o
o
O
BANDON KMORUEK
IV*M THE TERRIBLE.
Hurharle I «ar Who
Io lluro.
and Torture Ills »dhieet«.
ROAD 5,000 YEARS OLD.
Ussa Dur '•»
*“•« *■-
plrut Hlabwu»« 1» the World.
The roml frixu ilo - t’> Uuma runs
almost due north, a Irnlght white line
cutting aero-- th»' . * n fi»4d
It K
one of the oldest routes In the world.
Caravans have l>«-«-n passing .*k>tig it
for at least 5,000 years, just as we
saw them- long strings of slow, mov
ing camels witli their bright colored
bugs of wheat.
One could almost imagine that L’ha
raoh was again calling down the corn
of Hamath to till bls granaries against
the seven years of famine. But even
here the old things are passing. Just
beyond the long line of camels was a
longer line of fellah women, their dirty
blue robes kilted above their knees,
carrying upon their shoulders baskets
of earth and stone for the roadbed of
the new French railway.
The carriage road Is French, too. and
a very good road It is. Some men were
repairing It with a most Ingenious
roller. It was a great round stone,
drawn by two oxen and having its
axle prolonged by a twenty foot pole,
at the end of which a barelegged Arab
was fastened to balance the whole af
fair. If the stone had toppled ovet
the picture of the Arab dangling at tlu
top of the slender flagstaff would have
been worth watching.
Ail along the ride we were reminded
of the punt. It l<* • fertile soil, but the
very wheatfields are different from
ours. Only a few yards in width, they
are often of tremendous length. I hes
itate to commit myself to figures, but
It Is certain that the thin, green fields
would stretch away in the distance un
til lost over some little elevation. At
one place the road was cut through a
hill honeycombed with rock tombs
which the haj paid were Jewish.
Every now and then we passed a tell
or groat hemispherical mound, built up
of the rubbish of a dozen rulued towns,
for even ns late as Homan times this
was a well cultivated and populous
country. There Is now no lumber
available for building purposes, and In
a number of village s the houses are all
built with conical roofs of stone,
Where the rock happens to be of a
reddish tinge tlie houses remind one of
nothing so much as a collection of In-
dlnn wigwams. Where the stone Is
white, as nt Tell et Blseh. It glitters
anti sparkles like a fairy city cut out
of loaf sugar.—Scribner's Magaziuc.
STRANGE CHECKS.
The
Odd
A MMort meiit Collected
One llnnk Clerk.
■»
A torn linen collar, a piece of lath, a
cuff and a half dozen other odd ob
jects hung above the bank clerk’s desk.
“My collection of queer checks,” the
young man said. “Each of those things
Is a check. Each was duly honored.
Each has u story.
“1 have been collecting queer checks
for three years. That piece of lath
started me. A western bank honored
the lath for $250. It wns made out as
a check by the owner of a sawmill, who
was out nt the plant with his son, thir
ty miles from any house, and totally
without paper, let alone a check book.
The money wan needed to pay off the
hands. The sawmiller wrote on the
lath just what a check correctly drawn
has on It, nnd he sent his son in to the
bank to get the money nnd to explain.
The lath check was honored after some
discussion among the bank's officers.
“The cuff check was drawn by an
actor who had become slightly lntoxl-
cated, got into a fight nnd been arrest-
ed. He was treated cavalierly In his
cell. They wouldn't give him any pa
per, and he bribed a boy to take tite
check to a bank. The boy got the
money, nnd with It the actor paid his
fine. Otherwise he’d have been Jailed
for ten days. Thus the cuff check may
be said to have saved a man from pris
on.
“The check written on that linen col
lar won a bet of $5. A man bet a wo
man tlint a check made on a collar
would be cashed, and of course he won
bls bet
“Your bank, if you carry a good ac
count, will honor the most freaky
checks you can draw up. In such mon
key business, though, it won't encour
age you."—Chicago Chronicle.
Jfcmie of the reus ms why Ivuu, ezar
of Russia, was called "the Terrible”
Laie Is-c-n ret »Id by K Vtalisze^ski in
his b<M»k. Persons who displeased him
he woukl saw a-umler by the i-oustaut
rubbing of a rope around their waists or
sprinkle alternately with ice cold and
boiling water. He rnurked his sense of
a bad jest by’deluging tlie perpetrator
with boiling soup uud then running
him through with a knife. He rebuked
an unmannerly envoy by summoning
a carpeuter and ordering him to nail
the man’s hat on bis bead. There were
also wholesale orgies, as at the punish
ment of Novgorod, when be bad a hun
dred persons roasted over a slow lire
by a new and ingenious process and
then run down on sledges luto the river
to be drowned. At Moscow the czar
hud a disappointment There was to tie
a great execution of 300 victims who
bail already been tortured to the last
extremity, and loyal subjects had lieen
summoned to tlie function. "To Ivan’s
astonishment the great square was
empty. Tlie instruments of torture
that stood ready—the stoves and red-
hot pinchers and Iron claws and nee
dles, the cords, the great coppers full
of boiling water—had failed to attract
this time.
"But there liad been too much of this
sort of thing lately, and the execution
ers were growing too long armed Ev
ery man sought to hide deeper than
his neighbor. The
bud to send re
assuring messages all over the town.
‘Come along! Don’t be afraid! Nobody
will be hurt!’ At last out of cellars
and garrets the necessary spectators
were tempted forth, and forthwith
Ivan. Inexhaustible and quite un-
abashed, began a lengthy speech.
Could he do less than punish the trai
tors? But be bad promised to lie mer
ciful, and lie would keep bis word!
Out of the 300 wlio had been sentenced
ISO should have their lives!” Torture
and execution were, however. In the
case of Ivan very much more than the
mere Instruments of barbaric Justice.
They were bis recreation ami delight.
As a boy his amusement wns to throw
dogs down from the top of one of the
castle terraces and watch their dying
agonies. As a tnau he used to go the
round of the torture chambers after
dinner. One of his first crimes was the
execution of liis earliest friend. Feodor
Vorontsov. One of his last was the
murder of his own son.
According to Waliszewskl, It was the
recognized thing In Russia for the up
per dog to make things as uncomforta
ble for the under dog ns knouts nnd
slow tires could moke them. So “the
Terrible” only talked of his subjects
in the language they could most readi
ly understand. Ivan wns by no menns
unpopular with the people. In many
ways he was nn enlightened nnd pro
gressive monarch. He took the first
steps toward the founding of Russia’s
great eastern empire. He made more
or less successful attempts toward po
litical and legal reform, and he had n
certain gift of leadership nnd Instinct
of statesmanship which lie used to the
best advantage. Personally he wns a
coward, as was shown at the siege of
Knsan, when lie kept diligently to his
devotions in spite of the repented en
treaties of Ids men to come out and
help them.
BREAKING OF THE VOICE.
It I m Canned by nn Orirnnlc Change
In the Larynx.
The peculiar physiological causes of
what Is called the breaking of tlie voice
are not quite understood, but It Is
known to depend Immediately upon an
organic cliauge in the larynx, the organ
of tlie voice, which occurs In the male
sex between the ages of fourteen and
sixteen. Before that the larynx of
boys resembles that of girls, but when
the voice begins to break the vocal
chords become lengthened at least one-
third, the angle of the thyroid cartilage
becomes enlarged, and the muscles
which connect the organs of the voice
wit!, the hypoid bone and tlie base of
the tongue become elongated.
While the change of form Is taking
place the voice Is unfitted for singing
and should be used only with great
care. In other words, the breaking
of the voice is due to the rapid de
velopment of the larynx, which takes
place nt certain ages and which leads
to a change In the range of the voice,
A TALE OF THE COMMUNE. The
peculiar harshness of the voice
One Little thnp Who I-iacnped the when It Is thus breaking seems to be
due to n temporary congestion nnd
Rnlleln of the Soldier«.
A writer In the Cornhill tells of a swollen condition of the mucous mem
scene that Charles Austin witnessed brane of the vocal chords accompany
when the Versatilely entered Paris. He ing the active growth of the whole
saw one day roaming about Paris—a larynx.
not uncommon sight—a group of men
AN ODD PUZZLE.
and women put against a wall to be
shot. Their bands were supposed to
The Cryptic Inscription That Ornn-
be blackened with powder.
nients n Salo Church,
Among them was a lad of twelve or .
A picturesque tower Is the oldest
fourteen, who, bet’ore the order to shoot
could be given, stepped forward nnd part of the Swiss church nt Cliampery,
begged to be allowed to take back the a village which lies In a valley under
watch bls mother had lent him. He the shadow of the towering Dent du
produced a huge turnip of a watch and Midi.
I 'edlcated to St. Theodnle, this church
promised faithfully to return.
Mr. Austin said It was n moment of was built in 1726 on the site of an an
anguish. None could be sure that the cient chapel. The tower, with its
child was telling the truth, but the offi ttti'.jUc plvrvcd crown, came» a gut
cer commanding, giving him a kick, statuette of the patrou saint, a quaint
said. “Be off with you!" The child ran old clock and the following cryptic in
away, tlie order to shoot rang out. but scription, which has puzzled many
the horrid business wns hardly over travelers:
QUOD AN THT3 MT'LCE PA
before the clatter of feet wns beard, nnd
GUIS
TI
DINE
VIT
the boy reappeared round a corner and,
HOC SAN CHRIS DULCE I.A
putting himself against the wall, pre
By taking the syllables above and lie
pared for death.
It was impossible to kill that heroic low with those in the middle It reads:
Quod angula trlstl mulcedlne pavit.
little soul.
Hoc sanguis Christi dulcedlne lavtt,
“It renews one's fnlth in human na
which may be freely rendered:
ture,” said Mr. Austin.
That which the serpent with sad charm
imbued
Think Mrnlflrht.
blood of Christ with sweetness has
It would be impossible for a lawyer Th« renewed
to make a reputation In his profession
—Loudon Telegraph.
while continually thinking about medi
E vp ’ m Apple,
cine or engineering. He must think
A botanical friend showed me not
about law and must study and become
thoroughly Imbued with Its principle*. long since what he said was the ap-
It is unscientific to expect to attain I pie that must have tempted Eve in
excellence or ability enough to gain what was surely a tropical fruit gar
distinction In nny particular line while den. It was a little bit of an oriental
bolding the mind upon and eoirtluually crab, about a third of an Inch In di
contemplating something radically dif ameter. and. of course. It was bitterly
sour! My philosophizing friend point
ferent.—Success.
cd out that, of course, the fruits in
Love's IInvInss.
EJl'en were the natural ”wll<l" fruits,
“Whir, Charles. Vvhat do you mean and be mu wondering whether the fall
by burning our old love letters?" ”1 of mankind would not have been ac-
bare bean reading them, my dear,” re
«• raoet If the attracting tree bail
plied her husband. "Afw we die some been bung with a fair crop of the
one t-lio <tshed to break our wills trmptlug golden or crim <on varieties of
might ttet bold of them and use them today.—Country Life In America.
to pnWe nW were Insane."
REVEALED THE TRUTH.
How
th«- »»»■<• 1» ■ Will Fursery
(aae W ere llroupht Out.
f
I
WASHINGTON LETTER HUMOR OF THE HOUR FACTS IN FEW LINES
CHOICE
IBpedal C.»rT*spoa*enca»)
Discussion ha» | (s-u general among
In his capacity as judge Lord liraiup- nil classes uf p. ..p|, ¡u Washington for
tou always lusistetl on the imperative some days as to the opinion of the D1»
demand that every case should be in trli t court of ap1H?aia bolding that 8at-
vestigated in Its miuutest details, L’p- urday afternoon u a legal half holiday
on small points the great issue of a “for all pur|HMes.'>
cQ»e de|«uds. As exemplifying thia
Much spec ulation has been indulged
Lord Brampton cites a curious CUSe in as to what the effect of the opinion
that came before him on the western will be ou the 'iterations of the gov
Circuit:
Hiiment departments and the transac
"A solicitor was charged with forg tion;! of business ordinarily suspended
ing the will of a lady, which devised on Sundays. The consensus of opinion
to him a considerable amount of her among tlie lawyers seems to be that
property, but as the case proceeded it the departments will be in nowise em
became clear to me that the will was barrassed or hampered by the opinion
signed after the lady’s death and then In the mutter of keeping open Satur
with a dry pen held in the bund of the day afternoons. The question has l>een
deceased Ly the accused himself while considered at length by the office of the
he guided It over a signature which be •c • .
n counsel, and the attorneys
bad craftily forgetL A woman was who have gone into the subject care
present when this was done, and as fully express tlie opinion that, despite
she had attested the execution of the the fact that there can be no contro
will she was a necessary witness for versy about Saturday bqing a legal
the prisoner, and In examination in half holiday, the government employ
chief site was very clear Indeed that It ees can be lawfully required to work
was b.v the hand of the deceased that that day until the usual closing hour.
tlie will was signed and that she her
Dead Letter Sale.
self had seeu the deceased sign IL
In Uncle Sam’s dead letter sale,
Suspicion only existed as to what the which takes place annually, there were
real facts were until tiffs woman went this year 6,272 pieces, exclusive of
into the box. and then a scene highly books nnd jewelry, of which there were
dramatic occurred in her cross exami 1.098 lots of the former and 487 of the
nation. After getting an admission latter.
that the will was signed in the bed,
The articles which are sold at auc
with tlie prisoner near by. the woman tion llave accumulated In the dead let
was asked:
ter office of the postoflice department
“ ’Did he put the pen into her hand?’ within the past twelve months. They
" ’Yes.”
were either held for postage. Incorrect
“ ‘And assist her while slie signed the ly addressed or seized because In trans
will?'
it through the mails In violation of tlie
“ ‘Yes.’
postal laws nnd regulations.
“ ‘How did be assist her?'
Cortelyou to Remain Chairman.
“ ‘By raising her in the bed and sup
W hen Georg» B. Cortelyou becomes
porting her when lie had raised her.’
postmaster general In the next cabinet
“ ‘Did he guide her hand?’
It Is not considered likely that lie will
“ ‘No.’
resign his position as chairman of the
“‘Did lie touch her hand at all?’
Republican nationil committee. On the
“ ‘I think he did just touch her hand.’
other hand. It is thought to be perfect
“ ‘When he did touch her band was
ly proper that be Bold this position, not
she dead?’
withstanding his cabinet office. The
“At this last question the woman
late Henry G. I’iyne was vice chair
turned terribly pale, was seen to fal
man of the Itepifillcan national com
ter and fell in a swoon on the ground
mittee and frequently advised with the
and so revealed the truth, which she
presidept as to aupolntments, especial
had come to deny.”—London Mail
ly In the postal strvice. Headquarters
of the national committee will be in
CARE OF A RAZOR.
Washington, and Elmer Dover, the sec
retary of the canmlttee. will be In
Some Thins, Thut the Man
charge of affairs, ns inhhe past.
Shaves llimaeif Should Know.
“The average man who shaves him
self doesn’t know how to take care of
bls razor despite all the advice that
has been given to him In the public
prints from time to time,” says an ex
pert barber.
“He will gc»: a good razor and use it
day after day, then wonder why at the
end of a short time it loses its edge,
even though he strops it most care
fully. A razor needs brief Intervals of
rest or It will grow dull, no matter
what efforts are made to keep It sharp.
If you have a good razor nnd it ap
pears to be losing its edge just try a
rest for it Instead of having it sharp
ened up again. The chances are that
when you put It Into use again at the
expiration of three or four days It will
prove as sharp as If it had been care
fully honed.
“A man wlio shaves himself ought to
have at least two razors and use these
on alternate mornings; then, if his ra
zors are all right, he will have but lit
tle trouble with them. It Is also pos
sible to strop a razor too much. It
should not be stropped for more than
half a minute before shaving, and care
should be taken never to bear heavily
on the strop while doing this. Let the
razor rest lightly on the leather, and
the best results will be gained. After
finishing a shave, strop the razor once
more for a few seconds, nnd this will
Insure a much better condition for it.”
FLAGS IN BIG HOTELS.
Colors of All Nittionx nn a Rule Are
Kepi In Stock.
“No first class metropolitan hotel is
thoroughly equipped until It possesses
an assortment of flags almost as com
plete as that of an admiral's flagship,'
remarked the manager of a prominent
caravansary.
"The leading hotels In the great cities
have use for tlugs of all nations some
time or other. Hotels are pretty nearly
as punctilious In observing certain lit
tle ceremonies when distinguished visit
ors arrive as are naval fleets. If somt
high official of a foreign country is
staying In the bouse It Is the proper
thing to display his nation's colors. As
all big hotels are likely to entertain
home and foreign diplomats, army or
navy officers, or even members of royal
families, you oan see where there
Is a necessity for nn assortment of
flags.
“The hotel may not possess a com
plete outfit to begin with, but as time
rolls along and distinguished men of
nil lands are entertained the collection
of bunting is continually added to.
Then there are the many fraternal or
ganizations which make one hotel or
another their headquarters on the oc
casion of annual celebrations. They
usually have some flag or device which
is swung to the breeze over the house
on the days of the jollifications."—
Philadelphia Record.
ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW.
Tlie DIWereaee lletween Hard Labor
and Penul Servitude.
The difference in Great Britain be-
tween hard labor and penal servitude
is one of period and treatment. Hard
labor varies as to period from a few
days to two years, and however well a
prisoner behaves himself the sentence
Is never shortened. There are two
classes of hard labor.
In the first class the punishment ad
ministered consists of six to ten hours'
work at the treadmill, the crank or the
capstan, or at stonebreaking or shot
drill. In the second class the hard la
bor really consists of such punishments
as may be decided by the justices In
session.
Penal servitude is the modern sub
stitute for transportation beyond the
seas.
A term of penal servitude begins
with nine months’ bard labor in a
probationary prison, and after that the
convict Is employed on public works
In a penal settlement The work Is
comparatively light, and In most pris
ons a well behaved man gets off pretty
easily. In addition to this, by virtue
of a system of marks for good be
havior. lie has always before him the
possibility of reducing his sentence by’
at most about one year In live.
Vain« lit. Opportunity.
Charles Dkkeus used to leff the fol
lowing story al>out a Methodist preach
er; "This preacher bad beeu called to
officiate at the funeral of a relative of
a Conservative editor, and as the
preacher himself aimed to be a Lib
eral leader in the district die and the
editor bad often crossed swords. This
time tlie chance came todellvera home
thrust with ut a chance for either par
ry or reply. At the coffin of the de
ceased, beside which the editor and
other mouniere knelt together, the
preacher made thia appeal: ‘Lord, over
rule this affliction to the welfare of al)
assembled, including the reptile now
sprawling In thy presence, who has
frequently abused thy servant In the
columns of his beastly publication!’
Birmingham (England) Post.
Heart! Simultaneously.
Downstairs—It those people In I the
flat upstairs don’t quit banging that
piano all the time 1 am going to com
i
plain. They are absolutely the most
i
selfish people I ever saw. Baby situ
ply cannot sleep.
Upstairs—If that howling brat down
In the flat below doesn’t quit Its Infer
nal yawping I'll climb down the fire
escape and strangle It some night!
See If I don't!—Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Overheard In the Coop,
“Life Is such a fitful dream,” re
marked the pessimistic chicken. "It
hardly seems worth living, Sooner or
later the end’s the same.”
"That's so,” replied the other. “It
really doesn’t much matter whether
one winds up as an omelet or n chicken
salad."—Detroit Tribune.
She Hoped He Would.
"Good night,” said Mr. Staylate. final
ly breaking away. ‘‘I’ve enjoyed my
self immensely. Now. next Sunday
night—I—er expect to pass your house
and”—
"That will be nice. Good night!” said
she and shut the door.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Cigarette Habit.
The report of tie commissioner of in
ternal revenue thows that the ciga
rette habit is steadily growing, and
during the present year 290,000,000
more were smoked than during I!» >3.
It also shows that New York leads In
tlie manufacture of cigarettes, while
the cigar habit is apparently decreas
ing. and this is indicated by a decrease
of 80,000,000 In the output of cigars.
Colored Food«.
The secretary of agriculture has Is
sued an order that all staple articles
of food that have been colored artifi
cially must be branded as such. This
action follows a thorough Investigation
by Dr. Wiley, tlie chief of the chemical
laboratory «f tlie department. Into the
She—It does ¡«m as If we should
methods of coloring foods.
never get into g >od society.
Wartime Helle.
lie—Well, I’m afraid you're right.
An effort is beiug made by several We seem to be so hopelessly mixed up
old time telegraphers to have ndded to with the smart set.
tlie interesting exhibits in the National
museum a genuine curiosity and relic
The Profennor.
of the stirring wartimes in the vicini
“How does that shoe feel?" asked the
ty of Washington in the sixties. The merchant.
relic in question Is the original old
“I don't know,” said the professor,
Morse register, one of the first of the wincing, as be stood up and bore his
telegraph Instruments, which was used weight on the foot, “but I know bow
at Manassas. Va„ by the Confederate my corn feels about it. I'll try a size
army officials to transmit the news of larger, if you please.”—Chicago Trib
the first battle of Manassas, or first une.
Bull Itun, as It Is called In the north,
No Danier.
to the Confederate capital nt Rich
mond. Tlie venerable Instrument was
Doctor—Madtjm, you needn’t dread
similarly used for reporting the second the disease. There Is only about one
battle of Bull Run.
chance In a hundred that you will get
It
In Interest of Mail Clerks.
Mrs. Ilichurcb (relieved)—H'm'. Some
Postmaster General Wynne In his
annual report recommends the provi thing on the order of a church fair
sion of adequate punishment for those ihanee, eh?—Judge.
who recklessly endanger the lives of
In DlNfJcuiNe.
mnfl clerks by transmitting snakes,
live tarantulas, scorpion'), loaded re
Aunt Prudence—Do Mary and James
volvers and other explosives. The act ns If they thought their married
sending of Inflammable matter and life was a blessing?
poisonous nnlmals through the mnlls
Uncle Ilach—Well, no, not exactly a
Is prohibited by Inw, but there Is no Blessing, unless It might be a blessing
in disguise.—Woman's Home Compan
penalty provided.
ion.
Potomac Water.
The District commissioners have sent
The Wornt.
to the speaker of the house a report of
Bly—I hear you were In a street enr
nn Investigation made as to the amount
of Potomac water used by departments »mashup the other day. That was hard
luck!
and offices of the United States.
Sly—I should say so. I wasn’t even
The average dally consumption of
the capítol building during a session shaken up enough to sue for damages.
of congress Is shown to be the enor —Detroit Free Press.
mous amount of 1,051.321 gallons. The
The Dear Girl’s Tnate.
government printing office uses 1.350.-
Jack—And so you have been married
855 gallons, the library of congress
125.700. White House and fountain a year. How do you like the ties of
314.590 gallons, treasury department wedlock?
Jim—I like the ties all right, but I
363,396 and the navy yard 2,014,180
have to balk at the cigars sometimes.—
gallons of water a day.
The total amount of water consumed Collier's Weekly.
tn all tlie departments dally Is 8,880,-
The Iletort Proper.
108. The report shows that no water
“Ah. you poor devils of bachelors!
connection wns found at tlie stnte de
Now. when a married man gets a little
partment nor at the botanic gardens.
rent in his clothes"—
Conaressionnl Library.
"He's got to pay ft to the landlord, 1
According to the annual report of
nee!
”—New Orleans Tlmes-Demo. rnt.
Herbert Putnam, librarian of congress,
triiiisniitied to both houses ol cougtess.
the total number of printed books nnd
pnmphlets tn the library ts 1.179.713, a
gain of 78.791 for the last fiscal year.
In addition there were 95.954 books In
the law branch of the library. 121,266
manuscript pieces, 75.861 charts, 384.-
418 pieces of music and 158,451 prints.
During the year there were 103.130
copyright entries.
During the thirty-four years since
the copyright work became a business
of the library of congress the total
number of entries has been 1,518.005.
There is discussion of the methods of
disposing of copyright articles not
available for the library, and the li
brarian urges that a mean» be found
for their disposition.
____ CARL 8CHOFIELD.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Do you always keep nn appointment
or just claim to?
A Mvtnwti liiWhyi» tiiiuks tier dress
maker keeps half the goods.
Nine-tenths of the things people quar
rel over do not make any difference
one way or the other.
When the doctor says tv you. "Old
man. I'm sorry, but you ran t live an
hour.” how will you take it?
A boy Is old enough to be welcome
In the neighbor girl's parlor long be
fore his sister thinks he Is old enough
to sit In the parlor at homo.
nad the old fashioned children net
ed like the pres» at generation there
would have been no children. Their
parents would have beaten them to
Skillful Porto Rlcnn«,
The natives of Porto Rico fashion a I death.
Every one has Lis vanity card to
variety of useful and ornamental arti
cles by hand from tlie palm leaves, play. The preacher gets n man Into
gourds, cocoanuta and other products the fold by telling him of the "great
of the island. They are skillful In weav Influence” he has upon others.—Atchi
ing hammocks, hats similar to pana son Globe.
ma hats, and a great variety of bas
Miserable Crentnre«.
kets. Canes, paper knives and other
“Talking of matrimony," said the
articles are carved out of the native inge. “there are two sorts of men who
woods, some of which show curious • re equally miserable specimens.”
and strikingly ornamental markings.
“And they are?”
The señoras and señoritas of Porto
“The fellow who says he’s sorry he
Rico are es|iecially skillful with the •ver married nnd the fellow wlio says
needle and produce a considerable quan he's glad be never did.”—Philadelphia
tlty of fine drawn work and laces.
Press.
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Au automobile hearse 1» the latest tn
tlie .......... I adapting the fBsoline iii M it
to ev eryday us«*».
A ' Ll ck lily" new to sclem-e ha«
iM-eu discovered at Nueva Caceres, in
the Philippines.
A model coal mine, the first of Its
kind In England, Is to be Included In
the ack iitific equipment of Birming
ham university.
The exi»orts of palm seeds from the
Netherlands amounted to 50,452,600
pounds, 52.498,600 pounds and 57,043,-
800 pounds in 1901, 1902 and 1903 re
flectively.
Hie art treasures at Windsor castle
are said to be worth over $60,000,000.
The king has had them rearranged, but
has not beeu able to Insure them as
yet owing to their great value.
A bill to prohibit juvenile cigarette
smoking has passed Its second reading
In the South Australian legislature and
will probabTy become law. The age
below which smoking Is prohibited Is
fixed at sixteen years.
In view of the notorious laziness of
the Russian peasant, writes a St Pe
tersburg corresimndent. It will be Inter
esting to watch the effect of the uew
law- permitting labor on Sundays and
festivals.
An association In Manchester, Eng
land, known as the Minnehaha Ama
teur minstrels Ims made a business for
the post twenty-five years of giving
performances for charity. In that time
It lias raised $97,130.
An attempt is to be made by the
British war department to raise a sec
ond battalion of the Irish guards. It Is
expected to be successful, as the first
battalion now has several companies In
excess of the establishment
Swedish doctors having found mi
nute pieces of enamel from “granite”
ware In cases of appendicitis, it 1» sur
mised that the common use of this
ware may have something to do with
the prevalence of appendicitis.
Of the 4.000 white settlers scattered
among tlie total population of 200,000
In German Southwest Africa not many
more than 2,000 are at present Ger
man. and these nre very largely com
posed of the military and official ele
ment.
There Is more smoking of pipes done
in cold weather than at any other
time, and, excluding the vacation sea
son. there are more pipes and smoking
tobacco sold during the cold weather
than during tlie temperate nnd heated
spells.
Canada Is pushing for sales In Ja
pan. Consuls are being appointed with
authority to pay for early statistical
Information. Sample rooms will be at
tached to the consulates. Japanese
products will be exhibited In commer
cial museums in Canada.
For several years the Santa Fe com
pony lins been filling In China basin, In
south San Francisco, to make solid
ground on the bay front there for*
freight yards. The work is done at
last, having cost the company $3,635,-
(X>0. It now ow ns a fine site of fifty-
three acres.
In one of the London public schools
a teacher asked her class what turf
wns. Nobody could tell. She next ask
ed what grass was. There was a long
pause, nnd then the smartest scholar
raised a hand. "Weil?” asked the
teacher. “Please, ma’am. It's what you
got to keep off of,” was the reply.
A man brought up at St. Albans as
an Incorrigible rogue was proved to
have married bls uunt. His children
are therefore Ills first cousins, and he
is bls own uncle. His grandmother
nnd hts mother-in-law are the same
person. Apparently the judge sympa
thized with him, for he was discharged.
A number of Philadelphia business
meu have organized what Is to be
known as the Downtown club, each
member of which Is pledged to war on
tipping. They have become tired of
feeing waiters at noon In order to se
cure reasonably quick service, nnd the
Downtown club is tlielr way of over
coming the nuisance.
A lawyers' club of California has
been formed, with a branch club in
every county and headquarters In San
Francisco. Its declared objects are the
reduction of expense to litigants, the
elimination of delay in reaching a final
settlement of cases and the securing
of uniform rules of practice In the va
rious couutles of the state.
Along the International boundary of
the Canudlau northwest twenty years
ago wns nn ncreage of 250,090 under
crop, yielding 1,2<X).OOO bushels of
whent. Now the acreage Is over 4.000,-
000 and the annual yields 110.000,000
bushels, while population, acreage and
output nre augmented at a rate no oth
er country can approach.
By direction of the secretary of war
orders have been Issued carrying into
effect the recommendations of the gen
eral staff making changes In the uni
forms of the army. It is also pre
scribed that no decoration received
from foreign governments shall be
worn by officers and men while on
duty with United States tro«^-
Thirty thousand Socfnllst»« d«n>y»ji
strated ngntnst Herr Lueger, mayor of
Vienna, on the eve of hfs sixtieth
birthday. The burgomaster recently
described the Socialists ns a lot of rag-
«muffin«.
23 they gathered fa
the ringstras -e opposite tlie Itathaus.
shaking their fists and waving sticks
anti red handkerchiefs. A charge of
1.000 police finally dispersed them.
The value of real estate In California
Is officially estimated to be worth $882.-
104.539, the Improvements on real es
tate $316.208.123. the value of personal
property $230.623.282, the money and
solvent credits $42.906.248. and the to
tal value of property as returned by
auditors ts $1.480.842.105, exclusive of
the railroads, which are assessed at
$69.669,566 by the state board of equal
ization.
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How old Is the emblem of a lover’« I
heart? In the days before metals were
used weapons made of stone were
formed by prehistoric men. Among
the most notable of such ancient weap
ons are a number of beautifully chip
ped arrowheads which have lieen taken
to be the work of fairies and have
therefore been liked as charms from
very remote times. In Scotland they
are called "elf bolts.” and they ntf so
shaped that when the central projec
tion is broken off the semblance of a
lover’s heart remains. — London An-
■were.
MISCELLANY
Ihr New krmr <he«r«»a.
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>' men generally,” n'lflBrked •
reteran officer, "are pleased at the ac-
U..II of Secretary Taft tn provitfiig f«
the manufacture and Issue of a uew
thevroiu Under previous regulation«
•ach of the varlaas kind» of coat« re-
|Ulred a different kind fit Chevron, the
tarn of which were of the high colored
lacing cloth* conforming to the vari-
>u» arms of the service.
"The color» used In dyeing this cloth
ire very fugitive. Experiments were
Blade to obtain a chevron that would
Hand washing when attached to the
n'hite summer und cotton khaki coat»,
•nd finally the color of the olive drab
•hirting fiannel was selected as tlie
best. Bars made of cloth of this shade,
tewed on a groundwork of olive drab
terge. will harmonize with the service
xrnts and at the same time are suffi-
?lently distinctive. Bars of the same
sloth i»w«J on a groundwork of either
rotton khaki or white duck will har
monize with the khaki service and
white summer coats.
“While the distinctive colon» of the
various arms of the service have been
lisregarded In the new chevrons, It will
not lead to confusion, because the hat
rords show the color of the arm of the
tervice, and the ornamenta on the coat
solhirs show the organization to which
in enlisted man belongs.’’—Washington
Star.
Ill« Dead Soldiers.
This grim story of the war 1« quoted
from a Siberian paper: A Russian regi
ment was surprised by a Japanese am
buscade and lost 2.000 killed. Of one
company every man was killed or
wounded, only the captain and two
»tlier officers being able to get clear.
After the battle the captain, though
woundci, departed by himself. One of
bls friends, alarmed at this, went to
look for him. He found him on the
battlefield seated on a large stone.
He had dragged to the spot the
bodies of the men who once formed
bls company nnd bad arranged them
tn the ranks they filled when alive.
When he recognized his friend, he call
ed out to him to shoot him for bls cow
ardice tn being alive when all hla men
were dead. Then, losing bls reason al
together. lie harangued bls dead men.
calling upon them to follow him nnd
promising them victory.
When they did not follow him, be
reproached them, but affectionately,
addressing them by their nnmes. He
had at last to l>e removed by force and
Is now in tlie lunatic asylum at Har
bin.
Women Physician« For I.nnalle«.
One of the most famous of German
physicians for the treatment of mental
ilseases. Professor Ludwig, Is earnest
ly advocating the employment of wo
men physicians In lunatic asylums.
After years of investigation he has
come to the conclusion that the Insane
are peculiarly susceptible to a wom
an's presence and influence, not only
the women, but the men as well. Ho
says lie has been Instrumental In ob
taining tlie admisslou of one woman
physician to nn asylum for women in
south Germany, and the results are
simply phenomenal. The women are
more tractable, and In the cases where
mental disease Is the result of sexual
trouble the woman doctor work« won
ders. Ludwig Is certain thut In a short
time no men physicians will be em
ployed In female lunatic asylum«. His
opinion Is supported In Inrge measure
by another eminent authority, Dr.
Krapelfn.
Cheaper Fur«.
One of the results of the Russian-
Japanese war is that raw furs are
cheaper this season. It will take some
time for the drop In the price of raw
furs to affect the retail sale of the
manufactured product, but the public
are already beginning to get the bene
fit In reductions made In anticipation.
Russia Is one of the largest fur buy
ing countries. Canada and British
North America send abroad their sur
plus of raw furs beyond what the
American market will take. The Unit
ed States, except for some production
In Alaska, Imports almost all of the
expensive furs which are used here.
Smaller furs, like muskrats, raccoons.
Rkunks and opossums, are produced in
large numbers in the United States,
and a grent part of them is exported.
DOUGLAS JERROLD.
Some
nt the < au«tlc Iletort« Made by
the tamo«« Wit.
When a prosy old bore stopped Doug
las Jerrold, who was hurrying on ur
gent business along Regent street, with
the question. “Well, Jerrold, my dear
boy, what is going on?” "I am!" retort
ed Jerrold, shooting past like an arrow
from a bow.
Asked to contribute to a third sub
scription which was being got up for
a reckless Grub street writer. Jerrold
cried impatiently, “How much does the
fellow want this time?" "Well, this
time I think just four and two naughts
Wl.'J p*jt him straight ” “Pat me dewa
for one of the naughts!”
A lawyer, replying to the toast of his
health drunk nt a dinner of artists,
stammered out that he <lld not expect
tLe 1»«»'ii»‘»r. as in w couiiV iiardTy l»e con
sidered one of the arts, whereupon Jer
cold Interjected one word only. “Black!"
A clergyman who was indecorously
nnd uncharitably denouncing tlie poor
for the number of children they bred
wound up with the opinion that the
real evil of tlie times was “the surplus
population.” Jerrold nodded a hearty
assent. "Certainly, the surplice popula
tion !"
“There's one song in the Prodlgue,"
cried n musical bore to Jerrold, "which
always carries me away." “Would I
could sing It!” ejaculated Jerrold.
The Town Stood (Be Ln««.
While the engine was taking water
the passenger with the Imposing watch
chain nnd eyeglasses strolled out on tin*
platform and looked with Interest about
him.
“By Jove!" he said to the sojttary na
tlve who was sitting on a flour barrel.
“Tills village looks just exactly as It
did twenty years ago, when I moved
away from here. I don’t believe It has
changed a particle in all that time.”
“I reckon not, mist*,” said the soli
tary native, biting off a chew of tobac
co. “Your goln’ away don’t seem to
have made much difference In the old
town."—CMkugo Tribune
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