4 I r* topics or THE TIMES A smuggled necessity becomes an expensive luxury when caught. The latest puzzle It to find the "burled cities” In the Caribbean sea T ry to do a little work. The report that the tlsh are biting Is probably a false alarm. Three of the Am erican wars have had a m ortality as high as that of some coal mines. Pork Is getting so high ihat to be called a ham these days Is really con sidered a compliment. Another youth has gone wrong un der the influence of dime novels. A little reading is still a dangerous thing. I in f- L ife, le i It be observed, Is not one grand sweet song for kings and em perors. They have to kiss one an other. I t Is announced that John D. Rocke feller wears a paper vest when he plays golf. We know mere clerks who do that. W hy should not the young man’s fancy ligh tly turn to thoughts of love? Spring m illin ery bills do not embitter his dreams. .i 1 "W e ’ve noticed,” says the St. Louis Star, ‘‘a fallin g off !h the number o f women who ask: ‘Is my hat on straight?* " The women must be leav ing St. Louis. ; Andrew Carnegie admits that he has made forty men millionaires, and six teen of them have since been divorced Andy should have made their wives the m illionaires. “ I f you wish to live long," says an eminent nonogenarlan, "work hard and eat no meat." Even people who have little moral courage find It con venient to adopt this scheme now. t BHAD IN H ATC H IN G . to act on the rule of the judicious, who raise some other crop when every ( V o r k o f E x p e r t s A b o a r d t h e C o a x * body la raising raspberries, or wheat, V e s s e l, th e Kin k H a w k . or potatoes, or beans, or onions, or Ly in g at anchor In the Delaware whatever the fad of the moment R iver off Gloucester Is a little vessel may be. painted an immaculate white, which Is the tyranny of the microbe to be bears across her bow ttw name. Fish Hawk, the Philadelphia Ledger says. broken? For a good many years scientists and pseudo-scientists havt She belongs to the United States fish commission. Her crew is clearing her been busy throwing scares Into th» decks for action, laying out long community by descanting upon th» spawning tables and toiling away In dangers that lurk everywhere from preparation for the millions of shad these microscopic organisms. People have been warned not to do this and eggs which w ill soon come to the ves sel from the fishermen up and down that, lest the bacteria lyin g in wall invade some of their tissues or vis the river. W hile the Fish Hawk has been em cera and set up dangerous or fatal ployed In shad hatching on the Dela disease conditions. Even kissing hat ware many seasons since 1881, this is been placed under the ban by some her first visit here in four years. She doctors. They have said that bacilli covers the entire esatern coast from so small that, like some of the alleged the Kennebec to K ey West. devils of the Inferno, a m illion ol The work of egg collecting is done them can dane upon the point of s by the crew of forty-three men, all of needle, may be transferred by th< whom are experts. They go ouT to the meeting o f the lips. Thus, if one ol fishing grounds In small boats towed the kissers happened to be diseased by steam launches and there secure the healthy one would become inocu from the market fishermen the shad lated— or, I f both happened to be i which are about to spawn. These eggs little off the condition of perfect are fertilized in large pans and after health, the m ingling of the atonn several days are placed in jars in m ight produce baleful consequences which they hatch In from four to seven But now we are assured by an emi days, the length of time depending on nent Boston physician, professor ol the temperature of the water. When Harvard Medical School, that kissinj the shad have attained the size of half is a perfectly safe pastime so far ai an Inch they are taken to the river bacteria are concerned— that the onlj beds and turned loose. possible danger in kissing Is from The Fish Hawk has collected as heart trouble. It is safe to say thal many as 125,000,000 eggs in a season the whole population that has not out 80 to 95 per cent of which have proved lived the years of romance w ill Jolt fertile. In nature, it is said, not 5 in hearthy thanks to this learned pro per cent of the eggs hatch. The Fish fessor. The possible danger froir Hawk has 350 hatching jars, each ca heart trouble w ill be to them a negli pable of holding 85,000 to 90,000 eggs. gible quantity. Heart trouble Is whal When the fish are hatched they find many of them are looking for, and il their way through a drain pipe Into It should prove fatal they would be an aquarium, where they remain until In the stae of bliss of the Insect de turned out. scribed by the poet as dying of a ros« In aromatic pain. Now that the bal has been started we shall possibly hear from other good authorities thal other customary delights need not b< eschewed for fear of microbes. Per haps the terror of microbes In con nectlon with the ordinary every-day ’ Incidents o f life will fade away w ltt the belief In Salem witchcraft anc other delusions. THE ¡Í u , i - A - 1 j 1 i ; i \i'< U j J ' li • i l * -4 k, ^ * ft \ 4 , . j * j r 1 I 'I li il* ' ' t; V I - } i f - :• •ft i 4 it 5.1 f ^ o d a ii^ater I T h a t M u *t O b ta in o f It* P rod u ctio n . to A l fo b l," " < ,en are general j the must set It |old work Is the lng w neces forms routli hold claim alone large slble and wome with men i lil'S TP A n . many R l I'M, v p l HE girl behind the soda fountain has come into her own. I f it's a representative of the other sex who juggles with the tizzy water, he's a sovereign and a white jacket and apron are hts robes of state. For soda water has reached one of the very highest notches alongside wheat and automobiles and hash and beer in the scale of life’s necessities. This Is true all over the broad land from New York as !ar west as Reno, Nev., or even farther west to Osekuewe, Cal. Ice cream soda has been placed upon a marble pedestal and we are all bowed down In worship— old men, co-eds, stereotypers, summery girls, middle-aged ladies and David Belasco. Every day, summer and win ter, we shove our nickel over the slab and murmur humbly that a destiny would be unfulfilled unless we had a "raspberry phosphate" or a “ pistachio royal sun dae,” with green trimmings. And all this means things In coin, comparative fig ures that stick in your brain and make you think of economy and the increased price of living, the poor children starving in the slums and other disturbing things when you're going to turn Into the corner drug or fruit store for one of them banana frappes, the very latest thing for 15 cents. But here's what the figures show: That ten billions of nickels arc spent every year at soda fountains in this country, and as tfiere are only a billion nickels In circulation, it is plain to be seen that each one of them would have to make ten trips to the soda fountain If only nickels were used. That the nation's expenditure for soda water and carbonated drinks this year Is esti mated at $500,000,000. It makes It all the more ap palling when you think that that is half a billion dol A newspaper has 5,000 readers for each 1,000 subscribers, says the A l Meanwhile, It may comfort those bion, Mich., Recorder. A merchant persons who think they have had a The fata morgana is a singulai who puts out 1,000 hand-bills gets narrow escape to reflect that It w ill aerial phenomenon akin to the mirage possibly 300 or 400 people to read— be seventy-five years before Halley's It Is seen in many parts of the world that is, if the boy who is trusted to comet visits this part of the universe but most frequently and in greatesi distribute them does not chuck them again. The handbills perfection at the strait of Messina under the sidewalk. between Sicily and Italy. So many cost as much as a half column adver When K ing George said good-by to conditions must coincide, however tisement in the home paper. A ll the Emperor W illiam at the depot the that even there It Is of comparatively women and girls and half the men German ruler kissed the new king the advertisements. rare occurrence. T o allow of Its pro and boys read three times, notwithstanding the fact ductlon the sun must be at an angl* Result: The merchant who uses the that scientists say whiskers are gen of forty-five degrees with the water newspaper has 3,500 more readers to erally full of germs. the paper's readers. both sky and sea must be calm anc each 1,000 o f the tidal current sufficiently strong There is no estimating the amount of Discovering that Secretary Wilson's to cause the water In the center tc business that advertising does bring cook book devotes some space to tell rise higher than on the edges of th< to a merchant, but each dollar brings ing of the toothsomeness of the musk strait. When these conditions are fully somewhere from $20 to $100 worth of rat when properly cooked, we are con- met the observer on the heights ol business. strained to announce that we have Calabria, looking toward Messina, wil When a man is caught In one exag lost confidence ln that literary pro- behold a series of rapidly changing geration he w ill have a pretty hard ductlon. pictures, sometimes of most exqulsit» time tryin g to convince the world that all he says It not colored by exaggera A Pennsylvania man remembered beauty. Castles, colonnades, successions ol tion. The first exaggeration may have hls w ife ln his w ill and also tho widow next door, dividing hls prop beautiful arches, palaces, cities, w ltt been Innocent enough. It may do no erty between them, but stipulating houses and streets and church domes harm. But, leaving out all moral con that If either started a quarrel her mountains, forests, grottoes, w ill ap siderations, exaggeration and untruth- ALLO W AN C E FOR T H E L IV IN G ■hare goes to the other. The vaunted pear and vanish, to be succeeded per fulness in advertising are mighty bad haps by fleets of ships, sometime! business. They serve well enough wisdom o f Solomon could have gone placidly sailing over the deep, some until the truth is found out; then, as Do we Indeed desire the dead no further than this. Should still be near us at our side? times inverted, while a halo like s the old adage has it: “ Truth is Is there no baseness we would hide People whose alleged reason for not rainbow surrounds every Image. It li m ighty and will prevail.” The exag- No Inner vileness that we dread? going abroad Is that they are afraid supposed that the images are due tc gerator must be on the strain con o f being seasick In crosnlng the Eng the Irregular refractive powers of tht tinually to exceed his last exaggera Shall he for whose applause I strove, He w ill have to appeal each lish channel may be interested to different layers o f air above the sea tion. I had such reverence for his blame, know that the Paris-London Trans- which magnify, repeat and distort th* time to a new set of customers. This See with clear eyes some hidden objects of the Sicilian shore beyond it is tmposible to do continuously shame aerlan Company hopes to be able to but to the Italians these singular ap among any one class of people. The And I be lessened in his love? •tart a cross-channel service by alr- •hlp between Dover and Calais within pearances are the castles of the Prln old proverb may be true that “ there cess Morgana, and the view o f them Is a sucker born every minute." Cut I wrong the grave with fears untrue; a few months. Shall love be blamed for want of is supposed to bring good fortune tc It Is very dangerous to attempt to faith? found a stable business supon such a There w ill be sympathy for the agea the beholder. There must be wisdom with great foundation of sand. Kansan who remarked, when the late T h « F lo rin . Death: A p ril cold wave made Us appearance, W e wonder if our home merchants The dead shall look me through and The florin, one of the most famous “ This has been the shortest summer o f modern coins, originated in Flor ever stop to think why the big mall through ever knew.” A ll preconceived no- ence. Some say It gave the name tc order houses are so successful. Their tlons as to what weather was capable to the city, while others assert that 11 success lies In their continual adver Be near us when we climb or fall: Ye watch, like God, the rolling hours o f have been upset by this extrordi- was first so called because It had or tising o f their goods, says the Hunk- With larger other eyes than ours, nary spring. Only by keeping a calen It a flower de luce, from the Italian ville (M o .) Herald. They never stop dar in plain sight can one tell what florone, or flower, for the same reason advertising because of changes of sea To make allowance for us all. —Tennyson tim e o f year It really Is. The that an English silver piece is called son or for any other reason crown or certain gold pieces In country newspapers have been fight Colleges have many problems to face France Indifferently a napoleon or s ing these mail order house hard for ln common, but Brown University has louis or the ten dollar gold piece in years for the benefit of the home mer Tw o countries chant, and some of the merchants ap one which appears to be peculiar to Am erican an eagle. Itself. There is a complaint that the Austria and Holland, have retained preciate this and some of them do babies of Providence, accompanied by the florin as a unit of monetary value not. I f the mall order houses would th eir nurses, take possession of the taking it at a tim e when It was uni practice advertising by “ spurts,” In campus on pleasant days, and use It versa! In Europe, its usage having certain seasons of the year, like some as a public playground. The paths been rendered general by the financial country merchants, they wo id soon W hile the local are blocked by baby carriages, accord supremacy of the little state of north go out o f business ing to President Faunce, and the stu ern Italy and the Imperfect coinage or home merchant keeps his business And Luke, where do you expect dents cannot safely play ball under system of the other countries of thf “ under a bushel," so to speak, or out all this to end?” o f their local paper on account of hot, the trees. The authorities of the uni continent. “ End? I hope It never will end. I dry or wet weather, or bad roads, they don't see why it should.” versity dislike to appear Inhospitable, T h e ('o a tle n a M nn. are g ivin g the mail order houses the but naturally they feel that there Is Folding up a little pink note Luke There Is a man named M. V. Osborn advantage of them before the people, such a thing as entering upon a col out In Arkansas who Is known as the for those houses never stop advertis Clark put on hls hat and went to visit lege career too early In life. some of his patients coatless man because only three tlmei ing for any kind of weather or for "How little men know the hearts since he was married forty-six yean j ¿„"jl tim es' Raspberry Jam, when eaten at mid of women!” his sister ejaculated as ago has he donned a coat. No mattet night with a hatpin. Is "galoptlous,” Luke left the room. lie A le H is O w n W o rd s. according to the verdict of boarding what the weather may be he weart In a luxurious house in one of th« neither coat nor overshirt and believes N ot long ago the punishment for fashionable residence districts of Phil school girls. General agreement with this verdict Induced so active a de his health ,4s the better for It. He libel In Russia was the requirement adelphia a dainty creature was re mand for raspberries In Scotland that drinks no Intoxicants and does not that the libeler literally eat his own clining with a novel In her hands many small fruit farms were started smoke, but he has chewed tobacco fot words. A man who published a small when a servant brought In a card a few years ago. Land which was sixty-five years. He Is now ,3 and In volume reflecting on the unlimited This was six months after Luke had rented at from five to seven dollars perfect health. Another peculiarity ol I power of the sovereign was seized, taken up his residence In Walton. hls lies In his habit o f always wearing tried In a summary way and con- and a half an acre In 1900, found ten “ Say I will be down in a moment” ants at from thirty to fifty dollars an a hat. He never takes hls hat off ex j j emned to consume the objectionable the girl told the maid. In one of the public streets acre six years later, and the raspber cept to go to bed or when eating with j words. When the door closed she Jumped to ries sold for two hundred dollars a strangers. His youngest child Is less tlve book was severed from Its binding. her feet, went to the mirror an j than 3 years old. the margins cut off. the leaves rolled stood admiring herself before g0ln2 ton. As from one and a half to four “ 8 Th e o n ly W a y , j up one by one and ted to the unfor- down. toua an acre could be raised, the busi ness was profitable. But In spite of Girl from Country— I don't see whai tunate author. A surgeon was In at- In the drawing room stood a youna the ’’galoptiousness" o f raspberry Jam ktnd o f a place I could get. T h e n ! tendance to pronounce upon the num- man with a fine head and clear cm at midnight and at other times o f the isn't a single thing I know how to do ber P°®8ible t0 * lT® without endanger- features. Hearing the rustle of silks day, the supply soon exceeded the de Employment Agent— Very wimple ln* h u 11,e- but h* u reported to have ?n h* turned * nd caught mand, and the price fell rapidly, till Just advertise yourself as a maid ol eet the lim it at something like 200. her hands held out to greet him last year forty-four dollars a ton was all work.— M eggendorfer Blaetter. Parades are attractive. If good, but h . .1 m V * 10? convfr*aH°n In which the market price, and those who had 1 .». s a r_ ° W much bl®**nre her The biggest liar ln this country li people laugh at them If they are n ot letter, had given him since taking up entered the business late lost their money This Is but another Illustra talking of starting a magazine to tx Re careful ln getting up a parade of h i. residence out of the world he any kind tion o f the failure o f the average man devoted to the Truth burst forth In expressions of love He C o n d itio n * lo w I F A T A M ORGANA. rowth of the lars, which would buy fifty-five Dreadno« three times the value o f the yearly ouiptn biles and would pay the debts of all tk churches four times over and would defray I slty expenses of half a million student! than double the combined yearly cost o( navy W ow ! The amount of soda water ly Is estimated at 479.062,500 gallons, vkj pensed from 120,000 fountains. The average] fountain is $2,000, so you get a total Invest! 000,000. And In these days the Sofia fountain Is and winter. From year's end to year'« and Jingle of the soda fountain in Uncle never ceases. The tim e was when for the fountain was about as idle aa the strav parasol. Public fancy has changed all that.] the dispenser of fizzing sweetness works nc in January as In the dog days. Not that btl hpt drinks only In blizzard temperature; Soda fountain drinks tickle the palates ol less numbers the year round, and thua it the dlsher— the handy little tool that sods tendants have for scooping up the ere vacation. Besides the direct profits, the soda (oust into the drug stores people who buy me perfumery, toilet articles, etc. The cost of itself Is far from representing the entire In a small establishment the druggist finds 1 leal to buy his soda and cream, in a large one] it himself, and therefore buys earbonat« syrup percolators and other apparatus, sories, too. must be provided. Ireqult'1' that sh< 1 over that it Is Innatural attitud Ime serious and T often makes he L of her life. j stoopless dust |]y been inveutec l work of gather ions on the Hot Inclination or bet inent has a long [Trrled convenie ■ time the handle L of a lid whic lion of the dust I on the floor an —gathering up thj n closes, hiding t ■and preventing Itiy the wind or Health tld fear in all Its Isslon. Lp ln the sunllgh Ir sweet ripens it Iply refuse to gr, lour years or anti l i t allow yourse ¡birthday, that j told of hls poor prospects in Walton “ Luke, do you Into* l and asked her if she thought she could asked. share them with him. “ Of course I do." he ■ I would not go,” was the startled bly, "though there Is 1 1 reply. in both of us." I.uke drew back, hurt, stunned, un "H ave you forgiven m«r| believing. with a sob. "L o n g ago," he whlspi Edith Lowrie remained fixed ln her resolve. Her eyes were wide open you forgiven yourself!" and her figure was erect. She watched “ N e v e r !” her lover as he flung himself into a “ Then do so for my ah chair and shaded his eyes with his you, Edith, darling, gootl-H hands. She glided to his side, sat on And then it was ill l the arm of his chair and even smooth City World. ed his hair with her jeweled fingers. W H IT E W A Y OS THlJ I f he felt her caresses he did not re spond or even move. My dear, dear friend,” she began. "What would you do with me? It Is your Ideal that you love, not me. You would soon find that out and then— ” Her hands fell among the folds of her dress. She crumpled the silk be tween her fingers as she spoke. These silks, this lace, these jewels the pictures, books, the soft carpet be neath my feet, all are simple necessi ties to me. They are not objects of my love, but part of my dally life. \\ ithout them I would not be what I am, nor what you think I am. Think of me at Walton in an old calico dress, bungling over my work. Your sister would be a very queen beside me, and she as well as you would de spise me for my ignorance.” With a strong effort he drew him self from the girl's embrace and went from the room as one In a dream. He said no word of farewell and she made T° rt *° ditaln b>m As he passed from the house Edith went to the win dow and watched h i. retreating fig- sh7n»” J r\ D0 SUfh thln* a8 r 'c a d - ship. she asked h * s e lf aloud. „ .7 „ „ dark’ dreary day ln M e m b e r »even years later the vines on the wereK dPhH8lCif! f 8 h° me were dead and covered ,n Walton with snow. £ r!H g7 Und WaS Whl,e and flake» m- I m d v f n T ' p ‘ he a!r' I-uke Clark was dying. From hard work the Deo- Ple of the little village said P A Pale little woman, almost a child ln ap, ancei dregsed ln deep mmirn muih to r ', . ,hr° Ugh ,he hoo.e. alarm of thp one servant. would n o 7 i l 0n See‘ ng the patlent and would not be satisfied until Dr Clark's •iitor came to spp th- .. '“/iarK s With th* .< f • *h 8tranfle visitor. ¡“ ¡ r S ? 5 ST-SUE beside" the be,” h e r*h f a“ h,“r kn* * , A faint m i l t cros^d hla faca. n,iU Id young thought W i t h O n l y F iv e Fssilltol \ illissse 11«» Kleetrle I rain from all kin ledatives; they w ¡ure Is the great I Is ever young, [her; love her. pld excesses of all Sous. The long 1 irate, regular lif< ■p mental cobwebi l brushed off by I jountry, or by tra ¡ver look on the views of every kht drives away t ktlvate the spirit «content and dlss pirrows premature alt beautiful tho ¡hts, truth thoug *nce, of youth, ;ss. Ivslclans claim th Tshing ln a darke I to accustom chili I sleep ln the dar ¡■-r living for set lie foods, In aildit 1 health. It would used susi'i'ptihtlit |er relish have be usage Is not onl but it Is a wo lilgia, If attention | the muscles of th excellent also |all nervous condtt Ingrowing nail i and clip the nal i In the center ol J rule are a 11:; le r Biut by cutting th I a little and are iesh at the sides, the time. Yarrow is probably tbs lege in Missouri that has' light plant, a Kirkivllle spoudeni of the Kansas The population of Yarrov the fam ilies of a grocerji" smith, a millei and two ers. Each family has its New Type c Ilantly lighted by electncM( The electric light pl*^j ►e eyes of ihe t Ik matured won and operated by >4ichssel |p. The exclus: has for twenty years or old-fashioned water mill J8be who has o Mr. Webber is an invent!» •amend her are recently he conceived tbs] ling of the past. taching his water machins" Intensely practlc; |*e living that a horse power dynamo and ding and evolv trlcity for himself and ¡itch as the wot dynamo was installed at 8he is not cost and for the first tia» [ely pretty thini tory of the village ol » trie lights were turned oil Ileus tar; and w Mr. Webber says he HP* ¡lived down ma Jiment and cm ln a larger dynamo and entire southwest corner o! | but who Is In spirit of Y ty. He says further t&fl _ V T* that In ord river as a source of should be developed, as f I must look her l*ud young wit possibilities for Kirks»!» Plum; she is s towns near the stream tety humane qi ested ln a project to P® 1 unconsciously dam across the Chan * endearing qui K trksville and to instil1 ¡tlally exhlbttlo: power plant. , * °f years. Imp The dam that now W * rjC sweet femli for hls m ill la only pman when she and was built In M * delightful su’ furnished the power for This Is toned under shot *a leal Bernard more recently he h** •etted that n< wheels o f comparsU»« •be has reac which now give him . »nd not wort! seventy-five horee-pow«. | kttleth! —The flclent for grinding wheat and running “ ■* light plant. A lot o f valuable t w j *1 explanations and apo»** onom jr la »nstlvely few 1 th. economy 1 •Hplies 1• Uri