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BANDON RECORD»)«. “W---------------------------- - ------- ANIMAL SURGERY. V<><> ■•■»»• 're Wlaa In Irdldae ■ nil Kaaily Ileal 'I'heaiarlvea. Most people have wen u sick cat eat gra»» or an uneasy dog seek out some weed nud devour it greedily to make bl» complaining stomach fit*! better. !i>iu< few may Lave read John VV esley's di rection» on the art of Jxeeplug well— wblcb have not. however, found tbeir way into his book of discipline for the soul and have noticed with surprlaed Interest bls claim that many medi cines In use among tlie common people and tbe physicians of bls time were discovered by watching tbe animal» that sought out these things to heal their diseases. "If they heal animals, they will also heal men,” is his invin cible argument. Others may have dipped deep Into Indian history and folklore and learned that many of the herbs used by the American tri lies, and especially tbe cures for rheumatism, dysentery, fever and snake bites, were learned direct from the animals by noting the rheumatic old bear grub foi fern roots or bathe In the hot mud of a sulphur .spring nnd tiy watching with eager eyes what plants the wild crea tures ate when bitten by rattlers or wasted by tlie fever. Tbe most elemental kind of surgery Is that which amputates a leg when it is broken not always or often, bat only when the wound festers from de cay or tiy bite and so endangers tlie whole boily. Probably tbe best Illustra tion of this Is found in the coon, who has a score of traits that place him very high among intelligent animals. When a coon's foot Is shattered by a bullet be will cut it off promptly and wasli the stump in running water, part ly to reduce tlie inflammation and part ly, no doubt, to make it perfectly clean. As it heals he uses bis tongue on the wound freely, as a dog does, to cleanse it perhaps nnd by the soft mnssage of Ids tongue to reduce the swelling and allay tbe pain.—Outlook. THE END OF NIAGARA. In Twrnly-flre Centuries the Great Falls Will Have lllsappenretl. In 2,500 years lienee the discharge of the Niagara will have become inter mittent, ceasing nt low stages of the lake, nnd Anally tlie Niagara river, on the rising edge of the basin, will have its waters turned back and southward, and no water will flow over the Niag ara escarpment of that dny. Through this agency alone Niagara falls will cense to exist long before the escarp ment lias been worn nway to the river level at Grand island, but as it is even now lessening tlie volume of water poured over the falls the erosive power of the stream is diminishing, nnd we must therefore increase the period nec essary for the retreat of the Canadian falls to the south end of Goat island and the stealing of the waters of the American falls. Assuming the continuity of tlie forces named, we might outline the probable future life and death of the falls thus: With progressive loss in water vol ume the Canadian falls will reach the south end of Gont Island in from 1,000 to 1,500 years, tlie death of the Ameri can falls. The flow of tlie waters will now have become intermittent, nnd at first only at periods of mean nnd high water in Iaike Erie, eventually at high water alone, will there lie any discharge over the escarpment. This will continue for a period of from 1,500 to 2,000 years. Tlie entire flow to the north will cease, nnd the river will flow back Into Lake Erie, leaving the escarpment dry nt a point not very far south of Gont island nnd with a height of about 100 fi*et. Tills will be 3,500 years hence tlie death of Niagara falls.—John M. Clarke, Ph. I»., LL. D., in Harper’s Weekly. An Effective Touch. A western senator tells a story of a Judge who hnd occasion to fine n law yer in that state $100 for contempt of court. After court had adjourned tlie lawyer npproaelied the Judge nnd said, "Your honor, I want to nsk n great favor of you.” “What Is it?” Inquired the judge. "I have a pressing obligation to meet. That hundred you took for that fine was tlie money I hnd to meet it with. I wish you would lend me $100 for a few days.” "III, Mr. Crier.” shouted the judge, •’convene court again!” Court was re convened, and then the Judge remitted the flue. Incompatibility. A man and his wife called nt a law yer's office to talk about n divorce. “Judge,” the wife said, "I hnd only 75 cents to live on last month." Whereupon the husband replied ng- grlly: “That’s a falsehood; she had $90.” Then the wife said. "Judge, thnt'fl as near ns we ever agree." And the Judge said they might as well get a divorce If that was tlie best they could da—Atchison Globe. Experienced. “How is tlie new girl going to do?" nsked Mr. Ferguson. "Nlie hasn't hnd much experience," said his wife, "lint I think she will be all right when she gets broken In." Tta*n came a loud sound of falling crockery from the kitchen. “She seems to lie making a good start, anyhow,” oliserved Mr. Ferguson encouragingly.—Chicago Tribune. Encoarnirement. Pupil (after re|>cnted attempts)—Oh. I’m sure I never shall be able to! Professor—Oh. yes, you will. I was Just as big a donkey myself at first.— Punch. To accept good ndvlce Is but to In crease one’s own ability.—Goethe. I.ncfe of Jnilament. “Was you really plunnin' to run away with tbe hired girl?” asked the old farmer disgustedly. “That’s what I Win 'thinkin' of do in',” admitted his son. “Ain’t you got any sense nt all*" de moded the okl man. "□•n't you know that hired girls Is harder to get tfeun daughters-in law7”—Chicago Post. “JJo you know, Polly, that if I had my way there would be oue sidewalk on every street that would be clean enough fora lady to walk on without holding her skirts above her shoe-tops to keep from coming in contact with a filthy sidewalk,’’ said an indignant little lady tlie otiierday. as she pointed to a dainty gray suit that lay on the tied, ruined trom coming in contact witti tobacco juice as she paws-d along the street. “First time I’ve worn it and it’s ruined. Took it to a cleaner and lie says lie can’t do anything with it. The way I would manage would be to make every man who ex¡ieetorated or used tlie sidewalk in lieu of a hand kerchief, walk on one side of tbe street. I think they would break themselves of tlie disagreeable habit in no time, for they would lie asliamed to be found walking on tlie di-gusting sidewalk when all tlie fair sex and men who were not given to the aforesaid habits were walking along the clean side of the street that was free from every sus picion of such inexcusable carelessness. Such men surely do not believe in the old saying ‘cleanliness is next to godli- mas,’ or if they do they shut their eyes and conscience to it and hope others will not follow in their footsteps. They try to excuse their carelessness tiy say ing oue more can surely make no dif ference. If every body obeyed the law of cleanliness and paid attention to the sanitary conditions of the sidewalks of their town, then they might be encour aged to do the same, but so long as nine- tenths of the men are guilty of the same otl'enae against humanity one more did not count. The only women I see expectorating on the sidewalk, Polly, are Chinese women, or the very lowest and most uncouth of their sex who have lost all pretensions to de cency and who are looked upon with contempt tiy tbe most common and ordinary looking men who walk the streets. Of course, Polly, I know that such a thing as making expectorating men walk on one sideof the street is im possible, but wouldn't it lie a blessing?” What vagaries of the mind some peo ple have. They are not demented to the extent that you can put them In an insane asylum, and yet they are un balanced enough to make you feel that they need constant watching and you must ever be on your guard. A woman who has seen much trouble during her eventful life said to me the other day, “I want to tell you something alsiut the wild geese you see dying in the heavens. Vou have seen them com ing, a great big flock, flying in a sort of ‘v’ shape—it is just like the letter v when you come to think alsiut it. Hunters try their best to kill them, but they can't, for they are not geese at all. They are tbe children of the sun that are sent to this earth to spy out what is lieing done. They find out what you are doing in tbe way of electricity and they laugh until tlieir feathers fairly quiver. Electricity is an old story with the children of the sun, so is Marconi’s system. They’ve been using that for thousands of years. Oue of the chil dren of tbe sun whispered it to Mar coni one night in his sleep. Hiuce then he has never been allowed to return to the sun, for we are sworn to give way none of the secrets. It makes me smile when I read of what they are trying to do at Mount Hamilton with that big telescope at the Lick Olnervatory. That would be considered a mere toy in the sun. We are a great people. If we had anarchists up there as you have here, If we didn’t kill them we’d turn them into common geese and send them to earth to let your hunters do a little tar get practice on. Every time you eat a wild gisise you may depend ujsin it, you are eating an anarchist from the sun. They are meaner than sin and you’ll And them pretty tough eating. I><> the children of the sun return after a visit to this earth? you ask. Of course they do. You might as well ask if your explorers return from the North Pule when they go in search of it. They re turn to the sun if they don’t meet with accident, just as your explorers do. I'sually when children of the sun come to earth it’s for a whole season, and they don't return until spring. When they do take their flight you people say ‘the spring is coming for the geese are going north.’ It makes me smile, for they are homeward bound and the sun is their destination. When they have a very bright child that they know is going to lie a genius, they convert him Into a carrier pigeon. The sun's rays that you talk so much alsiut arc simply .searchlights that are an other wonder of the sunland given away by a simple-minded goose that didn't know enough to let well enough alone.” The poor creature would prat tle on in this wnv for hours. She never got llrtd, but It was an alarming propo sition when i he wanted you to go on to the I ousetop and fly with her to her native land. Her promise to bring you Itack and laud you safe and sound in your own lied liefore the family was up did not serve to inspire confidence or to make you feel that she was altogether harmless in her manner I visited an Insane asylum In the Fast once and saw one of the snidest of sights. A beautiful brown-eyed little girl of twelve years left her seat in tbe window, and, coming up with her apron full of picture cards, sllp|ied her hand through my arm and sai<^“Itoi going out of here to-morrow. I'm cured for a little while but I'll have to come tatek again. I always do. They say I'll die here some day. I'm iaeane Just like my father and my mother, and my brother and slaters were all crazy, l'apa and mama died here and so did my sisters. Brother is here now. He’» iu the men’s ward and be does not know me any more. When we're crazy we forget all alsiut rsi'h other. I’m glad I’ m going out, though. I’m going to my aunt; she's coming for me.” We liad reached tbe end of tbe ward and I passed out leaving this beautiful girl gazing wistfully at me as the door clanged to shutting out this uever-to-be forgotten picture. “Sad, isn’t it?” said tbe attendant who was showing our party through tbe asylum. “The worst of it is that it is all true, just as she told it to you. Being hered itary, the whole family is cursed with this dreadful malady. The parents were flrat cousins The mother dhd only a few months ago. She was the victim of melancholia and grieved her self to death She thought she was re- sponsible for tbe sins of tlie universe and could not tie saved The father was oue of the most dangerous inmates we hail. It was a relief when be passed away, for his case was ho|ieless. One of the girl’s sisters jum|ied from a win dow and killed herself at their own home. This girl you were talking to has iteen discharged as cured three times, but has always had to lie re turned. Nile knows she will have to come back again, poor child, so she is not over elated at tbe idea ot going. Her aunt is suspicious of her all the time, and really I wouldn’t tie sui- prised to see her coming here any time for treatment. I wouldn’t have very much faith in a cure, however, for any member of that family. The little girl who is going out of this institution to morrow is the pet of tills ward. We will miss the gentle little unfortunate. Nhe’ll go just like her mother—with melancholia. BRIEF REVIEW. Acetylene For the Octopus. A new light is lieing shed on that at tractive aquatic pet, the octopus—we refer to acetyleue gas, for which the fishermen of Southern Italy have found a new use. They are employing it as a bait to catch that amiable fish. The first men to use this light (according to the report of our Consul General in Southern Italy) secured some enormous catches of octopus and jealously kept tbeir secret. After a while it leaked out, and now it is the light commonly used for the purpose. There can be lit- tl“ doubt that the coast will soon lie overfished, and the octopus become rare instead of plentiful. The old way of alluring the fish is briefly described as follows: “At night an iron cradle with a bright flame of resinous wood is fixed to the bow of tbe boat. This at tracts the fish and leads him to his doom.” During the daytime the fish are tempted from the crevices of the rocks by a piece of red flannel at the end of a bamboo, which they attempt to grasp; and they are speared with a trident. The new method may recom mend itself to the Cornish and Devo nian flshermen, for it is said that in the Westot England the fisheriesarespoiled by the octopus, which exists by devour ing the small fry. FAVORITE AGES OF WOM6N They Appear <„ »««(« Betweffa Sl> «■<* Twesir-rusr ¥o«ra. It may aeem strange that womer have preferences for particular age* An Inspection of tbe census, however, leaves uo room for doubt that certain years are preferred aud certain othei years disliked by tbe members of th« gentler sex. Of children fourt«u years and under tbe number of boys is nearly 400,00C greater than the number of girls; al fifteen the boys are still 6,000 ahead ot the girls; at sixteen the girls are O.OOC tbe uioYe numerous, and each yeai thereafter until the twenty-fourth there is an excess of women over men. The favorite ages within these limit» are eighteen and twenty. There are 24.- 0(>0 more misses of eighteen than there are boys of that age, and tbe young ladies twenty years old exceed theil masculine companions by 54.000. At twenty-four and twenty-five the num tiers of the two sexes are nearly equal. Then the women begin to grow less with great rapidity. The most unpop ular ages are thirty and forty. At tlie former age there Is a difference of 78.- 000 between tbe two sexes; at the latter 83,000. One peculiar circumstance is thnt there are more women twenty years old than there are girls of thirteen or fourteen or any age up to twenty. This fact conclusively demonstrates that twenty is a very healthful age. Hut if the younger nges are unhealthy, where did the Increased number who are twenty years old come from? Nc women are born that old. Only an unusually elastic theory can account for these peculiarities with be coming gallantry to the lovelier sex.— J. 8. Gilham in Ladies’ Home Journal. YANKEE DOODLE. The Original Version Hates From the Time of Oliver Cromwell. The lively strains of "Yankee Doo dle” are heard at every patriotic cele bration. says a writer in Collier's Week ly, yet periiaps few of those whose pulses stir at the sound of the familiar notes are aware that it dates from the time of Oliver Cromwell and crossed the seas with the Puritans. “N'ankee Doodle” was one of the nick- names bestowed by tbe Cavaliers ou tbe bated Roundhead, and a verse writ ten upon Cromwell's entry into Oxford, riding on a small horse with a plume twisted into a sort of knot called a “macaroni,” runs as follows: Nankee Doodle came to town Upon a little pony, With a feather In his hat Upon a macaroni. The transition from N'ankee to Yan kee—which came from Yengee, the In dian word for English—was very easy, and the Royalists used it as a jeer at all New Englanders. When tbe Colonials in Boston, pre paring for the coming war, smuggled muskets into tbe country, concealing them in loads of manure, the Tories sang to tlie old tune of “Lucy Fisher:” Yankee Doodle came to town For to buy a firelock; We will tar and feather him, And so we will John Hancock. TACTS III frtW LIMES NEW SHORT STORIES CHOICE Au «ton> of matter is probably a crystal of electricity. Japanese and Germana have the same average bruin weight. The total commerce of Abyssinia 1« about $9,500.000 a year. Nutlonal bank notes are one-sixth ot the money iu circulation. The birth rate In Berlin declined from $6 per 1,000 in 1876 to 27 in 1902. French is the language of more than 1,000,000 of tbe 5,300,000 Canadians. More than $10,000,000 worth of sport ing goods were sold in the United States last year. Our total trade with Alaska for the fiscal year waa: Imports, $10,228.000; exports. $9,497.000. The suicide rate in the United States has Increased in ten years from 12 to 17 |>er 100,000 population. The United States treasury holds three and nine-tenths times as much gold as tbe Bauk of England. Ouly nine men have been hanged in Kentucky in the last five years, al though there have been 798 murders. London harness makers and carriage builders are suffering loss of trade by tbe growing popularity of the motor car. Commerce between the United States and Russia during the last fiscal year greatly surpassed that of any previous year. An English miller has successfully tested the vitality of some wheat which was grown In 1839 and carefully pre served since. Twelve million pounds' worth of leather is required every year to pro vide boots nnd shoes for the inhabit ants of Great Britain. The sinking of the shaft 140 feet from the river bottom by the Toronto nnd Ningurn Falls company occupied but little more than a month. A scheme has ticen prepared for car rying out an underground railway <n Manchester, Englund, with connections with the principal out districts. The secretary of the* Aeronautical So clety of Greut Britain expects tlie kite to be the bnse of tlie future instrument of aerial navigation, the* aeroplane. In one of the congressional districts under the new apportionment in Texas there are fifty-five coUnties. The en tire vote of the district, however, is only 22,000. Massachusetts is free from the re peated murder trial farces of New York. There is only one appeal pos sible there—from the Jury’s verdict straight to the highest court Tbe first prune tree was planted in California in 1870 by a Frenchman, who brought tbe tree to tills country from France. Tbe first orchard, of ten acres, began to yield in 1875. The signal corps claims to be the nerve system of tlie army. Telegrnpliy, telephony, ballooning nnd beliogrnpby are its specialties, it is also charged tiy law with gathering and transmit ting information. Kansas harvests more wheat than any other state in the Union. In its wheat belt of thirty counties not one county raises less than 1,000,000 bush els. Sumner county has a record of 6,812,102 bushels. By the terms of the new license law of New Hampshire licensed saloons are forbidden to sell Intoxicating liquors on Sundays, election days and public holidays, but licensed hotels are ex empted from this restriction. Tbe bolometer, invented twenty years ago by Dr. Langley, has been perfected in its adjuncts, especially the galvanometer, at fbe hands of Abbot, so that it will measure one hundred millionth of a degree of temperature with readiness and precision. A novel scene was recently seen at Rockland, Mass., that of a skunk run ning along the street with bls head in an old tin can which he could not shake off. The boys chased without any de sire to capture him, and be escaped, can nnd all, Into an old stone wall. Tlie spur of track In Iiiird street, Lowell. Mass., line been relaid after having been undisturbed for the past twenty-two years. Although the wood under the rails had been in place for over a score of years, when It came to be examined It wns only slightly black ened and softened but little. The half million acres cultivated In tea In Indin produce 190.000.090 pounds, the Investment being aliout $106 nn acre. The tabor required is thirteen persons to tbe acre. One pound of In dia tea will produce seven nnd a half gallons of tea of a given strength, while the tea of China will produce but five gallons. An English-Irish syndicate has been formed for tbe purpose of removing one of the worst evils with which Irish Industrial development la nffllcted- viz, dear coal. The industrial diffi culties due to the absence of coal In Ireland are to be removed.by tlie use of turf. In which the Island atiounds. This Is to be cut, dried and pressed into bricks. The total area used for farming pur poses in the United Atate» is 841,000.060 acres, an area larger than England. Scotland and Ireland. Wales, France. Germany, Austria. Spain. Japan and the Trapsvaa!. There are MMMXJOO persons engaged In the agricultural pursuits, while all other industries em ploy but 18.845,000. One-third of the people are therefore devoted to farm I i Ing. A leper was exhibited at a lecture to an audience of Chicago university stu dents the other day. Dr. James Nev i ins Hyde, the lecturer, said that lepro sy Is not dangerously contagion«; that it Is curalde and that It Is gradually disappearing from all countries. He doe« not believe that any drug capable of curing leprosy will ever lie discov er«!. Cleanliness and good food, lie as serts, are the surest and liest remwVcs. When the British forces marched to the battles of Concord and Lexington tlieir approach wns heralded by "God Save tlie King,” but when the “Yankee farmers” saw tlie foe in full retreat the strains of "Yankee Doodle” accompa nled their flight, and from that hour, wherever the stars and stripes have A Dog’s Fidelity. floated, the once despised tune has been Throughout the long Journey from heard. Havannab, Ga., to Kansas City, “Ped PAWN SHOPS OF CHINA, tiler,” the pet dog and for the past year the constant companion of the late They Cat quite n Figure In I.lie In the Flowery I.ant. Daniel E. Naighman, rode on his mas Pawnbroking is a great institution in ter's coffin. He could not be induced to leave it, even to be fed or watered, the Flowery Land. The Chinese pawn broker’s, however, is quite a different and it was with difficulty he could be kind of establishment from ours. The made to eat even when food was taken pawn shop of China is more a strong to him. He lay for the most part in hold, a place of quiet nnd safe repose, tbe same place, alstve the shipping tag for valuable Jewelry and the miscel nailed to the pine box, and wore it laneous and costly wardrobes of the down until it was almost illegible. people. It also in many instances per “Peddler” accompanied Mr. Naighman forms tbe equally important but some ou his journey throughout the United what costly function of lending to the needy, and, as In tbe collections of sim Ntates and Canada and it is feared the ilar establishments ot our own land, dog will die when his master is buried. one may see the much prized jewels Mr. Naighman, who formerly owued and trinkets of happier times, which the site of the new Journal building, caused tbeir poor owners many a bit Kansas City, and was identified with ter pang to part with, heartaches that real estate Interests in that city, later were perhaps brightened with the hope went to Joplin and promoted many that one day they would lie able to re deem them. mining enterprises. To listen to the man selling these un redeemed pledges is one of the choice The Rejuvenated Mississippi entertainments of the Peking streets. One of the signa of the times is the re He Is selected by the pawnbroker for vival of river traffic on the Mississippi. his fluency of speech and ready wit, to There has not lieen enough tonnage on which he gives full play in his humor the river this last season to take care of ous descriptions of the quality and bls the freight traffic lietween Nt. Louie tory of the furs and richly embroid ered dresses which are piled up on the and the upper part of the river, and for platform of his tent He at times runs tbe first time in many yea.a through off his speech in rhyme, making clever Isiats were run from Nt. Isiuis to New and sarcastic allusions to the require Orleans. Passenger traffic lias revived ments of his audience, pressing a sntln greatly, and building of some very lux robe on the attention of some naked urious packet Isiata is contemplated. beggar.—Golden Penny. For the months of March, April and Oldest Family la the World. May, !a#t oprttig, the amount of freight Of tbe 400 barons in the British shipped from Nt. Louis by river was house of lords about a dozen date 102,000 tons, an increase of 70 per «Mint back to 1400, the earliest being 1264. over the corresponding months of the The oldest family in the British Isles Is preceding year. the Mar family In Scotland. 1093. Tlie Campbells of Argyll began in 1100. Talleyrand dates from 1199 and Bls New York’s Millionaires. There are in New York city to-day marck from 1270. The Grosvenor fam Uy. tlie Duke of Westminster. 1066; 1320 millionaires, as against 294 twenty the Austrian house of Hapsburg goes years ago, and twenty-five in 1853. back to 952 nnd the house of Bourbon There were no millionaires in the city to 864. The descendants of Moham 100 years ago. The fl rst person to reach med, born 570, are all registered care- j that distinction was John Jacob Astor, fully and authoritatively in a book kept, who liecame a millionaire alsiut the In Mecca by a chief of the family. Lit- [ tie or no doubt exists of the absolute; year 1820. authenticity of the long line fff Moham ’ The excess of male deaths in Chicago med’s descendants. In China there are j is now more than 37 per cent greater many old families; also among the, than the female deaths in a population Jews. But In point of pedigrees the which con tains only 3 3 per cent excess mikado of Japan has a unique recon! , Ills place has been filled by memlier’ of males. of his family for more thnn 2,500 Topsy'a Fall Maine. years. The present mikado !s the one “Mamma, what ia Topsy's other Nome crank writes: “A good laugh is hundred and twenty-second in the line sometimes better than a hearty meal.” The first one wns contemporary with name?” "Topsy in tbe play? I don’t know, the poor cuss who is starving ought to Nebuchadnezzar. 666 years before dear. I guess she hasn't any other. Christ. be tickled to death over this joke. It's Just Tffpsy. that'a all.” “GM, she has another name. I heard Her Attraell ven»««. Nome women are so good that they Mr. Aiervey Miss Box ley. I adore papa apeak of it yesterday, but I can't make every one else feel downright you. Will you nof be my Wife? think of it now. Oh, yes. I remember. eavage. Miss Iloxley (haughtily)—The idea of It’s Topsy Turvy!”—Kansas City Jour jwur proposing to a girl in my stiitton nal. Opportunity may open the door to You slMuld know better. We are all clever enough at envying success, but it don't waste any time on' Mr. Nervey | do know better, but no a famous man while he Is yet alivs and introductions. richer, Pbilnildphia Press. at praising him when be is dead. MISCELLANY Willing to Oblige. Fraodaleat Sabatltalloa. Cheklb Bey, tbe Turkish minister to Washington, attended in Philadelphia the launching of the Turkish war ship Medjldta from tbe Cramps’ shipyard. During tbe luncheon following tbe launch Cheklb Bey animadverted fur a moment to th«.* beggars of Pblladel phia. “You have here,” be said, “an enter prislug and Intelligent collection of beggars. One uf them approached me thia morning. He told me a moving tale uf misfortune, theu be asked me fur a little money. “I put my bund In my pocket, tu find that 1 was altogether out of change. “'My man.’ I said, T have nothing for yuu uuw, but in an hour 1 shall be passing this way again. Then. I prom ise you. you shall get something from me.* “ ‘All right, air.' said the beggar; ’but, ail the same.’ be added fretfully, ’you wouldn't believe the amount of credit 1 give in thia way.’ ’’—Boston Post. Much of that which we eat. drink or even wear is net what it professes to be, aud It seems to us that tbe public ■ re for all practical purposes unpro tected. Need further examples tie quoted than the following, which we have often quoted before? A mixture of linen and cotton is sold as pure linen, a mixture of wool and cotton is Hold us all wool, a mixture of silk and cotton Is sold as pure silk, goods bought as pure silk lire heavily loaded with mineral matter to give a spurious impression of heaviness, grain spirit 1» ■old ua grape spirit or genuine brandy, tbe same spirit is sold as mult spirit or whisky. Indian tea is passed off us China tea. "plantation'’ coffee* is wild as real Mocha, and cottonwed oil is palmed off as genuine olive ol). Again. In Jum and mar mil lade glucose Is sub stituted (or cane sugar, nnd glucose is also used in place of malt for making beer. The latest addition to this infamous list Is tbe use* of cardboard wickedly sandwiched between the leather of the soles of boots offered for sale and guaranteed as "solid." A “solid” I mot in the trade means an all leather boot. The very necessity of the term implies fraud, as does all malt in the whisky trade. And there are those in the boot and shoe trade. Judging from tlie pro ceedings in a recent case, who would hold that boots with "Insoles” of card board and brown paper might correct ly be described as “solid” boots. — Lancet. Wood's Dispatches. Sir Evelyn Wood is distinguished by a wiliness in wblcb be has very few equals. He gave a specimen of this during tbe operations following tbe In dian mutiny. He volunteered to carry dispatches through the enemy's country and disguised himself as an Itinerant merchant, being fairly famillur with Hindustan«*. Traveling by night and day. he got too close to a rebel camp and was arrested and detained. After being somewhat carelessly examined ho was allowed to spend the night in a tent. As he expected, during the dark ness some natives crawled under the ennvas and stealthily searched Ills sad dlebags and wallets, but found nothing except sundry articles of commerce, the dispatches having been taken by Wood from a silt in his turban and burled underneath the spot where he slept. Next morning be was permitted to go and reached the British camp in safety. —Men and Women. Billy West's Last Show. George Primrose's one desire ««‘nn to lie to perpetuate the act of Primrose and West which he and the late Billy West presented for so many years in minstrelsy. He has adopted the Foley brothers and taught them every minute motion the old team used to make. In this connection Primrose tells aliout his last interview with West, which took The German Emperor's 1'flpe. The disquieting news from Berlin about the kaiser's throat recalls the fact that General Grant suffered and died from cancer in tlie throat, which waa by many physicians attributed to excessive smoking. The emiieror has the same habit. "Unser Fritz,” the kaiser's father, who died of cancer like General Grant, was a great smoker of the big German student pipe. No picture of Kaiser Fritz was considered quite right which did not represent him as pulling at one of these great pipes as if lie were Bis marck. The present emperor has only re cently succumbed to the big pipe habit. In his youth he smoked cigarettes, a little later advanced to mild cigars, but for some time bus Indulged a tend ness for the huge, d<*ep bowl«), re flective pipe with amber mouthpiece and metal cover. A Bankrupt br Promotion. The cost of a commission in tlie Brit ish army Is well illustrated in the case of Lieutenant and Riding Master Em mery of the Royal Irish lancers, who has Just gone into bankruptcy, with liabilities amounting to $3,670. Twen ty-five years ago he enlisted in the regi ment as a private. He gained an hon orary commission in 1894, with nn al lowance of $75<) to cover his expenses. He was called on to s|iend for new clothes $470, for two horses $250, for transit of family to India $75, for fur nishing quarters $(¡00 nnd for saddlery $100, a total of $1,495, or $745 more than the government allowed 1dm. To help out he had to go to a money lender for a considerable part of tlie balance, so that he was really insolvent from the dny he got bta commission. Not mueh encouragement for "rankers” in this. A Fatal Walking Match. "IT WAS X.IKK A DBKAM ” Remote Tasmania furnished recently a very curious disaster when n Hobart firm of whisky manufacturers offered a prize for a walking match. Forty competitors entered. The route was to the summit of tlie pinnacle of Mount Wellington, which forms a pic turesque background to the Tasmania metropolis In spite of bad weather tlie competitors started at 2 in the after noon in light walking costumes. Half way up the mountain they encountered a snowstorm. Search parties found two competitors frozen to death, others rigid with cold, some temporarily deinentud nnd others who bad lost themselves were resell«!. Few reached the pinnacle. The winner covered eighteen miles in 2 hours 44 minutes. place in tbe Palmer House, Chicago. We*st was then mortally ill. Primrose had been telling his old partner about the wonderfully clever dancing of Ids two proteges and how they knew every step of Primrose and West "I’d like to see tbe boys,” said West, “but you see I can’t get out of the ho tel.” "Well,” said Primrose, "I'll bring them over here. They can do the dance for you right In this room.” The boys went over the next after noon dressed In tbeir stage clothes and began the daflce. Primrose beating tbe time for them. "It was like a dream for Billy West,” says Primrose. "He sat there as one transfixed, ids only motion lieing a sort Pay of the British Amhaaandor. of swaying In his chair to the time of We wish we could feel that Sir Mor tlie dance. I am sure of one thing, no timer Durand In going to Washington body will ever enjoy the dancing of was about to receive a salary from tlie those two boys as Billy West did.” nation commensurate with tlie impor tance of the post tie is to fill. Wash How lit Loa« a Millloa. ington is now the most important sta Colonel Ochiltree used to tell a story tion in the British diplomatic service of how be once lost $1.000.009. and should be the best paid, even if It “It was at a banquet.” be would say. were not a singularly expensive post. "and Senator Hearst of California sat Yet. strangely enough, our ambassa tieside me. Hearst told how years be dor In a capital where the coat of liv fore tie and Ida party laid once been ing and service is so Immensely high helped across the l'latte by a brave red la only paid £6,500 a year, while the haired boy. The boy to do tills disd pay In Paris is £9,000 and In Constan- liad risk«! Ids life. Senator Hearst as tlnople, Berlin nnd Vienna £8,000. In be talk«l on got enthusiastic In Ilin Washington the pay should Is* £10,000. gratitude to the lad. —London Spectator. “ ‘Why,’ he said, ‘If I could only find Walters’ I.lability. thnt boy tonight I'd make him a pres Mrs. Clara Back of New York city ent of $1,000.006.’ “I could restrain myself no longer at has obtained n verdict of $100 damages this point. I burst Into teurs. •Benntor.’ for Injury done to a dress through the I «nid, ‘I am thnt red haired boy. lie- inrelouwi» cf n waiter In n restaurant. She and her husband were dining nt bold the boy In me!’ “But Hearst said. ■Ochiltree, you He!' Sherry’s, and the waiter dropped a "And thus I lost $1.000.01»).” Ex Klass of water on the white crepe de thine princess gown. The mnnager tbanre made profuse a|XiioKira, ut,d no did tie’ Unsophisticated New Members. waiter, but Mrs. Bock refused to 1» Representative Billy Lorimer of Chi molllfi«! by fine words. Next day she cago listened to tbe tale of woe of sent tbe dress to the hotel people, wllli n new memtier who had many com a demand for Its value. This was re plaints to make and many questions to fuse«!, so she sued and got a verdict, as ask. »fated above. "It seems to me,” said Lorimer, "that you new chaps are aliout as unsophis (oBldeare. ticated ns the fellow who came to Chi “Mr. Bllggins seems to have a very cago and snw a wagon In the street patient and cheerful disposition.” on which wan painted the sign 'Eagle "Yes. He says thnt a man needn't Laundry.’ worry so long as he has Ids health, "’By gosh? he said. '1 didn't know anti you can always find a sure remedy any feller could make a living In bta for any Illness by looking through tlie town washing «agios.’ " advertisements.”—Washington Stnr Her Diirmina. Ethel—I can't decide which of them to accept. Kate—Why. that ought to tie easy. Ethel—I know; but. you nee, Jack al ways gives me roses, and Ileggte al ways gives me violets, and the florist tells me they cost exactly tlie same orice.—Cincinnati ConimercW Tribune. • Osffeleaey. Honestman - I had to discharge my confidential man today. Hffdidn'tknow enough for the position. ' Crook«lchap— I discharged mine al»o He knew too mneb.—Cincinnati Times Star. n« Ha« »«it tLaan Any small boy will tell you that even "A man dat walks right up to de job leather alippars may be Mt-PLIladel- of reformin’ de whole world," said Un pS. Record. . « cle Ebon, "very often balks at so alm- I pie a matter as, breakin* hl «self of | Accuracy ia tbe twin brother of bon- chewin’ MBncco.”- Washington Star. aaty SimmuoA
