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It is unfortunate that the Ohio River
hag no Salton Sink to spill over Into
about once a year.
Everybody knows how to be good,
but a large number of people are un
able to see that It pays. ;
Is the boy of 19 who thinks he knows
more than his father ever can hoie to
know a victim of adolescent Insanity?
When a woman will travel 10,000 or
15,000 miles to marry or to fight a di
vorce the matrimonial Institution Is far
from desuetude.
A ben pecked a Manitoba man In the
face, and he is dying of blood poison
ing. Most henpecked men get It in the
' neck and survive.
The late Stanford White's signature,
' which has been reproduced recently,
looks like a gooseberry bush that has
been struck by lightning.
One of the queerest things about a
woman Is the way she thinks you
couldn't help liking certain things she
cooks If you really loved her.
welfare and progress of rural schools,
state legislatures are providing special
normal schools for country teachers, old
normal schools are offering courses in
country life subjects; state agrlcultur
al colleges are aiding normal schools by
short courses for teachers and experts
are preparing text-books, bulletins and
reading matter on nature study and
agriculture; teachers' associations and
Tanners' organizations discuss these
matters and school Journals and agri
cultural papers are almost unanimous
In support of -the movement for better
rural schools and more instruction re
lated to their environment Secretary
Wilson Is enthusiastic over a solution
of how to keep the boy on the farm. His
proposal Is to cive better tralnine In
agriculture, which brings with It love
or country life. He proposes the agri
cultural high school as a preliminary
w tne agricultural college. Economic
forces are already encouraging life on
tne larm. its product sells at good fig
ures and isolation is giving way under
the, rural free delivery of mall, the ru
ral telephone and better roads, while
large areas have been brought into
toucn with the world by the trolley. In
creasing Interest of the city people, ab-
soromg as they have the abandoned
farms, is having a wholesome effect
upon residents of the rural districts.
A- Western undertaker advertises cut
rates In coffins and concludes with the
cheerful advice: "Now Is the time to
die." Isn't this humor just killing?
If those scientific persons can't agree
what kind of fruit was Eve gave Adam,
would they consider a suggestion that
It might have been a Ben Davis apple?
The Bishop of London says. married
men are braver than bachelors. Of
course they are. There wouldn't be any
bachelors If every man had a proper
amount of grit
A New Haven (Conn.) robber has
stolen the original manuscripts of sixty
of the most famous operas and songs.
Some one must be preparing to write a
new musical comedy.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is said
to have been the greatest philanthropist
the world has ever known. Walt, how
ever, till Hetty Green gets ready to
give away money. Then we Bhall see
some record breaking.
Emperor William rode in an automo
bile through the streets of Berlin, the
other day, permitting people to rush up
from all sides and shake his hand. The
Car will regard this is as an exagger
ated case of reckless daring.
. Sir Oliver Lodge says the human
race Is still in Its infancy. He must
then regard the digging of the Panama
Canal, the settlement of the Chicago
traction question' and the merging of
.the railroads under the control of Mr.
Harrlman as mere child's play.
An English critic takes Longfellow
to task for advising us to leave foot
prints on the sands of time. "Sands
of time," says the critic, "are those In
an hour glass, and It would not be rea
sonable to expect us to leave our foot
prints there." Perhaps Longfellow was
thinking of them before they were
gathered up and put in the glass. A
poet has the right to see his sands first.
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. Not long ago In one of our medical
societies a distinguished bacteriologist
gave a learned dissertation on the sim
ple and homely topic dust He main
tained that the ordinary housewife did
not understand how to dust her rooms
properly. She merely scattered it with
the feather duster, but did not remove
It It was simply stirred for the time
being only, In dub time to settle in an
other place. In some of our larger
hospitals this difficulty is obviated by
dampened cloths ' and brooms, which
take up the dust directly and prevent
It being scattered. It may be well to
bear In mind that in one of the test
wards where the dampened process was
thoroughly tried the patients never
suffered from "colds" and were free
from all other catarrhal affections, even
In the most Inclement seasons.
Thomas Jefferson never spoke a truer
word than that the art of government
consists in being honest If one gives
a mtie thought to the subject he will
be surprised to discover that nenriv nil
failures In government can be traced to
aisnonesty of one kind or another.
Either the politicians seeking office
have not been honest with the people in
appealing for votes, or the men in office
have sought their personal profit rather
man tne general good. The recent In
dictments of public officers In different
parts of the country have called re
newed attention to the evils that follow
betrayal of trust Men have used their
official influence for their Drlvate iraln
They have regarded the power put in
meir nanas not as a trust to be admin
istered for the good of all. but as an
opportunity to enrich themselves, or to
aavance their political fortunes at the
expense of the public. This sort of
conduct Is what John C. Calhoun once
called an attack on the verv psHprife
of a free government" ' One of the
gravest evils of the present time lies In
the general glorification of financial
success. There are many who admire
me -smart" man who carries through
what he undertakes, and they do not
oare whether his methods are honor
able or not The man who enters nnon
office poor and leaves It rich is envied
by these persons. They annlaud his
ability, and forget the moral shipwreck
mat ne nas made of his life. They for
get that in the long run a man reaps
what he sows; that unfaithfulness In
early life means conteniDt in old mm.
What more pathetic and moving sight
is there than a gray head, once hon
ored, bowed in disgrace over the dia
closure of a life of Indifference to the
finer moral standards! The Kreat muss
of, the people are honest; they abhor
rraud and deceit ; but they have great
patience with the vagaries of any Dub-
11c servant in whose honesty of purpose
tney have confidence. The unfaithful
.servant may prosper for a while, but
the day of reckoning surely comes
' TALK VriXS OVEB THE ETOIAJTS.
Indian Agent Telia How He One
I Averted a General Hnaascre.
Colonel John D. Miles, for twenty
years an Indian agent talked to the
; Lawrence lf. M. C. A. the other day
of Indian matters. Among other things
' he told of a narrow escune he had.
Following the Indian outbreak In
1874, Colonel Miles, In common with
all the whites at the agency, nearly lost
his life, a speech of which he made to
the Indians In their own tongue be
ing so well received by the Indians as
to placate them and turn their mur
derous intentions. One big Indian who
came to the agency te draw bis beef de
manded his allowance for the preced
ing week, which he had failed to come
for at the proper time. The regulations
or tne agency forbade delivering back
supplies and the Indian was refused
his meat Later be came back, drew a
revolver on the clerk and compelled
him to deliver the extra beef.
A troon of soldiers which was sent
out to arrest the thief was surrounded
by BOO armed braves and given min
utes to get back to the fort They got
back. Then the Indians came on to
the aeenov. determined to kill all the
whites there. Colonel Miles was lined
ud with others to be shot, but he asked
permission to make a speech and was
men leave. He used their own tongue
with such skill that they released not
only him but all the others.
"A few months aeo." said he in his
speech, "your old men sent you braves
out to slay and to burn. You went
and you did as you were told. Had
you come back without scalps your
squaws would have laughed at you,
called you squaws and hated you. You
bad to do what you were sent to do.
The great father has sent us here and
told us what to do. He says to issue
no back rations. See, here Is my In
structlon." He displayed his written
orders from Washington. "I must do
as the great father tells me or I can
not go back. The general from the
fort will show you his orders. He, too,
must do as he is told by the great fa
ther to do. Now tell me, what else
could I have done?"
The Indians saw the logic and heed
ed the appeal to fair play. It was over
a year from that time until Colonel
Miles was again given trouble by bis
wards of the government
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An illustration of the broad-minded
Tiew which scientific men take of their
duties toward the public Is afforded by
the action of Dr. M. Dorset of the Bu
reau of Animal Industry, Department
of Agriculture. Dr. Dorset has ob
tained a patent for a process of pro
tecting swine from hog cholera : but In.
stead of trying to make money from
the patent, he has given It to the United
States government The money value
of hogs which die annually from chol
era is estimated at fifteen million dol
lar Any cure, therefore, is of great
Importance. The method used hereto
fore has been the injection of the chol
era virus, but about twenty per cent of
the treated animals have died. The
new method Is the Injection of serum
from the blood of an immune hog which
has been made Immune by treatment
with the serum of hogs afflicted with
the disease. It is a preventive rather
than a curatlva measure. The inven
tion may bo used by any citizen of tne
United States without paymeut of roy
alty. The reason for patenting it is
tnat m that way it becomes possible to
prevent groedy Individuals or firms
from exacting a price for the use of It
A change has come over country life
and over the attitude toward rural edu
cation. State school superintendent
WJwlder It their duty to minister to the
LEADS AS A PAPEB MAKES.
Thla Country the Greateat Producer,
wltn Germany Following;.
Consul William C. Telchmann, of
Jiiibenstock, advises that the Revue
bclentiflque recently discussed the con
sumption of paper by the nrlnciDal na
tlons of the world as reflectius modem
progress of civilization because of its
extensive use for printing purposes. It
places the United States In the front
rank as the greatest paper-producing
country or tne world, with an annual
output of 639,734 tons (avoirdupois).
Germany follows with a production of
393,083 tons ; England, 240,051 ; France,
iw.mzi Austria, 147,706; Italy, 123,
020. '
One American corporation Is de
clared to be the srreatest nnner mnmi
facturing enterprise in the world, nns-
sensing thirty-one factories, with nine
ty-six continuously running machines,
the company using almost as many ma
chines are are operated in Italy and
me isetnenands together, and Its n
nual production exceeds that of all the
paper factories in Austria-nun
and almost equals that of all the Brit
ish ones. Its capital amounts to more
than 1110,000,000.
While America leads In production,
Germany has become the largest ex
porter of this article, with 51,000 tons
aunually, England following with 49,-
aiu, me united states 10,880 and
France 13,090. The United States' ex
port goes principally to South AmAH
ca, but also to Canada and Anatmii,
Notwithstanding its large production,
England remains a good buyer, having
Imported 147,700 tons last year.
Regarding the direct consumption of
paper, It Is an interesting fact that the
United States leads with an annnnl fl.
ure of 38.6 pounds per capita, England
coming next with 34.3 ; Germany, 29.98 ;
France, 20.5; Austria. 19: Italv iki'
Servla showing the lowest European
figure, 1.1 ; India shows only 0.22 and
China 1.1 per capita. Nearly half f
the paper manufactured In the world
is usea for printing purposes. Twonfv
per cent Is absorbed in the trades and
industries. Almost an equal propor
tion Is applied for official and school
purposes. The remaining 10 per cent
serves the demand for private use.
Hunting big game In India should
be preceded by some training of the
eye to see things where they are. The
author of "Thirty Years of IShlkar"
tells how he received this training
rather late in his course. Shikar Is the
East-Indian word for sport, and sport
in that part of the world begins with
panthers and ends with tigers.
When I reached the ground the pan
ther was still there, and a keen-eyed
native Dolnted It out to me.
"Hitherward is its head.' said the
man, "thitherward its tall. Doesn't
the sahib see It? There, there!" and
he pointed to a spot about three yards
off.
But I didn't see the panther either
Its bead or tall or anything that was
its. I saw only a mass of light and
shade under a dense overgrowth of
greenery, dead leaves and grass, that
were yellowish where the pencils of
light broke in upon the gloom, and.
otherwise, they were mysterious shad
ow that told nothing to my unaccus
tomed eye.
All that I looked upon In that green
wood tangle was equally panther. I
could pick out no particular patch as
being any more pantherlsh than the
rest Of head or tail I made out noth
Ing where all was equally one or the
other and still that native of keenest
vision besought me to see the panther's
head and tall and right forefoot and
many other details of Its anatomy,
Then there came a roar out of the
thicket and a rush which was like the
volcanic upheaval of the ground at
my feet and, as it seemed, several tons
of upheaved matter hit me on the chest
and I was bowled over on to the broad
of my back a yard or two from where
I had stood.
That upheaval wa the panther. The
brute had not had the patience to wait
until I saw him, or the modesty to take
himself off peaceably In some other di
rection. He had resented my staring
his way, even though I saw him not
and so had emerged from his lair like
an animal rocket, and had knocked me
down in his flight
As he failed to claw me, I came off.
scatheless; but not so my attendant
who foolishly embraced the panther
with a view to arresting his flight He
got himself rather badly mauled, and
did not come out of the hospital for
some weeks.
That was my disastrous commence
ment with panthers.
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A lawyer while conducting his case
cited the authority of a doctor of law
yet alive.
"My learned friend, Interrupted the
Judge, "you should never go upon the
authority of any save that of the dead.
The living may change their minds.
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