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It needs no Imqpgtor to locate the
unsafe mln« 1 after the calamity has
happened.
By the way, do you know any IDA II
whose wife got him by proposing dur-
’ng a leap year?
A newspaper advertisement brought
a uiun gl,850.(MM>; that’s not the tirst
time It has been done, either.
“What sliall we do with our boys?"
■ska an «¿change. I»et them grow up
to be men and the women will do the
rest.
Men have their little jokes about
the amount of talking the women do,
but down deep in our hearts how we
lo love to hear them.
A Philadelphia scientist asserts that
birds show their emotions in their
faces. This may explain why sparrows
’ose their heads when served ds quail.
“Self-conceit,” says one writer, “Is
the consolation prize God gives fools.”
But what consolation Is there for the
people who are daily thrown In the
•«nils’ company?
Cuba has a population of 2,028,284.
Inasmuch as It has taken Cuba so long
to get that tilg, there Is no reason why
anybody down there should be inclined
‘o form a Three Million Club.
One of the magazine writers says
our battleships are floating death traps.
He may have been looking at them
from the standpoint of the man who
Is to- be on the other side tn case of
‘rouble.
The valued New York World seems
to entertain a long and double-leaded
suspicion that there may tie times
when limiting a President to two terms
is not a “wise custom." Whither are
we drifting?
“If two-thirds of the girls who go
on the stage would go to the kitchen
Instead, there would be a whole lot
more happiness In this world,” says the
Birmingham Age-Herald. But not if
their cooking Is as bad as their acting.
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Anyone acquainted with hotel em
ployes will realize why it was neces-
•nry for the Philadelphia woman who
gave Bibles to the Atlantic City bell
boys to “make a few remarks inform
ing the recipients that the books were
more valuable than gold.”
The Prince de Sagan says he would
ha ve challenged Count Boni de Castel
lane to tight a duel if the count had
•truck him with his glove in the face.
As Boni merely knocked him down anil
kicked him Into the gutter, the prince
considers the count to lie unworthy of
notice. We cannot Iielp regarding the
prince as the world's leading uncon
scious humorist.
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The attempt of the Methodist Church
to make one thousand dollars the mini
mum salary which any of its ministers
shall receive may be followed by a sim
ilar action on the part of the Congre-
gationalists. The Itev. Dr. George A.
Gordon of Boston. In commenting on
the matter recently, called attention to
something which is frequently forgot
ten, namely, that conditions of life
have changed, until now. instead of
churches somewhere nearly equal in
financial resources, there nre some
very rich and powerful churches, and
•ome very poor and weak ; and what is
needed is a general sustentation fund
which shall put the poorer churches
more nearly on a pur with the richer
ones. Doctor Gordon says, probably
with justice, that It is fast becoming an
imjMissibility
to get self-respecting
young mon. even among those who fol
low an ideal, to work for such small
salaries ns many churches pay, and
therefore the churches suffer from the
lack of the kind of preachers most
needed.
An English manufacturer who found
himself going behind calle«! together
tils men. stated his situation frankly,
and warned them that he might be
forced out of business! A nlmble-wit-
ted workman who realized that half,
n loaf is better than no bread suggest
ed that If the factory «xiulil be kept
rniining. in the h«i|«»*of better times,
lie nnd his urates would consent to a
reduction <ff wages. Th«» offer, heart
ily sis'onde«!. was thankfully accept«»«!,
and everylxxly turned to with fresh
courage. Twelve months later the sums
xvitl|tn'hl from th«» nifti had been made
up to them, the original wage-rate was
again In forix», and there was promis«»
of an advance. A Ixindon periodical
tells the story, which relates to an
old "family Industry" employing now
the grandsons of th >se who were «tn-
ployisl at first. Tin* semi-paternal re
lation that grows up under su<’h condi
tions between th«» hea<! and th«» ha nils
Is almost Incomprehensible to an Amer
ican who works for a corporation. II«»
knows his Immediate superior; “head
quarters" seem« a worhl away. Yet
man ami management lire always fe
inted In Interest, ntul the English In
cident shows how they might help each
otlwr tele over a jsTlo.l if depression.
Tlw dull tlm<> ia th«» tilin' for an cm
ploye to work harder, to Inere.is«» Ids
output, to try to reil* »» the exjiense
account. •<> "talk up" tin» business as
If be owned It. It would l>e bnd man-
eptTtr tn etnrw an* shops, failed to tri
umph over adverse conditions. On the
? PRESIDENTIAL CAM-
other hand, it is the time for the e<n-
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PAIGNS SINCE 1856.
p!oyer*to deal fairly, which is frankly,
with a iuu. whose wages must be cut
Oood Thing to Cut Out
— to give xtn an Idea of the perplexi
and Save for Reference.
ties ts-settlrig the situation. That man
would appreciate the show of confi
dence. and the thought that he was
National
Gathering
There have been thirteen campaigns by
trusted might suffi<,e to awny him from Republican
the Republican and Democratic parlies,
Alone Will Determine Who
dangerous discontent to energetic loy
llepubllcun < andldate*.
alty. Always a winning force, indeed,
Candidate 1« to Be.
18.14 k—Fremout and I layton.
loyalty is never more so than when the
1841O--Lincoln und Hamlin.
wheels of trade move slowly.
18(14—Lincoln and Johnson.
18(1.8—Grant and Colfax.
Whenever legal luminaries meet it. GREAT 1908 CAMPAIGN NOW ON.
1872 Grant und Wilson.
county, state or national convention or
187«—Hayes and Wheeler.
at th»> banquet table they grow elo
1880—Garfield and Arthur.
1884—Blaine and Logan.
quent on the nobility of their profes
1888—Harrison and Morton.
sion and tlie high standards which In the Democratic Field, Washing
18! >2—Harrison and Reid,
ton Political Observers Think
characterize It. Whenever disbarment
1896—McKinley and Hobart,
proceedings
are
found
neressary
Bryan Is a Certainty.
1900—McKinley and Roosevelt,
against a low trickster or very offen
1904—Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
sive shyster, the prosecutor similarly
Democratic < audlilatea.
Invokes, with impressive earnestness,
1850
—
Buchanan and Breckinridge.
the “high standards" of the bar. There Washington correspondence :
184»—llouglas and Johnson.*
HIS
city
will
is more oratory than dry truth in these
18414—McClellan and Pendleton.
the center of the
fine effort«, more Imagination than
18418—Seymour and Blair.
great
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political
reality, says the Chicago Record-Her
1872—Greeley and Brown.
campaign w Idoli
ald. But ordinarily no one cares to
187(1—Tilden and Hendricks.
will rage
from
Introduce the note of skepticism, am!
18841-—Ilanixx'k and English.
California
t o
everything passes off beautifully. A
1884—Cleveland and Hendricks.
Maine until the
1888-—Cleveland and Thurman.
dlstlngulstuxl
Massachusetts judge,
1892—Cleveland and Stevenson.
ballots of next
however, has recently seen fit to make
18!H>—Bryan aud Sewall.
November deter-
an exception to the rule. Perhaps his
1900—Bryan aud Stevenson.
mine
tile
people's
known Interest in the large social prob
1904
—Parker and Davis.
choice for Presi
lem«—in probation, charity, l»*gal re
•By the northern Democrats and Breck
dent.
From
now
form, social redemption—accounts for
inridge aud luine by the southern Dem
on until the SUC- ocrats.
his unconventional remarks. A motion
cessor o f M r.
for disliarment against a lawyer was
Electoral Vote».
Roosevelt Is cho-
being argued, and the attorney who
The number of electoral votes received
sen there will not by the two parties in these contests and
representi»d the prosecution Indulged In
be nil instant’s in the pluralities are shown here:
the familiar observations regarding the
termission iu the
Plu.
De tn.
. Rep.
“high standards which,” etc., etc. I
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174
1850....................... .114
Judge I>e Courcey listened patiently din of political battle.
108 R
•72
Secretary Tnft stands sharply in the 18« U)....................... .180
for a while, and then threw this “bomb
191 R
21
shell” at the able lawyers in court: "I limelight and his friends are redoub 1S«H....................... .212
80
134 R
180.8....................... .214
ling
their
efforts
In
his
behalf.
The
feel that the bench has tolerated, if not
223 R
1872
.286
63
recognized, lower standards; and I feel fact that he is the candidate of the ad 1870....................... 185
1 R
184
ministration
Is
sure
to
have
the
effect
that especially when I sit In the crim
59 R
155
1880....................... .214
inal and divorce courts—more especial of keeping Washington on tlie jump to 1884....................... .182
37 D
219
05 It
108
ly the latter. If this high standard watch every move. Senators Foraker 1888....................... .233
132 D
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[of which the eloquent lawyer had and Knox and Secretary Cortelyou, also 1892....................... .271
95 R
17«
spoken] were upheld a majority of the locate»! In Washington, will help to 1890....................... .271
137
R
155
1900
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ke«*p
the
jxilltical
pot
furiously
boiling
292
attorneys would be disbarred.” Ex
19« R
140
traordinary words, but refreshing and in the capital. New York will get the 1904....................... ,33(1
•The electoral vote of the Breck in-
wliolesome ones. Thoughtful laymen height of Its excitement from the fact
have often wondered at the sort of j that Gov. Hughes seems <l«‘stiii«-<1 to be ridge-lame ticket of the southern Demo-
crats; the Douglas-Johnson ticket of the
methods and standards which the a factor of no small moment in the line
northern Democrats received 12.
judges tolerate and the bar associations up of the contestants in Chicago. Vice
President
Fairbanks
nnd
Speaker
Can
condone or encourage. Cheap subter
Nebraskan’s
undoubted
fuges, flimsy technicalities, bathos, so i non, presiding officers respectively of magnetic
phistry, delays for the sake of delay, the Senate and House, must inevitably strength In his party.
Six months of contention must take
wrangling and billingsgate, Pickwick keep these bodies embroiled In the
ian motions and pretended surprises stress growing out of their candidacy, place before the two parties place their
and shocks—who has not again and and their home States of Indiana and standard bearer« In the field, the Re
publicans at Chicago, the Democrats
again observed such things in the trial Illinois are likely to feel the heat.
Between
these
men,
Taft,
Knox,
at
Denver. Meantime the nation's
of important case« by men of repute
and standing? Who has pot been dis 1 Hughes. Foraker. Fairbanks anil Can business will be swayed and moved by
gusted and nausented by legal chicane non, the convention at Chicago Is re every new boom, by every straw, by
and humbug from sources that suppos garded an open chance. All are pow every Indication. Capital, sensitive
edly stand for “high standards” and erfully backed, all will push their cam- above all things of which man has
regard shysters with holy horror?
PHEW! ITS GETTING HOT.
There is need of more such anti-cant
talk as that to which the Massachusetts
judge so unexpectedly treated the law
yers of his jurisdiction and State.
All That Was Left.
A young married couple took a late
train for Washington, Intending to
«pend their honeymoon iu rumbling
through the corridors of the capitol.
Congressional library and other public
buildings. The porter was awakening
passengers at an unsually early hour
that morning, and long before the
train reached Baltimore he had them
up. The groom told his bride that he
would leave his coat and hat and re
tire to the smoking Compartment of
the train.
He went out and met a
friend, who asked him back into an
other car In order that he might meet
a friend of his. Soon the conductor be
gan making Ills rounds and taking up
tickets. Tlie young bride referred him
to the smoking apartment, where, she
said her husband would be found. A
moment later the conductor returned
and inforimxl her politely that
bridegroom was not to be found,
other passengers were startled by a
loud shriek.
‘‘My husband ! Oh. my husband !”
“Don't be alarmed, madam," said the
conductor, reassuringly. “Nothing has
happened to your husband
He Is
probably in Baltimore. We dropped
two sl<M»pers at that point." And that
was why friends of the young couple
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who went to the station in Washington
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to meet them saw only the bride cling
Ing to an overcoat and a silk hat and
wailing, "This .is all there Is left Of
him:“
A
llntinted
Library.
One of the most curious "hauntlngs*
occurs in a northern castle of great
antiquity where Mary, Queen of Scots.
reste»l when she was being conveyed a
prisoner through England, It Is Lian I-
tested in the library and takes the
form that the books cannot t>e kept in
order. They move about or are moved
about from shelf to shelf. If you ar-
range the works of Shakespeare In
correct order on one shelf, by next
morning the volumes are scattered any
how on different sh<»lv<»«.
This lifts
gone on for years. At different times
the library has b«‘en searched and lock
ed. watches have been set all night,
s»*rvaiits have come and ¿one. but th«'
mysterious occurrence' goes on and Is
vouched for not only by the family.1
but by th»» guests who have stayed in
the house. There is no legend to ac
count for it.—Lomlon Modern 8och»ty.
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tjke U«| figure, whether
it the can
didate or not. No man matches him
In the popular kln«l of eliwiue*»»', an»!
his fine voice, baud some face and mag
netic l*iiHng give him a phenomenal
power to »way audience«, If Bryan Is
the nomln»»e It lx probable that the
country will tie stirred by another
spet»ehmakli>g tour similar to the mem-
orable on»» of 18Hfl.
And after the turmoil has subsided,
and business, collecting its scattered
wits, gets together at the tieginning of
1941) to try to make up.the ground lost
in a wasted year there will be new ad-
vocates for a bill Introduced Into Con
gress wently by the venerable Sena
tor Cullom of iilinnfs, which provides
for an amendment to th«» »«institution
making the term of tlie President six
years, limiting each Incumbent to one
term, and thus decreasing 54> per «■ent
the recurrence of the year of politics.
TIE WEEKLY
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HISTORIAN
INDUSTRIES ARE REVIVING.
1253—The Alhambra, a famous Moorish
by
pnlaee near Granada, founded
Workers of All Kind« Are Reported
Mohammed I.
in Great Demand,
1051—First school opened in New Ens
Business throughout the United
land for instruction of Indian ch il-
States, both commercial anti indus-
dren.
trial, is reviving, according to Ter 1731 First issue of the” South Carolina
ence V. Powderly, chief of the divF
Gazette at Charleston.
slon of Information, bureau of Irnmi- 17.10—George Washington married to-
gratlon. The division of information
Martha ('us tin.
was created by Congress as an agency 1705—Stamp act passed the British Par
to divert immigration from the larger
liament.
cities, and find places for the unem 1775—First provincial assembly of South
ployed alien. The functions of tlie
Carolina met at Charleston.
division have been enlarged. Inasmuch 1777—Elizabethtown, N. J., evacuated
as Chief Powderly Is endeavoring to
by the British.
provide work for Americans as well 1779—Lafayette saihxl from Boston to
as aliens.
aid France in her war with Eng
From July 1 last until early In Oc
land.
tober 200,04X1 requests were made upon 1781—French attack on Jersey.
Chief Powderly to supply various
1789—First national election held in th*
forms of labor for factory, railroad,
United States.
farm and industrial enterprises of all
1791—Vermont adopted the Constitution.
descriptions. About the middle of
October, when the financial disturb 1793—First balloon ascension in Amer
ica made by Francois Blanchard.
ances became acute, many of these
1800 Cape of Good Hope taken by the
applications were canceled, corre
English.... Public funeral in Lon
spondents stating that Instead of neeil-
don to Lord Nelson.
Ing labor they were putting off men.
1809—Congress urged drastic measures
and that everything pointed to a pro
to enforce embargo act.
long»«! period of depression.
1811—New Orleans militia called out to
Recently there has been a renewa.
suppress negro insurrection.
of the demand for labor. Chief Pow
j 1815—British defeated at battle of New
derly says that this demand comes
Orleans.
from every section of the country;
181«—Safety lamp, invented by
that It calls for mechanics, mill oper
Humphrey Davy, first used in
atives, factory hands, railroad bulllers,
mine.
and farm laborers. From the agricul
1820—Large part of Savannah, Ga., de-
tural States have come notice that In
strayed by fire.
the spring hundreds of thousands of
1840 Henry I). Gilpin of Pennsylvania
farm hands will lie needed, and that
became Attorney General of United
every effort should tie made by the gov
States.
ernment at this time to see to it that
IMS—Insurrection nt Messina.
an adequate supply of labor Is provided
In the regions where It will be urgently 1852— I .aval university at Quebec open
ed.
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required.
1853— The Victoria nugget, weighing 28
“An Investigation has developed.”
pounds, sent by Australia as a pres
said Mr. Powderly, “that, while the
ent to Queen Victoria.
unusually large exodus of foreigners
1801—Jefferson Davis of Mississippi
during the past few months was the di
spoke in justification of secession...
rect result of disturbed financial con
Mississippi seceded from the Union.
ditions. It wns not due to the closing
1803—The Alabama sank the United
of mills or factories or cessation In the
States steamer Hatteras.
progress of public works. The great
1867—Movement to impeach President
majority of those who returned to Eu
Johnson began in the House.
rope were not turned out of employ:
1S70—Postcards first introduced into
tnent. They were alarmed by the out
England.
look and decided to go back. Th«» tide
1872—Congress arranged to issue 1 cent
will begin to turn early in the spring,
postal' cards.
and I have no doubt that the increas
1874—Statue of the prince consort un
ing demand for labor that our reports
veiled in London by the Prince of
indicate Is nt hand will be fully met
Wa les,
by the supply In this country amplified
1SS3—United States Senate passed a
by an enlarged Immigration.”
presidential succession bill.
Many lives lost in terrific' snow
TERRORS OF ‘FRAT" INITIATION. IS88—
storm in the Northwest.
1891
International monetary conference
Sorority Ceremonies Shatter Nerves
met at Washington.
of Novitiate and Arouse Mothers.
1893- Last spike driven in Great North
u»hn««
paigns with that energy for which the
American politician is famous. For
them will be expended limitless elo
quence. and in their interest the quiet
work, which appears little on the sur
face, but which menus so much in the
final result, will keep forces of trained
men busy from now on until the nonii-
nation is made.
F.or the first time in twenty years
the Republican convention will see a
real txittle. The gathering that nomi-
rated Benjamin Harrison In 1888 was
an open tight much similar to the one
that promises for this year. In 1892 the
renomination of Harrison was a fore
gone conclusion; in 1890 the movement
against free silver hail fixed on McKin
ley In advance «if the convention as the
man to lead the tight; and in 1900 not
a shadow of opixisitlon' developed
against his renonifnatlon. Similarly
Roosevelt outranked in popularity every
name suggested for the Republican nom
ination. Ruf this year the quadrennial
upheaval will be made still mor chaotic
by the sharpness of the Republican bat
tle.
llrmiHTRIIc Fisht Different.
Tito i»emocratlc fight Is a little dif
ferent. There is no mixed field with
the hojies even. It Is everybody
against Bryan. In opposition to the
Nebraskan will be welded nil the fon-es
that contend that his two defeats for
Th«» average woman has a superior the place eliminate him, but though
way of saying: "I nevcf gossip with Judge Gray, Gov. Johnson of Minneso
ta. Chatiler of New York, and Hoke
my servants.’’
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Smith have been tentatively mentioned,
Our Idea of a brave man is one who
there is no evidence of any boom pow-
luiMtt tkat, backed by «*eb a tiuwrkw more than unv«
* ••’ul enough to prevail against the
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You see a lot of farmers carrying
babies on the street. but it is a colder
day than ever comes In thia climate
when you see a town man carrying a
baby on the street.
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knowledge, will rejoice or tremble ns
this man or that seems to gain the
ascendancy, anil gigantic projects will
hang fire pending the nominations,
And when the men are In the field,
far from helping the situation, a new
ami even worse upheaval will take
place. Frenzied stump speakers will
tramp up and down the country, paint
ing In horrible phrase the terrific ex
periences that confront the nation in
the doleful event of the success of the
opposition party. Platforms will be
torn to pieces in this delirium of ex
hortation; men's lives, alms and char
acters riddled; the constitution of the
country will b«» both invoke«! and con
demned; the giants of business will on
the one hand be extolled, on the other
savagely condemned.
The campaign will last four months,
and In that time both parties will call
on the biggest guns they have; the star
speakers will be drafted to present the
opposing arguments. As n forensic
struggle the fight is bound to be more
than ordinarily Interesting, Each siile
baa orators of the first rank, veterans
who understand the art of stirring au
diences.
Leading the Republicans may lie
Roosevelt himself. For him to speak
In a campaign while holding th»» office
of President would be In violation of
precedent, of course, but the chief np*s
tie of the strenuous life has never
bothered much about slavish daferenc»*
to custom, anil as his policies are like
ly to be under fire throughout the cam
paign It is entirely possible that he
may be wrought up to one of hie char
acteristlcally Huut epee« be«,
The nerve racking, even though fancied
terrors of an initiation. into a Greek let
ter society of girl students in private and
preparatory schools in New York City
caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers
at tlie home of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore,
Their first purpose is to break up the
local organization of the Sigma (¡am mil
Society, and their second is to st a rt a
campaign throughout the country against
secret societies among school girls.
It was tlie story of Julia Mills, not yet
17, as told by her to her mother, that
caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps.
Miss Mills, according to her story, was
summoned to appear at the Moore home.
When she was ushered in she was led into
a dimly lighted room between two col
umns of black robed, black masked fig
ures. up to the high priestess.
“This will bi- a test of your fortitude,
of your fitness to be n sister. You nre
ordered to thrust your hand into a small
caldron of molten lend, which you see be
fore you. Ready ! ( they orders !*’
Miss Mills dashed her hand into the
liquid and sank to her knees in fright.
After she recovered her composure in part
«lie was surprised to note that the caldron
was filled with mercury.
Suddenly the lights wont out. Miss
Mills felt the floor give way beneath hor
and she felt herself go down, down, and
then land on the pillows.
Tlie candidate was ordered to grasp the
hand, for which she could only fool. Shud
dering. she Involuntarily drew bnck her
arm when she felt the clammy fingers.
She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove
filled with sand.
Again she was led forth, this time to
drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull,
which liquid “would serve to make her
of one blood with her other prospective
sisters."
Revolting nt each gulp, she was com
pelled to drain the skull.
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.
In an attempt to rob the Citisens
National bank at Ixmg View, Tpxas. Alex
Walker, n negro, was shot by Sheriff Lit
tle and probably fatally wounded.
The new whitehead torpedo developed a
speed of thirty-one and thirty-two knots
in tests off Newport, II. I., of a consign
ment recently purchased abroad.
Senator Jeffersoh Davis of Arkansas
said. "I don't believe any mat on earth
ever made a million dollars honestly’’ in
an address before a mass meeting of the
Progressive Democratic League iu Cooper
L’njor. hall. N«r Yuri.
ern extension to the Pacific Coast.
Woman
First
In
K*ypt.
An Egyptian pafiyrus over 2.4MM) year,
old, which has been brought to the Toledo
| (Ohio) Museum of Art with other nn-
I tiquities. is found to be of exceptional im
portance, ns it establishes the date of the
'reign of a Pharaoh hitherto unknown nnd
throws light on the condition of woman
in the fourth century, B.
Tlie name
of the writer who signs this papyrus is
found on another docunienut iu Strasburg
university,' which bears a definite date,
consequently his reference to the Pharaoh
Kahahhasha .places the reign of that Pha
raoh in the year 341 B. <’. It also con
firms the statement of the Greek historian
Diodorus, of the first century B.
say
ing that women were more important in
tlie social scale of Egypt th..n men nnd
that they formerly dictated terms in mar
riage. Sime Diodorus no evidence had
'■pen found suhstnntiating his statement.
New Illset.sr of Horses.
A new and destructive disease of horse*
—new, that is, to this continent—has
been discovered in western Pennsylvania.
It is epizootic lymphangitis, and the State
veterinary department is taking every [s>s-
• ilde means to .stamp out the disease be
fore it has caused great loss to horse
owners throughout the State.
This disease lias been known for a long
time in India. China. Japan and lite
Philippine island*, and more recently in
South Africa. From South Africa it was
carried, after the Boer war. to England
»nd Ireland, where,the British Board of
Agriculture has been coinbating it active
ly for several years. When or by what
agency it reached Pennsylvania has not
been discovered.
About 40 horses deemed incurable have
been destroyed. The others are in quar
antine. The disease is a dangerous one
atid hard to combat.
Success nt
I'arolln*
lloys.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children at New York r«r-
ports that 89 per cent of the 1.497 boy«
and girls accused of various offenses and
paroled during 1907 have mended tbiir
«ray«.
The Failure« of
1IMI7.
D ud '* Agency reports a total of 11.72.1
commercial failures during 1907, repre
senting $197,385,225 «f indebtedm-s d<*.
faulted, as compared with 10,08'2 failure*
In the xecediug year and $ 1iff,201,51 J
liabilities.
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