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A man can't help having affection Tor
a woman who can make a good apple
pie. .
Strange thing about earthquakes is
that they miss o many places where
they are needed.
Sympathy is sweet, but when a man
has pounded his finger It doesn't help
him materially for a while.
People who never could spell correct
ly will foe glad of the presidential li
cense to spell some other way.
Some of the best friends of the ad
ministration think that in the matter
of the spelling reform it went off haf
kokt
Society men who enlist In the navy
Ihould bear in mind that the duties per
formed there are not known as func
tions. A Russian Grand Duke when drilling
his loyal and loving soldiers, should al
ways take pains to stand well out of
range.
It is scarcely necessary to add that
the Sago who failed in New York a day
or two ago is an entirely different kind
of Sage.
Even should the scientists agree as
to the cause of earthquakes, it would
not be any great satisfaction to the
sufferers.
Chicago hag a World Betterment
League, but so far it hasn't found it
necessary to go away from home to find
something to do.
A Pittsburg man has made a break
fast food testing plant of his wife's
stomach. This is simply reversing the
rule of the ages past.
A professor has discovered a calendar
of the year 4241 B. C. If they had cal
endars then why they must have had
Insurance companies, too.
The Czar's policy Is said to be one of
Btrong-handed reform. In the case of
the aouma It looked more like the non
resilient toe of the royal boot.
Two hundred and forty thousand spe
cies of Insects exist on the earth. If
you don't believe it count 'em the next
time you eat your picnic lunch In the
woods.
We don't think there will ever be
much of an argument on the proposi
tion that Russell Sage hud more sense
than all his nephews and nieces com
bined. This country spent $81,000,000 for
coffee last year. The figures would be
still more interesting If we were In
formed how much genuine coffee this
sum paid for.
It may be very true that the Czar Is
getting over $0,000,000 for spending
money, but It is pretty certain that he
Is not squandering any of it on moon
light excursion tickets.
"The American woman of the upper
class," says Professor Thomas, "has su
perior rights and no duties, and yet sho
Is worrying herself to death because she
has lost her connection with reality."
Think It over, ladles.
Newsboys In Boston are establishing
a fund to send one of their number to
college. They have already raised
about two thousand dollars. This fuct
tells more about America than a vol
ume of comment by a Russian lecturer
or a German philosophic critic of our
Institutions.
The proposition to tunnel the English
Channel has again been revived, and an
English engineer has been Invited to
make plans for It. The channel Is
twenty miles wide at the narrowest
place, consequently the tunnel would
be a long one. It Is likely that the
channel will be tunneled before rail
road trains are run under Bering
Strait, but neither will happen very
oon.
Nearly all the secretaries and sten
ographers attached to the late Russian
Douma were women, and women are
numerous in the ranks of the Russian
revolutionists. The arbitrary arrest
and banishment of a husband or father
baa turned many a Russian woman Into
an enemy of the government that has
been guilty of such outrages. Free Rus
sia, when It conies, will owe much to
the Russian women.
No psychologist ever has arisen to
explain why it Is that a man who
would not trust his own brother with
a 5-cent piece will amiably turn over
several hundreds of his dollars to some
glaring rascal who advertises to pay
prodigious dividends from a sugar mine
In the mountains of the moon. The suc
cess of these schemes of finance la
enough to make "Hungry Joe" and all
the other old-time bunko men turn in
their graves. It is so simple that no
tascal can afford to be "broke."
No higher tribute can be paid to a
foreigner by a Japaueso than his belief
In his power to keep silence ; that pow
r Is one of the most tremendous
sources of the nation's strength. Much
marvel has been elicited by the invio
late safety during the war of strategic
lecroU, the common possession of thou
sands of people at once. There were a
few rrartors here and there In the be
ginning of the war; there were none
when it was ended. They were discov
ered and convicted by their own com
rades and swift and terrible was the
execution of justice upon them. Only
In the service to which they belonged
were these painful Incidents known ;
they were described when the war was
over. v
Now and again one of the hundreds
of thousands of capable men in com
paratively humble positions rises Into
prominence because of public interest In
something with which he may be con
nected. There is the ease of A. Pappa,
the head pilot of the Suez canal, who
has taken many ships through the nar
row strait without attracting public at
tention. But he steered the dry dock
Dewey through the canal, a bulk so
large that it practically filled the whole
width of the waterway at the depth re
quired to float it, and did not let it
touch bottom once. Now the naval of
ficer In command has mentioned the old
Greek In his report, praising him In un
measured terms. There is many a
"mute, inglorious Milton" doing his
singing or hers with a shovel or a
plane, a needle or a broom, who de
serve all that can be said of heroes or
heroines. They are doing that which
their hands find to do as well as possi
ble to do It. No one can do more.
Ethnologists say, as the res .lit of
their observations, that the racial dif
ferences which exist among mankind
are very slight once we get below the
surface. Taking humanity as a whole,
It Is said that one man will fight as
bravely as another up to a certain point,
that courage Is a common attribute of
all mankind and that fundamental ethi
cal considerations are respected to the
same extent by all the tribes of men.
It is found, In short, that the difference
uetween the man of one nation and the
man of another nation Is not essential
but temperamental. This conclusion re
ceives frequent confirmation. In the
steamship disaster off the Spanish coast
a few weeks ago the obvious deficiency
was not lack of courage upon the part
of the officers and crew but a lack of
discipline and self-control. .The Latin
temperament Is not the temperament
for sudden and menacing emergencies.
It is the temperament of Impulse, of en
thuslasm, of ebullient bravery. It lacks
the self-poise and Imperturbability of
the northern character. Take them man
for man and it Is probable that the crew
of the Slrlo would have charged a for
lorn hope with greater intrepidity than
an equal number of Scandinavians or
Englishmen or Americans or Germans
would have done. That is because the
Latin temperament lacks the calculat
ing quality which estimates danger. But
confronted with a peril In which the
spectacular and emotional elements
were wanting the Italian sailors lost
their heads. They "went to pieces," to
use a colloquialism, not from lack of
courage but from temperamental inabil
ity to confront the unexpected. We
may say, In other words, that the Latin
temperament is not the seafaring tem
perament. When matched against the
Teutonic races on the ocean the Latins
have gone down to defeat. The invin
cible armada strewed Its shattered tim
bers on the shores of the British Isl
ands. The navies of Napoleon were
forever undoing at sea the victories of
that matchless commander ashore. The
galleys of the Romans were more trans
ports than war vessels. The Latin
fights and fights valiantly, but he pre
fers to fight men Instead of wind and
wave, and he prefers to fight men on
land Instead of on the sea. But this, as
we have pointed out, Is no Impugnment
of his courage ; It Is merely a phase of
his temperament. The temperate zone
breeds men of slower Imagination but
of consequently greater sang froid than
are bred In warmer climes. The north
excels In steady achievement and daunt
less will; the south Is pre-eminent In
esprit, In art and Imagination. At the
bottom, however, the Latin and the
Teuton are equals. Their superficial
differences can be laid to climate and
environment
Sentimental Surgery.
A party of college students, celebrat
ing a football victory in New York, ran
into an unexpected difficulty in the
shape of some policemen, and after the
smoke of the battle had cleared away,
as the political orators say, It was
necessary to cart one of the young men
to a hospital and fix up his head.
The young surgeon In charge of such
cases put the collegian on the table and
looked him over. He had a long gash
in his forehead. The surgeon cleansed
the wound and began to sew it up. He
labored for half an hour and then burst
into the office of the doctor In charge.
"I can't do anything with that young
clwp In there," he said.
"What's the matter?" asked his su
perlor.
"Why, every time I put In a stitch
he pulls It out and says: 'She loves
me,' and when I put In the next one he
pulls that out and says : 'She loves me
not' " Saturday Evening Post
Foaalble Explanation.
"I wonder why the editor prints the
marriage notices directly under the
death notices queried the typewriter
boarder, as she glanced over the local
paper.
"I don't know." rejoined the fussv
bachelor, "unless It Is to remind us that
the fools are not an dead yet"
A woman taking on a, second mar
rlage must feel the same as a man who
has always worn tailor-made suits and
then changes to hand-me-downs.
What has become of the girl who
crocheted trimming tor her wedding
clothes!
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Snake-Blten.
Notwithstanding the fact that there
are many poisonous snakes in this
country, cases of snakebite are not
common. They occur frequently
enough, however, to make It worth ev
ery farmer's or'country roaiuer's white
to familiarize himself with the poison
out effects upon the body of snake ven
om, and the best means to overcome
those effects.
The most common of the poisonous
snakes. In this country are the coral
snakes, the copperhead, the water-moccasin,
and many varieties of rattle
snakes. The symptoms of poisoning
vary somewhat according to the variety
of snake, and also to the state of the
weather and the condition which the
snake is In at the time. The poisonous
effects are more marked, the hotter the
weather at the time ; and the bite of a
well-fed snake Is more harmful than
that of one which Is fasting.
The symptoms of snake-bite are both ;
local and general. In the case of rat
tlesnake-bite, the local symptoms con
sist In severe pain and very great dis- j
coloration about the wound, due to the f
suffusion of blood under the skin. Ihe
part becomes greatly swollen, and may
even mortify.
The general symptoms come on quite j
rapidly. Sometimes within ten or twen
ty minutes of the bite there is a rapid
and weak pulse, the victim is nauseat
ed, often vomits, staggers as he walks,
nd suffers from marked and increas
ing prostration. Death may occur di
rectly from the action of the venom, or
it may follow later, and be due to. pros
tration resulting from the gangrene oe
currlng at the site of the bite.
Recovery, which occurs In about
three-quarters of the cases of rattlesnake-poisoning,
even when untreated,
Is very prompt, the symptoms of de
pression disappearing as rapidly as
they came on.
When one has been bitten by a poi
sonous snake, the first thing to do is to
prevent the entrance of the poison tnto
the general circulation, which Is to be
done by tying a cord or a strip of cloth
as tightly as possible about the limb
above the bite; then the part bitten
should be cut freely with a sharp knife,
with two or three cross-cuts, so that It
will bleed freely.
Sucking the wound Is good for the
victim, but dangerous for ,the person
who does It, for the poison may be ab
sorbed through any small abrasion near
the mouth.
The elimination of the poison that
may have been obsorbed should be pro
moted by the use of purgatives, and
wrapping the victim In blankets with
hot bottles to promote perspiration. Al
cohol Is of service In moderate quanti
ties, but it should never be taken in
amount sufficient to produce Intoxica
tion. Youth's Companion.
WEALTH FROM JUNK.
Thieve Are Reaping a Rich Har
vest from San Francisco Rulni. .
Conner wire to the value of $500 was
stolen from the Postal Telegraph Com
pany's'' former office about 12 o'clock
Wednesday night A gang of five men
carried fifteen colls of wire to a wag
on, which was driven by a member of
the gang, and before the arrival of a
patrol wagon loaded with policemen,
under Detective Sergeant Ed Gibson,
the thieves escaped with their booty.
Not onlv the telegraph companies but
the United Railroads and Telephone
Company have been heavy losers from
the depredations, of a well-organized
band of Junk thieves, who determine in
favor of the more valuable junk, sucn
as copper wire and brass findings.
A ready market is found for this loot,
some Junk dealers making no scruples
about purchasing all that Is brought to
them.. The wire is melted Into crude
Ingots and sent to the Eastern smelt
ers.
The methods of the thieves in loot
Inn the ruins In the burned district are
extremely simple. Several members of
the gang search the ruins, and, after
selecting such pieces of Junk as will
command Uie highest price, cast It Into
the street It Is an easy matter for
others to gather the Junk without at
tracting atteuion.
Boys have been engaged by Junk
dealers to pick up bits of copper, and
in this way have contributed- largely to
making the business of the junk men
lucrative.
Great nlles of Junk of all descriptions
are piled In the courtyard In the rear
of the police headquarters at the Low- j
ell High School. In the days lmrne-'
dlately following the tire the police
confiscated quantities of junk and
made a great number of arrests. The
men arraigned In the police courts are
fined a nomlual sum, which Is quickly
paid. San Francisco Chronicle.
fn Hxplanatlon.
"You hear so many people quoting
about 'the way of the transgressor.
What does It mean, anyway?"
"My dear sir, the 'weigh of the trans-,
gressor' Is usually about 1,800 pounds
of coal to the ton." Philadelphia
Ledger.
A man looks in a parlor for a wife,
and when he finds her demands ttat
Jsbo be more at come In the kitchen. I
S. F. Sharp
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