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Kidnaper Boyle gets off with a life
sentence He ought to be exceedingly
grateful.
Every time the public succeeds in
forgetting May Yohe she up and gets
married again.
Probably some day an inventive gen
tus will patent a scheme for putting
cow catchers on tornadoes.
Our idea of a true philosopher Is a
man who Is able to explain away his
faults to the satisfaction of himself
When a woman says that all men are
brutes, you can make up your mind
that she isn’t having her own way
with one of ’em.
If the young Turks have any respect
for old age, they will not Insist that
the sultan jump through a hoop for
•he amusement of the people.
One of the Standard Oil lawyers
argues that the concern is not a trust.
He must think there is a prejudice
against trusts in this country.
Being only a human, the weather
man cannot always be expected to
guess it right, although he has been
known to hit it twice In succession.
Elinor Glyn thinks the American
are too good. The American men
should say something complimentary
»0 Elinor Glyn in return, if they can.
King Edward recently appeared in
public with his trousers creased at the
sides. Emperor William can attract
attention without going as far as that.
Historian Ferrero, who found life
comparatively simple In this country,
visited us when there was neither a
moving campaign nor a baseball sea
son on.
One of the members of the new Turk
Ish cabinet is Madmoud Ekrem Bey,
minister of pious foundations. They
must be determined to have this mln
Istry established on rock bottom.
government regulation of any descrip I
tion will avail but’iittle until father«,
over provident, become wiser in their
|
i’ion and see to It that their
heirs are worthy of receiving the for
tunes for which they themselves have
to’.b-d
Although in many Stales deaf mute,
and the blind receive special training
to enable them to earn a livelihood,
others of the handicapped, such as
cripples, are not so provided for, and
must frequently beg or go to the work-
house or starve. But a hundred crip
pies were eared for last year by the
Employment Bureau for the Handl
capped, a branch of the New Yorf
Charity Organization Society, which
although nut organized until April, re
ceived about thirteen hundred applies
tio'is for employment, and foun>
pla-es for more than half the appli
cants. Some corporations and businea
houses refuse to employ the physically
defective, on the ground that they ar
peculiarly liable to accident and in
jury; and a careful canvass fa neces
sary to find positions which they can
fill. But there are such [ 1 ices. There
Is no reason why a one-armed man
should not be a faithful watchman, or
why a legless man should not be vil
liable at a factory bench, or why n
lame woman should not earn her board
and a little more by doing light house
work. Although as a rule they receive
small wages, it is surely better for
them ami for the community that they
should be usefully employed and self
supporting. In Chicago, as well as In
New York, and it may be in other
cities, the special problem which these
unfortunates present has been taken
up for solution, and already with ex
cellent results. But philanthropists
now raise* the point, and with good
reason, that there is no community,
large or small, in which a helpful mis
sion to the handicapped cannot be car
rled forward. A church guild could un
dertake it; a charitable association
which is organized on reasonably
broad lines might branch in this direc
tion; even an individual could accom
plish much. The need is so imperative
that, once it Is clearly stated, money
and service will be forthcoming, and
many an employer will be glad to find
places for the handicapped men, wh'i
tftk nothing but honest work.
A St. bonis wife has left her hus
band and applied for a divorce because
she couldn't eat the heavy, sour bis
cuits he baked. It serves him right.
No man who is a poor cook has any
business marrying.
The fool killer Is still on the job.
A Winchester, Va., man drank a quart
of whisky within fifteen minutes and
died a few hours later. The f. k. may
overlook a few occasionally, but the
number is comparatively small.
Owing to the fact that a Dread
nought might be constructed with the
money it would cost to communicate
with Mars, it is not likely that Eng
land will inaugurate any movement
for the purpose of getting on speaking
terms with our stellar neighbors.
Recent Improvements in the mechan
ism for aiming big guns make it pos
sible for an officer In an observation
tower to have complete control of the
battery of a warship. The disappear
ance of the man behind the gun will
result In a hardship for the poets when
the next big war comes on.
For the first time since the British
began to rule India a native has been
appointed as one of the council of
six members who. with the viceroy,
form the supreme government of the
country. This native is a noted Hindu
lawyer.
The Hindus are naturally
pleased, but the Mohammedans demand
that they be recognized In a similar
way.
Every farmer must decide for him
■elf whether he will specialize or raise
■ variety of things. One successful
specialist within reach of the markets
of New York City raises nothing but
celery. To enlarge his sales, he has
prepared a little book containing reel
pes for about thirty different ways of
using celery, and he gives it away to
his customers. It Is this sort of com
bfnatlon of specialization and advertls
Ing that brings success In any bus!
ness.
Want of occupation will ruin rhe
most promising of young men. When
a youth sits down in Idleness, with
the idea that the world owes him a
living. It’s high time that his body
was committed to the dust from
whence it came. As for his soul, noth '
Ing will ever be known of It. A rec
ord of the young men who have been
unfortunate enough to have a fortune
left them shows that eight in ten
never amount to a single atom In the
world, and seven out of the eight die
bankrupts, financially, morally and
otherwise
When a father brings up
his son In idleness never teaching hint
the first principle of economy or the
value of a dollar, he commits a terri
ble blunder. The father guilty of such
a crime generally has to saw- wood for
a living In his old age Nine out of
ten of the boys with fathers who bring
them up In Idle luxury, ere they reach
the meridian of life are total wrecks.
Money bags tnay, like bladders, keep
you above the waters of distress for a
time, but puncture them, let their con
tents escape, and you sink. Many
plans have been suggested for the rem
•dy fo the evil of unearned fortunes.
Hut siXliUlsiu, inheritance taxes, or
for
the
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects
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WHO OWNS THE AIR?
ERE is a vexed question which must one
of these days be decided by our law-
makers. Houses, barns and human beings
require space. Therefore, we own some
air. Yet a landholder would simply be
ridiculous if he laid claim to the rainfall
from a cloud directly above his property
driven by the wind onto the grounds of his neighbor.
Therefore there is evidently a limit to the distance
above ground which may reasonably be fixed as owned
by the land. Since law usually defines property as any
thing which one is able to defend, atmospheric tenure
is somewhat hazy. But aerograms invade the air In
every direction. In a few years airships will dash at
tremendous speed over land and sea. How shall we
regulate all this?
Every navigable river and lake and sea is strewn with
discarded glassware, yet no mermaid has complained
of a scalp wound, but what is going to happen when a
care-free airshipmite on an aerial spree begins to dot
the landscape with bottles? How close to earth will
airships be permitted to travel without trespass? What
damages shall be fixed for destroying steeples and chim
neys? Where may sky-sailors descend without trespass
ing? Will conflicting wireless systems render it neces*
sary to restrict the use of air? May not the qualities
of air be changed by surcharge of electricity? These
are only a few points to be decided by legislation, but
even they sufficiently indicate that a serious question is
hidden in the problem of who owns the air.—Chicago
Journal.
THE PHYSICIAN AND THE PRESS.
N recent medical conferences the need of
closer relations between the medical pro
fession and the general public formed one
of the leading topics for discussion. The
consensus of opinion now is that the era
of mystery is past and that the physician
should be the public’s guide, counselor and
friend. Medicine to-day is largely preventive, and the
war on contagious diseases is a campaign for education,
cleanliness, registration and wide observance of reason
able rules of right living.
This recognition of the need and value of publicity
not unnaturally leads to a reconsideration of the
"ticklish” question of what is indiscriminately called
"advertising.” The old fashioned idea Is that all forms
of advertsing are prohibited by medical ethics, and
that the physician who difectly appeals to the public
writes himself down as a "commercial" practitioner of
low ideals. A candid treatment of the subject, such as
Is found in the address of Dr. Pettit, president of the
Illinois State Medical Society, at the Quincy meeting of
that body, shows that the old socalled ethical prin
ciples are honored In the breach rather than in the ob-
servance. There are many Indirect forms of advertis
ing which the profession tolerates and which are really
objectionable on the score of good taste. There are
forms of direct, honest, truthful advertising which are
irrationally tabooed. Common sense. In these days of
publicity and the all-powerful popular newspaper, can
not but insist on a thorough study of the ethics of ad
vertising and on proper distinction between the legitl
mate use of the press the dissemination of beneficial
Information and the abuse of publicity through fraud,
exaggeration and flamboyant sensationalism. There 1
evidence that the progressive men of the medical pro
fession are clearing their minds of prejudice and cant,
and that the relations between the public and the phy
sicians are undergoing a significant change.—Chicago
Record-Herald.
COST OF LIVING IN EUROPE.
OVERNMENT8 nowadays conduct sociolog
ical investigations. The British govern
ment has just published in three immense
•volumes its inquiry into the cost of living
as it affects the workingman in forty dif
ferent English, French and German cities.
An epitome of these volumes is presented
in the following figures and facts: Wages in France
are 25 per cent lower, and in Germany 17 per cent lower
than in England. The hours of work in France are 17
per cent longer than in England and in Germany 10 per
cent longer. The French workingman pays in rent or
for lodgings 2 per cent less than the English working
man, while the German pays 23 per cent more than his
English brother But if the English workman were to
live in France on the same footing, buying the same
supplies in the same quantities, his expenses would
crease 18 per cent, as they also would in Germany.
From these generalizations each man may figure
cording to his inclination whether he would rather
a German, French or English workman.—Minneapolis
Tribune.
GEORGE MEREDITH.
Bnfflltih
llrnder«
I li r«»i>u h«»u t
Mourn Drath of Xovrllat.
George Meredith English poet *«4
novelist, who passed aw r. recently ft»
his unpretentious cottage In Box Hill,
Surrey, has endeared himself to En
glish readers throughout the world for
many years. He was born in Hamp
shire. Eng . Feb 12. 1828, and was left
an orphan early in life. Until the
age of 15 he was educated in Germany,
and before he was 23 years old he had
published poems and a novel. He de
voted himself to writing. "The Ordeal
jf Richard Feverel,” which was pub
lished In 1859, was received with great
praise and has been widely read since
then.
His early life In London was an
unceasing struggle against poverty.
and he was hampered at the outset of
his literary career with pecuniary dif
ficulties.
Mr Meredith possessed in a marked
degree the three grand qualities which
are essential to the making of the nov
elist analytical power, narrative ca
pacity and humor.
A notable feature of the genius of
Meredith was his power of under-
standing women
There Is hardly a
more lovable woman in any fiction
than Diana Merlon; then In "The Ad-
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WHAT FASHIONS DO FOR WOMEN.
AN laughs at the utterly servile way
which all women at the same time put
large hats or small hats, loose gowns
tight gowns, at the decree of fashion,
that unseen god women have raised
altars of felt, velvet and feathers, of straw,
flowers and fruit, higher than Aga
memnon’s hecatombs. In his name they have endured
pain greater than hierodule or howling Dervish ever
inflicted on himself with knife and torch, But at least
it should be recognized that this fashion is a god, the
god of democracy. By imposing the same gown, of the
same hue, cut in the same way, upon a thousand wom
en, the unattractive woman is saved from the peril of
being conspicuous.—New York Post.
ventures of Hatty Richmond’ we meet
with that exquisite creation Princess
Ottilia, and in "Emilia in England,”
with Emilia herself, the wild child of
nature.
Mr. Meredith was a serious humor
ist. His books ate replete with quaint
drolleries, but his fun was the out
come of his cynical way of looking at
human nature. “Life," he says in "The
Ordeal of Richard Feverel," "is a su
preme procession with ironic laughter
of gods in the background.”
The laughter Is not all that of the
gods, for George Meredith laughed, too,
though there was a spice of sadness
in his laughter, as one of who had
looked out upon the world and had
found little there to cheer him. Nay,
Meredith’s humor suggested that he
made haste to laugh lest lie should
weep, and at best his laughter was
charged with bitterness.
Mr. Meredith married twice. His
first wife was a daughter of Thomas
Love Peacock, an English humorist, to
whom he dedicated eno of bls first
books. After twelve years bls wife
died, leaving him one son, and Mr.
Meredith married again and settled
down at Box Hill, Surrey. His second
wife died Sept. 17, 1885, leaving a eon
and a daughter.
Of late years he lived quietly at
Box Hill. He kept himself in almost
complete seclusion, seeking recreation
mainly In long country walks. He
was regarded as the dean of English
men of letters, and received from the
King the Order of Meritt. On his 80th
birthday, Feb. 21. last year, he was
honored by the leading literary men of
Great Britain with an address of con
gratulation. His American admirers
also sent their greetings, drawn up by
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, and signed
by such men as Mark Twain, Henry
James. Richard Watson Gilder, George
W Cable and William Dean Howells.
business engagements and came right people, we shall be as civilized as any
Dr. Haig, of London, wjio has attain
over here to talk to you. I don’t care other so-called Christian nation. As
ed eminence In the treatment of cer
whether I sell a carload of china to the yet, however, the state to the imagina
tain diseases, .came to his theory of
hotel or not—so long as I keep you tion of the people of Japan Is greater
the uric-acid causation of many cases
away from that Harry fellow you were than all the gods, The glorification of
of
so-cdlled
neuralgia, rheumatic
talking about. Take it from me, you the state Is the Mecca of all our
pains, gouty tw-inges and headache as
don’t want to make any break like dreams. We take very seriously all
a result of oliservation on himself.
that. You want a man of experience, matters connected with the state; so
During his student and early profes
seriously, Indeed, that we have no
like me.”
"Don’t you ever get tired of stand
sional days he suffered horribly from
the experl- sense of humor about them, That is
"Leave
it
to
you
to
have
periodical headaches, losing an aver Ing behind that case All day?” asked ence!” retorted the pretty clgar girl. the reason why we caricature all of
age of one or two days out of every the crockery drummer when the pretty "Anyhow, where did you get the idea our eight million gods In the pleasant-
week In consequence thereof. He ex girl at the cigar counter had dumped that I wanted to get married? Noth est of moods in the world, but would
on the little rubber
perimented with all sorts of drugs and his change down
ing like that for mine! I wouldn’t not for a moment permit any one to
modes of living, and finally discovered mat.
give
up my Independence and my little caricature his majesty the emperor.
"Oh, yes, I get tired,” said the girl,
This also Is the reason why we have
that the less meat he ate the less
job here for the best man living.”
standing behind the
no graft in our government finance.
headache he had. and he found further "but it isn’t the !
“
Well,
you
leave
me
out
when
you
case that does it. It’s the questions
that the occurrence of headache was
go as far as that," said the drummer, And that saves a lot of money for our
some people ask me."
marked by a simultaneous excretion
sadly, "but I can’t see why a good country.
“I didn’t think you’d take a shot at
of a large amount of uric acid.
looking girl like you wastes her sweet
me like that!” protested the crockery
GLOVES MUST FIT EASILY.
From these two facts he concluded drummer, setting his elbows on the ness on the lobby air. You ought to
that the headache was due to the pres
have a nice little home of your own One Fn«hlon That Mill He Fount«
cigar case and taking a sidelong glance
somewhere, with roses climbing all
ence of uric acid in the blood, and
Never to ( hanire.
toward the desk to see If the hotel
that the presence of uric acid in the clerk was observing his conquest, I over the front of it and a garden seat
Fashions in gloves come and, go, but
blood was due to meat-eating. From "Why, I’ve been figuring that you’d for you and me to loll in when I’m in no matter what their length, if gloves
this beginning was developed a com throw a fit when I told you I’ve got town. Or else a snug little flat," he do not fit easily, the hands appear
went on, "where I could have a few of short and clumsy. The fingers of the
plete system of dietetics, having for to go to Milwaukee this evening.”
the boys up for a little poker gatjie ! glove should be quite as long as the
Its object the exclusion of all urlc-aeid-
"Don’t you ever make any bets about
contalning foods, since, If uric acid Is me throwing any fits over one of you once In a while and you could fix up fingers of the hand.
really the cause of these troubles, no drummers! ” sniffed the pretty cigar the lunch for us and take care of the
Besides, tight gloves do not last,
Doesn't that listen good to which is an economical consideration,
permanent relief can be expected so girl. "Why, there’s a waiting list of rake-off
long as fresh quantities of the offend ’em. as long as your arm over there at you, Mabel?"
Refined and cultured women nev
"You ought to hire somebody to er wear gloves too small for them, and
ing poison are thrown into the system the desk.”
wake you up when you get one of these many Insist on a glove large enough
every day.
"That shows how popular you are,"
Man Is naturally a frult-and-vege- said the traveling salesman. "Every spells.” said the cigar girl. "Besides, to wrinkle, which may be taken off
table-eatlng animal, he believes, and time I head for Chicago I'm scared to you’ve been here for ten minutes and or put on in an instant, Kid gloves
must return to his original diet as the death because you're likely to have I’ve rung up only a stingy little dime wear much longer when they are prop-
only means to his sanitary salvation. been grabbed off by some wise trav In all that time. The manager’s got erly put on the first time. "It Is quite
In other w-ords. Dr. Haig is a vegeta eling gazlmbo w-lth a cruel black mus his eye on you. Now he’s coming this a science,” said a charming woman,
way.”—Chicago Daily News.
rian. but a peculiar kind of one. for he tache and heavenly eyes."
“The hand should be perfectly clean,
does not allow all vegetable foods by
dry and cool, Never put on gloves
“Say, you ought to be writing novels
GREATEST ASSET OF JAPAN.
any means.
when the hands are moist or
Instead of trying to sell crockery!"
Beans, peas and other pulses are for said the pretty cigar girl. "When I’m
warm."
bidden, since their protein Is readily ready to get married I’m not going to I’copl«- Patriotic E iioiik I i to Give I p
First push in the four fingers, leav
Thirty Per Cent of Incomes.
convertible into uric acid, and espe fall for any traveling man. Believe
But the basic answer to the ques ing the thumb out and the rest of the
cially does he eschew tea and coffee, me, I 1 ’ve seen too much of ’em around
tion, "How does Japan manage to pay glove turned back over the hand,
their alkalofdal ingredient, caffeine, this hotel.”
her bills?" can hardly be found In the When the fingers are on, thanks to the
being practically the same chemically
"I suppose not,” sighed the crockery statistical table of her financial an- gentle movements of the other hand,
as uric acid.
man. "There’s no such luck in my line nual. The greatest asset of our em- draw on the thumb with great care,
The diet of one who would avoid be as to coax you out from behind that pire is sentimental, says Adachl Kin placing the elbow on the knee. After
coming a subject of the uric-acid dia cigar case and •aid you up In front nosuke in the American Review of Re- this draw back the wrist of the
thesis, or who would emancl|>ate him of a preacher. I’ve been thinking of views That our western friends may glove and button the second button,
self from the pains of the already ex It, though.”
see this fact dearly, permit me to continuing thia all the way up. Then
isting condition, must therefore con
"You hand out that line of talk to put ft in the following manner: Let return to the first button, and you will
Dusty-Khod’ > Is taking .
sist almost entirely of breadstuff and every cigar counter girl on your the government of the United States see how easily it fastens without
cereals, puddings, fresh and dried ! route." said the pretty cigar girl "Do go to Mr Srnlth in Chicago and Mr. cracking the kid, which often happens much needed recreation at Indian
fruits, nuts and the milk products. you suppose I'd want a husband that Brown in Wall street and say to them: if buttoned first, Besides this the but-I Lake.
Water is the only beverage allowed | was home only once in two or three "You are receiving $100.000 a year In tonhole will not be stretched, which
Quite < lenn.
It is a meager diet, and must be more 1 weeks and was flying around the coun come and we want you to give to the is of great importance if one wishes
Manager You sa; this is a play of
or less monotonous; and moreover, It - try all the time, like you? I should support of the government In one form the glove to look well as long as it the slums. Is it a clean play?
is not always efficacious In curing pe say not! When I take the fatal step or another $30,000 a year of your in- lasts. Never pull gloves off by the fin
Author—It couldn't be cleaner. The
riodical headaches and other supposed I’m going to get Hove-lxivlng Harry, come." Let the German government ger tips, but by the wrists. They will hero Is a white wings an 1 the heroine
manifestations of the uric acid diathe the domestic delight."
or the British go to their people and thus be turned wrong side out, and is a washerwoman. -Baltimore Amerl-
sis. An occasional course of it, and a
"Where are you going to And him?" sav the same thing. What would hap the moisture communicated from the
habitual more or less close approach ' demanded the traveling
salesman, pen? A first-class revolution on the hand be quickly evaporated. When
to It are. no doubt, of great benefit to opening another box of c< rk tips "Not spot.
they are dry, put them carefully away
the general health, but one must not fluttering around this h, t»| lobby!
Otherwise they
The people of Japan are performing In a proper place.
forget that many of the Ills credited to You'll make the mistake of your Ilf“, the financial miracle of giving up will shrink, split easily, and beanie
uric acid may be a direct result of eye Mabel, If you tie up to one of those about 30 per cent of their net Income useless.
strain. to be relieved more by glasses mamma boys that's afraid when the every day. without saving a word
Even In the f:< <■ <>f the kind of hats
Tonrhlng,
than by diet.
about it In other words, the greatest
electric lights are turned c.n "
they are weiring tills spring, there are
"Have yon beard the latest senti .«■mo women wb <• i ,,i they haven’t
"Ma’ el!” echoed the pretty cigar asset of the Japanese empire of to-
We suppose "Peach" Is the accepted g rl
Who cave < i a 1 -n-o to < .ill Pay is the paliiptistn Of h.er people mental ballad?"
their "rights."
nickname for girls these days beenpse
v< Ilin twenty five years, perhaps, at . ".No What’s its title?”
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their mothers bring them up In fear
" ’Father Raising Vegetables to Put
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tig fl;* man fh< rate
* conquest weeter* com*
and trembling that a frost’ may get
lili tn jirtJ.the dextrine ®f tcjl on Mother’s Hat.’"• Birmingham Age-
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