Condon globe., July 06, 1905, Image 4

Topics of )
the Tiroes
tf the Osier theory wants to jrt
knock-out blow, let it tackle Uucle
Henry I. ItevU.
ey, but Jt doesn't stay long enough hi
the bauds of the average man tor hltu
to aeuutr auy of theut.
Miss Mabel Wood Tuttle advises
women to use their tonguea constantly.
Well, the day la only tweuty-four
boura long.
A New York man proposes to sue a
drug clerk for taking aw-ay hU "jug."
The victim baa not decided whether to
charge petit or grand larceny.
Where, oh. where, la Alexleff, the
man who persuaded tlie Otar to light'
on the assurance that the Japs could
never effect a landing in Manchuria?
Jewel robberies are so frequent that
we wonder why people wear so much
temptation, but if you have to wear
your Jewels in a safe-deposit vault
what Is the use of owning them, also?
Probably there never was a military
movement that achieved a more as
tounding success than that of General
Kuropatkln when he started north
ward for the purpose of luring on
those Japanese geuerals.
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In a Chicago court a witness testi
fied that his brother was craiy and
had tried to kill himself by swallowing
coat buttons. This was a hard thing
to say about a brother. How did the
witness know that the crazy man
hadn't merety mistaken his mouth for
a buttonhole?
J. Plerpotrt Morgan has purchased
the manuscript of "The Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table" for $4,000. Mr.
Morgan may have the time and the
eyesight to read it over in manuscript,
but the rest of us have been wonder
ing when we would get time to read it
again in ordinary plain print
The total savings deposits in all the
savings banks in the world are com
puted to be $10,500,000,000, contributed
by 82,640,000 depositors. The depos
itors in the United States number
$7,305,000, with deports of more than
13,000,000,000. The Americans, who
number less thau 1 per cent of the peo
ple considered in the computation,
have nearly one-third of the savings.
The only way to redeem college ath
letics from the evils which now beset
them is to abolish the professionalism
associated with them and throw open
the-grounds free to the public In all
exhibition games between the students
of State Institutions or those deriving
special privileges from the State when
the games are played on their respect
ive grounds. Whenever that is done
college athletics will be placed on ra
tional grounds and emancipated from
all those objectionable features which
now degrade them.
Ordinarily a great fortune Is built
np like a stone wall a stone at a time.
The young man who declines to lay
the first stone, because It comes so far
short of a wall, will never make pro
gress in financial masonry. An Im
mense proportion of the people of this
country live up to their incomes, lay
ing aside nothing for the traditional
rainy day. Because they cannot save
$1,000 In a bunch they save nothing.
The greatest financial kings have not
been above taking care of the pennies
even. The great financial institutions
look afier even the fractions of pen
nles.
Manuel Garcia, one of the most re
murkable men in the world to-day, lias
recently sat for his portrait to John
S. Sargent. Garcia is a Spanish singer
who visited the United States In is:!."
with an opera company, and sang in
various parts of the country. The fa
mous singer, Madame Malibran, was
his sister. He returned to Europe and
taught Jenny Llnd in Paris, and for
the past fifty years or thereabouts has
been a music teacher in London. He
Is a hundred years old, and is still
teaching. He was a professor of mimic
In the British Royal Academy of Music
until he was 90, when he retired to re
ceive pupils privately. It is believed
that the portrait which Sargent has
painted Is the only one of a centena
rian in erlstence, and Garcia himself
is probably the only person who ever
taught singing in bis hundredth year.
Few realize the enormous extent to
which the country depends for its nec
essaries and luxuries upon tropical and
subtropical lands. The fact will be
brought home with force by the state
mentbased on the official Import sta
tisticsthat in the calendar year 3904
tropical products formed 43 per cent of
the total importations of the United
States. This Includes products from
Hawaii and Porto Rico, but the ag
gregate of $405,000,000 out of the total
Imports of $1,072,000,000 takes no ac-
count of the subtropical products of
the South, and cotton, sugar, tobacco,
etc. Hence the Import figures give only
a partial view of the Importance of
thtwe things In the dally life of the
people. Sugar and molasses form the
largest single group In the long list,
followed close by coffee, silk, flbers of
various sorts, rubber, fruits and nuts,
tobacco, tea, vegetable oil and gums,
cocoa and spices and the like.
At a recent meeting of shoe dealers
In New York Olty the statement was
made by a lending shoo manufacturer
that the women of the next generation
would have larger feet than the wom
en of this generation, lie said there
was a growing tendency among women
to buy shoe plenty large for their feet
And that women are also asking for
thicker soles and lower and broader
heel. The casual observer must have
noted this tendency. Hero and there
women cling to tight shoes, wafer solea
and perch themselves upon the stilt of
high and narrow heel. They do so
because some one sets the style. And
style, while It Is the end of all con
troversy. Is Itself being modified by
the canons of good sense and comfort.
The short-skirted street gown and the
natural waist are evidences. Men long
ago rebelled against skin tight foot
wear. They no longer sipieexe all the
blood out of their feet. Some of us
will remember a time when men's fash
ions decreed the high-heeled, tight-fit-
ting boot that could only be removed
by an Instrument known as the "boot
Jack." This antique taste still survive
with the western cowboy. The causes
for the new tendency In women's foot
wear are to be found In girls' gymna
siums and In the modern physical
training of women. The girl of to-day
who takes long tramps to fill her lungs
and color her cheeks, or does her exer
cises for physical development, does
not want her feet pinched and docs
not care for the dignity of high heel.
She wants something substantial and
comfortable.
It begins to look as if the passion
for novel reading had begun to die of
its own excess. Certainly the desire
for tills 'form of reading Is on the
wane. The sales of UXH are reported
to have been far below those of the
years Immediately preceding. The de
crease affects all sorts of novels, from
the profound psychological work to the
highest flight of fancy In the daintiest
romance. Of course, novels will con
tinue to be read, for the story in some
form has lived through all time and
will continue to do so, but evidently
the all-absorbing interest in works of
fiction Is about to give place to some
thing else or perhaps to mauy things.
Real life has its fascinations. People
enjoy society rather than the novel of
high life. The historical romance 1ms
led to a greater Interest In history
proper. The sociological novel nas de
veloped a desire for participation In
civic matters, a devotion to slum woi"k
and the kinds of activity that may ben
efit the masses. Naturally, then, news
papers and magazines are read far
more than formerly, since they deal
chiefly with current events and with
those things which are of importance
at the present moment. They offer a
glance of the entire world and empha
size those points where present activity
is greatest They deal with the real
world and people of to-day want facts
rather than fancies; live Issues rather
than the possible quarrels of hyper
sensitive lovers. The stage, too, Is
somewhat responsible for the decay of
the novel. Tired people want enter
tainment and often prefer to take It
passively. They can get the contents
of a novel in the three or five acts of
a play and the accessories often given
a more vivid presentation of plot and
denouement than the lengthy novel is
apt to do. This does not mean that
drama will take the place of novel-
reading to any great extent, for there
are evidences that the drama is Itself
to give place to something not yet d
termlncd. If the novel has seen Its
best day it can certainly claim that its
day was a great and brilliant one, that
it accomplished a genuine purpose and
that humanity is broader In Its lutein
gence, its sympathies and its activities
than it would have been but for the
great popularity of the novel during the
past four decades.
The Boiling Point of Water. -
Water bolls at different tempera
tures, according to the elevation above
the sea level. In New York, water
boils pructlcally at 212 degrees Fahren
helt; in Munich, Germany, at 209Vj de
grees; in the City of Mexico, at 200
degrees, and in the Himalayas, at an
elevation of lS.OoU feet above the level
of the sea, at 180 degrees. These dlf
ferences are caused by the varying
pressure of the atmosphere at these
points. In New York the whole weight
of the air has to be overcome.
In Mexico, 7,000 feet above the sea,
there Is 7,000 feet less of atmosphere
to be resisted; consequently less heat
Is required and boiling takes place at a
lower temperature.
A married man says the most star
tling innovation in women's apparel is
the bill.
Between the deserving1 poor and the
deservedly poor there Is a vast difference.
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A Little Lesson
In Patriotism
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"I-et our object le our country, our
whole country, and nothing but our
country." -Daniel Webster.
It is remarkable tact that the
threo figures which stand out In relief
from the background of American His
tory of the time
subsequent to the
adoption of the
constitution the
time that was es
pecially one of
statesmanship, in
reality a period of
preparation for the
greater compass of
the present Web
ster, Clay and Cal
houn, should be of
so nearly equal
magnitude and cal
iber that It 1 dim-
JOHX C, CA1.IIOI N.
cult to claim pre eminence for anyone
of them.
Their characteristics were to some
extent strikingly similar. Integrity of
character. Incorruptibility In the pub
lic service and absolute sincerity of
purpose in affairs of slate, distinguish
ed John Caldwell Calhoun to the same
extent that they characterised hU
eontemimrarles. Webster culled him
"a Senator of Home when Home sur
vived." The patriotic utterances of Calhoun
at the time of the outbreak of the war
of 1S12 roused the country to dcfcinl
Itself against the second British ag
gression. After the war. during the
administration of Monroe, Calhoun
acted as Secretary of War. and to this
day the department feels the Impress
of his genius for organization.
Although some of the measures that
Calhoun advocated were considered to
lw a menace to the existence of tho
union, it Is stated on the Ix'st of au
thority that Calhoun himself simply
upheld them because he believed them
to be not only constitutional, but also
for the best interest of the country.
and that had he thought them Inimical
to the union he would never have de
fended them. With his high ami noble
aspirations and his stainless reputi
tlon as a patriot there can be no doubt
of this.
RICH HUNT TOY DEER.
Clarence H. Mackajr Install t'nbine
Hunting Game for 11 U GncaU.
Even in this age of extravagant me
chanical contrivances It Is doubtful
whether any toy has been constructed
so unusual and costly as thnt which
Clarence H. Mackay has Installed on
his estate at Harbor Hill, near Ross
lyn, L. I. Shooting galleries, in which
figures of rabbits, pig and Hons bob
up and disappear to test the aim of
SDortsmen. long have been familiar to
visitors to Coney Island ami similar re
sorts. Mr. Mackay has constructed In
the wildest part of his big estate an
electric railway to furnish him the
same sport on a scale and in a manner
that 'Is true to nature.
The railway, which runs in an Ir
regular ellipse and Is operated by elec
tricity, is a mile long, and winds errat
ically In and out among the woods and
broken ground. The animal Is provid
ed In the shape of a life-sized deer,
mounted on a small bogle truck.
At a speed which can be regulated
at any pace up to 10 or 1J- miles an
hour the deer Is carried through the
woods, and as it appears ut the differ
ent openings out among the trees along
the route of the railway Mr. Mackay
and his sporting friends get a chance
for Just such a quick shot as the hun
ter In the Maine woods lias to reply on
to fill his bag.
At the end of the run the truck
passes over an automatic switch which
shuts off the current and the deer
conies to a standstill in a sheltered pit,
where a marker is posted. He notes
the places where the deer has been hit,
telephones by means of a sjieclal wire
laid down for the purpose the results
of his aim to the man with the gun
and then as soon as he lias pasted a
piece of canvas or brown paper over
the wounds that have been made Is
ready to start the deer off again to run
the gauntlet of the marksmen a second
or a third time.
A Kiddle.
There stands a palace on a hill,
A. splendid, costly pile,
Where servants do his bidding who
Lives there in lordly style.
A little way beyond there stand
A weather-beaten sliiick,
And they that occupy it sigh
For comforts that they lack.
Now think a space and guess which place
'Tis that lie occupies
Who from experience believes
It pays to udvertise.
Chicago Kecord-IIerald.
The Ross I'm afraid you are not
nualifled for the position; you don't
know anything about my businc-m.
The Applicant Don't I, though? I
keep company with your typewriter.
Chicago Journal.
SLIIICIINT IDtN IIIIC AllOt i
The necessity of Identification Is one
if the concessions tho honest portion of
the community has to make to world.
In which fraud and deceit are not tin
known. Nojt every one hold the same
confidence la human nature a the toll
keeper who, when asked what 1h
bridge fees were, replied, "Two cents.
lr, and half price for ministers." "But
how do you know a man Is a minister
Just because he says ao?" "Oh. sir,
minister never lie." The paying teller
of a certain bank did not see matter
In mtch a Hibernian light; he required
a definite Identification, Rud the Chi
cago New tell how he got it.
"You will have to be Identified be
fore I can pay you the money on thl
check," said the teller.
'Ain't It good?" asked the man.
"Oh, the check' all right, but I don't
know you. You must get some one
who knows you to come here and tell
me you are the one to whom the check
Is made out."
The man left the bank with a puxxle.l
expression on his face. Half an hour
later he returned.
"The man that gave ine that check."
he said, "can't come, but he sent this,
and s.iy for you to give mo the
money."
lie held up a large sheet of paper.
On It was the pencil oulllne of a man'
hand. The chart showed a first finger
cut off below the knuckle and the see
find tluger missing. Below It was writ
ten, "This Is the best I can do. I
can't come over and the man can't
write, so 1 can't O. K. his signature,
flic man has an anchor (.mooed on hl
ri!it arm and powder mark on the
lobe of hit left ear, ll. smells or
nhlsky, and can lick any man In ymir
bank with one hand tied behind hltu."
That I'.ie note was written by the sinn
er of till' check was c. Idcut from the
handwriting..
"Hold il your hand." s.ild the teller.
The man held hi hand oer the trac
ing on the paper, and It fitted per
fcclly.
"Show me the anchor."
The blue tinted emblem of hope ap
peared. The powder mark were in
evidence, and the air n burdened
with the odor of whisky.
"Here's your money," said the teller.
"Yon needn't try to lick anybody
You're suthcieoilv idcntit d."
I. Izard tli.ii hiwoii i wo Feet.
I.Izard f several rt can walk
.i lit I run easily on their hind legs. The
-Au.Miiiiitui liter ii.ard. ntiieh l three
ir four feet in length, keeps quite erect
when traversing long distance on
land. It is found in the neighborhood
of river banks and passes much of Its
lime in shallow water.
The frilled lizard of Queensland also
travels on It hind leg on level
ground, keeping the frill folded while
running. When attacked It expand
this fold of skin, which stand out like
a ruff at tilil angle round the neck,
glvlm; It a formidable aspect, so that
dot that attack and kill larger II.
nrd will often retreat before a frilled
lizard at buy.
There Is also a tree lizard In Aus
tralia that moves In a similar way.
All these specie walk on all fours
when' merely moving about or going
short distances.
A Very Hard Slap.
"I am really and alncirely proud of
the common people," said Mr. I'ouipiis.
"I am fond of the plain, everyday fel
low who can never hope to be great.
Cull It Quixotism. If you wish "
"Oh, 1 wouldn't say that." Interrupt
ed I'epprey, "I'd call It egotism."
Philadelphia Press.
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The Kind You Have, Always
Wh
turo of ClitiM. II. Fletcher, mid ha boon nmdo uuricr Ills
personal supervision for over .JO years. Allow no one
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and
" Just-as-grood" arc but i:perimonts, and endanger tho
health of Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is n harmless substitute) for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and (soothing- Hyrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
Kubstance. Its age is its guarantee. J t destroys "Worms
and allays Fevcrishness. it cures Diarrlnua and "Wind
Colic. It relieves Tecthlnfr Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural Bleep.
The Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Sears the
In Use For
thi etirrau. ninh, tt
ay
the
Children
To succeed these days you
must hive plenty of grit, cour
age, strength. I low is It with
the children? Are they thin,
pate, delicate? Do not forget
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. You
know it makes the blood pure
and rich, and builds up the
general health In every way.
The MMr rannnt tmailblv haa
haallh nlH lha b.il In VTvpet C..M.II.
Hon. A iuil.h tlar Ml ! .
had brMth, iuuiliait Ix.wala, Cortwi all
I ha bf (llt .mall latallva 4a of A'trl
rill.. All laula. uar owl.
J. a. ar Co.. LwU.
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rum viisiR.
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CHI KKV PtCTOBAL
iiers
A Itrutal Husband
Mi. NBK'Tlte roininllle ha re
quested in to nmke dotru plet tor the
tlisrlij ImMiir.
NagjjudVhnt U the object of the ba
nt sr. my dear?
Mr. NnggH To raise addition! fund
for the elinriiy hoiqiiul.
NiigK lu't the lioaoiml lrdy ovtr
crowded? Mr. Niii:u -Ye. I bellere It I.
Naggs Then, for goodness sake, don't
nuke uituter wor by dona I In pie of
your own nuke.
Mother. will fliel Nr.. VMt.tlow'l Soothtnj
Ryrup th tl iwttiedjr tou.a tut their ChUdrve
d'uriuc lha uwiUlm iKtrlod.
Mrrillimia iiolt Ion.
Oldun What a terrible cyclone w
had hist nlKhl!
Newpop Old we?
oidiin Oood hcuvciis, man, dldu'l
j oil hear it?
Newpop No; our baby Is rutting
teeth.
Tho livlni( t.lrla.
l'Mrth-Va Charlie rind nd collect
ed when he proposed to yon?
May me No; h was awfully rattled.
IMyth Well, I nbvtyii tlioujlit b bid
screw looe somewhere.
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A Marvel of Relief
St. Jacobs Oil
Sato snd tur lor
Lumbago
and
Sciatica
It lath iMClflc virtu of penetration In Ihlb
rrrn1y lht crrli It right to th pain ip-Jt
tud ellecia a rumpt cur.
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P. N. U. " No. 16-1905
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mention this ipr. I
Iloiisht 1ms borno thn nIcihi.
Signature of
Over 30 Years.
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