of
absurdity.
Constitutions s h o u l d
! not even remotely sanction legal wan­
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTEB- derings In that realm.
ESTLNO ITEMS.
The opinion Is expressed very often
C om m en ts
and
C riticism s
Based
that American children are Imperti­
I ' p o n t h e H a p p e n i n g s o f t h e Uajr
nent, disobedient, notably lacking In
— H is to r ic a l an d N e w s N otes.
respect for their elders and much In
For the sake of peace give the need of discipline. Comparisons are
women the ballot.
made to their disadvantage by psrsons
who have traveled In foreign parts
England la a right little tight aland and are accepted as probably fair by
In a alight fright.
others who have engaged In home
study only. Added to this unofficial
Hard luck la a machine for teating but widely accepted opinion, we now
your friends; It separates the wheat have a Judgment based on an investi­
from the chaff.
gation of 1.000 schools* In every part
of the United States. Referring to
No woman abstains from matrimony this Investigation, Clifford Webster
because some other woman advises Barnes said In his address before the
her to. She has reasons of her own.
National Education Association that
nearly all the teachers who were en­
Apropos of the Gould disclosures: gaged In It passed severe criticism up­
If a lady meet a lady, when too full on the home and social life of Ameri­
of rye. If a lady bite a lady, need a can families so far as they had to do
lady cry ?
with the moral training of children.
Homes of "the lower tier," where
When advising girls not to marry
drunkenness, profanity and vice of
to excess. Mark Twain must have
every kind Is common, are acting
thought he was talking to a lot of fu­
against every good work of the school.
ture actresses.
And "the homes of the well to do and
the refined are not all the very best
We would think there was some­
for the formation of noble and strong
thing wrong with our school system
characters. There is too much of the
If graduates couldn't see a bright fu­ namby-pamby discipline in such homes.
ture before them.
The children act at their pleasure and
place themselves on the same level
If It Isn’t one thing it’s another.
as their parents." Manifestly little can
Just as we begin to feel easy about the
be expected from a home of vice here
coal bln, along comes the annual scare or elsewhere. But It Is equally ob­
about the Ice chest.
vious that the other homes should
help the teacher both by their exam­
Let us hope King Edward does not ple and by direct encouragement. We
wear bis trousers creased at the sides make the assertion, however, without
for the reason—painful thought! — any great faith that there Is to be a
that he Is slightly bowlegged.
sudden revolution. For the encour­
agement certainly goes now to tne for­
Spending a honeymoon in the air Is ward child who advertises himself
something novel, but Innumerable lov­ loudly at home and who la regarded as
ers hare familiarized the world with an Injured Innocent by his parents If
the spectacle of building castles In he receives any correction at school.
the air.
For both moral and mental training ne
requires a discipline from which he
If constantly increasing the naTtes
escapes, and he himself Is, of course,
Is the only guaranty of peace, It be­
the greatest loser by the namby-pam­
comes almost frightful to think of by method. If he Is not thoroughly
the price peace will cost fifty years demoralized by It he Is pretty ant to
from now.
lament In after veer« *hnt his childish
Russia Is about to reduce the num­ whims and vanity were accepted as a
ber of her public holidays from nine­ substitute for rational government.
-FRISKING” SHIP PASSENGERS.
TOPICS OP THE TIMES
ty-one to sixty-three. This ought to
give Russia a start Industrially that
will carry her out of the hand-to-
mouth class.
STRAUSS TO LIVE AGAIN.
L oya l V ien n ese
u la rity
It Is no wonder that the man who
called his woman assailant "too beau­
tiful to prosecute" has advanced to the
supreme presidency of the “Order of
Owls.” He Is certain to flourish long
In wisdom and safety.
There Is some satisfaction In the
knowledge that the Wright brothers
are making oodles of money, but It Is
not gratifying to the national pride
to reflect that they had to- go abroad
to obtain substantial recognition.
Rev. Charles F. Aked, the oil king’s
pastor, thinks that the style In which
Professor Foster's book Is written Is
open to criticism from the aesthetic
point of view. It would be Interest­
ing to hear Dr. Aked's opinion of Mr.
Rockefeller's prose as exemplified In
his recent confessions.
It Is proposed to build a $.1,000,000
opera house in Chicago for the pur­
pose of providing a home for Oscar
Hammersteln's company. We hope
pains may be taken to have the dress­
ing-rooms Intended for the stars placed
fo far apart as to make sudden clash­
es and unpremeditated hair-pulling ab­
solutely Impossible.
King Alfonso of Spain, who has
been married three years and a little
more. Is. the father of three children.
The youngest, a daughter, was born on
June 22. and has been named—after
her grandmother—Reatrlz, the Span­
ish form of the English Beatrice, and
o f the old Latin name Beatrix, mean­
ing one who blesses. If the little girl
lives up to her name her parents may
well call- themselves happy.
There Is a growing tendency In
American politics toward lengthening
the term of service of executive offi­
cers, both In state and municipal af­
fairs. The doctrine or principle of
rotation In office was once supposed to
be the bulwark of representative gov­
ernment. That Idea has In a great
measure been dispelled. The public
office Is more of a public trust than It
was in the days when the victor cap­
tured the spoils without restriction of
civil service rules. Conditions have
changed. The complex problems of
state and municipal life call for ex­
pert assistance of a high class. Hence
It is that the terms of executive ser­
vice are being lengthened and well-
proven ability Is protected In subordi­
nate places In government.
Reversals of verdicts In serious
criminal cases continue, In spite of
protest and agitation. Supreme courts
profess deep sympathy with the de­
mand for substantial Justice and pro­
tection against crime, but go on up­
setting hard-won victories for law and
order on purely technical grounds. In
one State the Supreme Court sets
aside a conviction because a "the" was
inadvertently omitted from a rhetor­
ical flourish in the Indictment It ex­
cuses Itself by saying that the Consti­
tution prescribes the flourish with the
“ the” and that It can't override the
Constitution Another Sunpreme court
sets aside a verdict In a sensational
murder case because the Jury was In
some small particular Improperly
drawn. The question of guilt or Inno­
cence, of the proof and the Justice of
the verdict, is not touched. What Is
needed, says the Chicago Record-Her­
ald, clearly. Is a provision In each
constitution expressly forbidding the
appellate tribunals to exploit techni­
calities. Some States have already
adopted such prohibitions, and all oth­
ers should follow sntt. Rhetoric and
surplusage should be swept out of all
indictments, Informations and legal
documents, hut, pending that reform,
directions to courts forbidding them
to exalt trivial or Irrelevant techni­
calities above the merits ought to be
made a part of every constitution. To
say that courts can't even read a
"the” or "of" Into an otherwise perfect
indictment Is to step Into the realm
H op e to
o f T h eir
R e v iv e
F orm er
Pop­
Idol.
E ditorials
Opinions o f Great Papers on Important Subjects.
D R I N K I N G AT MEALS.
NE by one old and cherished Ideas are giv­
ing way before the simple application of
practical tests. Perhaps no other one Idea
with reference to eating ha>b!ts has become
more widespread and more persistent than
that It la Injurious to drink water at
meals. The old medical rule against eat­
ing before going to bed has been discountenanced by
the medical profession itself for a long time now, and
It has been repeatedly shown that a reasonable amount
of food taken before retiring Is beneficial to many nerv­
ous people, and Is not Infrequently a cure for Insomnia.
The rule against drinking at meals has been more
persistent, but It appears to be doomed, now that the
professors In the physiological chemistry department of
the University of Illinois have set about making exper­
iments to prove the digestive value of copious drafts
of water taken while eating. One quart of water at
each meal was the prescription followed, and It was
found that the subject actually throve on it. The theory
is that the water, diluting the saliva, "causes the di­
gestive fluid to assume greater digestive activity.”—
Manchester Union.
THE TWO-DOLLAR BILLS MUST GO.
WISH to simplify coinage has led to the
disappearance of many coins which It was
supposed when their coming was author­
ized would be a popular convenience. The
$3 and $1 gold pieces have gone. The last
was too small and the first never was
needed. It was supposed by the men who
suggested Its coinage that the 20 -eent piece would come
In handy. It proved to be a nuisance because It was
so near the size of the quarter dollar. It did not help
matcrlall) In making change. So It did not last many
years. The silver half dime was abandoned because too
email. The 3-cent piece In stiver or nickel had a long
life, but was discarded finally. So was the 2-cent piece.
It was agreed that there was no need of a coin between
the cent and the 5-cent piece.
Now It is proposed to get rid of the $2 bill for a sim­
ilar reason. The only objectors thus far are the bank
tellers. They say It saves them time in handling money
when there Is a good deal to be handled. Of course It
takes only half as long to run through a hundred dol­
lars In twos as when It Is made up of ones. But the
bank tellers are not the ouly persons to be considered.
There are notes for their special accommodation—$5,000
and $ 10,000 bills, which the common people never own
and seldom see. The men who handle money on a
small scale—the petty dealers, for Instance—would be
glad to see the $2 bill disappear. They consider It some­
what of a nuisance.
The twos certainly ought to be called In and con­
verted Into ones. There ought to be In circulation more
bills of that useful denomination. There Is nevei a
surplus of them, so great and so constant Is the de­
mand.—Chicago Tribune.
A SLAP AT HIGH BROWS.
E ARE overburdened with high brows."
says Thomas A. Edison
"We have too
many professors and academicians "
This surely is a busy world, and the
harder a man works In It the more he
discovers there Is to be done, the more
anxious he la to see things done, the
less time he takes to brush the dust of granite from his
h£»<Js before he assumes the next Job, the greater the
Irrltsticu and Impatience he displays toward those he
terms- with little courtesy—the unproductive.
it Is
given to everyone to catch occasional glimpses of won­
ders that could be accomplished, of marvels which could
be digged from the earth, of happiness which could be
brought about. If only such and such work were under­
taken. Mr. Edison probably has had more of these great
visions than anyone else In thlB country. It Irks him
that men should muss over ancient manuscripts or dis­
pute over species of shellfish. Rather, he thinks, should
they be up and doing, holding nature up for comforts,
forcing content out of the energies of sky and earth.
And still human nature yearns for the wisdom which
cannot be utilized. It loves to gorge Itself with the Indi­
gestible facts of history and science and metaphysical
speculation. How fine for humanity It would be If all
worked all the time to cure Its Ills—and how fearfully,
fearfully wearisome!—Toledo Blade.
RESPECTING THE LAW.
HE American people need to have more re­
spect for the law,” sagely remarks the
chief Police Commissioner of the city of
St. Louis, relative to the recent outbreak
of crime In the Missouri metropolis.
True, but what the American people
need most Is to be taught to respect the
law by being punished when they break the law. Ab­
stract Ideas of respect for the law as a great moral en­
gine count for but little with a large part of our popu­
lation. One man In the penitentiary Is often worth
more than a thousand lectures upon the beauty of law
observance.
It Is often said that It is much easier to enforce a
law In Great Britain and upon the continent of Europe
than In this country, because the people of the older
countries respect the' law more. It would be more
proper to say that they fear the law more. If a man
breaks the law In England, the odds are about 50 to I
that he Is punished, and punished promptly. Punish
ment s frequently a great aid In making the law re­
spected.- -Louisville Post.
O n . O ld N e w Y o r k
In a p r c lu r C an
S w e ll D l a w .n d . S is P e e l A w a y .
Timothy J. Donohue, the oldest In­
spector of customs In this city, le ered-
Ited by bis fellows with possessing a
nose which can smell concealed dia­
monds and other Jewels six feet away,
the New York Press saye. “Old Tim,"
as he Is knowp. has more seizures of
that aort to hls credit on the records
of the customs house than any other
inspector employed there. Hls. duty
Is to wander aimlessly about the
steamship piers and "frisk" Incoming
passengers. Many persons may not
know what “ frisk” means in customs
house parlance. It is the art of stum­
bling or brushing agnlnst a person so
skillfully that the Inspector can rub
hls hands over the pockets and person
of the suspect and ascertain whether
he has smuggled goods concealed In
hi« clothes and at the same time pre­
vent the suspect knowing what he Is
doing.
In the thirty-five years or longer
that Donohue has been at It on the
New Yrfrk piers he has “ frisked” thou­
sands of Americans and foreigners
after they have landed and are await­
ing to get their luggage through the
hands of the other Inspectors. If any
Incoming passengers standing on a
transatlantic line pier sees a short,
stout.
gray-halred,
gray-inustaehed
man, quietly dressed, carrying a cheap
umbrella tied In the middle with a
string and stumbling about as ff fresh
from the backwoods and looking for
some one whom he cannot find, that
le “ Old Tim” Donohue. In hls eager
quest he bumps against everybody;
seizes overcoats by the pockets, rubs
hls hands up and down passengers as
he trips over baggage, acta half
soused, never apologizes and k«eps
right on. After the Inspector* are
through with a passenger whom he In­
spects he steps up and Invites him to
go to the office to be searched. It Is
not often hls suspicions are misdi­
rected.
ftU
E
IR $ 1 «
This country has nine hundred
trade Journals.
At the age of seventy years, a man
has consumed ninety-five tons of food.
The more familiar species of flying
fish are denizens of the tropical oceans
Fresh water species, however, are
known.
There are about 170,000 oil produc­
ing wells In the United States, repre
sentlng directly and Indirectly an out
lay of about $700,000.000..
A young oak grows three feet ln
three years. In the same time an elm
grows eight feet three Inches, and a
willow nine feet three Inches.
One Scotch casualty Insurance com­
pany Is offering policies to aviator*,
while another will extend all future
policies to cover the risks of aviation
and ballooning.
The study of foreign languages la
making rapid progress In German
schools. Most of the teachers are na­
tive born French and English. Thli
work Is a powerful factor In Ger­
many’s progress as a power on Inter
national commerce.
The wife of a Jerseyman was ad­
vertising for a serving maid. The
Jerseyman is an editor and hls wife
has learned the habit of cutting out
unnecessary words. This Is the way
the advertisement read: "Wanted, a
white, semi-green maid servant.”— New
York Sun.
There Is no such thing as a forest
of mahogany.
The mahogany tree
lives by and for Itself alone. It stands
solitary of Us species surrounded by
the smaller trees and dense under­
growth of the tropical forest, rearing
Its head above Its neighbors. Two
trees to the acre are a liberal estimate.
This one comes from
Missouri,
where one editor "showed" them why:
“ An evangelist asked all ¿he men pres­
ent who were honest and paid their
debts to stand up. All arose but one.
He said he was the local editor and
couldn't pay his debts because the
men standing were hls delinquent sub­
scribers.”—Atlanta Constitution.
In the Russian campaign the per­
sonal baggage of Napoleon's brother,
Jerome Bonaparte, who married Eliza­
beth Patterson, of Baltimore, contained
sixty pairs of boots, two hundred
shirts and 318 pocket handkerchief*.
The transportation of his wardrobe
entire required several heavy wagons,
while hls whole campaigning kit
stretched over half a mile.
Thackeray was six feet two Inches
ln height, and Sir H. W. Lucy says
the great novelist wore a I^-lnch hat,
Deatlng Dickens and John Bright by
a full half Inch. Mr. Gladstone's hat
was of 7%-lnch measurement—th*
same as Macaulay's—while Beacons-
fleld needed a full 7-lnch. The hat of
Daniel O'Connell, however, would have
bhaten them all. measuring 814 Inches
by 10 Inches.
WHAT SUGGESTION DOES.
Iso rM iti
tlv *
and
L engtknnn
A ctio n
of
th#
th*
C* m -
C oll*.
It can be safely maintained thal
where there Is any chance of cure al
ail, that chance may be Increased by
suggestion, writes Dr. Frederick Van
Eeden. A» a matter of fact, the doctoi
never curee a disease; he enables the
body to cure Itself by assisting It In
the struggle against hostile Influence#
or disturbances. Even th# surgeon
does no .more than remove obstacles;
the cells of the body do the really
curative work. And ln this work they
are directed and assisted by what wi
call the psychic, that part of the body
which Is not directly perceptible by
the senses.
There Is no breach between physjeal
and psychical functions; all are In s
constantly related action and counter
action. It has been demonstrated thal
sight of food by a dog Immediately
stimulates the secretion of the differ
ent glands necessary for ths digestion
of that special kind of food, not only
In the mouth but also In the stomach.
Now, If the visual Image alone can
have such very material effects, ln such
appropriate selection, what can be tht
scientific objection to the possibility
of the cells being stimulated ln theli
curative work, appropriately and ef­
fectively. by Imagination, by emotion,
or by volition?
This Is the way ln which suggestion
works. By verbal persuasion, by ex­
citing the Imagination of the patient,
by raising hls expectation, by giving
him confidence, by strengthening hi»
own power of volition, the Idea of cure
is fixed In hls mind and the curative
action cff the cells Is Increased and
lengthened—even In such a ’’physical’’
case as a broken leg, or an ulcer, or a
wound. In this there Is nothing un­
scientific. nothing contradictory to our
present knowledge of the human body.
In fact, psychical things are Just a»
real as physical things; but as the
dhaln Is long and the links are very
compllcatedly connected, we are not
accustomed to realize the first lnfli»
ence of one upon another.
PROGRESS OP THE DAY.
Greece raises 150,000 tons of cur­
rants yearly.
Kaiser William Is an extensive shop
owner ln Berlin.
The threads of Japanese screws run
the opposite way from ours.
Budapest has a school where the stu­
dents are taught the art of eating.
A human hair of average thickness
can support a weight of #ty ounces.
A gas-driven street car will soon be
In operation on the streets of New
York.
The death rate of Queensland. 9.5#
per thousand, la almost the lowest ln
the world.
Last year the United Kingdom Im­
ported more than $275,000,900 worth
of cotton.
Such serious objection It made to
the eleotrlc headlight that a substitute
Is being sought.
In New York State there are 10.544
points at which railroad tracks en­
counter public highways, and at 1,698
of these points the crossings at grade
have been removed.
Fully one-fourth of the 13 billion
dollars' worth of gold produced In the
world since the discovery of America,
has come from the mines of the United
States.
Ten years have passed since the
death of Johann Strauss, and Vienna
has Just awakened to a realization of
the complete oblivion Into which his
compositions have fallen. It took the
recent revival of Interest in Vienna
operetta to emphasize the disappear­
ance of the Strauss works from the
stage of the city on the Danube. That
the master whose music was thought
»IS H — m i i l ' l l l i M t i m > ** i Is ttdded to the resources which the mainlng go into confections, and thi
for so many years to embody the spirit
export
trade at $1 per
bushel; sc
whole world can utilize.
of Viennese life should have been for­
THE BOY AND THE CENT.
|
Like those Invaluable staples — there’s 13,000,000 more. The farm­
gotten ten years after his death has
maize and the potato—the peanut ers’ utilization of the “ waste" prod­
turned the thoughts of his fellow citi­
originated in America, a native wild ucts nets them about $4,000,000. In
zens to the causes of such an unex­
vine of Brazil. For years and years all, it has been calculated that thi
pected state of affairs.
few 0f thxe pods were peanut now brings a revenue of $36,-
Mr. Peterson did not mind being j ajt6r
It has not taken the deliberations called a moralist. In fact, he was j brought north as vegetable curiosities 000,000 annually, without reckoning
of experts to discover the cause for rather proud of the habit, which he . ^ beld Rn place as a humble garden on the increased fertility it has con­
this neglect. The Straus 3 scores suf­ sedulously cultivated, of discoursing j v)ne perpetuated only because some ferred upon the fields It occupies
fered even In the days of their youth, in a high, ethical tone about whatever few 0(
earlier generations happen- That amount is nearly 50 cents
a
says a writer In the New York Sun. came to his notice. Mrs. Peterson, a ed to have a taste for them, as you year for every man, woman and child
from the character of their librettos. silent, hard-working woman, listened have to be born to olives. America, In the United States. We certainly
It was not only to those who knew to her lord's remarks faithfully, ap­ the birthplace of the peanut, really do like peanuts.
them In translation that they appear­ plauding and commenting at what she lingered behind all the rest of the
ed uninteresting and Inappropriate thought were appropriate spots.
SCOTT AS A DUNCE.
world in Its exploitation.
for musical Illustration. The composer
One day Mr. Peterson returned from
Until the Civil War It was grown riren t A u t h o r C a v , s n c c c i , r F e e ft.
struggled In vain to secure better ma­ the village hot with righteous Indigna­ In some of the gardens of the south,
K e e p in g B i s P la c e W a rm .
terial for the Inspiration of his genius tion and overexertion.
harvested, as now, just prior to the
Once there was a dunce. •
and the Viennese public of a score of
"These
people," he said, fanning danger of frost, and laid away for a
The name of this dunce w as Walter
years ago sympathized with his diffi­ himself rapidly with a palm leaf. lew months, to be hailed eagerly by
culties. Yet there was no Improvement “These people and their children! 1 the children as a Christmas dainty Scott, and when he was at school he
WHAT WISE MEN HAVE SAID.
In the quality of the texts which It am almost glad we haven’t any chil­ Now It occupies a permanent position was such a dull boy that hls teacher
was the task of his bubbling genius dren, Maria, for if we had I'm sure among the nation's food staples for called him "the great blockhead,” ac­
Ceremony is the smoke of friend­
cording to the Philadelphia Record.
to animate. Who can recall the com­ we should train them up to be just as man beast, Wrd and fowl
ship.—Chinese.
But Walter Scott did not cry and he
plications of “The Merry War,” "The thoughtless and ill-mannered as the
‘Every living thing likes peanuts,” nlways tried to do hls best, and after­
Patience Is bitter, but Its fruits are
Gypsy Baron" and "The Queen’s Lace rest of the world.”
the Virginia planters declare, and
sweet.—Rousseau.
Handkerchief” without admiration for
"What—’’ began Mrs. Peterson, In they prove It, all the way from the ward, when he grew up to be- a man.
he became famous all the world over
the composer who could create produc­ her soft voice.
In all things It Is better to hope than
elephants at the circus to the turkeys
tions so dull for a musical accompani­
to despair.—Goethe.
"Begging!” answered her husband. on the farm. The greatest single because of the great books which he
wrote.
And
because
he
waa
so
famous
ment sufficiently attractive fo secure Plain, every-day begging! And John
He who wishes to do wrong Is neve»
market is at Suffolk, Va., where he was made a knight, and afterward
for them any degree of permanent pop­ Lincoln’s son, too! The little rascal! I
without a reason.—Syrus. ,
4.000,000 bushels are handled annu- he was known as Sir Walter Scott.
ularity? It Is perhaps the greatest don’t think he’s six yet."
.ally and eight big factories are In
Do not yield to misfortunes, but
And yet he was such a dunce at
tribute to Strauss’ genius that he
';H_* was fl_v*.ia9‘
Replied M n | operation. The labor Is largely ne-
meet them with fortitude.—Virgil.
could accomplish so much; but the Peterson,
with a readiness which gro. The whole area of the South school!
If the staff be crooked, the shadow
One day, when he had become a fa­
weight of his collaborator's work ■bowed that although she herself had
Atlantic States la dotted with peanut
can not be straight.—Anon.
dragged his own efforts Into disuse.
no children, her Interest In her acreages and the spread has gone mous man. Sir Walter Scott went on
a visit to the very same echool where
Rashness brings success to few, mis
It was only In one case that the friends' offspring was keen.
westward until it Includes Californfa. he had been called “the great block­
composer derived any real co-operation
fortune to many.—Phmdrus.
"Anyway,” maintained Mr. Peter­
At
the
harvest
the
vines
are
plow­
head.”
from his librettist. “ Die Fledermanus" son. “he’s old enough to know better.”
Language was given to us that we
He talked to the teacher and to the
has not lost a particle of Its popular­ This was somewhat illogical, seeing ed from the ground and, with i>ods
might say pleasant things to each oth­
attached,
are
stack**!
around
poles
for
boye, and then he said: "You have
ity. Statistics of the German opera that only a moment before a virtue
er.—Bovee.
houses annually record Its frequent had been made of the lad's youth. drying. Late In the fall the fields are shown me the clever boys. Now show
Our greatest glory Is not In never
representation. The fact that this However, Mr. Peterson was a moralist. occupied by whole families of negroes, me the dunce. You have one. haven’t
failing, but ln rising every time we
who pick the pods from the dried you?"
libretto came from the French ac­
"He’s old enough to know better,"
fall.—Confucius.
The teacher, therefore, called up a
counts for Its enduring qualities, al­ ■aid Mr. Peterson, “and he doesn’t do vines by hand. Machine picking is
but. unlike machine poor little boy, who was very bashful
though It has never been sufficient to better. This very morning, for exam- practicable,
A H r s r e l t e d S n tv rM .
planting and digging, the result« are at being brought before such a famous
gain success for It ln^ this country. , pie>" —he paused to emphasize again
Massachusetts has furnished some
Our Indifference to "The Bat” Is one the fart that It was to-day, as If the an inferior grade because of indis­ man as Sir Walter Scott.
attorneys who have become famous
Sir Walter smiled cheerily at the lit
of the curiosities of taste. The French . date made an Important difference— criminate collection of prime and de­
legal lights before the nation. The
origin of "The Merry Widow," among ,nhu very morhlng I was passing by fective pods. Farmers haul their tie boy. and said. "So you are the
town of Suffolk. In that State, has one
the latest of the Viennese operettas. JofcB Llncoln-g houge on Vernon street wagon loads of pods to the nearest dunce, are you?”
at present who bids for a place among
"Yee. sir," said the little boy.
and "Fatinltza," among the first. I a„ d there.
the front yard. Waa his factory, where the weight is credited
them. This lawyer Is noted for the
Sir Walter patted him kindly on the
shows that we may conclude without '
John Juntor> playtng wlth the to the growers. The whole cleaning
brightness and aptness of hls retorts,
rashness that the Viennese operetta I
No sooner did the boy see me and grading process which follows head, and said. "Well, my goed fellow,
and any smart witness that gets ahead
with the well-made text was originally than he
.,,lea9e Mr Poter90n> works by gravity, for the pods are I was the dunce when I was here, so
of him has to sit up nights to frame
raised from the farmers’ wagons to here Is half a crown for keeping my
mane In France. The Austrian as well i .
me
ren^* ••
up the plot.
as the Germanmanufaeturera of o p e r .l « .., am
that garah Lin- the top floor of the factory, and ev­ place warm!”
He was recently counsel for the
etta llhretM borrowed liberally / m m '
^
boy------ ..
M„
Petpraon. ery process ensuing runs them down
I rather think that every boy ln the
plaintiff In a case where a woman was
i to a lower floor. Sorted, cleaned and echool must have wished he was the
the Gallic supply that has furnished
"I am not surprised at anything in
very refractory under cross-examlnO'
forth so liberally the stage of every this world,” announced Mr. Peterson, certain selected grades polished, they dunce then!
tlon. Although he used all politeness
are Anally bagged by the same auto­
country.
"after the things I’ ve seen and heard
and courtesy In hls examination, he
matic process and are ready for dl 9 - O n l y O n e W a r l i e C’ e n l i l C ie t E v e n ,
Now the loyal Viennese have decid­
In my life. I am disappointed. So I
received nothing but sharp and unsat­
Frank Bertram, a well-known actor,
ed to revive the popularity of their said to him. What do you want with 1 >elf,a
isfactory replies. Her husband waa In
The farmer is far from having ex- tells the following story:
former idol, and his works are to be * cent. J o ta r
And to this he re- L
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court, a meek and humble specimen
“ I was playing at Leicester during
performed anew; but with ,d" Ter,,nt ‘ piled, ’ Buy something.’ If any boy 0f hau« * d
ProBU when he disposes
VlM taa o f T r o a b l e .
\a of
n t
ro -
. 1 * jB
its /s o n n *.-« t h a
f f l A .f n r V
T h p r R firfl
of the henpecked spouse. Finally tho
the fair week and In the market place
texts. Those that are capable
re
( ’ had * I a boy- Evers'seen oc'th o I r x f h hls
“ > t.he f“ tory1’ l
ar9
“I may as well tell you,” said the lawyer put another very civil question,
the big piles of culls, which he has there were several merry-go-rounds.
vision will be liberally changed. Hope-1
stree ___
“ I noticed one melancholy Individ­ suffragette, "that the disturbances we to which the woman replied with vin­
less books will be altogether abandon- | "What did you say to him then’ " ' left- to *«®d
M* P°ultry Rnd P1®*-
eff It Is probable that the tatter eUs,
Mr„ Peteraon becoming . little Thir*
*he Tln™’ which properly ual. who. despite the fact that he was are creating now are nothing com­ dictive fire flashing from her eyes:
"Mr. Lawyer, you ran’t catch me.
will be more successful, •specially
If , „ , nt t0 „ t to the polnt of thp cored, make the finest kind of hay apparently suffering greatly, persisted pared to those we are prepared to
and you needn’t think you can; no,
he compilers of the new librettos go
u ahe had oake9 ln the 0Ten. for hi, cows end there I. all the nttro- ln riding on one of the merry-go- cause.”
"That's right,” answered the big stree, you can’t catch me!"
to France for their Inspiration. Other-1 ,.w h y .. aald Mr P„tpMon - j
ha.v gen which the growth of the vine has rounds.
w
' I -F 4 1 _
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( t o w n /v f n / u $ .
“Eventually I spoke to him and town boss. "If you raise all this row , With hls most fetching smile, the at­
wise It may he feared that "The Bat” [
left
In
the
soli,
fixed
ln
Its
root
nod
pened to have an extra cent In my
to vote, what will you do when you torney replied:
with Its well-built, pointed text will
asked him If he liked it.
pocket, and so I lectured him for sev­ | Ules.
"Madame. I haven't the slightest de­
•The man replied. 'No. I don't like get the ballot and find It Isn't being
remain the only popular Strauss oper - 1
1
An
acre
of
first-class
peanuts,
cal-
eral minutes on the crime of begging,
sire to catch you, and your husband
etta. Compilers of the new text ought
' cnlatlng a ton of vines at $8 to $ 10 . lt a bit; the blessed thing makes me counted?”—Washington Star.
and----- ”
looks to me as if he very sorely re­
to find In the sto^y of Its success ex-1
"Then yon gave him th# cent!” said ! and 80 bushels of peas at $40 to $80,
"I then asked him why he persisted
Before and After.
gretted that he had succeeded."
cuse for bringing their librettos from |
Mrs. Peteraon, with an odd smile on I gives an Income of between $43 and In riding, and hls reply was. "I can’t'
w*9 * frivolous, fashionable | The crier rapped for order as a wave
Paris snd changing them as little as
j $70. The cost, of growing such an
her lips.
help It.
The man who owns this young womsn with beaux galore, but of laughter swept over the court room,
possible In the transfer.
Her husband nodded. "I thought T acre of peanuts. Including seed and
fertilizers. Is variously estimated at round-about owes me money, and the on® m,n wlt** only 11 small ^Income ^n d the Judge bowed hie head to hide
might
as
well.”—Youth's
Companion.
[a smile.
Rt-icln« S o o n e r .
I from $12 to $25- There is a net re- onlv way I can get even is by taking seemed to be the favorite.
"You’ll have to work hard before
llacon- -When a man marries, hls
| turn of from $36 to $45 on the crop It out In rides."—London Daily Tele-
V le a r lo ia E ffo rts.
MILLIONS IN THE PEANUT.
a^
you win that girl,” said hls mother.
troubles begin.
I per acre, an amount of money suffi­
Kind Old Lady (talking to a tramp,
8
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"And
a
good
deal
harder
after
you
Egbert—Oh, well, with some fellows G o o h r r , N o w
A
N ation*]
cient to pay plenty of farmers well.
Fnand.
' w|n her ” answered hls father, who —Have you ever made an effort to gel
It begins as soon as they ask the girl’ s
l i r l n w « H I « R e t n r n « I«» F o r m e r .
I The farmer Is. however, only the
Mr POPR-Hurray! For once In my
^
about
work?
father.—Yonkers Statesman.
The discover^ of the new world beginning of this Immensely profit life I know where my cuff links a r e . _____________________
| Tramp—Yes, ma'am. Last month 1
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‘
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' gnve to th# people of the earth five able nati oasi enterprise. Three-fourth*
Mrs. Popp— Where are they now?
We have quit worshiping great he- 1 got work for two members of my fam­
Swat the fly, hut always Ituive^one treasures that are p.'rennln!. cotton, of the annual crop, some 9,000,000
Mr. -Popp—The baby’s »wallowed •oea who Ilv» a long way off; Instead. ily, but neither of them would take It,
alive ln the bed room—It gets the fan»- i
bushels, ultimately tell at 5 cents a
In future we shall worship th# good —Human Life.
lly up In time for breakfast
I t By grace of the first four, whole pint Mora than $25.000,000 comes ln ’em—Cleveland Leader
On#
way
*f
gracefully
saying
thal
around home
"Who was Noah's wife, 1
Th# people who think more of dogs nations have t>een saved from extlr nicklea snd dimes from the pocket»
a
girl
la
homely
Is
to
constantly
refer
of
th»
paopl»
for
the
peanuts
»old
"Joan of Arc, my bey.
as Is known, no widow ever
I
So
far
than they do of their trisada di» I petloa. By grace of th* loot, a
which proved a» Important as malas ( that «ay. Tha $.000,000 bushels ra- to her sweet disposition.
«way.”—Lippincott».
sloped
courage
f