NEPTUNE not detain him for any length of time from his duties as bread winner. City Judge Felumau of South Bend. Ind. faced the dilemma the other day and solved It by releasing the wife beater, much against his will. "But if 1 had the power,” he said to the prisoner, “I would Instruct an officer to tie you to Indians may perhaps lie excused a port and severely lash you with a if they think that most of the good cat-o'-nlne-talls.” There is a growing white men are dead men. feeling that the police Justices see dearly and Judge truly when they ex­ Tnere are many men who are thank­ press themselves in this way. Noth- which is comparatively new and situated in a locality with ful their wives do not make plea like Irg will cure a brute of his love to In­ long Lives and Our Habit«. a rigorous winter climate, he asserted had already many their mothers used to make. I.L of us when in our right minds want to live cures to its credit, with a remarkably small number of flict pain so thoroughly as Itelng given as long a» possible, aud If at 4o we say. "I deaths In proportion to the whole number of patients, thus a dose of his own treatment. As for When the high wall of defeat con- the degrading effect of a whipping post don't care to live after I am 80," at the latter proving the value of the treatment, which is that of spend fronts a man it la well If lie can amuse upon a community It surely cannot l>e age we rub out the 80 and insert 100; and even 1ng both days and nights out of doors all the year round. himself with the thistles at the t>ase. worse than the presence of an unpun- the centenarian la quite content to keep on He further alluded to the fact that while the system had though he knows hl* doing so does not excite only been introduced in Great Britain within ten years, Islied wife beater, or than tbe lnfllc- The genius that devised the w.reless tion of a punishment which only adds popular approval. But what conduces to long­ telegraph will find a way to keep the to the suffering* of the real victim, evity Is the question that puzzles the average man. To at­ there are already upwards of twenty open-air sanitariums messages from being “pled” while in without assuring a reform of the cul­ tempt to reason from specific Instances Involves him in a there. The success of this hospital In Edinburgh, where hereto­ the air. aiaze of glaring contradictions and leaves him hopelessly fore consumption has been responsible for one death In prit. bewildered. Here are Cassius M. Clay and Leo XIII dying A woman Jabbrtl her hatpin into the seven. Is in line with modern experience elsewhere. Penn­ Wonderful to him who has the eyes wrong man, with fatal results, rhe to see. Is the mail bag. In Its shabby within a few days of each other and each in his 94th year sylvania has such an Institution on a limited scale at White probably acknow lodged that the Joke but capacious depths It hides strange Could there be a stronger contrast than that between the Haven, which ha* been successful enough to encourage manner of life of the rugged Kentucky fire-eater and the is on her. neighbors. There is news of birth and frull and abstemious scholar of the Vatican? A man died the opening of another at Mont Alto, in the South Mountain Forest Reserve. The mountain area of the State can fur­ We call the Turk “terrible” from of duath. There are good fortune and in Indiana the other day at the age of 89 who was noted for nish admirable localties for an unlimited number of these hearsay—-the Bulgarians have hard ex­ loss of fortune. There is a suhoolboy's his enormous consumption of tobacco, and Jacob R. Smith, health resorts, easily accessible to all patients within its perience to back them lu calling him letter tilled with his latest slang and of Msssachiuietts. came forth to ascrllie bls good health at borders, and to many thousands from surrounding sections. his wildest pranks, cheek by Jowl with ’he age of 94 to the fart that he never used tobacco in hl* more than terrible. —Philadelphia Bulletin. the polished pages of the learned pro­ life. But out of it all we may glean these undeniable facts: A dead Philadelphia defaulter had fessor, setting forth to hl* friend the ordered an edition of Dickens to cost discovery of a Greek manuscript. 'Hie The human machine Is like other machines; some are built Evil of Deforestation. 8OUNM). This la the time to say, “The hateful dunning letter is lied in the to wear out early and some to Inst a long time, and though HE Injury done by deforestation to a country Dickens he did." Also “Great Scott!" luickage with the announcements of the working time of the one may tie increased by care and has been cited often enough, and it has already an engagement of marriage, and the abstinence, worry, excesses and privations shorten the time undertaker’s bill for a funeral, the lov­ for which the other can lie kept running, even though not been experienced in many parts of our own There are indications that the er's tender phrases and a recipe for period should lie extended over more than the number of land. As a source of wealth is it not begin- ruled convict is coming to the fron ning to be obvious to our paper makers and a way that reflects seriously on the wedding cake are peaceful neighbors. years generally allotted to the life of man. The man who mill men that it is going to be worth while judgment of those who administer the There are women’s friendships and died from the excessive use of tobacco at 89 was as surely girls' confidences, and the rusty leather cut off before his time ns one who died at 20 from the same to preserve our forest, and to make It anew law. tells the secret of neither. The l>ag cause; and the frail life of Gioacchino l’ecci was as surely when it has been destroyed? Yet does any one know of a Sir Thomas Lipton says England Is may hang In rhe mall oar of a flying prolonged by his nbsteinlous habits until be died as Ix*o case on this broad continent where anything has been done In decay while America la going to express train, with Its force of shlrt- XII/ at the age of 94.—New York Press. toward such an Increase or restoration? The chopping has the front. Sir Thomas probably thinks sleeved clerks working for dear life, been unscientific, because large areas have been stripped of of opening a few more branches on that the assorting of letters may keep FIFTY YEARS IN PARLIAMENT. vegetation and the water and soil have vanished. If ripe the peerage. He is careless of his nr- Gambling and Corruption. this Hide. pace with the rapid succession of cities timber only were cut, the young trees would have the bet­ Duke of Devonshire, Liberal Leader sonal appearance, carelea* of the ■>>, and towns. Or It may rest on the teot- F the evil effects of gambling on character and ter chance to grow; but when three-inch spruces are cut for and manner of his speech, hut hex,,, of the House of Lords, tom of a rattling wagon, behind a good on a whole society there can be no doubt. paper it means that there will presently be no spruces. ter is always good and the JudjtmMir The Duke of Devonshire has lately horse with a shabby harness, as the There is a difference tietween an Investor and sound. The remedy is to Impose restraints, but it Is also to plant figured in gossip from across the sea nation some day. Mr. Carnegie rural free delivery agent, bls reins a gambler even on the stock exchange, but It He is what people call a Brooklyn Eagle. Old Gomez wants the Cuban gov­ son for whom It was dflrtlned, wheth­ bling with other people's money.—Philadelphia Ledger. dianapolls News. He comes from« er near or far. The worn mail pouch ernment to pay him and the rest of the aristocratic family of spaniels mdtd Cuban army about M i.< m it ».<«tt» for scr speaks with loud vole» in praise of Open Air and Consumption. Growing Fxtravagdnce of Women. lies and spent his earlier years n i vices rendered lit freeing the Island that civilisation by which from conti­ farm. He made occasional trips :« NE of the most valuable results of modern med­ N ail sections of society one hears married nent to continent, with the certainty from «pain’s harsh rule. What did the town with the farmer In his yowl ical Investigation seems to be the rediscovery men, and indeed others, grumbling consider ­ of hearing and response, men may call Cuban army have to do with freeing and one day after the farmer'« an of the well-nigh forgotten fact that the best ably at the extravagance of their womenklnd to each other, “How fares It with Cuba, anyhow? gave him a whipping for disturbing remedy for, as well as the best defence against, In dress. In Individual cases they may have you?” eggs in a hen’s nest Jack came k consumption is a life in the open air. The the right to grumble; but on principle, and In The Turk ought to be driven from Rushville to live. h;/.: value of this discovery is greatly accentuated, general, I do not see that they have any gen­ the face of the earth, for there Is no AUTO COAT NEARLY He wandered about town for sow too. by the further fact that consumption Is the uine grounds for complaint, because If women are now spot on it tliat Is bad enough to de­ COVERS IOU ALL days and then took up his quartern! most fHtal of all diseases when measured by the annual extravagant In dress It must l»e remembered that for serve to be governed by him. Still, a barn where an omnibus is sheltered death rate. Experience lias also demonstrated that as It Is generations men have been extravagant In other and worse the Turkish government for the Turks and where he found friendly iianiii a diseases to which humanity Is liable In all countries and forms of self-indulgence. And, after all. man can take is not so bad. It la when the monster ready to aid him and when In Rush­ climates, this remedy Is as widely efficacious. comfort to his soul In the knowledge that Lt is chiefly with in the fez sets himself up to govern ville be seldom fails to go with the ba Rome valuable testimony on this subject was recently a view to pleasing him that woman Indulges In follies of somebody else that he become« abso­ furnished In an address by Lord Rosebery oc the occasion this sort, added to which he should count ft ns a gain that to the railroad station. lutely unspeakable. if the dedication of three new pavilions of the Victoria Hos­ this particular form of extravagance adds to the general He was at the station one day via» a tramp kicked him and Jack rat » pital for Consumption at Edinburgh. This Institution. cheerfulness and gayety of life.—London World. When horses Httd steej-tfred wagons the steps of a passenger coach ui Dt KE or DEVONSHIRE. are taken off the pavement, whether the train carried him away. He ra It t>e of asphalt or something more dur­ FAWN'S SKIN last the blue or winter coat was entire­ HIS CENT CAME BACK. mlersblp was within bis grasp in 1880. gone for two weeks, when be cue able, It Is going to last much longer ly gone, and the red summer coat took when Queen Victoria called him to back on a train, took his old place m Grafted on Man’« Face Hrougbt Abont «mall Coin Travels Around and Fin ­ slid Is not going away so readily to its place. In fart, he and the other a Peculiar Growth. form a ministry on Lord Beacons- the bns and went back to the ban a ally Keturna to Owner, dust and mud under the usual grind Perhaps the most curious case of woodsmen, to their merriment, saw Qeld's defeat. As I^ird Hartington he live. Ing. It Is conceivable that many good Take an ordinary copper cent piece, that the grafted skin varied and chang surgery that was ever performed in vaa elected leader of the Liberal par­ Jack made a trip by train to Cut- results will come of a change from ed precisely as does the coat of a deer. stamp It with a private mark, put it ty, and led for five years while Glad­ the region of the Adirondack* is that bridge City a few days ago and wbei horses and mules to automobiles, and into circulation, and what are the — Northwood (N. Y.) correspondence which was executed upon William Mc­ stone nominally rested In his tent. he returned on a freight train tnere the change Is going to come ataiut chances that you will eveT see It again? New York Times. Coy, a woodsman. Lord Hartington whs born to great- was no bus at the station. Hejnmpei In due time. The auto has conte to There Is one man who says that he McCoy lias just returned from the uess, and did not covet honors; am­ on a dray and refused to get off wd stay and It only remains to regulate *t tried the trick and succeeded at It. He MEXICAN LOVERS AMERICANIZED. Lake mountain lutnlier camp after an bitions are without bis sphere. And he had been hauled to town. wisely. is a business man, who refuses to al­ absence of two years. He brings with *o with rare self-denial he called from The dog goes to Newcastle «1«® low his name to be used In print about hliu the strange story and Its proof. the tent and banded to him the wreath once a week and he lias bis bumaa Efforts to get quick news from the the story, but he tells the tale to many A year ago last May he was work­ and the party power he had built up. friends there, who feed him "on the yacht race« off Sandy Hook by means of his friends, and he vouches for its 2 *U|I| ing with John Duffey getting out some Six years later, when the home rule fat of the land.” most of the food of wireless telegraphy were frustrat­ truth. long pole» to repair a chute which is split came, he became by consent the coming from hotels and resuuranU ed by the Jangling of rival systems. In 1894, he says, he found a cent leader of the Liberal Unionists who used to slide log* down the mountain The mischief was Intentional, more­ In Newcastle lie makes bis htadqua:- piece dated 1893 In the restaurant of «eceded. Lord Salisbury offered to side. Duffey went to cut a limb by an over. .«ch operator filling the air with ters at the postofflee, riding to and the Lafayette Hotel. He pocketed It serve under him If he would take the upward swing when the ax slipped Incessant Hertzian waves that, when from the station in a mall vyot. Here Is an automobile suit that pret­ for luck, and as a memento of a Jolly premiership. Again he refused. guarding the pouches as he rides. H* Interpreted, were mere nonsense. Amid ty nearly shuts you all up In Its folds, from his hand* and went flying little dinner scratched bls initials on Whether be was considered last year a hilarious Jargon of hopelessly con­ so that your own mother would hardly through the air. It struck McCoy, and It Just over the feathered head, while srben Mr. Balfour was chosen to suc- sleeps before the safe In the New flicting signals It was dearly shown recognise you. It Is for touring, and la Its keen edge * ha ved off the «treater on the cheek he added those of the leed Lord Salisbury is not known. castle postotflee and regard* the at- that under existing conditions any sys­ made in some dark shade. The wood part of hla right cheek. He bled pro­ hotel. Until 189(1 he treasured the Probably be was not. for three years lice men as his friends. fusely while they hastened to the camp tem of wireless communication can brown ioat picture«! extends almost to coin, then drew it out of his pocket jefore he spoke of retiring from po­ Seasonable for Ice Plant prevent, within Its radius of effective the hem of the fris k The sleeve* have half a mile away. There was no doc­ with a handful of other change, and litical life, and It was not generally "All kinds of vegetables are off set ion, the transmission of messages a simple turn back cuff, and the gar tor within thirty five miles, and worst before he reallz.ed it the cent piece had believed that his inclinations lay In backward this season.” groaned 9« by a rival plant This Is a fatal weak- ment fastens in single breasted style of all the streams were raging tor­ gone the mysterious way of all money. the direction of party headship. u«as In wireless telegraphy which Its with large pearl buttons The cap In rents and could not possibly be fooled. pinnacle of pessimism. A year ago he chanced, being of a “Well.” satd the optimistic object An idea prevails that “the noble sanguine promoters have heretofore the snme suit to match the garment Conununlcatlon with the outside world curious turn of mind, to fall into con­ Duke,” as the lords call him. Is Indo­ "at any rate, the ice plant 1* flounit was cwt off and there was not likely sedulously endeavored to conceal. has a cape arrangement In the back, to tie any means of getting to a vil­ versation one evening with a profes- lent and indifferent. He may be in- Ing."—Baltimore American. entirely covering the hair, while g"g lage for some days to come. But as s onal beggar at Broad and Cheatnut llfferent as to bls own advancement, It does not seem Impossible for mod gles protect the eyes from dust. Occasionally you m * a «tout:■«* luck would have It, there happened tv strteta. He upbraid d the man for for he has always been assured of ern civilised powers to come to some la? a tiur»« In camp from Utica named getting so much money for nothing agreement by which the further ter­ In the Same float. more than apparently he craves for— aged woman who trie* to look . "Oh,” said the beggar. "I don’t get great wealth, high aoclal position, by wearing a dress made erlty to ness and demanded 83. Needless to The bishop collapsed, and silence tight bandage* The cheek stopped their own families. the Turks tlinmaelvea and so remove reigned. say he got It. and also, of course, the i bleeding at once. Mayhap the Mexican beauty rnw her cent piece has never since left the from the circle of Christian civilise Italian Intnilgrailon. A week afterward Henry took off sweethrart through th* lattlre work business man’s watch chain.—Phila­ tlou a monster of Intolerable charac­ One of the curious features In mod the l«nd*x» The graft was found to acreen, or leaned from a balcony while delphia Press. ter The riot act la due to be read t>e- I h » a perfect »ucceea. The wound was he. lacking the daring of Romeo, fore the Yildls palace and a transport era emigration statistic* relate« merican • tioqd be easily provided to take the dally to the Italian people. In th« de­ hauling rapidly and it appeared that forced tv stand on the pavement Was Ready *o Fight. When old rascal to some twentieth century cade ending In 18*) 129.900 left the the scar would show but slightly. In whisper sweet nothing« * n Portugese engineer, penlusula for foreign parts. In liar.1 four weeks McCoy was healed so wall mltted to her home he could not St. Helena. happened to be passing over flOtl.Ot’O Italians left th»tr Suers tliat he was able to go to work. Soon her alone. wr the American »quad When a police magistrate passe« sen tral homes The Increase In Italian after, however, he noticed when he In Chihuahua the red In leno iqeou a mail guilty of leeatlng his emigration has been steadily growing drew hl* hand acroea hts cheek that women have tired »track wife be Is often hard put to it to And for twenty year», the 300.000 mark lee­ hair was growing on the grafted skin, method of c a penalty that will not bear more *r lug pass»! In 1WI. of the •»«•.«■«« „„j lie waa rather pleased at that, for he a "hachelor 11« won verely upon the Injured wife than u|e>u upward who left their native shores thought he might woar a ltenni and will go to the < the brutal husband. If lie sends the last yen» came to the I n ted thus entirely hide the scar, But In a and will be escorted wife l>eatev to jail In nine case* out of Rtata. few >lay» more the hair had grown so the men. To previ ten the burden will be upon the wife, thickly that Ila color ami nature were member has prom!»« Increase In Area or I 'n itesi Htsin who Is deprived for a time of the sup­ Rime ITO) the area >f the United plainly visible, It was the hair of the one year. Th» organ port her hu-danid might otherwise give fawn growing. and moreover. It was ed excitement, and l>»r. Aixl If he Impost« a fine the ef­ «tate» has Increased from «27.844 to H|>o7 Io therefore that magistrate« In their de rt«eu the skin, and allowed ft to re­ counts. 2. *17. and the total population has In- «pair often express the wiab that tba main until the fall of the year Then creased from 8.929.214 to 7d.8OS.387, the spots dlaappsared and the "blu»“ Asphyxiated by <;«*. law would |»em>lt them to eend the or nineteenfold. coat of a full grown deer took It* place. Within a year four per»ms wh» have brute to the flogging poet, where ttie of spir When spring came around he a«w gone to sleep near the dndrr .lump of •V pain of the lash would teach him some­ There are som» queer ifen In tba Its which had led to hl* being tended thing of the suffering he Inflicts upon world: An Atchison man doesn't Ilka that the hair of bls cheek was falling the Hr»m«ate«d steel plant have ts^u •ra h'm off now quite nw>lbfl.,l with t out and fine red hair was growing. At asphyxiated by che gas It emita. bls wife, while the punishment would to have women and ghia kiss him. John Ruff—No wonder the bio min' Americans ie< a round of cheer* -London Leader. P vnct pJAnL—-dAlueniipvlls ieurusL TOPICS OF THE TIMES. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS T Käs? WH BRAIN POWER A