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F TOPICS OF ( 77fB TIMES. not detain him for any length of time from Ms duties as bread winner. City Judge Feldman of South Bend, Ind.,j faced the dilemma the other day and solved it by releasing the wife beater,; much against his will. "But if I had the power," he said to the prisoner, "I would instruct an officer to tie you to Indians may perhaps be excused a D0St ani severely lash you with a If they think that most of the good ! cat-o'-ninc-tails." There is a growing white men are dead men. " I fwiinr that the nolice justices see clearly and judge truly when they ex press themselves in this way. .Noth ing will cure a brute of his love to in flict Dain so thoroughly as being given a UOSe OI nis own ireauueui. .an ivi the degrading effect of a whipping post upon a community it surely cannot be worse than the presence of an. unpun ished wife beater, or than the inflic tion of a punishment which only adds to the .sufferings of the real victim, without assuring a reform of the culprit. There are many men who are thank ful thir wives do not make pies like their mothers used to make. When the high wall of defeat con fronts a man it is well if he can amuse himself with the thistles at the base. f ' The genius that devised the wireless telegraph will And a way to keep the messages from being "pied" while in the air A woman jabbed her hatpin into the wrong man. with fatal results. She probably acknowledged that the joke is on her. . We all the Turk: "terrible"' from hearsay the Bulgarians have hard ex perience to back them in calling him more than terrible. A dead Philadelphia defaulter had ordered an edition of Dickens to cost S .130,000. This is the time to say, "The Dickens he did." Also "Great Scott!" There are indications that the pa roled convict is coming to the front in a way' that reflects seriously on the judgment of those who administer the law. Sir Thomas Lipton says England is in decay while America is going to the front. Sir Thomas probably thinks of opening ft ,,f ewv more branches oa this side. Andrew Carnegie predicts that Great Britain and the United States will be one nation some- day. Mr. Carnegie has unlimited faith in the power of steel bands to bind things together. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS A Chinese negro has been discov ered who does not care for either wat ermelon or rice. As he claims to be a native of England, it would be in teresting to know how he stands on roast beef. Now we are told that Colombia was simply giving Secretary Hay a slight jolt in refusing to ratify the canal treaty. Even little fellows show re sentment at times if they feel they are being bullied.' Old Gomez wants the Cuban gov ernment to pay him and the res,t of the Cuban army about $00,000,000 for ser vices rendered, in freeing the island from Spain's harsh rule. What did the Cuban 'army have to do with freeing Cuba, anyhow? The Turk ought to be. driven from the face of the earth, for there is no spot on it that is bad enough to de serve to be governed by him. Still, the Turkish government for the Turks is not so bad. It is when the monster in the fez sets himself 'up to govern somebody else that he becomes abso lutely unspeakable. - When horses and steel-tired wagons fire taken' off' the pavement, whether it be of asphalt or something more durable,- it is going to last much longer and is not going away so readily to dust and mud, under the usual grind ing. It is conceivable that many good results will come of a change from horses and mules to automobiles, and the change is going to come about in due time. The auto has come to stay and it only-remains to regulate it wisely. J Efforts to get quick news from the yacht races off Sandy Hook by means of wireless telegraphy were frustrat ed by the jangling of rival systems. The mischief was intentional, more over, each operator filling the air with Incessant Hertzian waves that, when Interpreted, were mere nonsense. Amid a hilarious jargon of hopelessly con flicting signals it was clearly shown . that under existing conditions any sys tem or s wireless communication can prevent, within its radius 'of effective action, the transmission of messages by a rival plant, tJThis i a fatal weak ness in wireless telegraphy which its sanguine -promoters . have heretofore sedulously endeavored to conceal.. Wonderful to him who has the eyes to see, is the mail bag. , In its shabby but capacious depths it hides strange neighbors. There is news of birth and of death. There are good fortune and loss of fortune. There is a. schoolboy's letter tilled with his latest slang and his wildest pranks, cheek by jowl with the polished pages of the learned pro fessor, setting forth to his friend the discovery of a Greek manuscript. The hateful dunning letter is tied In the package with the announcements of an engagement of marriage, and the undertaker's bill for a funeral, the lov er's tender phrases and a recipe for wedding cake are peaceful neighbors. There are women's friendships and girls' confidences, and the rusty leather tells the secret of neither. The. bag may hang in the mail car of a flying express train, with ita force of shirt sleeved clerks working for dear life, that the assorting of letters may keep pace with the rapid succession of citlesj and towns. Or it may rest on tne not ion! of a rattling wagon, behind a good horse with a shabby harness, as the rural free delivery agent, his rein hanging about his neck, makes" his round of bouse and camp the last link in the chain which binds tne remote New England hilltop or the Roeky Mountain mining camp to the strenu ous life of New York and London. Wherever the mail bag goes it symbol izes and embodies that human fellow ship by force of which man may count himself better than the brute. He has devised and perfected a great system by which from the four corners of the earth may stretch out their hands to each other in greeting. The written page and the printed one, by this sys- tem, may each seek out the very per son for whom it was destined, wheth er near or far. The worn mail pouoh speaks with loud voice In praise of that civilization by which from conti nent to continent, with the certainty of hearing and response, men may call to each other, "How fares it with your : AUTO COAT NEARLY COVERS YOU ALL UP Long Lives and Our Habits. LL of us when in our right minds want to live as long as possible, and if at 40 we say, "I don't care to live after I am 80," at the latter age we rub out the 80 and insert 100; and even the centenarian is quite content to keep on though he knows his doing so does not excite popular approval. But what conduces to long evity is the question that puzzles the average man. To at tempt to reason from specific instances Involves him in a .naze of glaring contradictions and leaves him hopelessly bewildered. Here are Caseius M. Clay and Leo XIII dying within a few days of each other and each in his 94th year. Could there be a stronger contrast than that between the manner of life of the rugged Kentucky fire-eater and the frail and abstemious scholar of the Vatican? A man died in Indiana the other day at the age of 89 who was noted for his enormous consumption of tobacco, and Jacob R. Smith, of Massachusetts, came forth to ascribe his good health at he age of 94 to the fact that he never used tobacco in his life. - - But out of it all we may glean these undeniable facts: The human machine is like other machines; some are built to wear out early and some to last a long time, and though the working time of the one may be increased by care and abstinence, worry, excesses and privations shorten the time for which the other can be kept running, even though not period should be extended over more than the number of years generally allotted to the life of man. The man who died from the excessive use of tobacco at 89 was as surely cut off before his time as one who died at 20 from the same cause; and the frail life of Gioacchino Pecci was 'as surely prolonged by his abstemious habits until he died as Leo XII7 at the age of 94. New York Press. Gambling and Corruption. F the evil effects of gambling on character and on a whole society there can be no doubt. There is a difference between an investor and a gambler even on the stock exchange, but it is impossible to define it. There are men who .really want to invest money in good shares of legitimate industries,- and there are the multi tudes who make the rash bet without knowing anything about the business, or eyen caring whether there is a" busi ness at all. The supposed opportunities of making money without doing work lead thousands into the "game." Its effect is to inflame the thoughtless with notions that serious and patient methods of winning a livelihood are too slow and onerous, and this is the most dangerous result. When once a people become possessed with the idea that work, thrift and skill employed in some useful pursuit are not the real and only methods of making a livelihood, cor ruption has taken posession of them, and many evidences of this corruption are to be found now in defalcations, fraud, theft, and moral and financial ruin, due to speculative gam bling with other people's money. Philadelphia Ledger. which is comparatively new and situated in k locality with a rigorous winter climate, he asserted had already many cures to its credit, with a remarkably small number of deaths in proportion to the whole number of patients, thus proving the value of the -treatment, which is that of spend ing both days and nights out of doors all the year round. He further alluded to the fact that while the system had only been introduced in Great Britain within ten years, there are already upwards of twenty open-air sanitariums there. , The success of this hospital in Edinburgh, where hereto fore consumption has been responsible for one death in seven, is in line with modern experience elsewhere. Penn sylvania has such an Institution" on a limited scale at White Haven, which has been successful enough to encourage the opening of another at Mont Alto, in the South Mountain Forest Reserve. The mountain area of the State can fur nish admirable localties for an unlimited number of these health resorts, easily accessible to all patients within its borders, and to many thousands from surrounding sections. Philadelphia Bulletin. I NEPTUNE'S GREETING TO THE WINNER. Evil of Deforestation. i HE Injury done by deforestation to a country has been cited often enough, and It has already been experienced in many parts of our . own' land. As a source of wealth is it not begin ning to be obvious to our paper makers and mill men that it is going to be worth while to preserve our forest, and to make it anew when it has been destroyed? Yet does any one know of a case on this broad continent where anything has been done toward such an increase or restoration? The chopping has been unscientific, because large areas have been stripped of vegetation and the water and soil have vanished. If ripe timber only were cut, the young trees would have the bet-' ter chance to grow; but when three-inch spruces are cut for . paper it means that, there will presently be no spruces. I The remedy is to impose restraints, bu$ It is also to plant trees. The pulp companies own immense tracts which they ! have busily uncovered, but in no single instance, so far as known, have they set out saplings, or planted cones, to obtain a new supply.. If they had done so, they would not now be paying freight and duties on foreign timber. Legal ly, these companies have acted within their rights In cut ting the woods, drying the rivers, abolishing farms and making life harder in affected districts; but in so doing they have broken the moral law, the law of duty to one's fellows. From the selfish point of view, leaving public interest out of the question, is it not presently going to be patent to them that they cannot forever reap where they do not sow, and that If the reaping is to go on, there must be sowing also? It is important that we have novels, and newspapers, and wrappers; but it is also important that we have springs and fuel and farms and scenery. Brooklyn Eagle. - FIFTY YEARS IN PARLIAMENT. t Open Air and Consumption. NE of the most valuable results of modern med ical investigation seems to be the re-discovery of the well-nigh forgotten fact that the best remedy for, as well as the best defence against, consumption is a life in the open air. The value of this discovery is greatly accentuated, too, by the further fact that consumption is the most fatal of all diseases when measured by the annual death rate. Experience has also demonstrated that as it is a diseases to which humanity is tfablein alL countries and climates, this remedy is as widely efficacious. Some valuable testimony on this subject was recently furnished in an address by Lord Rosebery on the occasion of the dedication of three new pavilions of the Victoria Hos- Vpital for Consumption at Edinburgh. This institution, f II r Growing Extravagance of Women. N all sections of society one hears married men, and indeed others,, grumbling consider ably at the extravagance of their womenklnd In dress. In individual cases they may have the right to grumble; but on principle, and in general, I do not see that they have any gen uine grounds for complaint, because if women are now extravagant in dress it must be remembered that for generations men have been extravagant In other and worse forms of self-indulgence. And, after all, man can take comfort to his soul in the knowledge that it is chiefly with a view to pleasing him that woman Indulges In follies of this sort, added to which he should count it as a gain that this particular form of extravagance adds to the general cheerfulness and gayety of life. London World. Dnke of Devonshire, Liberal Leader of the House of Lords. The Duke of Devonshire has lately figured in gossip from across the sea in which it has been stated that he would retire from Parliament This suggestion is scouted by the well-informed, who know that the fact of his leadership in the House of Lords will keep him from retiring. . Few men in politics have had such a curious career as the Duke. Like Caesar, he has twice refused the crown of a statesman's ambition. The pre- It does not seem impossible for mod ern civilized powers to come to some agreement by which the further ser vices of the Sultan of Turkey might be dispensed with. He has been the eyesore and the bone in the gorge of humanity for generations and a time has surely come when duty to God and mankind demands his dethronement and the cessation of his succession. If It be objected that the maintenance of the Porte is the core 'of a truce that supports the peace of Europe, that ob jection can be disposed of by another Berlin congress. Such a congress of the powers could demand the abdica tion of Abdul Hamid, decree-that the Turkish dynasty is at an end and sub stitute for the government an adminis trative commission so adjusted as to maintain the equities between the pow ers, guarantee peace and prosperity to the Turks , themselves and so remove from the circle of Christian civiliza tion a monster. Mjf ; Intolerable charac ter. The riot act is due t6 be read be fore theYUdia palace and a transport shoud be easily provided to take the old rascal to some twentieth century -St Helena 9-- K When a police magistrate passes sen tence upon a men 'guilty of beating his wife he is often hard put to It to find a penalty that will not bear more se verely upon the Injured wife than upon the brutal husband. If he sends the wife beater to jail, In nine cases out of ten the burden will be upon the wife, who is deprived for a time of the sup port her husband might otherwise give her. And if he imposes a fine the ef fect is similar. .'--It-Is not surprising therefore that magistrates In their de spair often- express the wish that the law would permit them to send the brute to the flogging post, where the pain of the lash would teach him lome tbinsr of the- suffering he inflicts upon Here is an automobile suit that pefc ty nearly shuts you all up in Its folds, so that your own mother would hardly recognize you. It is for touring, and is made (in some dark shade. The wood brown coat pictured extends almost to the hem of the frock. The sleevts have a simple turn-back cuff, and the gar ment fastens in single-breasted style with large pearl buttons. The cap in the same suit to match the garment has a cape arrangement in the back, entirely covering the hair, while gog gles protect the eyes from dust. FAWN'S SKIN In the Same Boat. ' Feeling that it was his duty to re monstrate -with one of his clergy for attending a fox hunt, the bishop had an Interview with him. "W-ell, your lordship," the offender replied, "I really do not see that there is any more harm in hunting than ga ing to a ball." "I presume," answered his lordship, Grafted on Man's Face Brought About a Peculiar Growth. Perhaps the most curious case of surgery that was ever performed in the region of the Adirondaeks is that which was executed upon William Mc Coy, a woodsman. McCoy has just returned from the Lake mountain lumber camp after an absence of two years. He brings with him the strange story and its propf. ,, A year ago last May he was work ing with John Duffey getting out some long poles to repair a chutewhich is used to slide logs down the mountain side. Duffey went to cut a limb by an upward swing when the ax slipped from his hands and went flying through the air. It struck McCoy, and its keen edge shaved off the greater part of his right cheek. He bled pro fusely while they hastened to the camp half a mile away. There was no doc tor within thirty-five miles, and worst of all the streams were raging tor rents and could not possibly be forded. Communication with the outside world was cut off and there was not likely to be any means of getting to a vil lage for some days to come. But as luck would have it, there happened to be a nurse in camp from Utica named William Henry, who was out roughing it for his health. Henry took McCoy in hand. After having partially stop ped the flow of blood he went out to the stable, took a little fawn that some of the boys had captured a couple of days before, shaved the hair for about nine square inches off the animal's side, and then he carried it to the that you refer to my name having , &n red su aee been down among those who were present at Mrs. De Vaux's ball, but 1 assure you I was never once in the same room as the dancers through out the whole evening." "That, my lord, is exactly my po sition. During the hunt I was never in the same field as the hounds." The bishop collapsed, and .silence reigned. '. Italian Immigration. One of the curious features In mod ern emigration statistics relates espe cially to the Italian people. In the de cade ending in 1880 120,000 left the peninsula for foreign parts. In 1902 over 600,000 Italians left their ances tral homes. The increase in Italian emigration has been steadily growing for twenty years, tne 500,000 mark be ing passed; In 1901. ' Of the 600,000 and upward who left their native shores last year 252,000 came to the United States. " ; Increase In Area of United States. Since 1790 the area of the United States has Increased from 827,844 to 3,622,983 square miles, the number of counties has increased from 307 to 2,867, and the total population has increased- from 8,929,214 to 76,303,387, or nineteenfold. There are some .queer ; men la the world: An Atchison man doesn't liks shape of the wound on McCoy's face. While some of the woodsmen held the creature, Henry cut the skin around where he had marked, peeled it off and applied it immediately to the face of McCoy. Having fitted it in place firm ly, he rubbed over it a thick coat of balsam gum and over that he placed tight bandages. The cheek stopped bleeding at once. A week afterward Henry took off the bandage. " The graft was found to be a perfect success. The wound was healing rapidly and it appeared that the scar would show, but slightly. In four weeks McCoy was healed so well that he was able to go to work. Soon after, however, he noticed when he drew his hand across his cheek that hair was growing on the grafted skin. He was rather pleased at that, for he thought he might, wear a beard and thus entirely hide the scar. But In a few days more the hah had grown so thickly that its color and, nature were plainly visible. It was the hair of the fawn growing, and moreover, It was spotted like that of a fawn. He did not dare to shave' for fear of breaking open the skin, and. allowed . It to re main until the fall of the year.y Then the spots disappeared and" the "blue" coat of a full-grown deer took its place. When spring "came around he saw that the hair of his cheek was falling mi and Arm red hair was growing. At last the blue or winter coat was entire ly gone, and the red summer coat took its place. In fact, he and the other woodsmen, to their merriment, saw that the graf ted skin varied and chang ed precisely as does the coat of a deer. Northwood (N. Y.) correspondence New York Times. MEXICAN LOVERS AMERICANIZED. HIS CENT CAME BACK. Mexico, the country of mystery, ro mance and hot tamales, bull fights, cock fights and sombreros, dashing ca- balleros and dark-eyed senoritas, with its restrictions and grave-faced duen nas, is the scene of a revolution, more warmly waged than the usual Latin country opera bouffe war. . - The American invasion is responsi ble for the conflict. American men and women have gone to Mexico annually. The freedom of the girls contrasted with the. restricted life of the raven haired Castilian girls, who, from infan cy, were reared In an atmosphere in which the only men were members of their own families. Mayhap the Mexican beauty saw her sweetheart through the lattice work screen,, or leaned from a balcony while he, lacking the daring of Romeo, was forced to stand on the pavement and whisper sweet nothings: When ad mitted to her home he could not see her alone. - " In Chihuahua the young men and women have tired of this ancient method of courtship, and have formed a "bachelor club." The young women will go to the club without chaperohes and will be escorted to their homes by the men. . To prevent mistakes, each member has promised not to marry for one year. The organization has creat ed excitement, and the conservative Mexicans are Indignant The members of the club were happy at last ae counts. J s . Asphyxiated by Gas. , Within a year four persons "Who hare gone to sleep near the cinder dump of the Homestead steel plant hare been asphyxiated by the gas it emits. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. the peerage. He is careless of his per sonal appearance, careless of the form and manner of his speech, but he mat ter Is always good and the judgment sound. He is wjiat people call a safe man. As to actual work in the field of poli tics, he has done as much as most men, while at the same time guiding Important business interests at Bar row, Eastbourne and elsewhere. He is now 70 years of age, and has been in Parliament since he was 24. STORY OF DOG TRAVELER. Small Coin Travels Around and Fin ally Returns to Owner. Take an ordinary copper cent piece, stamp It with a private mark, put it into circulation, and what are the chances that you will ever see it again? There is one man who says that he tried the trick and succeeded at it He is a business man, who refuses to al low his name to be used in print about the story, but he tells the tale to many of his friends, and he vouches for its truth. In 1894, he says, he found a cent piece dated. 1893 in the restaurant of the Lafayette Hotel. He pocketed it for luck, and as a memento of a jolly little dinner scratched his Initials on it just over the feathered head, while on the cheek he added those of the hotel. Until 1896 he treasured the coin, then drew it out of his pocket with a handful of other change, and before he realized it the cent piece had gone the mysterious way of all money. A year ago he chanced, being of a' curious turn of mind, to fall into con versation one evening with a profes sional beggar at Broad and Chestnut streets. He upbraided the man for getting so much money for nothing. "Oh," said the beggar, "I don't get so much. That's all I've got in th last hour," and he held up a cent piece. At that moment the electric light fell upon the coin, and' the business man, to- his amazement caught sight of the letters "H. L." on the cheek of the face. He took the coin and exam ined it more closely. Sure enough, there were his own initials just above the feathers, where he had placed them a half dozen years before. At once his prejudice against beg ging vanished. - '.'I'll give you a dollar for that coin," he cried. The beggar grew wary at his eager ness and demandjed $5. Needless to say he got it, and also, of course, the cent piece has never since left the business man's watch chain. Phila delphia Press. ' mlership was within his grasp in 1880, when Queen Victoria called him to form a ministry on Lord Beacons field's defeat. As Lord Hartington he vas elected leader of the Liberal par ty, and led for five years while Glad stone nominally rested In his tent. Lord Hartington was born to great uess, and did not covet honors; am bitions are without his sphere. And so with rare self-denial he called from the tent ami handed to him the wreath nnrj th nartv Dower he had built up. Sit vears later, when the home rule split came, he became by consent the leader of the Liberal unionists wno seceded. Lord Salisbury offered to serve under him if he would take the premiership. Again he refused. Whether he was considered last year when Mr. Balfour was chosen to suc teed Lord Salisbury is not known. Probably he was not, for three years before he spoke of retiring from po litical life, and it was not generally believed that his inclinations lay in the direction of party headship. An idea prevails that "the noble Duke," as the lords call him, is indo lent and indifferent. He may be in fllfferent as to his own advancement, for he has always been assured of more than apparently he craves for great wealth, high social position, seven mansions, an honored name in Was Raised oa Farm and Has Since Become Widely Known. Jack is the name of a dog that is known to everybody in Rushville, Ind., and which makes that place headquar ters while he travels to all the towns within thirty miles of it, says the In dianapolis News. He comes from an aristocratic family of spaniels and col lies and spent his earlier years on a farm.. He made occasional trips to town ' with the farmer in his youth and one day after the farmer's son gave him a whipping for disturbing eggs in a hen's nest Jack came to Rushville to live. He wandered about town for some days and then took up his quarters at a barn where an omnibus is sheltered and where he found friendly hands ready to aid him and when in Rush ville he seldom fails to go with the bus to the railroad station. " He was at the station one day when a tramp kicked him and Jack ran to the steps of a passenger coach and the train carried him away. He was gone for two weeks, when he came back on si train, took his old place on the bus and went back to the barn to live. , Jack made a trip by train to Cam bridge City a few days ago and when he returned on a freight train there was no bus at the station. He jumped on a dray and refused to get off until he had been hauled to town. The dog goes to Newcastle about once a week and he has his human friends there, who feed him "on the fat of the land," most of the food coming from hotels and restaurants. In Newcastle he makes his headquar ters at the postoflice, riding to and from the station in a mail wagon, guarding the pouches as he rides. He sleeps before the safe in the New castle postofflce and regards the of fice men as his friends. Seasonable for Ice Plant. "All kinds of vegetables are very backward this season," groaned the pinnacle of pessimism. "Well," said the optimistic object "at any rate, the ice plant is flourish ing." Baltimore American. Occasionally you see a stout middle aged woman who tries to look stylish by wearing a dress made with a yoke and buttoned up the back. "Was Ready to Fight. A well-known Portugese engineer, M. Mesnier, happened to be passing In his boat near the American squad ron, which is at present anchored 1n the1 Tagus, when he was nearly struck by an overripe apple which some one had hurled from the cruiser Brooklyn. An indignant remonstrance only drew from the sailors ,who were looking out a genial string of Yankee pleasantries. The irate engineer then pulled up to the cruiser and, denouncing the Amer icans as cowards, insisted that they should send his card to the command er, whom he formally challenged to. a dueL - '' . :.- This attitude quite won the hearts of the Americans, who, after freely apologizing for the exuberance of spir its which had led to his being offended, saw him off, now quite mollified, with a round of cheers. London Leader. BRAIN POWER. John BuO No wonder the bloomin' Americans get ahead; look at th XKrcrcs plant MIti enanolla Journal. - " ;