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By
FRANK LILLIE POLLOCK
Copyright, 190t,by Frank Lllllo Pollock
THE fortnight following his
wife's death passed very slow
ly to Walter Lindsay, profess
or of English literature and
language at the college of Itameses
City, lie did no lecturing Indeed,
he was about to resign his chair
and he dragged out the twenty-one
empty days in the falsest of falso po
sitions, lie had to receive the con
dolences of his friends and pretend
that the woman's death meant some
thing besides emancipation. lie was
ashamed to catch himself even think
ing of it as such. He rejoiced, but In
mental stealth, and In the midst of
these emotions he was surprised by
the strong and sharp sense of physical
bereavement the sudden removal of
what had so long been a part of life
to be endured.
Ills literary ambitions had never de
serted him, though for the last decade
he had had little time and less heart
for actual work. But he had always
tried to keep the flame alight. He re
membered the time when his friends
had thought the highest prizes not be
yond his reach, lie was only forty
' one even now a man's best age. Un
der the stimulus of anticipation he got
v out his old manuscripts and tried to
start something new, but he could
settle Ids mind to no sustained effort.
He postponed beginning work till he
6hould be well settled In New York,
and he telegraphed ills friend Russell
to meet him at the ferry on Thursday.
"Why, he's an old man!" was Rus
sell's tirst horrified mental exclamation
as he caught sight of the lean, stooping
flgure In the black coat and baggy
trousers, the rather sunken eyes and
the wisps of faded hair on the temples.
He had seen his old classmate only
once since Lindsay had gone to Indi
ana, and his memory had always been
of the brilliant youth whose insatiable
intellectual curiosity and range of
thought had seemed to mark him in
fallibly for distinction.
"I feel certain that I can do better
work here than I have ever done. There
Is something stimulating, excltlug,
about a great city. Don't you find It
so?" said Lindsay.
"1 might- If one didn't have to keep
up with the race," said Russell dryly.
"Have you brought any manuscripts
with j-ou?"
"A few, mostly old ones. You know
I have not had much time for writing
during the last few years. Of course,"
he went on, hesitating a little, "you
know how It has been, and I may say
that I do not feel that I have lost any
thing by It, and 1 would do it all over
again under the same circumstances.
There may have been some loss of
tiir.Or but I feel sure there has been a
greater gain. It's been good for me;
I'm full of Ideas, and a man needs
mellowing a little before he can do his
best work. Don't you think so? But
how have you been getting on? You
never wrote me much about yourself."
"Oh, fairly enough In my small way,"
he said, fumbling for his latchkey.
" As thy strength so shall thy day be
here.' Here, you know, I've lost a good
many illusions about my own genius,
and I've come to have more respect for
"1 BUPrOSE THIS 13 BOHEMIA.'
a potboiler than I once had. Y never
would have believed it once, but I rcal
y don't suppose I ever had it in me to
write a 'Hamlet.' You were always the
nan with the sacred fire. Come along
this way."
The tall building consisted mostly of
studios, and Russell occupied a much
windowed room at the bitter end of a
narrow staircase of many flights.
Books and sheets of manuscripts were
shuffled about everywhere; there were
tropical posters on the walls, mixed
with scraps of sketches and photo
graphs, and a diffused suggestion of
tobacco made a warm, hospitable odor
of habitation. The haphazard disorder
Jarred on Lindsay's habits of precision,
but it spoke unmistakably of work,
and he respected it for that Only he
said as he washed off the coal dust of
the train, "I suppose this Is Bohemia."
Russell looked at the end of the ciga
rette he had mechanically lighted as If
It disagreed with him.
"Oh, yes, this is Bohemia," he an
swered. "But Bohemia, to be any
good, has got to be within you, like the
kingdom of heaven. And It's a young
man's country, Lindsay. We've got no
business in It To a man of forty Bo
hemia simply means poverty. If he
hasn't gone over to Phllistia by that
age It's because he's made a financial
failure. I began tills way because I
liked It, and now I can't get away."
Lindsay established himself in a
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smaller room on the same Moor or tue
house, where he could have the benefit
of his friend's counsel aud the use of
his typewriter, and he spent the rest of
the afternoon iu unpacking and set
tling himself. Russell was writing
hard and made no appearance till even
ing, when he came In to take Lindsay
out to dinner.
"We'll go to Zinfandel's place." he
said. "It's cheap; It's got as much Bo
hemian color as anywhere, and you'll
probably see some men there whom It
will be useful to know."
The big basement restaurant was
full of men when they arrived, the cig
arette smoke was already curling up.
and there was a rattle of dishes and
conversation.
"Ah, there's McGann!" exclaimed
Russell, gesticulating to a late comer,
who nodded over the Intervening heads
and made his way to a seat at their
table. Lindsay had heard of him as
the editor of the Gray Leaf, the apos
tle of symbolism In unsyiubolic New
York.
Lindsay felt a little shy about Join
ing in the conversation that followed,
most of which was upon men and lo
cal literary matters beyond his knowl
edge. Anxious to say something, he
caught at the first name he recog
nized. "Isn't that the man who has just
come out with a new version of Omar,
In hendecasyllablcs or something?"
"Ah, yes," said Russell. " The wild
ass stamps o'er his head, but cannot
break his sleep.' But he can do bully
translation sometimes. Did you see
his version of 'La CItta Morta?' "
"D'Annunzlo's, Isn't It? No. I don't
read D'Annunzlo. I am unable to see
why moral and physical perversion and
disease should pose as literature,
even"
"S-sh!" interrupted Russell. "You
must not say those things to McGann.
He won't let you contribute to his
magazine."
"It's the old question art and
ethics," McGann observed wearily.
But that was no merely abstract
question to Lindsay. He had thought
upon It to exhaustion. The Justifica
tion of his whole conduct of life hung
upon Its answer, and he entered upon
a statement of the necessary and es
sential morality of art and, as a corol
lary, of the artist. It was not particu
larly original, and It was colored with
the peculiar crudity of the man who
bnllnved in nil his convictions
TO BK CONTINUED. J
OLD TIME DENTISTRY.
Qneer Instruments In Harvard Men
tal Sellout. Collection.
Like many other of the "new" pro
fossio.s. dentistry is a" very old one.
It is k:own that 4(H) years before the
beginning of the Christian era Egyp
tian dentists filled teeth with gold, but
no trace of their methods of doing their
work has ever been found. Aescula
pius, the patron of physicians, was the
first famous dentist In Roman history,
and the old Romans used a toothpick
very much like the little woolen one
that is made today. The Arabians
ages ago produced a dentifrice, but it
soon seemed to be very generally used.
The story of dentistry Is told in the
instruments It has employed. As they
siiv known today they had their be
ginning In the sixteenth century, but
their evolution has been slow. In the
Harvard Dental school In Riston then
is a collection of insmuuvnts us-d bj
dentists In the first half of the last cen
tury. One of the formidable tools it
includes is what was called a key.
doubtless from Its peculiar shupo
which was used for extracting teeth,
the process being to slowly and pain
fully twist and pry the offending niohu
out of its place. In order that no mis
take should be made the dentist began
operations by hammering and prod
ding one tooth after another with a
tort of bludgeon until he had satisfied
himself not to mention the tortured
patient- that he had found the most
sensitive one and therefore the most
likely candidate for extraction.
The grandfathers of the delicate steel
tools that He In rowson the modem
dentist's table were sTnall In number,
but larg" In a wf illness. There are In
the Harvard collection chisels and mal
lets, rude forceps for removing the
teeth, miniature crowbars used to re
pair cavities for filling, files for sharp
euing the cutting and grinding sur
faces of teeth and one particularly
horrid Instrument, known as the pel
ican, with which teeth were "lifted."
now rapidly and recently dentistry
has become one of the Important
sciences appears In the fact that In
the middle of the last century black
smiths were doing their best or worst
to relieve the victims of the tooth
ache, while today Institutions like the
Harvard Dental school attract stu
dents from all over the world. Be
sides, while It was sure torture to g
to the dentist In the so called "gool
old days," such a visit now Is com
paratively comfortable, so far has the
profession gone In the direction of per
forming Its operations without caus
ing naln.
A Qunint Inscription.
An old churchyard near London Is
famous for the Inscriptions on Its tomb
stones. There Is one on the memorial
of Susannah Barford, died 10T2, aet. 10
years aud 13 weeks. The concluding
lines beneath the skull and crossbones
on her monument are: -
Her tnge was short, her thread was
quickly piinn.
Drawne out and cutt. Kot heaven, her
worko was done.
This world to her was but a traged play.
Sheo camfl and saw't. dlflllk't and passed
away.
Insurance and Annuranre.
"Fa," asked Tommy, "what's the dif
ference between assurance and 'Insur
ance?' "
"Well, my son, one Is what the agent
has. and the other Is what he persists In
trying to sell you.' Catholic Standard
and Times.
We Eat Too Flint.
"The trouble Is that we eat too fast."
said the man who worries about health.
"That's right," answered the man
who worries about money. "Some of
us eat so fast that our Incomes can't
keep up with our grocery bills." Wash
ington Star.
He who comes up to his own Idea of
greatness must always have had a very
low standard of It in his mind. Haz-lltt
NEW SHORT STORIES
Tom Heed Got IIIn Train.
Not long before his death Thomas B.
Reed visited some friends at their
summer residence at Watch Hill, R. I.
Late in the afternoon he was driven
up to Westerly to take the 7 o'clock
train for Boston. It was n warm even
ing, the horses lagged and he missed
the train, the last Boston bound train
stopping ut Westerly that night.
As Mr. Reed had an important en
gement in Boston, early the next
ty. he seemed worried until he learn-
"vhui:k is that iaiu;k pahty?"
cd that there wns a Boston express
which passed through Westerly at 0
o'clock. Then he smiled.
doing to the telegraph otlice, he di
rected a telegram to the superintendent
of the road in Boston and sent the fol
lowing message: "Will you stop the t
o'clock express at Westerly tonight for
a large party for Boston?"
The answer came: "Yes. Will stop
train."
Mr. Reed read the message and
smiled. When the train pulled in Mr.
Reed quietly started to board It. when
the conductor said, "Where Is that
large party we were to stop for':"
"I am the Iiirge party," replied Mr.
Reed, and lw boarded the train. De
troit News-Tribune.
The Description Win Yuntie.
Assistant Attorney ( Sonera! Charles
II. Robb. who became famous by his
work in running down the postal
grafters a couple of years ugj. beg:in
the practice of law in a small village
in Vermont, says the Brooklyn Eagle.
He knew all the people of the town,
as well as many of the farmers In the
surrounding country.
"One day." said Mr. Robb. "a tall,
lank Yankee, a veritable David Har
mn, came Into my oiliee. It seems that
ho had got Into trouble as a result of
trading a cow. He had succeeded in
palming off on an unsuspecting neigh-bitrnrrr-unm'irfrHH-.rti'itgtiife
proved to be stone blind. In addition,
it was lean and run down generally.
On finding that the cow couldn't see.
the fanner who had been imp xe 1
'lip-in brought suit against my client.
I -questioned the man.
"'Did you tell this fanner that the
cow was blind?'
"'Indeed I did.' protested my client,
with a sheepish look. 'I told him that
she didn't look well.' "
Those I'liiiitcrcstliix? Iliinhanilt.
The late Mary A. I.ivennoro liked to
tell a story of a young friend of hers
In Melrose, for she believed that In
this story lay a lesson for husbands.
Mrs. Llrermore's friend was passing
a month alone, her mate having been
summoned to Europe on a business
matter.
"And you are very lonely without
your husband now?" the elder said to
the younger woman one morning.
"A little lonely." was the qualified
answer.
"But surely," said Mrs. Llvennore.
"you miss your husband very much
now he Is away?"
The other laughed rather bitterly.
"Ob. no." she said. "At breakfast I
Just stand his newspaper up iu front
of Ills plate, and half the time I forget
ho isn't there." Cincinnati Enouirer.
Hulked on Cider.
Abe f J rubor tells the story of a
southern friend who was visiting hlin.
Mr. Gruber, wishing to be hospitable,
brought forth a whisky bottle and
placed It on the dining room table. He
then went to the china closet to get
some whisky glasses. On his leturn
he was surprised to see that his friend
had filled up an ordinary water glass
to the brim and was about to drink It.
"Say." said Mr. Gruber, "what are
you doing? You drink that as If It
were cider."
"Cider?" said the southerner, drain
ing his glass. "Do you think I'd take
that much cider?" Philadelphia Ledg
er. The Ipnornnt Hepenter.
In discussing at a dinner the voting
frauds of Philadelphia, J. G. Gordon,
the mayor's counsel, told a story of a
repeater.
"He was an Ignorant chap, this re
peater," said Judge Gordon. "He had
the stolid and unmoved look of mi ani
mal. "When they arrested him he asked
what crime lay at his door.
" 'You are charged,' said the police
man, 'with having voted twice.'
" 'Charged, am I?' muttered the pris
oner. 'That's odd. I expected to be
paid for it' "New York Tribune.
Carefully l,ed Up To.
"Yonder," said the party of the first
part, "Is the house in which I was born.
We lived on the first floor. McBooth
Rantington, the great tragedian, occu
pied the upper apartments. He was
not only a famous actor, but a singu
larly fortunate man."
"Then," responded the party of the
second part, "you Avere born under a
lucky star, eh?"
N. B. The management begs to state
that It considers this one of the most
elaborately worked out jokes we have
produced this season. Louisville Courier-Journal.
CHOICE MISCELLANY
ltnHlIes In Stump.
The st.unp was round. It bore the
plain iu-ciipt; n. "British CJuiana. 2
cents." Tlieie was no ornamentation
on it of any kind.
"A thousand dollars.' said the dealer.
"The la. t one I sold brought twenty
more than that. If you want It you
can have it Tor a thousand,. A bar
gain." "Thanks." said the collector. "I'm
not looking for bargains today."
The dealer produced another stamp.
"Hawaiian postage. Two cents," it
said, and in the middle in a scrollwork
square the figure "2" appeared.
"I can put no value on this stamp,"
the dealer said. "Only four copies of
It are known to be In existence. To
say it is worth its weight in gold would
be nonsense. It ivould be nonsense to
say it is worth its weight In diamonds.
Nonsense even to say It Is worth its
weight in radium. It Is probably the
most valuable stamp in the world."
He took down a New Haven stamp,
attached to its original envelope.
"These New Havens," he said, "Is
sued by the New Haven postmaster be
fore the government began to Issue
postal stationery, are very rare. I sold
a New Haven last year for $1,300. Will
you have this at the same figure?"
"Not today," said the collector.
"Perhaps you'd like these two Mau
ritius, the 'postofllco pair,' the penny
and the two penny stamp? No collec
tion is coinpleto without the Mauritius
postotlieo pair.' Their market price Is
$3,1)00."
The collector shook his head.
"Then you'll excuse me, won't you?"
said the dealer. "A red half anna has
just arrived from India, and an In
surance agent Is waiting In my office to
insure It. He Insures all my stamps."
The Heart's Behnvior.
A recent publication of Ann Arbor
university describes an Instrument for
securing a continuous graphic record
of the pulse rate In man which affords
valuable indications of the heart's
work. The records showed that the
commencement of muscular work Is
followed almost simultaneously by a
marked acceleration of tho pulse. In
fact, this modification of the pulse rate
ls observed In the next heart cycle
after the work begins. In typical cases
there are three well marked stages a
primary rise, a period of sustained ac
celeration and a secondary rise. Simi
lar stages of decrease In rate occur
after the work stops. The rapidity of
the pulse during work depends not
only upon the amount of work done,
but much more upon the manner In
which it is done. Speed and resistance
are factors requiring separate consid
eration, and of these two speed has
the greater Influence. These records
show that while muscular work may
not appreciably require the expendi
ture of bodily forces it Immediately
reacts upon the heart, and that, con
versely, cessation of muscular exer
tion is an immediate relief to the
heart.-- Philadelphia Record.
The Silent Drnms In France.
The French minister of war pro
poses to abolish the drum. This was
done by one of his predecessors a quar
ter uf-.'i ctHHttfy ago, -bt--fr-teektent
in a theater compelled him to cancel
the order. The curtain went up on one
of those pieces of fun the French call
"revues" nml disclosed a scene de
scribed as the bowels of the earth. En
ter several men In dark military
cloaks, carrying mysterious packages
and generally comporting themselves
like conspirators. The packages are
opened and there emerge drums! The
conspirators are drummers who have
descended Into the bowels of the earth
to enjoy a gentle tattoo on their be
loved but forbidden instruments. When
the drums broke Into a Joyous roll, as
of captives released, there was a peal
of laughter from the audience, and
every hotly knew the drum was saved.
That is how they correct the war office
in France. Perhaps M. Berteaux will
have better luck. London Chronicle.
Forests of Liberia.
Liberia's forestry resources offer an
inviting field for a lucrative business
In hard woods. The virgin forests con
sist of woods of great commercial
value, aud there are ample water fa
cilities for sawmills. There are two
varieties of mahogany, red and gray;
four varieties of oak, red, streaked,
white and whlstmore; cedar, rosewood,
mangrove, burrwood, white and black
gum, mulberry, brimstone wood, red
peach, pepper wood, white mangrove
persimmon, lronwood, greasy peach,
poplar, cherry, hickory, saffron, ebony
and many other woods common to the
tropics. Some of these possess singu
lar qualities. The greasy peach lasts
Indefinitely and Is proof against In
sect attacks.
Electric Fun Sore Throat.
The reason the "electric fan cold" is
so often accompanied by soro throat is,
according to a doctor whose downtown
location brings him many such cases,
that the draft made by the fan car
ries so much dust with it. "The fact
is," eayB this authority, "that the air
stirred by the fan Is not fresh air, un
less the fan Is backed up against an
open window. When operating In an
Inside room or in similar places whero
it is most appreciated the fan uses the
same air over and over, and this air
gathers up and keeps In motion all the
available dust." Philadelphia Record.
Enerjry of Hadluni.
The quantity of energy put forth by
radium is very large. Expressed as
heat, It Is sufficient to raise Its weight
of water to boiling point In an hour.
Expressed as power, the energy of a
saltspoonful would lift COO tons a mile
high power 30,000 to 1,000,000 time's
lis great as that developed by the most
powerful chemical energy hitherto
known.
Cramp In the I.fRH.
People who are subject to cramp lo
the legs should ahvays be provided
with a good strong piece of cord, espe
cially In their bedrooms. When the
cramp conies on take the cord, wind It
round the leg over the place where It
Is cramped, take an end In each hand
and give It a sharp pull, one that wll.'
hurt a little, and the cramp will cease
Instantly. People much subject tc
cramp In bed have found great relief
from wearing on each leg a garter ol
wide tape which has several thin slice.
of cork stitched on to It.
WOMAN AND FASHION
An Effective Design.
Suspender waists continue to be a
conspicuous featuro of the wardrobe,
and the addition of a prettily, shaped
yok'- adds a touch of newness. Fine
81'Hl'KNDKIl M.OUSC
tucks in the upper part of the front
give fullness below the yoke. The use
of the yoke in the back is optional, as
the design will be equally as effective
without it. The fullness In the lower
part of the sleeves Is taken up iu tucks.
Mohair, voile, madras, linen and pique
will develop this model well. The me
dium size will require two and tive
elghths yards of thirty-six inch ma
terial! lints For Mttle Folks.
There Is an endless variety of wash
able hats for little folks. There are
floppy little hats of scalloped pique, of
which the Inside of the brims are faced
with tiny lace frills, and the tain
o' shunter crowns encircled by a bow
of ribbon. The lingerie and embroid
ery hats are still quite the rage for
dress wear, some of them being made
of delicate fluted muslin. Sunbonnets
and sundowns are made of embroidery
and pique, and there are also tuscan
sailors, which are wide brimmed and
which are trimmed for little folks with
garlands of tiny flowers and a knot or
two of ribbon.
Midsummer Skirts nnd Conts.
Skirts are of all lengths, from the ex
tremely and ridiculously short to those
that all but touch, for street and com
mon wear, while for evening the round
lengths Just escaping the floor and the
trailing gowns are both worn.
In coats both long and short are
seen, the three-quarter length leading
In evening coats. Etons. boleros, redin
gotes and long plain coats are all in
evidence, ami no matter what one's
figure is It may be suitably skirted and
coated.
Jnpnnese Fnns.
The most fascinating of the season's
fans are marvels of oriental workman
ship. Old world colorings run riot in
the quaint picturing of 'lie lume and
social life of the new world power.
Delicately carved, fragile teakwood
frames In myriad leaf and petal-like
shapes hold bolting cloth or silk, paint
ed or embroidered with the exquisite
perfection of those ancient masters In
line art.
The Ilntpln.
To be quite a la mode one must hac
now a set of hatpins that belong to
gether (five is the accepted number) in
place of the hodgepodge of pins that
has been used so long.
For the Schoolgirl.
How to provide a suitable number
of frocks for the small daughter and
to have them effective, becoming and
simple Is a problem which confronts
many. Blue serge was used for this
particular dress with charming results.
SCHOOL FltOCK.
flounces and bertha being trimmed
with narrow soutache braid to match.
A shirt blouse of white linen with em
broidered cuffs and yoke completes the
small outfit, to which a blouse of pon
gee to change with the white one aud
wear on ordinary occasions might be
tdded. Plalded gingham, one of the
aew mercerized cotton materials or
linen will make up well after this pat
tern. For medium size three and seven
eighths yards of material thlrty-slx
Inches wide are reaulred.
Depends.
"Do you believe the old saying.
There's no place like home?' "
"That depends."
"Depends upon what?"
"Upon whose home you are referring
to." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Sepnrnllon.
Mrs. Grogau Keegan an his wife
had a fierce scrap. Mrs. nogan An'
did they separate? Mrs. Grogan They
did. but Keegan wns most dead before
th' cops could get tlf twisters on Mrs.
Keegan an' separate thlm! Puck.
TER
3pnift' c 'orrt-sporalftit'e.
The e;:isui.;r r-;i--;;. published by
the bureau of in- cvt u tures of the de
partment oi' i u;ii lie.i e and labor, have
developed into a regular trade maga
zine. There are now .".uuu subscribers
to I '.lis publieati in. and the subscrip
tion list is constantly growing. Nearly
yll the subscribers are business men,
fiiough the reports originally were pub
lished for newspaper use.
Major John M. Carson, chief of the
bureau, who formerly was a news
paper man. has turned the old "ad
vance sheets," as they were called.
Into magazine form. The scipe has
been broadened, ami the publication is
no longer confined to consular reports.
The magazine Is entitled, by Secreta
ry Motcalf's order. "Daily Consular
and Trade Reports" and Is to be a
magazine of commercial Information
derived from all sources. The first
number contains in addition to con
sular reports information from special
agents of the department, private In
vestigators and newspaper writers.
A Fly by .Mall.
A common house lly arrived at the
library of congress the other day from
Chicago. He came by mall, entirely
sealed up In a big envelope containing
an application for copyright. When
the mail clerk In the copyright ofiice
opened the envelope the Chicago lly
hopped out. stood on the table a mo
ment, stretched himself, shook his
wings and Hew away lo make the ac
quaintance of Washington tiles.
There Is an average of loO.OOO pieces
of mall received In the copyright of
fice every year, but this Is the first
time that such an Incident has hap
pened. The clerks are wondering how
this fly escaped death by mashing In
the stamp canceling machines.
Xeiv Name of the Ilurenn of Forestry.
Dating from July 1 the bureau of
forestry became officially known as the
forest service. The change was made
by congress last winter when It pro
vided for the government work In for
estry during the coming year and sig
nalized an important advance In tho
scope of that work. The actual con
trol and administration of the national
forest reserves, formerly under the
charge of the land ofiice department
of the Interior, Is now In the Viands of
tho forest service. Control of the re
serves was turned over to the bureau
of forestry last February, and the
necessary reorganization Is now well
advanced. In taking up Its new work,
however, the forestry service will not
abandon any part of the old field of the
bureau,.
Cartoons of Paul Jones.
In the reception room of the secre
tary of the navy a collection of steel
engravings of John Paul Jones Is on
exhibition. Most of them are more than
a hundred years old. Several of them
are caricatures. They were mostly
made In England at the time Jones'
raids on the English coast had created
so much fear and anger.
Generally he Is represented In these
cartoons as a pirate. In one he Is the
typical buccaneer of the Spanish main,
with long black Ifalr and beard stream
ing in the breeze. He carries a cutlass
In one hand and a big pistol in the oth
er and several pistols In his belt. He
wears a leather apron on which Is a
skull and crossbones.
In another the commodore Is repre
sented as a Chinese pirate In the act
of scuttling a ship. In addition to his
equipment of pistols he has a lot of
battleaxes and Is surrounded by a
breastwork of dead men.
Mrs. Hoot's Hitch Post.
Mrs. Elihu Root, wife of the new
secretary of state, will hold an en
tirely different position iu Washington
society from that which she held when
her husband was merely the secretary
of war. Now It will be her duty to
set the pace for all the other women
In the cabinet not only In their diplo
matic code, but In every other branch
of social thlcs. She must stand next
to Mrs. Roosevelt on all occasions of
ceremony and perhaps be called upon
to represent that lady In more ways
than one. But Mrs. Root Is not likely
to even offer suggestions remotely hint
ing at Innovation. It Is well known
that she does not like official life and
that her simpler duties when before a
cabinet ladv were distasteful to her.
Roadway of Stone.
In the construction of the road the
same general plans will be followed
as was done, when the driveway on
the north side of the tidal basin was
constructed. The ground will first be
dug out to a depth of about two feet,
then a layer of rubble stone, broken
granite about six Inches square, will
be laid, and on top of this smaller
stoue will be placed to fill the crevices
below the large stone. A third layer
of stone about the size of grape will
next be put down, and on the top of
nil will be a dressing of stone ground
Into small pieces that will run through
the eutlre mass and solidify It, making
n roadway of stone two feet thick.
CARL SCIIOF1ELD.
A Queer Thliiff About July.
How we came to pronounce July as
we do now with the accent on the sec
mid syllable Is one of the unsolved mys
teries of speech. Named, of course, aft
er Julius Caesar, It should really be pro
nounced to rhyme with "duly," and so
our forefathers actually did pronounce
it Spenser, for instance, has the line.
"Then came hot July boyllng like to
fire," and even so late as Johnson's
time the accent was still on the ".Iu."
It Is one of many words which would
startle those ancestors of ours, spoken
as we speak them now.--London
Chronicle.
An Interesting Experiment.
A vessel containing a certain white
powder Is placed upon the table, when
the operator advances, waving his
wand and uttering some magic words
coined by himself, when. lo. of a sud
den the room is lighted up with a bril
Hunt light, so effulgent that it dims the
eyes of the spectators. The secret Is
tills: The powder Is composed of equal
weights of loaf sugar anil chlorate of
potash, separately reduced to line pow
der and then well mixed together. This
is placed In a cup, and when the pow
der Is touched with the least drop of
sulphuric acid It will instantly burst
into a Hame. The end of tin glass rod
should be dipped In the acid immediate
ly before use
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There's music In all things. If men
had ears. Byron.
WASHINGTON I
HUMOR OF THE HOUR
Willie's Essay on Essay.
Thare are meuuy kinds of essays,
such as the magglezeen essay, the re
ligious essay, the littery essay, the
school essay and so foarth, but the fun
niest essay Is the small boys essay.
The small boys essay Is written by a
boy after he groze up. Bl the time he
gets baldhedded and is so old that he
wares shoes that are not too small for
his fete he begins to write boys essays
and sell them to the palpers. Reel
boys rite essays on trees and home and
hope and why we should ever strive to
be good nnd true, but when bald
hedded men rites boy's essays they
rite about wiinmen and stiles and
howse cleenlng aud so foarth. The
funniest thing about boys essays that
baldhedded men rites Is that every
buddy sez alnt that, just like a boy.
Chicago Tribune.
A Kind Deceptloa.
"She Is always thinking of her hus
band's comfort and peace of mind,"
said one woman.
"Yes," answered the other. "Every
evening just before he comes home she
puts the thermometer In the Ice chest
for a few minutes." Washington Star.
A Matter of Course.
"Do you know anything about serv
ing dinners?"
"Yes."
"Well, then, what follows Welsh rab
bit?" "A bad dream." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Tho Reason.
"Now, why Is It," asked the father,
"that we celebrate your birthday, Wil
lie?" "Because I wasn't twins, I guess,"
replied the penetratiDg youngster.
Puck.
Good Security, Anyhow.
"Why do you think your son-in-law.
has natural ability as a financier?"
"He induced me to lend him the mon
ey to buy my daughter's engagement
ring." Chicago Record-Herald.
His Small Needs.
"How are you progressing In a liter
ary way?"
"Fine! All I need for my new novel
Is a name, a publisher and enough' to
live on till It's published." Atlanta
Constitution.
lie Stood Corrected.
"Hush, Harold! It's wrong to say
any one is going straight to the Old
Boy.
"That's so. You have to be crooked
to go there."
To Be Considered.
Papa I don't know why anybody
ever thought of giving babies rattles to
help them make noise.
Mamma But think of the noise they
would make if they didn't have them.
Brooklyn Life.
True.
"If you go any deeper,' said the
patient baldheaded man to the mosqui
to, "I'll smash you."
"If you do," sang the tormentor
warnlngly, "my blood will be on your
head."-Smart Set
Queer.
Towne My wife never likes me to re
fer to her age.
Browne My wife's funny that way
too. She doesn't want me to remem
ber her age, and yet she gets mad If
I forget her birthday. Philadelphia
Press.
Flnvor as Well as Odor.
Barber I am trying a new kind of
Imported soap. Dou't you think the
odor Is excellent?
Customer Fine! The flavor Is good
tool Milwaukee Sentinel.
Ileservlnsr.
"She has worked hard for her social
position, hasu't she?"
"Indeed, yes. Why, I understand that
she is the heroine of three scandals."
Life.
If the Japs Arc Like Vs.
It's Togo this
And Togo that.
Tha Togo shoo
And Togo hat.
The Togo waist
And Togo skirt,
Tho Toeo tlo
And Togo Bhlrt.
If Japanese are like Amerlcans-v
It's Togo songs
And Togo plays.
And Togo Jokes,
And Togo stays.
And Togo drinks.
Then, like as not.
In ono short year
The man's forgot
If Japancso are like Americana.
Chicago Chronicle.
The End of the World.
That the earth will eventually dry up
and all living things will die of thirst
Is the theory of n scientific writer. He
says that in both Africa and Asia, and
Indeed in all the great levels of the
world, the water beds are drying up.
Many lakes well known during the his
torical period have entirely disappear
ed, while others are shrinking rapidly.
"Explorations iu central Asia have
proved that for centuries a zone stretch
lug from the east to the southeast of
this part of the czar's dominion has
been drying up. Deserts are gradually
spreading, and reports show that it la
ouly In the neighborhood of mountains,
round whose brows vapors condense
and fall, that Irrigation can be carried
on or life itself can be preserved."
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