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SPREAD OF MALADY.
PNEUMONIA VICTIMS INCREASE
,r .. IN NUKBER YEARLY.
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Medical Authorities Putting Forth
f&w Their Best Efforts to Check
Inroads of the Fell
Disease.
.- The commission which was appointed
last year by the New York board OH
health to study pneumonia and whose
preliminary report has just been sum
marized by the press, is composed of
inen of high professional rank, says the
New York Tribune. Yet the problems
involved in the inquiry are so serious
that there is no danger of securing too
exalted a grade of talent for their solu
tion. The disease which the commis
sion has been considering has risen into
peculiar prominence of late. AC one
time consumption caused more deaths
than any other malady and pneumonia
ranked second as a cause of morality.
Within the last ten or fifteen years the
two have exchanged places in some parts
of the United States, if not in the me
tropolis. Consumption, as a result of
the adoption of more enlightened meth
ods of prevention and treatment, works
a little less havoc now than formerly.
Pneumonia, on the other hand, finds a
greater number of victims in proportion
to the population. There is ground for
the belief that grip has contribute'!
materially to this result because it is
often a prelude to an attack of pneu
monia and it sadly disqualifies a man for
successful resistance to an illness of an
other nature. However, whatever the
cause, the increased prevalence of pneu
monia has excited the gravest alarm and
perplexity in the medical profession.
The commission is convinced that,
like tuberculosis, the more acute type of
lung disease is attributable to the pres
ence of microbes and that the latter are
disseminated by the drying of sputum
from patients. The organisms are not
easily borne about by the air so long as
they are moist, but afterward they are
as easily circulated as dust particles.
This fundamental' fact shows the desir
ability of deluging a sick room with sun
light, promoting free ventilation and us
ing a broom only when the floor has
been sprinkled.
Some puzzling facts have been elicited
in the course of the investigation con
ducted by Dr. Darlington'sexperts. One
is that pneumococci, the supposed cause
of the disease, are sometimes carried in
the mouths of persons for weeks with
out producing any apparent effect. In
like manner they are observed in the se
cretions of patients who have recovered
for a considerable Interval after the dis
appearance of other symptoms. This
second phenomenon resembles one
which often follows an attack of typhoid
fever and gives rise to the question how
long such persons may threaten the
health of their associates and neighbors.
Perhaps more light on this matter may
be afforded by further observation.
Such information should prove useful
in the devising of sanitary precautions
for a community in which pneumonia
prevails.
Prevention is infinitely preferable to
cure, but good generals consider what to
cto if their first line of defense fails. The
only remedial agent to which the com
'sion refers is a blood serum derived
from an immune animal. Experiments
were made, evidently with a view to ob
taining hints as to the value of an an
titoxin of this kind, other ventures of
the same character having been made
repeatedly in the last few years. The
verdict rendered is a little obscure, but,
while the commission seems to have
found that a serum, as now prepared,
might be serviceable for purposes of
diagnosis, it appears to be silent about
the remedial and protective qualities of
the article. However, if the serum
which a few physicians even now em
ploy, is not all that could be desired, im
proved methods may yet develop one
that can be more heartily recommended.
Bagpipes and Gardeners.
"Tom" Jenkinson, head gardener at
tlie Peacock conservatories, whose
chrysanthemums are on view to the
number of 3,500, is an ardent Scotchman,
with a passionate love for all things
that come from the Land o' the Heather.
H© and a few kindred souls have organ
ized a bagpipe band that will soon show
Pittsburg the possibilities in untamed
Highland melody. Mr. Jenkinson is the
leader and every man of them wears
kilts after the manner born. It is one
thing to play the bagpipe, but to do it
properly one must have the blood of a
proper clan in one's veins to give the
true "skirl." Mr. Jenkinson holds that
a Scotchman and only a Scotchman can
be a good gardener or a piper. "An
Englishman learns to be a gardener
from the top down," says Jenkinson.
"A Scotchman starts from the bottom
frith a spade digging vegetables. That's
why so many gardeners come from
Scotland. They learn bit by bit over
there."—Pittsburg Dispatch.
How Witch Hazel Shoots Its Seeds.
Do you know that the witch hazel
shoots its seeds, ten or fifteen feet? If
.' you want a brand-new sensation, bring
home some branches of witch hazel hav
ing both flowers and unopened seed pods
on
them and put them in vases of water.
The pods burst at the most unexpected
times, waking you In the night and pep
pering you with their hard, shiny, black
seeds. Branches that are to be used for
party must be selected with care, to
he sure of having perfectly fresh flowers
and seed pods that have not opened. If
it la possible to do so, ^ut them the same
day they are needed. If they must be
cut the day before they are needed, put
them In a cold place in water and wrap
a damp cloth around the branches, in
order to prevent the flowers from with
ering and to keep the seeds from being
expelled too apon.—Country Ute in
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8TEEH MAT RESIGN.
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'Hit as Indian agent at the Standing
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of anacging the Job if the colonel
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INDIAN'S THUNDER BIRD.
Tradition of the Passamaquoddiee
Accounting for Elemental
Disturbance.
Many Indians believe that thunder
Is caused by the action of a huge bird
which they have named the thunder
bird. When he Is angry his great eyes
flash and the lightning we see is
caused by the flapping of the wings
of the bird. The Passamaquoddles be
lieve that the spirit of the children of
Katahdin are thunder and lightning.
In defense of this belief they tell
this story: An Indian—great and
powerful—had been seeking game
for weeks without any success. One
winter day he saw the footprints of
some creature, the first he had seen
for many weeks. Looking closer, he
discovered that the footprints were
made by snowshoes, though no hu
man being had ever been known to
have passed through this country be
fore. Next morning the tracks stiii
appeared, though In different places,
greatly adding to the wonder of the
Indian hunter. He searched many
days for the object that was making
these tracks, but without success. One
day when he had about given up hope,
he was able to follow these tracks to
a precipice on the other side of the
mountains. He was lost in wonder
when his footfall aroused a maiden
who stood beside him. He was awed
by her beauty, which was greater
than any he had before gazed upon.
Her voice was low and sweet and
the warrior could scarcely believe
that he "was not dreaming when she
bade him go with her. He ap
proached the rock with fear, for he
expected that every minute the love
ly vision would fade away. The
maiden, seeing his hesitation,
touched his arm, when he became
mist, and in this form entered a
great cave In the heart of Katahdin.
There sat the god of the mountain.
He welcomed the maiden and eager
ly inquired if her brothers were
coming.
"I hear them coming now," she
replied.
With a blinding flash and a deaf
ening roar of thunder two men,
giants in stature, of beautiful faces
and with cheeks and brows of stone,
stepped into the cave.
"These," said the girl to the hunt
er, are my brothers, Thunder and
Lightning. Our father sends them
forth whenever there is a wrong to
redress, that those who love us may
r.ot be smitten. Whenever you hear
thunder in the future you will know
that my brothers are shooting our
enemies."
The stone-faced sons of the moun
tain adopted the hunter. After
roaming seven years with Thunder
and Lightning, at the end, while a
fierce storm raged, he was allowed to
fall unharmed in his own village.
POSTAL SYSTEMS ABROAD.
Profits Are Much Greater in France
Than They Are in Ger
many.
Consul E. Tkeophilus Liefeld,
Frteburg, Baden, sends comparative
statistics to the department of com
merce and labor on the activities of th
French and German postal systems. A
specially interesting fact
is
found
iE
the tremendous quantity of picturi
postal cards (1,171,840,000) which an
nually encumber the German mails.
writes:
"The German papers have been giv
ing their readers a comparative studj
of the post office departments «in the
two countries, much to the advantage
of the German system. In Germanj
there are 56,367,000 inhabitants, whil
in France there are only 38,962,000. It
Germany the number of post offices ii
0.82 to every 1,000 inhabitants, and 4.f
officials to every 1,000 people It
France the number is only 0.29, anc"
only 2.1 officials to every 1,000 inhabi
tants. In Germany there were 78,435
letters to every 1,000 persons, and in
France, 64,552. Germany far surpasget
France in the sale and manufacture oi
picture postals, which probably ac
counts for the fact that Germany sent
1,171,840,000 pqstal cards and France
only 73,600,000.
"As regards packages with value
stated, 367 for every 1,000 inhabitants
were sent in France, with a value ol
$30,259.89, ana in Germany with 239,
but with a value of $77,369.26.
"Germany sent 2,944 postal money
orders for every 1,000 persons, repre
senting a value of $42,072.26, and
France sent only 1,208. representing a
value of $8,700.44, from which it would
appear that in France more than in
Germany large amounts are sent by
means of bank drafts instead of money
orders. The German post office also
makes more use of the system of col
lecting on delivery of packages or let
ters (Post-Nachnahme). The German
seems to make more use of the tele
phone, while the Frenchman prefers
the telegraph.
"Although the work of the German
post office is much greater than' that of
the Frendh, the net receipts are far
less, from which the conclusion Is
drawn chat the German post office is
managed for the benefit of the people,
and the French post office for the finan
cial gain of the government. During
the year from which the above facts
are taken the receipts of the German
post office were $119,274,000, and the
expenditures amounted to $107,308,000,
ft net income of $14,966,000, while in
the case of France the amounts were,
respectively, $66,006,000 and $41,688,000,
leaving a net profit of $24,318,000."
Human Figure Targets.
The new musketry regulations of the
German army prescribe firing at hu
man figure targets only, and these are
to ie colored gray. For kneeling and
orone firing portable rests are used.
here for a time before accepting a
position at Bismarck. Later he moved
to Mayville, where he engaged in the
real estate business with great sue
cess. Be was a colonel on the gov
ernor's staff and was reduced in rank
when he accepted! the position of
agent at Standlpg Bock, the official
title of.
that office being, major.
Colonel atepn was appointed to his
present office a little over a year ago\
and thei report that be was about to
resign has caused considerable specu
latlon here.—Fargo Foram. ,,
Basing year—% killed many Injured.
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FUTURE OF SIBERIA.
BELIEVED TO BE WORLD'S GREAT
GRAIN PRODUCER.
It Is a Land of Promise Where Polar
Lights Make the Night Beau
tiful—Great Fur
Country.
"West Siberia will be the America of
the future. In spite of the adverse con
ditions wideawake people of foresight
will settle and encourage settlement in
that part of the country and its great
advantage will soon be felt and appre
ciated."
This, says the New York Sun, is the
prediction of Oscar Eden-Zeller, who
recently returned from an exploring
tour of the west, east and north Siberia
extending through a year and a half.
He bases his assertion upon the vast
extent of Siberia, the adaptability of
west Siberia for grain raising and the
great practically untouched mineral de
posits of east and north Siberia.
"West Siberia promises to become
the grain belt of the world." Mr. Eden
Zeller says. "The land is suited for
grain raising and because of its vast
acreage it will ultimately produce
grain for all nations.
"Of course, for the time being, only
the rich tracts of land situated on botn
sides of the great Siberian railroad will
be considered by settlers. It is a splen
did tableland, awaiting only iae thrifty
farmer to. bring it into 'prominence.
"At the beginning of September last
year I arrived in Yakutsk, the most
important town in northeast Siberia
and the principal neaSquarters of the
northern fur trade. It is also the most
northern telegraph station in the world
situated at 62 degrees north latitude.
The place at the time of my arrival
contained 800 Russian political prison
ers.
"The steamers on the River Lena
run from May to Septenfber and during
that time of the year things are very
lively in Yakutsk. But in the winter
months everything is very quiet in
deed. The only hotel in the place was
sold at auction while I was there and
institutions of that kind are seemingly
out of place in Yakutsk.
"From Yakutsk I went to Wercho
jausk, the coldest town In the world.
The first part of the trip was made on
horseback. We then went as far as
the Altan river on Russian peasant
sleds and from there over the mountain
range of Werchojausk by reindeer con
veyance. There was no path, no trail
no indication of a road, only the end
less white glittering snow-plains, in
terspersed very seldom with little
scrubby trees or bushes.
"We arrived at Werchojausk at mid
night, October 31, having left Yakutsk
October 10. The place is hardly larger
than the smallest American village.
The roofs of the poor-looking, tiny log
huts are merely frozen snow and for
windows blocks of transparent ice are
in use.
"The place is situated at 67 degrees
north latitude and 133 degrees 51 min
utes east longitude. The polar lights
scintillate there with a splendor and
beauty seldom seen by human eyes. A
light vapor of Ice crystals hovers a
short distance above the ground con
tinually."
THAT WAS ONE TOO MANY
Providence Did a Whole Lot for Him,
But Sort of Twisted
Things.
"Speakin' of what they call dispen
sations of Providence," said the old
farmer, "I've had some experience in
that direction. I once uad a $300 barn
insured for $750. After a few days I
heard of a man who had a kicking
cow. She was warranted to kick over
any human being who sat down to milk
her. I went to see the fnan and the
cow.
'How much?' says I.
'Take her for $10,' says he.
"I paid the cash and took her home
and I says to my hired man:
'Jim, you needn't milk the kicker
until after dark. Then take a lantern
with you."
'All right,' says Jim. And he fol
lowed my instructions.
"And he was kicked over, the lan
tern was smashed and the barn
burned?" was queried.
"Exactly."
"And the insurance was paid?"
"That was where Providence took a
turn," replied the farmer. "Providence
got me the insurance Providence sent
me after that kicking cow Providence
burned the barn, but, durn my hide, if
Providence didn't twist things around
so that I had to take $200 Insurance,
and 1 was almost three years getting
it!"
Old Saying Applied.
"I am agreeably surprised at the
room you have given me," said the
manager of the theatrical troupe, with
a patronizing air. "It is really first
class.".
"Ah," replied the proprietor of the
hotel, "your room is better than
your company."—Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Running No Risk.
Hardup—I'll never go to that res
taurant again. The last time I was
there a man got my overcoat and left
his in its place.
Weloff—But the proprietor wasn't to
blame, was he?
"No but I might meet the other
man."—Tales.
Argentina's Paris,
tr Bueno» Ayres dreamt of becocv
Ing another Paris, in fact as well aa
In theory, it will find itself bankrupt
in crim earnest long before such a
Iream can be even partially realized.
.pl— vrres Moral*.
THE OLD FABLE REPEATED.
While tie Cats Qaarrel Over the Divi
sion the Monkey Eats the
Cheese.
Sheldon Progress: With Grand
Forks the storm center of the ap
proaching newspaper campaign be
tween the ln-gang and the out-gang,
represented respectively by the Times
and the Berald, the moribund Demo
cratic Press crawls in and gets the
county printing. Evidently the Her
ald hasn't sufficient influence in its
own county to maintain a republican
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THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
"BLACK BART'S" CAPTOR.
New Yorker Who Went to California
and Became Renowned for
Bravery. ':vv
Former Sheriff Ben K. Thome, of
Calaveras county, renowned for 40
years for deeds of daring and courage,
ts dead, says the San Francisco Chron
icle. As sheriff, Thome, among many
other acts which marked him in the
early period of California's history,
hunted the bandit, Joaquin Murletta,
out of his district and effected the cap
ture of the desperado and finished stage
robber. Black Bart.
Thorne was born in New York 76
years ago. He was a nephew of United
States Senator Thomas C. Piatt, of
New York, He came to California in
September, 1849. and so soon distin
guished himself by coolness and un
flinching 'courage that he was quickly
picked out as the man to maintain or
der in the lawless camps of Calaver&
county. Almost immediately he gained
a reputation he never lost by arresting
Sam Brown, a professional "bad man,"
who killed four men 'before Sheriff
Thorne walked up in the face of a level
ed six-shooter and took not only him
but his companion to jail.
From that time until four years ago
Mr. Thorne was continuously connect
ed with the sheriff's office. In 1901 he
was stricken with paralysis and never
recovered his strength.
The capture of Black Bart, the as
sumed name of C. E. Boles, the most
famous and daring stage robber known
to frontier history, was due to Sheritl
Thome's relentless pursuit and dogged
following of what seemed a vain at
tempt.
Black Bait first commenced opera
tions as a stage robber in 1875, and in
eight years successfully held up no
less than 27 stages,' with a gain tc
himself of thousands of dollars. He
always worked alone, confided In nc
one, and when not engaged in this wag
known in San Francisco as a quiet,
well-dressed mining man with but few
friends and plenty of money. In fact
his methods of concealment were sc
perfect that his arrest for the crime:
placed to the credit of "Black Bart'
came as a staggering surprise to all
but the officers.
His final capture followed an attempt
to rob the Copperopolls stage In 1883
A boy passenger had dismounted quit*
a way back of the spot where the stage
was stopped by the highwayman, and
his sudden appearance with his gui
gave the express messenger a chance
which he seized. The shot struct!
Black Bart in "the head, but he escaped
Some time afterward, near the scene
was found a cuff stained with blood.
A laundry mark on this was traced tc
a laundry where Boles, known as
E. Barton, had his washing done and
at last the officers had evidence enougfc
to confront Barton with the crime. Hi
was tried,' convicted and sentenced tc
serve five years in San Quentin. Aftei
his release he disappeared, and whlH
a series of daring stage robberlea no(
long afterward gave rise to the sus
picioin ttiat he had resumed his old
life, nothing defipite was proved
against him.
Black Bart in all his hold-ups nevei
took a life or insulted a woman. He
worked quietly and swiftly, with the
manner of a gentleman. His particu
lar prey was the Wells-Fargo express
boxes, and he celebrated the capture ol
each treasure chest by a verse of dog
gerel inscribed on the rifled box. These
verses he signed: "Black Bart, P.
O. S."
CHINESE AWAY FROM HOME
Treatment of Them in Foreign Coun
tries Arouses Retaliatory
Spirit.
Most English-speaKing persons think
that the best place for a Chinese is In
China. He no sooner migrates to a
country inhabited by users of English
than they begin to tell him bow unwel
come he Is says Youth's Companion.
The history, of Chinese Immigration
In the United States is familiar. La
borers were needed on the Pacific coast
and the Chinese came, or were brought,
in large numbers to supply the demand.
Then the white men began to protest
against the competition of the Asiatics
and after a time Chinese laborers were
forbidden to enter the country.
The situation in the gold-mining re
gion of South Africa to-day is similar
to that in California when the Chinese
began to flock there. The mine owners
have not been able to get white or
black labor enough to work their mines
to their full capacity. A year ago the
importation of Chinese coolies began,
and now there are 45,000 of them in
the district. They were admitted
against the protest of the British colo
nes in the Southern Pacific and in spite
of ti\e objections of public men in Great
Britain.
Already the question of discontln
ing the policy has become a party is
sue lit England. The liberals, who hope
to come into power, declare that the
condition of the Chinese is practically
one of slavery. Moreover, they assert
that the Chinese have made life unsafe
In the mining district that men are
afraid to leave their families alone, and
that is has become necessary to barri
cade the doors and windows ol the
houses at night, and to sleep witti fire
arms within reach.'1
All this is denied by the adherents
of the government, who maintain that
the situation is exaggerated or wholly
misrepresented, and that the introduc
tion of Chinese la&or has made South
Africa prosperous.
A most serious phase of the situation
is -that the 300,000,000 or 400,000.000
Chinese at home are beginning to take
note of the treatment of the Chinese
away from home, and\are resorting to
retaliatory measures against foreigners
!n China.
majority on the board of commission
ers.
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PIENTY OF CABS.
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Plenty of cars Agent Hauck in
forms the Crary Public Opinion, for
grain shipments that this week the
eleyators In Crary have received about
forty"empty cars for shipping out
wheat and flax. Thls wlll give farmers
a chance to haul ln thelr grain, provid
ing the roads are good.
God has only one school for charac
ter, that of dally life.
NEW WOBLD MUMMIES
REMAINS OP
GLUT
DWELLERS
POUND XV SOUTHWEST.
Chamber in Solid Granite Wall Yields
the Remains of an Ancient
Race—-Great Find for'
Scientists.
Many persons who have an interest
In archeology will be surprised to know
that not all the mummies to be seen
in museums have Wen taken from far
away tombs in-Egypt or other, eastern
lands. Well-preserved mummies have
occasionally been taken from the ruins
of the cliff dwellers in the mountain
canyons in Arizona and also in New
Mexico and southern California.,
These mummies, though poor speci
mens of the mummifying art, are con
sidered great treasures by scientists
because.they give the anthropologist
a vague idea of th£ strange people who
had the earliest civilization on tne
American continent. The best of them
are almost entirely ignorant of who
the Aztecs and Toltecs were, how they
looked and lived Und why they have
been so entirely obliterated from the
face of the' earth.
The reason for this ignorance il
found In the fact that no satisfactory
remains of the dead Aztecs have been
founi. These people were cremation
ists and they probably burned h6use
hold effects with the dead, leaving lit
tle or nothing for the scientist to build
a theory upon.
Frequently a party of explorers in
the valleys of Arizona will come upon
sealel jars of burned bone dust. But
the mummy which was found by two
gold mine prospectors in a lonely can
yon along the Gila river in the heart of
the country once occupied by the Az
tecs end Toltecs has excited much at
tention. The hollow In the rocks was
about seven feet deep and four feet
high. It was evidently made for the
purpose of burial of the body found
there, for no other mummy has ever
been found within 100 miles of this
lonely sepulcher.
At the rear of the cave the miners
found what appeared to be a chamber
in the solid granite wall. The mouth
of the chamber was sealed. When the
cemoatlike substance was broken away
and a flat stone lifted it was found
that a human mummy was within.
There was a smell of rosin and balsam
when the miners raised the little body
whiea had lain there for 500, perhaps
700, years. The body was evidently
that of a child, the offspring of prehis
toric royalty. When the coverings had
been removed it was found that the
body was that of a girl about five
years of age.
There was no doubt that she was of
noble family and that her costly and
elaborate burial, Instead of that of cre
mation, had been far some extraor
dinary reason. Wrappings that filled
five bushel baskets were unwound from
the remains. Aa the hands were re
moved peanuts and mesquite beans
rolled* out. Both were In as good a
state of preservation as if they had
been placed there a few months be
fore. A child's plaything, a curious"
bone affair, was found placed between
the arms. The little shriveled hands
were clasped abont' bits of mesquite
wood and a thick mass of raven black
1
hair, much finer than that of an In
dian, covered the head. The legs were
drawn up in the position of a child
creeping. The finger nails were per
fect and the teeth intact. The nose,
ears and eyes were gone and the skin
was broken on the right knee and one
of the wrists exposing bones, sinews
and dried flesh.
So fine a mummy had probably never
been found before in the valleys of
Arizona. It has been photographed
more than a hundred times. Many
scientists and archaeologists have
traveled long distances to seejt and
say that it is the most interesting and
instructive of all things found in that
part of the country in a decade. It has
been made a gift to the Smithsonian
institution.
"Czar" Reed as a Hunter.
John S. Wise used to be at one wit)i
Thomas B. Reed, the former speaker,
in the opinion that hunting of all
kinds is cruel sport. The two were
talking on the subject once when the
big man from Maine said: "I never
shot 'but one bird in mx life. I spent
a whole day doing that It was a sand
piper. I chased him for hours up and
down a mill stream. When at last I
pottei him and held him up by one of
his poor little legs, I never felt more
ashamed of myself In all my life. I
hid him in my eoattall pocket for fear
somebody would see how big I was
and small the victim, and I will never
be guilty again of the cowardice of
such an unequal battle."
Baby Chief of Osages.
Emery Gibson, ten years old, has
been chosen "baby chief" of the Osage
Indians in accordance with an ancient
triennial custom of that tribe. Every
third year anew baby chief Is selected,
and this year the title was bestowed
on the Gibson boy, whose father, a
white man, married a full-blooded
Osag maiden. The lad's Indian name,
conferred upon him by Tom Tall Chief,
is Sklnk-Kah-Hah-He-He. A five-day
feast celebrated the new baby chief's
elevation to the honored position.
Logically Demonstrated
She—I' can prove logically and
mathematically {hat women are worth
more than men.
He—I'd like, to see you do It, my
dear.
"Isn't a miss as good as a mile?'*'
"So they say."
"And doesn't it take a whole lot of
men to make a leaguer'—Baltimore
American.
k^ Teachers Wante^^-
:f
Uncle Sam wants some school teach
ers and he wants 'em married. As an
Inducement to matrimony, an addfe
tional 910 a month is offered the fal
low who can produce his marriage
license.,-. '.Besides, the teacbsr ^l be
allowed fSO a month foir a honsekoep
er and the government suggests that
the money might Just as well be-liept
in the tanOy.
At Sapid city, a. Do the govern
ment wants a male teacher who ls not
married. The reason ls because there
WEDDING GOWN PUT ON ICE
Xaid's Error Kakes the Bride Un
happy During Several
\y Hours.'^-
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Among her friends a girl who lately*
returned from New York, jrhere she/
was present at a fashionable wedding,
Is telling a good story of an Irish maid
who came near having the wedding
postponed by a blunder she made. The
bride ordered her gown and veil from
her regular dressmaker, and after It
was finished the maker packed the
dainty garments, to be worn at the
wedding, in a decorated box, with the
result that there was consternation in
the bride's home and the pretty girl
wept bitterly over her disappoint
ment.
When the order for the bride's gown
was left it was understood the gown
was not to be delivered until the af
ternoon of the wedding, which was to
have been a fashionable one. The day
before the gown was to be worn thev
girl who was to wear it called at the
establishment to have a last fitting,
and arrangements were made to have
it at her home by three p. m., as the
wedding ceremony Was scheduled for
six the same evening. The dress was
finished at two p. m, and with the
wedding veil was packed In a hand
some box, decorated beautifully with
flowers and sent by the most reliable
delivery boy in the establishment.
When three o'clock arrived the bride
telephoned and was very cross, saying
her dress had not arrived. The clerk
looked up the boy and he said he had
delivered the box. The customer was
telephoned to, but she was almost dis
tracted and suggested the box had been
delivered to the wrong address, as she
had not seen it The boy Insisted he
delivered the box at the address glvek
him and as it was getting late there
was great excitement. The customer
was a good .one.and the house could
not afford to lose her patronage.
The delivery book was next consult
ed and it was found the box bad been
delivered at the right address and
signed for by the person who received
It. Then the girl was notified and
everyone in the house was asked if
they bad received the dress, but all
said no.
With the guests arriving, the bride
crying and the house In confusion at
the last minute the bride- was pre
vailed upon to go down among the
guests in one of her old gowns and
without a veil. She had to face the
most fashionable society people in the
city, but the ceremony was gone
through with.
Later in the evening, while thS flor
ist was arranging the floral decora
tions in the bride's home, one of the
maids suggested that some flowers re
ceived in the afternoon be used and
the florist asked whfere they were. On
being told "on the ice in the cellar,"
be went down to get them and on
opening the box fouyd the gown and
veil. When questioned as lo how Bhe
had come to make such a blunder the
maid replied:
"Oh, there were flowers on the out
side of the box, so I was sure there
were flowers insidr and I put It on the
ice."
BANDIT PICTURES HARMFUL
Sensitive Child Raises Valid Pro
test Against Blood-Curdling
Pictures.
Gov. Hoch's paper, the Marion
(Kan.) Record, has started a crusade
against a certain class of moving pic
tures. It relates this story to jus
tain ts position:
A little five-year-old Marlon boy,
who has always shown extraordinary
fortitude in dealing with the inevitable
bumped head, bruised nose, slivered
fingers and stubbed toes, announced
some time back that he was "goin* tc
be a doctor when he got big." The
other day he was going over the
grades in school that he would have to
pass before he could go into the njgh
school, "and then where'll I go when
I get fru high school?" he asked.
"Why, you're going to a medical
school and learn to be a doctor," his
mother answered.
"Oh. but I ain't going to be a doc
tor, though," he said.
"You're not! Well, then, what are
you going to be?" she asked.
"Whtf, I'm going to be a burglar,"
was his astonishing reply, and from
the way his little eyes bulged out you
would have thought he meant it.
He saw "The Train Robers" during
the street fair this summer, and this
"new ambition" was no doubt kindled
within him at that time, such is the
impressionable quality of the child
mind, and to these imaginative little
a beings the robber in the moving pic
ture is as much a reality as though the
men were there in the flesh, and the
picture money is real money to his
limited little vision.
If we have moving picture shows, let
them show something beautlful-i-beau
tlful to the eye and. ofpab^e of Inspir
ing beautiful, helpfU! things. The pos
sibilities of the moving picture ma
chine in an educational way are great,
but we don't want, to educate out* chil
dren to be bandits.
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Finery in Africa.
The British commissioner of Ugan
da, Africa, reports that the natives are
adopting clothing, have taken to the
use of soaps and sccnts, and are even
using bicycles. But regret Is expranwd
that the natives, have a "weakness"
for American-unbleached calico and
other American goods, preferring them
to British.
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End \of His Romance.
Sam O'Var—Would you be willing,
dear, to marry on a thousand a year?
OUle Voyle—Founds, or dollars?—
Chicago TribuiM.
are no proper quarters &t that place
for a m&n with a family.
The etanlnation to secure eligibles
for the: positions of teachers in the
government service will be held in this
city February 7 and 8. At the same
time an examlnatlon wil be held here
to secure eligibles for the position of
4D«Jn#r j* the Indian service,
_'j-'v' *"'•••M
"JfO "k ho* a boy can besfllirn'
jto be helpful to his parents and i«
bnriMm and sisters. That'# easy
Tmmfr: Let hlm become the
dent of a great insurance company.
I Fiat* Dealer.
Cleveland
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1906
THE POISONOUS KISS,
8TABTXJWO THEORY' ADVAHCXD
BY QERXAK SCIENTIST.
'—A i
Tells of Terrible Death Lurking in
the Xost Innocent Osculation
—Bacteria Found In the
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5v''"h Ip®
"Is the kiss of a pretty woman poison
ous?"
It Is brutal question, and the answer
thereto, as vouchsafed by Prof. W. ».
MHler of the University of Berlin, is
equally brutal. For, declares that
leaded savant the kiss Of a tieautlM
woman may and does, under certain cir
cumstances, brlng a quicker and more
horrible death than the bite of ser
pent.
Such was the stalling, hot to say
sensational, announcement 'made by
Prof. Miller in a lecture delivered be
fore the students of Wesleyan college,
tn Mlddletown, Conn., the other -day.
Prof. Miller is now sojourning in this
country, and is lecturing before vari
ous colleges and universities upon the
subject of which he is acknowledged
abroad to be the greatest exponent—
the bacteria of the mouth. Prof. Mil-'
ler' has made' a special^study of tats
particular form of bacteria, and' ne
knows whdreof he speaks. In his lec- "V
ture Prof. Miller recounted a remark
able experiment which he made upon I "v."
beautiful girl in Berlin.- An arrow
dipped In taSiva from her mouth, he
discovered, would send its victim into
death throes more terrible than one
dipped In the venom of an asp or any
other of the deadly npttles. He told
of more than a dozen experiments he
had thus made upon pigeons, guinea
pigs and dogs, all of which had proved
fatal.
The result of theae experiments with
the poisonous saliva of his patient's
mouth made him cutious to examine
the toxin properties of other mouths,
with the result, as already stated, that
he found a large percentage of mouths
to be similarly death-dealing.
If the word of Prof. Miller Is to be
relied upon, therq may be a terrible
death lurking in the most innocent
kiss, since osculation would .seem to
be the most likely way that these
death-dealing bacteria could be trans
mitted from one subject. to another.
As a precaution he urges that dentists
should use the utmost care In putting
their fingers into the mouths of their
patienls. He also urges fathers and
mothers to see that their children do
not chew their fingers, and suggests
the advisability of wearing white cot
ton mittens the better to protect the
small and tender hands from the dan
gerous bacteria.
Science has for thereat decade s^id
much against the primitive instinct of
kissing, but nothing that has thus far
been said carries quite so much weight
as the utterances of Prof. Miller, who,.
by reason of his fame as a bacterioto-"
gist, is entitled to and receives the
homage of physicians and scientists
in two hemispheres. It would be dim
cult, however, to find any kew York
phy3ician who would risk his profes-'
slonal popularity sufficiently to con-
demn-the good, old-fashioned habit of
kissing, nor could any one of them be
folin.i who would be willing to go on
recori as seriously opposed to kissing.
"The kiss of anybody might be pol-' 4.
sontops," declared Dr. Thomas Dar
lington, president of the board of
health, "but why the kiss of a prettyy
girl should be especially singled out
and put under the ban I do not know.''
4f Prof. Miller has been quoted right'
he referred particularly to the kiss of
a pretty girl, and that is all nonsense,
to be sure.
"Science has for'many years recog-r'- V»
nized the presence of bacteria in the
mouth, which, if they found their way
deep into the tissues, would, and do,'
cause poisoning. Bift to be Introduced
that deep into the tissues or into the
circulation it would be necessary for'
the infected person to bite his victim.^
or, her victim, as Prof. Miller chooses-
the- pnAoun. Long before bacteria
were recognized in the human system
in fact, long before the word had. ever
been coined, or the idea conveyed,by it
had entered the scientific brain, man-r
klnd had discovered the deadlihess tbftt -J
lurks in the bite of the human belng^
Hence we have had, as all civilized,.f
races do have, very' stringent laws
against the man or woman guilty of
mayhem, because the crime of may
hem originally referred to the specific
injury to the person caused by his ad
versary biting him, an injury which
was so frequently followed by poison-j
ing end subsequent (horrible death.
The franters of laws of all natlonsr.
have wisely made the crime of may
hem punishable by extraordinarily
long sentences of imprisonment or
as in olden times,'of severe punish^
ment, if not the death penalty."
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Hot on the Platform.
"Gents," said the trolley car con
ductor, "you mustn't stand on the&}V
back platform. Yer breakln' the rules
"Some of 'em ain't." piped up the ^l
little man they're standin' on
Insect Leaf
T.
or.'s/.y
Was He Bmyf
My neighbor, a thrifty old Germany
conducts a nursery. Meeting him on
the street one morning I asked him
"Well, Mr. Heinflcks, b6w Is Jbusi-'*
ness? Have you much to do nowN *l'
"Ach't. (scratching^his head), "some-^ I
dimes nodlng und somedlmes joost t: W
dwlce as much."—San Francisco^
Chronicle.
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feef'-rCatholic dtandard and Times.
Seville''
The 'clever cigar rollers of seviue
have, rivals in the Insect world. By toe*
aid of ,its tiny feetthe weevll rolle
leaves into a cylindrical /jshaoe' and
hides Itself inside.
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BAHK OFFICIALS'
ELECTED AT CrtABj:.
At lhe meeting of the stockhblflsnkr'.'
^^f Wrst. Natloiml. bank 9f Craryilfe
ing persons were elected dlreetors fbr
year, vis: *Ifc1SS3tlhX
Smith, At the meetihHrf^he
director# j. H: Bitdth wto eieofcl
gresidett. Ole C. ^Sw^cbSSK
ctWprtjg%ijSft*
Tlje happiness today depends