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t*rt«ed th* life of Baldwin, fa one
I tbtfig and luck that carries no risk, as
I» w^ilj be In the case of these law-
i ,yer* and the doctor. is another. Luck
wiilemt attendant risk might b* said
SOMETHING FOB EVEBYBODY
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?<• hw th* luckiest kind of luck. Fu
short. It's mighty lucky for some folks
that there Hre persons with the busi
uesa or the gambling capacity for pll
Ing up great fortunes which they can
not take with them when they leav»
this vale of tears. The luckiest fellow
of all, as a good part of the world
views things. Is the one who gets the
last whack at some other fellow’s 8'*-
cumulntIons ami who is alive when the
other Is dead.
The diseases to which the silkworm
Is liable number loo.
Living In London is 40 per cent
Everywhere Mr. Roosevelt foe* tb*
cheaper than in the large cities of th*
pwopl* act ■ • if they hud beard of film
United States.
Wor*
Out of every million letters that
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects,
Six night rider« hare been «ontenced
pass through the post office it is cab
to be hanged. We predict a «lump In
culated that only one goes astray.
night riding.
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The cow tree of Venezuela is a nat
ural
dairy. Its sap is very similar to
The old method of starting a saloon
milk
and is used as such by the na
•nd building a town around It la going
to
reach
those
into
whose
lives
comes
the
least
of
health
TOO MANY WOMEN TEACHERS.
tive«.
out of atyle in this country.
In many, if not In nil the States
RESIDENT G. Stanley Hall, of Clark Uni ful Joy and the smallest opportunity for knowledge.
The transient hotel population of
there are laws providing penalties for
versity, never talks without saying some New York City alone has more than a hundred of these
New York is figured at 250,000 people
Now King Alfonso wants to try ski kidnaping, varying In severity from
lecture
centers,
all
well-known
and
well-patronized.
thing, and his remarks before the Twen
jumping. First thing you know that death to imprisonment In the county
Although free to the audiences, these lectures and a day. The hotel projierties are valued
tieth Century Club revealed a new phase
young man will rock the boat.
other
entertainments are, of course, not free to th* at over $80,000,000.
Jail for one year. There is general
of experimental psychology, In which the
municipalities
which maintain them. Yet they are so
There Is a great demand In China for
agreement In all the States that no
learned Massacusetts man is an authority.
The courts have decided that women crime is more reprehensible than that
useful, and so admirably adapted to educating, enter lead. It is used in several Chinese
Dr.
Hall
criticized
what
he
termed
the
who wish to vote In Oklahoma must of the person who steals a child from
manufactures, but chiefly for lining tea
feminization of the American public school, which he taining und uplifting the people, that even the country
tell their ages. Mean old courts!
its parents and holds It for ransom un
holds responsible for lack of physical and moral train town could spend money wisely by the organization of chests for export.
der threat of torture if the money de
Caleb Watts, of Lily l’ad, I’a., who
ing of boys. The tenderheartedness of women teachers, such courses.—Youth's Companion.
If the kidnapers don't cense their ne manded is not paid. Other crimes
raises
frogs for the market, gets the
he
contended,
falls
short
of
proper
discipline
and
turns
farious operations pretty soon people against the person may be. and fre
best results by feeding them on liver,
out unformed hoodlums who leave the classroom to add
WHY CHILDREN ARE BACKWARD.
who have children will not dare to quently are, due to ungovernable pas
corn meal and flies.
to Juvenile crime.
become rich.
BENCH scientists have been devoting con
sion ; but the stealing of children for
There is perhaps some truth In tills, but how does Dr.
Great Britain imports over $35,000,-
siderable attention of late to the problem
such a purpose Is a deliberate proce
Hall propose to remedy the preponderance of women
000 worth of eggs a year from Russia,
A professor says lying results from dure, planned to take advantage of the
of the backward child. They regard the
In such a poorly paid profession as school teaching?
Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Canada
Intellectual laziness. Thought Is was natural affection which parents have
vast majority of such cases as the result
Poor textbooks, and the very short average of 151
and the United States.
the natural result of a chronic desire for their children. It Is in its essence
of false abnormality, and the remainder
school days to each year can hardly be expected to
to hold office.
Mrs. A. B. Enright, of East Concord.
as physically Imperfect. Many children
a crime against nature, and deserves to
exert very great influence toward character formation
Vt., is county supervisor of schools and
are backward in school through poor eye-
be classed with all those unnatural
on the pupil. Added to that the fact that the girl who sight, which places them at a great disadvantage in
The general verdict Is that women’s deeds for which the laws provide se
said to be one of the busiest women in
takes up school teaching regards It as a temporary following instructions given by means of blackboards
hats are not so bad, when you get vere penalties. Yet, as already indi
the State. Besides her school work she
occupation, to lie set aside for matrimony, and the ele or charts. Others are deaf, and frequently suffer se
used to them. It Is the getting used
performs all the duties that fall to th«
cated, there is one State, Idaho, In
ment of influence is decidedly lacking.
to them that smites.
lot of the wife of a Methodist pastor
riously by reason of going through school without their
which the minimum penalty Is only one
Dr. Hall may be quite right when he condemns too disability being noticed. These two defects are most
of two large parishes.
year
of
imprisonment
in
the
county
An exchange says the Panama Canal
much attention to manners and not enough to morals, common of all.
Professor Jowett's comments on th«
will “make Islands of North and South jail. The maximum Is ten years' im
but there is Just one trouble with experimental psychol
Many
of
the
diseases
of
childhood
are
responsible
for
prisonment.
In
Pennsylvania,
the
scene
young
nien of Balliol, Oxford, often
America.” Not quite. The locks will
ogy—It always points out plenty of faults, but It Is permanent troubles that affect the mental development.
of the most recent kidnaping case, the
took the form of crushing sarcasms.
continue to hold them together.
mighty
slow
at
finding
remedies.
—
Chicago
Journal.
For Instance, children may suffer from neuralgia, the
maximum penalty I n solitary Impris
"The college, Mr. X., thinks highly of
thyroid
gland may be Imperfect, or, as Is very fre you,” he once said: “perhaps too high
onment
for
life.
In
Alabama,
Dela
If King Peter is disappointed over
FREE PUBLIC LECTURES.
quently the case, adenoids may fill up a large part of
ly ; but not half so highly, I am sure,
the way his boys have turned out. let ware and Illinois the courts have pow
T is not uncommon to hear cultivated men the breathing passages and render a child dull and
er
to
sentence
kidnapers
to
death,
par
as you think of yourself.”
him look at the old man. He never
and women of middle age lament the de slow.
China is buying lumber from British
was the Santa Claus of a Sunday ticularly when the person kidnaped Is
cline of the lyceum system, which did
held
for
ransom.
Distinction
Is
made
Trouble with the teeth Is blamed for retarded devel Columbia. It is largely needl'd for
school.
much to raise the standard of taste and opment, and the French experts believe thnt the nerves
in the laws of some of the States be
railway construction. American lumber
knowledge a generation ago. There are of the dental system affect the brain to a much greater
Mr. Bok declares this season's mil tween kidnaping children and adults,
Is shipped to Shanghai. On one day of
still courses of public lecture* and enter extent than generally suspected. They recommend the
linery styles are beautiful and artis and between holding for ransom and
his recent visit four full cargoes of
tainments which enliven winter evenings careful examination of every child at least once a year
tic. Mr. Bok Is the editor of a publi for other purposes. Such distinctions
Oregon pine arrived there, says the
In many small towns and in the cities, but the old sys by a competent physician as a necessary complement of
cation for women, and he naturally are of course necessary to cover the
Canadian trade commissioner at Yoko
different degrees of the crime. The
tem has changed its characteristics and lost a measure the school system.—DesMoines News.
•Ims to please.
hama.
general tendency of recent years has
of its Influence. In Its place, however, has risen some
Miss Selma Lagerlof, besides being
A toad died the other day In the been toward the infliction of Increas
thing which may be even more Important—the free
ONCE
CHINAMAN
ALWAYS
CHINAMAN.
the
most popular writer In Sweden, has
Bronx park at the comfortable age of ingly heavy penalties upon stealers of
lecture courses maintained by many of the larger munici
HINA is yet a land and a people ruled by Just received an honorary degree from
1,000 years. He remembered the time children. No sooner had the news of
palities, such as New York, Chicago and Boston.
the University of Upsala. She Is tha
ancestors. A Chinaman belongs, soul and
when Lief Ericson first began to dis the abduction of the Pennsylvania boy
The old lyceum lecture "dealt frequently with philo
first woman In Sweden to receive tills
body, to his home land because Uls ances
spread abroad than bills were Intro
cover Minnesota.
sophical subjects, and was usually delivered by some
distinction, and It Is said to be.only a
tors belonged there. The wandering Mongol
duced In the Legislatures of several
one of wide reputation. An admission fee was charged,
matter of time when she will get the
Spelling reformers say they are per States raising the maximum penalty
who
dies
in
a
strange
land
has
paid
tri
and the illustrations, if there were any, and that was
Nobel prize.
fectly satisfied with progress already for the crime, and such a proposition
bute all his tolling years to a brotherhood
not often, were produced by the magic lantern. The
made. This means that they Intend was made In Congress to cover the Dis
whose
sacred
duty
Is
to
coffin
his
bones
Mrs. Emma Barry, of San Francisco,
patrons were drawn mainly from the cultivated and
going right ahead with the cruel trict of Columbia and the Territories.
and send him back to his native land for burial. Not
has Just returned from a trip to tlie
well-to-do.
maiming of Innocent words.
Arctic Circle, during which. It is assert
The modern municipal lectures are free, and are even after death will his country relinquish her claims
usually delivered in the public schoolhouses. The audi to him. Why should the Chinese government be inter ed, she went farther north than any
The Standard Oil Company Is not a
other white woman. She accompanied
ences are composed largely of persons who cannot afford ested in keeping American-born Chinese familiar with
trust, according to the argument of one
tier husband prospecting for gold, and
to pay much for th* Instruction ami entertainment they the reading and writing of the old language when It
of Its attorneys. He does not, how
after she lays In certain supplies sb*
receive, but who eagerly embrace the opportunity for is presumed that they and their children will remain
ever, declare that It Is a spring poem
will rejoin him In Alaska.
mental culture. The subjects of the lectures cover an In America henceforth? The answer Is that such is
or the long meter doxology.
Immense range. The courses are frequently diversified never the presumption. The government’s theory Is
Mrs. G. Meyer Is responsible for tho
by evenings which are given to music or other whole that a Chinaman Is here only by the accident of birth
monument
that has Just been erected
A speaker recently said that the
some entertainment They enjoy the great advantage or to get money, and when it becomes possible h* will
There are 270 known^ictlve volcanoes
at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to the
eountry boy Is the hop* of the Ameri
of the stereopticon and the vitascope. and enlist the take his money and go to live and enjoy It in th* Flow
memory of the horses that died during
can nation. That has always been the In the world, but, fortunately, only a
services of many eminent specialists. Their purpose Is ery Kingdom.—Washington (D. C.) Post.
few
of
them
are
large
enough
to
be
tlie Boer war. It cost upward of £5,000,
opinion of the lad himself, whence hfs
dangerous.
and
Is In tlie shape of a stone water
feeling of superiority to the city bred
Ceylon exported over 172,(MM),000
For all his haste, ills British train ing trough, on the top of which is the
person.
pounds of tea last year, of which more
ing in the conventionalities stood him figure of a bronze cavalryman giving a
It appears that Caruso hurt tils than 13,000,000 pounds came to the
in good stead, and lie had provided drink to his horse.
of herself, one of the mementoes of himself with a letter of introduction
voice singing luto talking machines, United States.
Tlie State of North Carolina Is one
the summer and a modernized country to the British consul In Chicago. It of the most notable in tiie Union for
for which service he received large
In Germany second class railroad
lad who had utilized Ids camera for her was from ills uncle, a baronet. By co the production of gems, particularly
sums of money. He may have the cars differ from the first only in' the
pleasure. Then she wrote on a dainty incidence it happened that the consul diamonds, emeralds, rubles, aquamar
satisfaction in future years of sitting color of the upholstery, which Is gray
sheet of note pai»er:
down in front of a phonograph and Instead of red.
lmd known Ivy's father, then dead, so ines, beryls, hiddenite, rhodolite, ameth
"I wonder who you are, you who are the very unconventional trans-Atlantic ysts and remarkable rock crystals.
hearing just how good a voice lie had
Scratches on photographic negatives
once.
opening tills barrel of rosy-cheeked np- adventure of this very conventional These gems have been found mainly
can he repaired by painting them with
ples and finding this note ami this young English squire was greatly facil In the course of mining operations, al
Dr. Lyman Abbott defines "a good a solution of Canada balsam in tur
photograph of me jnTched up in the itated. lie called upon tlie widowed though a few systematic searches for
woman” by laying down eight rules of pentine or xylol.
branches of the old tree the apples mother of Ivy Chudlelgh, and with them have been made and two com
Over 100,000 trees are said to be de
life, one of which Is devoted to a decla
came from. Won't you please write quite un-Brltlsh impetuosity begged the panies nre now engaged exclusively In
ration against tight shoes. This re stroyed every year In the collection of
and tell mo who you are? I’m dying privilege of paying his addresses to her such work.
minds us of the ancient Transvaal con the bark from which is made the drug
of curiosity to know. Yours sincere daughter.
A British lieutenant in the Second
stitution which devoted one-fourteenth cascara sagrada.
ly.”
Like a young Lochinvar from the Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, who
Canada's Immigration during the last
sf Its entire length to a prohibition of
To tills missive she signed a fleti- East, instead of the West, he wooed was lately called "Leo Quintus Tolle-
unoklng In the court room.
ten months of last year was 48 per
1 tious name, giving the number of the her, and to such good intent and result mache-Tollemache de Orellana Planta
cent below that for the same period of
box In tlie village postoffice that she that tlie particular set in which viva genet Tollemache-Tollemache,” gave no
Striking Instance
Professor Albion Snell of the Uni the previous year.
had rented for her sojourn In the coun cious Miss Ivy lmd reigned as a belie tice a short time ago by means of ad
versity of Chicago Is quoted as saying
the Trivial Detail
Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, address
try.
She restitut'd the packing of the lost her from its functions, and before vertisement that lie has renounced the
that we are the most unhappy people ing the Royal Institution on Darwinism
That Often Shapes
%
barrel
site had left so suddenly, and it really had time to figure out what names of Quintus Tollemache-Tolle
sn the face of the earth for three rea recently, spoke of the enormous powers
Human Existence
A«-
when she was unobserved deftly pulled was going on the invitations to the mache Plantagenet Tollemache, nnd in
ions: Because we are the most pros of rapid Increase exhibited by both the
tlie enveliq»' from her belt and buried wedding were out.
tends henceforth upon nil occasions nnd
perous people; because we are the animal and vegetable kingdoms, which
Farmer Crane sent a barrel of ap at all times to sign and use and be
it among the rosy-cheeked fruit.
freest people, and because we are the have Insured the continuance of the
"Foreordination” savors too much of I The apples were shipped the very ples as a wedding gift. Mr. and Mrs. called and known by the name of Leo
Bost highly educated. And the presl- various types of existing life from the
heavy
topics.
next day. That was Oct. 5. On riding I'ole-Wrensfordsley are now making a de Orellana Tollemache only.
l*nt of the university might give one earliest geological ages In unbroken
“Luck.”
into town Nov. 20. she found in her tour of the world, for he is a well-to-
sther reason.
succession, while being an Important
Count von Zeppelin, the aeronaut,
When Ivy Chudlelgh. Chicago born,
factor in the production of new forms but of Australian parentage, found it mail box a letter addressed to the fic do young squire, and not a fortune was ixirn in 1838, and devoted what
Hard, fine grained, durable wood us by adaptation. A common weed, the
titious person whose name she had hunter. Eventually they plan to settle
sally grows slowly. A most remark Sisymbrium Sophia, produces three- necessary to go to a farm near Lin placed in the apple barrel. The en down on his ancestral estate In Surrey are for most men the best .years of Ilf*
Ible exception la the eucalyptus, and quarters of a million seeds, and these, denwood, Ill., to overcome the abnor velope bore a British stamp and tlie County, England, but one of their hy to military service. Retiring in 1880
mal efft'et of a too strenuous social ex (sistmark of a town in England.
this it is which gives the tree Its great
meneal agreements is that they will with the rank of general, lie turned
value as a means of reforestation. It if they all grew and multiplied, would istence on high strung nerves, she at
make
a .yearly pilgrimage to the shrine with a boyish enthusiasm to the pur
“
Archibald
I
’
ole-Wrensfordsley,
”
she
Is said that ft grows five times as rap in three years cover the whole land stir first took kindly to the idea. A few I read from the characteristically British of their love each year when the apple suit of Ills hobby, aerial navigation.
idly as any other tree. Seedlings have I face of the globe. Ihirwln calculated days on the farm of "Apple” Crane [ scrawl. Then she looked for the nd- trees at Lindenwood, III., nre laden To the solution of the problem which
had battled tlie Investigators of two cen
been observed to make an average that the slowest-breeding of all ani dispelled, however, the book-l»ought the I dress. ‘Waggoner’s Wells, Surrey, En- with crimson and golden fruit.
growth of six Inches In height a day; mals, the elephant, would In 750 years, ory that the simple life is Utopian. | gland,
turies he sacrificed his fortune, with
November
the
eleventh.
”
•nd one tree In California has attained from a single pair, produce 10,000,(MM) Miss Chudlelgh began to pine for the Well, If her apples had not gone to
little apparent progress toward tho
Hill loon 1 fi k Among the ('loads.
I height of one hundred and twenty Individuals Rabbits would, from a sin excitement of the electric-llghtcd l Australia they had at least fallen into
goal. Poverty spurred him to greater
It
has
lieen
my
lot
to
w-e
in
arctic
tv* feet and a diameter of thirty six gle pair, produce l.(MM),000 Individuals streets.
| English hands in the land from which regions some hundreds of thousands exertion. In 181)2 he made a success
Inches In nine years. The eucalyptus In four or five years, as they probably
The
means
Miss
Chudlelgh
adopted
! her ancestors had sprung.
of icebergs close at hand .and I have ful balloon Journey from Berne to Lu
will not thrive where there are frosts, have done In Australia, where they as a surcease of ennui was character
always believed them to be the most cerne, but his work was lightly esteem
Then
she
read
the
letter.
The
writer
have
become
"a
national
calamity.
”
but In the South ft promises to go a
istic
of
the
up-to-date
American,
born
admitted having found her funny little beautiful objects on earth, but the ed until 1900, when the surprising suo
So rapid has been the progress of
tong way toward filling the place once
and bred in a large city. First she ’ note and the presentment of her lovely clouds of the sky, close at hand, are cess of the first dirigible caused a gen
neronautics
In
the
past
year
that
even
•coupled by other hardwoods, which
uine sensation. Since that time his
asked and obtained permission from
bare been greatly reduced by demands the details of the management of fly Farmer Crane to assist In the packing self among the nj>ples he had pur almost as beautiful. If you mount progress has been easier.
above
one
of
these
majestic
things,
ing
machines
are
beginning
to
be
dis
chased.
He
was
deeply
interested
tn
for furniture, carriage and cooperage
As long ago as 1795 a Leipsic houst
cussed outside the circle of the fliers of apples in the vast orchard. Her both, he declared. The snapshot was swiftly overtopping one by one Its
Stock.
themselves. The aviator attract» the pink 111*, her city whitened cheeks and altogether too small. Would she please folds and wreaths, and If rememberir • published a German novel Illustrated
“Lucky” Baldwin, the spectacular kind of admiring attention that was her wondrous lingerie, made a vast Im send him a larger and more truthful how high ft is you look down nnd see by something closely resembling a
mining and racing man who died a formerly reserved for the daring chauf pression on tlie bluejeans-clad Hiid one? And Just ns an earnest of his only small green patches of earth Roentgen picture. The story tells of
few weeks ago. leaving a fortune of feur. Major George O. Squler points gingham-gowned y< utlis and maidens own good faith, here was one of him through holes in the cloud cnri>et be the Countess Abllllnln, who gave her
Some $2'0,000,000, also left hfs sobpf- out that the aerial highway of the at whose side she worked. Ivy speed self. He assured her that he would low, you have a little thrill of con heart to the knight Gibello. The knight
guet to mor* than one person who had nvlator differs from terrestrial roads ily became the pet of the apple-pick anxiously await her reply.
ceptlon of how lonely a man would ly lover was thoughtless enough to kill
served him in a professional capacity. because of Its manifold irregularities. er«.
Ivy sent the photograph, and told feel falling away down there and not I his lady love's father, her nffectlon
“Daddy Crane,” «lie said, one day. that she was not a farmer's daughter, being able to tu-e the spot where he, turned to hatred, she vowed to kill blrru
He did not carry the appellation that Without a moment’s thought, this state
cam* to him in his early days as a ment would seem exactly contrary to with attractive urban impudence, but an adventurous maid with a Chi must alight. It is a safe little thrill, In a dream she saw the man who had
plunger to the grave. It descended to the facts. But, ns Major Squler shows, “where do you subiese these apples cago education in matters of the heart. however. You know that you are not fascinated her, and she stood, ready to
lawyers and doctors and others who the air is really filled with “hump*, will go? Just think! Maybe some of She gave him likewise her real name going to fall, Sfltch dizziness ns some »lay him, when suddenly the form
may not have been heard from as yet. ridges, eddies and gust«,” which are so them will go to Australia, where my nnd her home address, and tried to con persons feel in standing near great changed, nnd before her stood a grin
If Baldwin was lucky, what shall be many obstruction« In the aviator's path, mother and father lived. I’erhaps sider tlie incident closed.
heights on the earth is almost unknown ' ning skeleton saying, "I have already
•aid about the lawyers who claim some and which ar* all the more troublesome •omo of the men nnd women who knew
But Squire Archibald Pole-Wrens- In ballooning.—Albert White Vorse in l»een punished.” This scene is illus
$000,000 of his «ealth, and of the doc because be cannot see them in advance. them when they were young, will eat fordsley of Waggoner's Wells, Surrey, Success Magazine.
trated In tlie old book, and the picture
tor who attended the <i*c*a**d during He must feel his road, since he cannot the apples their daughter is packing.” England, was of a different mind. He
Is not unlike a Roentgen photograph.
the last twenty nine day* of his life see It. ami therefore one of the most
In a few minutes she to"ed aside a wasted no mure time In unsatisfactory
A Grave Mlsapprrhenaioa.
When It was published no onp probably '
•nd baa put in a bill for an even $100,- important steps in the development of defective pippin and ran. singing, to correspondence. He forthwith packed
“Are your sons, Mrs. Cotneup, at would have believed that scion«’* with
OOO. doubling his original charge when fhe aeroplane will be the invention of the nearby farmhouse.
his properly British tings and boxes tending those college esoteric lectures?” . in a comparatively short time would
h* learned. |«sslbly, how the lawytfs some form of automatic' control, en-
Up in her gabled < lumber she turned and took the first nvnilnble vessel for
"No. sir ; my boys ain't attending tiny make It possible to pr-since th!« pic
bad measured their services? Luck 'abling the machine to correct th* In- her writing desk ii side out ,\t last * New York, hurrying from thence by th* kid of ‘sot’ lectures. They don't need ture. whbli tlie authors iniiiginatlo*
that result* from risk, such as eharuc iNjjallt!** of the aerial road.
she fuunj wh.it she want' ll, a saa^'wl*
eighteen Luur train to Chicago.
warning against the drink liabtV’-* Uzv«ut'X
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