Topics of
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A roar man does not need to M I
poor sort of a man.
Small men do cot gain great truth
and treat men do not retatn them.
The Baldwin flying machine lighted
In a tree. The only genuine and orig
inal flying machlnoa also light In tree.
for a finer type of servlc than moat
men can reach. But whenever an
employe's relationship to the work be
come complicated with the question
of her mx, then there ta frlcton,
waste and an Impairment of availabil
ity. The moment that the business of
an office baa to be conducted on the
plan of a soiree there la an end to
plain speech and Quick work. It la
not enough that a woman can do the
same work as a man; she muat be
amenable without friction to the same
rule, discipline and direct method as
a man. Otherwise she stands In her
own light
Abram Fried and Etta Flsch s
cured a marriage license In Chicago
on a Friday. It waa Just the day for
them.
English women universally condemn
the American short-skirt habit; ao
wonld the American women If they
bad the English feet
The New Orleans Ficr.yune says:
"The Standard Oil Company bows to
nubile opinion." Toes It? How much
is public opinion taxed per bow?
A Fennsylvania man has applied to
the court for a guardian to protect
him from guileful women. Why
doesn't he marry one with a project
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Nikola Tesla has emitted the state
ment that the New York subway la
nothing but an elevated road stuck
Into a hole In the ground. What Is ho
going to do about It 1
A man of the name of Letters has
been appointed postmaster at Putnam,
Conn. It U only fair to suppose that
he will find life to be one continuous
Joke during his term of office.
Which way Is the sun moving?
Rev. Dr. Farkhurst Ala a that our la
mented friend, Rev. John Jasper, of
Richmond, Va., is not alive to wel
come the latest recruit to hit cosmic
theory I
The study of the westward move
ment of the geographical centers of
American activity is highly interest
ing. The movement haa been steady
and natural. The centers of popula
tion, of manufactures, of farm values
and areas of the productivity of the
various leading crops of the country
bave all moved westward. The Mis
sissippi Valley la now the center of the
nation's wealth.
Does the man pursue the woman or
the woman pursue the man? That Is
a question which Bernard Shaw, the
writer, has brought Into Interesting
discussion. Shaw says that the Idea
that man Is the conquering wooer U
one of the absurd ideas that have
come down to ua from the centuries.
Men belter It because it minister to
their vanity. They think themselves
irresistible. Women permit them to
believe It because It helps them to
carry on the pretty game. Shaw says
when a woman makes up her mind to
marry a certain man that man's doom
is sealed. Permitted to think he is the
pursuer, he is being pursued so lngent
ously that he does not realise the fact
until he is in the tolls. And in most
cases he never nnas out in race
While woman is dragging her captive
at her chariot wheels the captive
thinks of himself as conqueror. He Is
snared in his own conceit Rafford
Fyke in an article iu a recent maga-
alne agrees with Shaw, and says the
poets and novelists are all wrong In
picturing man as the successful pur
suer. Men and brethren, are theaa
things true? Is it true that woman
spreads her net so cunningly that we
never know we are trapped? Are we
inveigled, charmed, captured and do
mesticated under the impression that
we. Lords of Creation, bar done this
thing? You that know, please tell us.
It would be more to the point how
ever, if some bright woman, experi
enced in Cupid's way, would tell us
the truth. It Is noted that the cham
pions of this new sex philosophy, thus
far, are men. Tell ns the secret, O
woman.
PICA TOR THE SIMPLE lift,
ar it. 4. wuit & . cstcsf.
Cultivate simplicity, Uv within
your means, follow your own tastes,
and act like aaue human beings In
stead of the craty, Jaded, overworked,
overplayed, overdressed set w ar.
The modern tendency Is to become
nmrahed In a complication of wants,
necessities and confusloua, Ilk a fly
in a web. The mer struggle for ex
istence has become woefully com
plicated. Business has taken on such
complexities as to rob It of pleasure
and threaten it with constant uncer-
ext. a. a. tint talnty. Our pelasure are complex.
Simple eutertaluuient no longer satisfies. Th stage, the
press, art Action, and music ar all In a mad rush to cre
ate or find new sensations for restless, dissatisfied patron
age, burdened with many can and oppressed by an in
describable ennui.
Simple, taateful dress scarcely exists; w are an over
dressed noople, ruled by the latest convention of clothe
makers. W ar mad over supernuous wants. 1 ne people
worry most over nonessential things. No one Is any hap
pier under those conditions. Everyone has a look of care.
Our women are not rosy and contented loomng. uur
vounr men breed wrinkles early. Men and women who
dress to suit themselves and be eoiurortawe are rreaxs
To keep up appearances, people wear clothes which they
hav not paid for and cannot afford. To march with the
procession, people eat food for which they nave not paid
the grocer, live In houses with rent in arrears, affect a style
of life they have no visible means of supporting. Living at
our present pace Is responsible for most of our modern
crime. From the snare of small debts, brought on by ex
pensive living, many a man seeks to escape by certain spec
ulations and finally by certain peculations.
As If the eye were not a weapon
with which every young woman is al
ready expert, certain rules for an eye
drill have recently been promulgated.
It seems that the beauty of a woman's
orbs lies not so much In their shape
and color as in the way she UBes them.
Hence' a long list of directions for ro
tating them so that the muscles may
be best trained. Man never knows
when be is safe.
The comparative rate of deaths and
accidents on British and American
railways is startling. On British rail
ways only one passenger in something
less than 200,000,000 is killed, while on
American railways the fatal casualty
Is one in less than 2,000,000. One in
less than 100,000 passengers is injured
on American railways to one in more
than 1.600,000 on British. An eminent
railroad president explains this by say
ing that "under certain conditions the
human brain refuses to work." And
we seem to have the conditions.
Member of one religious denomina
tion in the United State decline to
vote because the name of God is not
mentioned in the constitution. In Ita
ly the Roman Catholics are forbidden
to vote because the secular govern-
I'd Ilk to preach a sermon on re
sponsive children," said the man who
makes chums of his dear ones. "I've
always had a notion that pretty nearly
all the mean streaks In a boy were
caused by something his dad had or
had not done, and I don't believe in
original cussedness any more than I
believe In infant damnation. If a boy
grows up mean and selfish and snarly
and full of kinks and trickery I want
to know all about his parents before I
pass Judgment When my boy hit th
piano such a thump that he broke two
hammers do yon suppose that I came
home to find him hiding in the cellar.
scared to death of the licking that was
coming his way? Not a bit of it He
looked me In the eyes Ilk a little man
and confessed his fault and promised
to try to think In future. He under
stood me Just as I understand him,
and we'll be partners as long as God
lets us live. I went over to buy his
winter outfit His mother generally
does that and you would have thought
we were going to a circus, he was so
tickled to be with me. He skipped
along the street and whistled and frol
icked and told me about what be
would do when he got big and went
to the store with his little boy; and I
sort of swelled up as I looked at his
brave young face, and hoped that peo
ple would know that he was my boy,
He picked out his clothes. He knew
what he wanted, and when the clerk
had him togged out in a blue coat with
big buttons and stood up in front of
the mirror he grinned so you could
almost see that smile from the rear.
And then there were other fixings and
a pair of nobby shoes, and while we
POWER Of CIRCUMSTANCE IN 10VE AfFAIRS.
Br OUtltM.
There is nothing In the conduct of life to
which the trite old saying that "circumstance
alter cases" applies more forcibly than to love
affairs. No one la altogether sure of one's self,
still less of another, aud none can gauge cor
rectly the depths of another's heart They who
ask advice concerning the course to be pursued
In the dilemmas of lore are usually 111 advised.
Such problems are of thoae with which no one
should intermeddle. The man who wishes to be told wbeth
er he will be safe In marrying a woman who he Is reasonably
sure loves him, but with whom 'he Is not In love; a woman
whom he likes thoroughly and of whom he cordially ap
proves; must in all kindness and Justice to himself and to
her decide the question for them both. He only can Judge
whether his temperament Is such that cordial liking for,
ment has seized the city of Rome and
the papal states and deprived the Pope were waiting for my change boy snug
of temporal power, it was tnougnt Dy ge& up to me and said, 'You're awful
some persons that the new Pope would
not Insist on the order Issued by his
predecessor, but a cardinal has as
sured the Associated Press that spe
cial attention is to be called to the
order shortly before the approaching
general election in Italy. Less than
one-half of the Italian Catholics have
In the past respected the wish of the
Pope in this respect
A hundred years ago the manuscript
of Milton's "Paradise Lost" was worth
about (100. To-day It Is priceless and
Mr. Morgan, the present owner, is said
to have paid a quarter of a million for
It There are pieces of tapestry in the
possession of rich New Yorkers for
which they have paid $100 a square
Inch. Millet's "The Angelus" is said
to be worth $150,000 and there are
hundreds of pieces of canvas scattered
over Europe and America worth quite
as much. When a Stradlvarius violin
la sold at public auction in London for
so great a sum as $3,500 the fact is
deemed worthy to be cabled to the
ends of the earth. A railroad is sold
for a billion or a corner lot in Man
hattan for the revenues of a princi
pality and nothing is said. TheBe bau
. bles, though of great price, are com
mon enough. But a Strad! In all the
world there are scarcely a dozen of
these precious old fiddles and all the
cunning of modern Invention cannot
add to their number.
good to me, papa. There ain't a boy
on our street fixed up for winter so
good as me. Thank you for being so
good.' And he meant it That came
right from the man's heart in the boy's
body. And I couldn't talk because I
sort of choked up and thought of the
many homes that might contain Joy
and happiness if parents only tried
harder to understand their children
I've bad some pretty -good times in
my life, but I never got more enjoy
ment for a small expenditure than on
that store trip with my chum."
As a general rule, woman becomes
efficient in business In proportion as
she can lay aside the peculiarities and
prerogatives of her sex and become to
all intents and purposes masculine.
This is not said in mitigation of the
obvious truth that Indiscriminate- con
tact with men in employment tends to
unsex woman or in Ignorance of the
other fact that in many pursuits the
feminine equipment fits its possessor
German Learn the Language.
The German government knows by
experience that the mastery of the
language of the foreign country which
they want to bring under their influ
ence is an essential requisite for their
representatives abroad. Because of
this knowledge the acquirement of the
difficult Chinese tongue is deemed ob
Hgatory for German representatives in
China. With very few exceptions the
German consular and diplomatic offl
cers command the language of the for
eign country in which they are lo
cated.
Generosity of Mrs. Howard Gonld,
At Port Washington, L. I, a week'
services were held commemorating the
generosity of Mrs. Howard Gould, who
paid off the indebtedness on the First
Methodist Episcopal Church. In the
presence of the entire congregation
Mrs. Gould, holding a gold candlestick
in her hand, touched the lighted candle
to the mortgage and burned it
Poor Time for Call.
Mr. Lovett Good evening, Tommy
is you sister at home?
Her Brother Yeh, but so is pop, an'
he's got Indigestion. You'd better skip.
Philadelphia Ledger.
One-half th stuff you buy does 70a
no good.
and a firm faith In, his wlf can All th plac of genuine,
permanent love, in case lor declines to follow iu their
wake. II must take Into consideration that sweetness la
cloying when not desired, and question himself closely as
to whether th demonstrations of a lov which h dot not
share may not prove werlsouie beyond his power to con
ceal that wearlne.
There ar not many women to whoa hearts true and
ernet lov cannot And its way sooner or later; few who
ar proof against a loyal and loving lover. Which fact In
view of th Insurmountable haw that a woman cay not
choose, except from among thoa who choose her, Is un
doubtedly a merciful dispensation of providence. Th love
which Uts must b founded upon the rock of mutual re
spect else, when th storms of adversity com and the
flood beat upon that love. It will fall and fall Ilk the
house in th parable which wa bullded upon sand, 1
WOMEN CRIMINALS WORSE THAN MEN.
Br 9rf CI rs (Is.
Crime and criminal women hive always been
of the greatest interest to the vulgar herd. Last
year It wa the Humbert affair; this year It W
Italy which, in the person of the Countess Bon
martin, runs In close rivalry to France. Certain
crimes, which had grown rare of late years, liave
brusquely reappeared. Poison haa become fash
tollable once more. For crime ha Its fashion;
uow it U the revolver, now vitriol, now poison. TI10 dag
ger has been cast asld for a weapon as unerring, but more
dangerou and even more dastardly .poison. Aud now
rumors of poisoning cases are becoming more and more
frequent A few months ago Mine. Galtle, at Lcctoure,
and Mine. Massot. at Marseilles, were accused of poison
lng their husbands, aud at Houen Mine. Bonroy Is being
tried for having killed her husband In the same way.
A poisoner ha the maddened thirst of a drunkard, with
tills difference, however, that she pours out her beverage
for others. Hh has visibly her hysteria. This refinement
of cruelty, this sort of pernicious daintiness in crime, is a
malady like any other. In certain women this hysteria
will turn into a need of lying, of Inventing extraordinary
tales. In other It become a passion for writing unsigned
letters, often addressed to themselves; In othes still, it is
the madness of crime, th impulsive, Irreslatlbl need of
kllllr.g Just for the pletasure of killing, to see th features
drawn In th agony of pain, th throes of th dying.
Now we ar having a little epidemic of poisoning. But
a noticeable feature 1 this all thes crime take place In
the provinces. It would seem as If a Parisian woman, Iu
her feverish existence, in her whirlwind of a life, has
neither the time nor the quiet mind necessary to set upon
a victim with the same cold slowness,the same dally ferncl
ty. When a Parlslenn does revenge herself upon some
body, she uses her revolver, in between two call, or two
outtnir In her automobile. Everything goes quickly In
Paris, even murder.
PEARY'S NIW VESStU
Bkvlp Which Will Ball U ef th
North Pol.
A vessel Is being built In th old
yard upon Verona Island, off the roast
of Maine, which I not destined ror
purposes of trade. She Is to fore her
way as fax as possible Into th lc
covered seas of th far uortn, carry
lng Lieutenant-Commander Peary In
order that h may make another dash
for th pole. In th Peary ship, tli
stern, stern-post keels, keelson and
frame ar of carefully selected whit
oak. Tli tuasalr frames will b only
two feet apart from center to center,
aud they will be enclosed In a rag of
steel mad of diagonal straps and cov
erlng th Inner fabric of th ship front
stem to stern. Over th straps will b
a doubl cours of five Inch planking
of yellow pin and whit oak, and be
tween thes two courses will b tarred
hemp or tarred csnvas.
A guard strak of whtt oak sur
rounds th vessel at th level of th
main deck, projecting outward for
such a distance that when th lc
presses against her sides and Is forced
upward by th resistance, th ship
will actually rest iiwn th guard
strake. More than that, should she b
fruten In, It would be possible to break
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ENGLAND.
1,!MS7,250 tons.
A few months ago the United
States Bureau of Intelligence
made some valuable compari
sons, in one of which the navies
were compared on the basis of
the number and displacement of
warships actually completed on
Jan. 1, 1004, and the other on
the basis of the number and
displacement both of the war
ships actually completed and of
those under construction at that
date. It should be noted that
in these estimates no account
is taken of gunboats and other
vessels of less than 1,000 tons
displacement, nor do they In
clude transports, dispatch ves
sels, converted merchant vessels
FKANCB.
733.757 tons.
i NAVIES OF WORLD COMPARED i
If All
Ships Now Under Construction f
Were Completed.
l' NIT EI) 8TATEH GKBMANY. Kt.'SSIA. ITALY. JAI'AM.
610,273 tons. OOS.Ollt Ions. 474,710 tons. 3-JU.2M) tons. 23,4S4 tons.
f -Hr or yachts, or obsolete cruisers.
Vessels, moreover, that are au
thorlzed, but upon which no ac
tual work of construction bss
been done, are excluded from
the comparison. The figures of
the department ar given her
after subtracting the tonnage
of th vessels actually lost by
Kussla sine Jan. 1 and the
gains by Japanese of th two
purchased cruisers and th
losses sustained during the fight
lng off Port Arthur. It will b
seen that Kussla drops from her
position of third befor the war
to fourth in the first list and
fifth under the second heading.
To-dsj.
Tons.
1. Grest Britain.. 1.M6.O40
2. France 67tt,lfl8
8. Germany' !lh7,h74
4. Kussla 3IO,mM
6. I'nltvd States.. HM.40G
6. Italy 2.i,M.'
7. Japan 2.331)
If sll "hips now Botldlng
ware Completed.
Tons.
1. Great Britain. .1,M)7,'JV)
2. rrsnre 7WS.737
8. Lulled States.. fllfl,'75
4. Germsny ouft.flld
6. Russia 474.7119
. Itsly 82,2G
7. Japan 232,434
to sail 1.1 qrt:T or Tin rot.it.
the grip of tho lco by the use of hy
draulic Jacks placed under the strake.
Naturally, so Important a part of th
vessel's protection Is securely fastened
to th hull and In addition It I
strengthened by an angle bar of steel
on its under side.
Th lutorlor of the ship will be al
most completely filled with heavy tim
bers. Starting at the center of th
deck, these brace will extend ding'
oually downwards and outwnrds, th
lower ends resting against the frauiea
and helping them to withstand th
pressure of the lc. With a hull thus
filled with timbers, provision must be
made for living quarters above decks
and here there will bo two houses, so
constructed that they may bo removed
and set up on shore. For tho rest, th
vessel will bo tigged as a three-masted
schooner with an exceptionally large
spread of canvas and will also be pro
vided with steam power. She will be
of about 1.SO0 tons and will be ready
for service early next summer. It la
the explorer's plan to go In the vessel
to the northern sboro of Grant land,
winter there and make his dash for th
pole during the following summer.
A MUNICIPAL CLOCK SERVICE
ORIGIN OF WORD PICNIC.
It Appeared in One of Lord Chester-
field's Letters.
"Whence the word picnic-;" asked
a man who 1 fond of the study of the
meaning and origin of words, In the
New Orleans Times-Democrat I do
not know and have not been able to
trace. My attention was directed to
the matter by a recent article. In
which it was stated that the deriva
tion of the word picnic is uncertain.
In London Notes and Queries of 1853
a tempts were made to trace Its origin.
One correspondent says: 'Under a
French form the word appears in a
speech of Robespierre, "C'est lei qti'U
dolt ma'accuser, et , non dans les
plquesnltiues." An earlier instance oc
curs in one of Lord ChesterUeld'B let
ters, dated October, 1784.' Another
writer of the same date tries to trace
the word through France Into Italy.
Starting with the assumption that
plquenlque in French implies a party
at which each guest provides some
special duty, lie finds the Italian ex
pression nlcchla (duty) and plccola (a
trifling service), and from these he
coins plccola nlcchla (picnic). A French
encyclopedia, 1843, has It that the
word Is compounded of the simple
English pic (to choose) and nick (In
the nick of time, on the spur of the
moment). In France the term la also
used for indoor picnics. In America
the word picnic is confined to out-of-door
affairs, and in the old-time mean
ing of the -word it was a basket din
ner in the woods. The word is given
a broader meaning now and la fre
quntly used to describe the annual cl:
ebratlon of certain organizations."
to concert work. Although Bret Harte
made large profits from his writings
and won a success which seldom comes
to a writer as early as it did to him,
he left bis family In very straitened
circumstances, and if it were not for
the many stanch friends in the Ameri
can colony in London Mrs. Bret Harte
would often find It difficult to make
both ends meet With her children
she has made her home In Bayswater
ever since Bret Harte's death. The
family difficulties have been compli
cated by threatened loss of sight of
one of the sons and he has been sent
to Switzerland in the hope that a re
nowed oculist may perform a success
ful operation.
Miss Bret Harte hns had a long up
hill struggle in her work. She served
a stage apprenticeship with George
Edwards and D'Oyly Carte. 8he has
a soprano voice of excellent range and
sympathetic quality and her one desire
is to bring It to greater perfection. Her
capacity for work seems endless and
her love of music is as much of an In
centive as the money which she hopes
to bring into the family purse. It is
extremely difficult to get a hearing on
the concert stage In London, where
only the well-known artists are invited
to sing, but through the influence of
the friends of the American author his
daughter will have every opportunity
to make the success which her friends
anticipate.
Author's Daughter Sing.
Miss Ethel Bret Harte, th daughter
of the famous writer of early Oallfor
nlan life, has decided to devote herself
W atones Used In Old Day.
There is uncertainty as to when the
portable watch, as w understand it
to-day, came into nse. It was prob
ably at the close of the sixteenth cen
tury Queen Elizabeth owned a large
number of watches. Mary Queen of
Scots, was the possessor of a skull
shaped watch. In fact, the "death
head" pattern was at that tlm much
in vogue. Endless were the styles,
for there were watches shaped like
books, pears, butterflies and tulips.
The Nureraburg egg was a special
shape and was first made in 1000.
Those queer shape of watches pre
vented their finding a place in the
pocket When waa the fob first used
In the dress of man? The German fob
Is "fuppe" and it is believed that It
came from Europe through the purl
tan, "whose dislike for display may
have Induced them to conceal their
timekeepers from the public gaie."
This conjecture is strengthened by
the fact that a short "fob" chain at
tached to a watch of Oliver Crom
well's in tho British museum 1b, in
point of date, the first appendage of
the kind known. The watch is a small
oval one In a sliver case, and was
made about 1025 by John Mldnall of
Fleet street
France's Money Troubles.
The French are having a hard time
with their nickels. The old ones were
so much like the silver franc piece
that the people protested; they kept
giving a piece worth 20 cents for one
worth 5. At last they have changed
the shape. ' The new nickel will be
rounded with acute corners so that by
the simple touch the difference will be
perceptible. About twenty million 1
will, in a few days, be thrown Into
circulation. Brooklyn Eagle.
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Nothing Fast About Him.
Gladys (sighing) Oh, dear,
hasn't proposed yet
Ethel WelL what can you expect of
a chap who never runs his auto over
ten miles an hour! Puck.
Some men would have no excuse for
living if their wives didn't take la
boarders.
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TUB MUNICIPAL CLOCK.
Berlin has Instituted a series of mu
nicipal clocks, seventeen in number,
which give the official time in every
part of the town. This is only another
example of the socialism on municipal
lines which is practiced throughout
the Fatherland.
If here the Bad Ugc Go.
A poultry farm, whether ducks,.
geese, chickens or turkeys be the spe
cialty, accumulates a large and malo
dorous surplus of eggs that, refuse to
develop Into fowl. The average person
would suppose that if there is any
thing on earth that Is utterly worth
less It Is a rotten egg.. Millions of
stale eggs are used every year In pre
paring leather dressing for gloves and
bookbinding an Industry that Is
largely carried on in the foreign tene
ment houses of New York and other
large cities. They are also used in
manufacturing disinfectants and in the
preparation of shoe blacking, and even
the shells are made into fertilizers.
The eggs that have not yet lost their
virtue also have other uses besides the
more common ones for culinary pur
poses. It is estimated that fully 55,
000,000 dozen are used by wine clurl
fiers, dye manufacturers and in the
preparation of . photographers' dry
plates. Brooklyn Eagle.
1 lmluiiU's Bogs. 1
' Sir Richard Sankel estimates that
Ireland's bogs contain the equivalent
of 8,000,000,000 tons of coal, and he
advocates creating power for varied'
industries by converting, the fuel into,
electricity on the spot.
If a girl has her eyes on a man,
and a Hallowe'en charm says that he
is to be her Very Own, he couldn't es
cape If Mercury loaned him. bis wings.