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Castro finds bUDMlf reduced to tn*
grade of International nuisance.
Now the price of liberty is quoted
at the market rate of a sufficient sup­
ply of Dreadnoughts.
Nmperor William has had himself
photographed in an ordinary business
suit, which cost only >300.
This would be a beautiful, great and
glorious world if college professors
could only be made to think so.
In navigating the air, as in navigat­
ing the water, there is a whole lot in
the sort of landing that you make.
Russia has the cholera, which is a
little worse than having the grand
dukes with which that country has
been afflicted.
Women may not be saveges, as Pro­
fessor Starr insists, but did you ever
tell one of them that her baby didn’t
know anything?
The Persian shah says he has zeal­
ously worked for constitutional gov­
ernment all the time. How he has
dissembled his love, then!
The man who invented wireless
telegraphy accomplished a great deal
more than had he put in his time play­
ing checkers at the country store.
An English official in India has
killed 130 tigers, but don't be sorry
for the big cats. They kill several
times that number of human victims
•very year.
Baseball follows the American flag
One of the most recent Instances of
this curious phenomenon is the report
that Yankee sailors have Introduced
their national sport into Liberian
Monrovia.
Travelers who never have seen the
Salton sea will be Interested In know­
ing that it Is scheduled to disappear
by evaporation In 1925, and they
•hould not put off visiting it until It
la too late.
A young Brooklyn bride on her
home-coming Invited to the celebra­
tion six young men to whom she had
previously been engaged. They got
•ven with the bride by coming and
celebrating their narrow escape.
The abandoned farms of the East
will not remain abandoned. Many of
them can now be bought at $10 per
acre. Some of them have good houses
and barns When the wild West la all
bought up land buyers will start east­
ward.
It Is stated that the War Depart­
ment can find no warrant for dropping
Captain Peter Hains from the rolls.
If present regulations compel the car
rylng of a felon serving sentence for
manslaughter on the military list of
“officers and
gentlemen,” Congress
should be appealed to to provide a
remedy.
European art collections cannot es­
cape the Americans. The British news­
papers have lately been excited over
the danger of Holbein's portrait of
the Duchess of Milan might be bought
by an American and brought to this
country. It has been saved for Eng­
land by the generosity of the Ameri­
can wife of an English duke. So Amer­
ican gold gets the painting, but Eng-
lang keeps ft, and Is satisfied.
There were more young women this
year among the graduates of our uni­
versities, colleges, training schools and
high schools than ever before. Each
year the number, as compared with
that of male students in the Institu­
tions of advanced education, has
grown larger and larger, until now it
is said they constitute fully one-fourth.
It is not at all unlikely that before
many years have passed they will
make up onehalf, although such a
possibility was little dreamed of a
generation ago.
While the Dutch prince consort was
looking out of the window at his little
daughter, who was having an airing in
the palace garden at The Hague, he
•aw the sentinel at the garden gate
hesitate a moment as the sleeping
princess was wheeled toward him In
her carriage, then come to attention
and present arms in salute. It was
the first military salute the baby had
•ver received In her own presence The
father was delighted, and sent for the
•oldler, and gave him a bank note with
which to buy a souvenir of the occa­
sion. They are telling this In Holland
with full appreciation of the fathers
pride and of the mother's delight when
•he beard of it.
The biggest thing about an airship
is th« quantity of superheated air
that Inflates it, and much of the talk
of th« day about airships is of the
•am« stuff The mighty dirigible. In
vulnerable, lightning proof ami wind-
defiant, loaded with Its mortars and
paraphernalia for raining down death­
dealing bombs, is still a rainbow which
all the world can see. but may never
reach
Perhaps it will some day be­
come a practical means of transporta­
tion; without doubt It may be used as
a spy, a lookout to give noth e of the
approach of an enemy; doubtless as
well. It may be used as a messenger
I* aarry a few men fiom - amp to <a.up
•r frfim sMp
«her*. Fut ft ?• not
going t« accomplish all th« horrors
now being claimed for ft.
The w. nder of the hen grow« win.
contemplation
Here Is a creature,
not a native of the country, but an
immigrant at that, who is producing
more wealth than all the mines of the
country, and as much as all but the
first three or four of the great agri­
cultural staples. Yet how little she is
known and how little appreciated! We
laugh at her awkward walk and her
still more awkward run; at her per­
sistent habit of crossing the road in
front of a carriage, and then crossing
hack again; and her serlous-mlnded-
ness over what seem to us small con­
cerns has given a new descriptive
term to the language. But the United
States government does appreciate the
hen. It has produced many books
about her. the latest of which, just
issued, concerns the egg trade of the
country. There is much in the little
monograph that will prove useful both
to those who keep hens and to those
who eat eggs. In spite of the great
Increase In the poultry Industry dur­
ing the last quarter-century, the sup­
ply has not kept pace with the de­
mand, as is shown by the fact that
the price of eggs has been rising for
the past ten or twelve years. Fresh­
ness, the quality most desired In eggs.
Is. as thq Department of Agriculture
points out. not a definite term. Its only
real meaning must apply to the condi­
tion of the contents, and this may b«
better In one egg that has been prop­
erly kept for eight months than in an
other that Is only forty-eight hours
old and not properly kept. The meth­
ods of marketing eggs now tn use ar«
severely criticised as wasteful and in­
efficient, entailing unnecessary losses
to the producer and needlessly high
prices to the consumer. The elimina­
tion of the "country general store”
as the first market, the encouragement
of quality-buying. Instead of the pres­
ent case-count method, more prompt
collections by the farmer, better stor­
age by the farmer’s wife, and co-opera­
tion among the egg-raisers of a com­
munity are some of the changes rec­
ommended.
THE AGE OF ANNIE.
She Uni a Patient Girl Who Put In
Many Sticliea.
“It must be one of their chief citi­
zens.” said Elinor Weeks, as she stood
with her mother In the prow of the
steamer anchored at the dock, and
watched a long funeral procession file
slowly down the one business street of
the Island resort. "Every one in the
village seems to be going
"There’s that young fellow we had
to drive us about when we stopped
here last summer,” Mrs. Weeks an-
sw’ered. "I'm going to ask him.”
The young man on the dock below
heard the signal, and lifted a pair of
eyes red with weeping. Then, touch­
ing his cap respectfully, he left his
work and came on board.
"It's Annie Burdan,” he told them,
solemnly. “And we won't know how
to get along without Annie. She was
a dressmaker, you know, but that don't
tell it. If anybody was sick and need­
ed a nurse—Annie was there. If there
was a dance—it wasn't worth having
without Annie could come. Bhe was
the life of everything—just the life.”
He wiped his eyes.
"She must have been a sweet girl,"
said Mrs. Weeks, kindly.
“Annie was more than that, ma'am.
I can't express what she was. A little
mite of a body, and yet every house
on this island is empty to-day. Why,
Annie—ever since I can remember,
Annie's been going from house to
house, helping make the baby clothes,
and the wedding dresses—and the
shrouds. My mother was showing me
this morning the white dress I was
christened In and all the little tucks
and trimmings that Annie would put
In. She made it.” Hfs voice choked,
and again his eyes filled with tears.
"Your christening dress? 8he was
older than I thought, then. She wasn’t
a girl?”
He met the question in blank sur­
prise. "I never gave it a thought,"
he said, simply. "No; Annie couldn't
rightly be called a girl, I suppose. But
old—I can't say, ma'am. All is, no
matter what happened, Annie was al­
ways just the right age.”—Youth’r
Companion.
Th» Man Shopper.
The man who goes a-shopplng hasn’t
any chance at all—
He gets slammed against the counters
and gets smashed against the
wall;
In their element fair shoppers give him
jolts and elbow pecks
And in other ways apprise him they
are of the gentler sex;
The floorwalker's directions make his
head begin to swim
And the clerks are patronizing and su­
perior to him —
Oh, their glances, how they quell him,
Oh, the fairy tales they tell him.
Oh. the kind of Junk they sell him—
Yes. Indeed, his chance is slim.
—Kansas City Times.
Strange.
"We men down at the factory can't
understand it at all.”
“What?"
"The old man put fils son in charge
of one of the departments today, and
the young fellow really acts as though
he knows something"—Detroit Fr««
Pre».
Ill
< hltHgo,
“I want to get a collar suitable for
a dinner party.".
' This one is the correct thing, air.”
“It's too tight. I'd never be able t*
tuck a napkin in that!”—Youk«f»
St*4«»saan
Old Favorites
The
PAINTING'S APPEAL TO THE DILETTANT.
By Marcel Prevost.
Painting, I believe, is getting to be the
most tempting art for the dilettant, more
tempting even than music. There are more
painters than there are musicians, writers,
than everything else, almost. There are in­
finite numbers of them. The mo»t modest
banquet of painters reunites hundreds of
guests. At every exposition modern paint­
ings cover a large area of space. And what
does honor to these volunteers of art Is the fact that
no financial bait Induces the greater part of these paint
era to follow this vocation.
In justice to these dilettanti of the brush it must be
•aid that many of them do not pretend that they will
gain either glory or fortune by their paintings Less
presumptuous than poets, less chimerical than must
clans, many men of talent who hang up their pictures
in salons from time to time admit that they paint for
the pleasure of painting only.
The pleasure of painting Is complex. While giving
an occupation for the painter's fingers, painting Is not
exactly a thing to 6tlr the soul of the amateur. The
amateur is not required to undertake a number of com­
positions and to pick out the most difficult. A faithful
reproduction of a house at the edge of a stream, and the
amateur has gained the name of an artist. Painting
within the limits In which the dilettant exercises It Is
one of those arts where Invention and originality have
been greatly reduced. A successful copy of a picture
of a great master with them passes for a work of art.
The most mediocre painting has a thousand times more
of a chance to be seen than a literary masterpiece has
the chance to be read. It Is for these reasons that can
vas and brush stand in no danger of remaining Idle
But will art gain by It? That Is another question.
/
“OLD MAN” PROBLEM FOR YOUNG MAN.
By John A. Howland.
Young men. middle aged men and old men
have been Interested alike in the problem of
the "old man” !n business That specific com
plaint of the old man Is that he Is not want­
ed. Modern business admits the fact. But
young men and men in the prime of their
lives must grow old. What are the young
men and the men of middle age going to do
about It? It is not likely that in any near
future the methods of modern business will so change
that the old man, per se, will be more In demand than
he Is now. Economic philosophies are to the effect
that In general the man who has grown old ought to
have a competence upon which to retire. Cold, hard
facts that are Indisputable show how impossible this is
Probably in the vast majority of cases where earnest,
honest men have worked at a chosen work that old
age problem is met if, until the end, the worker is
privileged to work. To die in the harness Is by thou­
sands considered an ideal ending of an ideal life. Ac­
cumulated money and Idle ease have shortened thou­
sands of lives at the expense of contentment. For this
Fever,
A clinical thermometer Is probably
as matter-of-course a household con­
venience in most families as Is a step­
ladder or a broom; and It Is well that
its use and the general significance
of its disclosures should be under­
stood by those in authority; but fussi­
ness and constant resort to it and con­
tinual discussion of temperatures are
to be deplored.
The old-fashioned way of placing the
hand upon the child's body and an­
nouncing that it "felt feverish” or
“had a fever,” without any regard to
mathematical accuracy as to degrees
and fractions, worked just as well and
perhaps better than the new-fashioned
way, carried to a nervous extreme.
At the same time a rise of tempera­
ture always means something, and it
most decidedly means the calling In of
a physician if It does not go down of
Itself or yield to simple remedies.
When the temperature is taken by
the mouth the thermometer should
register about ninety-eight and seven­
tenths degrees, although this may vary
at different times during the day in
perfectly well people. When it reg­
isters ninety-nine degrees, or ninety-
nine and five-tenths degrees, the per­
son Is said to be feverish. Anything
below ninety-eight degrees Is subnor­
mal, and anything over one hundred
and five degrees Is called hyperpy­
rexia, or high fever.
In many cases a fever Is a sort
of blessing In disguise. These are the
fevers caused by the toxins of bac­
teria, of which typhoid Is a type. The
whole system Is then engaged In a
fight against the germs, and the battle
Is waged to more advantage, apparent­
ly, when "the blood is fighting hot."
This Is why, although the fever can
be beaten down by the application of
cold and the administration of drugs,
it Is often poor practice to suppress it
In this way. Getting the fever down
may be a momentary satisfaction, but
It does nothing to help cure the un­
derlying cause. It is as if a general
should insist upon silencing his own
guns.
At the same time the fever must be
watched and kept In check, because
this sort of fight Is calling for an im­
mense outlay from the system, and
a raging fever not only burns up bac­
teria, but it feeds upon tissue and
blood and all it can find, as any one
con testify who has watched or lived
•
tin ©ugh a cenvalew ea • fn>m one.
type of man ft Is a certainty that ability and oppor­
tunity to work until the end must satisfy What. then,
shall the young man choos«—if he can—promising him
that longest independent usefulness?
Every day in the great cities no keen observer is
needed to see thousands of young men risking their
whole future in actions that can be only ruinous to
them. Not all these actions are positive. The negative
stand may be as menacing in a hundred ways This
working capital is working capital, not idling, careless,
timeserving routine, with dissipation sandwiched be­
tween in the off hours from duty. But even work it­
self may be blind work. It may be honest work, with
only the next pay day In the mind of the worker Or it
may b« cleareyed, conscientious work that Involves a
future more than it contemplates the results of yester­
day or of last year.
“Am I a better worker than I was last year?" is the
specific question. "Why am I not better?" is the fur­
ther question which may need following up and forcing
a definite answer. Your working capital has been lm
paired if you are forced to answer this second query.
What has done the mischief? Your employer, making
such a discovery as to his working capital, probably
would employ an expert accountant firm to show him
the source of such damage. What are you going to do
about your own case?
MAN’S MIND PART OF UNIVERSAL MIND.
By E. E. Fournier d'Albe.
We are gradually and inevitably drawn to
the conclusion that mind Is everything and
matter but an expression of the universal
mind. A table, a house or a machine Is th«
embodiment of some human mind. A stone
Is the embodiment of some mind at present
Inaccessible to us, of some will at present
Inscrutable.
Of one thing we may be certain—no uni­
verse exists which is entirely unconnected with this of
ours. We know that the fruit of our slightest act goes
thuudering down the ages, that nothing Is ever effaced,
that everything is of Infinite and eternal consequence.
And If it leaves a permanent mark on the material
universe It will affect also all Invisible universes This
reflection may give a new zest to our present form of
existence. To pierce Into the Innermost recesses of
nature, to mold natural forces to our will, to make life
happy and glorious for ourselves and our kind, to as­
sert our supremacy over disease and death, to conquer
and rule this universe In virtue of the Infinite power
within us, such Is our task here and now.
The Individual is withdrawn towards that center of
sentient life where all souls are one with the great over
soul. What th!« future fate may be we need not now
inquire. Should it ever become necessary to enter upon
and pursue such Inquiry we may be sure that a full
acquaintance with the laws of our preBent visible uni­
verse will form the best preparation for It. And these
laws we shall apply with the greater confidence when
we know that they suffice to Interpret not only our own
universe, but the other worlds just discernible on th«
horizon of our present faculties.
What Is true of the fever of a germ
disease Is false altogether In the fever
of sunstroke. In this case the fever
Is the disease. It Is not a regiment
of Infantry, but a conflagration, and
It must be put out as quickly as pos­
sible, and by all the means at one's
disposal—cold baths, Ice-packs, ice­
water, anything that will beat It
down.
The character of a fever Is a great
1 assistance to diagnosis in many cases,
and this Is why a physician should
always be asked to sit in judgment
on It.
n»»lr»atrd
Water,
Some years ago the water In Phila­
delphia used to become unfit to bathe
In, let alone to drink, after even the
mildest kind of storm. Everybody com­
plained. says a writer In the Washing­
ton Star. One gentleman complained
to Peter Burness, an Incorrigible op­
timist. But he received little encour­
agement.
“Actually,” I said to Peter one
morning after a storm, "1 couldn't
take a bath to-day on account of the
muddy water. It was like brown
paste.”
"Oh, I took a good long bath,” said
Peter. "When the Schuylkill water is
like that it is the best thing in the
world to bathe in. So medicinal, you
know. Better than Homburg or Ma-
rlenbad or any of those places.”
"But it's so muddy,” says I.
"That's just the point," said Peter.
“It's medicinal mud, full of all sorts of
phosphates and things. To-night when
you get home fill your bath, Jump In
and splash about; but afterward don't
use any towels.”
"No towels?" I objected.
"There's a much better way than
towels,” said Peter. "Stand before the
radiator and let the water dry on your
body. Then brush It off with a whisk
broom.”
Th»
Kullng
BULL CHARGES AN AUTO.
Piatioa,
HIs clothes said he was a tramp,
but his brow was high and his man
ner grand. “Madam, may I request
the favor of a pair of your husband's
cast off trousers? These are some
what passe.” This, with a sweep of a
tattered hat, brought results In the
shape of a pair of hubby's oldest,
which were just about two degrees
better than those the tramp was wear­
ing. After a critical survey of hfs ac­
quisition. Instead of the polite words
of thanks the good woman was wait­
ing for. the tramp volunteered, with
a deep, longdrawn sigh of regret:
“Madam, I see your husband discards
from weakness."—Puck.
The Can«« of the Fend.
First Fair One—Let me see. Who
Is the oldest person In the Bible?
Second Fair One—You’re down In
your family Bible, aren’t you?—Brook­
lyn Citizen.
After all, is there any one in the
world more stupid than the man who
comes la at the wrong timet
An automobile running along the
turnpike near Mill City, Pa., was
charged and damaged by a plucky
Guernsey bull which had broken from
his pasture and was browsing by the
roadside. In the machine were Dis
trict Attorney O. Smith Kinner of
Wyoming County, James Dershelmer
of Tunkhannock, William Skinner of
Washington. N. J., and Leon I). Deck
er of Binghamton. N. Y. They saw
the bull, but never suspected its bel
ligerent Intentions. It watched the
motor car curiously as It approached
and when it was thirty or forty feet
away the bull bellowed, lowered Its
head and charged. The driver put on
the brakes, but the bull and the ma
chine met with a shock. The bull was
sent sprawling backward. He picked
himself up with a surprised air, limp
ed to one side and gave the car un
disputed right of way. The front of
the radiator was somewhat damaged
but the machine was not put out ol
commission.
Monkey and Goat.
Fatal
Wedding.
The wedding bells were ringing on a
moonlight winter’s night,
The church was decorated, all within
waa gay and bright;
A mother with her lab} came and saw
the lights aglow,
Sh« thought of how those same bells
chimed for her three years ago.
"I’d like to t>e admitted, sir,” she told
the sexton old,
“Just for the sake of baby, to protect
him from the cold.”
He told her that the wedding there was
for the righ and grand.
And with the eager, watching crowd,
outside she must stand.
Chorus—
While the wedding bells were ringing,
while the bride and groom were
there.
Marching down the nlsle together, as
the organ pealed an air—
Telling tales of fond affection, vowing
never more to part,
Just another fatal wedding, just anoth­
er broken heart.
She begged the sexton once again to
let her pass inside,
"For baby's sake you may step in,” the
gray-haired man replied.
"If any one knows reason why this
couple should not wed,
Speak now or hold your peace forever­
more," the preacher said.
“I must object." the woman said, with
voice so meek and mild.
“The bridegroom is my husband, and
this is our little child."
“What proof have you?” the preacher
asked. "My Infant,” she replied.
She raised her babe, then km lt to pray,
the little one had died.
Chorus—■
The parents of the bride then took th«
outcast by the arm,
"We’ll care for you through life," they
said, "you’ve saved our child
from harm.”
The outcast wife, the bride and par­
ents quickly drove away,
The husband died by his own hand be­
fore the break of day.
No wedding feast was spread that
night, two graves were made
next day—•
One for the little baby, and In one th«
father lay.
The story has been often told, by fire­
sides warm and bright,
Of bride and groom, of outcast, and
the fatal wedding night.
RECORDS OF OLD KASKASKIA
Oiliest nnd Most Authentic Docu­
menta Vow nt M. I.outs I nlvemlty.
The members of the Mississippi Val­
ley Historical Society visited the St.
Louis University en masse recently
and inspected the old historic trove,
of which the university has lately be­
come the custodian—a set of docu­
ments concerning the history of this
vicinity which are among the oldest
and most authentic records of the past
in America, the St. Louis Republic
says. They .are the Kaskaskia records
in which the first entry is dated 1695.
They continue, with but a few gaps,
down to the present time. Few rec­
ords in the east antedate these and
none in the west. They were begun
in Illinois, near Peoria, before some
of the thirteen original colonies were
planned.
The records have been a gold mine
to historians for years, but their rich­
es will never be exhausted. John Gil-
mary Shea came west to see them
thirty years ago; Edward G. Mason
wrote a minute description of them,
which is one of the publications of the
Chicago Historical Society.
Prof. C. W. Alvord, piesident of the
Mississippi Valley Historical Associa­
tion, wrote of them in a work which
has just been published by the United
States government. At the time he
wrote he could not locate them. They
were then at Fort Gage; but the bish­
op of Belleville, in older to better pre­
serve them, has placed them in the
archives of the St. Louis University.
They are kept in a great iron, fire­
proof. combination safe.
The records are those of the bap­
tisms, marriages and burials of the
people of old Kaskaskia, near Peoria;
and of the later Kaskaskia, sixty miles
down the river from St. Louis.
IlridKe llnlhler'a Cureer.
Anybody standing on the Brooklyn
bridge and looking northward up the
East River will see three striking ex­
amples of the genius and ability of
Gustavus Lindenthal, who, a matter
of thirty years ago, was a mason and
carpenter doing journeyman's work in
Philadelphia, the Bookkeeper says.
The three examples of his later de­
velopment are the Manhattan bridge,
which Is nearing completion and is
about 1,500 feet north of the Brooklyn
bridge; the Williamsburg bridge, and,
finally, the enormous Queensborough
bridge, that was opened to traffic re­
cently. But this is not all. Far to
the north of these three huge spans
between Manhattan and Long Island
there is another creation of Mr. Lin-
denthal's brain—the Hell Gate bridge,
designed to carry the heaviest loads
of any bridge in the world, connect­
ing the mainland lines of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail­
road with the Long Island Railroad,
and thus, by way of the tubes under
the North River, bringing about a
direct rail route from New England
into the west.
Monkeys are more renowned for
mischief than for kindness, but even
monkeys can be benevolent M. Mou­
ton records the doings of one In Guade­
loupe that surely seemed to merit that
reputation. The monkey had a friend
In a goat that went dally to the pas­
ture. Every night the monkey would
pick out the burs and thorns, some­
times to the number of 2,000 or 3.000,
from that goat’s fleece, In order that
the animal might lie down In peace.
On coming In from the pasture the
goat regularly went In search of his
light handed friend and submitted
himself to the operation. Strange to
say, the tricky Instincts of the mon
key reasserted themselves after the
pricks were removed. He would tease
th« poor goat unmercifully, plucking
his beard, poking him in the eyes and
pulling out his hairs. The goat bore
it all with patience, perhaps regarding
Ilreakln* It Gently.
It as only a fair price to be paid for
Jack
—
Perhaps you don’t like my
the removal of the thorns.—London
style of dancing.
Standard.
Orme (In distress)—Well, there Is
No man ever fell in love with a rather too much sameness about It.
suffragist; when you find a man mar-
Jack—Er—how may I vary it?
rled to a suffragist, he fell in lov*
Orme—Suppose you tread on my left
• life h«r before she became on«.
toot once in a while.