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THE FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL. C I-O T H E S A B U SIN ESS A S S E Ï. SORRY PRACTICAL JOKES. S e lf - S u p p o r tlU K M o u n tII W h o W o u ld S u c e e e d » U o u l d n t- \\ |-1I H r r a . v d , C s s r l t l f a « a p p o s e d t o He H u n. leou s In s p ir e d b y E v i l N w ln rss, SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY Any woman who has her way to Brazil is th e coffee grow in g cou ntry m ake in the world, w h eth er In social of th e world. or business circles, m ust recognize (hat dres s is one oi lier chief assets, a T he bamboo tree does not bloom un til its t h i r t ie t h year. w rite r in the Delineator says. The A full grow n cat h a s th i r t y teeth, efficiency of a saleswoman, u stenog rapher, a teacher—in fact, of any while a (log has forty-two. woman who works—la Judged by her A n u r s e r y for the children of pa dress. Shabblm-ss is alm ost always tro n s is connected w ith a Glasgow ta k e n as a sign of ill-success and it is th eater. a po p u lar if somewhat fallacious the T w enty th ou sand dollars w orth of ory t h a t real merit and ability always rose leaves were im po rted d u rin g the succeed. decade en din g 1908. Carele ssness Is quite as blighting to G erm any, G reat B rltla n and the one's prospects as shabbiness. It may United S tates produce four-fifths of th e not be alto gether just or fair, but It is w orld’s supply of pig iron. tr u e th a n wherever you go your so C anada produces n e a rly one-half the cial position, your income, success or w orld’s ru p p ly of m ap le sugar, about failure, y o u r ability and c h a racter are a p p raised by the clothes you wear, if 18,000,000 pounds ann ually. F re n c h th e a te rs receiving govern 1 were s ta rtin g in business— I don't care in w h at capacity—and had only a m e n t subsidies a re obliged to give a very little money to Invest, I would free p erform an ce every year. put it into clothes clothes th a t were G u atem a la now r a n k s next to B r a suitable, attractive and well made. It zil in Im portance as the source of the is w hat financiers call "a good ris k ”— supply of coffee. E cu ad o r is rapidly an in vestm ent th at is alm ost certain ex p an d in g is cocoa production. to t u r n out well. These two b attles h ip s au tho rized by I don ’t for a m om ent advocate ex th e last congress, w hich will be laid trav ag an ce in dress except for women down next fall, will c a r r y h eavier b a t of large means. With them e x tr a v a teries th a n a n y o th er w arsh ip s afloat gance is more than excusable— it is or ordered by any nation. justifiable, it keeps money in circula T h ere a r e valuable race horses in tion th a t would otherwise be idle. It E ng lan d w hich have teeth filled w ith gives legitimate employment, which gold. It is too risk y to have such Is the wisest and most beneficent form horses suffer, an d go off th e i r feet of charity , to women who need work. I am 6 y ears old. It is my first day In school. It Is all so strange, I B ut for women In m oderate circum when racin g tim e approaches. g u ess I w an t to go home rig h t off. The boys all stare and stare. The g irls An old Scotswoman w as advised by stan ces a parsimonious a ttitu d e to a ll sm ile an d smile. The room is so big. T h ere is such a lot of books and her m in is te r to take snuff to keep h e r w ard dress is a false and often fatal desks and chairs. T h ere is such a big crowd. They say I will not be let go self aw ak e d u rin g th e sermon. She economy. If you want to succeed In home for two hours. I know m y A B C . Ma ta u g h t me. B ut there is a a n y th in g , look successful, able, com answ ered b risk ly : “W hy d ln n a ye put g re a t big lot in all th e m books, a n d I have got to learn it all. Then they petent. Otherwise you can n ever in will teach me out of some more big books, years an d years, and when I (he snuff In th e sermon, m on?” spire confidence in others, and to look a m as big as Ma, I will be done w ith school. Oh! the world is so big! It According to official figures, the successful, prosperous, assured, you ta k e s so long to grow up- I am such a wee th in g in this big crowd of boys n u m b e r of m e rc h a n t m a r in e steam ers m u s t be well dressed. an d g irls I feel lost. I w an t my Ma. I w a n t to go home. Now, I guess I of J a p a n a t th e end of last year was will cry.— D etroit Times. 1,618. Of these 101 w ere s team ers of more th an th ree th o u s an d tons. The O beranim ergau passion plays Inches long an d m ore th a n th ree Inches in diam eter. T he petals are will be given next year, from May 11 pointed an d spread in series out to S eptem ber 25. The b u rg o m a s te r is of a deep center. T he flower gives off sued a notice th e o th er day rem in d in g a delicate and p leasant perfume. Mrs. th e m en th a t th ey m u s t now let th e ir McAllister doesn’t know how old the h a ir grow long. plant is. She h a s had it six years. In 1905 th e average dally prison pop "T h e w om an from whom I got th e ulation of R ussia w as 85,000. L ast T h e sw iftest of the sm aller b irds Is th e V irg in ia rain p ip er, which h as ac p lan t had it several years,” said Mrs. F e b ru a r y it had increased to 181,137. co m plished m easu red flights of 7,500 McAllister the o th er day, but she did The great m a jo rity of th e in m ates a re not tell me how long. She grew tired political offenders, confined w ithou t y a r d s in a minute. J a p a n has completed and published of keeping it, w aitin g for it to bloom. tr ia l or hope of being heard. In searching about for the causes of I do no t know w h e th e r th e plant Is Professor Korn of Munich has estab a geological survey of Korea, tog eth er vario u s diseases, m odern m en of w ith a detailed account of its m ines 100 y ears old or not, or w h eth er th is lished s ta tio n s of distan ce photograph y Is th e tim e for It to bloom and th en a t Berlin, Munich, P aris, London, Co science have found th a t not a few ail and m in e ra l resources. m ents arise from poisons m ade by rest for a century. U ntil now th e r e T h e A rg e n tin a d ep a rtm e n t of hy has not been a sign of a bud on It d u r penhagen an d Stockholm. He believes ourselves, or at least made w ith in our giene ac ts as referee in cases of dis ing th e six years we have had It. The it will soon be possible to ta k e pictures own bodies. This process is appro puted professional accounts between bud sta rte d m ore t h a n a m o nth ago. a t a distance not only of individuals p riately called autointoxication, or bu t of groups and scenes. p h y sic ia n s and patients. seli-poisonlng. In o th er diseases, At first it advanced very slowly, bu t T h ere a re h a rd tim e s ah ead for again, there is no m a n u f a c tu r e A caloric is a m etric u n it of heat, d u rin g th e last week it grew rapidly of Chicago's public school " f ra ts " and so e q u iv a le n t to th e h e a t necessary to poison, but th e r e is a m a la d ju s tm e n t rorities. The president of the board of of parts, or m ore or loss deformity, raise th e te m p e ra tu re of a g ram m e of education, despite the fact th a t he has the effects of w hich the system en w a te r 1 degree, centigrade. a son an d a d a u g h te r who have be deavors to correct, w ith the result of T u rp e n ti n e will resto re to th e i r o rig longed to them , declares th a t he has a stra in to th e nervous system th a t in al w h iten ess piano keys th a t have no use for them, and th e new su per oftentim es spells ru in to health or t u r n e d yellow, w hile hot v in eg ar will in te n d e n t of schools, Mrs. Ella Flagg even to reason. rem o v e p a in t stain s from glass. Young, Is stro ng In her opposition. In testin al a u tointo xication is one of T h e la rg e st ele ctrical cooking de A woman who recently applied to th e greatest p roducers of morbid symp vice in th e world is an oven a t M ar the L am beth g u ard ian s for relief said to m s or actu a l diseases, ru n n in g from seilles, F ran ce, w hich is heate d by th a t for th e last th ree m o n th s she and headache, dizziness and indigestion to c u r r e n t s passing th r o u g h resistance h e r five children had lived re n t free by various m e n ta l disturbances, nervous colls. " s q u a tt in g ” in the rooms of empty breakdow n or even actual Insanity. The Arostook F alls in Maine have Self-poisoning from the waste prod houses. In Lam beth th e r e a re many been h arnessed to produce ele ctricity ucts that o u g h t to be elim inated Bucb houses which have reverted to to o p erate a railro a d and fu r n is h th e duchy of Cornwall and people are th roug h the kidney s is also very com pow er for k n it ti n g m ills in th e vicin perm itted to occupy the places until mon. alth ough in th is case, the kid ity. neys being actunlly diseased, tho th e prem isls are demolished. The big cactus of Arizona, w hich a t S tate S e n a to r E rn e st R. Ackerman, headache, blindness, convulsions, coma ta i n s a h e ig h t of 50 to 60 feet, an d of New Jersey, who is now enjoying his and other sy m p to m s are regarded as w h ich h a s heretofore been know n as a n n u a l trip abroad, Is one of the best symptoms of th e kidney disease. Nev th e C ereus glg anteus, h as been found know n «ud most en th u s iastic collectors ertheless. th e y a r e in reality due to by Doctors B ritto n and Rose to be the of postago sta m p s in th is country. So auto intoxication. type of a new and h ith e rto un de The diseases due to defective elimi large Is his collection t h a t he lias set scribed genus. I t is not a Cereus at a p a r t one room in his hom e in Plain- nation th roug h the skin are not so all, they say. and th ey propose to call field as a s ta m p room, in which are definite or so easily recognized. The It th e C a rn e g ie ra glganteus. some of th e r a r e s t of stam ps, so dear function of th e p erspiration is proba bly more to cool th a n to eliminate, al Recent experim ents, th e results of to th e h e a rt of the philatelist. though some w aste is doubtless cast w h ic h h av e been placed before the I t is cu rio u s th a t th e B ritish naval off through th e skin. T here is a tr a A cadem y of Sciences In Paris, a p p ear au th o r itie s should have abandoned oil dition concerning a boy tak in g part to d e m o n s tra te th a t th e tru e comple fuel at a tim e when in foreign fleets in some celebration, whose e n tire body m e n t a r y colors of th e spectrum have it h a s been decided to su b s titu te oil was glided, a n d who speedily died n o t h ith e ro been recognized. Red was for coal. The B ritish em pire has very from the effects of closing all the fo rm erly considered to be the comple BLOOM ING C Ë N TÜ B Y P L A N T . lim ited resources of oil fuel, and at pores of the skin. T he story is proba m e n t of green, yellow of violet, an d b lu e of orange. B ut according to Mr. an d we have been expecting it to open presen t th e n a v y ’s supplies have to be bly made up, b u t the lesson it teaches R osenstiel. th e com p lem en taries of red for th e last two or th ree days. T h ere imported. These supplies m ig h t be cut of the need of free elim ination a n d o ran g e are n e ith e r g reen n or blue, Is a n o th e r bud coming on the plant, off in tim e of war, and it is probable th rou gh the skin is valuable, and b u t two greenish-blue tin ts, and the which ou gh t to bloom w ithin the next for this reason t h a t oil fuel is being oug ht to be heeded. given up. Another source of poisoning or of com p lem en t of yellow is blue and not m on th .” violet, w hich is th e com plem ent of A fa r m e r sta n d in g outside his f a r m reflex nervous d is tu rb a n c e is th e teeth W h y Som e A n im a l. (,e ( H om e. especially decayed green. Mr. Rosenstiel h a s accordingly house saw a p a ir of his pigeons fly Decayed teeth, One can not say th a t a lost cat finds aw ay. S ho rtly a fte rw a rd he heard a roots, have occasionally caused deaf formed a new "ch ro m atic circle” for th e use of artists, which he believes its way home by i n s t i n c t "H om e” is shot an d th e pigeons did not re tu rn ness or blindness, and th e reflex irri is more correct th a n its predecessors. a different place for each one and no in th e course of the afternoon , as he tation from teeth set too close to g eth In the evening, how e r or growing in ab n o rm al directions The average read er does not see I series of mechanical acts will take the had expected. has been known to produce serious m u c h difference in age between h u m a n I an im al there. The lost an im al finds ever, th e cock pigeon re tu rn e d In or mental disturbance. r e m a in s found in the beds of th e Pleis- j its way home precisely as a lost man der to feed th e young, and having The chief lesson of th e discovery of to cene and Pliocene, but to the geolo- I finds his. It depends on Its sense of seen to this, he again flew aw ay. The autointoxication as a factor In the g ist th e difference is very great, only ' direction, Its Judgm ent of distance, its following forenoon th e sam e pigeon causation of disease Is th a t one should he can n ot express it In y ears or cen m em ory of fam iliar points. Most four- retu rn ed , an d it wa« then ascertained footed beasts and most men, once bad t h a t th e hen bird had one wing badly be examined regularly, once a year at tu ries. U ntil recently the oldest re ly lost, stay lost and do no t get home h u r t by shot, but owing to its m ate's least, by a good physician, and every m a in s of m an know n dated back to a t all. W hen th ey do, In one case as care an d perseverance, it ultim ately six months by a com petent dentist. th e m iddle Pleistocene. Among these In the oth er, It Is la rg erly persever m anaged to r e t u r n to its n e s t —The T hus It is possible to detect the first a r e th e celebrated relics from N ean signs of defective elim ination or poi ance and luck. Even the hom ing pi Field. d e rth a l, Spy an d o th er places. B ut son production before any g re a t d a m geon has to be put th r o u g h a long In October. 1907, a lower h um an Jaw The battlefield a t W aterloo, w rites age Is done. tr a in in g before It can find Its way was found in deposits attrib u te d to home. an A m erican to u r is t from Brussels, T w o and T w o Not A lrni)* Four. th e early Pleistocene, or even th e late In fact, th is whole problem of h om is rapidly being divested of all its In Pliocene. T h is would give it a g re a te r ing an d m ig rato ry Instincts illustrates te r e s tin g features. The houses which Tearhei Now. boys, here's a little a n ti q u it y th a n any of th e others, and nicely the modern way of In terp retin g sheltered m en who helped to make example In m ental arithm etic. How e n ti tl e it to be called th e oldest re anim al behavior. T h ere le no "hom history th ere a r e being to rn down, the old would a person be who was born m a in s of th e h u m an species. The teeth ing I n s t i n c t ” The an im a l becomes roads an d p a th s a re being obliterated, in 1875? a r e well preserved. The most r e m a r k wonted to some p a rtic u la r tree or hole and soon th e r e will be n o th in g left Pupil— P h a s e , teacher, was it a man able fe a tu re of th e Jaw is the absence or h u m an fireside. Thle m eans to him to rem ind one of Napoleon's last stand or a woman?— Red Hen. o f a chin. The c an in e teeth are not w a rm th an d shelter an d food. It is b u t th e g re a t m ound capped by the A M n.rulln» M raterg. u n d u ly prom in ent, and th e dim en in short, his home; an d If he Is a W aterloo lion. The m useum , where One thing a woman can 't under sio n s of th e teeth are w ith in the lim home body, he longs for It when ab- ; all th e battlefield troph ies a r e on view sta n d is why a m an won't wait for a its of v aria tio n In living man. sent, like a n y of th e re s t of us. So — unifo rm s, arm s, d ra w in g s an d pic bargain sale when he w ants anythin*. t u r e s —w as n ev er a p re te n tio u s in s ti cat and horse and dog an d c a r r ie r pi —Chicago News. A C EN T U R Y PL AN T IN BLOOM. geon re t u r n to th e ir abodes not by tutio n , b u t no visitor failed to look v irtu e of an y stran ge, peculiar in- w ith in te re s t a t th e m any exhibits be D efin itio n t 'p in D ate . S eattle W o m a n th e O w n e r o f One o f stlnct, bu t because th ey know th e way, h in d the glass doors T h is also is to P a t — An' phw at th e devil is a chafin’ th e F lo ra l N ove ltie s. b« d is m an tled an d th e a rtic le s which dl»h? — McClure’s. A c e n tu r y p lan t belonging to Mrs. have been carefully kep t for years Mike— Whist! U t’s a fr y in ’ pan W. J. McAllister, of Seattle, haa re Mr. Woody— Music is a m o s t fas will be d is trib u te d am ong the provin cen tly put fo rth a full blown, fr a g ra n t c in a tin g study. Do you know I'd like cial m u seu m s of Belgium, where as t h a t ’s got Into society.— Exchange. blossom, says tb s Times. The flower to sing awfully. Miss B lun t (w ho h»4 ' In dividual e x h ib it! they will loee much The ( l r i «bo haa a young widow for la a b s au ilfal ahell pink, »bout ti g h t beard h i m ) —Oh, yon d o — TU-BIta a rival la badly handicapped. t a value, P i j E F A C T O R T h a t was a poor s o rt of jok a played by a New Y orker who Inserted In a p aper an ad v ertise m en t adv isin g t h a t t h i r t y able-bodied men could find em ployment a t a certain address, th e In dianapolis S ta r says. T h e able-bodied men and some whose a tte m p ts to ap pear able bodied were pathetic, flock ed in num bers to th e place. T h e re they were inform ed by the p ro p rieto r of the shop th a t th e ir services were not needed; th at, in fact, he had in serted no ad vertise m en t. E v iden tly some person burdened with a peculiar sense of h u m or had been responsible for sen d in g these men on th e ir for lorn quest w ith the Idea u pp erm o st in 1654— C r o m w e l l ' s f i rs t P a r l i a m e n t a s his sm all mind th a t he was playing a good joke on the supposed employer. sem b led a t W e s tm in s te r. was a joke, worked 1702— C o l o n y o f C a r o l i n a v o t e d a g a i n s t T he joke, if it completely. The shop ow ner was vex a n h e r e d i t a r y nobility. the footsore 1769— T h e f i rs t c l a s s g r a d u a t e d f r o m ed and chagrined, and men tu rned sadly away. R h o d e I s la n d College. T he hum or of the th i n g will be seen 1774— F i r s t C o n t i n e n t a l C o n g r e s s m e t i n C a r p e n t e r ' s H a l l , P h i l a d e l p h i a . at once when it Is understood t h a t 1776— C a p t . N a t h a n H a l e , o f C o n n e c t i some of these men tram p ed wearily to meet rebuff, c u t , c a p t u r e d a n d e x e c u t e d a s a m any blocks, only s p y b y o r d e r o f S i r W i l l i a m H o w e . while others, not able to walk, sp en t 1777— B r it i s h m a r c h e d u p o n P h i l a d e l for c a r fare the few pennies th ey had phia, and A m ericans r e t r e a t e d m anaged to pinch to g eth er for such a cro ss the B randyw ine. an emergency. It m ean t wasted hopes 1789— T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f t h e T r e a s u r y for men already, some of them, n e a r c re a te d by a c t of C o ngress. th e shoals of despair. It m e a n t a loss 1801— B r i t i s h t o o k p o s s e s s i o n o f A l e x of faith in mankind. andria, E g y p t. . . . F re n ch e v a c u a t I t Is u n pleasant to th in k th a t such e d E g y p t in f a v o r o f t h e B r i t i s h . jo k ers exist, but it is none the less 1804— P l a n e t J u n o d i s c o v e r e d b y P r o f . tr u e th a t they a r e to be found h ere H a r d in g of G oettin g en . and there, an incubus on society. 1813— F o r t M l m m s , o n t h e A l a b a m a These a re the persons who rock the R iver, s u r p r is e d a n d c a p t u r e d by boat, who [mint the loaded gun "in a larg e body of In d ia n s u n d e r T e - fun,” who pin crape on the doors of cum seh. th e living, who anon ym o u sly in s e rt 1814— A l e x a n d r i a , V i r g i n i a , c a p i t u l a t e d false m a r ria g e notices, and they a r e to th e B ritish. 1847— I l l i n o i s v o t e d t o a c c e p t h e r c o n all of them blood bro th ers to th ose who wag th e tongue of slander. Most stitution. of such offenders give th o u g h tlessn ess 1849— C o n v e n t i o n m e t a t M onterey, Cal., t o f r a m e a S t a t e c o n s t i t u t i o n . as th e i r excuse, but the real t r u t h is who do so offend a r e . . . . C a l i f o r n i a a d o p t e d a c o n s t i t u - th a t persons lo n e x c l u d i n g s l a v e r y f r o m t h o w an tin g in the milk of h u m a n k in d territory. ness— th ey are of evil nature. 1859— B l o n d í n f i r s t crossed N iag ara F a l l s o n a t i g h t ro p e . 1861— G e n . F r e m o n t p r o c l a i m e d m a r t i a l l a w in M i s s o u r i . 1862— T h e F e d e r á i s w e r e d e f e a t e d In battle a t M anassas, V a ....G e n . M cC lellan a p p o in te d to c o m m a n d th e d e f e n s e of W a s h i n g t o n . The liability as an In su rer of a 1863— K i n g s t o n , T e n n . , w a s cap tu red common c a r r ie r u n d e rta k in g to t r a n s b y G en . B u r n s i d e . 1864— T h e F e d e r a l t r o o p s t o o k p o s s e s port live stock is held in S u m m e rlin versus Seaboard A ir L ine R. Co. sio n of A tla n ta . ( F l a .) , 47 So. 557, 19 L. R. A. ( N. S .), 1876— A b d u l H a m i d II. a s c e n d e d t h e 191, not to extend to any d am ag e re T u r k i s h th ro n e. 1880— L o r d R o b e r t s r e a c h e d K a n d a h a r , s u ltin g from the n a tu re , d isposition o r a f t e r h i s c e l e b r a t e d m a r c h f r o m viciousness of the anim al. C a b u l to reliev e th e B r itis h fo rce An assignee of a bill of lad in g as th e r e b esieged by A y u b K h an . collateral security for a d r a f t upon the 1889— N o r t h a n d S o u t h D a k o t a p r o consignee of property rep resen ted by claim ed S t a t e s by P r e s id e n t H a r it, which he discounts. Is held In Ma rison. son v ersu s Nelson (N. C.), 62 S. E. 1891— T h r e e m onum ents to Illinois 625. 18 L. R. A. ( N. S .), 1221, n o t to re g im e n ts d ed icated on th e b a t t l e be liable for breach of w a r r a n t y -by th e field o f G e t t y s b u r g . consignor in the sale of the p ro p erty . 1893— D r. T. T h a t c h e r G r a v e s , a w a i t The d erailm en t and o v e r t u r n in g of ing se c o n d tria l fo r th e m u r d e r of M r s . B u r n a b y , c o m m i t t e d s u i c i d e a freig h t c a r In a tr a in is held, in ■ In t h e D e n v e r jail. IJenson versus Lehigh Valley R. R. 1894— - L a b o r d a y o b s e r v e d f o r t h e f i r s t Co., 194 N. Y„ 205, 87 N. E. 85, 19 t i m e a s a l e g a l h o l i d a y t h r o u g h o u t L. R. A. (N. S .), 790, n o t to be such t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s . . . . T h e t o w n o f evidence of negligence tow ard its H i n c k l e y , M in n ., t o t a l l y d e s t r o y e d brak em an as to ca st upon It th e b u r b y f o r e s t fires. den of e x o n e ra tin g itself from the 1904— S e n a t o r F a i r b a n k s o p e n e d t h e charge of negligence to absolve itself R e p u b l i c a n c a m p a i g n In M i s s o u r i from liability for in j u r y to him w i t h a s p e e c h in K a n s a s C i t y . thereby. 1898— Q u e e n W i l h e l m i n a o f t h e N e t h One who, w ithout p ay in g fare, vol e rla n d s a s c e n d e d th e th ro n e. 1905— J a p a n e s e a n d R u s s i a n e n v o y s u n ta r ily a tt e m p t s to ride In the oah s i g n e d t r e a t y o f p e a c e a t P o r t s of a locomotive at th e Inv itation of m o u th , N. H. those in charge of the train . Is held, 1908— S t r i k e o f A l a b a m a c o a l m i n e r s in Clark versus Colorado & N. W. R. d e c l a r e d off. Co. (C. C. A.), 165 Fed. 408, 19 L. R. Jnines i»n Hodgson M r..n ic e«. In t h e c u r r e n t Issu e o f t h e P r o c e e d i n g s o f th e A m e r i c a n S o c i e t y for P s y c h i c a l R e s e a r c h . P ro f. W i l l i a m J a m e s o f H a r v a r d h a s a l o n g rep o rt d e a l i n g w it h the a l l e g e d c o m m u n i c a t i o n s fro m th e s p i r i t o f the l a t e Dr. Richard H o d g s o n , w h o died In 1905, to v a r i o u s p e r s o n s w h o m h e h a d k n o w n in life, t h r o u g h t h e m ed lum 'sh lp o f Mrs. P ip er . Dr. J a m e s , a f t e r r e v i e w i n g t h e e v i d e n c e nt l e n g t h , r e a c h e s th e c o n c l u s i o n t h a t t h e s e m e s s a g e s w e r e in till p r o b a b i l i t y from H o d g so n , or fro m som e sp i r i t c o u n t e r f e i t o f t h e d e c e a s e d . On t h i s p o in t h e r e m a i n s u n c o n v i n c e d a n d a w a i t s m o r e f a cts , " fa c t s w h i c h m a y no t p o i n t c l e a r l y to a c o n c l u s i o n for fifty o r a h u n d r ed yea rs." H e c o n f e s s ed t h a t h e h a s no c r u c i a l p roof o f tho "will to c o m m u n i c a t e ” on t h e p a r t o f H o d g s o n , y e t he is Im pelled to b e l i e v e t h a t t h a t will Is there, a n d h e Is w i l l i n g "to b et on It” to t a k e r is k s One o f t h e lo n g e r reco r d s is that o f a c o n v e r s a t i o n en rrled on b e t w e e n Jam es a n d t h e con trol. To Itcm ed y In iln .tria l W iira, P r e s i d e n t E m e r i t u s E lio t o f H a r v a r d In S e p t e m b e r M cC lu re's w a r m l y u r g e s the a d o p t i o n o f t h e C a n a d ia n s y s t e m o f c o m p u l s o r y a r b it r a tio n a s the b e s t - k n o w n r em ed y for the Industr ial w a r fare w h i c h is c o n s t a n t l y d i s t u r b i n g t h e A m e r i c a n public, l i e finds t h a t o u t o f tho f ift y - f i v e a p p l i c a t i o n s w h ic h h a v e b een m a d e fo r a h o a rd o f a r b i t r a t i o n d u r i n g t h e t w o y e a r s t h a t the l a w h a s b een in force, 96 p er c e n t o f t h e d i s p u t e s w ere s e t t l e d w i t h o u t th e res o rt to s trik es . T h e Inw d o c s p e r m i t th e final res o rt to a s t r i k e If th e A r b i t r a tion B oard ca n not s a t i s f y b o th s i d e s to a c o n t r o v e r s y , h u t no s t r i k e Is l a w ful until a hoard h a s b een a p p o i n t e d a n d tried to a d j u s t m a t t e r s Itecord I use of («ra ftin g . At Halein, Ore., 400 I n ch es o f ness sk in h a v e been g r a f t e d upon t h e b od y o f M iss Irene M artin, 18 y e a r s o f a g e. S h e w as recently seriou sly b urned. T h r e e p eo p le d o n a ted s k in for th e o p e ra tio n , which p h y s i c i a n s d e e l a r e Is the greatest s k in -g r a ftin g operation ever p erform ed . T he T reasury D ep artm e nt at W a s h i n g to n r e t o r t s that U n c l e S a m ' s h o u s e k e e p i n g Mil. d u e to t h e p u r c h a s e o f f u r n it u r e for n e w b u i l d i n g s , e x c e e d s 11,000,000 a n n u a lly . A. (N. S.), 938. lo a ssu m e the know n h a z a rd s Incident to such exposed posi tion, and he Is held not to be en titled to hold the railroad company liable for Injury caused by the collision of the cab w ith a ear negligently left on a side track so as not to clear the m ain track, where the negligence was not wanton, and no in ju ry occurred to anyone else on tho train . One who, in co nstru cting a railro ad in a public street, rightfully leaves a loaded push e a r sta n d in g u n fastened and unattended upon a track, Is held, In Cahill versus E. B. & A. L. Stone & Co., 153 Cal. 571, 96 Par. 84, 19 L. R. A. (N. S ), 1094, to be liable for Injury th ereby caused to a child not guilty of con trib u to ry negligence, who has been perm itted to play upon it, where the car is on a g rade down which. 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