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.
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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.
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