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o f the moat profane language. Cot always safe to Judge the o f our prosperity by the prices put on the new hats for women. __ A woman can forgive her husband for being a bear at home If be will only make love to her when they are out in company. Viceroy Alexleff calls the Japanese a "self-willed, stubborn enemy.” The remark throws a flood o f light on the origin o f the war. Mr. Carnegie wants war abolished, but the Carnegie mills are going right along making armor plate for all cus tomers that have the price. Uncle Sam must be something o f a farm er when the statistics show that the railroads received more than $483,- 000,000 for simply moving his 1004 crop. Algernon Sartorls, grandson o f Cen tral Grant, ridicules the establishment lo t the Jury system In the Philippines, where he says the lower natives are too easily corrupted. So? Noticed something o f the same sort here. Already the N ew York subway Is being disfigured with unsightly adver tisements. Some people will think It a pity when they get to heaven— If they ever do— that they ean’t line the streets o f the N ew Jerusalem with billboards. Woman was woman 2000 B. C. A r thur Evans, the O xford archaeologist, has found In Crete a subterranean sanctuary containing the statue o f a The g o d ^ s s has on corsets li k e t h s j ^ ^ H m o d e r n date, and physique o f Greek xplained on a wbol- flacal year, according to our computation, *28,908,000 o f goods, an Increase o f $5,147,000 over the fiscal year 1003; and we bought from Cuba $78,983,000, an increase o f $14,041,000. As compared with 1902, our sales were almost the same, but our purchases had more than doubled. Food adulteration, for many years a subject o f contention and discussion In scientific quarters, has received Its most serious consideration at the hands o f the International Jury of nwards at the Louisiana Purchase E x position. A fte r several months of close scrutiny o f many food samples and the most careful scientific investi gation the Jurors uncot ered conditions that are astonishing. According to Paul Pierce, superintendent o f food exhibits at the fair, the follow ing Is an actual breakfast in a working man’s home in Indianapolis: Fried sausage, colored with aniline red and adulterated with about 10 per cent of corn grits; apple butter, colored with nullue red and loaded with glucose; butter, colored with azo dye und adul terated with 10 per cent excess of water; coffee, glazed with a glazing compound o f dextrine and starch, and colored with brown aniline dye; bread, cheap, soggy baker’s stuff not sulll- clently baked and containing glucose and malt extract; potatoes; gravy, made from flour, milk and the drip from colored and adulterated sausage. This breakfast consisted o f seven arti cles, of which only one— potatoes— was normal. ALS OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Sound nnd the waterway which runs west of Greenland. T is a very good sigu that the railroad officers and man The winter through, and much more In summer, this chan agers themselves are much exercised over the Interstate nel Is full of moving ice, through which a vessel such as Commerce Commission's appalling showing of railroad Commodore Feary now proposes can be forced to a point accidents for the past fiscal year. I t is a Btlll further north o f Greenland, probably a very considerable distance good sign that. In discussing the matter, the railroad men i f the seuson chances to be open over the water which are very generally admitting that the fault Is the railroads’, separates the most northern part o f Greenland from the and not that o f the public Itself, or of Divine Providence, pole.— Philadelphia Press. THE HUMAN FACTOR. Si No nail ers o f col more bris ¥ I or the infetuul powers. Lucius Tuttle, president of the Boston and Maine Rail Enormous Loss by Eire. T. KOSClj road, makes the mileage system, which puts undue pressure V E R Y now and then writers on economic subjects tbe Ainerig upon the men, primarily responsible. And In an interview direct attention to the terrible losses caused by tire. men and with an Evening Mall reporter W . C. Brown, third vice One o f the most vigorous summaries o f this vast " i carnal president o f the N ew Y'ork Central, said yesterday that in modern waste Is offered by the Wisconsin State In pendenoe,'] almost every ease Included in the report o f the Interstate surance Department, which remarks that the waste by h a t "W Commission the accident was the result o f carelessness or fire in the United States during the twenty-five years ended “ Try nic.l forgetfulness on the part of one or more employes. T ry him I Mr. Brown apparently thinks thut mechanical safety ap Dec. 31 last has averaged $130,000,000 a year. I f condi pliances have gone almost us fifr ns they can go. Elec tions remain normal during the fraction o f 1904 yet re that Individ trically locked switches may render the operation o f fast maining— that Is to say, If no other serious conflagration the struggle f passenger trains safer; but the rest depends on the em occurs— the lire bill for this year cannot be less than *300,- regimen ployes. H e wants the extremest care exercised to get 000,000, a tax rate equal to 8-100 o f the national wealth. who built When It Is remembered thut this Immense sum is absolute Koaciusakol "only men o f natural Intelligence and fairly educated" for ly wiped out o f existence, eternally removed from the use edge of en(j this responsible and most exacting service. o f mankind, the seriousness o f the problem which con parts and Railroad men should certainly be Intelligent and fairly fronts us may be appreciated.' who plannel educated. But the most intelligent man cannot be alto Insurance Engineering has been considering the same at W a it i '" I gether depended on if he understands thnt speed is the A t the cld first requirement and sufety only a secondary one, or If subject, and It attributes the waste largely to the over prevalence o f wooden buildings. It is said that in Chicago to his own l ’l his faculties are so strained by long hours or by Intense more than h alf*of the buildings are o f frame construction. bringing to li| pressure that his Impressions become confused and his per In Newark, a town with a population o f u quarter of a that he had ceptions dulled. Ralls sometimes spread and wreck trains under an un million, two thirds o f the buildings ure frame. Even In land to win. Boston the frame buildings are more than two-thirds of At the siege1 usual strain. The human brain is liable to a similar col the whole. In Sau Francisco more than nine-tenths ure •ov»-red witllT lapse under similar conditions. It Is to be noted thut, ac The Immense amount o f money g iv frame. Insurance Engineering gives a list of about sev slans were en during the last ten years for widely cording to the Interstate Commission’s accident bulletin, enty towns in which frame construction predominates so claimed, a the gravest disasters reported in the lust year were the different objects finds no parallel In greatly that, to use its words, they have a "kindling wood Ills w \ history, it Is true large sums of mon results o f blunders o f “ experienced men."— New York Mall. outlook." The same lemnrk the New York Sun thinks after»» i i 1 ey in times past have been given to might be made o f about all the 438 towns enumerated In sia set hitn the church, and during the middle ages Peary’s Latest Plan. the census bureau's computation o f the urban population. be bad lod what was given to the church Includ OM M ODORE P E A R Y , In Ills speech at New York, The next era In our muterial progress should be known him Ills o il ed educatiou, libraries and charities as before the International Geographical Congress, out as the fire-proof age.— Pittsburg Press. riot said sot! well as religion, but there was nothing lined the one most rational attack upon the pole yet " I have no * 1 like the lavish outpouring o f money proposed. have iic^Mpntl there has been o f late, especially in The Cost of War. Now that the narrow circle still sealed about the North The ei America. Libraries and universities Pole has been approached from all quarters it has grown USSIA, as well us Japan, is beginning to count the of the cause o P have come In for so lurge a sk ^^^of clear that the final achievement o f reaching the North Pole cost o f a long war. Count Okuma, as w e have seen, tlfioned laud wl! gifts that the most m will turn upon one o f three methods; a vessel strong enough reckons Jupan’s military expenses at half a billion own the words i ¿ ely to be to stand drift, a vessel powerful enough to breast the Ice, dollars a year. The financial agent attached to the patriot have g e fl one jmd a dash with sledges across the pack. Commodore l ’eary Russian embassy at Washington estimates the war expendi w orld, anim ating foposes to unite all three. Ills new vessel, about the size ture of Itpssln up-to the end o f the year at nearly the same o f liberty. One | the i Btercdc Discovery, will be built upon tin suiu-=(>50;n00,000 rubles being equivalent to a little over the value of a s and have all the strehgib»¿.Nansen's craft, which aur $300,000,000. It Is not likely that either estimate Is too cause he fights f j ed the long pressure of moving Tee through the Arctic high. Think what a billion dollars might have done for the Thaddeus Koscifl peaceful development o f Manchuria. And these ^kures do live as long ns | gilt. Instead o f being, like that vessel, the mere sport o f the not include the loss to the country that is fought^^K-. name of liberty. elements, It will he strong enough to push Its wuy through Russia, o f course, has vastly greater resources than I t Is not thjj moving lee. For this purpose It will be provided with the Japan. While the remoteness o f the war Is a military dis the gochlej 'on heaviest engines which have ever been sent north o f the advantage, It leaves the country Itself practically undis goldeu A of Arctic circle. Its screw will be calculated for pressure turbed, and the drafts for m ilitary service make lit le Im w ho. dls- rather than for speed. Its structure will be made, not for pression upon the enormous population o f the empire. le way mere ramming, but for thut steady, continuous pushing, Japan, on the contrary, must be sending an appreciable p as has which, applied to the largest Ice floe weighing millions of portion o f her productive hands into the war, and the b! y way of tons, will gradually move It, as the experience of whalers in den o f their support falls on a relatively limited terrj fcld Is endless warping during the M elville pack demonstrated years ngo. Russia lifts a particular advantage at this time large sums of The fashion in which one o f these vessels, by the steady- the great horde o f gold that has been aecuinalatpd' ,o greater boon pressure o f windlass, would gradually thread Its way- country as the basis of an exeollfijrCcurrency system, which her success In througli an Ice floe square miles In extent, which gradually tins thus tuffs*red no disturbance. Japan has likewise Koch, Flnsen, yielded to steady, continuous pressure applied along Its managpd'her currency issues successfully as yet, but they e Curries and leads, can scarcely be believed. Lastly, having These .two 'if n •e on a small scale, and when the public outlay rises In ;sts cannot be requisites of a vessel both strong and Bflifr'erful. Commodore the hundreds o f millions It is questionable i f the system Is ally great ex- Peary ¡»ropbses at FIi?Tirst stage o f his campaign to use the adequate to stnnd the strain. [enerously pro- Ice sledge and a dash across the pack from a base as far In the shock o f buttle, victory is likely to rest with the •t o f a republi- north ns can be secured. strongest battalions. In the wear and tear of a long war, limcnt to roster experiments A northern base, Eskimo helpers and a mingling o f all the advantage Is with the largest exchequer. Japan's best e means for other than linme- the various tools which other explorers have employed are hope Is In nn early and decisive success. Russia's reliance mands, but It is the privilege three factors by which Commodore Peary proposes to re Is still In her unlimited powers o f endurance. But the fee gifted with the facility for solve thut geographical surd, the North Pole. The open wanton waste of a billion dollars a year Is the least part of ley-making or on whom fortune door towurd the greatest northing for his base Is Smith the awful cosft of war.— 1'hiludelphiu Ledger. bestowed her favors to advance these Interests by generous donations. fense, but was promptly upset and ruined towns; for even as late ns It Is something to find and conquer pounced upon by the enraged animal. Roman times this was a well culti new worlds in science, but to be the A CREE BEAR HUNT. Dick LIcrron rose suddenly to his feet vated and populous country. There 1« patron of these discoverers, to be the and shot. The bear collapsed into the now no lumber available for building one to enable them to accomplish the muddled water. purposes, and In a number o f villages deed Is scarcely less honor than Is his Haukemah nnd his steersman roso, the bouses are all built with conical The Wood Creos o f the Far North wlnrhi'.s the genius for doing It. While have a great respect for their “ little dripping. The Indiana gathered to ex roofs o f stone. Where the rock hai>- the fad for giving Is on let the sceln- brother,” nmkwn, the boar, and the amine In respectful admiration. Dick’s pens to be o f a reddish tinge the tists have their sliltre o f the funds. braves array themselves for a bear bullet had passed from ear to ear. houses remind one o f nothing so much E C R ■ Ho con- to offl rorces. hunt in their finest dress o f ceremony. a “ The Silent Flares,” Stewart Ed- j l W hite describes an nttack on a ,by a party o f Indians, ns w it nessed by turn woodsmen. Dick and Sarii-perceived a sudden excitement In tlie bird'dig'”" canoes Haukemah stopped, then cautiously backed until well behind the screen of the point. "It's a bear,” said Sam. quietly. “ They've gone to get their w ar paint on.” In a short time the Indian canoes re appeared. The Indians had Intercept ed their women, unpacked their bag gage, and arrayed themselves In buck skin, elaborately embroidered with bends nml silks In the flower pattern. Ornaments o f brnss and sliver, sacred skins o f the beaver, broad dashes of Nothing Is more remarkable In con ocber and vermilion on the nHkcd skin, fection with the war In the cast than twisted streamers o f colored wool all he stolidity o f the Chinese people. I f added to the barbaric gorgeousness. ey take note o f the battles they Phantom like, without apparently km to have no preference as to the slightest directing motion, tlie M l side shall be victor. This W bows o f the canoes swung like wlnd- A Second < »(Tense. [;ely a fact o f Ignorance, for even The tramp a Treated fo r vagrancy vanes to point toward a little heap well-informed natives have only rarely displays any humor, but the o f drift logs under the shadow o f an crudest geographical knowledge New York Tribune mentions one elder bush. The bear was wallowing do not grasp the meaning o f a whose mild waggishuess enlivened his In the cool wet sand. Rut the stolidity Is not alto- own trial. Now old Haukemah rose to his ^ ttrtb u tsb le to lack o f compre- A fte r the Judge had looked the man height in the 1 » » ' o f his canoe, and Lif military nlv'em cnts In the over, he said, musingly, "1 seem to began to speak rapidly In a low voice. hostilities, but Is largely due In the soft f r e e tongue. know your face.” hi characteristics. Ftom every "Y es,” the tramp agreed, pleasantly, “ O makwa. our little brother.” he Cor view the QM m H are an illus- “ we were boys together.” said, "w e come to yon not in anger, [ o f arrested developm ent They "Nonsense!" said the Judge, frown nor in disrespect. W e come to do you beating time so long ns a ing. a kindness. Here are hunger and cold hat they cannot grasp the In "B ut we were,” the tramp said, with and enemies. In the Afterland Is only \ o f the word progt-esa V* mild Insistence. "W e're about the happiness So If we shoot you, O ¡Imply means change, and same age. W e must a' been boys to makwa. our little brother, be not an repugnant to the nice as gether." gry with us.” With the shook o f a dozen little bul Women go into boarding house* with let* the bear went down, but was Im was able to con- the excuse that they can't find help. mediately afoot again. He was badly ingress In his How about the men who don't close wounded and thoroughly enraged. Be hie Increase up their places o f busluess because ol fore the astonished Indians could back (land. He the same problem? water, he had dashed Into the shal fls- *74.- A man forgives the yneniles he has lows and planted his paws on the and worsted, but not those who have bow o f old Hniikemah's canoe. Uauketnab stood valiantly to tbe de w onted him lug "w ired.” Some telephone line have been and ns much more Is being ¡T<L The work is no Joke. The rains land the poles fell. The white ants ate up a large collection o f wooden poles. Then iron ones were put up, which the simple native liked so well that he took them home to use in his busi ness. The Negus stopped the amuse ment by proclaiming death to the pole pilferers. But the royal mandate can not prevent the Bandarlog, the mon key "people, from swinging In the wires or— what Is much more delightful— stlie elephant from scratching himself |galnst the poles The telephone pole a scratching post for elephants. Si* does civilization provide home ouiforts for the Jungle people. A n E p i c u r e in C -.m ltn iW ftt. It was in the dining room o f a c try hotel, the Chicago Reeord Heral says, and the brisk waitress held a glass pitcher above some steaming buckwheat cakes she had placed be fore the guest from town. “ Slr’p?” she asked. " I f you please.” "W ill you have It raound and rnound, or In n paddle?” "B eg pardon?’ "Raound nml rnound, or In a pud dle?” " I — I — In a puddle, I think.” The golden stream began Its sticky descent on the center of the cakes, and ns she poured, the waitress Included the guest and her work In one friendly contemplative glance. "Some prefers It raound and raound, but I like It best In a puddle myself,” she said, graciously, ns she shut off the stream o f strup with a dexterous turn o f her w rist. as a collection o f Indian wigwams; where tbe stone Is white, as at Tell The Inventor sa»4 el-Blseh, It glitters and sparkles like S cen es A l o n g O ne o f t h e M o s t A n c ie n t ■Wave* the Aland» n fairy city cut out o f loaf, auger.__ t H i g h w a y s in t h e W o r ld , lines show how it may be sh ifts .Scribner's Magazine. The road Jroiq.XUMftft-Le ita ma” runs cording to tlie direction ¿of the ral -KTiuosL due north, a straight white R e lig io n s in In d ia . C o in c id e n c e . j line cutting ncross the green fields. It Some interesting knowledge con “ When my w ife was a llttloa Is one o f tbe oldest routes in tbs world. Caravans have been passing cerning religions in India is presented said the guest to liis host, “ sh| A fe»v A*, along it for at least five thousand by tbe census. The number o f Brah- lowed a needle. years, Just as we saw them— long inanlc Hindoos in 1901 was 207,050,- while seated at a f . ' ' .s .- strings o f slow-moving camels, with 557, or seven in ten o f tbe population. a sharp cry and com£ r This great sect, broadly speaking, has in her foot. So Intel.-. 1 #•" their bright-colored bags o f wheat. One could almost imagine that declined nineteen in 1,000 since 1891, fering that a physician had to | l ’luiranh was ngnin calling down the but chiefly because o f famine and mar ed in. H e made an Incision ______ corn o f Hamath to fill bis garments riage customs. The Mohammedans, In tract----- ” “ The needle?” quickly n d J c d ^ ^ H against the seven years o f famine. tbe same period, managed to Increase But even here tbe old things are pass 30 per cent, their total number now be er guest. lug. Just beyond tbe long Hue of ing 02,458,077. "Y'es,” answered the gentl ; all w l Assertions often made that Moham had related the incident, anti yed l camels was a longer line o f fellah women, their dirty blue robes kilted medanism Is gaining ground In India cause of the Interruption. above their knees, carrying upon their thus appears to be well founded, and "W hen I was a boy,” respoi -led t shoulders baskets o f earth and stone It Is evident that at tbe present rate of host, “ I ran a silver o f wood In n for the roadbed o f tbe new Fren- h Increase that religion may some time foot. A t the time I thought I bad t W hile Budd moved It entirely. One mornimaa ye railway. The carriage road Is French, dominate the country. too; and a very good road Is It. Some hism Increased 3 per cent It Is con ago, I felt a dull pain back of m f e men were repairing It with a most In fined almost exclusively to Burma, and I put my hand to mi i I. . tf| genious roller. I t was n great round there most o f the 9,000,000 nominal ad found----- ” stone, drawn by two oxen, and havlug herents of the Buddhistic cult are real “ The sliver o f wood?” agaij Its axle prolonged by a twenty-foot ly bound to an ancient demon worship. posed the unmannerly gi|ipst. pole, at the end o f which a bare As for Christianity In India, the cen "N o,” retorted the host, legged Arab was fastened to balance sus of 1901 returns 2,923,241 professors back o f my ear a lead pencil."I the whole affair. I f the stone had top of the Christian faith, an Increase of I3 III. Sarcasm. pled over tbe picture o f tlie Arab 31 per cent since 1891. “ I have here," said Id th t dangling at the top o f the slender flag This growth seems decidedly encour wrote] c staff would have been worth watch aging, but it must be said th at accord ¡visitor, "a poem 1 wt ing. ing to the official view, the returns of Falls'----- ” A ll along the ride w e were reminded Christians were swelled by the Inclu "T h e Idea!” exclaimed»' the I o f the past. It is a fertile soil, but sion o f the famine waifs, who were "and how did yon nmn-Age paper d ry :' Jl’bil* tbe very wheat fields nr* different cast upon Christian charity in large your from ours. Only a few yards In width, numbers by the terrible famines o f tbe Ledger. they are often o f tremendous length past decade. It is aieo stated tbat in S»uiply an K ie l I hesitate to commit m yself to figures; Madras and Bengal the more degraded "B ut »»hat reason lutvs bnt It Is certain that the thin, green ’ lasses tend to become converts to wanting to marry me?” fields would stretch away In the dis "hrtstlanlty for social reasons. “ I love you!” tance until lost over some little eleva "That's no reason; It’ s tlon. A t one place the road was cut In sin u atin g. — Scraps. through a hill honeycombed with rock "There's no use trying to do good A fte r a boy has tombs, which the haj said were Jew things In this w orld They aren't ap try. ami ish. Every now and then we passed preciated.” a tell, or great hemispherical mound, “ H ow do T” — Cleveland has to le built up o f tbe rubbish o f a dozen P C A R A V A N ROAD 6,000 YEARS.