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to him was one long-drawn-out sprse
of getting rich, and there never was a
morning after headache; be never lost
money. This contrast in human nature
has a striking example right in the
Sage family. The wealth Russell work
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ed so long and bard to accumulate af
fords pleasure to bls wife only ns she
The cry baa been changed to "ralss gives it away, which she is doing with
ths Maine.”
a lavluhness never squalled by any oth
er woman, and only surpassed by a few
Some people put faith in the ground men of greater wealth.
hog tradition simply because it is so
foolish.
Dr, Clarence W. Wassam In a recen.
A Pennsylvania butcher Is “putting study of the salary loan business tn
on dog" because bo manufactured a New York City, tells the story of a
clerk who, during a period of «lckne-o.
sausage fifty-seven feet long.
In his family, borrowed twenty-four
“Club women are talking too much," dollars. Further borrowing, renewals.
•aid a Chicago lecturer. What does he Interest and collection fees dragged him
deeper and deeper, until within two
think a woman's club la for?
years what he had paid out and what
The children of a wealthy old man he still owed In return for a hundred
always feel outraged when he marries and fifty dollars amounted to eight
hundred dollars. The loan shark al
A woman younger than himself.
lures hfs victims by crafty advertise
There 1» reason to lielleve that 1909 ments. His capital is little, hls profits
will show a remarkable falling off In are great, and ids losses are alight be
the practice of night riding in Ten cause of the honesty or timidity of thu
average man in a tight place. The
nessee.
extortion can be stopped. The Supreme
Once there was a groat surgeon who Court of Massachusetts has lately up
felt sure he could get along without held the State law which makes Invalid
bis colon. His activities have come to any assignment of wages without the
« full stop.
written consent of the employer ami
the wife of the employe. Rut the surest
Paderewski, while performing in way to oust the loan shark Is to make
New York, split the nail on one of bls legitimate provision for the need which
fingers. Our dispatch does not •ay lie fills, the need of the small borrower
wliat happened to the piano.
of personal Integrity. In home Muro-
pean countries savings and credit
Little concern is felt over what the unions have flourished for fifty years.
spelling reformers will do next, They In Italy alone such unions, a species of
can't accomplish anything more tragic co-operative bank, have a membership
than the mangling of poor “through.” of three hundred and fifty thousand.
The girl In Waco, Texas, who hugged The thrifty and fortunate profit to rea
sonable extent by their neighbors’
a teacher so hard that she fractured
needs. The man temporarily down bor
three of her ribs will always have
plenty of admirers among the opposite rows at low rates, and in helped to Ills
feet. Instead of being pushed dee|>er
sex.
into the hole. In a Canadian town of
A Nashville editor wants to know If seven thousand persons a people’s bank,
we shall all fly soon. Not on your started eight years ago. has drlveu
life. There are tens of thousands wbo from the town three loan sharks, who
prefer to remain at home and face the were then doing business there. The
laws of several States permit co-oper-
music.
ative banks. For various reasons wide
Professor Zueblin has discovered that advantage has not been taken of these
the fire departments in this country enabling laws. Building and loan asso
are the best, while our building laws ciations which advance money on real
•re the worst. Seems to be a ease of estate are numerous and successful.
cause and effect.
But the little borrower Is still at th«
mercy of ths unscrupulous loan office.
Carrie Nation has been lined in Eng-
land for spoiling cigarettes, If «he
would start out to pull down a few
hideous signboards even she might be
able to secure a measure of public
sympathy.
yg ByPT
TOR
A Baltimore professor has Invented a
mercury telescope by means of which
be expects to make it possible for us
to see the people on Mars. What we
need la some kind of an Instrument
that will enable us to see ourselves
as the Martians may be seeing us at
this moment
The esteemed Washington Herald
•rise« to claim that ham gravy is the
best. Ths editor of the esteemed Her
ald doubtless never ate thickened
gravy with steak that was fried in a
big skillet over a bed of coals in a fire
place. This holds first place among
gravies, as apple pie does among pies.
Hereafter the steamship companies
bringing Immigrants to America must
provide about seven cubic yards of air
•pace for each ¡lerson. The object of
this rule, which was lately enacted into
law by Congress, is to prevent the over
crowding of the steerage and the conse
quent danger to the health of those who
have to travel in that part of the
■hip.
Few of the younger generation real
ize that it was not until after the Civil
War that a transcontinental railroad
was built, and it became possible to
go by rail from New York to San Fran
cisco. Previously the Journey was diffi
cult, but not quite so long or so hazard
ous as that which a German lieutenant
Is making by automobile from Dares-
Ralaam In German East Afrtca to
fiwakopmunde in German Southwest
Africa, He started in August, 1997,
•nd In December of last year bad
'•ached Johannesburg.
It Is said that of those who applied
for aid under the British old-age pen
sions act, which went Into effect Jan
uary 1st, nine-tenths were unable to
sign their names. If this is so. it is a
striking proof that Ignorance and In
digence go together. Of similar import
was the argument of a recent essay on
the conditions of labor In England. The
writer, not unsympathetic, spoke of
that “multitude of incompetents who
call themselves the unemployed " That
does not tell the whois story of poverty,
for Individual good men have hard luck,
and bad times overtake the best, Rut
on the whole, the competent man snc-
eeds.
You doubtless remember that Russell
Rage, when alive, had a reputation for
stinginess, and believe that he dldn t
have much fun In life. Eating an ap
ple for lunch, wearing a straw hat two
aeaaons. and a suit of clothes uutll ft
wore out, doesn't spiral to many peo
ple. with or without money, as a part
of a good time. Rut when you re-
member how many definitions there are
for a good time. It seems possible that
Russell Sage's life was one continual
round of pleasure, What appeals to
you muy not suit your friend. Tbs
man who admires grand opera may
scorn the enthusiasm of the football
Russell Rage, perhaps, bad no
fan.
hobby but making money. If this be
true. It was. doubtless. because he en-
Jujed sinking money and saving it Life
ci»« rettr Habit l.bk-h
Over the I niiuil
PUBLIC OrFICE NEEDS EXPERTS.
By Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell.
The administration of a great city cannot
be conducted efficiently and at the same time
be kept In touch with public needs without a
combination of the expert aud the representa
tive of outside opinion, and the relation that
ought to exist between these two Is plain. The
current management and the initiative in the
main ought to lie with the expert, but he
ought to work under the constant oversight
and control of non professional men.
Such a relation has grown up spontaneously lu our
great commercial and educational bodies, in the presi
dent and directors of a railroad or a bank, In the pres
ident and trustees of a university or college, for exam
ple, and it could be introduced into almost any form of
city government, for it is not inconsistent either with the
plan of boards of commissioners or with that of a may
or’s cabinet.
In order to set up the proi»er relation between the
expert and the non-professlonal representative of the
public it Is not necessary to prescribe their duties by
law, but to make the distinction between them perfectly
clear, and that distinction must be based upon the essen
tial dlffettnce in the functions to be performed.
The expert Is expected to make his public work bls
career. He should devote his whole time to it, receive
a liberal salary and be protected from removal except
for cause The non-professlonal Is not to manage his
department, but to see that It Is properly managed. He
ought not to be expected to give a great deal of his time
to It, ought to be paid nothing, or a much lower salary
than the expert, and ought to give an account of Ills
stewardship by coming up for reappointment or election
at fixed Intervals.
MEN SLAVES TO THEIR WIVES.
By Lilian Bell.
Slavery has not been entirely abolished in
the United States. There are slaves In plenty
who cannot be rescued by any federal or State
law relative to peonage. We even know these
slaves, you and I, yet possibly we do not rec
ognize them as such until we kuow their home
life. Then we know that these slaves, all
big, strong men, are the slaves of little, round,
soft, plnk-aud-whlte women, their wives, who
hold tlieir husbands In bondage by an assumed helpless
ness which causes men who are Its victims to wriggle
with delight, and women who are compelled to observe
it, to go out and hit something.
But before you get too irritated at the spectacle of
the abject slavery to which a email, flufly woman can
reduce a 800-pound man, who bullies hls clerks and
swears at hls office boy, stop and think how she does it
and why. and you will soon calm down. She weeps ■t
be crosses her, pretends sickness If he reproves her.
plays dead if he scolds her; she can't do a thing fot
herself; she runs him into debt, flatters him into a way
'of life beyond bls means and keeps him her slave by
making him believe he Is the whole thing and that she
couldn't live without him. So that, far from being an
object of universal pity, the busband who Is a slave is
often the most gullible creature In existence with a
vanity It Is a sin not to subvert and a conceit which It
becomes u crime not to utilize.
Some men are so supreme In their own estimation
that not only their own wives but even the wayfaring
woman, hurrying to get home, cannot resist the temp
tation to pluck him In passing. It Is so easy to snatch a
perquisite by an inevitable tribute to what he knows la
true of himself. In other words, many of the so-called
easy marks among men are not merely big-hearted, good-
natured brothers. They are often men of such sublime
egotism that a 000-pound woman could faint In the arms
of one such, and he would half kill himself trying to
carry her all alone because she had often told him hls
touch was so gentle and so different from that of most
men.
OUR NATIONAL LOSS FROM FIRE.
By Samuel H. Adams.
We hear much, In thia peaceful country,
about Germany's burden of militarism. Well,
our national bonfire would pay for the
Kaisers whole army maintenance and leave
a surplus annually of twenty millions for a
fireworks fuud wherewith to appease our py
romaniac appetite. If Germany 1 b oppressed
by wars and the rumor of wars, how much
more sorely la the United States oppressed by
fire and the evils that attend It! And the worst of It
Is that this loss, in great port, Is needless and super
fluous; Incredibly and Idiotically stupid and short-sghted
Europe proves much. No nation there but would be
appalled at such a fire bill as ours. In the forty-five
principal cities of Europe there Is less than one lire an
nually (86. to be exact) to every thousand inhabitants.
In this country we maintain a general average of four
nnd a half fires per thousand persons. The per capita
loss by flames in Italy is 12 cents yearly; lu Germany,
49 cents; In thirty of the largest European cities, 61
cents, and In 252 American cities the per capita destruc
tion averages $3.10. Boston, In many respects the most
Bcentlflcally administered and municipally progressive
city lu this country, has a yearly bill of a million and
a half dollars from loss by burning. The European city
of equal size gets along with one-tenth of that sacrifice.
Our debit side of the fire ledger sums up a heavier total
than the combined losses of any other six civilized na
tions in the world. Nothing this side of the sun equals
us for combustion.—Everybody's.
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SEALING IN GREENLAND.
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Plot urevqurne**
a«
Hunter« Go Forth tn Kayak».
Detecting Tuberculosis.
In a previous article was noted the
difficulty of an early diagnosis of con
sumption, and It was shown how nec
essary such a diagnosis la, since upon
It depends, In many Instances, ability
to cure the disease. It was stated also
that the old way of detecting consump
tion, still used commonly In the case
of cattle, had been superseded by other
nnd simpler methods. One of these
methods Is that called the “ophthalmo
reaction,” because the test Is made In
the eye. It Is also called the Calmette
or Wolff-Elsner test, because It was de
vised about the same time by ths one
In France and the other In Germany.
It consists In the instillation of a
drop of dilute tuberculin into one eye.
If the subject of the test Is eutlrely
free from tuberculosis, nothing follows;
but If he suffers from the disease, even
In its very beginnings, the eye will,
after a few days, become a little red,
and jierhaps very slightly Inflamed.
Another mode of employing tuber
culin Is called the “cutl-reactlon” or
cutaneous test. It wan devised by a
Viennese physician, and Is made as
follows: The delicate skin on the In
side of the forearm Is carefully cleansed
with soap and water, and then with
ether. Then a drop of tuberculin is
placed on the skin, and the arm Is
scarified ns in vaccination, first in a
dry part, then in the center of the
drop of tuberculin. At the end of one
or two days, If the subject has lnclpl-
ont tuberculosis, a small pimple comes
at the place vaccinated with the tnber-
culln, but not at the other point whlch
was scarified at the same time, The
skin for a short distance surrounding
the pimple may be more or less red
dened, and sometimes there are several
pimples Instead of one.
A simplification of this cutaneous
test Is what has been called the per
cutaneous teat. Thia consists In merely
rubbing the tuberculin on the akin,
either the undiluted substance, or an
ointment made of equal parts of tuber
culin and lanolin. When the reaction Is
positive, that Is to say. when the sub
ject is In the early stage of tubercu
losis. the anointing Is followed within
two days by an eruption on the arm
of a number of small pimples, which
Itch more or less, and are usually sur
rounded by an area of reddish or
purplish skin. Ater ten days or two
weeks the eruption gradually dlsap-
pears.
None of these tests la absolutely per-
feet, for sometimes a reaction occurs
when there Is no tuberculosis. Ths two
skin tests are about equal as regards
reliability. The e.v« test, although fair
ly accurate, la beginning to l>e thought
dangerous, and will probably soon Iw
abandoned In favor of one or the other
of ths absolutely safe skin testa»
Scaling in Greenland Is both ardous
and sportive, the latter compensating
the hunters for the hardships which
they endure year In and year out, for
that Is their principal Industry. Men
of several nations, mostly northern
and Including the Japanese, are regu
larly in the chase for seals in Green
land and other arctic waters. The
Greenland hunters take to the waters
stir In a chair like that Its legs would
creak and groan and It would go down
with me on It In a heap.
“Why ts this, do you suppose? I
am not a restless person. 1 don’t
twist and turn and fidget In a chair,
and yet no chair 6eems to stay togeth
er if I once begin to use. I soon sit
through a cane seated chair, and I
have in time splintered seats of ve-
neer.
"If I use any particular rocking
chair for long I start the back away
from the arms, and If I sit in an arm-
SPECTACLES SHOW DUST.
Near-Sighted M m Moat Aware
Fine Particle* In Air.
of
“No matter where you live and how
ever high In the air you always find
dust settling on everything every
where, but,” said the nearsighted man,
“if you want to realize this fact you
should wear spectacles and work at
some employment that requires con
stant bending over.
“Fourteen times a day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find your
N m * l|»SUt
Stair#.
Nothing has "been more notable in
be social changes of the last few
years than the extent to which ths
cigarette lias increased tn popular um
The modern cigarette seems to have
originated in Spain, where, maize or
other suitable vegetable envelopes f"r
the tobacco lieing unobtainable, a thin
sheet of paper was substituted. Thus
the clgHr slid cigarette assumed dis
tinct forms. A Spanish proverb de
clares that "a papelltos (a paper ci
gar), a glass of dear water and a kiss
from a pretty girl will sustain a man
for a whole day.”
The dainty, unsubstantial, airy ci
garette Is the natural smoke of the
Isitln peoples. Its use tn this country
dates from only some 40 years ago.
In 1M5 an English writer noted that
the cigarette was smoked In England
by foreign visitors only. The Crimean
war of 1854-6 led many English mili
tary and naval officer« to adopt this
mode of smoking, then common In
Malta, the Levant, Turkey and Rus
sia.
English officers, unable to procure ci
gars. and driven by the hardshl|»s of
the Crimean campaign to the allevia
tion of tobacco, took to the-cigarette,
smoked by their French and Turkish
allies. Returning, they brought the
mode to England, and the cigarette be-
came fashionable among clubmen and
in the higher circles, Eventually it
came to America.
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS
By Clarence L. Cul'en
Ever notice what a horribly dead
looking tiling your wife's hair “rat” Is
as it lies, Inert, bulgy and revolting on
her—on maybe your—dresser?
What a woman most likes about
nursing her husband when he’s sick Is
that she can I kiss him around and
claim that it's the doctor's orders.
Women of a certain temperament
complain about their husbands' “lack
of Imagination,” forgetting that most
lmaglners are perfectly dandy little
liars besides.
It doesn't necessarily follow that the
woman who calls her husband "Pettie”
and "Baby-doll" In front of folks Is
any crazier over him than less gush-
erlno women are of their spouses.
Is there any wife, anywhere, who
does not cuttingly ridicule her husband
after he has, in her presence, exhibited
a certain amount of entirely harmless
gallantry toward another woman?
When a wife becomes so dogmatic
and opinionated her husband It liable
to develop such a fondness for the
game of billiards that he has to stay
out late o’ nights to practice new shots.
Some women, when they feel that
they are going to lie sick abed, are
more concerned over the laundering of
their lingerie robes de nult than they
are over the consequences of their ail
ment
Here they're pulling that “Wives are
slaves” thing as new stuff, whereas
every married man since the days of
the Hyksos kings of Egypt has heard
his sobful wife declare that she was
li-n-nothlng b-b-but n s-s slave.
While women are singularly credu
lous of the most improbable things
they see on the stage, they flatly rebel
and refuse to believe It when, In a
play, they see a husband making vio
lent love to the wife he's been married
to for ten years.
Ever stop to reflect what these
“raging, ramping beauties” would look
like If they had to cut their hair short,
like men’s, nnd abandon millinery and
embellishments and fluff-wuffs and so
on, and wear men's baggy togs and
derby hats and such gear?
A husband who Is the victim of a
humdrum connublallty can’t help but
wonder and mentally Inquire “Why?”
when, with attractive male guests at
his tnble, his wife chirks up astonish
ingly, darts artlessly arch glances, as
sumes a forgotten vivacity, nnd takes
on generally the charm and grace of
the flown years.
Almost Concenlrd,
FLEET OF KAYAKS IN ARCTIC WATERS
in kayaks and as a fleet of these odd
little canoes strikes out from the bar
ren shores they present a stirring ap
pearance.
Lending to the picturesqueness of
the sight are the Icebergs of various
shapes and sizes, more or less a men-
a<v to the hunters.
BREAKS ALL HIS CHAIRS.
Mr.
Thri>K«lvl»n Ju*t ('«n’t
It, Though He Trie*.
Help
chair I work the arms loose; and any
sort of a chair that 1 sit in for any
length of time I am sure to start it at
all Its points so that it gets weavy
and wiggly; and I am likely to spread
a leg or two so that the rungs may
drop out at that end.
"Honest Injun, I don't know why
It is, but I certainly do seem to be
hard on chairs.”
«
Ancient Art.
The freight-paying end of the mat
rimonial combine had lieen trying to
read his paper for an hour, but was
frequently Interrupted by his wife's
remarks. Flually he gave It up.
“I wish.” he said, “that I possessed
he knowledge of the ancient Egyp-
tlans."
"Why?" queried his better half.
“Judging from the mummies I have
-ceil.” he replied, "they understood the
art of making a woman dry up and
stay dried up.”
"Some men are bard on clothes. It
la my misfortune," said Mr. Throggle
ton, “to be hard on chairs."
“And I am Dot bo heavy either. I
only weigh about 175, but somehow I
always wreck sooner or Inter all the
chairs I sit in. I seem to have some
sort of sag or twist or something in
¡lie way which 1 sit In a chair that
makes me. eveu when I think 1 am slt-
ting nh-eiy and quletly, break or start
something.
"of course. I never think of sitting
Prixnotln« th« <»lnd Eiprr**lo*.
d< wn nt al) in a Chip|ietidale or Louis
“
Have you done anything to make
XVI. or any other sort of slender,
spider'egged chair, because for me life more cheerful 1" asked the optimist.
* <li a <lia!r might ns well t<e mount- "Have you helped anybody fo Sulls?”
"I should say so, I have helped mors
I oil hr<K m splints. Men heavier
.. hi I could sit in such chairs and |K*>p'e to smile than anybody else in
i n l<< tip bn k in them without-doing ie neighlsiFho'd. I'm a dentist.”—
...... rgi ; but if 1 Buuu.d so much as Washington Stur.
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glasses covered with fine particles of
dust. Maybe you don't look, and then
maybe some bigger particle, some
speck that Is by comparison a verlta-
ble boulder of dust. settles there,
square In your line of vision, where
It may not obstruct your sight, but
where it cannot fall to arrest your at
tention. And then when you take
them off to remove the boulder you
find your glasses covered with dust In
finer particles, as you would find them,
Indeed, however often you might look.
“Over such an area as that of De
troit, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating In the air, as, perhaps
without figuring out its weight, many
people, such as housewives and store
keepers, are aware; but perhaps no
body is reminded of this so constant
ly as the man who wears spectacles
and who bends over at hls work, and
on whose glasses, where it Is ever be
fore him. dnet la constantly settling.”
—Detroit Free Pres
An
t nrrllaltla Hoa.
"Gome right on In. Sambo,” the farm
er called out. "He won’t hurt you.
Tou know a barking dog never bites."
“Sure. boss, ah knows dat.” replied
the cautious colored man, “but ah don’t
know how soon he's going to st'*p bark-
IB'.."-- Success Magazine,
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Phoebe And you really think ha
loves you?
Phyllis--1 know ft. Didn’t he pro
pose on his knees?
Phoebe—Oh, that's nothing, Many
lovers do the same.
Phyllis—Yes, but he proposed while
strapping on my skates, and his knees
were on the ice fifteen minutes.—Now
Orleans Picayune.
Fxchanited Favor*.
It is a curious coincidence that Can
ada's greatest railroad man, Sir Will
iam Van Horne, is a native of the
United States, and that the greatest
railroad builder of the United States,
James J. Hill, is a native of the Do
minion.
The I’rodacep.
“Does your husband play poker?”
“I don’t know,” answered young Mrs.
Torklns. "From what I hear he sim
ply sits up to the table and enjoys see
ing othsr jieople contend for what hs
outs up.”—Washington Star.
In the Soup,
Walter—One order tomato soup.
Chef—There's nothing left but con
somme.
Walter—Well, spill some ketchup In
It, you dub—the gent's -In a hurry.-*
Cleveland Leader.
We would all have our rights if so
many things didn't go wrong.