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Unions Protected Against For
eign Laborers
klEGROES WORKCHEAPLY
[ealth Conditions on the Isthmus
Continue to Improve—Cold Stor
age Plants Introduced—Work of
Publicity P.iireau—Paid 75 Cents
Daily—I/ess Than Europeans.
I* Panama Canal will be built by
lbor of West Indian negroes,
y because of the objection of
unions, Chairman Shonts has
loned the proposed experiment
foreign laborers, and will make
ntraet for the delivery on the
us of large numbers of Chinese,
tese and Italian workmen, as
:ontemplated In the beginning,
as been found that enough
husky West Indian negroes
tarily drift Into Panama In
i of work to provide all the lab
required on the canal and for
ength of time.
3 steamship companies that ply
g the islands to the south of us
relieved the Canal Commission
a great deal of worry and bother,
of the biggest problems that
the commission was the ques
jf securing laborers to dig the
It was made the subject of
al essays by the learned experts
>yed by Admiral Walker, un
he old regime, and was thor
y discussed by Mr. Shonts and
dvisers when they took hold of
anal management. It was con
sd out of the question to hire
leans for this heavy work, al
;h It was thought that some of
tardy negroes of the Southern
9 might be able to survive the
.1 of working all day In the
hes of the tropics. At any rate
,s not deemed advisable to try
xperlment.
ter mature deliberation It was
ed to try the experiment of
lc and European labor. Corre
lence waa entered Into with the
nger agents of certain foreign
iship companies whose business
to transport large numbers of
ers. These men guaranteed to
sh any number of ^orklngmen
veral different natlonalties. If
price were paid, they said they
deliver on the isthmus as many
,000 Chinese coolies,orthe same
>er of Japs. The commission
dered the matter at some length
leclded to hire 7,500 foreigners,
g 2,500 of each of the naionall
recommended. All the details
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|i^. P. SHUNTS.
Ing for bids for the deliv
worklngmen at Panama
•?fV The men were to be
ork on December 1, 1905,
ment agreeing to take
iem upon their arrival at
!, and provide quarters,
rater and medical attend
mtract was to be awarded
any offering to furnish the
most reasonbale rates per
anatlon offered for the
it of the scheme to hire
ancse and Italians is that
ir needed is coming into
i without encouragement
vernment. The steamship
that operate among the
Islands have been spreud
st that the United States
sands of laborers to dig
Mass meetings were held
dands and the announce
i that good wages can be
Panama. The negroes
he Isthmus at the rate of
a month, and thus far
red all the requirements
itlon. They are paid at
! 76 cents a day, gold,
isiderably less than Euro
rs will work for.
jrnment is taking good
negroes, most of whom
Barbados. Excellent quar
tvlded for them In places
anltary arrangements are
can be made. It Is the
e government not to en
•vlces of any employe un
sanitary accommodations
1 for him.
1 employes have the bene
tld storage plant on the
ich a structure Is utilized
treats of the canal em
amers that ply between
and Panama are also be
d with cold storgae faclll
lt will soon be feasible to
isthmus perishable food
all kinds.
. Shonts has adopted the
vlng the widest publicity
all news matters eon
the Panama Canal. In
tter carry out this policy
allied a trained newspa
t*ire charge of the Pub
u.
ASTONISHED THE KINO.
Marvelous Feats of Mental Calcula
tors Recalled.
Not very long agj King Edward
summoned to his presence the most
disanguisned of modern mental cal
culators, who astonished his majesty
by the mar/elously quick fashion in
which from a scanty supply of facts
. he calculated the number of minutes
which he had lived through since he
was born, the amount of money he
had in his pocket, and so forth.
Each of these calculators is without
doubt a genius of his kind who ap
pears only once in a generation, or
not so often as that.
One of the most remarkable of them
ail was Jedediah Buxton, who flour
ished in the eighteenth century, and
with whom reckoning was positively
a disease, for he could not go to
church without calculating exactly
how many words were uttered by
each performer. He would stride over
a field two or three times in different
directions, and then reckon mentally
how many square inches of land there
were in it.
With the object of testing him,
some skeptics asked him how many
ethical eighths of an inch there are
In a quadrangular mass measuring
23.145,789 yards long, 5,642,732 yards
wide, and 54,965 yards thick, and af
ter a very brief mental calculation be
gave an accurate answer. At last he
made himself, as he said, “drunk with
reckoning,” imposing upon himself
the task of discovering how many
grains of eight different kinds of corn
and pulse there were in 200,000,000,000
cubic miles, and how many hairs one
inch long! For the solution of this
problem he first of all actually count
ed how many grains of each kind
there were in an Inch cube and how
many hairs of the specified Inch
length, and then he made the re
mainder of the calculation, as usual,
mentally.
Mr ftAnrcm Parkpr Piddar who
iUl . uniHgo i iv"i uiuuoi, n uv
about half a century ago was an emin
ent civil engineer, had a wonderful
reputation for his system of mental
calculation. When he was a little boy
only 6 years old he used to amuse
himself by counting up to a hundred,
then to a thousand, and next to a
million, and by this means he uncon
sciously trained himself to contem
plate the relations of high numbers,
Then he would build up marbles,
shot and peas into pyramids and b«
able to tell exactly, without count
ing, how many went to the construe
tlon of each.
When he went to school he did all
his mathematical sums mentally,
without any slate reckoning, in oue
tenth the time that the other boys oc
cupied; and then, when at last h<
went out into the professional world
and became famous as an engineer
it was his business sometimes to ap
pear before parliamentary committees
that were sitting on contested rail
way bills, and on sueli occasions h€
would prove by a mdhtal calculation
that the figures of counsel were
wrong within a few seconds of tlieit
utterance.
In nearly every case these figuri
wizards have shown their remarkable
talents as little children, and withoul
any special advantages in the way ol
parentage or training—usually the re
verse. Thus, in 1839, a little Sicilian
named Vito Mangiamele, 11 years ol
age, son of a shepherd, astonished the
members of the Academy of Sciences
at Paris, before whom he appeared,
by the wonderful speed and accuracy
of his mental reckonings. In half a
minute he calculated for them the
cube root of 3,796,416, and in three
minutes he extracted the tenth root ol
282,475,249.
Then he was asked this question:
“'What number has the following pro
portions, that if its cube is added to five
times its square, and then 42 times
the number and the number 40 be
subtracted from the result, the re
mainder is equal to 0 or zero?” The
question was repeated to him a second
time so that ho might properly un
derstand it, but while his interrogator
was repeating the last word the boy
replied, “The number is 6."
Nearly 100 years ago also a young
American boy named Zero Colburo
created a sensation in London. He
was only 8 years old at the time and
did not know a single one of the or
dinary rules of simple arithemetic.
Yet in a few seconds he answered cor
rectly such questions as these: “What
is the square root of 106,929? What is
the cube root of 268,336,125? How
many seconds are there in 48 years?
When 8 is raised to the sixteenth pow
er what is the result?” He always
gave the correct answers, but he could
ne/er explain how he came by them.
One time the Duke of Gloucester ex
amined him and asked him to multi
ply 21,734 by 5441, and when he gave
him the correct answer immediately
tie duke asked how he did it. The
boy then said that instead of multiply
ing the original figures which the
duke had given him he multiplied
65,202 by 181, which came to the same
thing. But why he had made the
change in the original figuree himself
he did not know. It seemed to be in
stinct and nothing else.—London Tid
bits.
Change.
“Do you think this weather will
ever change?”
“Sure,” answered the morose cltl
*en. “It’ll probably be worse before
night.”—Washington Star.
Annual county and city fairs are
very popular In Germany. In Sax
•ny It is customary to close factories
and mills while they last, so tha*
everybody can attend.
WARDING OFF AGE
Mauage That Will Prevent Sagging
Cords, Mouth Marks and
Double Chin.
A woman's natural ambition is *o
get rid ot the first marks ot age which
appear and one of the most annoying
ot these telltale signs is the shrinking
of the flesh beneath the chin. When
a woman notices that the skin is be
ginning to pucker and her chin and
neck to lose their youthful rouiuiness
ami symmetry, then she should lose
’ no time in trying to eradicate the un
‘ sightly condition. Indeed .she should
l $ u before that. With some women
age shows at tills point in a laity ac
cumulation beneath the skim But for
both conditions massage is the rem
edy. V'or this particular mark of age
there is an admirable movement
which will not only do away with the
double chin, but will tighten up the
skin leaving it smooth and symmetri
cal.
>vaivi euDuiu do iiioi uaouvu
lace, very hot. Anoint the neck with
massage cream; then place the hands
Hat against the nape of the neck. A1
' low the thumbs to meet beneath the
j chin. Draw them back each side
with a firm pressure until they reach
. the ears. Do this not once but many
times. It is a rather pleasant sonsa
tiou than otherwise, and the raaninu
lation of the skin renders it tirm and
supple. When this operation is over
drop about a quarter of a teaspoon
ful of tincture of benzoin in tepid or
cool water and dash it over the neck
and chin. This tones up the sagging
muscles and renders them firm.
Water, as a matter of fact, is the
best cosmetic in the world, but in
spite of continual admonishings wo
men do not know how to use it proper
ly. They give their faces a little
dab with a wash cloth, dry the skin
hastily and then wonder why they
haven't a good complexion. The great
est preventive of a good complexion
is dirt. Nothing but hot water, not
warm, will remove this accumulation
of the city’s soil. Soap is another
active agent in removing dirt from the
skin, but a pure soap is absolutely
essential. Get one free from scent
and alkalies and use It sparingly every
day and twice a day if cold cream is
used on the face at night.
Next to the chin the deep lines on
either side of the mouth, extending
from the nostrils to the corners of tin
mouth, denote more markedly than
any other the passing of youth This
is ruinous to the beauty of profile
and destroys the attraction of the
mouth almost utterly. For this the
hands should be applied to the face
with the fingers upward, the lower
part of the hand resting on the bones
of the jaw. Place the finger under the
chin, and then use the first and sec
ond fingers in a rotary fashion about
the mouth. Al-.o with a firm pressure
'place the fingers of each hand on
the lines and move outward and up
ward toward the ears.
Wrinkles in the brow can be eradi
cated by placing the fingers at. the
roots of the hair and bringing them
down to the eyebrows, using consider
able pressure on the downward stroke
When the forehead is wrinkled it if
liable to contract from above. Lines
under the eyes generally come from
laughing or age, and while they arc
what are called character lines, stil!
they detract from the beauty of the
face.
In treating them the greatest cart
should be exercised for the reason
that more harm than good will resull
if harsh measures are used. With
the forefingers anointed with a very
little cold cream rub the finger tips
in the gentlest manner possible back
and forth, filling in the lines with
the cram and daintily massaging tht
emollient into the flesh until it has dis
appeared. If a flesh forming cream is
used this movement will also fill in
the hollows beneath the eyes.
Very often a woman’s face will be
entirely free from wrinkles and she
will he possessed of a pretty neck and
shoulders, but the skin will be wrin
kled and yellow just where the collar
comos. which effectually debars hei
from wearing an evening dress, unless
she covers her neck with one of the
high pearl dog collars. These arc
pretty for a woman with a long, thin
neck, but ordinarily speaking, a neck
that is unadorned, if round and sym
metrical, is much more admired.
These wrinkles often come from
wearing too tight collars. If the skin
needs bleaching use a little peroxide
and water nightly, but withal don’t
forget the massage. In conjunction
with the first exercise given for the
wrinkles beneath the chin use this
one;—Place the hands with the fingers
close together on the chest just be
neath the chin. Draw them out and
downward with a firm pressure. Do
this repeatedly, taking the strokes
from high up bepeath the chin and
ending near the armpits. Similar
movements taken by a second person
standing behind the patient drawing
the hands from the neck back down
over the shoulders, are also most ef
ficacious in rounding out and making
a neck pretty.
Modish H’ir Combs.
The number of combs in a set now
is often five instead of three. This is
because with several modes of the
fashionable low coiffure two combs
are required to each side, while one
bolds the hair Just above the knot
Shell is the material for almost all
comb1?. White combs are recognized
as correct only when they are of real
ivory. Metal and jewels are still pop
ular in their ornamentation, turquoise
and coral being favored most.
To Remove Mildew.
Mildew stains can be removed by
rubbing with ammonia diluted with
water.
Kaiser Wilhelm Aims to Ab
sorb 20 Toy Sovereigns
POCKET KINGDOMS DEAR
Each of Those German States Tins
a Population I/oss Than New York
—Monarchs Alone Cost Millions
Annually—The Emperor the Act
ual Boss of Entire Army.
At present Germany Is not an ab
solute empire, but a confederation of
some score of sovereign states, who
have combined on the basis of a com
mon nationality to present a united
front to foreign countries. The Ger
man emperor, unlike the emperors of
Russia and Austria, Is nothing more
than the hereditary president of the
confederation of German states. The
German emperor as such Is strictly
constitutional monarch, and It Is as
king of Prussia that he enjoys such
extensive power over his subjects.
The present king has contrived to
make us forget most of these facts.
He Is himself so prominent a figure
In the nffnlrs of his country that the
world has almost forgotten the exist
ence of all the remaining German
monarchs who are, theoretically,
quite equal to the emperor In rank
and dignity.
Apart from the kaiser there are 20
Independent monarchs In Germany—
three kings, six grand dukes, four
dukes and seven reigning princes.
Some of these states are so small
that the maintenance of their sover
eign rights Is an absurdity In the
twentieth century. Their existence
dates from the times when Central
Europe was dotted with large num
bers of small feudal states, each
ruled by Its own petty monarch.
Each of these sovereign German
states has a population less than that
of New York and Chicago. The king
dom of Wurttemberg has a popula
tion of a little more than 2,000,000,
the kingdom of Saxony a little more
than 4,000,000, and the kingdom of
Bavaria a little more than 6,000,000,
and all these states are overshad
owed by Prussia with Its population
of 35,000,000. Apart from the Im
perial chancrtlor. Prince Bulow, and
the central federal government, Ger
many possesses 20 prime ministers,
20 cabinets, 20 royal courts and 18
parliaments, for two German states,
Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklen
burg-Strelltz, are absolute mon
archies governed by their grand
dukes without any assistance from
elected representatives of the people.
The cost of maintaining all these
monarchies with their courts and
households Is a heavy financial bur
den for the German nation The king
of Bavaria receives an Income ol
$1,500,000, the king of Saxony an
Income of $1,000,000 and the king
of Wurttemberg an income of $600,
000 per annum. The grand duke ol
Baden, the grand duke of Hesse, the
grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwer
in, the grand duke of Saxe-Welmar
and the duke of Anhalt each receive
Incomes varying from $250,000 to
$300,000 a year. The duke of Saxe
Melntngen, the duke of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha and the duke of Saxe-Alten
burg receive Incomes varying from
$150,000 to $200,000, and the re
maining German monarchs receive
an average of $125^,000 per annum.
The 20 monarchs between them
own 115 royal palaces, which, to
gether with the three dozen palaces
owned by the kaiser as king of Prus
sia, makes a total of 150 palaces
dotted all over Germany. These pal
aces are surrounded by parks with a
total area of 25,000 acres, all ol
which Is, of course, lying wasted, sc
far as productive purposes are con
cerned. In the smaller German states
the cost of maintaining the monarch
amounts to about $2 per head of the
population, or $8 per head of family
a heavy burden on a populatlor
which Is by no means prosperous.
The 20 royal courts In Germany
are effective supports of reactionary
politics and personal snobbery. Tlx
little German courts have been fruit
ful of all sorts of queer situations
and scandals. The throne of Bavaria
has been occupied for the last 20
years by a raving madman, who
crawls about on his hands and knees,
barks like a dog and eats his food oil
the ground. Nevertheless, this being
although more beast than man, Is hit
Majesty King Otto of Bavaria by dl
vine right. His predecessor, King
Louis, was also a lunatic and
drowned himself. The future king el
Bavaria, Prince Rupprecht, has beer
involved In matrimonial scandals, and
his quarrels with his wife have beer
public report for some years past.
A curious feature about all these
little German courts whleh cost sc
much and «hicb produce so many
scandals calculated to discredit mon
archlcal Institutions, is that they are
purely ornamental. Although all the
little monarchs theoretically possesi
sovereign powers they are me a mat
ter of fact nothing more than vassali
of the emperor. It Is true that the
emperor can declare war. conclude
treaties, and promulgate laws In the
name of the empire only with the
consent of the federal council, bui
the council Is absolutely controlled
by his own country of Prussia.
The Barn's Fault.
Judge—Tou are accused of hav
lng driven your car directly against
the barn. You made no apparent ef
fort to keep to the road and avoid
the accident.
Chauffeur—You do me grave In
justice, your honor. I tooted m;
horn repeatedly and even slowed
down to eighteen miles. The bare
had ample time to get out of th<
way.—Chicago Post.
INGKNIOIS THICKS OK THIEVES.
Not Always Successful In Securing
Immunity From Arrest.
A very slight thing will often
cause the arrest of a thief. For in
atance, the operations of a 1-1; po
et on the top of an omnibus in Tot
tenham Court road, London, were
clearly seen by a policeman siltin '
behind him. This was the case, al
though the man was "covered" by a
newspaper. The policeman saw the
theft reflected in the shop window
passed by the vehicle and as a re
sult the pickpocket obtained six
months imprisonment
A very ingeuious trick employed
by poachers is that of leaving an end
of a candle burning in a saucer of
water in the bedroom. This usually
Is so arranged that (lie candle will
sputter out at about 10 o’clock. Just
as if it had been extinguished and
the man retired for the night. This
ruse is often employed by poachers
who discover that the keepers are
watching the house for signs of fhe
poacher leaving. In many ruses the
gamekeeper does not discover that
the candle could go out without any
human agency.
A very curious course was adopted
by a Burnley man who had illicitly
entered a dwelling house while the
Inmates were shopping, lie was i*n
by a woman who lived across the
way. The man. seeing that lie was
noticed, leaned on the wall with sur
prising nonchalance, and looked up
into the sky, as though seeing if
there were any signs of the abate
ment of a heavy shower. The wo
man asked what he wanted, hut the
housebreaker totally disregarded the
question. He simply remarked: "It
is raining hard." However, he was
arrested some little time after.
Houses have been broken Into in
broad daylight in Shrewsbury dur
ing the absence of the householders.
A considerable amount of jewelry
and money was taken from one
house, from which two men were
seen to leave by the front door. They
were clever enough to raise their hats
as though bowing to somebody at
I the window of the house.
Sometimes the police are not so
clever as they might be. Four men
determined to rob a Fulham tavern
a short time ago, and the police laid
a trap for them. At night a detec
tive inspector and constables occu
pied the house, but, absurd as it may
seem, they forgot to turn out the
lights. The burglars duly arrived at
2 o'clock, blit they found the place
ablazei with lights, and also noticed
one of the watchers peering out of
the front door. Therefore the wise
burglars withdrew and decided not
to proceed further in the adventure.
The men returned, however, a week
later, and this time they were cap
tured.
The police wished to arrest two
men who were lying in the hold of a
barge off Brentford. Accordingly the
officers asked the men to “Come up
and he arrested,” but the thieves in
stead of complying, returned the cor
dial counier Invitation to the police
to "Come down and Join them.” Nat
urally. thi was not easy, for the
sergeant commanding the besiegers
had recourse to a very simple but In
genious stratagem. Ho noticed that
the men below had kindled a Ore. so
he told one of the men to fetch him
a tile. The sergeant then placed the
tile carefully over the barge’s funnel
and the investing force simply stood
' around carelessly In order to await
developments. The suspects stayed
below until they were half suffocated
by smoke, when they had to stumble
up on deck and surrender to the
grinning besiegers.
There are two men who are well
known to the police who ure clever
expert ladder thieves. They were
recently arrested und placed in cus
tody at Winchester. Their method la
to select a house by day and make
arrangements and see that there is a
ladder about. In the evening they
return to the* house when the Inhabi
tants are at dinner. Then they take
the ladder to the back part of the
premises and raise it to a first floor
window. Their practice Is always to
work from the top part of the house.
When they have made these arrange
ments the next thing they do Is to go
downstairs, wedge the door where
the residents are having dinner, lock
themselves In the room upstairs and
ransack It.
There have been several examples
lately of criminals run to earth sim
ply by leaving finger prints upon the
glass of windows. By means of fin
ger prints the police were able to
trace the burglars who stole £5,000
worth of Jewelry from Conduit
Street, Regent Street. The arrest
in this case was effected in a very
clever manner. As daylight was ap
pearing a milkman was seen going
down the street where the criminals
lived. He was attired in the usual
glazed hat, and carried the usual
money pouch pnd milk bucket with
cans around the side. When he ar
rived at the door of the criminal's
house he shouted, “Milk, oh!” but
the minute the door was opened he
rushed in, and four other milkmen,
who were disguised detectives, fol
lowed him. Together the detectives
mounted the stairway to the bed
room.
in ea.cn case me roan was round in
bed and In one or two Instances be
was asleep, but was awakened.
It may be the case before long that
burglars w’ill not merely have to
wear gloves, but they will have to
abandon wearing trousers. A man
was tried at Longton some time ago
for breaking Into the Old Roebuck
Inn. The only evidence against him
was an impression taken of the seat
of his corduroy trousers. This Im
pression corresponded exactly with
an Impression left In the dust on a
window (UL—Pearson’s Weekly.
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prTTY GRAFT IN PRTVATK LOTBL
I -
In the Home Servants Profit by Be
traying Trust Placed In Them.
* It has long been considered a tru
ism among a certain clase that puls
• Me office la a private graft, and there
, has grown up a custom of expecting
public dishonesty, of accepting bri
bery. as the usual thing in public ser
vants and honesty as the unusual,
until the same view has become
prevalent with regard to private ser
vice. So widespread haR private bri
bery become that one of the Shan
leys. the ramifications of whose fain
tly tree are only rivalled by thos ■ of
the Simpsons, estimates that It
amounts to $50,000,000 a year, ant
It has at last been necessary to placo
a law on the statute books of this
State to prevent this sort of thing.
The Saxo law went Into effect on
September 1.
In the Inquiry Into the death of
Mrs. Jane Stanford, one of her ser
vants testtfled to receiving commis
sions from various tradesmen more
than $2,000 a >ear. One of the per
quisites of being a housekeeper or
hutler In a wealthy family is the
commissions to he made from the
tradesmen. Wine merchants say that
even more avaricious than club stew
ards are some butlers of private fam
ilies, and one well known family In
New York was nearly exterminated
by polspn before the hutlor’s butcher
was chosen. At one time the entire
family with the exception of one son,
was 111 with ptomaine poisoning. The
head of the house tells now with con
siderable xest how spoiled food came
on the table, meals were uneatable
and the family had to take to dining
out. That particular butler was dis
charged, but the next one selected
his own tradesman and no question*
were asked.
The lady's rnatd also finds means
to augment her Income. Madam's
last season’s dresses, of course, de
scend to Clarlnda, but there are pur
chases to be made. There are the
milliner and the dressmaker, the
hosier and the glover. It might not
be thought that ladles’tailors of great
names would stoop to such things.
Nevertheless, It Is true that ladles'
maids draw the commissions for In
fluencing their mistresses In the pro
per way. This is a work of diplom
acy and deserves good pay, for most
women think they know without any
telling who Is the best dressmaker or
milliner. In the matter of gloves
and hosiery and various other toilet
accessories It Is easier to earn the
pay. Many of these things are left
entirely to the maid, and she has lit
tle else to do than to collect the com
mission.
Take the Janitor, for Instance.
Most, persons move Into a new apart
ment In a hurry. With a rush and in
a general turmoil and turgid whirl
of mishandled lares and penates the
family lands In It: new abode tired
and hungry, fortunate If there Is
other light, than a tallow dip—for
the octopus takes its time about
turning on the ga and appeals to
the janitor for succor In the dire ex
tremity. Ho recommends a certain
butcher, baker and grocer. If It so
happens that, the hardened mover
has got in with a fair degree of com
fort and proceeds to find his own
tradesmen without consultation with
the autocrat, that Individual will af
ter a brief Interval suggest the men
who may he found satisfactory to
deal with. And It will be generally
found conducive to the peace of the
tenant to agree with the Janitor and
avoid discussion.
The Janitor frequently goes to the
tradesman and demands a commls
slon on the business of every one In
the apartment bouse. He does not
ask this as a favor. He demands It
as a right and states It as a sine qua
non of the tradesman entering the
building. This commission Is usually
10 per cent, of the amount of the
bill. To enforce his demand the Jan
itor has every means at his disposal.
There are poster rules for delivering
goods, and It will be often found that
the messengers of the rebellious
tradesmen are harassed In every pos
sible way until upon some pretext
they are forbidden entrance to the
building. If the tenant be recalci
trant, his food disappears, the milk
Is sour, the meat tainted, dinner Is
late because the groceries are not de
livered. All sorts of methods are at
the disposal of the Janitor, until both
tradesman and customer give In, the
■perilled man Is employed and the
commission paid, and everything la
lovely.
A valet In court proceedings the
other day testified that a tailor had
offered him $50 a year If he would
double the amount of clothes to be
ordered by his employer, and the
tailor assured him this could *be eas
ily brought about by the mist skil
fully rubbing the knees of his em
ployer's trousers sod the elbows of
his employer's coats with a little In
strument of roughened wood, which
would speedily make the garments
look worn and threadbare. The tail
or supplied the valet with the instru
ment free, and carefully Instructed
him how to use It.
Brain Softening Increasing.'
According to a physician soften
ing of the brain is a very common
occurrence In the country, one-third
of the laborers in rural district of
England dying from It. The cause of
the disease according to this author
ity, la the lack of brain exercise.
"The Intellect of a rural laborer
rusts rather than wears oat. and
when he attains the age of 65
or 75 he usually dies in an apop
lectic lit or something of the kind.
Judges and others whose thinking
capacity is continually employed live
to a far greater age than the aver
age rural laborer in any part of
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