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GET ONE AND GET BUSY.
Geniuses Who Wot
Sonic folks work as hnrd while they
uro asleep as they do while awake.
In Rome cases It Is recorded that
thinps which could not be rerollecteil
during the hours of the day came eas?
ily to the min din a dream. Other
cases are known where men have
goju> "throughout a day unable to reach
a decision upon a matter end when
they sank Into slumber they dreamt
the facta over anil came to a final
conclusion In their sleep.
It is no uncommon thing to have
business1 men confes? this haWt of
workfng while they ?lumber In tha:
phrase: "Well, I'll sleep over It."
Sometimes remarkable intellectual
feats nre accomplished during the
Bleeping hours. Take, for instance,
the crtse of Robert Louis Stevenson.
From his early childhood Stevenson
?was- a dreamer, and his dreams were
borrlble. Later in life he began tp
dream of Journeys wherein he would
see strange towns. In the next phase
he could read in bis sleep, and such
wonderful books that never afterward
was he content with ordinary litera?
ture. Lastlty, he beg.ni to dream In
sequence, and he would continue the
drctiBi from the pine, where he left
off the previous night.
It is admitted thai Stevenson dream?
ed the window sc? in; In "Jekyll and
Hyde." and some of his fr|pnda are
pure that the central theme of the
strange hook came to the author while
A Man With 3:
A New York contributor to the
February American Magazine saya,
"See how a poor man in the metro?
polis may stumble upon riches," and
then he tolls the following story: ?
"Four of us who five B,t the north?
ern end of Manhattan Island went out
for a walk. One of the four suggest
cd that we take a public road which
passes through the estate of Mr. So
and-So. When we had admired the
rich, uinu's house frotii afar, we foi
lowed the public highway until wo
came to Mr. So-andSo's stable. An
obi man came out and we engaged
iiiiu In conversation, visitors wore
freely admitted, he told us. So we
wont In.
''First wo saw the slalls for the
horses, and all the conveniences for
keeping the animals clean and com?
fortable. As I passed through the
corridor;; I noticed that a heating
system had been installed in order
(hat the temperature might be kept
even. In (ho harness room I saw
ked While Asleep
he wns asleep.
A pupil of Prof, von Swinden In Am?
sterdam solved n difficult problem In
his sleep, after the professor and ten
of the brightest students in the class
had worked for ?lnys In the effort to
to Und the answer.
Marquis de Condorcet, the famous
French mathematician, solved a prob?
lem in Integral calculus while he was
asleep, although the matter had |Ur.;
tried him for days. He did not write
the answer and process- down aa von |
Swindell's pupil had done. b-it he re?
membered the solution that came to
his dream, and put it on paper as soon
as he awoke.
Cabailis, the eminent French physi?
cian, says that Franklin told llihl, dur?
ing one of hia-political missions to
Paris, Hint over and over again he
had gene to bed 'fiu7.zlod by political
events which iMCanie quite clear to
him during his sleep.
Ilnnte is said to have dreamed "The
Divine Comedy," or at least the plot
and characters, and some .part of the
details. This vision appeared to him
when he was only nine years old. ac?
cording to some of the stories, while,
us others tell it. the dream came to an?
other child during a trance which
cnme with a long Illness. "N
Voltaire composed the flmt canto of
the "Henriado" while he was asleep.
"Ideas occiirrciLto me." he sa'ys, "In
spite of myself, and In. which I had
no part whatever."
silver trappings and an interesting
collection of photographs of famous
horses. Some of the horses in this
very [-table. I was told, had wonder?
ful records on the race track.
"Sn fur all was Interesting, but
nothing impressed me as unnatural.
"I!ul now we passed through u
long hall and into a great room which
served as Mr. So-and-So's private
garage. And as wo passed along, our
aged guide became mure communica?
tive. Here were all sorts of automo?
biler, including a variety of racing
machines. The room must.have been
a hundred feet long. In the ceiling
were huge trap (Joors, twenty feet
Ktpinro, through a (ravelling crane.
Tills appliance was for lifting, mov?
ing and testing the various machines.
One enr, of special make, vv*s I he
largest automobile I ever saw. As
I stood In front of IL and close to
It, I was reminded of the first ocean?
going lug 1 ever saw, and of how
much bigger it seemed to me than
the lake tugs Id which, aa a l>oy, I
hn<| "beon accustomed.
" 'Arc these all automobiles belong?
ing to Mr. So-antlSo?' l ashed.
" 'Yes. but seven of them are not
here.' said the old man. "Seven mn
rhinos and able homes are down at
the hotel.'
" 'Well, bow many automobiles does
Mr. Sn-and-So require for his private
use?' I asked.
"?lie has thirty-two,' said the old
man.
And then It all came out. Mr. So
nnd-So has thirty-two automobiles. He
has seven chauffeurs?one for him?
self, one for his wife, otic for Iiis
daughter, one for bis son, one for his
steward, hue for his housekeeper and
one for his. superintendent. in the
basement of the stable Is a large^ re-,
pair shop, where three machinists*are
continually at wiiii,' repairing those
automobiles. At present Mr. Sound
So Is not inhabiting the house which
my friends and I had been looking
at. lie Is at one of the great hotels
In NOW Yoik, where he pays $40,000
a year for bis apartments. Hut be
has been there only n few weeks.
And be Isn't going to remain but a
few weeks longer. Although be pays
for his apartment by the year, he is
going to Europe in Iiis private yacht
for an indefinite stay."
FUNNY BASEBALL ME
Selections Maria With Nation?
ality and Size as the
Stanriarris.
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I One has only to glance over the
names of the players in the American
Baseball League to see that basoball
Is the gamo of the masses. Kvory
nationality may he found among the
men playing the great national game.
The Irish, of course, predominate, fol?
lowed closely by the Rennaus and
then the Welsh. The negro has nev
i i' been able to break into profes?
sional baseball. Ttuhe Foster, a color
?d pitcher of the Iceland (Hants of
Chicago, is. a left-hander the oipiul of
Plank, white or Waddoll. If the color
line didn't bar him he would be one
of the stars' of the big league.
In glancing over the line-tips of the
different teams the writer has se?
lected the following six: The all-Ger?
man, the all ?Irish, the all-Welsh, the
mixed team, the midget team and the
slants. Any one of the rix teams
looks good and would be alilo to hold
its own lu either of the Kg leagues,
but tlie Irish aggregation appears to
have a little on the other five. The
giant, team would nverage nhont six
feot, while the midgets would fall at
leant six inches short of thai mark.
Hero they are:
Tho all-Irish team?Catcher. Sulll-'
van; pitcher, Donovan; short stop,
O'Le?ry; first base, Donahue; second
boss. Murphy; third base, Collins;
left field, Dougherty; center Held,
Conroy; right field, Congnlton.
The all-German loam?Catcher.
Schmidt; pitcher, Alt rock; short stop,
Turner; first base. Stahl: second base.
Schncfer; third has-o. Yenger; left
Held, Tlartsel; center Held. Hahn;
right field, Filch.
The all-Welsh t<am? Catcher. Ira
Thomas; pitcher. Cy Morgan; short
slop. George Davis; first base, Hurry
j Davis; second base. Tom Jones) third
I base, Jimmy Williams; left Held. Da?
vy .Tones-; center field. Charley Jones;
right Held, Fielder .lope.-.
Thp mixed team?Catcher, Clarke.
Indian; I'ltcher. Dilly, Hebrew; short
stop. Wallace, Scot: fust base, Chase.
American; second base. Lnjole.
French; third base, Coughlln, Irish;
left field, Hiuchmfln, German; center
Held, Charley Jones. Welsh; right
field. Anderson. Swede.
Tho midget team?Catcher Ste?
phens, St. Louis; pitcher, Jimmy Dy
gert. Athletics; short, slop. Nill.
Cleveland; first base. Harry Bemis,
I Cleveland; second base, O'l.eary, Do
trolt; third base, Slitpkc, Washington;
jleft field. Hartsel, Athletics; center
field. Hahn, Chicago; right field.
Kceler, New York.
j The giant team?Catcher, Wake
field. Cleveland; pitcher'. Falken berg,
i Washington; s-hnrt stoiv Altl/.er.
J Washington; first base. .lake Stahl.
Now York: second base. I shell, Chl
Icago; third base, Bradley, Cleveland;
left field. Pickering. Washington;
center Held. Crawford, Detroit: right
field. Seybold. Athletics.
A YEAR OF SHIPBUILDING.
The record of 1907 In the launching
? of new merchant Hblpn, as- reported
by Lloyd's Register," Is noteworthy
In several respects. One. perhaps the
most obvious, is the decline in Great
Britain's proportionate ami acltml
amount of new tonnage. Thus in
i 1907 the merchant i-hips launched in
the United Kingdom aggregated only
1,(107.8110 tons, against l,828,:<4ii tons
In 1906, while those of the rest of the
world aggregated 1,170,198 in 1907,
against only 1,091,420 in 1006. Thus,
while in 1906 (he rest of the world
produced loss than fill per cent, as
much as the United Kingdom. In K'<?7
it produced nearly 7:; per cent, as
much inure than one-half of tho new
shipping of the world, but the mark?
ed decline of the last year in her pr )
pOrtion will not escape attention.
The second point Is that the Unit?
ed States was a gooil second to the
United Kingdom In shipbuilding last
year. We have heard much Iii reci lit
years about the expanslot^of German
commerce and about the amoiin! pf
shipbuilding as -.veil as ship purchas?
ing which Germany is doing, r.nt the
Uli I tod States lust year greatly sur
.... - \^kM i ,
passed tlmt empire Germany launch-1
?'d only 876,000 tons and purchased
from ?rc?t Britain 44,000 tour a to?
tal addition to her morcnntllo llooi of
339,000 tonn. But tho United States
launched 476,000 tons, it is true that
more than half of our tonnage?2.">7.
000 tons?must be credited to the
Oreat Lakes. Yet the oceangoing out?
put put of our shipyards alone was not
much behind that of (lermnny ami
was far ahead of that of any olh -i
nation.
Technical and professional mthreat
will be attracted to the third point ~
namely, that of turbine construction
during the year. The two gtini Cun
arders, the l.usltnnla and Mauretanln
must be credited to 1900. Hut with?
out them last year Great Britain
launched ten turbine steamers with
an aggregate of 38,003 Ions "md of
front 18 to 22 knots speed. The tur?
bine may therefore pretty cnnllden'ly
be accepted as n device which has
"route to stay," though It would be
rash to assume Hint it will sooc if
ever entirely displace reciprocating
engines. The process of displacing
sails with steam goes on, however
at an increasing pace. Last year the
steam marine of the world was in?
creased by 2,164,800 tons, while tin
sailing marine wag decreased by ISO,?
000 tons. Siicli processes If continued
must In llnie practically banish sail?
ing craft from the seas. Hut it is
by no means certain that they will
be continued to that end. The In?
creasing cost of fuel may Lrjforo long
cnusc a reaction in favor of the mo?
tive power which natuse provides
without cost and Inexhaustibly, and
the future may largely belong, for
transportation which admits of mod?
erate speed, to sailing vessels with
just ?ufllcleni auxiliary mechanical
power lo serve in lbe emergency of
calms or contrary winds.--New York
Tribune.
In a Woman's Club.
'There is a motion l>efore the bouse,"
says Madam President, holding the
gavel so that her ritigs come into tbo
foreground. "What is your wish re?
garding It?"
".Madam President," begins tlie new
member, rising with a Mutter.
".Mrs. Justine," recognizes the presi?
dent.
"I move flint the motion be carried."
?Chicago Post.
Whero It Hit? Him.
"Ciibbison says It costs him n quar?
ter every time ho goes to church."
"I have uever seen him contribute a
rent."
"He has to get his trousers pressed."
.-Harper's Weekly.
He runs heavily who Is forced to
run.?nnnish Proverb._
House Afient (to young married cou?
ple house biintlngi-Tlie place does not
luck interest. Two former tenants
were drowned In this moat.?Punch.
THE WATERMELON.
Africa I? the Original Horns of This
Luscious Fruit.
The humorists always associate Hie
African with the watermelon, assum?
ing Hint the Inato of the colored man
for his favorite dainty arises from tila
life In the southern stales, where the
melon vine grows lllto a weed.
As a fact. Ilpwcvcr, the African tnste
lor tin' watermelon ts hereditary. The
vine Is a native of Africa, whore It In
found Wild I" Hie great central plains
of the continent, and has also been
cultivated fur many ngoH.
In Egypt the melons grown along the
Nile rival those of southeastern Mis?
souri.
The melons mentioned by the Israel?
ites ns being among the good things
they had In Egypt were undoubtedly
watermelons, for In the wall paintings
about the time of the exodus the melon
vine is represented) and In one case a
long procession of slaves is depleted,
each bearing on bis shoulder a huge
dark green watermelon.
Botanists say that varieties of the
melon are found In southern Asia, HUtl
some even claim Hint the plant growH
wild in central anil South Africa, but
Africa Is no doubt the original home
of the melon, nml in his preference
over every other kind of vegetable or
fruit the African merely displays a
taste Hint tins become Qxed In Ills race
by thousands of years of Indulgence,
for in central Africa ripe watermelons
are to be had every month in the year.
I?Detroit News-Tribune.
A frlore Painting".
She?Why. no. The stolen Gains?
borough was not n hnt-it was a pic?
ture. Her Husband?Ob, i thought
i from the value that it wns a hat.?
I S*own and Country.
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StriUo lrom mankind the principle
i?f fnltb and men would have no more
history than a flock of sheep.?Lytton.
I Never was good work done without
much trouble.?Chinese Proverb.
1 Worse.
I "At least the audience dhpYt hiss,"
remarked the playwright after the un
? successful Oral night.
I "No." replied the manager sadly:
I "they were too sleepy."?Llppiucott's
. Magazine.
Safo.
I Eloper (Id a loud whisper!?Aro you
sore the rope Indder Is (Irmly nt
( tached7 Elopcress ?Oh. yes. I won't
' fall. Papa and mummii are at the top
holding It?Cleveland Eeader.
I It may be the census Idea that a
woman who Is merely the mother of a
family has no occupntion. but the Job
keeps her pretty busy just the same.?
APPEARING OLD
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mcnt. ?
You cannot nfford to grow old.
In IhoHo days of stronuoun competition :'i
It In necessary to maintain, aa Ions as'?1
poaslbln ones youthful appearance.
U la Imposalblo to do this without re* j
talnlng* a luxurious growth of hair.
Tho presence of Dandruff Indlcutos tin
prcsonco of a burrowing germ which
liven And thrives on tho roots of thsr.
hair until It calicos total 'baldneb:>
Nowhro'n HorploMo In tho only known
destroyer of this pest, and it la aa effee?
tlvo aa It la delightful to uaa
Herplcldo mnltcs nn elegant hair dr?8S
Intr as woU aa Dandruff euro.
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