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Mae Woods seems to tie the latest
•iitlui of the get ri -h quick mania.
Strange that most p«“ople have a kind
of contempt for those who agree with
their opinions.
Skin grafting, by the way. was prac
ticed to a considerable extent by the
early fur traders.
At the age of 21, a young man thinks
he is smart. At the age of 40, he
knows that other people kndw he was
lot.
Persons who have watched the pre
dictions made by scientists will observe
that not one of them has ever foretold
anything pleasant.
A Methodist bishop, though occupy-
Ing ordinarily his own proper location,
has the po«-er to move clear aiross the
religious chessboard.
If the Rev. Sam Jones' celebrated
willipus wallapus Is a more fearsome
thing than this year's mosquito it must
be something terrible.
What would life be worth without
an official assurance from somebody
every two or three days that "Japan
does not want war?”
The murderous idiot who shoots at
balloons is the latest peril of the aero
nauts,
A peculiarly drastic law
should be enacted to fit ills case.
An eastern clergyman announces
that he will devote the remainder of
his life fo suppressing gossip. It l,s
a grand and noble work, and it will
keep him busy.
John D. Rockefeller declares that
“his pictures always look terrible when
taken Lu the sun.” Do you recall hav-
lug seen a picture of Mr. Rockefeller
taken in the shade?
We begin
of upkeep"
by owners
polite «-ay
Imposed for
to suspect that the "cost
of which so much is said
of motor cars is just a
of referring to tlie fines
violating the speed laws.
Alfred Vanderbilt will not be per
niltted to marry again within il ve
years; but he needn’t worry. He will
probably have enough left at the end
of that period to be still quite attrac
tive.
“if it be true that the Emperor of
Japan has on bls household pay roll
sixty doctors, what’s the answer?"
asks the Buffalo Courier. One answer
seems to be that while he may be
short of funds the Emperor is determ
ined to be well healed.
“not brutal books, not ludeceut ■ hooks,
but truthful busks.” American mothers
may learn from French mothers wflat
girls should and should not read. They
must also learn how to make a pro
hibition effect without Its being either
irksome or suggestive of disobedience.
A’heu a girl once discovers that her
un ther's book fits her no better thau
her mother's bonnet, it will be a gain
for girlhood and for literature.
Th« United States commissioner of
education rejmrts that there are G22
Institutions of higher education avail
able for the men of the country. In
114 of these the enrollment of male un
dergraduates exceeds 200. In seventeen
the numtier Is 1,000 or mure, five of
them having more than 2,200 and five j
others following closely with over 1.500
each. The figures are for undergrad
uate male attendance and take no ac
count of graduate or professional en
rollment. A good deal has tieeu written
of late about the feminizution of the
colleges. The eagerness with which
women have been availing themselves
of the opportunities afforded them in
a day of popular coeducation lias led
many people to think that the number
of male students has been decreasing
These statistics, designed to show the
contrary, tell their own story. If the
women were counted there would tie
need of rearrangement of the figures.
But, counting them or leaving them
out, the facts are clear that the United
States is a country of colleges. There
never was such an army of students In
the world as that which throngs Amer
ican colleges, whether supported by
public grant or private endowment.
When this fact is remembered, the
large amounts of money given in a year
for educational puri>oses are better un
derstood. Another Inquiry has brought
out the statement that during the last
twelve months more than $23,000,000
has been given for the cause of higher
education in the United States. The
largest amount received was by the
University of Chicago—$4,300,000. The
smallest amount reported was $10,000.
Between these two extremes generous
gifts of varying sums have enriched the
schools. As a rule the older and bet
ter endowed institutions have been
most favored. The pressing throngs of
students have demanded more instruct
ors, more courses of study, more labor
atories and dormitories, more equip
ment. In many eases colleges have
been seriously embarrassed tiecause of
the demands made upon them. There
is no longer a search for students. The
real problem is one of handling proper
ly those who present themselves for in
struction. And when it Is recalled that
the institutions of the collegiate type
represent only part of that general edu
cation to which the United States is
pledged, there is occasion for Just pride
on the part of the American people.
“A species -if cerebral commotion and
stirring of some hitherto dormant
association centers by an appropriate
affinitive impression” Is the diagnosis
of love—to be exact, first love—as re
cently given by a famous English phy
sician nnd man of science. Yet the
Self-made men need an awful lot of
disease does not always seem so se-
repairs all the time.
rious as that.
A woman knows she has a soul be
A New York paper, describing the cause there Is no proof of it.
visit of Andrew Carnegie to Lehigh
Grand opera is so as to make you
University, to which he has Just given enjoy the change to vaudeville.
a dormitory, says Mr. Carnegie was
It makes a girl awful ashamed to sit
"met by the student body with the in a man's lap without saying she won't.
university band, composed of students,
A mother is afraid that her child’s
a large number of alumni and the fac
mind is so active that It will stunt Its
ulty." It is doubtful If any other
body.
American university could muster such
One reason so many men get married
a hand, even though such newspaper
is they don't intend to, but the girl
English is common enough.
doys.
Self-control Is being able to cuss he
Diplomacy, In spite of the frankness
which ts supposed to characterize it in fore the children without letting them
modern days, still has Its amusing hear It
episodes, When Italy desired to open
Most people want to save money on
postoffices In five Turkish cities, the the necessaries so they can waste it on
Porte not only refused permission, but the luxuries.
said that the opening would be pre
It's better to have wed and been dí
vented by force if necessary. When vorced than never to have imagined
Italian battleships appeared the re- you have loved at all.
quest was granted, "not as a right,
What flatters a man about being a
specially acquired,” the Turkish am-
cynic is the disagreeable things he ex
bassador took pains to remark, "but as
pects always coming along.—New York
an expression of the unshaken sentl- Press.
niftits of sincere friendship” between
Tlie worst about women talking scan
the Sultan and the King of Italy.
Signor Tittonl, on behalf of Italy, re dal Is not what they do that way, but
marked, somewhat dryly, that the the things at home they neglect while
friendly sentiments of the Sultan were they are doing it.
fully reciprocated.
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THE HOPELESS BANK CLERK.
1RECTORS of banks are notoriously parsi
monious in respect to salaries. There are
a lot of young men who go into a bank
looking upon it as uffording a genteel po
sition likely to lead to something good
very rapidly. As a fact, there Is perhaps
no class of expert workers so poorly paid
and none where the resjionslblllties are greater. A young
man works at a meager salary which is slowly increased
until he gets grny-halred. He handles millions in money
or accounts and absolute accuracy Is demanded. Banks
are usually profitable Institutions, especially national
banks. They pay uo interest on deposits and pile up
large surplus accounts as a guarantee against trouble
after paying handsome dividends It would be n much
better guarantee if the employes were given living wages,
if they were awarded Increases according to ability and
length of service. No man wants to steal—unless he be
a degenerate—but the temptation is great where poverty
dwells, and the opportunities are large in most cases
There is no excuse for dishonesty, and there is no excuse
for parsimonious greed on the part of bank directors.
It is time for a reform all around.—Philadelphia In
quirer.
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MATRIMONY BY MAIL.
MINING CAMP in a Western desert re
cently witnessed the loathsome end of a
woman who, a few years ago, was the chief
of a "matrimonial syndicate” which in
Eastern cities fooled many credulous seek
ers of wealthy wives. Ou the same day
that her death was reported the country
was horrified by revelations of the doings of a woman in
the Central West who, after advertising for “well-to-do
bachelor” husbands, not only robbed but murdered the
Strangers who sought her hand.
Both women found their victims through "matrimonial
agencies,” most of which agencies publish papers contain
ing what purport to lie descriptions of a “young man of
25, salesman, good salary, seeks blonde wife, with so
cial gifts," and of a "widow, comfortably situated, aged
85, who would like to find congenial life companion,” and
others, to suit all tastes. Some of the cases are genuine.
They embody natural hopes and longings that grow up
in lonely surroundings, or that are not easily expressed
by shy natures outside the shelter of a false name; and
many responses to the appeals are equally genuine.
But the fact that a man has honest intentions, and
therefore credits them to others, makes him the easier
dupe of an adventuress, and the trustful good faith of
a friendless woman by no means Insures her against the
wiles of a scoundrel. Young girls sometimes answer
such advertisements “for fun;” but the very freedom
with which girls write Increases the danger that they
will be entrapped and blackmailed by scoundrels who
batten on innocent indiscretion.
A man who stands high in public esteem once declared
a
The publisher who advertises "books
The book agent had spent a discour
aging morning, and when lie had an
for all ages” tacitly recognizes that
opportunity to scan the face of Eli
the seven ages of man call for differ
Hobbs at close range, he felt that there
The pictures
ent Intellectual food.
and fairy tales for children anil the
philosophy and criticism for serene old
age are accepted as a matter of course.
But the debatable land is that between
sixteen and twenty-five, and this espe
cially for girls. It Is highly umleslr-
able for Mary that she should read
everything at hand, It Is equally unde-
sirable for the mnn of letters that be
should lx* restricted In his produce to
the book suitable for the sweet girl
graduate. As life opens before her she
should have books which will Interpret
It to her. Meantime, for the men and
women who are In the midst of life's
actual struggles, there should tie other
books no less delicate though cover-
Ing a larger field, The demand of ma
tin»- men and women xi-ho rely upon tlie
Imaginative writer Jo Help them in
their relnAons with other folks is not
for xvti ked iMMlkS. Nothing could lie
less to their pur¡H.se A clever novelist
bus Q-ventlj said (hat our time M .*
was small chance of making a sale.
However, he had more than one meth
od of suggestion.
“Sitting out here on the piazza after
noons with your wife, this would be the
very book to read aloud,” he said, lu
gratlatlngly, to Mr. Hobbs, taking tile
other rocking chair and opening the
large red-covered volume.
“1 don't read and I haven't any wife,'
replied Mr. 11 obi«, dryly.
“Dear me!” said the book agent.
“Well, if your wife Is dead, perhaps
then* are children. Now. children find
this book—”
"There are no children,” Interrupted
Mr. Hobbs. “There's nobody but my
self and my cat.”
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“Well," said the book agent,- "don't
you ever want a good heavy book to
throw nt her. just to ease your feel
ings?"
Most of us conkl do a lot of worl
while trying to dodge It.
"It was Just too sad for anything.
said the woman In brown, "I don't
anything affect
know when
me so."
“It must have been sad,” said the
tailor-made friend. I meant to have
gone up there myself, but that was the
day I went to the Kenyons' luncheon,
I had to go; but it was an awfully
stupid affair. Was Mrs. Brent there?”
"All the family were there except
Mr. Brent. I don't see how they could
tiring themselves to do it. but they did.
I'm sure it was sadder than a funeral.
I could have cried, though of course I
didn’t know them very well. Yes, Mrs.
Brent and Dora nnd Edith and the two
boys—what are their names? I always
forget. I thought at first they were
intending to bld in some of the things,
but they didn't.”
“Did they sell everything?”
"Everything.
Wasn't It too bad?
Just imagine how you would feel see
ing all tlie things you owned going
nway to strangers! You know I'm so
attached to everything I have that I
can't bear to throw away so much as
a chair when it gets broken. It's fool-
lsh. but I'in afraid I always shall lie
a little sentimental. I send everything
up to the garret as fast ns it gets worn
out and sometimes I go up there and
sit for hours Just thinking about the
happy days they are associated with.
Mr. Dlmsy laughs nt me and says I he’s
going to throw them all out into the
alley some day.”
"Wasn't ft too bad?" murmured the
tailor-made friend.
"I just wanted to wee-p, I felt So
miserable," said the one in brown.
"Poor, poor things! 1 just know how
they felt, exactly, A lot of strangers
coming in and fingering over all your
possessions and tlie auctioneer making
Jokes about them and all! As I say,
It's worse than a death. They've had
those things, or a great many of them,
ever since they were married. When 1
thought of the memories that must
have lieen connected «Ith »one of
them------
"She was very, very brave about lt,
nnd the girls were, too, but once or
twice I could see tluy pretty nearly
broke down. I wonder what they will
do now.”
“They're going away to Ftoe Pacific
const. I heard."
"Oh. of course,
I knew that.
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jneant I wondered how on ehrth they
would get along, Everything will be
so different for them nfter being In
•u.-li -’•nnf'-rtal-le i-jti um*tan>-e*. ! feel
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THE THREE "R’S”
EVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX teach
ers from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades in Chicago public schools have
formally advocated more time for reading,
writing, arithmetic and spelling in those
grades.
A committee of the Board of Educa
tion asked tor opinions from fifteen hundred teachert
in tlie upper grades, Some of the answers are almost
startling. Forty-five teachers report that they give no
time at all to writing, and nearly 350 give less than fifty
minutes weekly; 345 teachers give between twenty-five
and fifty minutes weekly to spelling ; nearly 500 said
they make no effort to teach children «ords outside of
their natural vocabulary.
One teacher, a little bolder than the rest, writes that
children should be drilled in rapid addition, or letter-
writing, or spelling, or cultivating a taste for good books,
"instead of using precious time in making paper furni
ture.” Other teachers complatu that the courses are
overcrowded. Nearly (JOO teachers express dissatisfac
tion with the result of the spelling courses.
These comments are from those who should be ablt
to Judge the results of their own work. They harmonize
closely with the judgment of those in the outside world
who are constantly confronted with glaring deficiencies
of public school graduates in reading, writing and arith
metic. Even high school courses do not remedy these
fundamental deficiencies.—Chicago Journal.
CANADA SIFTS HER IMMIGRANTS.
F Canada selects ull her citizens as cau
tiously as her immigration commissioner in
London, England, is now doing, the North
ern Empire may some day be what its na
tives often dream of—the Utopia of the
Anglo-Saxon race. The Canadian govern
ment is not only opposing most effectively
the Influx of ! Southern and Eastern Europeans and Ori-
entals; it is making the English themselves pass a stiff
examination to prove their desirability. Fifty prospect
ive immigrants whom the Salvation Army had arranged
to send from London hovels to Canadian farms have been
belli back until the Canadian authorities have investi
gated each member of the party. It will be Interesting
to see how long the government can continue this mi
nute and scrupulous control in the face of a growing
demand for unskilled labor.—New York Tribune.
with misfortune of that kind. It really
hurts me. I suppose they will have to
go into some poky little house in a poor
neighborhood and tlie girls will have
to go out and work at something. Mr.
Brent's salary won't amount to any-
thing, mj’ husband tells me—not enough
to support them even In the most
modest way. All they have in the
world Is what they got out of the sale.”
"Did the things bring much?”
"Mercy, no! They didn't bring any-
thing hardly, Not half what they were
worth. That lovely colonial heilsten J
sold for $rt.”
"You don’t
“Yes, my dear, that's all It brought,
If I could have found room for It I
should have bld $2 or $3 more on it,
and I think I should have got it. I
know you couldn't buy a bed new like
that for less than $45 or $50. I'm sorry
now that I didn't bld more, for I couid
have disposed of one of mine. I did
buy’ the Daghestan rug that was in
the library aild four pairs of curtains.
I bought that dainty little Doulton tea
set, too. Nobody bld against me, so
I really got the mat my own price,
Wasn’t I perfectly lucky?”
"I told Mr. Dlmsy that I wouldn't
sell my bargains for five times what I
gave for them and he said, 'You’d be
a fool If you did,’ and when Mr. Dimsy
admits that anything Is cheap you may
be sure it Is. I was awfully pleased.
I believe If I'd bid less than I did I
could have got them just the same.
That’s always
thought. Isn't
News.
BEHIND IN HUMANE WORK.
Berlin Affords n Fine Model In I p-
to-l)ate Ambulance Service.
Ambulance service In this country is
poor, chiefly because tlie need for it
does not appeal personally to the aver
age citizen, nnd there is no general de
mand upon officials for its betterment,
says Leslie's Weekly. What has been
done has been accomplished through
the efforts of physicians and humanely
inclined persons of wealth and public
spirit. A good example to pattern
after is that of Berlin. A private or
ganization, the Rescue Society, made
up largely of surgeons, looks after
emergency cases, and does It well. It
Is considered an honor to be a member
of the society, and only surgeons who
have practiced a number of years are
eligible. Each Taiember takes his turn
riding the ambulance, for which he gets
no pay. This does away with the rep
rehensible American practice' of in
ternes. and others seeking experience,
practicing upon street victims.
The Rescue goclety has nine emerg
ency stations, fitted with all the facili
ties of a fire-engine house for getting
out quickly. Tlffse Rescue society atn
bulsnces nre co-operated with by at
lea»t one ambulance from each of the
sixteen large hospitals. Several times
each day the director of the ambulance
service is notified how many empty
beds there are at each reception hos
pital. thus preventing the complication
that frequently arises in tills country
of a dying man being taken to a hos
pital only to find that there Is no place
for him. They also have test runs in
Berlin. At the pleasure of the director
any or all the ambulances are called
out unexpectedly, their time noted, and
their condition Inspected. Berlin Is the
only city where tills practice prevails.
A well-maintained ambulance service
increases the demand for attention
from the really needy. Berlin, virtu
ally the same size as Chicago, responds
to four times as many calls. St. Louis,
half as large, has more calls by several
thousands than Chicago, owing to the
better service and the familiarity of
the citizens with it.
Persons in city streets are thrilled
by the clanging of the ambulance gong
and fascinated when the horses gallop
by. A feeling of horror Is oftentimes
fol lowed by one of some comfort at the
thought that, In case of accident to
himself, one speedily would be taken
care of. In a majority of instances tills
feeling of comfort is not justified, If
you don't believe it, watch some one try
to get nn ambulance In a hurry.
Order of the G olden Horseshoe,
How many persons have ever heard
of the Order of tlie Golden Horseshoe,
the first order founded lu America?
In 1724, when Virginia extended
from the Atlantic into the unknown
West, few of her colonists iiad cross-
ed the Blue Ridge or the Alleghenies.
So full of dangers from savages and
wild beasts and so full of natural diffi
culties was tlie passage of these terri
ble heights, that Governor Spotswood,
setting out to discover a p iss, looked
on the expedition as so lia .ardous that
he took with him a guard of "soldiers,
gentlemen, and pioneers,” armed and
carrying provisions. These scaled the
pass with great hardships and perils,
and returned after the Governor had
cut tlie name of King George in th«
rocks on the highest peak.
He then constituted the society, o»
order, of the Golden Horseshoe, Each
man who had scaled this high pass was
made a member of It, and to each on«
he presented a golden horseshoe, On
the side was Inscribed In Latin : "So
It pleases him to cross mountains.”
I.oveliemt of Pri license».
Any men thereafter who could prow
Princess Andrens of Greece, daughtei that be bad read with his own eye«
of Prince Louis of Battenberg, and the name of the King on the height
was
therefore first cousin to the Queen <>t
entitl :ed to become a member of this
Spain, Is now hailed as the most beau
order.
tiful princess In Europe, says tlie New-
Det Ion* I oil it i t I oikm .
York World.
Like all the Battenbergs, Prine»
Colic: The only thing that will
Ixiuis is an exceptionally handsome tackle a baby without first considering
man, and also exceptionally capable. the consequences.
He Is an admiral In the British navy.
Chimeras: Tlie food of indolent the
Princess Andreas has the advantage orists.
of Queen Ena In figure, ns she is di
Humor: An anvil upon which to
vinely tall and majestically graceful. crack n smile.
Queen Ena's defect Is that her neck
Matrimony: The sea that swamps
Is unduly short, like her mother's. This many a courtship.
is a Guelph characteristic—Queen Vic
Sympathy: A convenient thing for
toria of England had no neck nt all. a silent partner.
In coloring both are dazzling blondes,
Miser: One of the things that will
with the purest pink and white i >m keep in any climate.
plexlons and violet eyes.
Dude: The excrescence of insuffer
able conceit.
A Triple (olnrlilmct,
An almost Incredible triple colnci-
deuce was noted in France some years
ago. In 1NG4 the deputy for the Ar-
denni s was M. Ferry; for Loir et Cher.
M. Brisson, and for the Vosges, M.
Hugo. In 1793, 101 years earlier, each
district had been represented in the
chamber by a mnn of exactly the same
name.
Incompleto SljrnalJi.
The Ingenious Cbnrle»ton News and
Courier suggests that tlie new spring
hats would gain in distinction if they
sported a neat two-foot flagstaff.
And right away somebody will want
to suggest a sign language for the flag
tn the bat.
Of course the flag at half mast
We do not Intend to buy an nuto- might Indicate that Its owner was a
mobile; we are waiting until the air widow, and a reversed flag would
mean that the Indy was In distress.—*
ship Is perfected.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It Is believed that every tltue a
f>U* quiet cooking lesson beats two
makes a kick on bis
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that he never wrote a letter which he would fear to have
posted on a bulletin board In front of the city ball, lie
lias, perhaps, established a standard above the reacts of
the average impulsive mortal. But persons of ordinary
intelligence, who read the newspapers, ought easily,
henceforth, to resist the appeal of the "matrimonial” ad
vertisement ; for recent events have shown that it is
frequently u lure tu ruin, if uut to deuth.—Youth’» Coin-
panlou.
Messrs. Palerno and Cinngolonl, the
inventors of "tachyol" (fluoride of sil
ver). an antispetlc employed in surgery,
have found that a solution of 1 part la
500,000 of water will destroy all germs,
including Itacillus subtilis. its germici
dal effect being much greater tiian that
of chlorine, bromine or ozone.
To lessen risk of loss of submarines,
torpedoes used in uaval practice and
other objects liable to sink in the sea,
a French oceanographer attaches a ves
sel of oil having a long and short time
tube one-tenth of an inch In diameter.
When submergence softens the gum
seals of the tube, oil rises from the
long one drop by drop, locating the
sunken object by the film on the wa-
'er's surface.
The German government more than
a year ago imjaised what seemed to be
a moderate tax on railroad tickets.
The result of it lias lieeu a diversion of
travel from the higher to the lower
classes, to such an extent that a de-
crease of about $2,500,000 in the pas-
senger earnings of tlie Prussian state
railroads alone is attributed to it.
Nearly at the same time a new schedule
of charges for passengers and baggage
was Introduced, which on the same
railroads
reduced earnings about
«1,500,000. But this was expected.
Dr. II. C. Stevens, of Seattle, reports
recent experiments which show that
objects seen by indirect vision ordin
arily appear larger in tlie right half
of the field of vision than in the left.
With a smaller number of persons this
is reversed. From these facts he de
duces a i>ossible origin of right and left-
handedness. Right-handedness, or its
reverse, develops at about the age of
seven months. Dr. Stevens suggests
tha-t they may be due to the phenomena
of vision just described. By a reflex
••ffect the infant reaches after the ob
jects best seen with the arm nearest to
them.
In his book on the great veld of
German East Africa, Herr C. G. Schil
lings gives a vivid description of the
shimmering, undulating sea of light
which bathes that country, causing
light-colored objects often to appear
black, and making distances so decep
tive that when but a few hundred
paces away it is sometimes Impossible
o distinguish a rhinoceros from au
ostrich or a termites’ nest, Water ou
this veld is often the greatest of lux
uries, "as precious as life itself, eves
when obtained from small mud ixxds.’
Yet the country, when viewed from hill
tops or from tall trees, exhibits a won
derful panorama of wild life. Elephank
there are not dependent upon grass
but will strip trees of their bark oi
branches when hard pressed, and thej
are sometimes found in company witt
giraffes. In some of tlie small lakex
of the Kilimanjaro region hippopotami
may be watched by a concealed ob
server nt ns close quarters as in r
zoological park.
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