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▲ T Iter In one of the British mn en gine* Intimates that France Is on the ▼ergs of another political cataclysm. That Chicago doctor who advocates music as a cure for Insanity certainly never lived in an apartment house. There are now 40,264 Daughters or the Revolution. The families of the old heroes of '76 must have run largely to girls. South America is growing more conservative. A President of the Per mian Republic bas been permitted to die without violence while still iu office. About once a year comes a report of a battle between the Dutch and the Achlnese in Sumatra, just to remind us that this war of forfy-tbree years' standing is still going on. Prof. Goldwin Smith has written to Andrew Carnegie advising that instead of spending so many millions in librar ies the philanthropist might do some thing to relieve the misery in the homes of the world's poor. A St. Louis Judge has decided that the young woman's father has a right to go downstairs after 11 o'clock and interrupt the proceedings, /either by force or otherwise. He evidently thinks he can be re-elected without the boy vote. * At last Mexico has awakened to the fact that yellow' fever can be stamped out by sanitation and will appropriate a goodly sum for tbe purpose. When the Americans cleaned up Cuba, Latin Americans were taught something of the possibilities of modern sanitary measures. Tbe general consensus of mankind that suicide is a crime Is plainly show'll In the reluctance of a man's friends to believe tbat be committed it, and in tbe theory of insanity which is always adduced when no question of tbe sui cidal intent can be raised. In case of doubt the dead man is clearly entitled to the benefit of tbe doubt. Russell Sage thinks that vacations are unjust. He doesn't believe in them and does not see the necessity for them. Evidently Mr. Sage has yet to learn that a proper amount of rest and recreation enables an employe to do more and better work than though he had not taken time to recuperate. There are two sides tb the vacation question. % When George M. Pullman first sug gested tbe idea of equipping a rail road car with berths and so permit the weary traveler to recline at length —both as to space and time—and court sweet slumber on a real mattrese, b< was regarded by those who knew him m suffering from paresis and a fit sub ject for a lunacy commission. How things do change with time. A most extraordinary feat has been accomplished by a Frenchman named tabonnefon, who owns a silk farm in the South of France. He has succeeded (n making silkworms spin colored silk by putting dyes In tbe food of tho worms. He feA some worms, for in stance. on mulberry leaves, sprinkled with indigo, and as a result they pro duced silk tbat was greenish-blue. Other worms were fed with mulberry leaves sprinkled with madder, and they produced rose-colored silk. A remarkable operation was recently performed at the St. Antoine bospitul. Paris, by the extraction of a large nail from a man's lung. After six prelim inary experiments the foreign body was located and seen through tbe "bronchoscope." The first attempt at extraction failed, but a second was completely successful, the nail being dislodged from an Inner ramification of the right lung and removed up the windpipe by means of a magnet, tbe operation lasting only five minutes. A widow of comely figure and tender age, Mrs. Emma Peake, of Wanatah, I1L, has been courted by two farmers who raise fat stock, mostly hogs. Mrs. Peake being unable to decide between tbe two, has decided to marry tbe man who has the largest number of fat bogs weighing over 300 pounds each by December 15 next. This is tbe birthday of tbe widow, and she bas promised to have a great feast on tbe day when sbe will be able to make a satisfactory choice betweeu her two suitors. The relaxation of tbe laws in Great Britain providing for compulsory vac cination has resulted In the Increased spread of disease. In Germany then ia a very effective compulsory system, every child being vaccinated before it is a year old and again when twelve years old. Tbe New York Tribune publishes tbe following suggestive comparison of the mortality from smallpox in the two countries: During the twelve years ended with 1902, 6761 deaths occurred in England and Wales from smallpox, or an average of 063 a year. The population of those countries is not far from 32,500,000, and that of Germany is put at 56>000,* 000. At the same rate, then, tbe latter country should have an annual mortal ity from smallpox of over 900. As a matter of fact, It averaged ouly fifty curing tbe period just referred to. TUe Hrv. Dr. Locke says only the good are brave. It la comforting to know tbat no Carnegie medal is to bo wasted on the wicked. Four years ago the working day In all French factories was one of twelve hours; a year later it was eleven hours, and then it came dowu to ten and one hnlf; but from the 1st of April the working day will be one of ten hours. It is stated that the same rate of wages will be paid for ten hours as was paid when twelve hours wero worked. Censuses of the church attendance in London and in New York and other American cities, taken last year, showed that in both countries women and children make op the vast major ity of tho congregations at churches. Usually it is the same in all the coun. tries of Christendom, with Russia a notable exception, and also some Ger man States. * Builders of locomotive engines are steadily exceeding past achievements and constructing titans of the rails that excité the amazement of every beholder. At Schenectady a colossus has been turned out for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad which surpasses anything and everything seen before. This giant w'eighs 320,000 pounds, has six pairs of driving wheels and a boil er thirty-eight feet In length and seven feet in diameter. It is estimated that this locomotive will be fifty pc»- cent, more powerful than any other ever put together. The Hartford (Conn.) Courant asks: What is the clijirm about the diminutive addendum "let?" You can not And anything from a summer ho tel to a gold mine that has not its own "booklet" to carry its praises around. Tbe booklets are sometimes composed of leaflets, and now' and then an adventurous and poetic soul blows out a notelet It is a curious freak in advertising, and one that refuses to work both ways. Imagine the promo ter who appealed to the public to read bis book in order to learn about bis minelet. Not much; it is a booklet about a mine. Peaceful means of settling labor differences are gaining over tbe more warlike strike," said President Gon* pers in Chicago the other day. "This Is shown by the financial reports of the unions," be said. "These state ments indicate a great falling off in tbe amount of money paid for striko benefits and a corresponding increase in the sum paid for sick and death claims. Employer and employe are both learning to understand each oth er bettor, to appreciate each other's strength and to realize that warfaro does not pay. Conference and concil iation are taking the place of strikes. ' • ♦> The Rochester Herald claims that the average young man or woman who has to work for a living would rather live in the turmoil and glitter of the city than to enjoy the far more health ful, if less exciting, less "stylish'' per haps, life of tbe country. We do not know by what means the surplus un employed labor of the cities can be re stored to the farming communities. It is certain, however, that an adjust ment of the Existing false and abnor mal conditions—scarcity on the farm and over supply in the towns—would operate to their mutual advantage and benefit. There seems to be need of a campaign of education and enlighten ment Daring the last five years the acre age under wheat in the United King dom has diminished, it appears, by very nearly twenty-five per cent Of ficial information shows that tbe shrinkage was continuous throughout the quinquennium, and that it affected Scotland and Ireland as well as Eng land. Neither favorable seasons nor unfavorable made any difference; low. er or higher prices were equally inop erative. Tbe inevitable Inference is, consequently, that more and more farmers annually discontinue wheat growing as a profitless branch of ag ricaltare. If that be tbe case, it is equally obvious that our teeming pop ulation must be nearing tbe time when it will have to depend solely on the foreigner for breadstuffs. Of course. Europe is effete, and all that Bat here is a slow old English Idea that some city dwellers in Amer ica might appreciate, admits tbe New York World. The Great Western Rail way, according to ocr Consul at Ply mouth, Mr. Stephens, has undertaken to deliver farm products direct fron producer to consumer without delay or middleman's profit And it fur nishes the boxes at cost Suppose you live in London. At a carriage cost of twelve cents you cau get by fust pas senger train twenty-four pounds of batter made tbe same morning fifty miles away. Eggs stamped with tbe date of their appearance, cheese, hon ey, flowers, fruit, meat vegetables, game and poultry are sent In this way. Within fifty, within thirty miles of New York City Hall fruit goes to waste every year that is literally "not worth picking'' after tL railroads and middlemen have nad their share of it TREflJON IN FWJJIfl A I A A STORY OF THE ARREST OF AN OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH SELLING SECRETS TO A FOREIGN POWER. • • • • A Mystery of St. Petersburg s i : Methods Adopted by Slueths Would Have Made Sherlock Holmes Green Slueths Would Have well V official of the commissa __ jg rlat department O Z\ O known in the Russian copi ai tal disappeared suddenly 'WOW some weeks ago, and no body knew what bad become of him, says the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Telegraph. Ills wife falling 111 at the same time, quite a cloud of mystery hung over the fam ily. all the more dense because of the absurd rumors that were circulating. One report had it that be had com mitted suicide while in a lit of depres sion. Others affirmed that he had failed to account for large sums of money entrusted to him, nnd had been arrested for embezzlement. According to a third story, he had speculated wildly on the exchange, had lost enore mous sums, and, being unable to meet his liabilities, had fied the country. His friends shook their heads, and re marked that it w'as not In him to com mit such follies. The rumors were absurd. But most absurd of all was the statement that he had sold plans describing the despatch of war mate rial and provisions to the Far East, nnd w'as a traitor to his country.. Any thing w'as possible, they affirmed, rath er than that. To what Government could he have betrayed the secret of bis own coun- try? Of course, to the English, people answered. The English sovereign cir- culates in all continental countries, English spies are everywhere, the se- cret service fund of the British For- eign Office is inexhaustible. Besides, the persou whom he frequented most -. But that being a doubtful point, people remarked that proofs were su perfluous, for everybody knew tbat the English had bribed the officiai, made him a traitor, and ruined him and his family. -But w'hat use could the Brit ish have for the commissariat plans? skeptics queried. A makeshift an swer was quickly found, which would satisfy the average Russian man, and the matter was Judged. AH over the capital the report spread that England had bought the plans in the possession of the official, and that he had con fessed his crime. In time, however, it leaked ont that M. X. had sold his plans to Japan shortly before the war broke out, and, it was added, this act of treason en abled Russia's foe to seize the Yekat erluoslay, with its stores and provis ions. The traitor had already been tried, condemned and banged in the terrible prison of Schlusselburg. But the official papers have published no account of the arrest, trial, condemna tion or execution. Hence nothing is known for certain, except that M. X. has been spirited away by the authori ties on a charge of treason to his couu try. The latest version of how he was ar rested and proved guilty is very inter esting in itself. It also throws a side light upon the ways of the secret po lice, and who are now organized after the French model, nnd act with far greater circumspection and skill than, say, ten years ago. This is the story, for the exact truth of which I cannot vouch. The authorities suspected X. of hav ing had dealings with the Japanese, but they lacked proofs of the fact, and it was now impossible to obtain any. One or two indications there were— strong enough, perhaps, to awaken misgivings, but not sufficient to hang a dog. The matter was placed in the hands of the secret police, who are all disciples of Sherlock Holmes. X. was shadowed day and night; every person to whom he spoke, at home or abroad, was also watched, but no facts of Im portance were elicited. Whatever he might have done in the past, he was not selling his country's secrets at present; but then, there was no one to betray them to, since tbe Japanese em bassy had gone. A certain foreigner, against whom the police had nothing to urge, was among the acquaintances whom X. met from time to time. One evening the two were seated together in a res taurant on the Nevsky Prospekt, which Is commonly frequented by German merchants and by foreigners. Beer is the chief, but not the only, beverage there; tbe principal German newspa pers are taken in, and the vernacular of most of tbe guests Is the Teuton tongue. X. and his friend or ac quaintance were at a table in a little room, at the far end of tbe restaurant, chatting, drinking and smoking, and there was no one there but themselves. Indeed, the whole place was nearly empty Just then, because the theatres would not be over for two full hours yet. Hence the pair were surprised to see a stranger walk into their room and sit down at a table near their own. It was his right to do so, as the apart ment was not engaged, but The stranger was a well-dressed, frank-looking man, who seemed to have had his fair share of champagne at dinner. He was a Russian to the backbone; for after having listened to the conversation of his neighbors- for a few minutes he corrected a slip of theirs here and got in an additional re mark thère. At last he moved his chair and sat by them. Curiously enough, he seemed specially taken with the foreigner, to whom he spoke much of Russian hospitality, invited him go dinner, and at last he induced the man to rise up and accompany him to the bar. which was in another room, there to drink each other's hewltb iu Russian vodka. The foreigner was very unwilling, pleading that he never drank vodka nor strong spirits, but Anally, not to seem ungracious, he hu mored the hospitable Russian, nnd leaving X. went to the bar. There they drank and chatted—"in Russian fathion," said the new acquaintance while tin\e sped. While this diversion was taking place X. was not long alone. A man dressed like an official, hurriedly en tered the room, and puffing and pant ing as though he bad been running for bis life, asked; "Is your name X.T Yes, my name is X." was the ungra* oious reply; "what business is tbat of yours?" "No offense, I assure you, sir, but I have been sent to find you about a very urgent affair. The police have for months been looking out for a dan gerous man named Y., and they have at last arrested him. Ten minutes ago, not more. But he denies that he is Y., and, what is more, he gives your name as his and your address. He also has your card, so tbat the whole thing is embarrassing. They know, of course, that he is lying, but for formality's sake they must have proof and they would feel much obliged If you would kindly come Just for u moment to say that you are M. X. That's why I have come. You will be back here iu ten minutes. X. obviously did not like the sugges gestion, and he urged various consid erations against carrying It out. But the messenger was very eloquent, sun* slve and pressing, so that at last the two took a droshky and set out, telling the waiter that X. would be back in a quarter of an hour. At the Police Department they found a number of high officials awaiting them. The apartment they entered was a sort of council chamber; the visages of the officials were solemn, the whole atmosphere depressing. X. entered, saluted the company, and said: I am X., and if anybody else But lie was interrupted by a voice: In the name of the law' I arrest you, X., for having committed one of the blackest crimes that any subject to His Majesty can he guilty of. You have sold secret plans to Russia's en emy. You have forfeited your life thereby, and as all the proofs are in our possession you had better use the little time left you in this life In pre paring for the next." The world must have grown black in the eyes of the wretched man ou hearing his doom. He must have looked the very picture of despair, be cause even those hardened officials ap peared to pity him, and one of them said, sympathetically: "It is still possi ble to avoid death. If you wait until the proofs are read to you it will be too late. But sit down here and write a humble petition to His Majesty for mercy. He will surely pardon you. But mind and make a clean breast of it. Your only hope is in the Czar. X. dropped heavily Into a chair, me chanically took a pen: in his hand, wTOto a full confession of his guilt, and having signed the paper sealed his doom. No further proof of his guilt was needed. * »» 4» » . •* ** Tribe of Primitive Indians. The Alabama Indians in the Creek Nation are so primitive in their way tbat they attract attention where In dians are no uncommon sight. They are living and practising customs of the Indians of 100 years ago. They still speak their own dialect, being tbe only one of tbe forty-nine different tribes composing the Creek Nation tbat does this. None of them can speak English. They live in pole huts daubed with red clay. The Alabama tribe has affiliated with the Snake Indians and is still more backward in accenting associa tion with the white man. For a long time they refused to be enrolled on the Loyal Creek rolls, but of late many of them have been persuaded to come forward and enroll. The prophet is the big man of the tribe. When a horse is stolen be is supposed to be able to find It, or if Indians become sick be is expected to make them well. If a drought over takes the land he Is expected to make It rain. He brews or makes all the medicine for bis tribe. Pottery making, which is a lost art with the Creek Indians to-day, was possessed by the members of this tribe until a few years ago. Tbe last survivor of the old school in the mak ing of pottery was an old woman who die«! a few years ago.—Kansas City Journal. ' The Cheapness of Life. The loss of tbe Federal Army of the Cumberland In the battles of Chatta nooga, Lookout Mountain and Mission ary Ridge, as given by Cist, was 8823 killed and 3683 wounded. So much for war in the sacrificial sixties. In the year 1889, which is the first year of systematic accident tabula tion, 6823 men, women and children were crushed, torn, mangled or burned to death on the lines of Ameri can railroads, and 23,608 others were injured in the same disasters. So much for peace, public Indifference and the railroad accident fifteen years ago. Having thus made sure our footing in the later eighties, let us come in one broad step to the present; this while we have the war table before us. Our historian. Cist, asserts that, all things considered, the two days' fight ing at Chickamauga stands unsur passed as the hardest fought and blood iest battle of the Civil War. The Fed eral killed in this battle numbered 1087, and tbe roster of tbe wounded falls but a few names short of 10,000. FruIt-and-Nut Flendi. There is just one little, tiny, infinit esimal error in the assumption that our primordial ancestors lived entirely without uncooked fruits and nuts, a trifling miscalculation which vitiates the conclusion that what met our wants when we dangled head down ward from a tree limb will meet our wants now that we have turned t'other end up. The error Is this; They didn't. No animal lives exclu sively on vegetable or animal food. What's a chicken, carnivorous or graminivorous? course. It lives upon corn and oats and wheat, the seeds of plants, gTass blades, the lettuce that you expect to eat and all such. Yes, weU. You keep them on that diet nnd see how many eggs you get. And then you give them beef scraps with their grain and notice the difference.-Everybody*» Magazine. Graminivorous, of STANLEY'S CAREER THE AFRICAN EXPLORER'S LIFE A ROMANCE OF HI8T0RY. Eploratlon of the Congo by Living stone's Successor Led to Partition of Africa—How He Met Dr. Living stone In the Dark Continent. Sir Henry Morton Stanley's life was a romance. Born in Denbigh, Wales, Jan. 28, 1841, into obscurity so dense that his real name, John Rowlands, was for a long time a mystery; into poverty fo great that some years of his boyhood were spent in the St. Asaph Union workhouse, he rose to a famous Journalist, an explorer of world-wide eminence, a legislator In the house of commons of Great Britain and a social figure in the most eminent circles of the world. He was about 16 when he first came to this country, shipping as a cabin boy on a schooner bound for New Or leans. It was there that he met his first friend and protector, Henry Mor ton Stanley, a merchant, who is said to have adopted him, and whose name he took. Mr. Stanley died intestate and the lad was thrown upon his 6wn re sources. When the civil war broke out he enlisted in the Confederate army, but being taken prisoner at Pittsburg Landing, won his liberty by enlisting in the Federal navy. For his bravery in swimming through a storm of shot and shell to attach a hawser to a cap tured Confederat vessel he was pro moted to be acting ensign on the iron clad Ticonderoga. His public career began with the Abyssinian expedition of 1867-68, in which he acted as a newspaper corre spondent. Succeeding in sending the first news of the close of the campaign to London, he attracted the attention of the New York Herald, which gave him a number of roving commissions. On one of these he ascended the Nile, on another he interviewed the chiefs of the Cretan revolution (1868-69) and he was sent eventually to Spain in time to witness the scenes that followed after the departure of Queen Isabella from Madrid. In his book, "How I Found Living stone," he has told how, on Oct 16, 1869, a sudden telegram called him from Madrid to Paris, and how the proprieter of the Herald asked him: "Where do you think Livingstone is? *» »I "I really do not know, sir. "Do you think he is alive, and that he can be found; and I am going to send you to find him. And these were the instructions he received, as recorded by himself: "Draw £1000 now, and when you have gone through that, draw another thou sand. and when that is spent, draw another thousand, and when you have finished that, draw another thousand, and so on; but find Livingstone." Mr. Stanley did not hesitate. His journalistic training had accustomed him to implicit obedience. Just as he had done when the Herald had given him 10 minutes to consider whether or not he would accept the mission to Abyssinia, so now he merely drew a long breath, and agreed to find Living stone living or LIving8tone'a bones dead. It was not until December, 1870, that Stanley sailed from Bombay to Zanzi bar, which he reached on Jan. 6. 1871. Stanley found that he would have to hire a body of 200 men for at least a year and carry with him immense stores of cotton sheetings, brass wire and beads, which take the place of specie among the barbarous tribes along the way. Each of his men was engaged for |6 a year and provided with a flintlock musket, powder horn, bullet mould, knife, hatchet and powder and ball for 200 rounds. To cross the rivers along the way two boats, one seating 20 and the other six men, were procured. Stanley had been fortunate enough to secure the services of three men, who had been respectively In the ex peditions of Speke, Grant and Burton. Under their guidance the journey from the coast to Ujlji was safely made, though under great hardships and per il. At Unyanyembe they had passed a caravan which had been sent to the relief of Livingstone by Sir John Kirk. At that place Stanley had been obliged to leave many of his men who were sick, including Shaw.At last, on Nov. 10, 1871, after a march of 236 days, the expedition, with flags flying and guns firing, entered the town of UJiji, where they were speedily surrounded by a crowd of wondering natives. Suddenly, Stanley heard a voice on his right say in English: "Good morn ing, sir," and a black man announced himself as Susi, the servant of Dr. Livingstone. "What! Is Dr. Livingstone here?" "Yes, sir. Are you sure? Sure, sure, sir. *» • • Why, I leave him just now.' And so Stanley, scourging himself to keep down his furious emotions, ar rived at the head of his caravan be fore a semicircle of Arab magistrates, in front of whom stood an old white man, with a gray beard. (Stanley walked deliberately up to him, took off his hat and said: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume. "Yes." said he, Vrlth a kind smile, lifting his cap slightly. Then Stanley explained his mission. great day for the old ex Stanley bore letters from his »» It was a plorer. children. 'I have "Ah!" said the old man. waited patiently for years for letters." Livingstone and Stanley became fast friends, and there is no doubt that the older man exerted a great influence Together they ex over the younger. plored the northern extremity of Tang ganyika. Livingstone believed tbat the Albert lake had some communication with the Nile system, but one result of this exploring tour was to disprove this theory. On March 13, 1872, Liv ingstone and Stanley parted, and the latter began his return march to the coast, which he reached on May 8, 1872, after encountering terrific floods and storms. When the news of the success of the expedition reached civilization is was hardlv credited at first, but Stanley's arrival in London with Livingstone's and diaries put au end to all I letters loubt. Stanley's next visit to Africa was as a war correspondent, accompanying öl» Garnet Wolseley'a eipedltion W Coom* aaste. On reaching the island of St. Vincent from Ashanti, In 1874, he flVst beard that Livingstone was dead, and that the body was on ite way to Eng land. Stanley himself was in time to attend the funeral In Westminster Abbey. Standing by the open grave he formed the resolution to take ap the work which Livingstone had been un able to accomplish. One day Mr. Edward Levy Lawson, now Lord Burnham, editor and propri etor of the Daily Telegraph of Lon don, asking him what work had been left undone by him on the continent of Africa, he replied: 'The outlet of Lake Tanganyika ia undiscovered, we know little or noth ing of Lake Victoria, and therefore the sources of the Nile are still unknown. Moreover, the western half of the Af rican continent is still a blank. Stanley added that if he survived long enough he would accomplish all this work. Thereupon a cable was sent to New York asking the Herald if It would Join the London Dally Telegraph in sending Stanley again to Africa. A laconic "yes" was speedily flashed across the wlrea Immediately the fit ting out of the expedition was begun. On Aug. 16, 1874, Stanley left Eng land for Zanzibar, where the Anglo American expedition was finally or ganized with a total force of 355 per sons, including 36 women, 10 boÿg and four Europeans, Stanley, the two Brothers Pocoek and Frederick Barker. The line of march covered nearly half a mile. On Feb. 27, 1875, the south end of Lake Victoria Nyanza was reached af ter great difficulties, repeated attacks from the natives and some losses by death and desertion. In his boat, the Lady Alice Stanley accompanied by 11 men, circumnavigated the lake. Livingstone, in his researches be tween I^ikes Nyassa and Tanganyika had proved the existence of a large river flowing to the north under the native name of Lualaba. He had im agined it to be the Nile, an opinion generally accepted by geographers. Stanley, sailing down the river from the furthest poftat which Livingstone had reached to the Atlantic, identified it with the Congo, and so proved the existence of a magnificent equatorial waterway in the very heart of Africa— the second largest river In the world. This discovery filled up an enormous blank in the map of Africa. Its polit ical importance cannot be overestimat ed. It led directly <o the founding of what is now the Congo Free 3tate, and indirectly to the scramble for Africa among the European powers which has left but an insignificant portion * » DOW of the continent unpartitioned. In January, 1878, Stanley returned to London, where he published the stçry of bis adventures and discoveries in "Through the Dark Continent." In 1879 he again went to Africa to found, under the auspices of the King of the Belgians, the Congo State—a work which engaged all his energies until 1888. His last expedition to Africa was for the ostensible purpose of succor ing Emin Pacha, whose position in the Equartorlal Provinces, since the abandonment of the Sudan by Egypt, supposed to be one of great perlL The supposition was found to be an error, but tho book "Through Dark est Africa*" in which Stanley told his story of adventures, was received with great popular favor. Of his later years the record la less spectacular. Dorothy Tennant In 1890, his Ameri lecture tour, his election to the British parliament in 1895, his accept ance of the title of G. C. B. in 1899 kept him Intermittently In the public eye, but even In parliament he was content not to cut any conspicuous was His marriage to Miss can figure. Our Men's Fashions Not Borrowed From England. The West End Gazette of London, England, some weeks ago said that "the desire of all well dressed Ameri cans, both ladles and gentlemen, is to be clothed In English-made garments." It is not true. Some well-dressed Americans may affect British made habiliments, but their number is ex tremely small and Is growing smaller, and the amount of clothes they buy ia Inconsequential. Another writer on "fashion»" reveals his ignorance of a well defined fact when he says In a recent number of the St. Louis Globe Democrat that "all men's fashions originate in England, and whatever sartorial innovations bear the hall mark of the British aris sure to be adopted by the tocracy are democratic American. All men's fashions do not originate in England. American fashion In men's apparel which is as original as the sartorial taste of the age and the country will permit The triumph of American tailoring at the Paris exposition is a fact which all pseudo-authorities on men's fashions should learn and keep in mind.— The Tailor and Cuti«. - • There is a distinctly Bowyer'e Bible. since William It is eighty years Bowyer put the finishing touch to his monumental Bible — an anniversary which Is of peculiar interest Just Bowyer was a miniature paint of fair abilities, who devoted ev hour for thirty years to now. cr ery spare extra-illustrating a copy of the Bible which came into his possession. With infinite patience and at considerable coat he collected every drawing, en graving, and etching of Biblical sub jects he could lay hands on, to the number of 7000. and interleaved his Bible with them, until the original mod est book had expanded into forty-four Imposing folio volumes, containing the work of 600 artists, from Michael Angelo to Benjamin West. The work completed in 1824, at a total coat minster Gazette, ■ Opera house than In any other Kuro I peaa capital, in spite of the fact that the state gives the building rent free was of 4,200 pounds. After hi» death it figured as a lottery prize, and under went many vicissitudes before it pass ed into tbp possession of Mr. Hey wood, of Bolton, for little more than an eighth of its original ooet — West Seats are higher priced at the Pari» 1 and an annual subvention of $160,000. 5» "FIRST BOY IN." lirt's In a knot an' it ain't on right? Haifa p-plastered against my head? Id* bub-bub blue an' my finger* white ? _ fa uh, I reckon my eye* lived I Teeth ob-ohatter an* I V>loo2 r siok? WOP-wob-wobble-in' with my obluf Just »-got out o' th' cr-cr-criok. Br-r-r-rl But I was th' first one in! Bay! Tb' wo* roe an' tb' Gr-Oreen boy*, Hicksey Murpby an' Bnb-bill Brown— Fib-b-b-but my teeth make a lot o' noise! Wp wen-Wen-weut to th' edge o' town Where th' will-willows grows up bo thick: I sb-sb-ebed to th' very *kln, * Then gr-r-r-r! I was in th' crick. 1 Out again—but th' first one ini Bub-bill ast me if it fel-felt cold. "No." I sa-saia, "it'« warm an' nice." Big a li-llo as I ever told - Hou~hon-hone*t, It's worse '» ice, All th* others, they dl-dlved quick; I got out on th' bank to grin. Geel They sputtered there in th' crick I Just th* same, I's th' first in. Ma called to me when I started out— Said to sta-stay on our own street. She'll want to know what I been about— I'm going home to ge got some heut. Tee-teeth chatter, my hair is slick. Trem-treni-trenibl<v-in' In my chin— Say ! It's dundy dow-dowu th' crick I Honest, I was th' first one in. —Chicago Tribune. !.. JUST FOR FUN fc w/ Today's choices are tomorrow's hab its, next week's character.—Life. In the battle of life don't spend too much time manoeuvring for position— Punch. "Did she marry the young heir to the estate?" "No, she married the at torney."—Cleveland Leader. Clara—What did you break off your engagement with Charlie for? Maud— I felt as If I ought to be getting mar ried.—Life. First Moth—Have you anything on hand tonight? Second Moth—Yes, I'm invited to a camphor ball.—Philadel phia Record. He (smilingly)—You remind me of an old friend of mlno. She— (haught ily)—Indeed! How old, please?— Yonkors Statesman. "He has quite a delicate wit, I've heard." "J wouldn't say 'delicate,' ex actly. 'Sickly' Is the proper word."— Philadelphia Lodger. "They haven't been married long, have they?" "I guess not. She still thinks her husband looks like Napo leon."—Chicago Record-Herald. Enthuslastlo mediocrity often passes for talenL A bot sausage is not moro nutylUouq than a cold sausage, but it Is fnore highly thought of.—Punch. B What's he going to call it?" "Por trait of a Lady.' '' "But it doesn't look like her at all!" "Then he might call it 'Portrait of Another Lady.' "—Life. Experiments having proved that wa ter Is a dangerous element in which to entrust Russian war vessels, tho 18 torpedo boats ordered by Admiral Makaroff are being sent by railway. —Punch. Mack—"Do you think Emeline had a good time?" Kate—"I guess so. Moth er and I took to our beds after she left, and she writes that she took to her bed as soon as she got home."— Cincinnati Tribune. Mrs. Newlywed—"John, I think baby has swallowed my pear! necklace." Mr. Newlywed—"By George! You seem to be determined to bring that young one up with the tastes of a million aire's child."—Judge. "Great guns!" exclaimed the absent minded roan. "I have stuck the light ed end of this cigar in my mouth. "How fortunate you were in discov ering it at once, dear," rejoined his good wife.—Chicago Daily News. "Young man," said Rev. Goodman, "some day you'll bring your father's gray hairs in sorrow to the grave." "No danger," replied young Rakely, "he hasn't any; worrying about me has made him bald."—Philadelphia Ledger. Wealth," said the putative young plutocrat, "is not worth striving for." "How do you know?" fiercely demand ed the proletariat. "You don't have to strive for yours!" "That only shows, gentlemen," he rejoiced, sadly, you don't know how reluctantly the governor loosens up."—Chicago Trib une. •* I ■ that The conversation turned upon the alderman from the 'Steenth wprd. "What do you suppose he's worth?" asked the man with the patch over his eye. "Nobody knows," said the man with the cinnamon beard. "Some times you can bay him for $50, and at other times it takes $500."—Chlca go Tribune. Multiplication of Bacilli. In our laboratories, under suitable conditions of food and warmth, a bacillus splits in half an hour into two parts, each of which splits again in half an hour, and so on, and it has been estimated that a single bacillus, if given similar conditions in nature, would, within a week, give rise to progeny numerous enough to fill tbe Atlantic ocean. Such overbalancing is largely prevented by the protozoa, which feed upon the bacteria, increas ing as they increase, and decreasing as this food supply gives out. The protozoa, in turn, are eaten by ani mals like the worms and shellfish, these by others, and so on, the bal ance of nature being so delicate that no form increases disproportionately for any length of time, although, like the locust plague, or the California fruit-tree scale, or the gypsy some forms may occasionally fy nate.—Gary N. Calkins, in Century. moth, redomi Iron In Sand. A carious sight on the coast of Java Is a long stretch of shore, about 29 miles in length, where the sand is filled with particles of magnetio iron. In some places it Is said that the sur face sand contains 80 percent of Iron. It can be smelted, and a company has been formed to exploit the deposit». Alpine flowers and plants are quickly becoming extinct that strong measures are to be taken in the future for their preservation. !