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The next man who bring* In th«
VO1« will find a congested market.
The course from the pole to the lec
ture platform Is well charted, anyhow
His wife being away on a visit, King
Alfonso has grown a set of whiskers.
Many a baseball game is lost on ac
count of the superior playing of the
other side.
Some newspapers spell it "Eski
mau,” and others "Esquimo.” Try to
get together, brethren.
You may observe that whether or
not you accept the excuse for an ln-
crease in the price of a necessity the
Increase sticks.
Everything looks favorable for a
good crop next year. Would that we
could say as much for early Christ
mas shopping!
In New Guinea, as the London
Chronicle reminds us, the women pro-
pose. And to anybody who has see U
them the reason Is clear.
There Is comfort and joy In the
thought that we are to have a good
apple yield this year. Otherwise we
might have to eat Ben Davises.
By this time next year, people will
frequent the housetops and take their
evening, recreation by watching aero
nauts trying to hog the aerial lanes.
Fortunately for their records, neith
er explorer flshed through a hole in
the ice at the Pole and caught a good
«trlng, while the biggest one got away.
Funny to hear those aviators kick
ing about the condition of the aviation
grounds, isn't it? You'd think that all
they’d want would be a large bunch of
nice smooth air.
When Peary and his party reached
the Pole the Eskimos cried out:
“Ting neigh, tlmah ketlsher.” Thl*
must have been disappointing to those
who expected them to yell, “Excelsior.”
•
Eskimo wives and mothers, it is
•aid, never suffer from the ailments
that afflict the matrons of a higher civ
ilization. But it is no more than fair
that there should be some compensa
tion for being an Eskimo wife.
San Francisco is getting ready to
celebrate the discovery of San Fran
cisco Bay. For the benefit of those
who have forgotten, it may be men
tioned that San Francisco Bay was dis
covered by Gaspar de Portola, who
doesn’t seem to have had a single Es
kimo in his party.
A test case Is to be made In the
New York courts as to what criminal
Statute Is violated by the offense
technically known as “talking back”
to the police, and whether arrest and
punishment in the matter are justified
by the law.
The question of Illegal
arrest is really a serious one, as the
whole matter of personal liberty, upon
which the principles of this govern
ment are founded, is involved.
The word "lobbyist” has generally
been used, with good reason, as a term
ef reproach, yet it is well to remember
that one may have commendable rea
eons for approaching legislators and
trying to Influence their deeds. In
Washington, during the last session of
Congress, a woman was spoken of
as "one of the most aggressive lobby
ists ever seen at the Capital.” She
was acting, however, merely as the
representative of California club
women, and her mission, happily suc
cessful, was to help Insure the preser
ration of the giant redwoods, which
are one of the glories of the state.
Meat has been officially introduced
as a part of the Japanese army diet,
and, as a result, the Japanese board
of agriculture has sent a commission
abroad to Investigate and take steps
for Introducing the breeding of cattle
in Japan. One reason for the change
of diet is to avert a repetition of the
•courge of beriberi which sapped the
strength of the army during the Rus
elan war, and was said to have been
due to the rice diet, and another pur
pose is to add to the stature of the
race by a general Introduction of meat
eating Here in the Occident there is
an increasing conviction that the meat
diet has its penalties as well as its
benefits.
A recent visitor to one of the larg
•st of American cities stated that it
was not the subways nor the tall
buildings that impressed him so much,
as the great number of prosperous,
well kept, good looking old men. “They
are.” he said, “seen on the streets by
the thousand, carefully dressed, lei
surely in movement, yet apparently
actively concerned with affairs. It Is
a stronger Indication to me of the ac
cumulated wealth, of the established
•uc< ess of the city, than anything else
I have seen.” These old men are splen
did specimens The game of life in
terests them and they have the good
«•nse to keep actively employed in It
rather than to confine themselves to
Utah homes or to eat their heart« out
r
te their »•* fna
•«’! «
of Emerson that h« “b a that privi
lege of sou) which aboli 1. s
-«leu
dar and presents him to us always the
unwasted contempora! y of hte own
prln.s" Whitman Lrr-aw for Am«r
I a a IM " '
' nd »oi «•> • “K® «M
men ” We at-
to hear
“the hurry of business life” decried
•nd American ideals of life unfavor
ably contrasted with European. But
the results In many rases are not so
bad, after all
Look at our splendid
and effective old men.
Thus goes the old familiar song.
"How dear to my heart are the scenes
of my childhood.” On second thought,
however, one may Interpose an excep
tion or two. Let the memory go ba^k
to the “parlor.” In the re-olle-tlons
of childhood It does not figure as one
of the popular home Institutions.
There was something sacrosanct about
it that did not appeal to boys at least,
and the girls didn’t seem to give It
much appreciation until Horace and
Arthur accumulated sufficient courage
to Inaugurate the custom of calling
around on Sunday afternoons, sitting
on those frail and artistic Louis XIV.
chairs and assuming the joyful expres
sion of slaves on the block while pass
ing stereotyped compliments upon pho
tographs In the family album, many
of which pictured numerous freaks of
the genealogical tree. Ed Howe, In
his Atchison Globe, quoting an archi
tectural authority, says that the Amer
ican parlor, as as institution of the
home, or adjacent thereto, Is passing,
adding: “That word ‘adjacent’ is used
advisedly, and with a distinct recollec
tion of some parlors all have seen. In
the house they were, of course, but
they were far enough from the home;
perhaps adjacent Is a little too close,
since they remained a dungeon except
on grand occasions like funerals, or
weddings, or entertaining the presld-
Ing elder, So the parlor’s doom will
leave no aching void, It was sonie-
thing In the void Itself, when most of
an Institution; devoid at least of com
fort or cheer, of sunshine or fresh air.
And the chairs ranged about In such
excellent order, added to the somber
light that filtered through shades and
shutter which strove to shut It out,
made of It a nice, grim death cham
ber, which purpose It served frequent
ly, and better than the others, being
better suited to the purpose.”
AN ARBOR-DAY IDYL.
Every human activity may be con
sidered from the esthetic as well as
the practical point of view. No espe
cial powers of discrimination are need
ed to enable the reader of this extract
from the Chicago Ledger to determine
where to place each of the two men
whose conversation is reported,
The man wth the benignant counte
nance framed in side-whiskers came to
a stop and spoke genially to the stur
dy fellow who was planting the tree
on the lawn.
"Ah,” he said, “yours, my friend, is
R noble task.”
"How lss It?” Inquired the husky In
dividual.
"Yours Is a noble task. Now, when
all nature la sear and disconsolate,
you are looking forward to the coming
season of sunshine and flowers, and
are doing what you may to beautify
and gladden the earth.”
“It dake a vagon-load of r-rlch eart'
for de hole vare diss dree go.”
"Yes. yes. *Jnst so. I was speaking
metaphorically, so to speak. I was re
ferring to the time when this umbra
geous verdure should------”
“Diss Isn't dot kind of a dree, Diss
las a moundain-ash."
"Very true. And a beautiful species
It Is, I have no doubt. How splendid
It Is to realize that one may be a hum
ble Instrument In the furtherance of
the plans for making glad the waste
places!
In years to come you will
journey, perchance, to this spot and
gaze upon the towering monarch of the
forest which shall arise from the
shrub you are planting, and to your
soul will come the cheering knowledge
that ft was your hands that made it
possible. Even next year you will
come here, no doubt, and------ ”
"Yess
I gome next year unt pull
der dree ould again if der feller don'd
seddle his pill. He iss slow pay.”
Sparrow* Served a*
Woodcock.
Friends of State Senator Sterling
R. Catlin, of this city, who attended
a dinner he gave the other night, are
now wishing they had not accepted,
for a joke he played upon them be
came public property.
The main
course at the dinner was named as
woodcock, and the guests remarked
how- small and tender they were.
It was noticed that Senator Catlin
did not seem to eat much of his. and
to-day the guests learned why, for, as
a joke, he had them served with com
mon sparrow Instead of woodcock —
Wllkesbarre dispatch to New York
American.
Beller Xot.
Nephew
(just
returned
fron.
abroad)—That franc piece, aunt, I
got In Paris.
Aunt Hepsy I wish, nephew, you'd
fetch home one of them I-atin quarters
they talk »o much about.—Boston
Transcript.
The Cylinder Prlntln* Preaa.
In 1814 Frederick Koenig Invented
the cylinder press in London, It was
used here first in 1827. Koenig in-
vented it to the order of Walter of
the London Times, the world * (re
wot newspaper in those di.; A
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WE ARE MEI ONLY AS \V£ BECOME MEH.
By Prof. George B. Foster.
A) most every language contain« the equiva
lent of our old saying:
He s a chip ot the
old block." And than there is O. W. Hulmes'
Every man is an omnibus in
bon mot:
which all his ancestors are riding.”
More important still, the old church and
the new science both know a law ot heredita-
tlon. Man is hereditarily burdened with pre
disposition to disease and vice, they both as
sert. Now, the old church had a plan of escape from
this network of necessity. A divine decree ot grace ar
ranged for the salvation of a part of the race from the
ruin of hereditary sin. But this sort of salvation does
not satisfy the moral sense of the modern man. That a
fixed number were arbitrarily selected to be saved from
the curse under which our common humanity groaned—
this conception has turned out to be offensive to the
moral sense. No man wants that blessedness in which
he must helplessly gaze upon the damnation of his
brothers who were passed by in the decree of grace.
It is not whether we have Inherited bane or blessing,
it is what we do with our heritage that counts in the
world of values. And we can convert our curse into a
blessing, our blessing Into a curse, both into character.
The law of heredity which at the beginning of my ca
reer binds me to its network can in the end free me
from Its network. I may be saved by the law from the
law. Instead of thus denying the law we fulfill it.
AMERICA NO LONGER MERE SPECTATOR.
By Sidney Brooks.
It Is difficult for Europeans, who live in a
powder magazine and rarely have the fear
of an explosion out of their minds, to realize
the simplicity, spaciousness, and unhampered
self-absorption of American life. Foreign poli
tics is minimized by them at least as much
as It is exaggerated by Europeans. Ameri
cans can hardly be got to take them serious
ly. A diplomatic dispute with another power,
conducted on either side upon the implication of force,
is of all experiences the one most foreign to their nor
mal routine of existence. When you have mentioned
the Monroe doctrine you have pretty well indicated the
sum of the average citizen's Interest in external affairs.
During several years in the United States I do not
recall a single well Informed debate in Congress on the
foreign policy of the republic or a single member who
ever treated his constituents to an address on such a
topic. The operative opinion of the commonwealth still
desires to have as few dealings as possible with foreign
powers, still quotes and abides by Washington's warn
ing against "entangling alliances,” still shrinks from
any course that threatens "complications," still cling3
to the policy of isolation aB the one that most adequate
ly squares with the needs of American conditions.
This is so even though facts and necessity have out-
1HE
COOK FOR.
KINGJ
run many of the formulas, prejudices, and traditions
that a decade and a half ago were all but omnipotent
The I>eculiarlty of America's position In the general
scheme of world politics is indeed precisely this, that
iier ;• ..de are unconsciously engaged in adapting their
mental < :tlcok to filter Achievement« The Spanish war
landed them on a stream of tendencies that has already
carried them far beyond their old confines, and ig te-
exorably destined to carry ti n farther still.
UNITED STATES. PRECEPTOR OF JAPAN
By Louis Ichiga Ogata.
A visitor to Japan is at once impressed
with the evident desire for education among
the Japanese people that shows itself on
every hand. The governmental regulation
that makes education compulsory is really
little needed, for the parents themselves show
the greatest eagerness to give their children
the best school advantages they can afford.
In spite of the multitude of children who
swarm the streets and the vast number who work in
the fields and in various Industries where the cheap
labor of children can be used to advantage, school sta
tistics in Japan show a much better percentage of chil
dren of school age in attendance than is shown in some
States in America.
Recent reports show that there are about 30,000 pub
lic and private schools, nearly 120,000 professors and
teachers, and about 5,295,000 students in Japan. There
is hardly an Incorporated city In the empire that has
not at least one kindergarten. Many colleges and uni
versities. public and private, furnish opportunity for
higher learning to thousands of Japanese young men
as well as women, but the crown of them all is the im
perial university.
MARRIAGE AND GOOD LOOKS.
By Betty Vincent.
Girls, do you marry a man because he
dresses well or because you love him? Do
you love him because he is 6 feet tall and
broad-shouldered or because he Is honorable
and a gentleman? From some of the letters
I receive from young girls I cannot help in
ferring that their ideal is a combination of a
clothing house poster and a showman In a
musical production.
If the heart of the man is tender and kind, what can
it matter if every feature on his face is hopelessly
crooked? The doll-faced man Is as bad as, and worse
than, the doll-faced girl. The rugged man of sterling
worth Is the man to guard a woman’s future and happi
ness If you are Impressed with a man's smartness of
dress stop and think, girls, how that same man would
look in rough and simple working clothes. Ask your
self, too. if you would be willing to give up many of
your own little vanities that your husband might gratify
his own fastidious sense of adornment.
lettes, not to mention any use of harf
boiled eggs. Veal is cooked In 9(
ways. There are 80 principal soups,
The nursing school of modern gas
tronomy Is the Salon of Parisian
Crefs. Here meet Paul de Amici o:
the Quirlnal kitchens, Bosomporo o
the Vatican, Quenon of Belgium; Bo
relll, with Prince Doria, and others.
A great catering combination it i*
able to undertake the most brilliant
gala dinners at a day's notice, Its cen-
ter is Paris, It is run by business
men who can offer many advantages
that an artist chef, thoughtless of
money details, might not think of It
Is the beginning of the end of prince
ly kitchens.
Aborrui Freak«.
On the Orient Express an enigmatic
gentleman with a mauve ribbon in his
buttonhole hastens to Paris, writes a
correspondent from the French capital.
The Cologne Express carries another,
the Sud Express a third, A fourth
comes by the English packet. From
Lisbon and St Petersburg two start;
from Rome and Constantinople two
arrive. All wear the pale mauve rlb-
bon.
They are the cooks of four great
kings.
Without the best butters, vinegars,
wines, truffles, mushrooms, herbs,
cream, spices and raw materials of ail
kinds, there is no grand cookery. The
pantry chef hands out the ingredients
of every dish completely garnished to
his colleagues. He has one specialty.
Ail cold dishes are his particular care.
The kitchens of Edward, the Czar,
Alfonso and Leopold are to-day near
perfection Francis Joseph up to ten
years ago kept the moat princely table
of them all When age forced him to
go slow he still invited the archdukes
and their suites Then finally the force
was handed over to the Archduke
Ferdinand, whose simple living is nat
ural and whose enthusiasm did not
last a year. For the first time In
l,0d0 years the court of the Holy Ro
man Empire (till 1809) had no longer
the greatest kitchen of the world.
To-day Francis Joseph eat* alone.
When he goes on a gastronomic spree
It is with frankfurter« and horserad
ish, with "spaetzle” cakes. But the
kitchens of Nicholas, Edward, Alfonso
and Leopold are run on the great old
lines of:
1. A pantry chef.
2. A chef of soups, entrees and hot
desserts, including souffles, fritters
(sweet r otherw ise I, hot fruit croutes,
•te.
3. A chef roaster, who also directs
all grill« and fries.
4. A sauce chef, who rule« over all
that carries a sauce; fish, braised
meats, etc., I. e. the majority of
dishes.
5. A pastry cook.
• A chef decorator. Do not think
be decorates the table He decorates j
The man who
blows into an old
gun to see wheth
er it is loaded,
'never makes tue
foolkiller any
Double.
A woman
jump at a eouclu-
ston and hit It
with both feet
w hile a man ia
bringing his wits around the corner.
Some people never look up as long
as they can stand up.
An enemy is an enemy, whether he
carries a flag or a musket.
The organ's sweetest music does not
come from the biggest pipes.
No school will do us much good un
less we make life itself our school.
Sometimes the meet ng is closed the
tightest the moment the leader says it
is open.
Tell your troubli only to the Ixtrd,
and you will soon have joys to tell
to everybody.
The thing that makes a bulldog fa
mous, Is that he hangs on like grim
death to the eml.
No man h is done his whole duty to
God who has done less than his duty
toward his next door neighltor.
If every Christian always looked
happy, how soon it would kill the sa
loon business and crowd the churches.
Alm high. It won't hurt your gnu
*ny more to knock the leathers out
of an eagle than to splinter a barn
door.
Among the curiosities of tree life i.
the sofar, or whistling tree, of Nubia.
When the winds blow over this tree It
gives out flute-like sounds, playing
away to the wilderness for hours at a
time strange, weird melodies. It is the
spirit of the dead singing among the
branches, the natives say, but the
scientific white man says that the
sounds are due to a myriad of small
holes which an Insect bores in the
spines of the branches.
The weeping tree of the Canary Isl
ands is another arboreal freak. This
tree in the dryest weather will rain
down showers from its leaves, and the
natives gather up the water from the
pool formed at the foot of the trunk,
and find it pure and fresh, The tree
exudes the water from Innumerable
pores situated at the bane of the
leaves.
the food. Be it the czar’s bear chops,
the baby bear with bright glass eyes
is brought in holding his own chops
on a silver plate garnished with
smilax. When Edward eats his fa
vorite turtle doves they come boned,
wrapped in a chaud-froid sauce with
cameo design in black truffles. They
are ranged round a bed of Spanish
chestnuts puree. But. above them, the
beautiful birds spread their white
wings
Such "presentations” of the dish are
the chef decorator’s work. He—almost
a taxidermist—spreads the tail of the
peacock in bls gorgeous feathers over
the roast peacock, whose breast meat
only la eaten. Never will the sauce
liuny Mr. Harries.
cook try to roast nor the roaster
Gen. George H. Mairies, commanu
touch a sauce.
Those turtle doves
pass from chef to chef, each adding er-in-chief of the militia of the Dis
trict of Columbia, is the busiest cen
what the lilac ribbon orders.
Quelllan, head chef of the old sul turion in the land. In addition to be
tan, taken over by the new, quit the ing a soldier, he ran« an electric light
Cafe de Paris six years ago on 12,000 company and manages a traction com
per year salary and an admitted com pany that Is the wonder of those who
mission on purchases of from $6,000 know what good car service means.
to $8,000. To-day he has a real dilet In addition he is a member of all com
tante to work for—the new sultan Is mittees of civic organizations.
“I met Mrs. Harries just a few min
a poet, rose grower and gourmet; but
M. Quelllan deplores the Turkish craze utes ago,” said one of the general's
for stuffed meats of all kinds. Th«y friends by way of making talk when
actually want the Rouen duck com- they met.
"Fine. I'm very glad to hear it,”
plicated with a stuffing -that terrible
strangled "high" duck, whose sauce returned the general. “I met her my-
demands its liver festered in the sun! j •elf last week.”
M. Menager, head chef of Edward, i
I’ecnn Culture«
and M. Peltier, head chef of Queen
Pecan nuts are grown successfully
Alexandra, have fixed salaries of ]
$8,000, free lodgings and a rake-off of 1 in several States, but mainly In those
3 per cent on all purchases accepted by States south of parallel 40. Forty
them. Queen Alexandra has simple feet is generally the distance apart of
tastes- a breast of Bohemian pheasant, the trees. If the triangular method
a slice of Danube sturgeon, or a sad of planting 1 b adopted forty trees can
die of Siberian young boar. On the be grown to the acre. Pecan trees
contrary,
King Edward
probably may bear a few nuts at an early age.
knows more about great feeding than but paying crops cannot be expected
did Carlos himself. He delights In under ten years and full crops under
plovers' eggs He adores little birds. twenty. The annual yield of a tre« in
The art of these cooks Is sublime full bearing has been variously report
Each can give you a choice of 5,000 ed at from one to twenty bushels.
dishes
There are 125 ways of pre
Hard («raves,
paring eggs, 32 “on the plate" (not
Before a grave can be dug in th«
fried, but done In the balnmarle); 47 churchyard of Llanbadoc, In
itoutb
poached. 20 with cheese. 13 "en co Wales, the rock has to be
bias tod
cotte” (tiny earthen dl«h?, 32 oae
:< A NEIGHBORLY CONSPIRACY.
■
Mr. Grimes had a large lawn in
front of his house ami another at the
side, and it was his custom to get up
and run his lawn mower at 5 o'clock
in the morning. In vain his neighbors
protested. In vain they complained
that he woke them up just when they
were sleeping the soundest, and that
they could not go to sleep again.
"Nobody has any business snoozing
after 5 o'clock,” he said. "Go to bed
early and get up early. That’s the
way I do. Think I'm going to wait
half a day for you people to sleep off
the effect of your late hours, when my
grass needs cutting? 1 guess not!"
Then his neighbors did a little plan
ning. They found out that he went
to bed at 9 o'clock, and they made ar
rangements accordingly Punctually at
9 o'clock the next moonlight evening
the sound of a lawn mower in action
was heard directly acrosT the street
from the Grimes dwelling. Presently
another one chimed in, then another
and another, and in les3 than fifteen
minutes at least a dozen were in ac-
tlve operation.
At 10 o'clock or thereabout an up-
per window in the G rimes house was
closed with a vicious bang, but the
rattle of the machines ceased not, and
the noise became even louder. It was
a bright night, and the industrious
neighbors, bareheaded and in their
shirt-sleeves, appeared to be enjoying
their exercise. There was no more
grass to be cut, but they continued
to go through the motions. In accord
ance with the prearranged plan, there
was no conversation. The lawn mow
ers were permitted to make all the
noise, and they needed no assistance.
At 1 o'clock the window that had
been closed was opened again, and the
unkempt head of Mr. Grimes was
I
thrust forth.
“Say," he called out, "how long are
you fellows going to keep up that
racket?"
"Not more than an hour longer,1
answered a voice.
“Well, say," spoke Mr. Grimesagain,
after a pause, "if I'll agree not to run
my lawn mower before 7 o'clock in
the morning after this, will you stop
that noise and let me go to sleep?"
"We will."
“Well, it's a bargain," he said.
A Queen Muy Look nt n Mnn.
There is an old story current in his
home city, Brooklyn, about the late
Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, which illus-
[rates how a son ls to his mother the
most Important being In the world,
In Dr. Cuyler's case one could not
lustly question his ability and useful
ness. Besides being a successful pas
tor he was the author of many re
ligious looks which were read here
and abroad, as well as a frequent con
tributor to certain magazines.
When he was In England he and his
mother corresponded regularly, and at
great length, so the tradition goes.
One day a letter came In which he
described his presentation to Queen
Victoria. Mrs. Cuyler read It with
eagerness, hardly able to wait till she
had finished before telling some one
what bad happened. When she at last
got through the letter she hastened
to a neighbor’s house and announced:
"I've just got a letter from England.
• nd. do you know, the queen has seen
Theodore.”
Mntn'l Wusle III* Time.
"Why not have our store physician
keep busy between whiles?”
"As to how?”
"Offer bargain operations In appen-
licit is. Only one to a customer, of
cours«."—Washington Herald.
Ih« Tongue.
There are "blind spot«” on th*
tongue which are luatuslLl« to Mu*«
flavor*.
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to Re ire at lance.