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Th _ ' ammany Farime VN TN, : •: : LOUISIANA. Immigration Insanity. Allenists of reeognized authority in 7 New York say the reant report of the state lunacy commis4on does not in dicate that the noi"s and methods of j life in" the, metropaels are driving its population into madhouses. Since the aport was lssuJe, showing a 20 per cent. increase or insanity in this state, largely in New York city, there has been much comment in varioup sections upon the insanity-breeding conditions of the greater city. One physician in the western end of the state has as cribed the condition to flats and tene ments. A Boston alienist believes the I increase of New York's insane 'to be due to Inoney madness and the noise of 'L' trains." Doctor Spitzka says all this talk is nonsense. While admit ting that there are undoubtedly a larg er aumber of cases in insane asylums than ever before, he says this is due to natural causes, the chief cause be lag the factfthat New York city is un bortunately the port of entry for the large part of the immigration to the United States. "If some method could ,be devited," he said, "to get the Euro pean immigrants out into the country, where they could get God's fresh air and have more favorable surrpundings, New York's list of insane cases would materially diminish. There is not the slightest fear that the people of New York are going crazy. As a communi ty we are just as squtd mentally as any people on earth, if we could find a way of preventing the herding of immigrants in the east side section. There are 3,017 more cases in the 14 state insane asylums than can be prop erly cared for. Last year there were f 86,861 commitments In the state, an increase of 927 over the average for the last ten years. A very large part of this increase came from New York city, and more t an 50 per cent. of the commitments from the city were aliens. There is now talk of building two more hospitals for the insane." It may be pleasant to know that beautiful Oxford has more slaughter houses than colleges, and these within a stone's throw of the walks and domes we rave about, but the meaning of those old halls is undoubtedly enhanced by the contrast with the life of the town they adorn, writes William H. Allen, in the Chautauquan. House boats on the Isis •are picturesque, but still more so when we learn of the constant patrol of the Thames from source to water main in London. It'is not exaggerating to of flrm that he enjoys the hedges and cot tages best who can look a'ound the hedges and cottages in rural Britain, with the knowledge that these isolated houses are better protected against in tection whether from within or with out than the palaces which entertained Queen Bess. The clean roads, the great distance between residences and out buildings, the sewage farms and coun try hospitals are part of the great plan which has already realized in Britain benefits of which we are but dreaming. { Electric-Fan Colds. i The reason the "electric fan cold" is so often accompanied by sore throat is, according to Philadelphia phyiscian, that the draught made by the fan car ries so much dust with it. "The fact is," says this authority, "that the air stirred by the fat is not fresh air, unless the fan is backed up against an open'wln dow. Wheq operating in an inside room or in similar places, where it is most appreciated, the tan uses the same air over and over, and this air gathers up and keeps in motion all theavailable dust. People who dQi'tncatch cold are somntimes afted by this dust and show qymptoms either of sore throat or, of nose troubles akin to catarrh. the right way to use a fan is to arrange it with relation to an open window so that s the air with which it is sup plied comes from outside. The Boston Post finds the outlook cheerful. It thinks the w is grow ULg better, not worseo n 4thinking has agood deal todowiththin. Itays: ,'We revereae thgst vrtrtues of our prdecessor, those who founded our re pablic, but to-day there Is less of sect, / and, we believe, more of Christianity. The liberalising spirit has brought men into more generous, more tolbrant rela tions; hands are clasped in good works; selfish or sectional or exclusive benefts an dot encouthad. The millenium is not yet in light, but who shall say that it is not perceptibly nearer? It is a bet ter world than that of our ancestors, t1 world that we live in--bettr, clearer, appier, more full of promise for honest endeavor, more inspiring for advanc& ment along the lines of human peng ress." SMr. Potte'.rCtf of publie safety a Philadcpha, has stopped the sale of chances on a brisk house offered In a rale by the Catholic Chp'ch of the Ascension. He holds that' it is a lot tery. "I look upon the proposed draw Singl" he says, "as gambling, pure and simple. If a church may conduct a lot ter, why may not men write policy or scge in other gambling gamy which are under the ban of the law? There Is no diaerimtnation *i this pa.t.culaR,. instce. I.glnl w top wl uen h lotn. T that Is called to m attention" .inemognition of his services to golence generally 85sd 4 1 the cause of ethnological rbsearh in artucatr, Me emperor of tuis . has apoointed Mor ris K. ,esUP, of New York, the presi dent O the Natural istore museum, a ,~Igh of the Imperi1 Orde - of "t 8T-i;_,l.., ,l , 'of.the irst class. Omola =newtof It toether with S n-.: l sbWetfr~iia E's1 justed prs,, at o 5pt I6~· 539Wltahl0 1TE ,ST HOU3. "Get down on the floor here, daddy, Get dvwn on the floor and play.' And that is the song my baby Bings to me at close of day. "Get down on the floor and tumble, Get down with me, daddy, do; Got down on the floor now, daddy, Me 'ants to sit down on you." I Then overboard goes the paper. ALd down on the floor goes dad; And onto him clambers baby, A.d baby is more than glad; And daddy's a horse and wagon, Or daddy's a ship at sea, And rolls with a little baby As happy as she can be. Yea. rolls with the babe and tumbles, And grumbles, anU haws, and gees, And always a 4fmpledbaby 3 With rounded and dimpled knees SIts perched aloft unfearing, 3 And laughing with childish\glee As the daddy ship goes tossing And tusbhling across the seap And, .oh, but that ship is careful; The waves may foam and curl, B But never the'ship goes plunging Too much for the baby girl. And never the horse gets fractious, 9 Or plunges or jumps aside 1 So much as to mar the pleasure Of the wee little girl astride. - Oh, good is the hour of gloaming, When labor is put aside And daddy becomes a horsey 3 A wee little girl may ride; Oir daddy becomes a plunging Big ship on the stormy seas, - And is guided and captained onward . SBy a baby with dimpled knees. -Houston Post. WHY MOSE QUIT HE round-up had been the most suc cessful in the his tory of the famous Crook L ranch, which nestles be tween the brakes of the lower end of the valley of the Crooked creek in Meade county, i Kan. / Maj. C. P. Ful- l lington stood flick ing the dust from 3 his long top boots and gazing re flectively at the great herd. "I reckonthis is about the last big drive we shall have, Tony," he said to his ranch manager. "I hope not, sir," replied Tony. "If I couldn't have at least 16 sections from which to get my fresh air. I think I'd choke, sir." "Me, too, Tony, but the railroad has made a survey through here within five miles of the ranch, and the feller they call the diversified farmer is breaking up the sod of the short grass country and raisin' crops. It's the cattlemen to the tall timber and 'the farmer to the front, Tony." Soon after their ,conversation the rude breakfast was over, camp was broken and the long drive to the rail road was iesumed. 'Whistling and singiln and shouting to the cattle, the cowboys rode with the herd, glad that the.'green plains still stretched sacrcely broken as far as the eye could reach. Suddenly straight ahead of the herd there appeared a village, apparently five or six miles distant. One would have swotn(!that it was a city built in the clear atmosphere above a beautiful lake. It was an ethereal-Jooking habitation, which stood boldly outlined against the cloudless sky, while the water be neath it glistened and swayed. cease lessly in the bright sunlight. To Mose, the-colored cookL who had recently come to Maj. Fullington from his father's southern plantation, it seemeds to be a section of fairyland. Mcse gazed at the apparition for some time, and the cowboys, noting his evi 4ent uneasiness, began to talk in low tones and cast mysterious gl'ances (in thb direction of the mess wagon driven by the negro. Finally Mose could stand it no ilonger, and, driving close as he could get to Maj. Fullington's wagon, he asked: "Massa Fullington, what am dat town we all are comin' to?" "That town, Mose? Why that is a spook town, that's all." "A spook town, Madsa Fullington. You da adn' mean to tell me dat dat am nat a real, sure 'nough town?" "That's just what I mean, Mose," re plied the major, unconcernedly. Mose rode along for a time in silence, look ing occasionally at the mirage out of the corners of Iris eyes. Finally he asked: "How cum dat am a spook town, Massa Fullington?" "Why, you see, it was this way, Mose. Ages and ages ago all this country was inhabited by a strange and un known race of people. All over west ern Kansas they built beautiful cities and they were very rich and prosper ous. Hundreds of years ago, no man knows when, there came upon the land a terrible deluge. It rained for days arid earthquake followed egrth quake and tornado chased torna do. When it was all over there was not a living thing in all this great country, The people thus destroyed loved their country so well that ever since their death their spirits r~turn ,nd rebuild their towns and cities in the air and hold high jinks until driven back to spirit land." "Good Lord," exclaimed Mose. "Am doat what ,dey am doin' right now in dat spook town?" "You're on, Mose." "What am it dat drives dem away,. Massa Fullington?" "They cause their cities and towns to suddenly disappear as soon as human siks come near them." "Massa Fullington, you am Jokin' me. Dat certainly am a real town." "Now look here, Mose. That town is on yonder hill, is it not? Well, you know very well that we can't see over the hill, and therefore the town must be on top of it. Now we are going to drive the cattle right over that hill, and you keep your eyes on that spook town and see if it don't lade away be- fore we get there." Several of the cowboys had entered into the spirit of the fun and began telling Mose of'the wonderful spooks there were in the plains country. "W7hen pe get within 60 miles of 'town," declared ouiol them, "we will show you a spook railroad train com Ing after you in the air." Mose shiv ered, but said nothing. His eyes were riveted on the spook town, which seemed to himn .to have already begun to fade. "Do you' see, Mose?" asked Maj. Fullington, "the spoolks are cleaniflg house." The colored man's jaw dropped, his flesh went creepy and goose pimply'all over, he could feel his hair rising, and he grew cold as ice. With chattering teeth he asked: "Am we all goin' to drive over dat place, Massa Fulling ton?" "That's what." "M-m-a-a-y-b-e dem spooks be mighty mad if we do dat. I'se power ful opposed to makin' dem angry, Massa Fullington." "These spooks, Mose, don't like any one but colored people, and there are too many of us white folks for them to try to hurt you." As the party drew near the hill the fairy city grew dimmer and dimmer until the bare outlines remained, and, flickering for a moment in the intense light, suddenly disappeared from view. When they had reached the top of the hill Mose was in a pitiable state of fright, being unable to stand oru to speak. During the remainder of the day he remained silent, preparing the "grub" and serving it without com ment, but furtively scanning the hori zon for more spook towns. Late in the afternoon Maj. Fullington heard a piercing scream, and, turning, he saw Mose standing up in his wagon, his body rigid,- his right arm extended heavenward. Gazing, in the direction of the extended arm, tSe men saw a railroad train with smoke flying from the stack and apparently doing .50 miles an four in mid air. Not a sound could be heard, but there it Was, and the "blow-off" of the huge iron monster could be as plainly discerned as though it were standing right be fore them. "There's the spook train, Mose," de clared one of the cowboys. "It's taking your friends from that spook town back to spirit land." Maj. Fullington, believing that it was high time to allay the fright of his colored servant, was about to explain that the spook train was in fact a real passenger train, which by a scientific refractionary freak, was sometimes mirrored in the air where it could be plainly seen by people more than 60 miles from the point where ithe train really was at the time of the mirage. His explanation started too late, for Mose had fallen in a dead faint, and FURTIVELY SCANNING THE HORI ZON FOR MORE "SPOOK TOWNS. the boys were busy reviving hini The following day Mose was apparf.gtly feeling all right, having fully recov ered from the shock of his fright. AC cording to the plan Mose was to drive the wagon Back to the Crooked L alone, the major and the cowboys re maining over the rest of the day to attend to the shipping. Shortly before the time arrived for the colored man to start he sought Maj. Fullington. "I'se dun worked for, old Massa Ful lington for many years," -he began, "and I reckoned to wolk for you all for long time,'but I's goin' to quit I right now." "What's the matter, Mose, aren't you satisfied?" ,'Massa Fullington, did you expect me to drive over dem plains- all by mysolf?" "Certainly, why not?" "I wouldn't do it for de world, Massa Fullington, has you d(un stopped to think dat I might camp right on one of dem spook towns?" Argument proved unavailing, and the Crooked L ranch lost the best cook it ever had.-Chicago Record-Herald. MONTANA'S BIG TROUT. The Great Twelve-Pounder Senator Biggs Caught with a Five and One-Half Ounce Rod. Frozen inside a cake of ice, there is on exhibition here one of the finest trout ever landed In Montana, says a Helena (Mont.) correspondent of the New York Sun. It was caught by former Senator William Biggs, and weighs slightly more than 12 pounds It was caught in the Big Blackfoot river near Bonner. It took more than t 20 minutes to tire the fish out so that 1 .a landing net could be placed around it, and the lucky angler complains I that for two days his arm was tired I as the result of the long-drawn-otu I tussle. Just back of the cake of ice stan( i the rod, reel, line and hook whict t proved the undoing of the fish. They seem out of all proportion, as the rod weighs only.five and a half ounces, the reel is an ordinary affair, the line a deceptive silk thread, and the hook is · minnow size. 1 In addition to the 12 pounder, the senator landed eight and four pound ers. Bonner is beyond doubt the banner Sfish center of Montana this year, as u two other beauties, weighing eight and r ten pounds, were caught in that vi. t cinity during May. Reports are slow > in reaching Helena from the numer ous parties which have gone overland e to the Big Blackfoot-central Mon tana's favorite stream-but judging from results further down, it will I yield its customary amount. a This has been an unusually good a year for anglers in Montana, owing in part to the fact that: the waters are f lower than in other yiears because bi I the light snowfall during the winter. VALUE Of ACCURACY THE LACK OF IT ACCOUNTS FOR MANY FAILURES. SIncorrect Spelling Among College Pro1 fessors-Why the Cook, the Ama , teur Photographer and the Club Woman Sometimes Fail-D. . John son's Accuracy-"'Brlliant Brig andage" Preferable to "Incompe tent Integrity." BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER. (Editorial Writer, the Youth's Companion.) (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.) A young negro recently addressed a convention in behalf of his people. , He had a most interesting face, and a win ning manner; and the audience of ex e perts listened with high expectation. r One by one, howevpr, they settled back in their seats, irritation showed on some faces, boredom on others. What was the matter? The speaker had lost e none of his eloquence, none of his in f gratiating air; but he had begun or Dfacts, scarcely one of which was ac curately stated. His assertions were e colored doubtless by his feelings, his racial prejudices; nevertheless he dam aged-his cause by his inexactness. e "Was he not like many of ybur stu a dents?" asked a congressman after a ward, turning to a Harvard dean, s "Indeed, yes!" came the instant re a sponse. "Accuracy is so out of fash a ion that it is next to impossible to find a a youth who can copy a list of printed n names without misspelling. We have 0 boys who cannot spell, men who can a not spell, teachers of English who can ;, not spell, college professors who can n not spell and who have a mean opin d ion of spelling! One by one I warn them, as George Eliot warned her heroine: 'You are very accomplished, very brilliant, but you have not said g to yourself, I must understand this ex n actly, I must do this exactly, I must go like a watch-true, true, true!' " s Here is a simple test. Ta_ some 20 s lines of poetry which you' know by n heart, and after writing them down Ll compare your version with a printed c copy. Not one in a hundred persons s can pass that test successfully. There e will be deviations slight, perhaps, but 0 astonishingly numerous. a Wordsworth was much excited one day at hearing that he had written a r poem on a daisy. "No," he said, "it was the daisy-a very different thing." There was a difference. His friend Coleridge continually shifted from one side of the walk to the other. He seemed unable to keep in a straight line. Some one said of hjm that his mind was a labyrinth without a clue, in which was stored up a vast amount of knowledge that could never be found and which was of no use to any one. S S S S S. Why is it that the stories of tun nels begun at' opposite sides of a mountain, the workmen meeting in the middle to an inch, create'such aston ishment in the reader? Is it not the consciousness of his own vague ten dencies of word and thought, his own loose approximation of manual re sults? A modern architect actually builds his bridge or skyscraper in his office, marking the place of every least rivet., He figures on weights and dis tances and measurements beforehand, realizing that without absolute accu racy his bridge or his building will not stand. Fancy the worth of astronom ical calculations which ignore the small figures or of a bank ledger in which the small decimal is ignored! "'ub some sugar and butter to a creatn, add sufficient flour and baking powder,- thin to the proper consistency with milk, and flavor to taste." So reads many a neighborhood recipe. That the cake ever came out well was because the maker knew her ingredi ents accurately by eye if not by word. Look through -albums of amateur pho tographs and see how many are fad ing. Why? Because the photographer would not follow his directions .ex actly. Many a woman's club not only' does not leave its members where it found them, but it carries them into an an certain knowledge that is worse than ignorance. To know one thing ac curately is the backbone of culture. Most persons' opinions, too, might well "be arrested on a charge of vag rancy4 having no visible means of sup port." What a relief, on the contrary, what a feeling of confidence, to read a recent book by Dr. Stanley Hall, w~erein a footnote proves that a casu al phrase is buttressed by some 1,728 experimental tests! Sir Joshua Reynolds once asked Dr. Johnson by what means he had at tained his extraordinary accuracy and flow of language. Johnson replied that he had early laid it down ps a fixed rule to do his best on every occasion, and to tell whatever he had to impart in the most forceful language he could use; and that by constant practice and never suffering any careless e!p es sions to escape him, or attempting to deliver hip thoughts without arranging them in the clearest manner, accuracy had become habitual with him. "Nay, madam," he once said reprov ingly to Mrs. Thrale, "when you are declaiming, declaim, but when you are calculating, calculate." Boswell iron Ically said of the same lady, "I gladly geize this opportunity of acknowledg ing that however often. Mrs. Thrale is not always inaccurate." * One of our distinguished statesmen was as a boy taken to call on Rufus * Choate, the father asking the great lawyer ,o give some word of advice to his son. The distinguished man re :lied, kindly: "Be accurate, my boy; accurate and holiest, and love your books." Whatever success thd states man has had he attributes to a since:e endeavor to follow that motto. Choate's accuracy marked every de tail of his life, and he had no sym pathy with botch and inexactness in any form. A client once brought him a deed of land wherein a boundary line was marked by two stones and a-sap ling. "One might as well have defined it cs starting from a blue jay;" the lawyer exclaime4,i"running thence to a swarm of bees, and thence to 500 'oxes with fireprands tied to their tails.' The reader smiles at the simile, rec ogelsing its truth; but it has a wider appllcatfon than even Mr. Choato i &I tended. The young negro with his per verted statements; the youth who can not copy a list of words correctly or quote familiar poetry word for word; the pho grapher or cook who mixes Ingredihnts by rule of thumb, the club woman who relies on her imagination for her facts and on her memory for her theories; the world of people who .are satisfied with "pretty near" or "almost" or "that will pass," who have never learned to go like a watch--true, true, true-these may one day realize that habits of in accuracy are veritable firebrands, de stroying the fair palaces of a happy and successful life. Now right side and wrong side lie so close together, that even a plea for a certain virtue may wPl j contain a warning against it. There is n- great er bore on earth than the stickler for unimaginative exactitude. It is as o$ ppsed to wholesonde accuracy as the "push" on one side of the door is to "pull" on the other. "As I went down Forty-fourth street this morning," you begin "It must have been Forty-third street," interrupts the accurate bore, "for Forty-fourth street was closed to traffic yesterday." "Very likely it was Forty-third street," I resume patiently. "I saw Franklin coming out of his club. and called-" "It could not have-been his club, for he belongs only to the University. which is up by the park." "Some friend's cluP, then," you say, testily; "and I called 'to him-" "But there is not any clubhouse o04 Forty-third street, I know every house there-" Who of us does not recognize that kind of conversational pinprick? A more picturesque illustration late ly came from Germany. An American manufacturer had sent thither 10,010 show cards in which his agricultural machines were drawn by tigers, driven by nu airily attired goddess of liberty. The local agent returned the cards with the criticism that in Germany tigers, were neither available no? adapted for draft purposes, nor could such women as work in the fields af ford to dress a .seems to be the fash ion in wonderful America! DOG GOES TO qCIOOL. This Canine Has Not Been Absent us Tardy in the Seven Years of His Attendance. In Brockton, Mass., the home of W. L. DougJas, the governor of the state, there is a bulldog that has been a regu lar attendant at school, with no absent t or.tardy marks, for seven years. He is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Horace Niles, b and went to school first with their sonw Ralph. The boy went into the first grade in the primary department, and the dog insisted on going with him. Like i Mary's little lamb, he made the A children laugh and play, but the teach- d er could not turn him out. He abso- s lutely refused, to go away, and, as he f did nothing but sit quietly by his litlle master, she did not take strenuous t, methods to get rid of him. The chil dren soon became used to him, and no longer laughted when he was in the room, until finally he was enrolled as a d regular' pupil and his attendance re- d corded the same as that of any boy or d girl. d After a time he was often used as an example of obedience to the pupils, s for the teacher never had to speak to t] him but once, whether it was an order t to go and lie down or close the door. without his obeying instantly. He also served as a model for the drawing classes. He took kindly to the fire drill, and all through his seven years' course he has been in his place in the line the second *the fire alarm bell rings, and he files decorously out with the other pupils. After a year in the primary depart ment, he thought he had become too advanced for such baby methods, and promoted himself into the grammar departinent, where Rita Niles, Ralph e Niles' sister, was. He has accompa nied her from room to" room ever since, until now he has reached the last a grade, and will graduate this June. Already he has made a trip to the high e school to see how he likes it, and will I have-a place there as soon as he gets his diploma from the Winthrop school. t Sickness does not keep him at home, b and, unlike most boys and girls, he C does not have to be hurried to school d to escape being tardy. He trots out of the yard 15 minutes before school time every day, an Is in his place when the bell rings. A few weeks ago he-was ill, and Mrs. Niles tied him up at home. I But he broke away and went to school, 9 although he' was so weak he could hardly stand, and thus kept up his re ord of no absences. Both principal and teachers of the school are deeply attached to him, and t will miss him sorely when he gradu- C ates.-N. Y. Tribune. An Old Physician. - Dr. Alonzo. Garcelon, ex-governor of t Maine, celebrated his ninety-second a birthday recently. He, still practices t among his patients of Lewiston and Auburn, driving his fast Morgan mare Kitty with firm and unerring hand. Straight* as a ybung sapling of his na tive pine tree state, this wonderful old-school democrat at first sight would pass for a man 30 years his junior. Harmless. Bell-Did that anonymous not6 wor ry;you? Nell--Oh, no; it was from Jack. He always writes them when we have a falling out! THE WEONt PORT. Mrs. Smith-Had your daughter a pleasant voyage? Mrs. Newrich-Yes, but they must , have had an accident. She wroteshe landed on Terra Firms, and I know the -at was bound for LiverpooL-Toledo Brlade. CUTS 'INTO THE O Modern Surgery Accomplshes .hat Was Fokmeriy Deemed Impossible. a Modern surgery's great achievements 1 have been in the abdominal region. For tj a generation ago fear of blood-poison- p ing kept the surgeon out of this terri- l tory. Here disease intrenched itself and bid the surgeon defiance, says Les- j lie's Magazine. But now the surgeon in- t trepidly enters disease's former strong hold, routs it, and in so doing performs t life-saving feats with the organs that seem absolute miracles to the onlook ing world. Take the stomach. If it is too large 3 the surgeon enfolds a portion of.-the I wall and sutures (stitches) the edges; if a part of it is diseased, say with can- t cer, he cuts it out, sutures the edges, and. I if necessary, cuts a new opening for the t head of the, small intestine and sutures 1 it into place; .if the esophagus is ob. structed so that food cannot be taken a naturally a tube is inserted through the I abdominal wall into the stomach, and t when the man is hungry he merely drops I Sa premasticated meal into the tube; or; (i in case a cancerous area be so large as to demand Such a Severe operation, the a surgeon may remove the entire stom- t I ach and suture the esophagus tt the i duodenum. S Contrast this last operation with the c working principle of the '70's, that to enter the stomach is death, and you see c how far surgery hsas traveled in a gen- s eration. This last operation is, of d course, rarely performed even now, but t there are to-day a few stomachless per- t I sons in the world (one returned to -work c within two months after the operation), attending to their regular duties, tak- U ing a special diet, and apparently just I as happy as if thcir stomachs were not t in jars on laboratory shelves. COULDN'T COMMIT SUICIDE Bottle Was Marked Poison, But the Darky Suspected It Was All Bight. There was a man in Atlanta who once suspected a colored man in his employ f of tampering with the contents of his wine cellar, especially with a certain c brand of fine whisky. The employer de cided to adopt measures to verify his suspicions, writes Woman's Home Com panion. "He allowed the demijohn hold ing his "private stock" to become empty; then, instead of refilling it, he placed his pet brand in bottles, labeling each one "poison." 4 One evening, on returning home unex pectedly, he caught his Servant in "fla grante delicto." Seizingthe bottle from the darky's hand, the Atlanta man ex claimed, in a tone of horror: "Great heavens, Sam! do you know $vhat you C r have been doing? This bottle is marked ' 'poison!'" The negro took the bottle and sur yeyqd it closely. Then he sniffed at it. t A melancholy- smile flitted over his dusky countenance. "'Tain't pizen, - sah,' iesaid, dejectedly. "Ise been I fooled ag'i'." "Fooled again." -epepted the mas 5 ter, indignantly. "What do you mean?" S- "Well, sah," continued the darky, in I 9 the same tone of depression, "it am a dis way. I knowed from de fust, from de way you acted 'bout dat demijohn, r dat you had yo' suspishuns ob me; an' dat sho' made me feel pretty. blue. I n got distressed, an' didn't care. Why; sah, fo' mos' two weeks now Ise been 3 tryin' to commit suicide outer dat bot rtie." JEWELS OF VAST ANTIQUITY Discoveries of Earliest Examples in the Ancient Temples of Persia. Rema~rkable discoveries have been made in'the ruins of the temples ',t Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, where marvels of jewelry have been brought to rght, the earliest examples ever known f that country. The Jewels of gold and silver` are the first of those countries and those ages which have come down to the present day. In this they present a great interest. Unfortunately, it is not possible to assign a precise date to each of them. As the cylinders and the seals which form a part of the finds belong to all periods from the fortieth or fiftieth century B. C. down to the date of foundation, so it is with-the jewels. There are some of every age. The rings of filigree work and the scepter with the lion's head -seem to be more recent than the statuettes of gold and silver,,which have a frankly archaic appearance, but one cannot be sure of this appreciation. Have the discoverers not been surprised by find ing rings which, if- their origin had hot been, certain, would be attributed by the most acute connoisseurs to h.e Greek or Etruscan epochs? Before the discoveries at Dashur nothing was known of the Egyptian jewelry. The opening of the tombs of the princes of the twelfth' dynasty was a revelation. It is the same now as regards Elam. How It Happened. The goddess of liberty dreamed- one night That the grafters were trying to toll her knell. 'They shan't!" she screamed; as she woke in a fright. And she put a crack in the liberty bell. -Chicago Tribune. Meaning of a Mexican Word. The word "pec," found in so many lexican names, means hilt. Chapul :epecmeans grasshopper hill; Ocotepec, pitch pine hill, and so forth. It is an Aztec word and its use is almost en tirely confined to that part of the Mex ican republic that was once ruled by Montezuma. Huge Painting Finished.1 One of the largest pictures ever ?ainted has been completed by a French artist after eight years' labor. The subject is the funeral of M. "arnot, and the canvas measures 150 square yards. No Profanity, Even at Home. The tbwn of Torquay, England, has tdopted a by-law to prohibit people from using bad language even in their )wu houses. The opinion Is makingintekeal !n Germany that children shauld obh ged to study out of school. Prof. E. B. Spencer, who feorte ~ I 11 years has been instructor in Latin the University of Denver, will take th presidency of the Methodist college0 Rome. President Edward A. Alderman, of h0 University of Virginia, has just ree#l'e the degree of LLJ D. from Yale. T1hour but 46 years old he now has seven :of' these degrees. The largest Dante library in thi world is that of Leonidas Leoneil.li i Udine, Italy. It comprises more than 3,000 publications in all languages r~i, lating to the poet. Intelligence has been received at Yale that the governor of the province .:of Hunan, China, has given permissionifo6 the establishment of the new Yale.ol lege at Chengsha in that province. Mrs. David Murray, of New Bru.ai wick, N. J., has presented Johns Hop.-: kins university with a valuable collet: tion of books and relies illustrating the history and institutions of Japan, ee1 Lected by the late Prof. David Murray,. : The oldest university in the worl4A lt at Peking. It is called the "School fpiti the Sons of the Empire." Its antiqu6ityi is very great, and a granite register, ck sisting of stone columns, 320 in number, contains the names of 60,000 graduates, Prof. George T. Ladd, of Yale, at the close of the Japanese-Russian war, wiilH' go to Japan for a term of two years .ina der the auspices of the Imperial Edu.a tional society of that country to aid fiA the development of the system of edu.m cation. Schuyler F. Herron, who has been superintendent of public schools In Northampton, Mass.,' has been called to the position 4f superintendent of the'r American School issociation of thi City of Mexico. There ame about 8,000 American and British residents in the: English-speaking colony, and this asIZ ciation has charge of the education of the children. ODD OCC ..RRf.c An ingenious Greene county (M;. farmer has rigged his farm wasg~ up with a gasoline motor and runs ntix Sprizgfield several times ~ week ai=~t style. The judges at a Nevada (Mt) baby" show last week gave every ehalmt a prize. As the motsers of .tbe Ie$ were all there they-l'n't dare do otherwise. A Mexican and fug-bod Pawie ftn. dian were married lntihe yFroe" ourt at Pawnee, Kan., the othe day e er understgod the langu~a of the nth er. Night\Marshal Wriston cted a, interpreter for tlhe ,~iaic and i court attache tr.nsl .tteib ?wne' responses into ng.ii. Richard William e waW paned to the ground by'" arg e bowlder at the Llanberis' quarr, Wa"4%on June 17. When liE comrads mettd the rock from his mangled t. ~, he said~ "Lads; sing 'O, God, .eire Peace.' " They an as the him to a hospital,. re h died. Last year "an Engli spend his holidays, at take Windermeir bought for $25 a ol gr 2ther's clock that he had f n a cittn" It was damaged in transit, and the owner let the exr esg keep it in payment of - "T si t p has Just sold it for ,0. ELEVATOR WAN1MR. Don't block t doorway. Oth? people want to get out. Sing out before s ta o gettou foot, so the boy won't h.ai to re.veri ~ ir machine for yOwt If yori want to rega0 t a of mind, keep yoea hat on whet a the other men in the lift have the off. Take off your hat in leau of at ancient lady, for a prettyl g is' arýe to step in next, and thehow bCS * rous you will feel. Don't gouge, don't psh, dcm't and, say mean thing.:, If o to being shoved up 4eIfStY k$r to take the stairway. Bussiai Play-GoesS, The war has had very little effect on the attendance in the tBealt 4t Petersburg. CHANGED HUSBANDI. Wife Made Wise phang a lout Change of diet a the- 0* w' Ia really cure stomach-'an bowel- trble A woman says: . "My husband hadi dyspepsia whyi we were married and had s ':ere from it for severai-e5~ar. It was. al: most impossible to fand a.ything he could eat without bad -results. "I thlught this was ~rgely due: te the use of coffee and perad e him to discontinue it, He did so, as* b.: galn to drink Postui Foed .Cotffee _ change did him good from thote l*b . ning, his digestion imprived; tie .*; fered much less from his;f nervou , and when he added Gra*I-Natt fpoo to his diet he was soon enti eagp red '"My friend, Mirs.- -"-, .r-:. burg (my former home), had baeo* . nervous wreck also from dY popeia, Medicines had no effect, neither dId travel help her. On y last"t $ ;l home, some months ago, I pe..rd.. her to use Grape-Nuts foqd. She woa in despair, and consentedb She stuek to it until it restored her hea*d= ls completely that she is now thea Pet enthusiastic friend ,of Gra eN~ t t I ever knew. She eats it with .ereMA or dry, just as it comes from the track age-keeps it in her room and eats it whenever she feels like it. "I began eating Grape-Nut food, myself,. when my baby was" two months old, and I don't know what .I should have done without it. MI' ap petite was gone, I was weak and. ery. ous and afforded but very little noup ishment for the child. The Graper Nuts food, of which I soon grew V fond, speedily set all this right 4a and the baby grew healthful, rosy beautiful as a mother could ·lsh. R is two years old now and eats Gra Nuts food himself. I with eyer~ tip young mother knew of the 'go tAi Grape Nuts would do her.'" Names given by Posttum °Li Creek, Mih... There's a ra'