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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
Conmeita and Critlciama Based TJpo
tli Happening of the Day Biatort
cal and Newa Note,
Any harness will chafe If 70a fret
In It..
The rule of the lowest must mean
the ruin of the highest.
If the flood came a grain some
churches would meet It with Overshoe
Socials.
Of more than 2,000 prisoners re
ceived at the Ohio State prison last
year not one could repeat the ten com
mandments. The problem of securing radium Is
not nearly so serious as would be the
problem of what to do with it If it
were common.
It Is said that only 5 per cent of the
Inhabitants of Colombia can read. That
lets a good many of them out on the
historical romance.
It is asserted that "golf Is making
a new man of John D. Rockefeller."
Some one ought to speak to the "new
man" about the high price of olL
Dr. Robert Collyer, In explaining his
longevity, says he always walked on
the sunny side of the street. Others
have tried that and been sunstruck.
Marie Corelli has been awarded dam
ages of half a cent in her libel suit
against an English editor. As a mat
ter of simple fairness Marie ought to
use the money for advertising pur
poses. Many a married man would like to
have the power of forgetfulness pos
sessed by the Oakland, CaL, man
whose excuse for becoming engaged
while having a wife was that the fact
had slipped her mind.
Miss Crabtree, who as "Lotta" was
once a stage favorite. Is reported to
have made several million dollars In
real estate deals. Miss Crabtree Is one
of the stage favorites for whom it will
apparently never be necessary to get
up benefits.
Discussion has recently been raised
again upon the old question whether
popular education Is not left too much
In the bands of women. No matter
what the pedagogical answer to that
question may be, one human fact is
certain: that to brave, patient, indus
trious women who have served in the
public schools for small salaries every
schoolboy, young or old, owes unend
ing debt
A great city church recently called
as its pastor a clergyman who Is 72
years old, and the act prompts the or
gan of one of the smaller denomina
tions to name seven famous members
of its own body who have been "look
ing for the ministerial dead-line for
forty years or more, and have not
found It" Probably the dead-line
moves about as fast as a man does;
but the paradox Is true that If he
stood still he would soon come up to It.
We are often too strict with young
people. They must have their fun, and
we must put our nerves In our pockets
and endure a reasonable amount of
noise and laughter. Children have
their rights and we should respect
them. They try to do right conscien
tiously, and do not get half the credit
they deserve, considering all the obsta
cles they find In their own natures
when they try to live up to our Ideal
of a good child an Ideal which they in
their inmost soul despise and only tol
srate through affectionate respect for
their elders. All mothers say "Don't"
too often. Tolerance, patience and tact
will settle many difficulties.
Neglect to train children In some
useful employment Is essentially an
American sin. They order things bet-,
ter in Europe. There every one must
know how to do something, men and
w i.ien, plebeians and those of the
l iioil royaL The present King of Eng
land is a bookbinder by trade and
served hla apprenticeship just like any
one else. It Is said that he can do no
mean Job yet There are princesses
who are dairy maids, cooks, florists and
the like. In this country the Idle
youth develops Into a manhood of In
aptitude and helplessness to be tossed
about on the waste waters of desola
tion. To prevent this it may yet be
necessary for the government to supply
the deficiencies of parents and guard
ians and make each young man self
supporting. The complete emancipation of true
womanhood certainly means that a
man must eventually expect to go Into
the kitchen and look after other do
mestic arrangements while his wife is
pursuing dignified business down
town, but we submit that the woman,
returning In the evening, has no right
to maul her husband and haul him
before a justice on a charge of "dis
orderly conduct" because he made
$7.50 run the house for only two
weeks. We are pleased to see that
Justice Mahoney of Chicago has taken
this general view of the situation, and
has discharged Mr. Buchholz from the
resentment of his Infuriated wife. It
may be that Mr. Buchholz was a trifle
slack In some particulars, but after
all $7.50 for two weeks' household ex
penses would seem to be a creditable
showing, considering te small space
of time in which true manhood has
had opportunity to study domestic
economy. You cannot emancipate a
man from his luxurious ideas In a
month or a season, and we trust that
our emancipated sisters will be a little
easy with us until we have had more
experience In the great affairs of the
kitchen and the upstairs work. A wise
wife does not necessarily spoil the
husband when she spares the mop
handle, and a burnt chop does not of
lfself constitute disorderly conduct
Have yon good health? And a fam
ily to support? Then you are rich.
Health Is wealth. It Is more than cap
ital. More than labor. It Is both
combined. It Is ability, 'opportunity,
; success.' Without It the rlthest man
Is poor. With It the poorest clan Is
wealthy. The trouble with most of
us Is that we do not know how to
make a proper Inventory of the best
things of life. We lose sense of pro
portion. We put some things too high
and others too low. We put "money,
ease, luxury too high and good health
too low. We forget that many a
wealthy man would give thousands for
a good stomach. And' your family.
There's wealth for you. An Incum
brance? A burden on your back?
Man alive, there's where you lose your
clear sense of the things that are
worth while In life. One of the great
est needs of human life is incentive
something to live for. The man who
bears none of the burdens of family
may boast of bis liberty but the time
will come when he feels the vanity of
existence. There is no stern necessity
upon him. Likewise there is no dl-.
vine incentive. As the years multiply
the emptiness of life appalls him. The
cry comes to his lips,.., "What's the,
use?" But you: You have an incen
tive the greatest a man can have a
wife and children. Life can never
lose Its Initiative for you. You have
something to' live for, strive for, die
for! Look into the answering face of
your wife and Into the faces of your
children. How rich you are I Is It not
so? Sometimes you say your lot is
hard. Some persons get on In the
world easier than you. But do they
get the best out of life? May they ,
not be striving for the lesser things?
You are rich. And don't know It!
That's pitiful.
Nothlntr better Illustrates our pro
gress in things dietetic than the con-'
troversy of. the doctors over the nutri
tive value of Ice cream. Perhaps it is
wrong to call It a "controversy," for
most physicians appear to have aban- j
donedthe old-time contention that the
congealed milk fat is "poison." In
deed, there appears to be general
agreement on the proposition that in
certain kinds of ailments, particularly
In fevers, ice cream may be eaten
with , positive benefit to the patient
Time was when the fever patient was
even denied cold water. Now the doc
tor not only gives the fever-stricken
sufferer all the cold water he wants,
but they quite frequently pack him in
ice. All of which shows that therapy
is an experimental science, and that
the wise doctor is not bound by the
traditions of the past But what the
doctor believes and what the food
expert will sanction are quite often
two distinct" propositions. When the
national commission of food experts,
appointed under act of Congress to fix
standards of purity for food products,
reached ice cream it balked at the job.
It found little difficulty in fixing stand
ards for milk, cream, butter, meats
and spices, but when it came to the
frozen delicacy that has reached such
an enormous sale in this country it
hesitated and pondered. To say that
Ice cream must have fixed percentages
of milk-fat and milk-sugar and certain
kinds of flavoring would be to rule out
"brick" Ice cream, which is given sol
idity by the use of rolled crackers or
corn starch, and many other kinds of
Ice cream which could not be charac
terized as unwholesome. If the com
mission; of experts tackles the ice
cream question at all It should set a
standard of purity for the cream that
is to be used In the manufacture of the
delicacy and should set the seal of dis
approval upon flavoring extracts and
adulterants that are known to be dele
terious. SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
Stamp of Prominence la to Appear In
the "Always Invited" List.
Ten years have brought a number
of changes to Washington society. The
dignified old Southerners who made
up the residential set have been li
vened and freshened, and, if the truth
must be told, sometimes pushed to
the rear by the influx of rich men who
have built or are building palaces
around the circles. In addition to
this, there are now for the first time
adequate apartment-houses and hotels
for the man who desires to spend the
winter In Washington and live in the
same comfort and luxury he has at
home.
The diplomatic society was never
more pleasant than to-day. . There are
more ambassadors and younger ones,
and the attaches seem to be in great
demand. Official society is predicated
always on the President of course.
Mr. Roosevelt is the greatest enter
tainer at the White House since the
days of President Arthur.
The stamp of social prominence
not worth, perhaps, but prominence
In Washington is to appear In the "al
ways invited" list at the White House.
Some strange people get on this list
through political exigencies, but the
real ones get there, too.
Washington is a dinner-giving city.
One never dines at his own home
there, even down to the humbler cir
cles of society, unless one is giving a
dinner to his friends. Invitations go
out weeks ahead, and the society of
Senators and other officials, the diplo
mats, the army and navy men, to say
nothing of the millionaires who enter
tain all these and their wives, are at
great straits to distribute themselves
properly. Each winter the season Is
more brilliant than the one before.
Collier's Weekly.
Hindu English Experiments,
Lady Curzon, who was Miss Letter
of Chicago, gets a lot of fun out of her
live in India. Among other fads, it is
said that she makes a point of coir
lecting any amusing attempts made
by Hindus to write English that come
under her notice, and has many ludi
crous specimens in her scrap-book. Re
cently she got from Bombay a letter
that two brothers sent out to their
patrons on the death of their father,
who had been the head of the firm.
The letter ran: "Gentlemen We have
the pleasure to inform you that our
respected father departed this life on
the 10th lnst His business will be
conducted by bis beloved sons, whose
names are given below. The opium
market is quiet, and mal. 1,500 rupees
per chest O death, where Is thy
stlng? O grave, where Is thy victory?
We remain," etc Leslie's Weekly.
A man may be able to trade his repu
tation for money, but he can't trade
back.
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
How Many Meals a Day?
AYE yon ever taken time
plicity of the theories nowadays with regard to
che number of meals that should fill out the
lay's fare and the hours at which they should
ae eaten? If you have done this the probability
is that you emerged from the study In arith
metic convinced that It makes precious little
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difference what a man is doing as long as he is possessed
of a sufficient amount of faith In the line he Is following.
For you can easily call to mind half a dozen of your
acquaintances who say that their health has Improved one
hundred per cent since they cancelled their breakfasts and
took to eating a rather hearty luncheon. And within sound
of your voice are as many other persons who declare they
never knew what perfect health meant till they cut out
the mid-day meal altogether, allowing a satisfying break
fast and a not too late dinner to cover the amount of food
consumed through the day. Then come to your mind the
lusty exponents of the theory that five meals a day are
none too many to keep the body in fuel, and another set
who gloat over the robust condition they have wooed and
won through clinging to a regimen that allows but one
square meal a day.
And If you feel to take a firm stand for or against any
one article of food or drink and are looking for examples
to help you to a decision; you can get quite as much con
fused In any attempt to decide who has the rights of the
case with him. One will tell you he cannot drink coffee be
cause It affects him in such and such a way, while an
other will tell you that he never could get through his
day's work without Its gently stimulating Influence, and
that he knows It benefits him because he always sleeps
like a baby after drinking it late at night Going through
the list of things that men eat and drink you will find the
same pros and cons apply, and It becomes fearfully bewil
dering before you get half through the list. So, If you
care to search the records of food causes that medical
journals have championed, say, for the last century, you
will find that what was blest In one decade was decried
in the next And then you know you aren't the only one
who has been almost swamped by contradictory evidence in
the case of the people vs. food. " When, however," you get
where you are convinced that some
principle underlies these differences which are after all
only superficial, and then undertake to study this princi
ple, and Its ramifications, you are bound to have your first
real satisfaction from the problem, though you probably
will not be able- to get off the fence In
this aspect of it Boston Transcript
Better Rural Schools.
TTOTTT.T not th coimtrv achnnla of an norlfMil-
S I rural community aim to give
Ian education as will be most
m farm 1 1 fck 0 To Viata anv rrrvl
should as far as possible try to copy town
schools? On the contrary, should they not
aim to do a different work from the school
whose pupils will spend their lives in the
or professional pursuits?
The rural school problem is the most
confronts educators to-day. The people of the farms are
the bone and sinew of the republic, yet they are not af
forded educational advantages which begin to compare
with those of the town and city. While the cities have
their up-to-date education methods, their manual training
schools, and other things to fit the young for the various
pursuits of city life, all of which have been evolved in re
cent years, the rural school of to-day is little in advance
of those of a generation" or two ago.
Agriculture itself has advanced more
century than It did before In ten centuries, and the new
rural school ought to teach the new things of agriculture,
as far as possible. The plan which has been evolved for
the consolidation of rural schools is excellent as far as it
goes, but it is only one step in the. proper direction.. It
will afford an opportunity to disseminate to the farmers
In a practical manner some of the
agricultural sciences have brought out
DO FISH LIVE IN DEAD SEA?
There la aa Apparent Disagreement
Among Those Who Ought to Know.
It has long been understood by the
public generally that fish do not live
In the Dead Sea, but It would seem
that there, is a difference of opinion
among men of science as to the fact.
Emile Malson writes In Cosmos an ar
ticle on the subject which Is condensed
as follows:
The prevalent error, according to
which the water of this interior sea
Is quiet and Incapable of agitation,
seems to have arisen from the name
It has retained for centuries. This er
ror should no longer exist now that
trustworthy travelers have told us of
the huge waves that break on Its
shores during storms.
The retention of the primitive name
(Dead Sea) is due to the fact which is
perfectly certain and well known, that
no living creature neither fish, crus
tacean nor mollusk can live in its
waters, with the exception of certain
Inferior organisms. This fact is at
tested by the death of the fish carried
In by the Jordan, whose bodies serve
as food for the birds that fly over the
lake in violation of tradition.
Accordingly I was surprised the
other day to read In a well-known
Journal of natural science the follow
ing note under the heading, "The
Stocking of the American Salt Lakes
with Fish":
"Up to the present the Dead Sea has
been regarded as wanting In fish; the
saltiness of Its waters has seemed to
preclude the development of animal
life. But fish have now been discov
ered in other salt lakes in the neigh
borhood of the streams that flow into
it So the United States fish commis
sion has taken the necessary measures
to introduce more than a million of
shad fry into the Great Salt Lake of
Utah. As the affluents reduce the den
sity of the water to a great distance
from their mouths, It Is hoped that the
fish will become easily acclimated and
that they will go up the tributaries to
spawn."
Now, since the fish carried down by
the Jordan are asphyxiated when they
have scarcely reached the Dead Sea,
how can the fish of the other tributary
streams be acclimated in this furnace?
The water boils at 105 degrees C. (221
degrees F.), and the magnesium chlo
ride gives it a detestable taste. Add
the chloride of sodium and calcium
and then bromid to taste, and perhaps
we may realize that even salt water
fish cannot live In such an element
though it is perfectly limpid.
A bath In Dead Sea water enables
one to realize the difference In den
sity between this water and that of
seas in general or that of fresh Water
lakes. Eggs float in it The human
body being lighter than the water of
the Dead Sea, swimming In it Is diffi
to reckon the multi
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cult, the head alone tending to sink in
the water.
At any rate, If the Mormons, or rath
er the Americans, who have under
taken to stock the Utah lake have been
inspired by the example of the Dead
Sea, what a strange delusion truly.
Someone, doubtless standing on the
banks of the - Jordan, has naively
thought that the fishes caught in this
river, though the shad is unknown
there, were fishes that had ascended
the stream from the Dead Sea, It was
but a simple April-fool fish (poisson
d'Avril) at which a scientist has bit
ten. THE SCAT TERATION 1ST.
How Sims Settlement Became a Model
of Decentralization.
Sims settlement was beginning to
feel Itself a place of importance. The
chief road had a fence on both sides
of it for over a mile, and a blaze on a
large tree was already ordered with
the official inscription "Main street."
There had been talk of the possibility
of a store, and local pride broke forth
in noble eruption when a meeting was
called to petition for a postoffice. The
wisdom, worth and wealth of the place
were represented by old Sims. He was
a man of advanced ideas, the natural
leader of the community, and after all
the questions had been duly discussed,
the store and postoffice resolved upon,
the question of who was to run them
came up. There were several aspirants,
but old Sims led the meeting, express
ing the majority and crushing the
minority -In a brief but satisfactory
speech:
"Fust of all, boys, I'm opposed to
this yer centerin' of everything in one
place. Now that's jest what hez been
the room of England; that is why Lon
don ain't never amounted to nothin'
everything at London. London is En
gland; England is London. If London
s took, England 's took, says I, an'
that hez been, her rooln.
"The Idee of House o' Lords an'
House o' Commons In the same town!
It ain't fair, I tell ye; if s a hog trick.
Why didn't they give some little place
a chance Instead o' buildln' up a blast
In' monopoly like that? Same thing
hez rooined New York, an' I don't
propose to hev our town rooined at the
start.
"Now, I say no man hez any right
to live on the public. 'Live an' let
live, says I; an' if we let one man run
this yer store, it's tantamount to mak
in' the others the slaves of a monop
oly. Every man he as much, right as
another to sell goods, an' there Is only
one fair way to do It an' that Is give
all a chance; an' sence it falls to me
to make a suggestion, I says, let Bill
Jones thar sell the tea; let lice Yates
her the sugar; Smithers kin handle
the salt; Deacon Blight seems natural
ly adapted for the vinegar; an the oth
er claims kin be considered later. I'll
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which are now only obtainable In the agricultural colleges.
The rural school teacher to-day gets the same training
that is given the city school teacher, and It is all designed
for the city school teacher. The average country school
teacher knows nothing practical about plant life, the chem
istry of soils, and other things which the farmers of the
future ought to know.. The country teacher should be
trained to teach these things and to Instill In the hearts of
the pupils a love for the things of the farm Instead of
those of the city. When this is done there will be less
anxiety on the part of the country boy and girl to rush oft
to the town or city.
It will probably take years to evolve a rural school
system along these lines, but It certainly should be done,
and how to do It Is the chief problem before educators to
day. Topeka State Journal . ,
Danger Gives Amusement,
T would- seem as if no amusements wherein
some element of danger does not enter are ever
thoroughly enjoyed. We English folk may take
our pleasures sadly' In the bulk, but when they
are of an out-door nature there Is no doubt
whatever that they cannot be too exciting or
too dangerous to please us. It is just because
motoring is full of the possibilities of mishaps that it has
become so enormously popular, especially with women,
who are ever more ready to face death in pursuit of pleas
ure, -despite the fact that they are always described as
bundles of nerves. Alpine guides declare that women are
quite as Intrepid as men when dangerous peaks are to
be climbed; and when every one "cycled It was invariably
the girls of the party who rode the fastest, risked the
worst hills, and braved the thickest traffic. While the pluck
of English women is to .be admired on flood and field, it Is
always just as well to keep before them the fact that the
lives of others are sometimes placed In jeopardy by this
very intrepidity. Foolhardy expeditions, reckless driving
and riding, carelessness on the river and a general disre
gard of danger signals and the advice of those who know,
too often mean not only personal risk and accident but
danger, and maybe death, to others. London World.
The Young Men of To-Day. '
HE vounsr men of to-dav are too flnlckv too
ii "V I much given to self-analysis, too self-pamper-I
I ing. Their shoes and neckties cost them more
t:ajn jrvrai luau uiu Liitr cume naiuiuuc ui
their grandfathers. They feel a sense of degra
dation in small beginnings and plodding, and
they wait for. success ready made to come to
them. There is not a young man in the country who would
Imitate Ben Franklin, and march through the streets
munching a loaf of bread while looking for employment.
He dares not Indeed, because society has become also fin
icky, and be would be arrested as a tramp: ' The young
man of to-day wants capital. Trusts and combines and
corporations distress him. He cannot be president of a
bank or judge of a court the first week he is from school,
and he feels like the famous Ell Pussley, that he has "no
chance." Philadelphia Inquirer-
Make the Indian a. Citizen.
UMERICALLY the Indian Is not decreasing.
Nl and politically he grows more and more of . a
, I burdensome question. He threatens to be a
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ternal development absorbing good materials
that ought to go to our healthier advance and
turning them Imto abnormal relations for both
red and white man. If the Indian can learn the way to
boodle he can learn the way to honest independence. He
is a creature with sound brains and sound members. Let
him be given the fair chance to exploit his brains for him
self and be removed from the relation of isolated and
grown-up infancy to which he is now assigned. There
would be no talk of scandals In our Indian department
then. Minneapolis Times.
take the postoffice myself down to my
own farm. Now that's fair to all."
There was no flaw In the logic; it
was most convincing. Those who
would fight found themselves without
a weapon, and Scatteration ; Flat be
came a model of decentralization.
Work? Oh, yes, it works. Things
get badly mixed at times, and it takes
a man all day to buy his week's gro
ceries; but old Sims says it works.
Moral: The ben goes chickiess that
scatters Its eggs. Century.
Bk.ee Runners of the West.
During the last ten years skeeing
has grown to be almost as much of a
winter sport in the northern and north
western States as tobogganing in Can
ada, says Country Life in America.
Where the snowfall, as in Oregon, Ne
vada, Michigan and. Wisconsin, lies on
the ground for weeks together, to the
depth of several feet, skees virtually
bcome the life preservers of the in
habitants. They furnish the only
means by which the mail carriers can
reach the inaccessible and outlying
mountain districts of the Rockies.
Skees differ radically from the Cana
dian or Indian snowshoe. They are
about seven feet long, ' four inches
broad, and taper from, an Inch thick
at the center to three-quarters.
The western skee-runner can cover
on an average about four to eight
miles an hour, going up and down
hill. Down hill an experienced runner
can let himself go, but for a beginner
it would be like turning on the clutch
valve of an automobile without know
ing where the brake was.
Skees were first known to have been
used in the thirteenth century. Eight
centuries passed before the trappers,
lumbermen and woodchoppers t of
America learned the vast superiority
of the skee over the Canadian snow
shoe. In a century more the latter
will be looked at In museums as the
clumsy Implement of the bygone age.
The Time far Economy.
"See here, Edgar," said the groom's
mother, "don't you think you two had
better economize a little?"
"No, mother," replied the groom;
"it isn't time yet"
"It Isn't time yet?" -
"No; we've still got some of our
savings. In about .three' months we'll
be broke and have to economize."
Philadelphia Press.
Trouble in the Families.
Nodd Wilkins has had a lot of
trouble with his wife, hasn't he?
Todd Yes. Why, I believe it was
on their account that he had to sep
arate from his typewriter. Town
Topics.
A Thousand Tears from Now,
Small Boy Mother, is it true that
we are descended from people who
walked? Life.
Heroic measures are often misfits.
THE TURKEY'S FLIGHT.
Funr Incident of General Wanhing
tan's Visit to Bedford in 1794.
The stone dwelling on the corner of
the village square in Bedford was then
occupied by William McDermett a
Scotchman, and his English wife.
He was the pioneer among steel man
ufacturers in this country, and his wife
was a woman of birth, breeding and
quite unusual education, who had left
wealth and ease to follow the for
tunes of the man she loved. Very va
ried fortunes they were; but of all
the strange tales of her experiences
with which she delighted her children
and grandchildren, the one oftenest
demanded was this true story of Presi
dent Washington's turkey. Such a tur
key! one that by good luck and good
management had arrived at the very
acme of perfection exactly at this
most auspicious time. With what a -mighty
spread of pinions had he flown
straight to the hunter's lure! And no
bly had the marksman met his en
thusiastic desire to render up his life
for Washington; no stray shot would
be found among the tender meat to
disconcert his excellency. Could the
turkey himself have selected the one
in all that region best qualified to
contribute to the glory of his taking
off, undoubtedly Mrs. McDermett
would have been his choice. There-'
fore we may feel confident that when
General Washington and his staff sat
down at dinner, it was with well justi
fied complacency that their host pre
pared to carve the piece de resistance
when it should be placed before him.
Between the kitchen and the dining
room was a passage lighted by one
window, about the height of a man's
shoulder, and an alleyway ran along
this side of the house. The window
was open, and through it for hours,
had been wafted a mingling of deli
cious odors as the preparations for the
dinner progressed.
Just at the moment when the hos
tess was carrying the turkey through
this narrow passage, prepared to make
a triumphal entry into the dining
room, a soldier's arm was thrust
through the window, a hand seized
the bird by the legs, and in a twin
kling Mrs. McDermett was left star
ing at an empty dish, while flying feet
beat the road as the hungry thief (
made off with- his prize.
Poor Mrs. McDermett, thus robbed
of her turkey and her triumph at the
very crowning moment of success,
after a pause of helpless consterna
tion, marched bravely forward to face
her husband's chagrin, her guests' dis
appointment, and Washington's ah!
what would President Washington
think or say?
Putting down the empty platter be
fore the astounded host amid the
quizzical surprise of the staff-officers,
she told her story of the soldier-thief,
and then, overcome with mortification,
turned with a sob to apologize to
Washington. Arising from his place,
he took her hand and gallantly kissed
it, saying: "Think no more of it, my
dear madam." with a motion toward
the well furnished table; "surely I can j
say with your countryman,' Sir Philip
Sidney, 'His need is greater than
mine'.' " !
It is no wonder that in after years,
Mrs. McDermett avowed that to be
thus consoled by General Washington
was well worth all the chagrin and
embarrassment that had been caused
by the sudden loss of the turkey.
St Nicholas.
JUDICIAL. DECISIONS.
A chartered street railroad is held.
in Savannah, T. & I. H. R. Company
vs. Williams (Ga.), 61 L. R. A. 249, to
be a "railroad company" within the,
meaning of a statute making railroad
companies liable to one servant for in- j
juries inflicted by the negligence of a;
fellow servant.
A subscription contract to pay money
for the cost of a railroad in consider
ation of its equipment and the running
of trains on or before a specified date
is held, in Garrison vs. Cooke (Tex.),
61 L. R. A. 342, not to be enforceable
if the road is not completed by the
time specified, since time is of the es
sence of the contract
The construction of a roundhouse for
the housing of engines, and leasing it
for that purpose, are held, in Louisville
& N. Terminal Co. vs. Jacobs (Tenn.),
61 L. R. A. 188, not to render the
owner liable for a nuisance created
by the manner in which It is used, if
Improper, ,and not ordinary, use of it
is necessary to make it a nuisance.
Where property intended to be cov
ered by the policy has been destroyed
and its owner has received from other
Insurers more than its value it is held,
in Insurance Co. of North America vs.
Schall (Md.), 61 L. R. A. 300, that
equity will not compel the issuance of
a policy of insurance in accordance
with the provisions of a contract to in
sure. '...-.-
Good faith on the part of the appli
cant for Insurance in denying the ex
istence of a bodily infirmity is held, in
Standard Life and A. Ins. Co. vs. Sale
(C. C. A. 6th C), 61 L. R. A. 337, not to
prevent its rendering the policy void,
where the policy expressly states that'
if a statement of its non-existence shall ;
be untrue in any respect the policy
shall be null and void.
Land in possession of persons pros
pecting for oil thereon with the inten-
Hon of locating it as mineral land is
held, in (Josmos nixpiorauon company
vs. Gray Eagle Oil Company (C. C. A.
9th C), 61 L. R. A. 230, not to be
vacant and open to settlement within
the meaning of an act of Congress per
mitting the exchange thereof for land
within a forest reserve, although no
oil or mineral is known to exist there
in, and no claim thereto appears on the
records of the land-office.
Not Very Ixmd.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay drift
ed into the lobby of the Arlington in
Washington in a spic and span new
suit of clothes, and a Southern mem
ber of Congress congratulated him up
on his appearance.
"Good fit eh?" said Quay, much
pleased.
"Fit! Sets better'n a hen, Senator!"
was the reply.
There's only one excuse for buying
on credit and that is the hope that the
merchant will forget to charge your
purchase.
feSiivention
I VwVWVVVVVVA
While workmen were excavating un
der a house in Salisbury Square, Lon
don, recently, they came upon a nearly
complete skull of a woolly Siberian,
rhinoceros. Although the lower jaw
is missing, the specimen Is the finest
and most perfect ever discovered out
side of the Siberian tundra. The find
was made In a bed of peat and near
by other bones, believed to have be
longed to some other species of rhinoc
eros, were unearthed. It is a far cry
backward to the days when Englaad
was the home of such animals.
' Much interest has lately been,
aroused in London by two surgical
operations which have resulted In a
marked change of character in the pa
tients. One was that of a boy of good
family who had developed strangely
brutal instincts. A clever surgeon ex
amined him with care, located what
he considered the seat of the trouble,
removed a piece of the skull, and thus
relieved the deforming pressure. The
lad was restored to his parents a nor
mal and lovable child. The other case
was that of a soldier who, after an in
jury in a skirmish, developed a propen
sity for theft An operation on the
brain cured him.
Professor W. W. Watts, the English
geologist, strongly advocates a new
geological survey of England, which,
shall do as much to make known the
subterranean world there as existing
surveys have done to make known that
which lies on and near the surface
This demand grows out of the ever-"
recurring question of the approaching
exhaustion of the British coal fields.
Professor Watts says that there Is still
an area of concealed coal fields left,
possibly at least as large and product
ive as those already explored, but to
develop them work will have to be
done at a depth of thousands instead
of hundreds of feet The first step
must be systematic and detailed ex
ploration of these Invisible fields under
the guidance of scientific principles.
The sting of a bee has long been
regarded by the poorer agricultural
classes of Europe as a cure of rheuma
tism. Dr. Perc, of Marburg, Germany,
has recently been advocating its effi
cacy before a brilliant gathering of
physicians, to whom he declared that
he thoroughly tested the treatment and
demonstrated its efficiency in five hun
dred cases. If a bee stings a person
suffering from rheumatism, the stung
part does not swell until the bee poi
son has been frequently introduced,
when the rheumatic pain vanishes. Dr.
Perc's modeof procedure is to allow his
patients to be stung at first by a few
bees, gradually Increasing the number.
Dr. Perc asserts that by this treatment
he has cured patients suffering from
obstinate and most painful rheuma
tism. At recent world's fairs, as at Paris
and Buffalo, wheeled chairs, for the
conveyance about the grounds of peo
ple unable to walk or desirous of tak
ing things easy, have been a feature.
According to the Electrical World such
chairs will appear at the St. Louis fair
In the form of automobiles. There are
two large wheels behind and two small
ones under the footrest. The motive
power is supplied by storage batteries.
The uniform speed is three miles an
hour, which cannot be increased by the
operator. The steering, starting and
stopping are under the rider's control,
and a "sensitive rail," surrounding the
chair at the front and sides. Is so ar
ranged that on meeting any obstruc
tion amounting to a single pound's
pressure it immediately locks the
wheels and automatically stops t the
chair.
PICTURE POST CARDS.
Fad la Being: O-rerdone in Most of the
European Cities.
If you want to see the post-card
mania with all the current turned on,
visit one of the interior cities of Eu
rope say of southern Germany or of
Switzerland. At the station restaurant
the waiter will place a plate of post
cards in front of you as a sort of in
troduction. When you take the bill to
the desk you find that the young lady
who acts as cashier has a much better
collection of cards than the soup plate
ful supplied by the waiter. On the
way to the hotel the driver takes his
official drive card out. of a vest pocket
of the carriage, and with it a collection
of post cards illustrating the beautiful
drives around the city. He is looking
for business, and has been so nice
about It and his charge of 1 franc for
you and your bag has been so moder
ate, that you cannot resist buying a
few post cards just to help him along.
But not until you reach your hotel are
you really Introduced to the post-card
business. Here the concierge, the man
who talks all languages and who un
derstands all knowledge and all mys
teries, controls the market. The head
porter has cards, the second porter has.
cards, the twenty-seventh porter has
cards, the man who handles your bag
gage and who works for the twenty
seventh porter has cards, boots has
cards, and boots' first assistant has
cards. Cards are served with your
after dinner coffee, snd the maid who
does up your room leaves a little pack- ,
aire on vour dressing table for you to
look at Then you go on the street and
you find shop after shop given over ex
clusively to post cards. Booklovers"
Magazine.
Woman's Bad Aim.
Tom I thought he would marry the
widow.
Dick Oh, no! I believe she didn't
strike him at all. .
Tom Why, I understand she simply
threw herself at his head.
Dick No doubt that's why she
didn't strike him. Philadelphia
Ledger.
When a woman attempts to work off
a ten-word compliment on a man she
always spoils the effect by making a
serial story of it
Rich men have their country places,
but poor men must be satisfied with,
farms. - .
It's almost as difficult to hide' a
cough as it Is to hide love. "