California State Analyst.
Royal Baking Powder is Superior
to all in Purity and Strength.
" For purity and care in preparation the Royal
Baking Powder equals any in the market, and
our test shows that it has greater leavening
power than any of which we have any knowledge."
Prof. Cktmitry, Vnivtnitt uf CalijontU,
Analyst California State Board of Health, etc., etc.
No careful housekeeper can afford to
use any baking powder but Royal.
nu t &u ncnffll 1 3.
ttm Wb Find SoUtuito Id Ui. Very Cea-
teiS Uf XilTttlllMM.
One of the most interesting studies in
fanman nature alxint the eity is the man
who lives in hotels. I do not mean the
commercial traveler or the man who is
engaged in business of any kind, bnt the
man who has nothing to do tat to look
around him and enjoy himself. He may
actually enjoy himself, too, for all 1
know. I hope be doee. He is interest
ing as an illustration of what some men
tall enjoyment.
The fashionable hotels of New York
and unfashionable hotels for that mat
ter are the shelter of many men who
are not in business other than the busi
ness of looking pretty and observing the
rest of the world move. I do not say
they are the homes of such men they
merely shelter and feed them.
In many instances this life is that of a
hermit. Possibly a man accustomed to
the wild, hilarious career offered by a
country hotel may cavil at the expres
sion in this connection, but it is because
such a man does not understand city
ways. A year or two ago a well to do gen
tleman died in a ifew York hotel. He
had lived in the hoslelry for years, and
yet not a eoul if I may use the word
aoul in speaking of a hotel corporation
knew him personally or anything about
him beyond the fact that he paid Mb bills
promptly and regularly. He chose to
make no acquaintances and was satis
fied to appear to the hotel managers as
"No. 61, K.,'" or by wuatevernumberlris
room was designated. The hotel man
agement had changed several times, but
he lived on there, a calm, unruffled ex
istence. As a guest such a man is a jewel, and
as may reasonably be supposed he was
not likely to be harassed by unnecessary
attentions. When he died and it was
found that he was a gentleman of inde
pendent fortune the newspapers, of
course, making the discovery some peo
ple marveled for a day or two and then
forgot him. I recall the incident now
only to illn : rate that in a great city like
this what appears to be the most public
life may be in reality the most exclusive.
There are plenty of men living hermit
lives in New York hotels as much soas
if they occupied a poor hovel in the soli
tary fastnesses of the wilderness.
I know men who reside at Bwell hotels
who do not seek to avoid their fellows,
but who might as well be confined in
the penitentiary or be dead, so far as
their usefulness to society is concerned.
They remind me of convicts o appar
ently listless, aimless and inert their ex
istence. They eat, drink and sleep.
Life holds no luoreinviting cupfor them
than that offered by the hotel corridor.
They have exhausted what men call
pleasure or are beyond the age of phys
ical enjoyment, with no reserve capacity
for mental pleasure. To a man of some
temperaments such a life would be a liv
ing death. New York Cor. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
America's First Recorded cllpM.
The first olservations of an eclipse of the
sun taken by American astronomers were
made on Long island, Penobscot bay, on
Oct.07,1780. OntUatoccasionapartyfroni
Harvard college, headed by Professor B. W.
Hollis, LL. If., having obtained theconsent
of the British general who was in command
of Castine, landed at Bounty Cave and
made the house of one Bhubael Williams
their headquarters. The totality of the
eclipse was visible only at Penobscot bay
and vicinity,a fact which would make such
an event oneof great importeventoday. It
la bnt justice to add that the observations
made by the Harvard scientists were very
successful, notwithstanding the fact that
their instruments were very crude and in
accurate. New York Press.
Wrote Hi Will on Ills Own Body.
There lately died in Mexico amiserof the
name of Monecke. His relatives were un
willing that his body should be interred, as
he had tattooed his will over his chest with
some red pigment instead of using pen and
ink. The court decreed that the remarka
ble "human document" should be copied
and the representation duly attested in the
presence uf witnesses. Thisiwas done, and
the court pronounced the queer will genu
ine. St. Louis Republic. (
A fioetor Who Refuted Fortune.
Or. Oower, of Brighton, carried in his
pocket a competency for life when he
left the house on Walsingham terrace
with the knowledge of Parnell's death
for Farnell died at midnight, and the
doctor could have realized a fortune by
selling the exclusive news of the event to
any of the richer papers in London or
New York.
It was so when Qambetta died at 0 in
the morning. At midnight he was pro
nounced convalescent. The death wutch
of reporters was relaxed. Yet one of
them, a Frenchman, member of a small
Parisian news agency, came out of a wine
shop at early morning and saw a maid
servant running across the grass.
"The master is dead," she called to
hint. He stood there in great perplexity.
To whom should he sell the news? He
hesitated between the Paris, London
and New York papers. He finally cabled
thus, "Gambetta died at 6 this morn
iug." The dispatch reached a New York
office at ten minutes before 2, there
being five hours difference between Paris
and New York. Half a page of accom
panying matter was given to the com
positors, and at twenty minutes past 2
the whole story was on its way to the
stereotypers.
The reporter is still living on the pro
ceeds of his "beat;" and the sensation of
Oainbetta's death was nothing to that of
Parneli. New York Truth.
They Eat as Diukena Told Them.
A good story is told at one of the ho
tels here about some of the English di
vines who are in the city in attendance
upon the Methodist ecumenical council.
It was noticed that at the hour set down
for dinner on the card posted in each
room giving the rules of the house these
English preachers would gather about
the doors of the dining room and when
they were opened would make a wild
rush inside, and to seat themselves hasti
ly at the first table they reached and to
begin to eat as quickly as possible.
The landlord was puzzled to know the
cause of this strange conduct on the part
of his foreign guests. Inquiry developed
the fact that these reverend gentlemen
had before coming over posted them
selves on American customs by reading
Dickens' "American Notes" and "Mar
tin Chuzzlewit." The scene in the latter
descriptive of the effect of the hotel din
ner gong causing everybody to quit
whatever he was doing and make a rush
for the dining room lest he should fail
to get any dinner they took as gospel
truth and were governing their own con
duct accordingly. Washington Cor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
HowtoHtay Well.
Today the physician in asked not only
how the nick may be healed, but how tint
well may stay well. From the lam serious
maladies iratunnity hi largely a question of
taking care of one's general health and
vigor. To maintain a healthful condition
wholesome food, abundant exercise, clean
liness, temperance in all things and the
avoidance of trouble are indispensable.
Every one will assent to this, while not one
in a hundred will remember it five minutes.
We remember what we like; the rest we re
fer to our neighbors. What a world we
make of itl Popular Science Monthly,
Wanted a Book on Courting.
The request made to editors are curious
at timet). Oneof the frankest ever mode
public was addressed to The Scotsman re
cently, the envelope bearing a request that
the letter should be handed to any book
seller in Edinburgh. The letter ran: "The
kind of book that i want i a Courting book
a book that will tell me how to talk to
the lass that 2 love, a book that will tell
me the words to say to her and the words
to ask her when i be courting her is the sort
of book that I want. No matter how few
or how little the words may be."
The Seer of Charing Crow.
The seer of Charing Cross road, London,
was often visited and consulted by the late
Prince Consort, Lord Lytton, Charles Dick
ens, George Eliot, Lord Beaconsfield and
many other notables. The seer of Kings
Cross also became quite famous through
his predictions relating to the celebration
of the queen's jubilee, in which he foretold
the failure of the anarchists' plots and the
injuries that befell the Marquis of Lome.
Edgar Lee in Arena.
frMlVAL PUNISHMENT.
Interestln;; Views Amnt the Action nf
New Tfurk'a LuclKluturo.
Again a biilforthealwlliinn of capital
punishment iu this state hm been pa!
by the assembly, and again it has been do
fenttfd in the Bonate.
When a measure to the same effect was
passed by the lower house a few yearn ngo,
Keni inter was awiuting execution by elec
tricity as the (list victim of the uew met h
od of judicial killing, and in some quarter
Its passage was absurdly attributed to Bin
istor influences exercised by th electric
companies. Jn others ttwaa t rented as a
mere freak of the assembly, indicative of
no positive and settled conviction against
capital punishment.
The vote on ilouday and the very intelli
gent discussion of the measure which pre
coded it prove that there is such conviction
iu the minds of the great majority of the
assembly. The vote wasTHto W), and the
arguments in favor of the bill were all
practical and reasonable and not in any
measure Bentiniental, They were bused on
the easily demonstrable fact that nmrder.
the highest crime of all, in more likely togo
unpunished than any minor form of crime,
and that consequently the penalty of death
does not justify its savage severity by act
ing as a deterrent from murder. IjmI year,
said Mr. Alalby during the debate, only
auout lj per cent of the murderers were ex
eeuted. The penalty that should be admin
intern! with t he most certainty aud with ab
solute equality is actually administered
with the least certainty and thejmost in
equality. A pickpocket gets hiajust de
sert from a jury. A murderer staiHlsttiKMxl
chance of escaping from them, so hard is it
to get a lury who will send a man to death.
Putting aside all other considerations,
this is an argument from experience, which
lias prevailing tiillueuce with the asMemoty.
In voting for the abolition of capital pun
ishment that body voted for a penalty
whose infliction would lie surer and more
conducive to the ends uf justice and be a
more effectual daterrent from murder. As
It is, the death penalty remains, but expert
ence indicates that the average seutimeut
of juries is so far opposed to it that practi
cally it gives encouragement to the mur
derer rather than strikes terror to his heart.
The larger consideration is whether the
brutalizing example aud effect of killing
men by law do not stimulate in the com
munity the savage thirst for biood mure
than they frighten meu from murder.
In the senate the hill was defeated bv an
even more decisive vote than that by which
it was passed in the assembly, or by 24 to 0.
The very preponderance of this present op-
position to the abolition uf capital punish
ment suggests, however, tliat a dinagree
ment between the two houses so total can
not continue indefinitely. The increasing
favor shown by the assembly to the propo
sition Is likely to extend to the senate.
In all the civilized states of the world
capital punishment is either abolished out
right or is bo rarely administered for the
crime of murder that its entire disuse seems
to be near at hand. Cold blooded killing
as a public penalty is repugnant to modern
civ iluuition. -iew York Hun,
What Becomes of "Truphiea,"
The girl who has a brother knows and
there is wmetbing sad in this she knows
what becomes of fuded flowers, bits of rib
bon and the like, bite ha seen her brother
carefully fasten a red rose close to a certain
photograph upon the wall. Hhe has noticed
hiii agitation when the housemaid happened
to dust both the rose and the picture to the
door. Hhe has watched him save the pieces
of that dried up rose, and after that she has
heard him wonder why he was such a sim
pleton about that girl, and has seen him
consign the broken posy, with a lot of other
rubbiah, to the flames. Hhe has known
him to take out tender relics that have been
carefully wrapped and laid away and auk
himself where on earth they came from or
why he ever kept them.
On one occasion she profited by a bitter
lesson which he learned. They were board
inghe and she in a house where there
were a number of young people, several of
whom had been out together one evening.
When the brother had retired to his room
that night, he drew a flower from It is but
tonhole and held it up. "Another trophy,"
he said languidly and dropped it in the
grate. The next day at table his blunder
ing roommate was accusing him of being a
hardened flirt and to prove his statements
told the "trophy" story.
The lesson came in here. The girl who
had given him the flower happened to be
sitting opposite, with fire in her eyes, and
beard it all. brnce that time she has been
almost as wary about giving flowers to sen
timental youths as though she had a broth
er of her own. Chicago Newn-ttecord.
A Bouquet Spoiled Hit Chanoea.
Shortly after the inauguration of Mr.
Cleveland in 1685 a young fellow came here
from one of the western states and applied
for a consulship in Germany. He waa splen
didly indorsed, and after an interview with
the chief executive he thought sura he had
a "cinch" on the place. He returned to his
hotel in great spirits.
Days and weeks passed and nothing defi
nite came from the White House.
Finally the young man concluded be
would remind the president that he was
anxiously waiting to hear from him, Should
he send a note? No, that wouldn't do.
The young man hit upon a novel idea. This
was to send Mr. Cleveland a floral offering'.
He went off to Freeman's and ordered a
splendid bouquet, which he directed sent
to the president with his compliments, 1
Two days later benator . the young
man's influence, went up to the White
House tq ascertain what chances his con-i
stituent had for that consulship. !
JNono whatever," was Mr. Cleveland s
emphatic reply. "I dismissed bis case
from my mind two days ago when I re
ceived a present at his hands. It waa a
bouquet." Washington News.
The race track at Columbus, 6a., which
was laid out fit. years ago, is generally re
puted to be the oldest continuously used
race course in the country.
It is perhaps not generally known that
the watercress, that best of garnishes for a
roast, baaadistinct value oh a blood purifier.
A curious Romanian proverb is this, "It
Is easier to keep a sock full of hares than
wife."
ONCE. UHON A Tinm.
Oh, yes, lin's a tlcwnl young fwllnwi
I've nothing agttluat hint, my dear,
Ami It's likely he thtnkn he is courting.
Ami It's whidcaniun, a bit of a fear,
But when I think bunk to uiy girlbood,
And yiutr grttiuliat her, he wan the boy!
If the; days weru tlnwo tluys, itiy darling,
By tliitt I'd be wlabiiu; you joy.
He courted at fair ami at frolic;
He toasted me more limn he ought,
Ami I don't like to think, to tills day. drr, ,
How he looked the day af tor he fought.
Twits all a mistake that he fought for;
Thoutliur boy watoi't to bin me,
Twas only a fancy of ThIImi'b
That Mike laughed in apcaking my name.
And the ways Talbot aakwl me to have him!
He'd not even iia me the tea,
But he'd look In my eyes and thou whisper
"If 1 was that teacu, macawo!"
If 1 gnvu him my hand juat in friendship.
He'd aigh to his botita or u deou,
And say in his beautiful aeecntM,
"Ah, Wutin eon 1 have It to keep?"
It scorned that I couldn't welt help ttj
I just plaguRd him out of his life,
Though at ill to lnviMilf 1 kept saying
That I should some day 1st his who.
Anil than came the day of the Jaunt, dear;
Twaa to an old ruin we went;
And be wandered me oft with hlnwelf, Ilka,
And 1 for the unco was content.
I funded a little blue flower
Tlist grew In the urauk of the wall,
And he olimoed Hkn a goat till he'd pink It,
And some way he managed to mil.
I don't know to this duy how I did It;
He'd have slipped to bi death, at the last.
But I naught bis two feet In my hands, dear,
And huld for his life safe and fast.
And that boy as he hung nrwidtylown there
And groping about lor his life,
Calls up, "You've my fate in your hands,
dear,
Let go it you'll not be my wife!"
Could I murder hint No, that 1 couldn't!
1 gave him no anawur at all.
I only held fust till he'd managed
To catch his twu hiuuin un the wall.
I stood there all laughing and erying,
And, well, you miuht fancy the rest
If you could, but thoxe dnys are ao different,
And each thinks her own day the best.
There'll not be another like Talbut,
No matter the day ur the year,
And your boy's tdov, quiet, well uianncmi.
I hope you'll he happy, my dear!
Margaret Vaudegrilt lit Echoes.
A Terrible Habit,
"Were yon ever troubled with the
thought while yon walked along some
street," said Charles Ebert, "that some
how you ought not to step on the cracks
that separate the flagstones of the pave
ment or the boards of tho walk? Yon
have ma th woll, then you know.
That is the meanest habit to form.
Cigarette Binoking is bad, and cijrars aro
expensive aud so bad also. Tobacco
chewing 1b abominable and drinking is
killing, but the crack dodging habit is
the worst of all. If I could exchange
this miserable feeling that puiwrwoa mo
when I walk along the etruots for any
one of those habita providing I didn't
possess ul of them already I would do
It instantly.
"I will Btart out of a morning for a
pleasant fit roll, just to we the beauty of
nature, and unconsciously 1 will bgin
to stop over all cracks. Then 1 will ac
cidentally step on one, and all my pros
pective pleasure is gone- simply dis
pelled and driven away by that ouo mis
erable thought of utter uselessneHH that
I have stepped on a crack. I have start
ed for home of a nighttime fairly tired
and conscious of duties well done, pur
posing to enjoy a long, sound sleep.
Again 1 fall into the desire to avoid step
ping on those miserable partition lines.
"If I succeed in avoiding all of them, 1
rest beautifully, but if not then I go
home and have a restless, nervous sleep
in which there is no satisfaction what
ever. Of all the diabolical mental in
ventions that go to break up a man's
happiness and peace of mind this one
mental status of avoiding crocks is the
most consummate that any evil genius
could afflict a man with." tit. Louis
Globe-Democrat
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