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To the pure all things are pure, ex
cept the things they eat
It la not without reason that Russia
Is generally colored yellow on the maps.
About the only time an American
battleship Is safe Is when It Is in battle.
John D. Is getting to be a skillful
mixer." Is he thinking of going Into
politics? ;
"Walters are misunderstood," says
the sociologist Not more frequently
than orders.
John D. Rockefeller has been palnt
td In oil. And he said Just the other
day that he was out of It
The Russian soldiers were defeated
by the Japs, but they are brave enough
to whip a defenseless woman.
The woman who swallow two $10
bills and was accused of stealing must
feel like a walking cash register.
Edward VII. finds that being a king
has Its financial advantages. The money
kings let him in on the ground floor.
Is the Interest In baseball declining?
Fewer umpires seem to have been killed
and maimed this season than usual. -
The female crank Is annoying, but
not dangerous. As a rule she is armed
only with woman's most effective
.weapon.
In a good many cases those all-night
banks will only add to the troubles of
the men who worry about the safety of
their money all day.
And now even the frosting of the
wedding cake is said to harbor germs.
Thus one more Is added to the list of
Obstacles on the road to marriage.
The Hawaiian Japs' chances of start
ing trouble between the United States
and Japan are somewhat diminished by
Tokyo's need of bard American cash.
Just to show her sympathy with the
universal disarmament movement, Ger
many has decided to build a battle
ship that will eclipse the Dreadnaught
The Chicago professor who contends
that woman was made before man has
probably discovered that nearly all
men were Infants when their mothers
were full grown.
It Is pertinent for President Gompers
to politely ask Chairman Shonts why
he regards coolie labor as unskilled if
It succeeds on a Job where every other
kind has failed.
The trip from San Francisco to New
York has been made in fifteen days by
automobile. Part of the way there are
bad roads and part of the way no roads
at all. With a highway across, there
would be something doing to cause the
Pacific roads to cut their schedules.
True philanthropy embraces all ef
forts to Improve the conditions of man
and promote civilization. The bequest
of the late Alfred Belt of 1,200,000 to
promote railways, telegraphs and "oth
er methods of transmission" In Africa
Is returning unto commerce the things
that are of commerce, and yet it Is as
genuine a gift for the Improvement of
man as the endowment of a university
or a hospital.
The thirty days' war between the
Central American States was ended
promptly and with apparent cordiality
on both sides, thanks to the offices of
President IHbe and President Roose
velt The representatives of the little
warring republics came to terms on
board the cruiser Marblehead, and
added to the Peace of Portsmouth an
other pacific victory for the United
Btates. One article of the draft of
terms provides for the reference of all
future difficulties to the arbitration of
the United States and Mexico.
To what extent are people living be
yond their means? This Is a ques
tion much more apt to raise Itself well
along In a period of prosperity than
during a time of Industrial depression,
when economy becomes a necessity
through the restriction of credit and
develops Into a passion for saving.
Here is one with an automobile whose
Income Is not up to the obvious re
quirement. Here Is another given to
other showy extravagances whoso In-
-come Is supposed to be less than our
own. Fine raiment, servants, theaters,
expensive entertainments, costly house
furnishings we see these things all
around among people of moderate sal
aries and Incomes, and how can they
afford ltt Do they pay their bills? Is
the grocer being neglected In favor of
dealers In luxuries? Ia there a mort
gage behind the gay vehicle of pleas
ure? Are bad debts accumulating In
the train of extravagant display?
The Drago or Calvo doctrine is that
private claims of foreigners against
American countries shall not be col
Jeoted by force. The doctrine was
enunciated by eminent citizens of Ar
gentina, and Secretary Root flattered
national pride when he proclaimed at
one of the banquets given him at
Buenos Ayres the adherence of this
country to the doctrine. Ue said : "The
ynlted States never has employed and
never will 'employ her army or navy
I to collect debts contracted by govern-
ments or private individuals." While
the United States accepts tne rsraga
doctrine as a rule of action, the lead
ing European nations do not No cred
itor likes to surrender anything .which
may aid in making a debtor pay up.
European nations whose subjects are
creditors cf Impecunious American re
publics believe In the use of force to
compel payment Some of them resort
ed to it in the case of Venezuela. The
United States regrets the attitude of
European governments. . It believes
their method of collecting debts lends
itself, as Secretary Root says, "to spec
ulation and war based on sordid ob
jects ;" but this country recognly.es the
right of European governments to use
force in collecting private claims so
long as there Is no permanent occupa
tion of territory. As this Is the atti
tude of the American government, it
prefers that the South American repub
lics should not press the Drago doc
trine too energetically. It would rather
that bankrupt republics should follow
the example of Santo Domingo and In
vite the United States to administer
their finances than that they should
wait until a European navy is off their
ports and then invoke the aid of this
country in the name of the Monroe
doctrine.
In the course of a year a good many
churches In the United States are
struck by lightning. During the sum
mer resort season many people are
drowned. Numerous children have
stomach ache as the result of gustatory
excesses at Sunday school picnics. Yet
we hardly believe that the American
Medical Association would favor the
abolition of churches, summer resorts
and Sunday school picnics because of
the mishaps Incident, to those Institu
tions, says the Chicago Chronicle. There
is hardly anything connected with the
life of humanity which has not some
drawback or disadvantage. Only in
heaven and perhaps not even there
shall we find roses without thorns. The
American Medical Association, follow
ing the lead and accepting the statistics
of certain pseudo-American newspapers
which evidently design to destroy the
Fourth of July as a national anniver
sary, demands that everything possible
shall be done "ln the way of legal re
strictions of Fourth of July celebra
tions." In other words, the association
wants to stop the commemoration of
Independence day. The excuse for this
demand is to be found In the casualties
reported by the newspapers from which
the association takes Its cue. Because
a certain number of people a number
never yet positively ascertained hurt
themselves on the Fourth of July, there
fore the celebration of that anniversary
must be abandoned. As we have point
ed out In the beginning, this reasoning,
if applied generally, would put an end
to religious worship, to summer out
ings and to other forms of recreation.
It would also stop railroad travel, be
cause people are killed on railroad
trains; it would mean stagnation for
almost all forms of amusement and in
dustry, since some peril Is Incident to
all of them. We doubt whether the
American Medical Association would
care to accept the .logical results of Its
own reasoning, because It would put
the medical profession out of business.
Many people die under the bands of
doctors; ergo, abolish doctors. The
conclusion Is as fair lu this case as it
is in the Fourth of July matter. But
the association probably did not Inves
tigate the case thoroughly before pro
nouncing Judgment It was deceived by
the Anglicized newspapers, and Instead
of confining its recommendations to the
treatment of tetanus resulting from
Fourth of July wounds it undertook to
condemn the Fourth of July Itself. This
demonstrates the truth of the old adage
about the shoemaker and his last. So
long as the medical associations stick
to medical matters they are upon safe
ground; when they venture turther
afield they are likely to make them
selves ridiculous.
Motor Car for Railroad.
Strange In appearance Is the latest
model gasoline-motor car put into ser
vice by the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany, says Technical World Magazine. 1
It Is equipped with side entrances, 1
the door apertures being worked Into 1
the side of the car, by means of a pat-'
ented steel framing, which Includes an
uninterrupted depressed elde-slll. Thej
square design of window has been done
away with and air, water and dust
proof round window sash has been sub
stituted. The new windows resemble
the port holes of a vessel. The weight
of the car Is SS.000 pounds, and Its
length Is fifty-five feet The motor Is
a 100 horse-power, six-cylinder, gasoline
engine with "make and brake" spark
ignition. I
The new car has already made sev
eral successful trial runs, both on level
track and on various grades, at Bpeeds
ranging from thirty-four to seventy-two
miles an hour.
Had One.
"No," said Mrs. Starvem, preparing
to slam the door, "you can't sell me no
cyclerpedor."
"But" protested the man, "I would
like to leave some circulars Cor your
boarders. I might interest "
"They don't need it either. They's a
Boston lady stoppln' here."
.Taocht.
"He taught her how to skate,
He taught her how to swim,
They're married now, and she Is teach
ing lots of things to him 1"
Puck.
A boy thinks: "What a good tune a
man ha !" And a man thinks : "What
a good time a boy has!" And what a
bum time both hav. t
Lake Erie produces more flsb to the
square mile than any other body of
water In the world.
Spiders are met with In the forests
of Java whose webs are so strong that
it requires a knife to cut through them.
Matrimonial tickets are suppjied by
the Canadian Pacific Railway to set
tlers In the Northwest Territory who
wish to make a Journey in order to se
cure a wife. On presenting the return
coupon and the marriage certificate the
settler is entitled to free transporta
tion for his bride.
Lady Laurler, the wife of the pre
mier, is the only woman who has de
livered a speech In the Canadian House
of Parliament She was discovered at
a reception at the foot of the throne,
and at once a demand was made for a
speech. She was at first abashed, but
ascended the steps and made what was
described as "a pretty oration."
Some women Interested in charities
recently visited a home for discharged
female prisoners. They were shown
to a room where two women were sew
ing. "Dear me!" one of the visitors
whispered, "what vicious 'ooklng crea
tures! Pray, who are they?" "This
Is the sitting room," blandly answered
the superintendent, "and these are my
wife and my daughter."
A special postage stamp was Issued
by the Japanese government to com
memorate the return of the troops from
the war. Two of these stamps, of the
face value of one-half and three sens,
respectively, were Issued, and they were
available for postage for letters only
on the day of the recent great review.
Not more than one of each kind was sold
to every applicant at the general post
office. A professor of English in the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, according to Har
per's Weekly, tells of some clever re
plies made by a student under exam
ination in English. The candidate had
been Instructed to write out examples
of the indicative, the subjunctive, the
potential and the exclaniatoiy moods.
Ills efforts resulted as follows: "I am
endeavoring to pass an English exam
ination. If I answer twenty questions
I shall pass. If I answer twelve ques
tios I may pass. God help me!"
An old Bible, bought by a French
army officer In a second-hand bookshop
at Mont de Marsan contained long lost
treasure. The officer, turning over the
book in his quarters, was astonished
to find in It coupons and scrip to the
value of more than $2,000. These bore
the name of the holder, at St. Pierre
du Mont, and the address of a notary
of the same place. On communicating
with the notary the officer learned that
the holder of the scrip, a small peas
ant owner, had died some years ago,
and that the property represented by
the lost papers had not been disturbed.
Great was the surprise when the officer
handed over the scrip.
Five steamboats are being built for
a Kiel shipping company which are said
to be wholly unsinkable. A recent trial
of one of the boats was carried out in
the presence of representatives of the
Imperial navy and many shipping firms.
The vessel was fully laden to represent
two hundred passengers, and It was as
sumed that, In consequence of a leak
caused by a collision, the entire engine
room division, Into which the water
was pumped, had filled, while a hole
was made In the exterior to admit
water freely. The ship accordingly
sank, but when It was full of water it
had still about a foot of freeboard
above the surface, thus satisfying the
conditions Imposed.
WORK OF THE DYNAMITER. '
Not the Safeblower or the Anarchist,
but the Professional.
"The finished type of the dynamiter
Is the man who has had the ability to
rise and the luck to survive long enough
to graduate from the plant and become
an agent. In his best embodiment the
explosives agent Is something of a
chemist, something of a quarryman,
something of an electrician, a good deal
of a mineralogist and, above all, a man
of resource and coolness. It Is he who
does the exploding.
"The factory gets notice from a rail
road that a contract Is open for the de
struction of a ledge of rock which
blocks Its line of advance. Away goes
the agent with his gripsack full bfj
ready-made destruction to look tha
thing over. First he draws upon his
mlneraloglc lore to determine the na-
ture of the rock. If it is very hard ho '
uses a high grade of his explosive,
which delivers a quick, shattering blow.
In case of soft rock the lower grade
supplies a blast which will produce a
wider effect, although It will not break
the dislodged rock into such small
pieces. - j
"Next as a quarryman, he considers
the nature of the ledge and the lndl- j
cated fissures or veins and plans his '
drilling accordingly. Then he must at-
tend to the drilling of the holes, th.
tamping of the charge, and here his
electrical knowledge Is called for, the
arrangement of the batteries. After a
few blasts he gives the railroad com
pany his estimate and If It is accepted
he may oversee the Job himself."
American Magazine.
Knew the Game.
"Do you ever offer bribes to legislat
ors, Senator Copperas
"Not at all, not at all ; I bellere In
payln' a fair price for what I. want,
an' then they's always a good feelln' all
'round." Toledo Blade.
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