, famous for his description of the phagocytes, offers this theory: He destlngulshes among these devouring cells two varieties: the one which he calls tha mlcrophags, that ia, tha little devourera, whose main business Is with the . defense of the organism; these are throurtiotw the body In the brain. In the blood, tha lymph and tha tissues; - and the eeeond verietyj the macrophage, sometimes mobile, some- time nxed, Old age la 4h work of tha macrophage. Everywhere throughout the body. In the brain. In tha nerve, in the Important organe Metcbnlkoff pic tures theee devouring cells aa attacking tha moat active elements of the tissues that is to say, brain cells, the liver cells. the kidney cells and converting these Into a sort of connective tissue no longer able to carry on their former functions. Dr. Snyder atatea that Dr. Wolfgang Welcbardt, a German physician, has re cently made a long and arduoua series of experiments 400 or more In number with the most amaslng results. He takes teet animals guinea pigs, for example puts them on a miniature treadmill and runs them until . they fall dead .from exhaustion. Then ha expresses or oon eocta from the fatigued muealea of theae animal a Juice or sap. When this sap Is injected into the vetna of unworked guinea plga they ahow promptly all tha "Lost Dauphin" show that In an Interval of two or three daya a very decided etiange in the condi tion of the temple prisoner took place. Moreover Default, the physician who had attended the boy, died suddenly eight days before his patient Is alleged to have passed away, not without - soma suspicion of poison, and tha physicians who took hla place would not- have been able to detect the substitution had there been one. In . J82 g Frenchman named Herbert, came forward as the real Louis XVIII. His story made little Impression. After 1830 a Prussian named Naundorff made himself more conspicuous, and a few yeara ago .the Jlev. Eleaser Williams obtained quite a following In this coun try. Williams, ' the scoffers said, was really a ha) f -breed Indian missionary who, after haunting Washington for a long time In the hope of obtaining money for the Indiana, became very poor him self and possibly unbalanced mentally. He certainly had an Interview with the Prince de Jolnvllle, Loula Philippe's son, when tha prince came to America In 18.1, but there la nothing but Williams' word to support his assertion that In that Interview the prince disclosed to him the secret of his birth. Whether Bourbon or half-breed, Williams did not flourish In this world, and in I860 he died In poverty, his story .vary, generally discredited. . Tha discussion of the clalma of such men aa Herbert, Naundorff and Williams has nothing to do, ' however, with the doubt that still hangs over tha end of Loula XVII. king of France. Whether he died In the temple, the victim of a shoemaker's brutality, or wss spirited sway to die years afterward In some unknown corner of the world, tha grave of the deacendant of the proudest family In Europe Ia as completely lout aa that of Ua poorest gamla of Paris. Homeseekers , ' II ftCr.6V Narrow P "" Minctatoed& Timidity la indicated by a depreealon at the third phalanges of fingers: head and life line ' Joined for some distance Into the hand; thumb small; nppar mount of Mara flat or absent Anger la ahown by red nails, and llnea very high in color and deep; nails with square baaea ahow revenge. ' Foolishness la betrayed by a weak first phalanx of thumb; head Una slop ing and ehort; hand eoft. outward signs of fatigue can support ao effort, their ayee stick out from their heads: at tha end of M to 40 hours they die. The aap concocted from the fresh, unworked animals ahowa se auch ef fect. Prolonged muscular ' activity, than, produces in the muscle a poison which, circulating through tha body of tha ani mal; causes Its death. This poison is a definite substance, which, Injected Into other animals, produces Identically tha same effects. It Is In its notion evi dently much the same as tha potsbns elaborated by bacteria. Following the nomenclature In vogue, - Dr. - Welohard t calls thla an ermudungs-toxtn that la a fatigue toxin or fatigue polaon. Naturally thla discovery at one opened np a wide field for thought and specula tion. Dr.- Snyder- aska why- it la pot possible that there Is an antitoxin, a serum which by injection would protect the body from the ravages of this fa tigue polaon to which old age la attrib utable. In other words. If there ia an antidote for thla disease of old age will not its application keep' tha body con stantly youngtWlll ltnot practically eliminate old age from civilised nat ures and materially postpone death? It would bo ' aomewhat startling if after alt tha fountain of perpetual youth was found to really exist In ths twen tieth century and to ba located in tha laboratory of a chemist. ' Dr. Snyder says in ; dlscusstsf this phase of tha eubjoct. - "Why ahould not tha fatigue toxin a produce an antl body Juat like the restT ut. watchaxdt baa ahown that they do, and. moreover, he haa ahown that, Juat aa la the case of tha baoterlal polaona, a very little fatigue toxin Injected into the veins of an animal produoeo an ax cess of anti poison, so that It Is today litera.ly possible to Inoculate aa animal against fatigue. The German experi menter haa ahowa that animals and even human beings thus inoculated are capable of much more prolonged exer tion than without It." Ha aleo notea that Dr. Metehntkoff suggests that some anti-toxins might be found which would reinforce the aging oella and stimulate them - to renewed youth. Dr. Welchardt noted that the fatigue polaona disappear spontaneously when the muscles sre given tlma to rest. Dr. Snyder supposes that they ara aim ply oxidised. He holda faat to two note worthy facta in tha matter: , "The first is that old age la In aome sens merely accumulated fatigue; the second la that ona very striking condi tion, if it be not an essential condition, la- oM age ia lessened oxidation." Dr. Snyder mentions the Russian path ologist Belonovsky, who has shown that the hemolysins, tha poison serums which In quantity destroy red corpusclee, stim ulate the production of the oorpuaclea when administered In very minute doses. This dlscovesy has been used for . the treatment of anaemia, Will It ba of avail In warding off old , The Babys jDefeat. Mies Doretbea Klumpke, the -famous woman astronomer, was talking, on ber laat visit to San Francisco. - about a quarrel between two great mathemati cians, "So," she concluded, "the ona same out on top first, but tha other came out on top afterward. It was like a young couple I know of and their baby. ' "The baby gets ths better of bis par ents In the night On toward 4 o'clock In the morning,. It ia a common thing for hla mother to say despondently: " I can't get baby to take thla medi cine at alL' "And the weary father will anawar: " T. suppose he's afraid It's some thing to make Mm sleep.' ., . - "There Is whers baby oomes out on top, -Rut when baby's birthday arrives. and you ask his mother what shs gsve him for a present, shs la aa apt as not to anaweri - , . " 'I took IK out of the little darling's bank and bought him this beautiful par lor table." , . v r ..v.. Passing of the French f Guillotine ' 0 By AJphonse Le Brun. HEN tha long parliamentary . vacations ara aver and tha . French chamber meets again, a portentous question - will have to ba decided onoa and for all: "Ia capital punlahmant to ba aboltahedT in France and tha executioner ta go" There seems Uttla doubt that the Radical majority will answer this ques tion In the affirmative, and wa may expect that era long tha terrible guillo tine tha "widow" aa It la laoetiooaiy termed ia Paris slangwsrlll leave ita present quarters ia the Rua da la Folle- Resnault for a permanent home in the Varnavalet museum, to ba gmaed at as a rello of bygone times and thrill tha blood at lav ere of the aenaatlonaL The budget committee haa anticipated tha vote of parliament by recommend ing tha suppression of Anatole Delbler's salary and alio wan oe as publlo exeou tloner. . Tha situation created by thla recom mendatton la altogether curious v and I anomalous. For soma time past na exeeutMn naa seen witnessed at nna for tbet simple reason that since La Roquettts prison was pulled down about four years ago tha guillotine haa no abid ing plaoa In tha capital. Every time it Is proper to confer thla honor on this or that quarter , or square, auch a storm of protest is raised by tha Inhabitants Interested that the-- project la dropped forthwith More-than one -criminal Is lying In a Parle prison under sentence of death, and the president of the re pub llo flnda himself practically compelled to commute the capital penalty Into one of lifelong imprisonment.- One Jovial as sassin, who delights in ths nickname of "La Friae dee Hallea" (Curly Wig of the Aarket) vows that ba will not be respited. "They have condemned me," ha says, "and titer shall execute wel" , Widow Works in tha Province. ' Meanwhile the "widow has been doing ber bloody work In the provinces and M. FalMeres baa been free to exercise the prerogrntlve of mercy atriotly on the merits - of each case. Now, however, that thle budget committee has spoken, ths preuident will in all probability feel himself constrained to give provincial criminals tha benefit of the doubt until tha question Is aettled. Only the other day the Jury et the Bouchea-du-Rhona condemned a murderer to the death penalty. It la, to say tha least, an em barrassing situation. ' After tha erlmlnala themselves this question most - nearly affects Anatole Delblen tha publlo executioner. Anatole Mi. die Paris, aa- he is termed (for Frenchmen will cut a Joke at death him self) is the third member of a famoua dynasty. His grandfather was the founder of tha line, so to speak. His dexterity was auch that ba onoa guillo tined eight sallore at Brest at a elngle stroke -of the knife. Louis, who euo oeeded - him, died two years ago at the ripe agte of ffl. after having terminated the existence ef 4T orimlnals at both sexes. Ths executioner's mantle descended on the shdulders of Anatole, who, as his father's; assistant, had already dis tinguished himself on many traglo oc casions by hla coolness and resourceful ness. ' ste is a big, powerful man with blue eye and a short chestnut beard and lodks in private life anything but aa exaoutloneer. Since his nomination he has presided at four' executions, the last that of the assassin Possl at Bel fort in -October, 1904. s. A Pav3ng Position. , The talary and emoluments of "the publUi ejxecutloner ers anything- but con temptible. - M. da Paris has a fixed an nual income of 4.000 francs (ttJOO). to which must be added a further sum of 1,000 frincs (11,600) . for the upkeep of the guillotine. : He haa four assistants, two of tvhpm are paid 4.000 francs -(4300), tha othr two 1.000 francs (4600) a year. Then an allowance of 10 francs ($2) Is made tq each executioner for every day that the guillotine Ms In operation. -An Important perquisite Is the sale of new and second-hand guillotines ' to ths colonies and to foreign countries, and of "guillotine" clgar-outters, which ara much almght after In certain circles. Ths net annual Income of the Delblers may, t sere fore, be calculated at 10,000 franca tf,i M. Dtfbler lives. In a nice little villa In the, rue de BUIancourt near the "fortlfa" (fortifications). It Is a kind of Bwlsa chalet In the midst of a gsrden with a fine acacia overshadowing the gate. , Vou would aay "there Uvea a phllooorlher," and you would add, on seeing His spy-hole, "a mistrustful one." As soon as tha bellbandls at ths garden gate Is pulled the blinds are let down as by nraslo probably by an automatlo arrangement. On a closer . Inspection you perceive that tha gate Is protected, k L doubtless . as a precaution agalaat a sudden attack en tha part of those ter rible Parisian hoodlums, th Apaohes, , for it. Delbler, in the nature of things. must have mora anemias than VH1 Has a History, r - ' ," ' Hare, than Uvea at . Delbler ta tha bosom of his family when be la not catted away by bis effloial duties. Thla villa, by tha bye, haa a history. It waa purchased by Loula Delbler after ba had guillotined RavaohoL when tha terror of anarchist vengeance was such that net a landlord ia Parts dared ta aoeept tha executioner aa a tenant. -Tha purchase price waa K.000 franca (ts.000), part ef which was furnished by tha eliate. Deiblera family consists of Madame and -a little daughtsr. Madame waa at ona time a pretty laundress ta the boulevard Exelmans aha is still pretty, . of oours and they say It was a love match. There Is no aooauatlas for tastes. -- -rj . Among- his friends M. Delbler Is kaewn -as "M. Anatole," The Initiated eaa find him at his safe la tha boulevard Ex el-.. mana, but tt eaa readily be imagined that be doea not court publicity. - I do not think U. Delbler will take his "execution', very moon to heart. He may reckon on compensation ef seme sort or ether, but It must not be forgot ten that hs is not a state functionary. Tha. publie exeoufioner Is an : "under taker," -ao-Ie-wUl -have legal -elaisa -to a pension. ' An regards this world's godda. M. Delbler Is comfortably eft. Like a good bourgeois, be haa built a six-story houoe In- the Rue de la Convention,' which will -ba let out in flats, the rent ef whtoh will -Insure him a sufficient income. He has an automobile and a bioyele. what more can be desired? - "There are i many worse ' eft than I," . ha has been heard to aay, and moat people will agree1 wita him. Tes, the "widow", la doomed. With her bucket of sawdust she has been ooetlng dear of lata. In view of tha rarity of executions it has been oomputed that each tlma aha operates she eosta the state 10.000 francs (U.000). ' . W. J. Bryan (Continued from Preceding Page.) At laat tha obetruotlou muet yield t the force of the current. Ia monarch ies and aristocracies the dam la some tlmea built ao high that it muet be removed by force that the waters may have their way, but in republics tha bal lot can be relied upon te keep the ehan pel of the stream open, or, If obetruo- , tlon Is placed there, to remove tt while yet It can be removed with safety. The advantage of a republlo Is that the peo- -' pie, through their representatives, are sbls to give publlo opinion free plsy, and the more democratic a republlo is, the more nearly does it eonform te the -wishes tt the people,-- - ; No one csn study the governments of the old world without a feeling of gratl- ' tude that In the new world the science V of government has been carried to Its highest point, and that the people enjoy the privilege and bear the responsibility of leading the world in recognising -the right of the people to devise and to di rect, the government under . which, they. are to work out their destiny. Words That Cost 11,000 Bach, ' ' - ' ' Philadelphia Bulletin. "At the Franklin, a literary olnb ef- Phlladalphla, a young poet, licking his lips, said that Conaa Doyle was paid 1 a word. '.. . , That Is nothing" said, a railroad ad-- vertlelng man. "I know of a case where a map was paid 41. 000. a word. Our Una used to have at Ita grade crossing a very long end complicated elgn that began, 'Beware of tha englnea and ears,' and than thla algn went on with a lot of Injunctions and warning that woull have taken five minutes to read. . In a number of accident -cases the complainants for damages declared that our long signs were not clear warnings. Therefore the- line decided at laat to get a new grade crossing sign, and Judge Faxon-waa engagsd to write one. "Tha algn that Judge Faxon Wrote cast 11.000 a word, but It was a clasalc It Is as - well . known . among us as 'Father. I cannot tell a lie.' or 'Eng land expects 'svsry man to do his duty.' "The. sign that cost ft.000 a word, or 44.000 Jn all, was the famoua "Railroad Crossing Stop, Look and Listen.' " - . "If thunder trvel 00 miles la, twe minutes, and lightning goes -twlci as fast, how far-can lightning go In ten minutes. T" "I don't know, ma'am, X ain't no lightning caloulator.'' 1 i r 7 I