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LEAP YEAR l'ROFOSALS.
Sfanr Haiir Mnrrlap Where
H oinril "ropjicil I bp QiteMlnn."
,A It's leap year! Shall the women pro
'. pone? In tt.eso cnlighti ncd days whou
t- there are women In every profession,
, hi every trade. In every corner of tha
world, sharing dangers anil duties with
,.' rnoti, demanding and sometime getting
suffrage with them, I there any ren
Bon In the world why they should not
',.5 take advantage of the time-honored
Custom of leap your and nfk Mm wen
of their desire to wed with thorn? Why
not? ...
When n woman ran go out and siijv
'. port 'the family as she has to do In so
many cases nowadays, why shouldn't
she at least have the privilege of piofc
.'L ' Ing out the man she wants to take
Jjl.? tare of?
If she sees that she can support two
on her. salary' and has really decided
that she will he much hapior doing
It, why should ghe hesitnte at a mere
convention when sli might share the
.', happiness with some natural protector
"jj of woinauklnd whose inherent modesty
prevents lilm from requesting her to
take him In on the deal?, .
If she knows that her own Judgment
Is a arent deal lctier than that of the
man who Is preferring some girl who
would not be able to keep liiin in the
little luxuries to which he has been
accustomed, why tdiould she stand hack
when she miglit show him the way to
comfort and contentment?
If she. understands him better than
be understands hiuiself and appre
ciates fully that he will he so flattered
at her good judgment in picking him
out of nil her iossilK acquaintances
that he will forgive any mere depart
ure from custom, why should she not
propose?
A New York woman, .Mrs. Belle do
Rivera, president of the -New York City
Federation of Woman's Clulis. believes
that women should share men's prerog
ative. "They bave a right to 1 impose
not only In leap year, but whenever
they choose,'' she says. "Supiose a
girl iu rich and a man is' poor. lie
loves her and slie know:; it; he In his
modesty dare not propose. She loves
blm, too. Should she not proose?"
There are historic instances of where
women have proposed. Queen Victoria
lias been the leading example. She
'might not have infoniK'd her choice.
Prince Albert, in so many words that
she desired li 1 111 to wed her, but she
chose him from the other suitors pre
sented to her for iippri liatlon and let
bim know ir. And besides that, it was
a love match and surely resulted hap
pily if ever a ro.;d runiain-e did.
Quec 11 Wilhcliniiia of Holland
thought i in' cxn;np!i "f Quei. 11 Victoria
goo 1 I'nu'.u'i foi her I follow, anil she
proposed to the present prince consort.
Mine, tie St. -id, who was clever
enough :'.1 attractive enough to have
cajoled any man Into proposing to her
If she li ..1 really w::UI".l him. wasted
Ho time "Ml i'.riitiee or suMerfilge, lull
asked th
pleasure ;.
in.,;!. lie accepted with
l!i -y vi tv married, though
l.; riivi -i :;ie!VI fur 11 lo'.i;;
altc ki 1
time.
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promulgated the doctrine that It was
the woman Who chose,' anyha?. Why,
then, should a worn a u tpell the game
for herself by coming right out with n
proposal, when by patlenne and lit U
tact she could tense un out f a maa?
Ieap year has It possibilities, bat It
will bo n brave girl who will announce
her engagement this year. William
Wesley, In Chicago Journal.
tab Charges It Owi Pare.
The day when It Is necessary te dis
pute with the Gotham cab driver eith
er before the starting of the trip r
at the conclusion of It regarding Uit
fare charged Is Hearing Its end. thanks
to the taxicah, or more proparly the
taximeter cab, which vehicle la provid
ed with a recording Instrument on the
dial of which Is shown tha exact fare
or tariff due. A German Inventor, a
couple of years ago, perfected the first
taximeter, which Instrument, housed
in small metal box a foot long, half a
foot wide itnd four or Ave Inches deep,
performs the manifold duty of reckon
ing the fare the cab earns while trav
eling on the street, while waiting In
front of the clnb or department store,
while carrying extras such as trunks
and miscellaneous luggage, and In ad-
LEAP YEAR.
dltlou keeps a record of the driver's
actloiiR by registering the number of
trips the cab makes each day, counting
up the total mileage of the day and
the exact mileage of each trip, and
finally making n record of mileage and
fares for the benefit of the cab owner.
In brief, t!c taxlcab comes as a de
tective prodigy between the cob own
er and the cab driver on the one hand
and lietween the cab driver and the
traveling public on the other band.
FADS OF THE PAST.
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THE FIFrEEN- PUZZLE
It was a good old puzzle, the fifteen
puzzle, but It got Its 2.3 long ago. It
was about tho mst fascinating thing
in that lino ever on the market, and the
beauty of it was that you could some
times work it after trying about u
week. Some puzzles scent lmiossible to
work.
The fifteen device was simply a
pasteboard box aliout four inches
srpmre with' fifteen inimlxml block an
inch square and a simee where u Kix
teeiith block would tit. Tills one si.a
was to be ii5ilb:i.,i'ii movin-,' (he blocks
about without taking them from tho
box. until the tilt. 'on intiiil.ers were In
their proper numerical order.
Micro were nei mi instances of peo
ple who went (i-a.y In vnlu efforts to
turn the trick. When 11 whole family,
each member absorbed In a fifteen puz
zle, whs grouped around the evening
lump, the silence was so intense you
could drive nails In It. - '
A I re lie I, Ju,,,.
Two doctors were called to attend a
man win had suffered an nivldeiit to
Lis hand.
"We shall have to amputate three
t'u.gei'." s..i.l one.
' No, two." aid the other.
"Three," maintained (lie first.
"Ilii, wcil. three, then." replied the
s-. e.a.d. "We won't (pl.irrcl over a nf.
tic thing like that." N,,s Loislrs.
it was a cheap philosopher who nsiU
knowledge N power. There U really
.elaiitg M, helpli-ss its the mini v. ho
kn.iw., till ah'int things that htit.pciicd
long tigo, m; I w ho coidracteil n hack
if' coilg'i svlilli; acptirmg bis ktiowl-
e 'ge.
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BALLOON SHARP DIFFSB j
Ona Think AlmhLpo, I.IWa Aataa
Win Kaon lie Pmiii Ctk.
Iut. TbomuH E. fcel fridge. U. 8. A .4
whe recently made an asmtakm frem
Baddark, Cape llretrm. In Prof. Alei-j
andar Orahntu Pell's tixw tcfrabcdraP
kite Cygwt, Is of the opinion tbat In
time alrahlps will wtcMie no more lnter-1
eat than awtomnbrtes do to-day. Ha
wiy that the Bret etpciimest witV
Praf. P.ell'8 ereatleti was a anceees. 1
The lieutenant declared he had com
plete coatrel of the ship daring every
laemeat of Its flight and aake with
enthustann of Ira dlrigiHe qoalrtles and
the ease with whlcb It was limnlp-
lated. Ills experunewtMl ascent la be
lieved to have fnrnldhed data that will
be of greet value for future trials of
the aeroplane.
"By taking Into eonslderattan tha
pan on the flying line, the raWlty af
the wind and the Might of flight, we
norw know," said LAnt. RetfrlApe, "the
power that will he required a a meter
to keep the airhi In flight wttbmt the
aid of any outside turner. It Is Quit
practicable to roaetrwrt a motor suited
to the condition af aerfol Mrlgatlonj
and capable of fnrvMrfng tho neces-
sary iKiwer, and It will be only a mat
ter of time when the Cygnet, or on im
proved machine of her type, soaring on
high In absolute eontrel, will occasion
no mere comment to watchers from be
low than on automobile does to-day
threading Its course through a business
thoroughfare."
It is Interesting to sate In this con
nection that Count de la Vaulx, one o
the most Intelligent and enterprising ol
the French aeronaut, does not bellev
that either Santoa-Dntnont or Farman
will win the Dentoch prize of flO.OCHJ
for the first airship that sails a circu
lar kilometer. He takes little stock. In
the future of flying machines, either,
but pins bis fultn on the possibilities of
the p'eerable balloon.
Tb inr Krd Haa,
"I always feel a bit nervous," re
marked a sergeant of police, "when I
have to arrest a man with gray eyes,
for I know tbat lie Is a liorn lighter
and that I am likeiy ta have u lough
Job.
"Mtst men wln.11 they are fighting
retain a certain amount ft discretion
and remember tbat a brutal asuault on
the police is a very uerloua offense.
But the man With the ' gray eyes,
though he imgr In his calmer moments
be quite aware of the folly f resist
ance, forgets nil about that when his
blood is v,p. lie thinks of only on
tiling, and that is to win th fight.
"It bn't einong criminals only that
the gray eye denote the fighter. I
have olwrved the same thing among
professional pugilists, an enormous pro
portion of whom have gray eyes.
",Vit;i soldiers and sailors it Is Just
the Kiiine. Many irf our foreiiKmt krvn-
rtils find admirals laive eyes of this
color. It Is the more remarkable when
we retiir mlier that the number of ic
ple who have gray eyes is small -om-parcd
with other shades.
"The moral is that when you are
dealing with a gray eyed man you,
hliuiild la- cautious in provoking blm."
London Answers.
A llul!liedi-l l(rpl.
A iwival oIlK-er, very well and favor
rlly known hi IjoihIoii, has for some
unknown reason U-en advanced In bis
rofcfodon very slow ly, though he has
prown gray In the sen ice and indeed
li.mcntiilly bald. Recently one of bis
Juniors was bold enough to question,
him as to his remarkulile Hlmeiice of
balr.
"How comes It that yom are fco very
bald?"
The ofliecr replied promptly and with
much vlndicllveness :
' You. man, you would be bald, I
tt.'.nk. If you bad bad men stepping
over your betel for jears In the way I
have." Ixinihtii Pun-li.
OH EAT PXOOD OV LAW.
tievr tlerlvlnna and Slnfali-a Make
Hart! WnrY for the student.
The mass of printed legal decision,
gathered into volumes In the Vnlted
States every year Is so great ItHLOOo
pagea that a lawyer, to keep up with
them nil, would have to read nearly
eleven and a half large, closely written
pages an hour for U4 hours of all the
.'1(!5 days In the year. He would not
have time to eat or sleep, much less
attend to his practice. And even If he
were physically able to keep driving
through the legal literature at this in
human' rate, lie would find nt tho end
of the year that lie lind not had time
to glance at n single one of the 2.,000
pages of American statute law that
had been added to the libraries In that
time. Few laymen realize the great
volume of these constant additions to
the literature of the law. Hut with
courts In fit) jurisdictions (counting tho
four branches of Federal courts) con
stantly grinding out now .decisions the
total can be easily appreciated.
Que would think tbat, under the
growing burden of legal tomes, the task
of the law student would become year
ly more dllllcult nud complex. To tho
layman, the student would seem to
have an almost Insuperable task of oj
tlcnl digestion. And the contention that
the task of learning the law Is becom
ing harder would seem to be borne out
by the fact that the New York I'niver
ulty Law School, which has the largest
number of students of any university
law school In the country (over eight
hundred students this year), has just
announced that, beginning with the fall
of P.hij), Its morning, afternoon and
evening courses In law will be In
creased from two to three years. The
university authorities have found It In
creasingly flltlicult to train a young
man for tiie law In two years of study.
According to excellent authorities,
however, the, law is not necessarily get
ting more complex from mere volume.
Its increasing complexity conies rather
from new laws covering subjects new
to civilization. Chemistry has brought
.to the Industrial Held many things that
bave made necessary new laws. An in
creasing number .of laws cluster about
the" teh phone and Its use, 't he sky
scrapers, underground railways, wire
less telegraphy, patent foods things
like these all bring Into being an at
tendant host of new 'laws, which are
really only the application of old legal
principles to new conditions. Twenty
five years ago there was practically no
law on the subject of electricity. To
day there are volumes. Ten years ago
automobile law was unknown. To-day
there are many cases, n book or two
and any number of statutes. Ten years
from now the law of the airship may
' be an established factor In our legal
literature.
Though the law is no harder to learn
In New York than In other States, ad
mission to the bar In New York now
rests upon n comprehensive knowledge
of the law. A lawyer must follow the
progress of the law in his own State
and the United States law, too, and It
Is apparent from this that the con
scientious New York lawyer has a rea
sonably hard time. Two thick volumes
of statutes show that New York, with
its population of 8,(K)0.(ii)0, 'got l,0."i0
pages of new laws in l!MUi. England,
with a population of -lO.ootMXiO, bad
new stctutes aurountiiig to only 4118
pages In this period. In New York
there were iibout lo.r.oo pages of re
ported decisions, while all Kngland
showed only -1,2(10 pages. In the big
library of the University Law School,
with its 21.000 volumes, eight little,
shelf sections In a corner gallery serve
to contain a double set of all the vol
nines of decisions handed dowu In Ku
glisb courts since ISOo.
KcitlnK tl.- I'loiTPr.
"Come und see me feed my flower
pets," be said.
. And be IihI the way, bearing some
chopped raw fish In a saucer to a
huge aquarium. The Is.ttoiu of the
aipiaiium was covered with flowers.
In the silent submarine garden
clumps of lieautlful bright growths, yel
low, white, pink, blue, swayed gently
In the clear water.
"Watch," be said, and he thrust
down .1 small morsel of fish on a rod.
Immediately a while flower like a
daisy drew towards the fish, bending
011 Its stalk; It wrapped Its is'tals, Ilka
slim white fingers, about tin; food.
"Another," he said, and this Hum a
yellow flower bent forward and took
a morsel.
"Isnt It wonderful?" he cried. "Llv
lug. thinking flowers! Before they
knew me they would turn nway, they
would shut all their petals tight when
I tried' to feed them. But they are
my friends now, these sea anemones."
roxtoitlce llrellc.,,
On an average no less than loO.OOO
letters are posted annually without any
address, some of them niiitiilnlng mon
ey which amounts to about Xt,(Hx) a
year. Among the cr. plographlc ad
dresses submitted f 'l' decipherment to
the jH'SlolUce elert were "Obimyl
divk." which being iutcrpreti'd Is "Ilol
boru Viaduct," and "1 1 ilewite," which
srands more obviously for "Isle of
Wihl." These were easy of decipher
ment compared with a letter addressed
"Hasclfcai !i In no famptshere," which
nevertheless was duly forwarded to
"1 1.ix.ctl.en'-h. Northamptonshire," and
with another thus superscribed, "To
the t'ccH-ry of Wore. Cliclsey Osllttle,
Ijmilon, Queen Victoria," which will
duly delivered to the secretary of war,
T. I'.'s London Weekly.
'I o-kI MhjiI 'J ix-iity tenri,
A remarkable case of a toad sleep
lug for twenty years is l'corled froia
Stone, iii Stafford
Mr,
Twenty years,
ago Qcorgo Lewis lailt bouses in front
of which w ere huye si one steps. 'Mill
week the sieps were removed, and Im
prison' d in tile Klnncwork a load waa
found In a eo.i.ali.s" stale, but It soon
became active when removed Into tha
sunshine. There can I.e no doubt that
the toad hud livd twenty years In a
hermetically sealed chamber, as all
around, in perfect condition, was a
foot thickness of stone und cement, and
the toad was In the center of the cavity.--
Kansas City Jonrmil.
Then- are s many things jou euo
do without r.n l v.;.:.i.
itimmm wlu mi cri'u .'ix jwaji'jjaia ing
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
3E3 OH TIII2 CATTLE P.AN3E3.
SI'Ll'lAL cummbsloner of the American
A Humane Association has Just made a re
I l11'1' ' 'li; Investigations, extending over
n .veal, 11. 1.' .Ill ririiilliii.il VI ... V n.111 i. 0.1
the ranges In the Yst. Ills rcnrt has
been prepared for the pui'ose of "arousing
the American ptople to the necessity for
action to stop this wanton Haughlcr of thousands of do
mestic animals each year." Covernnient reports are
cited to show tbat for the year ending March .11. 1!or,
there was a h!-s of i;.t'A".(,-7 cattle en the Western
ranges, due largely to starvation and expysure. The
commissioner assert that the losses each year 'are at
least 2,,iOO,oo) animals, representing an estimated value
of fl' 4,000.000. The burden of the commissioner's con
clusions Is that cattle ranging Is cruel and Inhuman
business and rhould be suppressed by law.
Without 'quarreling with the tl;ures cpioted, although
most reports of slix'k loss-es on the ranges arc greatly
exaggerated, the Humane Association is apparently
working on a false premise and starting a crusade
against an evil that Is rapidly curing Itself. The crusade
urged against stockmen Is apparently based on the the
ory that there Is malice and delgn back of bis treat
ment or the stock on the range. The fact Is that stock
men, while counting annually upon losses of cattle from
various causes, do everything In their power to lessen
the loss, just as men In other business take every pos
sible precaution against laches.
The day of the ranger Is fust passing. The meat sup
ply of the future will be furnished by stock growers
who keep smaller herds, nud. by making projier pro
vision for their care during the wlU;r, reap larger re
turns than are possible under the range system.--Omaha
Bee.
TIIE DEAP.TH OP TEACHERS.
l.KVLW HI'M)!:i:i vacancies existed In
the teaching force Iii the schools of the
city of New York last month, but there
were only nine hundred eligible candidates.
U!f-':iViiij It b' e.'Mma'.cil that three
B ;?!. cS 3 teacher are nr.vlcd In the
t v ever.- jeer. The
the demand. A similar dearth of terchers Is noted in
other cities, and even In the smaller towns. Hoards of
education aid school superintendents are struggling
with the problem. It lias been expltiin-'d that the stand
ard of ipiulilieiitions hi!" In en made such that It Is not
easy for candidates to p.-us the necessary examinations,
and that the pay offered Is so low that It does not at
tract capable 11:111 and women to the profession.
The charge that teachers arc underpaid Is unfortu
nately true. A committee of tho National lkluciitional
M ''at-f''Tf:..J-.?.,'-SVi u t'vY$&',ii--'tov
The illustration, by Max Cowper, pictures a scene In front of a suspended bank during the terror
rf financial panic which threatened New York. All ranks of society felt the Imminence of the strin
gency, which meant ruin alike for the man of wealth and for those of humble means, who found them
selves on the same dira level of poverty. - ,' . . ..
MILLIONS OF SLATE PENCILS.
Germany ilir firm text I'i-oiI u i--r ana
AlmoKt Su'll- the World.
To supply the school children of this
otintry with slate pencils a great many
millions f.f thcue little writing iiistrti
incnts are mude annually. In fact.' In
addition to the domestic output, no
fewer than iM.'KHi.ikxi imported ones are
used up In a ttt'elve-moni !u. marly ail
of them from (Icnminy. .
The slate used for pencils Is a Lind
of schist, of so line a grain that Its par
ticles are pot vIMhle to the naked eye.
Occasionally Impurities are accounta
ble for "scratchy" slate p sc Us. which.
Instead of making a soft, delihl mark,
are liable to s'-nre lb' smooth surf:ie.
to which they are ap'.'ied. This kind
of stone is largclv si'.ica :,:id Its black
color Is due to the carbon if contain''.
(iennan.v supples all the vo-hl with
slate pencPs, pr.tdnchig ncciv :::iOini,-
('00 annually. Tlif.v are obtained I'roai
quarries In the lielchhoiiio';.! 0' K. chi
nch. In Meiiincen. Nearly nil t!:e work
Is done by Land, tin 1 Is so pr.arly paid
thtit 12 marks t?:;."") we ltly is consid
ered fair wages for 11 t ,i:;, who, :
order to earn this nt.ioetit. .iuct call
ltpon !i!s wife it ml children to Le!;
bl'ri.
T!c U'.fh wt'g- arc si nrieh Id '. In
th" ''rl.ed Viae m. : 'ate pc; -1 s ;
luMiiufa'-'-.n-.-d
lien .ri' ,', :i"ii'
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Association reported, two year ago, that a woman prin
cipal In a certain city received only $240 a year, and
that a man teacher In another part of the eountry was
paid only $250. These are extreme eases, but there are
many others almost ac bad. In cities where living ex
penses are hlfh, the salary of $500 or $600 paid to the
lower-grade teachers Is sometimes aurpaeseU by the
wages of street-sweepere or of city hall scrubwomen.
Tho people of Hie cities are awake to the need of treat- '
lng the teachers better, for efforts arc making la some
of them to find money to increase their pay.
As to the question of qualifications. It Is surprising
that so many thoroughly trained men and women are
willing to work for the pay offered; but tf it should ap-'
pear that In any city appointment waa denied to experi
enced teachers from other places, because of Inability to
pass technical examinations In subjects of which they
need only a general knowledge, then the examination
system ought to be revised. Youth's Companion.
WAR ON
coming across the Taclflc Ocean on ships. Mr. Morley,
Secretary of State for India, In his recent address to
bis constituents at Arbroath, referred to the rats of
India as the great distributers and reminded his hearers
that the difficulties of the Indian government Jn check
ing the ravages of the disease were enormously Increased
by the religious objection of the Hindus to destroying
a nl mill life. Altogether the rat situation in India is
remarkable, and tho Ilrltlsh government's problem of
rat extermination promises to be a long time Ui reach
ing n solution.
Hitherto In the world's history these animals have
been bunted and killed by man chiefly because of their
depredations: Human beings also have an instinctive
aversion to them, and "ratting" in former times was a
sport In recognized standing. Nowudays we are more
dignified and do not travel miles to see the rats killed
when an old barn Is torn down. It Is, however, the
modem discovery that rats carry disease that will re
new tho war with a thoroughness that never before was
observed. Even If they perform some good service as
scavengers, which must bo greatly minimized and even
extinguished in communities and abodes where modern
sanitary Ideos are understood and practiced, the evil
they do far outweighs It. Hats and bouso flics should
be granted no quarter such Is the decree of medical
science. And from that decreo there Is evidently no
appeal. Springfield Uepubllcun.
thousand new
schools of the
supply never epulis
P.UIN FROM BANK FAILUEE.
so-called slate peuells of Boaitone,
which Is a kind of talc with a soapy
"feel," but they ore Inferior in qual
ify. BEAR IN THEIR IT ARMS.
How at Vlrlnla Mock HaJaeia
I'rofn-t 'I'belp Sht-ti.
Iii the Williams river country of
West Virginia tho bears are greatly on
the increase, uecurdlug to Recreation,
and there is a blue grass settlement
about the extreme head of tho river
called 1 leaver Kaui. which has all but
been driven out of tho slii-ep business
by bears. This Is a hardship to small
landowners whose farms lio at too
great tin clevnilon to raise grain.
On rhe Mlack Mountain run one man
claimed t have Ideiitliled the signs of
117 bears In one day's hunt. That
sect us a good many bears, but I've
hniite l ui:d li In d so long and told
tiboi.t my adventures at so nianv cu tim
bres that 1 cannot consistent 1 v ilenv !
aitythlng. Nevertheless, every now and
th 'ti a l.:ntcr runs ou to a bear and
Libs It. rrciucditatcd killing of bears
U rarely known, an this wisest of the
i'ofe: t allium!:! knows well how to
avoid men. A rabbit Is courageous
cotnpa'v 1 to ti black b 'tir. This shows
the Mtpc, l'.r intelligence of llrtiln.
A. oei twe'-ty ye. rs i:.;,) an unarmed
L he",,'..u: !;i:hd a bear with a large
sl.i.ie at the IVi Hole. i!e was resdng
I i" t ;i a ii'ei ',p;toiis batik of
!i t
! : hale lieu a Is-ar,
by dea, can e to the river and
at the tcil in' the bank. The
a-t a Ir r;:c stot e down upon it
ui.n. d It .- : t hat he was able to
It v.'i'..: u t'.vo yc tr-i.lit. The
'fee Is :i !1 i.u'.'iel.lieate 1.
: hee; ;:'i'" ate generally the
' .is of th. ::i :ii and are very
','.., i.e cr ii H id wUhotit
aitli'.: a ccl..p'.e!! cil". '.lit to see
' hit , cr"f-e 1 Ilii fcice. I f he
hoy "i I; h dt'tfv." One sluep
fojtnd that by !'.a:i;.'ing half a
IL'-i'.d latibtis abi-'ti his farm.
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RATS INTERNATIONAL.
HKT1IEU snakes or rats are the more e-
1 A Tl tested by human kind Is immaterial. Rats
Xfxj I are Just now a special object of attack. As
.ni.ir.a V. uirvrnnv; a u ti t j iuuhuuch, iq
brought against them. Tho bubonic plague
was probably Imported to California and
other States of the coast by Oriental rats
Joym of Collector.
Collecting will always have Its ro
mances. I know of one that occurred
at tho sale at Christie's of tho effects
of the late Sir Henry Irving. Some
one I knew had been to see tho collec
tion before tho sale. He came across
a portrult with which he was familiar
because he had seen It thirty years
before. On consulting his catalogue he
discovered that tho portrait was de
scribed as being that of a man un
known, and, further, the artist was .
also unknown. Now, he knew that thai
portrait was that of a famous actor byi
a famous English painter. He longed!
to buy it, but decided that it wouldk
go at too high a price. He went to the
miction with very little hope. The'
Whistler and the Sargent were sold,'
and then It was the turn of this pic
ture. N'obiKly recognized It. Finally
ho had to start the bidding himself,'
and this be did. Only onn man bid
against blm, but he soon stopped, dis
couraged, and then the picture was
knocked down to the man who had
never expected to get it. IIo hurried,
to the desk to pay the small amount
and to carry off his prize. "Do you,
happen to know unythlng about that
portrait?" the auctioneer asked him as
a porter took It down to n cab.'', "I
know It very well." said the new own
er, conscious that it was now safely
his property. "It Is a portrait of lluck
si.me, the 'actor, by Ihiuiel Macliso,
'I hern Is an engraving of It lu the Mac
Use portrait gallery," Mrs. John Lime,
In l'l-arson's Magazine.
The Slicl.la.
The Kngllshuuin Oli, yes! America
Is a wonderful country.
The Aniciictiu tliii What did you
e,. there? - .
The Englishman Niagara Tails, the
Turkish loiiu ot the Waldorf und the
'Chicago block yards. American. Spec
tator. What has lieeonii of the old-fashlon-c
I woman who used to say, "Well, It
I'm crazy, I havo lota of coiuuuny !"
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