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WASHINGTON LETTER
(Special Correspondence ]
It seems eurioiix that, while practical
ly all of the states and important cities
in the country have taken measures to
prevent "the misuse of their seals, tlie
great Beal of the I nited 8tat«-s hat
been unprotected. When tlie measure
now before the bouse to remedy thi«
Condition becomes a law any person
who without lawful authority make«
any impression of the great seal or
us«*s such lmi»ressiuu for the purpose
of authenticating any document may
be fined not more thun $3.000 or tin
prisoned not more than live years. A
penalty of $1.000 flue or Imprisonment
not exceeding ten year» is provided for
any person who without lawful author
tty counterfeits or lias in his posses
alon any likeness of the great seal.
The bill passed the senate without any
discussion and will undoubtedly go
tbrougli the house as easily.
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inaiiitiiig that you satisfy it. How I
b!am«sl our good old family physician
who bad started me uu the downward
path with the beat intentions in the
world. He, himself, did not realize the
danger until it was too late.
He
thought 1 was mentally and physically
strong enough to not let it get the best
of me. There he erred; I felt just as
nmny an other gixxhfeearted fellow has,
w ho did not have the chance aixl the
encouragement I ha 1 'o pull hiiiistlif
together an<l «sea(>e the Ixindage. No
doubt that poor fellow we just met
started out hopefully and with all the
confidence in $he world that he would
Iw successful ami a prosperous citizen,
and then there came a day when sick-
new and |>ain came to rack his b»xly,
and Decried out in his misery for some
thing that would make him forget and
give him a little rest from the agony.
His doctor prescribed morphine. Oh,
blissful rest! Oh, golden dreams that
carried him into the poppy fields and
drove the »lemon of pain out of his life
for a short time. He cared not for the
afl'airs of business, what difference did
it make if all of his cherished (dans had
failed owing t»i his inability to attend
to them an<l keep the business moving?
When he realized the danger it was too
late. Tlie mischief was done. I see it
all, and my heart aches for the poor
fellow, even though by this time we
know he has forgotten his poverty and
lliat lie is a beggar on the street; for
gotten that he is cold anil hungry and
has not bad a mouthful to eat in twen
ty-four hours. He is oblivious to it all;
it is his only surcease from one of the
crudest atllictions that rack the hu
man txxiy. Don’t denounce the ptxir
fellow but pity him, yes pity him from
the bottom of your heart and thank
Providence that you are not bound
hand and foot by the fetters of this
curse appetite. Death only will release
the dope fiend.
Jpverylxxiy is talking about “ Law
ton's Frenzied Finance,” ami making
a great fuss over it. Some of the news
dealers say they can hardly keep up
with the demand by those who favor
and coincide with the writer as well ax
critics who denounce the writer and
his works in round terms. «‘I »x>uld
give I-awton a pointer on ’frenzied
finance,’ for I know all about it,” said
a gentleman, the other day. “ We
have thirteen children in our house to
clothe, feed, buy school books, etc., for
the healthy, romping, little fellows,
and it takes skirmishing, planning,
scheming and lots of patience to get
along. We have bail a good, sound
knowledge of ‘ frenzie»i finance' every
day for years, ami expect to have it un
Presidential China.
til our little folks are big enough to help
The cabinet* for the presidential chi- support themselves. I have all the
na, which Mrs. Roosevelt has had ‘frenzied finance’ I want, and Lawton
placed in the east corridor of the White cannot tell me anything about it.”
House, received an Invaluable addition
recently tn eight pltxes of the Washing
ton and Madison ware. These pieces
Did you ever hear of Ixiuis Fleish
were loaned to tlie collection by Mrs. man's bread line? He was an Austrian
Janies Bradley of New York city. Mrs. by birth, and served with distinction
Bradley is a prominent member of the at tile battle of Sodowa and earned a
Daughters of the American Revolution
and has taken the greatest interest In Lieutenant’s commission. When but
the White House colle«-tlon from a pa a mere youth he came to the United
triotic standpoint. The Washington!« States and founded a big bakery in
consists of an old rosi* English cut glass New York City. He posstwsed a kindly
decanter, a glass preserve dish of the heart ami wax ever disposed to reach
»aine make, an old Canton ware pick!e out a helping hand to tlie poor. Fleish
dish of the willow pattern and a fish man’s “ bread line” finally got to be
knife of Sheffield plate.
one of the unique and interesting
Sites Fur Mew Statues.
features of the big city and one of the
It has been decide»! that the Von
most
practical charities in the world;
Steuben statue, for wldch congress ap
propriated $50,000, shall be place»! in it extended around from Broadway
Lafayette square. Two available cor through Tenth street to Fourth avenue.
ners now remain there. The German Thousands of destitute Jieople are re
officer who fought with the American lieved daily, the line of applicants for
army will probably occupy one of these bread often extending several bl»x*ks.
BRIEF REVIEW.
places, while on the other, facing Sen Not only are unfortunate men supplied
ator Depew's house, the statue of I\i- with rolls and bread, but each one re
Longest Cantilever Bridge.
laskl, for which an appropriation of ceived a cup of hot coffee. In this way
$50,000 was also made, will eventually
here
is now under construction
Tl
Mr. Fleishman has for a number of
stand.
years dispenstsl alms tliat representeti across the St. Lawrence at Quebec, a
President's War Hun net.
cantilever bridge which, when com
President Roosevelt the other day re an outlay of thousands of dollars. A
pleted, will contain the longest span of
short
time
ago
this
great
philanthropist
ceived a genuine Sioux war bonnet and
a Sioux buckskin coat. They were pre was lying at death’s door, and I have any bridge yet erected, not even ex
sented by John Flinn, superintenilent never learned whether he was spared cluding the great cantilevers of the
of the Indian school at Chamberlain, to continue his go»sl work of minister Forth bridge in Scotland. The struc
S. D., in behalf of admirers of the pres ing to tlie poor, or had responded to ture is of the cantilever type, and con
ident. A party of Black Hills cowboys the last summons. If the latter then, sists of two approach spans of 210 feet
Is organizing to come to Washington he had many sincere mourners among each, two shore arms, each 500 feet in
from Deadwtxxl, S. I»., for the Inaugu
those he had l>eneflted w ith his gener length, and a great central span 1800
ration.
osity, and ha»l made it ¡stssible for feet in length. The total length of the
Colored Folk« Alarmed.
bridge is 4220 feet, and although in ex
The negroes of Washington are in a them to live without experiencing tiie
treme dimensions it does not compare
pangs
of
hunger.
His
death
would
state of semiterror over the possibility
of the re-estabilshment of tlie whipping have been a great blow to the poor and with the Firth of Forth bridge, which
post in the District of Columbia. They destitute of New York. 'Tis a pity is about one mile in total length, it has
are holding mass meetings to protest tiiere are not more of tiles»* generous, the distinction of having the longest
against the “outrage” and are working whole-souled men in the world whose span in the world by ninety feet, two
themselves into a frenzy of fear an»! hearts can lx_>at in sympathy with the cantilevers of the Forth bridge being
excitement.
|MM>r and unfortunate, and who are each 1700 feet in length. The total
Most of the Washington clergy, in
ever
ready to reach out a helping hand. width of the floor is eighty feet, ami
cluding Bishop Satterlee and Dr.
provision is made for a double-track
Schick, the president's pastor, have
railway, two roadways for vehicles,
come out in public utterances favoring
1 saw a weak, trembling, wretched-
the suggestion of President Roosevelt looking mortal plead with two gentle and two sidewalks. Ina cantilever of
this magnitude, the individual mem
that corporal punishment bo meted out
men on tlie street for ten cents to get a ber« are necessarily of huge propor
to wife tieaters.
cup of cotlee with the other day. He tions, the main posts, for instance, be
Coat of Irrigation.
The consist bureau lias Issued a re said, in a pitifully weak and tremulous ing 325 feet in length, and weighing
port on the condition of irrigation in voice, “I haven't hail a bite to eat for 750 tons each.
the United Stat«*s in 1902, showing that twenty-four hours, and I am cold and
Women Master Mariners.
33.415 systems, with 59.311 miles of hungry. I pledge you my word of
main canals and ditches, were Irrigat honor that I don’t want it for whisky.”
Miss Jane Morgan of Philadelphia
ing 9,487.077 acres on 134,036 farms. “Oh! go'long, I've heard of you be lias pax.-ed an examination before the
The amonnt expended In constructing fore,” sai<l one of the men harshly, as
all these systems was $93.320,452. The he trie»! to pass him. Then he turned Uuittxl Htates steam vessel inspectors,
and they have granted her a master
average construction cost (>er acre In
imploringly toward the other party. mariner’s certificate, g»x>»l for “all
the arid region was $9.14.
“ I’m hungry.” The wtx-begone looks »xieans. ” To get such a certificate the
Troop« at the Inaugural.
and
his utterly wretched condition had applicant must have sailed as a navi
General Chaffee, grand marshal of
the inaugural parade, has announced its effect, and the gentleman handed gating officer on an »x*ean or coastwise
that only about 3.000 regular troops him twenty-five cents with the re vessel. Miss Morgan has hail such ex
will participate In the parade. This mark, “You look as if you need it; perience on her father’s yacht. Her
number will Include one regiment of don’t thank me, just go and get your certificate as master mariner attests
infantry, two battalions of coast artil coflee.” The generosity fully staggered
lery, one squadron of cavalry, two the man for a minute, for he had only her fitness to take command of any ves
sel. According to Captain Patterson
battalions of field artillery, the West
aske»i for ten cents and he would have of the New York Nautical College,
Point cadets, tlie “middies" and the
marine corps. General Chaffee said considered that he was in luck if he there are only five female master ma
thi.t he liad merely indicated to Gener ha«l received that amount. “Oh, you riners in the world besides Miss Mor
al Wade the number of troops wanted make me tired,” said the man who had gan. One of these makes her living as
and that thnt officer would select them. refused the beggar the small amount a pilot on the Mississippi, another as a
The grand marshal also stated that he he aske»l for. “Don’t you know that pilot on tlie Ohio. Many yachtswo
had received a call from Colonel Tur he is nothing but a morphine flen»l
pin of the Thirteenth regiment of and that every cent In* gets goes for the men are expert navigators. On water
heavy artillery of New York, who an drug? What do you want to encour or on land women are showing them
selves the equals of man.
nounced that bls regiment would come,
and also a regiment of Infantry, mak age him for? You gave him twenty-
The Thrones of Europe.
ing in all about 1,500 men. A full bri five cents—that would get him a gtxxl
gade of Pennsylvania volunteers and breakfast, ami he needs it, but he will
There are fifteen thrones in Europe,
buy the drug and forget the trials and and eight now promise to pa.-* from
Squadron A of cavalry will be here.
A Veteran Jndire.
disappointments of this life while lie father to son. The latter are those of
On the coming 22d of February spends a short time in the sweetest Great Britain, Germany, Denmark,
Charles C. Nott will have served forty bliss he ever knows in this world ; then
Portugal, Norway and Sweden, Bul
years on the court of claims, having the awakening comes and it is not so
been appointed one of Its judges by pleasant for the old fellow, but he ought garia, Russia and Italy. The Sultan
may be succeeded by a brother and the
Abraham Lincoln In 1865. He was
to have to suiter, for he is a trifling and King of Spain by a sister. The Em
made chief justice by President Cleve
land it» 1896. The appointees of Abra good-for-nothing vagabond. Pity he peror of Austria, the King of the Bel
ham Lincoln in public office are now can't take an overdose and end it all.” gians and the King of Roumania look
becoming extremely rare, and in view
to nephews, while the ruler of Holland
of this and also the length of Judge
has no visible successor at present.
“
I
quite
agree
with
you
there
;
'tis
a
Nott's service It Is propose»! to cele
brate It In some way that will do him pity he can’t get an overdose and go
Power of Earthquakes.
honor. He was born in New York in where lie will lx* judge»l more leniently
A Budapest scientist has made a cal
1827, mnrrlod a daughter of Mark Hop than lie could by any earthly tribunal.
kins of Williams college, served with I know ax well ax you do that that culation of the energy expended by
distinction In the civil war and has • w.-qty-iire ce.ttv will g“> for morphine caitiiquakes. KetVudstiialali amount
written extensively.
instead of coffee, but 1 know too the of work equal to the raising of the mass
A Carlon» Flnh.
intense suffering he must endure every of the earth through a little less than
Among the many curious fish in tlie moment he is not under the drug. I one-fiftieth of an inch was done by ««ch
exhibit at the National museum none
was dangerously tie»r to l“*b*g a mor ■of tbe-world-ehaklng i-urt'a., Jakes reg
attracts more attenfon
theernpa'
ma. The nrapalma la a native of Brit phine fiend myself once. I had met istered during the eight years from
ish and French Guiana and is remark with an accident and suffered no in 1895 to 1902. The work done spasmodi
able for being the largest of fresh wa tensely tliat our old family physician cally by these earthquakes represents
ter fishes, ap«»ctmens weighing 400 and prescribed morphine which wax given 75,000,000 horse-power working con-
600 pounds being by no means rare. me whenever the paroxysms of pain tinualiy night and day.
Tbelr scales and rolor are of such char rack»-»! my ixxiy from head to foot
New Broom Daily.
acter ns to resemble mosaic work. The One day I woke up to the fact that I
head and mouth are bright yellowish wax a slave to the habit. It had me
A Finnish housewife buys a new
green and yellow, shading by turns In
broom every morning—a necessary ex
to grass green, emerakl green, olive bound hand and fixit, I had no con travagance, since she sweeps her whole
science
left,
it
seemeii
to
me
that
I
was
green, blue green, blue, blue gray, steel
house every day, and the broom she
gray and silver gray on the tall, mak morally and physically a wreck. Why,
ing a most gorgeous and peculiar look I would have stolen from my l**st uses is just a bundle of fresh, green
Ing fieh. This specimen la a recent ar friend to get th«1 money to purchase birch leaves, whose natural dampness
rival at the museum.
the drug. Every day made matters licks up the dust.
CARL SCHOFIELD.
worse. I would have moments of re
Tenants Buy a Town.
Pro«« os a Tab.
pentance and remorse, in which I crie«i
The
town
of Caatlerea, county Rote
A man who bought an old metal tub out for help to break the fetter that
for 12 »hillings at Winchester found It to bound me, and would swear off and common, Ireland, is to be sol«i to the
be the borough bushel measure of the make the moat solemn promise that I tenants as the result of negotiations
reign of George III and sold It to an would l>e a man and break off thia t>etween the landlord, the estates com
.American for £60 London Mail.
habit that was destroying both laxly missioners and the Town Tenants’-
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and
aoul. Talk about suffering; you, I-eague, uhder the land act of last year.
If th<* market value of adllce were
Ixryalty to friends and principles
•» fake a rise the whole world would who have never formed the habit, don’t
t* rolling in riches. -New Orleans Pica- know anything alxtut 1L Sleeping and shows the highest trait of human na-
waking that gnawing appetite is de ture.
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WOMAN AND KASHMJN FACTS IN FZW LINES HUMOR OF THE HOUR
CHOICE MISCELLANY
—
Fur Girl.
•
Lar« •>« Feannlo.
Tile <’hlu«se still make the Is-st India
A Clever K.iiu»« >ble(.
Ink.
At the beginning of last summer
A » Icier robliery has Just taken pl« *
, A Wisconsin dog by stepping on the a certain well knowu literary woman in Rome. One day a spruce young uMu
trigger of a gun shot a boy.
lu the west irpaired to the shores ot presented himself to tlie portress of •
. Thus far England has imported more one of the lakes of Michigan, there to bouse, asking for one of the tenant*.
oranges than any other fruit from prepare her cofftagC for tx-cupancy dur
On hearing that site had lieeu *t*«nt
Spain. •
ing the heated term. Before going Bhe fur some days h«* replitsi: “Yes, I kilo*.
It is estimated that the wear and had arranged with her busbaud to
tear on America« railroads pulverizes cause a lot of houaehohl gtxxls to be She was taken ill In the street and wuA
sent to tlie hospital. I am a pul he .if-
427,•<»* tons of Iron annually.
packed and forwarded by sttaimer.
tl»er sent to take an inventory of the
Drivers of automobiles Ui England
It appears that for some reason th« conteuts of the fiat. Just come up with
who refuse to stop when requested tc
do so by a per».* driving a horse ar» shipment was delayed and that the me." And he showed her what be call
lady was ot>llge»l to write to her bus etl tils authorization. On the way up
fined.
Demand in China for Japanese can band inquiring with reference to the he said that he must have two other
vas shoeC funs, china and antimony Is delay. In conclusion she had append witnesses, sud when these cauie the
increasing .since the present far east ed to her letter a postscript reading, four of them went carefully over ev
“Please telegraph me when the goods
war tg'gan.
erything, taking a mluute inventory,
The government now has on hand shall have been shipped."
forcing open drawers and euplxiards.
Pursuant
to
instructions,
the
husband
about 4d2.00O.000 silver dollars, which
nothing belug sacred from them. When
personally
supervised
the
packing
of
require about 115.500 cubic feet of
the various effects ueedwl for the cot thia w as done the three wftnesxs« sign
space to store in the treasury.
tage in Michigan, even going down to
The British possessions in west Af the dock to see that they were duly ed the inventory, and the "police offi
cer” went off, carrying with him titles
rica cover 500.000 square miles, contain
conveyed on board the steamer. M»ire- and bonds to the value of several thou
Ing 20,000,000 negroes and euslly capa
over, as requested by his wife, he tele
ble of producing a yearly cotton crop graphed what he had done. "Lares sands of fraiiis, to be diqiuHited in safe
of 10,000,000 bales.
and peuates on b»>ard.'' wired he; “will ty at the police headqtlarters. That
same night the tenant returned, to be
A traveler in Siberia is authority arrive tomorrow morning.”
for the statement that the native»
When his wife received the telegram greeted with great surprise by the
portress, who exclaimed:
along the coast eat much wood. Th< she read:
"What! Back so s»x>n? And how are
bark is stripped from the trees and
“Lard and peanuts on board; will
cooked until it is a pulp.
arrive tomorrow morning.”—Harper's you? Di<! they treat you well?”
“Treat me well!" exclaimed the other.
The Tasmanian parliament has in Weekly.
"What do you mean? Do you think I
serted a clause In a new taxation bit
—
have tx'en in a lunatic asylum?”
granting an exemption of $50 for every
Following Advice.
"Well, a hospital is just as bad, isn't
child of all income taxpayers whose In
“Really, Mr. Hansom,” said the fair
comes are under a certain amount
girl, “I'm shocktxl to hear you confess itr
Two old portraits of Nelson In good such behavior in your business deal I “It mny be," siild the tenant, “but I
condition have, it is announced, beer ings You should always 'do unto oth know- nothing of either.
“Why, were you unconscious all the
discovered in Dresden, dating from th« ers as you would have others do untc
oibl ’ s KIMONO.
time?”
great admiral's visit there in 1801. Th« you.’ ”
And so on until the situation was
bands of pink wash silk, but all thes< one is a large pastel, the other a mlnla
“You wouldn’t have me do that al
made clear, She had been visiting
In vogue for garments of tlie sort ar« ture In oil.
ways.”
friends. She hurritsl upstairs alarmed,
appropriate.
Opium smoking has reached tinmens«
“Certainly,” she replied ‘always.’’
To make the kimono for a girl ol proportions tn the French ports on th«
“All right. Here goes!” he cried and to find nil her little savings gone and
no trace of tlie thief except the confu-
fourteen years of age will be requlrec Mediterranean sea. Laws have been kissed her.—Philadelphia Press.
slon which he bad left behind—Pall
five and three-eighths yards of mate passed in Marseilles and Toulon forbid
Mall Gazette.
rial twenty-seven or three and a hall ding the "rolling of pills” In public
tnfort unatea.
yards forty-four or tifty-two lnchet places in those cities.
Mrs. Greene—I should think you'd
wide, with one and five-eighths yard*
Sheep are going to the slaughter more fetal your Imardera a little better, You Klnic Edward'» Private Secretary.
of silk for bands.
Should you by any chance receive an
rapidly than they are bred in this ain't expect them to say a good word
autograph letter from King Edward
country. If the reduction going on pro for you when they leave.
t.ooklnic Ahead.
ceeds much longer the country will
Mrs. Skinner—Oh, but they do. Al or Queen Alexandra the royal signa
The full skirts which have prevailed realize that It is up against short home most every one of them has a grudge ture may be there, but they know noth
during the fall and winter will un wool crops as well as sheep supply.
against some friend of bls. and he In ing of the contents beyond the fact of
doubtedly be good during the coming
The University of California at variably recommends my house tc having said to their secretaries.
spring. Of course the fullness will be Berkeley faces a magnificent view ol him. I get lots of new boarders that "Write thus and so."
confined In plaits, flaring gracefully at bay. island and shore, but the high way.—Boston Transcript.
To be tlie private secretary of popu
the knees. Walking skirts will be short hills behind it are bare. They are to be
lar sovereigns is no sinecure. Fifty or
er. The correct length Is three or four covered with redwoods, firs, man
sixty letters a day is the average of
Inches off the ground. By a trick of ranitas, tan and white oaks and ma
her majesty's correspondence, while
fashion carriage and reception skirts drones.
the king's duty la doubled by state pa
are to be worn three or four inches on
pers for his signature, which no one,
The ancient pagodas in Manchuria
the ground all the way around. They of which one hears so much nowadays
of course, cun save him the labor of
must be ns long in front as in the back. are built according to the custom of
writing, Royalty reads a letter and
There is a promise that the coats for centuries. A first class pagoda has el
often limits its supervision to a laconic
spring will be short. Jackets and per ther seven, nine or thirteen stories,
no or yes scrawled on the margin.
haps Etons will take the place of the
Then Lord Iinollys and Miss Knollys,
while a second class has either three
three quarter coats and those even lon or five. But few are built now.
the queen's confidant, will take it and
do the rest.
ger which have been worn during the
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The
house
at
10
Downing
street,
Lon
winter.
Klug Edward's skillful right hand
don, is the official residence of the Eng
man expands this into the diplomatic
llsh
premier
and
is
always
kept
ready
J
The Latest Stocks.
style with which most people are fa
' 1
Some of tlie new stocks are almost for his occupancy. Mr. Balfour stay el
miliar and long Itelieved direct royal
barbaric in tlielr color schemes, a dozen there while In London recently, and an
dletatlou. Such very private notes as
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colors being piled on a background of open fire is always kept burning in his
the king and queen do send to their
leather or the green suede that is so bedroom, whether be is in London or
families or intimates are discreetly
not
good this year. But the prettiest stocks
burned or buried in archives, from
are made with little frills that spread
The 700 shoemakers* shops in Can
which it would be leze majesty to un
out at the base of the collar like a tiny ton, China, employ 8.000 men and 20,-
Schoolteacher—What! You say that earth them.—Boston Herald.
yoke. Most of the frills are of plait 000 women, who work from daylight to you are late because you have been to
ings. with an occasional one that is dark. Since the recent introduction of get your hair cut? But you're nearly
Chins'. Coal Field..
flared out by curiously shaped bits of kerosene lamps their hours even have an hour behind time.
China’s resources of coal and Iron
some sheer material.
been lengthened. They get from about
Scholar—1'lease, str, there was au- are among the largest and most favor
$2.60 to $5 a month In wages and their other man before me.
ably situated in the world. The ex
A Velvet Novelty.
meals, consisting of rice and salt fish.
tent of the great coal fields has been
A novelty among the many new silk
For a winter climate Canon City,
put at 4<>0,000 square utiles twice the
In C«*t off Fallnre.
velvets which have appeared on the Colo., has a reputation second to no
“But," said the young man who hiitl I area of France and more thnn seventy
market Is that adorned with an em locality In the United States. During
times the aggregate extent of all the
bossed satin spot about the size of a the winter of 1903-04 hundreds of just been adiuitted to tlie bar, “sup coal fields of Britain. Of the quality
pea. which is of a somewhat darker robins, blue birds and turtledoves made pose my practice should be a failure- of the deposits much has yet to be
shade than the groundwork. In some tlielr homes in tuat vicinity, and there then what?"
"Well,” replied the old lawyer en learned, but the distinguished German
cases it is of quite a different color was no weather during the whole sea
from the velvet and is outlined with a son so severe as to harm the feathered couragingly, “there is politl<-s that Is geologist, Baron von Rlcbtofen, report
always open to you. Remember, there ed many years ago that both the an
narrow rim of white, which gives it a creatures.
are 236 lawyers In our I musc of repre thracite and the bituminous varieties
rather curious effect.
Belgium, where public libraries are sentatives anil quite a few in our sen were equal to the best produced In Eu
almost unknown, enjoys 19,000 public ate.”—Judge.
rope. It is expected that very soon
The New Veils.
Chinese coal will be delivered nt far
I.ace veils, especially the real for houses. That means one public house
Between Friend«.
eastern ports at prices with which no
spring wear, will have large designs. for thirty-six inhabitants, or one public
"I asked George If he thought you other coal can possibly compete and
Bordered veils of all sorts are distinct house for twelve men above seventeen
ly smart in Paris, although here they years of age. During the last fifty years were pretty, and he said the word pret that China in consequence of this de-
per ty couldn't describe you."
velopment will become a large ex-
are less worn. Abroad the idea Is to the population has increased 50
“How nice!”
i porter of iron.—Engineering.
have the bat matched by Its veil, and »ent, the number of public houses 25S
“I'm afraid you don't understand me,
many of the new hats shown here have per cent.
The Eng'ish market, which on ac dear. I asked him what word would
Wb; Gibbs Deserted.
veils that came from Paris with them,
Tessle' Gibbs. Benjamin's wife, ap
each hat having its own particular veil. count of its great importations of Bra describe you and he replied that he
zillan rubber is the principal inter would rather not say.”—Detroit Trib- i>eared liefore Judge Dunne In Chicago,
mediary between production and une.
as it Is related by the Record-II era id,
A Novel DeslMrn.
and naked for a divorce on tlie ground
Blouse waists made with deep cuts French Industry, is of much greater lm
HI«
Benevolent
Scheme.
of desertion. Mrs. Gibbs was dramat
In gauntlet style and so designed ns to portance than all the other markets.
‘Tm going to eudow one of the uni ic when she took the stand.
suggest a vest effect are among the The Belgian and German markets do
versities.” said the millluiiaire— “going
“Why di»l he desert me?” she de-
novelties of the later season. Tills one not furnish France half as much as do
to establish a chair."
manded. “Why, for no other reason
is made of fancy silk, with collar ami its own colonics.
“Chair of what?" asked his friend.
At a recent medical exhibition in Lon
than because he got weary of me; he
cliffs of lace, but all waistlng materia1»
"Well. I don’t know what you'd call felt tired of home, and he wanted to
are appropriate, and the design suits don a new anesthetic, called somno-
it
for
short,
but
it's
a
chair
that's
bad
wander around the country, After he
tlie entire gowa ns well as the separate form, was shown. It is a liquid whose
“boiling point” is 23 degrees below ly needed—a chair to teach graduates bad left me I met him on the street
one day. I ¿topped. So did he.
zero. The moment It comes tn con how to get a Job.”—Brooklyn Life.
” 'Mr. Gibbs,’ says I, 'why don't you
tact with the air it becomes gas. Its
Dlanatroaa
come home T
great virtue, from a medical point of
"He's very refined. At dinner be
” ‘Don’t talk to me of such things,’
view, is that breathing stops before
never blows his soup."
snys he. 'I've got some money for cof
the heart when It is administered.
“What does he do when It’s hot?"
fee and sandwich»*«, and I’m sl»*eping
Housewives in Florida scrub their
"Walts for it to cool.”
in the cars. It’s fine.’"
floors with oranges. In almost any
“Well, I tried that, an’ the hired girl
town In the orange growing districts
I'l.h Skoal. Found br Telephone.
women may be seen using the fruit as come an’ took my plate away afore I
The latest use of the telephone is in
soap. They cut the oranges In halves got a single spoonful.”—Cleveland Plain
locating sh.als of fish. The electric
and rub the flat, exposed pulp on the I iealer.
apparatus Is a German patent. A mi
door. The acid in the oranges does
The Schemer.
crophone Inclosed in a water tight
the cleansing and does it well, for the
Merryman—I always keep my wife case connected with an electric bat
boards are as white us snow after the provided with good reading matter.
tery and telephone is lowered into the
application.
Clubeky—Any particular reason?
water. Bo long as the telephone bangs
The cultivation of the olive is in-
Merryman—Yep; It keeps her amus«.| free no sound Is hoard, but on its com;
creasing constantly, though slowly, tn so that when she sits up at njçbt wa.''
Sp-ia The area devoted to olives ia- Ing for me to come home she doesi. t mg into contact with a shoal of fish the
creased from 2,673,666 acres in 1901 to care bow late I stay outl—Detroit Free constant tapping of the fish against the
microphone case produces a series of
2,083,550 acres in 1902 and 2.690.963 Press.
sounds which at once betrays their
acres in 1903. The oil yield per acre
presence. The cord sttnebed to th.
last year was 32 gallons, or 13.8 gal
«
I microphone is market! so that the ex
4
lons more ibati »tie yield of U«O2-O3. 3
"There is no use of a man belli-;
BIzO’ SE
gallons more than the yield of 1901-02 proud of his ancestors,” said the affa- act depth of the shoal Is designated
blouse. The back Is laid in box plaits and 2 gallons more than the average.
ble man.
If Hnlned Geeae.
for its entire length, while the fronts
The British Medical Journal says:
"No," answered Miss Cayenne. "In
Though Hungary can never h«i>e to
arc tucked at the shoulders and include "Koepke believes that the different numerous »uses the ancestors would
an applied box plait at the center, symptoms of seasickness are due to not reciprocate If they bad a ebanite."— compete with America In tallness of
anecdote, the following effort is not
which can be slashed, a« illustrated, or anaemia of the brain, and that vnlldol Washington Star.
bad: It is ¡«¡ported from a village in
left plain, at preferred.
acts upon this condition by raising the
that country that the inhabitants have
The quantity of material required for blood pressure. It also Influences the
Alvtara In tli« Market.
t een kept Indoors by a heavy shower of
a woman of medium size is four and gastric disturbances by lowering the
Jinks—Wi.y do these millionaires wild geese. It is supposed that the
three-quarters yards twanty one. four sensibility of the nerve endings in the dress so shabbily?
birds flew from a moist layer of at
and a quaiier yards twenty seven or gastric mucous membrane and is in
Winks- So folks will take pity ¿u
tw o and three-quarters yards forty-four deed both « good stomachic and a good ’em and buy their watered stocks — mosphere te a cold one. get their wings
frozen and were unable to fly.—Lonaoii
Inches wide.
analeptic.
New York Weekly.
Globe.
Hl. Orlwlualltr.
A man should feel the obligation to
He Sold and l^rt.
Tkr Beat Wan at His WeSdln».
Uncle George—I have read your arti bring gayety into the Ilves of all
Haskins—By the way, who was the
A lawyer had a horse that always
best man at your wedding? Wlllowby— cle over, and I must say it shows a those whom he loves. The fact that stopped and refused to cross a certain
The parson seemed to be feeling the great deal of originality. Arthur— the routine of the day has been dull bridge leading out of the city. No
best You see, it was all profit for him Thanks. I'm sure! I flattered myself doesn't excuse him for being glum and whipping, no urging, would Induce him
and no risk whatever. Boston Tran there were some Ideas in It, Uncle silent at Lis evening meal.—Arthur 8. to cross It, so he advertised him. "To
George—Oh. I was not speaking of the Pier.
be sold for no other reaspn than tlrat
script
composition, but of the speHlng.
the owner wants to get out of town.”
•
No iiegffjj
Revised provid«|
gipter ■■itLfaction and <x»mfort tlia»
the kimono. This oik is simple an«
graceful and includes an Inverted plat
at the back, w hich means graceful ant
b«*<:*u.i*|: fullnvM. As Illustrated th«
material is white Jflf.anes« cra;>e wltt
ñ
5
r
Dent mi*».
The Interest la ft.
PI pson—I wonder what there was in
the paper today about Masters? Grimes
—Didn't know there was anything. Pip-
son -Ob. there must have been? He
«as saying to m» that today’s lsaue
was usually, interesting.
*
Th* CiKomarr Cllaai.
Nordy—How did the new play end?
Butts—Oh. in the «sual way. Nordy—
And what do you call the usual end?
Butts—In a whirl of hats and feathers
and opera cloaks. -Houston Chronicle.
"It doesn't pay to talk "bout you
troubles.” said Uncle Eben, “De tno'
you boilers "bout get tin' cheated In ■
mule trade de less chance you has of
workin’ de mule off on somebody else.'*
- Washington StM.
A Sfroa* Part.
e
Boubrette-Yes. the understudy says
be used to have a very strong part on
the stage. Comedian—So be did. He
used to be a scene shifter and lift the
mountains and castles. Chicago News.
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