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After finishing Mr Zelaya, fate prou
ably will begin at the other end of the
alphabet again.
It will be a feather In the cap of Sec
retary Knox if he can bring about a
safe and sane Nicaragua.
The fellow who was weighed In the
balance and found wanting must have
neglected to drop a cent in the slot.
What's in a name? The Indian
desperado chased to his death by three
armej posses was called "Willie Boy."
Wouldn't it be horrible if Germany
should, while England is without a
budget, decide to lay down a few more
Dreadnoughts?
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Doubtless It is the Influence of in
ternational marriages manifesting it
self In the unexpected spunk of the
British House of Lords.
G. Bernard Shaw says if he came to
America people would drop everything
eUe and rush to look at him. What
is that old story about the fly on the
wheel?
The Kaiser read his own message to
the Reichstag. Perhaps this habit is
the reason why European documents of
this character are so much shorter
than they are here.
The new Chinese minister to this
country brings sixty-seven servants
with him. Astute man. Had he made
it fifty-seven he would have been In a
pickle with the paragraphers.
You can't work and worry at the
same time, concludes the Atchison
Men can’t, but
Globe philosopher.
women can pile disaster on disaster,
while cleaning up after the children
or doing their hair.
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myth, as much so as William Tell and
the apple, as Cleopatra and her fas
cination. And another great dlaillu-
sionjzer has appeared, one who dis-'
i -soives the fables in corrosive sublimate
guRe as conclusively as does Gugliel
mo Ferrero or any German higher
critic. The new historian is "Big
Jim" O'Leary, stock yards politician
and gambling king, son of the Mrs.
O'Leary of famous memory, and by
virtue of his sonship heir to her
knowledge of exactly how the Chicago
fire did start, He has felt moved in
the interest of truth and of vindlcat-
ing his parent in human history to
attest the facts In the case and to ex
onerate the blameless bovine. Mrs.
O'Leary, her son avers, believed in the
big stick in the upbringing of ber
progeny, and tolerated no antics in
her cattle. If little Jim, who is now
"Big Jim," wasn't tucked in bed by
8 o’clock, he caught it sound and hhrd.
Nor did the disciplined bovines In the
O’Leary barn dare flick a tail in the
milker’s eyes or kick over a lamp
lighting the lacteal operation. Nelth-
er Mrs. O’Leary’s children nor her
cows ventured to misbehave. It was
green hay in the loft, over whose
antics the lady could exercise no con
trol, that by spontaneous Combustion
kindled the historic conflagration. All
the little O’Learys were in their trun
die beds, the cows were locked in the
barn, Mrs. Of. •ary herself was sleep
ing like the just, when the green hay
developed fire that, before it was
quenched, had burned three-fourths of
Chicago over. The cow is cleared and
the widow Justified. Thus evaporates
another fake in the interests of pro
saic truth and the higher verities.
Barbara Frltchle never wagged her
“old gray head" above the “rebel
horde" In Fredericktown. Sherman
never rode the twenty miles a-down
the Shenandoah to save the day. But
we had hopes that Mrs. O’Leary and
her cow were real figures upon the
historic stage. These hopes are now
shattered irremediably.
FIRST SCHOOL-DAY IK ALSACE
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Those so-called craters on the moon
may be merely the marks of bumps
A glimpse of the strenuous and bus
received in collisions with other orbs,
talned
battle against ignorance fought
but that theory does not seem to ex
plain the presence of a tall cone In by the pioneer teachers of the Old
World In the days preceding the
the center of so many of them.
French Revolution is given by Rev. E.
Because he married a show glr! a Gllliat, in a recent book, "Heroes of
New York man has been disinherited , Modern Crusades.” It seems almost
by his father, who Intended to leave incredible that conditions so hopeless
to him about >3,000,000. The disin should need to have been righted in
herited young husband thinks he will times so near to ours.
When Monsieur Stouber undertook
be able to live on love, but the show
the pastorate of Ban de la Roche, a
girl salth not.
territory in the Vosges which belong
Football is a game for men, no ed to Protestant noblemen, as feudal
doubt, but let us suppose the girls lords of the soil, he found the people
were all to decide it to be too brutal very wild and ignorant. When he first
to watch and were to refuse every in went there he visited the only school.
vitation to attend the matches, How A number of children were gathered
long would the game last do you together in a miserable cottage. As
he entered he heard an appalling
♦hink? Through one season?
noise of scuffling, quarreling and shout-
Dolls have a human element in them Ing.
CHILDREN OF THE CIRCUS.
“Silence, children, silence!” hecrieo
which make It most unlikely that they
will ever be supplanted permanently "Where is your master?”
Travel with Parents During Season
—How They Are Educated.
One of the children [glinted to a lit
in the affections of children by the
“It Is nothing unusual for the larger
"Teddy Bear" or "Billy Possum” or tle old man who was lying on a bed
circuses to carry thirty and forty chil
“Kermit Lion.” Such toys have their in the corner of the room.
“Are you the master of the school?” dren, ranging all the way from mere
day. as novelties do with older people,
babies to boys and girls 15 and 16
but the Eskimo dolls, which have been asked the pastor, in some dismay.
years of. age.” said Jerome S. Rogers,
"Yes, I be the master, sir—I be.”
highly popular Bince the discovery of
the north pole, indicate a return to
“Humph! But don't you teach the of Chicago, a former circus man, ac
cording to the Washington Herald.
the simple, old-fashioned doll which children anything?”
“No! I don't teach the children “The majority are traveling with
little mothers have played with for
their parents, both the father and
countless generations.
nothing—for a good reason."
"It must be a very good reason in mother doing daily duties in the ring,
and while often they »re trained to
There ts no doubt that modern in deed. What is it, my friend?"
dustrial development tends irresist
"Well, I don't know nothing myself, follow In the steps of their elders th«y
are seldom allowed to perform in pub
ibly to large corporate organizations sir, so how am I to teach?"
and to affiliations which will reduce
“But. my good friend, why did they lic.
"It is a cpmmon belief among clrcu3
the friction of competition where pow send you here, then?”
erful Interests are liable to come Into
"Because, sir, I be too old to take men that the performer whose train
fng is not started until after the age
conflict with destructive efTect. But care of the pigs.”
of 6 will seldom make a distinctive
the working of such a system cannot
l.oKtcnl Gnrdenln<,
record. I often saw groups of boys.
be safely left to the will of those who
devise and direct Its operation. It
A lady who had never owned a gar- some of whom could not have been
must be subject to regulation, to re den it last had the opportunity to over 4 or 5 years old. practicing rudi
quirements and prohibitions of law. at have one. in whith she could do just mentary somersaults and handsprings,
once effective and enforcible. The ad as she wished. Accordingly, a care while their parents looked on with
justment of regulation has not kept ful study of the seed catalogues was ¿ratified smiles. These were the fam-
pace with the development, and they In order. Her husband one day, says Hies of the circus aristocracy, who
must somehow be brought into har- the Louisville Times, came home to treasure the records of their ancestors
mony by adaptation to secure the ben- find her poring over its "profusely with the pride of a son In his father’s
efit of development without an abuse illustrated" pages. She had a long sword and who see no more inspiring
of the power that accompanies It or list of seeds written on a sheet of pa calling for their own children than
that of the great white canvas.
the sacrifice of rights and interests per.
“Not that their education is neglect
that fall in its way.
"This is a list, my dear,” she said,
“that I want you to buy for me to- ed in other respects: several of the
families often hire an instructor— per
John Stewart Kennedy's magnificent morrow at the seed man’s.”
dequests to religion, education and
Her ■husband looked at the list. haps one of the performers who has
the time and ability for such work—
philanthropy place him at one» in the Then he laughed.
front rank of princely benefactors. His
"You want these flowers to bloom to coach their children In the standard
studies. One circus, indeed, has now
thirty millions compare favorably with this summer, don't you?” he asked.
established a traveling school for the
the outpourings even of a Rockefeller
"Yes, of course.”
youngsters. If they are to be acrobats
or a Carnegie, especially when we take
“Well, those you have put down
they are to be'educated acrobats."
into account the charities of his life here don't bloom till the second sum-
time. Mr. Kennedy gave quietly while mer.”
FIND FOOT OF MAMMOTH.
he was alive, and probably kept back
“Oh, that's all right,” said his wife,
his final vast gifts because it is im easily. "I am making up my list
Monater 1.?« with Fie eh find flair
possible to give away such a fortune from a last year’s catalogue.
After Lapae of Centuries.
and do It quietly. Thereby, it is true,
Northern Siberia, in particular, was
Triatlns
the
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Jndsrment.
he lost the chance of seeing his name
Friend—What on earth are you do a happy hunting ground of the mam
in the newspapers every day and play
tng
to that painting of yours? Dau moth and other prehistoric beasts, as,
ing the much-quoted oracle on every
to-day, it is the happy hunting ground
conceivable topic of the times. We do ber—Can't you see? I ni rubbing a
of those who seek relics of the animals
piece
of
raw
meat
over
the
rabbit
in
not say that a taste for such things
of many centuries ago The remains
Is reprehensible Possibly a man does the foreground. Mrs. Alshoddle will
illustrated on this page were found
well to bestow his benefaction while be here to-day. and when she sees her
two years ago on the tanks of a small
pet
dog
smell
of
that
rabbit
ahe'll
he Is still on the spot to see that the
stream by natives who were hunting
right use Is made of them. But it is buy It.—Judge
foxes. These men notified the nearest
Impossible not to admire the older tra
town of their find, with the result that
Snappx.
ditions which looked upon charity as
Housekeeper (to beggar) — Your recently the St. Petersburg Academy
a business Involving only the giver
wife afek’
Didn't you tell me last of Science %ent a special expedition
an<l the taker and not the reporter and
to recover the relics, which had been
week she was dead?
the camera man as well. There are
Beggar—Yes, mum, but I've mar- burled in the river bed. The scientists
still many more‘examples of the old
dug up first of all the skull of a
rted again.—Boston Transcript.
type among us than the world sus
mammoth, with part of the skin and
pects. The death of a Kennedy or a
So often we bear it said: "He is a flesh and one eye cavity In a good
Jeanes reminds us of the fact
good talker. He -will make good. » V State of preservation. The right hind
Is talk so necessary for success?
foot was found next and was also well
Ureen hay. not an obstreperous cow,
preserved The hair covering it wgs
started the great Chicago fire. Mrs.
A woman Isn't necessarily homely from five to six Inches in length. This
O'L.oary's momentous milking U a
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less than deserving of the heritage handed down to htm
by his sharpshooting forefathers.
"One must not fall Into the error of believing that
knowledge of military training ifiakes a boy anxious for
military service or war. The reverse Is the case. The
more a boy knows of what war means the less eager
he will be to urge his country into a conflict with an
other nation. While military training, and especially
instruction In rifle practice, would make a boy a more
self-respecting, able and self-controlled man, it will also
teach him that war is something to be avoided, It ts
generally the man who knows least of war from per-
soual experience who is prone to look upon that last
resort most favorably.
"Rifle training makes for many other things tn a
boy than an added value as a probable soldier in war
time. It teaches him how to avoid those shocking ac
cidents which one reads about so often in the daily pa
pers, through knowledge of the proper handling of
arms. The first rudiments drilled Into the boys are:
Never to point a gun, either empty or loaded, at an-
other person; always to open the arm when taking it
in hand, to see if it is loaded, and, when firing at a
target, always to keep the muzzle toward the target,
If these rules are observed no accident will ever hap-
pen. and they never do with boys who have had these
lessons drilled into them.
“While the United States government is spending
nothing in promoting rifle shooting in the schools, other
nations are making strenuous efforts along these lines.
In England Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the
British army, within the last few years has succeeded
In organizing over 100,000 schoolboys. The writer will
never forget the inspiring sight of 400 schoolboys, rep
resenting forty preparatory schools, competing for the
Lord Ashburton shield, every one using the service arm,
on the great Bisley rifle range in England.
“Something has been done in this country In a small
way. Col. John Jacob Astor this year presented a cup
for the Interschool indoor rifle shooting championship
of the United States, which trophy was won by the Mor
ris High School of New York, with a very high score.
One team entered the contest from Washington, repre
senting the Central High School, and was seventh.
"At the coming session of Congress the bill sent to
that body by President Roosevelt with a special mes
sage urging its passage, and which provided for carry
ing on rifle shooting instruction in the schools and
among the citizens, will be reintroduced and pushed.
All well wishers for the future should unite in doing
everything in their power to help the passage cf such
legislation.”—Washington Post.
as uncommon as might be imagined.
In 1846 the ren.ains of a mammoth
seen by Adams had suffered so little
through the lapse of time that its flesh
was eaten by natives, dogs and wild
animals. It was on this same occasion
that It was proved that the mammoth
used to feed on the shoots of conifer-
round in glee, and I could see my fu
ture held no roses.
“They hitched me to a near-by tree
and held a long pow-wow. I figured
they were settlin’ when to serve me
up, and how. At last one fellow goes
away, and that was some relief, but it
seems that he had been dispatched to
fetch the native chief. He stayed
away so bloomin' long the other dubs,
got sore, so they sent another fellow
. off, and that left only four.
“Now, pretty soon the four of 'em
began to get so weary they laid up
by a tree to doze, and that made me
some cheery. And when the four be
gan to snore this chicken got right
busy—I wiggled and I wrestled with
ropes till I was dizzy. I yanked
this way, I pulled that way, I strug
gled like a steer, and squirmed and
turned until, b'gosh! I pulled out free
and clear.
“And did I go away from there? Not
yet! I wasn’t through. Says I, ‘Now,
boys, you’ve played with me. I'll have
some fun with you.’ You see, those
boys were sound asleep, their backs
against that tree, so I took the rope
they'd tied me with and went to work
with glee. I strung It through the
bloomin’ rings that dangled from their
beaks dean 'round the tree and tied
the ends, and left the dusky freaks.
“I beat It quickly to the shore, where
lay a bark canoe, and on my way I
heard a fuss that tickled me clean
through. Those cannibals had started
up. but found their noses tied. They
fought and mauled each other while I
laughed until I cried.
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"Well, off I rowed in their canoe to
fOOr OF MAMMOTH
another island near, where I found
a ship—and that is why I'm able to
ous trees. The mammoth varied from
be here."
nine to eleven feet in height.—Illus
trated London News.
Two of a Kind.
RHYMES OF ANCIENT MARINER
Heard In Hobb’« Hnck Hoom by
Green pul nt’« Murky Water«.
Some wild, weird tales from off the
sea broke loose in town last night
when kindred souls of Jonas Home, o'
the barkentine Belle White, foregath
ered In old Hobb's back room, by
Greenpofnt's murky tide, and cheered
themselves with glowing pipes and
something else beside, according to the
New York Herald. As usual, Jonas
held the stage. With chairs close
drawn about, he told how ringnosed
cannibals had failed to count him out.
“I was wrecked in ’59,” said Horne,
“aboard the Sljly Sue, and found my
self alone alive of al! our husky crew
I wftshed ashore on lucky waves, and
woke up on the sands to find myself
a prisoner in*Tnther hostile hands. A
bunch of six black cannibals, with
rlujp Stuck in their noses, <b>—rd
There Is something about the char
acter of mules that makes their own
ers at times almost equally stubborn.
In the Washington Star this dialogue
concerning one, if not two auch ani-
male, is reported:
“Why don’t you get rid of that
mule?”
“Well, suh,” answered Erasmus Pink-
ley, “f hates to give in If I was to
trade dat mule off he'd regard
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it as a
personal victory. He's been tryin' fob
de las' six weeks to get rid o' me.”
Smart of Ideasl
An English dramatist should guaro
himself against Ideas as carefully as
a young girl should preserve her char
acter. Dramas of ideas are ephemer
al. Dramas of adventure are immor
tal.—Era.
The next time a faker calls on you
remember that If he gets a dollar
of yon, 90 cents vili ba ^ru*t
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‘778—John Jay of New York elected
President of Congress.
1807—Kingdom of Etruria dissolved
and annexed to France.
1813—Gen. McClune, commanding at
Fort George, burnt the Canadian
village of Newark, and two days
later was compelled by the British
to abandon the fort.
1816— First savings bank in the United
States opened in Boston.... In
diana admitted to the Union as the
nineteenth State.
1817— Mississippi admitted to the Un-
ion as the twentieth State.
1828—The Legislature of Georgia pro
tested against the last tariff act
parsed by Congress.
1830—The first locomotive built in the
United States was finished and
tested at the foundry at West
Point, N. Y.
!833—The Green Bay Intelligencer ap
peared at Green Bay, Wis.
1838—Silk growers met in convention
in Baltimore and organized a na
tional silk society... .The Monroe
railroad in Georgia opened to pas-
Seliger traffic between Macon and
Forsyth.
1844—Jefferson Davis entered
the
House of Representatives from
Mississ*ipl.
1847—Sir Donald Campbell became
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Ed
ward Island.
i860—Nearly 100 lives lost by an ex
plosion on the steamboat Anglo
Norman at New Orleans.
1854—Doctrine of Immaculate Concep
tion proclaimed by the Pope.
‘862—Confederates victorious at the
battle of Fredericksburg, Va....
Fredericksburg, Va., bombarded by
the Federal army.
1867—House of Commons adopted pre
liminary resolutions in regard to
the acquisition of Rupert's Land
and the Northwest Territories....
Reconstruction convention met In
' Atlanta.
1889—Funeral of Jefferson Davis tn
New Orleans.
1891—The Knove bridge across tha
Ohio River above Cincinnati open
ed for traffic.
1895—William O. Bradley inaugurated
as first Republican Governor of
Kentucky.
1898— Sir William Vernon Harcourt re-
signed the leadership of the Uber-
al party in England.
1899— Sir George Kirkpatrick, former
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
and Speaker of the House of Com
mons, died in Toronto.
1901— Signor Marconi announced the
receipt at St. John's. Newfound
land, of wireless signals from
Cornwall, 1,700 miles distant.
1902— Vermont substituted for her pro
hibitive liquor law a local option
high license measure.
1903— Niagara Falls, Ontario, incorpo
rated as a city.
1904— Earl Grey assumed office as Gov
ernor General of Canada.... New
British ministry formed by Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
t907—Gustav V. ascended the throne
of Sweden.
The first local unions of printers
were established in 1831.
There are 65,000 Chinese and Lascar
seamen now on British vessels.
Ship owners in England have forced
down wages from 125 to $15 a month,
and this has reduced the membership
of the unions.
In order of membership the first four
divisions of America’s labor army are
miners, carpenters, painters and gar
ment workers.
One featufil- of the great labor dem
onstrations, or strikes, that have occu
pied public attention for the last year
has been the uniform demand on the
part of the workers for arbitration of
their grievances.
A. Rosenberg, president of the Gar
ment Workers' Union, says that in his
line more men than women are em
ployed In ths larger cities, but that In
smaller places women and girls do
much the greater part of the work.
John T. Smith, of the cigar makers
Is the labor member of the public utll-
lty commission of Kansas City, M<x
Thia commission is a standing body
that deals with telephones, street rail-
ways, electric lighting, etc.
Only 29 years old,' Matthew Woli,
president of the International Photo
Engravers' Union, Is probably tho
youngest
international
president.
Working "at the bench” by day and
studying at night, he
put
himself
through a considerable law course.
The Railroad Telegraphers’ Union 1a
a widespread one. It has members In
Canada, the United States, Porto Rico,
Cuba, the Hawaiian islands and th»
Philippines.
A plan has been approved for organ
ization among the 600,000 commercial
stenographers and typists tn the Unl-
ted States and Canada who would be
eligible to join a union.
The International Glove
Worker»*
Union favors woman suffrage on th»
gTound that "the ballot for women Is
essential to sconomle Independence of
tks working classes.'
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CUT-DOOR RAUOe
America is not afflicted with an attack of “German
Invasion" hysteria, or even with Japanese jingoism, but
there was inaugurated in Washington recently a move
ment which, it is believed, will have almost as wide
spread an effect upon the youth of the land as did the
recent sensational organization by Lord Roberts and
Lord Ashburton of 100,two junior "scouts” in England,
when the whole British world went militia mad.
The outdoor tournament or field day was held on the
Congress Heights range, the first of its kind ever held
in this country. And this is only the beginning of a
great movement which, it is expected, will sweep
throughout the country, the Washington meet serving
as the model for those to be organized first In every
city of 100,000 Inhabitants or more, and later In smaller
communities. The outdoor shoot is to serve as a sort
of college course for the boys who ‘have learned the
A, B, C's of the Indoor shoots, which have been held
here and elsewhere for several years.
Lieut. Albert S. Jones, secretary of the National Rifle
Association of America. In discussing the aims and
Ideals of the junior marksmanship work, says:
“In these days of crowded cities and strenuous work
all forms of exercise are valuable to the growing boys.
Shooting Is an interesting open-air sport, in which the
skill attained constitutes a valuable possession through
life. It also involves more physical exercise than is
generally appreciated. In particular, It develops cool
ness of nerve under excitement, power of observation
and rapid judgment, which are important mental qual
ities.
Rifle shooting for boys teaches also a moral lesson.
No boy can smoke cigarettes and hold a rifle steady,
so that in order to be a good shot tobacco and alcohol
must be avoided. For this reason rifle shooting, either
as a pastime or as military training, is essential in the
upbuilding of a strong, sturdy American manhood.
“It In always expected that opposition will be met
with from those citizens who are opposed to military
training of any sort—people who still have Tory or
Quaker blood running tn their veins—and who do not
appreciate that the highest duty which every citizen
owes, after his duty to God, is that owed to the nation
of which he is a part. If we become oblivious to thl
obligations which devolve upon us as citizens to look
to and safeguard the future, then we are lacking in
patriotism, and the future is in jeopardy.
“Under the plans of the government no boy in any
public school Is compelled to learn to use the rifle. If
he or his parents object, the matter ends there. But
every boy should know how to shoot, or he is something
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