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Hi JlESlrfETICIifM It la suggested la a recent fashion publication that the women should areas according to the style of face with which nature has favored them (or which art has manufactured for them) in order to obtain the best re huIU. It is held that a girl with an "interesting Du Maurier face" should indnige in quaint, old-fashioned hats and bonnets, and wear the little silk mantillas which are being revived, they say. in Paris. Thii is all ve:y veil iu Iheory. by rrctice is another hing. The woman cf the present who has he Du Maurier type of countenance toes not desire as a ri;I to accentuate ia peculiarities. In fact, the Trilby face and it appears in almost every one of the artist's dames cf high de gree is attractive after a certain fashion, but is not exactly beautiful; all the women cf the twentieth century THE RAGE FOR CHARACTER DRESSING HAS GONE. Intend to be beautiful if nature and the l,eauty doctor can make them so. Old styles are fascinating on the jttage for there they form part of a living picture, but in real life new modes are best. If last year's gown is out of date, why should a woman deliberately seek to array hereof in the style of a past decade, even for the sake of being pic turesque, even with the desire to live up to her particular cast of counte- i o!ice it would be a sacrifice of good taste and good Eense to resort to an tiquated modes when the nove'.ties dis played are so extremely fascinating an J beeomin?. Athtlr Oat of Ite. The rage for character dressing, for lho presentation of artistic types un der modern conditions has become an cient history. The peiiod of aesthetics in dress was a painful one. all things considered, and few would care to re vive i. Dull hues, washed out effects, gaunt and attenuated figures, trailing roue and picture hats characterized this mode; Ilurne-Jones maidens and Kate Greenaway girls, blessed damo with flowing raiment and care lessly flowing or loosely coiled hair CKW-d in stained glass attitudes. "You hold yourself like this, you ho'd your vlf like that; you do your very best to look both angular and flat." sang the representative of the cult in Pa tience" and the results for a time were -d to contemplate. All Cliac aod Billows. Everything c Ings and billows, lace and chiffon add their charm to silk and wool, and the gown3 resulting are both becoming and artistic. Of course there are ome models which display none of these attractions, gowns which present all the defects and few of the beauties of the present fashions, but these fortunately are in the minority. There are women who must have the very limit of the mode, women whose straight front corsets AESTHETICS ARE NOW OUT OF DATE. are extremely straight, so utterly unyielding, that all semblance of grace of contour is lost in the uncompromis ing stiffness, women whose hair pres ents an abnormal spectacle of how the crown of glory may be put to base uses, women who abuse the good things of the mode In the endeavor to excite comment in the desire to out shine others in exploiting the latest wrinkle and the newest fad. Natur ally such an excess of zeal defeats Its own purpose and such women simply exemplify thu evlla of fashion carried beyond its legitimate limits. Well-bred women drts within the boundaries of erood taste, they do not seek to make themselves conspicuous they simply fo!lov the rational dictates of the pre vailing fashions leaving the defects severely alone. TrlantnK4 Make a iw Dnw. o'ost other dresses iepead more or upon trimmi'iu sad extraneous decorations for their full effect, but the sheer white mulls, the delicate muslins, the dainty organdies are sat isfying In themselves. There is some thing about the filmy whiteness that appeals to the eyp. something about the softness and freshness which is more than attractive and when the wearers are young and have at least the beauty of youth and good health, if loveliness of foature be lacking, there is a charm about the whole which is indescribable yet po tent. I.ace is of course the favorite trimming for "gradua tion" frocks and not simply Valenciennes, which used to be con sidered the only thing suitable, but all manner of lacy meshes, fine, coarse, open or closely woven are In demand. Guipure. Mechlin. Renaissance, Lux- ueil. Russian, all appear on the rvcest frocks and add to their beeomMguess. Mitrtwalt at r'nl'nr. The new shirtwaist suits are not quite ur to the mark. Whether this is uue to the fact that they are inexpen sive or whether the defect lies wholly in the making it is rather hard to say, to far the models which have been dis played are not attractive. The old style j sailor blouse suit is pretty, jaunty and becoming, but the shirtwaist suit is a failure. Possibly this is due to the at tempt to make a cheap costume. A shirtwaist is the most comfortable of garments, but it requires to be well put together and to be worn with a skirt which has in it the evidences of skillful manufacture. Unfortunately this is not the case with the novelty in this line which has been put upon the market, and nowa days it is a hopeless task to try to In terest the feminine world in inferior and poorly made articles. Perhaps the shirtwaist was intended to be worn with a separate skirt per haps it loses all its style when fitted with a lower petticoat of similar mate rial. The change is not a happy one, whatever the cause may be; it is more than probable that the separate effects will be maintained by those who have the best interests of the shirtwaist at heart. The tailors show some highly ornate designs in outing waists while some of the models are chic and display taste i and ingenuity in the trimming and j while the cut is good and the fit per i feet, one cannot help feeling that j much is lost in the effort to render I dressy a garment whose principal ! charm is in its simplicity, to decorate with embroidery and lace that which POSE COSTUMES NO LONGER EN REGLE. was meant to be stitched or simply tucked, to add external ornamentation to the bodice whose utility and beauty lay in its severely simple outlines. BLOCKHOUSE POR RESIDENCE. Ml Rtmodeli Hatlson Bay Com- piny' TtaJlag fetation. One of the objects of interest at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.. Is the residence of F. H. Clergue, that remarkable genius who is spending millions in the development of the Soo water power, Mr. Clergue, fortunately for the Soo, is something more than a money grubber, and so when he bought the old Hudson bay station on the Cana dian side of the river for a millsite, he determined to preserve all that would be of historical Interest. In pursuance of this idea he has rebuilt the old blockhouse and uses It for his home. The stone walls of the blockhouse are those built by the Hudson Bay com pany more than 150 years ago. The old loopholes can be seen. The upper, or overhanging portion of the building, made of logs, had to be rebuilt. IU design is as nearly like the original as it was possible to make it. But cf course the polished floor. Turkish rugs, brass beds, porceUJn bath, tele phone and other features of the in terior are not relics of the Hudson Bay company's period. But it is very proper indeed, that the man who lives in this historic structure should be the man who is building the first rail road to Hudson Bay. Indeed, he has many miles of it completed and open to traffic, and is sending the construc tion gang into the wilderness with the rails at the rate af half a mile a day. Mr. Clergue was able to locate the old stockade which surrounded the blockhouse, and has built a handsome wall of ribboned sandstone to mark the line.s of the ancient compound. Within the enclosure pet bears and great St. Bernards disport themselves even as they very likely did upon the self-same spot for the pleasure of the fur traders two centuries ago. Mr. Clergue has also found and preserved the first lock by which vessels were taken past the Soo rapids. It was built by the Hudson Bay company 150 years- ago to enable the company's bat teaux to come down from their trading trips along the shores of Lake Supe rior, and was only a little fellow, its totai length being about sixteen feet. The honest man has got many ene mies, because he is too frank to flatter the hypocrites who try to swindle him in business. SEVENTH ON THE ATLANTIC. Flerpent Morgan' Line Not So Zsapcxt lug A Repu ted. The Leyland line of ocean steamers by J. Pierpont Morgan for an Amer ican syndicate is not of overshadowing importance in the ocean trade, as many writers have sought to convey of late. As compared with other lines the steamers are not imposing, while the carrying capacity of the line ranks but seventh. The Hamburg-American line stands first with 202 vessels, hay ing a tonnage of 541,083. Three Brit ish lines, a French, an Italian and a German line, in addition to that al ready mentioned have more ships and a greater tonnage than the Leyland Of the twelve fleets that practically monopolize the ocean traffic seven fly the English flag. It is said that of the 400-odd steamships of more than 5.000 tons' burden in existence, more than 30 are under the British flag. OI these eighteen are in the Leyland fleet which Mr. Morgan is to control. Should he also get possession of the Atlantic Transport company's fleet the number would be Increased by several first- class ship3. two o which the Minne haha and the Minneapolis are listed among the half-dozen biggest ships in the world. The gross tonnage of the seventeen ships owned by the At lantic Transport company is 93.741. Six ships, including two of 13,401 tons each, now building, will add 59.030 tons to the total capacity of this fleet. One is surprised to find that only three of the big trans-Atlantic passenger carrying lines are in the li-.t cf big fleets. It will be observedthat the White Star line's fleet In proportion to its tonnage is sm.II la nombtrs. Eleven of its twenty-four steamers have capacities of above 10,000 tons. It owns the oceanic, the biggest steam ship in the world, and is building the Celtic, launched a few days ago, which will have a gross tonnage more than 3,000 tons greater than that of the Oceanic. Steamship men say that a big steamship Is much more profitable than a small one to operate, as it can be handled by a crew much smal.er in proportion to Its size. AMERICA'S TRIUMPHS financial Capital Ko Longer London. bat New York. The financial capital is no longer in London It is in New York. No nation ever had in its treasury so much gold as the United States has now in its vaults. Our exports have recently broken all records and they are mar velous in their totals and variety. For a time it was only food that we sent to other parts of the earth now Am erican machinery and manufactures are carrying consternation Into the strongholds of Europe's Industries There is something more. It is not mere luck that has won. It is Ameri can excellence. Take an indirect illus tration. Germany pays about $250 a year for each of her soldiers. Great Britain pays about twice as much. No other nation approaches those figures except one. The United States pays an average of $1,000 a year. This means that the man is better paid, bet ter fed, better kept. The results show In the practical comparisons in China, w-herc the troops of the nations came together in actual work, great honors came to the United States. There was a time when the other nations were prone to laugh at our ways and to scoff at our pretensions but that time has passed. We now pos sess the greatest country on earth; we have more railroads than the rest of the world; and we have the money As to politics well, what other execu tive except the czar could take a ten thousand mile journey without getting outside his own bailiwick. Saturday Post. EfTecta of Medicine. When we speak about driving a dis ease out of the body, we are talking sheer nonsense. What we can do, and what medicine does for us. is to favor the body's powers of resistance and re pair. Medicines are given to aid these powers, while in a few cases drug3 are known which possess actual powers of killing the germs that beset us. Qui nine acts in malaria, for instance, be cause it kills the germs that develop In the blood, and other drugs which are specifics for certain diseases prob ably owe their action to similar pow ers. After all, the doctor is only the servant of nature, in that his training teaches him to note symptoms, to weigh the probabilities of the case, to be on the alert to assist nature when occasion arises and to favor in every way the process of natural recovery. The Scotsman. Bareau Man an Antlior. Frederick Emory, who has recently become known as the author of "A Maryland Manor," does not make a business of writing fiction, even of the historical sort. As chief of the bureau of foreign commerce In the department of state at Washington he devotes himself to the task of selecting from the reports of consuls of the United States such as ought quickly to bo spread before the business men of the country, so they may take prompt ad vantage of opportunities to grasp new trade abroad. The Issue of the daily bulletins of consular reports begun by him has come to be regarded as Indis pensable, and the appreciation of th service is shown by the frequency with which the informatlor. contained In the billetics is. priMcd all over thi coun try. Physical Culture for Girls. College girls are going daft on phy sical culture. They are adopting all sorts of masculine sports, but they may as well give up all hopes of gain ing proficiency in baseball and cricket, for the simple reason that they can't throw. A physician, who has often been amused at the efforts of the Brya Mawr girls, was talking about this the other day. "It Is a physical impos sibility for a girl to throw strongly and accurately, as a boy throws," he said. "A girl throws with a rigid arm, and it Is out of the question for her to acquire a free movement, such as is possible with a boy, because her col lar bone Is larger and sets lower than a boy's. Philadelphia Record. It doesn't take half so long to dis cover the humbugs of civilization as It does to crush them. The people will cling to their humbug3 and give you tie cold front If you try if teach thera evinrcon sense. !A TillV I No Rich. No Poor. i No Strikes m: Republic and No Strife. This model republic is no experi ment, no colony scheme born of the brain of a social reformer, but has ex isted for over 300 years. Within a few hours' ride of Tokyo, the Japanese capital, there thrives a little community who live and work In indifference to wars and rumors of war. Happily unconscious of the growing importance of Japan in the world, or of the changes taking place, they live free from want or the fear of want, content to remain still while the remainder of the race is moving on. Hashima. off the coast of Atami, ten miles from the watering place of that name, is a very small Island not quite two miles long and one mile wide. The climate is warm and soft, and. with the scenery, is in harmony with the conditions of the inhabitants. Even in the coldest winter hyacinths and azaleas in bloom can be seen dot ting the meadows, and camelia blos soms nod on the miniature hills. Vis itors to Hashima are rare, but thos who enter the island are greeted cor dially, says the New York World. The islanders point reverently ty an old temple, named TenmyojI. established by Bishop Tenkaku. to whom belongs the honor of founding the republic over three centuries ago. The bishop's laws have withstood the wear and tear of time They are based upon one fun damental idea the common ownership of property. In Hashima there is no private property in land or the instru ments of labor. No single person owns property, but ail the members of the community possess an equal share. Every one receives income and is permitted to enjoy it. All receive the full results of their labor.together with what nature gratuitously confers upon them. As a result Hashima has no rich and there were never any poor. There is no competition and no strife. There is no hatred, no enmity, no jealousy. Liberty and fraternity are not abstract theories, but facts. The laws of Hashima are simple. There should not be more than forty-one house3, no matter how the population may Increase. There are eighty acres of cultivated land, divided into equal portions of forty-one pieces. There is no rice field, but potatoes and rich veg etables are raised, with millet and other grains that grow on dry land. The produce is divided equally accord ing to the individual needs, and the Wonderful Bird Dog "Talking about bird dogs." said the man with tne snirty eye. in me rear seat of the trolley car and nobody had said a word about bird dogs or any other kind of dogs "I had the most remarkable bird dog that ever happen ed. I guess, when I was living out in Santa Barbara, Cal., in '95. I don't sup pose there ever will be the likes of that ; dog on this earth again. I raised him j from a pup. He was a pointer fioni ' away back. It wa3 just as natural for that dog to flop on to his haunches and point at a bird as it is for us hu mans to eat things that don't agree with us. "He began to point before he had" shed his milk teeth. I took him out for a walk one day when he was only about two months old. and it took ns tbout four hours to get over two miles of ground, for that dog would sit down and point at a bird about every 10 feet of our progrtss. "In the course of time pointing got to be a regular mania of that dog's, and I couldn't take him out for exer cise very often on account of his hab it of lagging behind and point at feath ered things. Took him out one after noon when he was about a year old. and a furniture van with a lot of pil lows piled on top of some beds came alone. One of the pillows was broken at the side and a lot of feathers es cape. That dog of mine saw the fly ing feathers, and blame me if he didn't sit down and point at that furniture van. Fact. But that wasn't the cutest thing h A Turkish Ban The customs authorities have pro hibited the entry of typewriters into Turkey, and 200 machines now in the custom house have been ordered re turned to the consignor. The authori ties have taken up the peculiarly char acteristic attitude that there Is no dis tinct feature about typewriting by which the authorship could be recog nized or a person using a machine be traced, and that, consequently, any one is able to put In type seditious writ ings without fear of compromising himself. Hektographic paste and fluid also are prohibited for similar reasons. ine embassies are making representa tions on the subject with the view of inducing the Turkich government to take up a more reasonable attitude. A Norelty In Bridegroom. Seven Vienna ladies, weary of Eu rope and Western civilization, have married seven male members of a Be douin troupe which has been perform ing in the Austrian capital during the summer and autumn. Five of these ad venturous women are spinsters and two are widows, and they have just ac companied their Asiatic spouses to their native deserts and oases, where they are to be again married after the Arabic ceremony. The scene at the sta tion when they took their farewell of "Felix Austria," says the Vienna Tag blatt, was truly astonishing. The plat form was crowded with sympathetic friends, the majority of whom were women and girls, and not a few among them expressed their envy of their sis ters who had won such magnficent hus bands. All the seven brides, accord ing to the ungallant reporter, "were of uncertain age," and, as they all had some property, he insinuates that the Arabs were not so much fascinated by their beauty and youth as by their gold and silver. The crowd of women left on the platform as thg train steamed surplus is exported in exchange for rice. The allotment of imputed rice is reserved for festal occasions, such as the first day of the new year, or tha 15th of July, which Is the date of the commemoration of the foundation of the republic. If necessary, a marriage, birth, death or some other celebration is used for the allotment. The rice is stored in a common granary. Farm ing, however, is only incidental to the more important industry of fishing. The men are all fishermen and own eleven boats in common. From this source products of the sea are secured which are estimated to bring in 3.000 yen every year. This sum is dlvid d among the forty-one homes without discrimination against any one. When one of the forty-one homes meets mi -5 fortune or accident the sufferers are taken care of by the republic. A man capable of doing so is. in cases of mis fortune, sometimes charged, by sre- cial authority, with the duty of taking charge of a Ktore. out of which he is ! Tie I'm t 1 rl r m o L- k i cmrA yrr' t until he has recovered. Then he has to make room for some other unfortun ate. There are two stores owned by the people, one for the sale of liquors and the other for the sale of coarse wares. These are manufactured on the island. The people are temperate; drunkards are an unknown quantity. The children of the island are educat ed at a grammar school which Is usually in charge of a teacher from Amishiro, the nearest village on the opposite coast. The teacher receives his salary chiefly In rice from the com mon granary, and his clothes are wo ven and made by the young women in turn. Hashima probably enjoys the distinction of being the only place in the world where communism Is in op eration, although the Hashimians probably could not explain what is meant by communism or any other so ciological term. Found In Koine. Another piece cf the great p'an of the City of Rome iu marble, the "Forma I'rbis" of the time of SulpI cius Serverus, has been discovered in the Roman Forum, where it was used to stop a drain. It has engraved on it the plan of the greater part of the Baths of Agrippa. together with the Pantheon. AnimaLl's Remarkable Feats 8k. s Related by Relative of Anainiek.9. ever did. The cutest thing he ever did was one afternoon when I took him down to the Santa Barbara beach for a walk on the sand. I hadn't any sooner got him down to the beach than he sat down and began to point out to sea. I couldn't for the life of me make out what he was pointing at. There wasn't a bird, not even a seagull, in sight, But he kept right on squatting there at the verge of the sea and pointing out over ine water, and it ever a man was puzzled, then I was. At first I calcu lated that he might be mistaking the crests of the waves for feathers, but no, a little reflection convinced me that he wasn't any such a fool as to do a thing like that. Then I noticed tint he was pointing directly at a white ship that lay out in the harbor. I pulled out my field glasses and took a look f t the ship, and then the mys tery was clear. The ship he was point ing at was the United States man-o-war Petrel," and then the man with the shifty eye executed a sudden leap and escaped from the car before his wrathful listeners could hop on him and maceiate him. Odd "eatlnr I'larav One day the gardener at the North Creake rectory, Norfolk. Eng., hung up his jacket in the rectory green house. On taking it down he found that a wren had built her nest in one of the sleeves. The intruder seemed quite at home in her odd nesting place, and has been left in undisturbed pos session. on Typewriters out burst into tears at the departure of the heroes of the circus. Loudon Daily News. tiamhle to Sarreri Mutlr. There is a gambling house in Phila delphia which employs an automatic church organ instead oi r. lookout man. "The scheme," says the Record, "has worked beautifully and neither the neighbors nor the "fly cops' of the dis trict are onto the game. Wh?n the organ Is started, you might think in passing the house that a prayer meet ing or a revival service was in prog ress behind the closed blinds, for It plays nothing but hymns. All the evening It switches from Nearer, My God. to Thee, to Rock of Ages, and then to From Greenland's Icy Moun tains. And all the time the chips are rattling and the 'kitty' Is growing faL Think of raiding a joint where the or gan was playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee!" School Statistic of Scotland Statistics just published state that during last year 756.338 scholars at tended schools in ScotlaDZ, the total amount raised from tte education rate was 923,358, while grants from the government amounting to 096,607 were earned by scholars. There ara S67 evening schools in Scotland at tended by 43,960 girls and boys, and altogether there are 10,845 certificated school teachers, or one for every 58 children. Armlrs and l.sles Soldier. A German surgeon has in his service an old military man who has neither arms nor legs, and half of whose face was carried away by a shell in the war of 1870. He wears a metallic mask, which has been so skillfully ad justed to his face that he still retains some semblance of humanity, and haa preserved his sight. BROTHERHOOD OF NATIONS OF THE WESTERN WORLD. Secretary or Male John Hay. Sprak at Buffalo of the Mutual Helprolne of Conn trie Kepreaented at the Pan Amerlrso KpoHlon. The following brilliant address was given by Secretary of State John Hay at a banquet given by the directors of the Pan-American exposition to the National Editorial Association in Buf falo on :t recent evening, more than one thousand being present: "Last night as I looked from my window at this marvelous creation. lined in fire upon the evening sky, and today, as I have walked through the courts and the palaces of this incom parable exhibition, the words of the prophrt have been constantly in my mind. "Your old men shall dream dreams: your young men shall see visions." We who are old have through many hopeful years dreamed ibi dream. It was noble and inspiring, leading to earnest and uplifting labor. And now we share with you who are :'inR the pleasure of beholding this -.sion, far nobler and more inspiring than the dream. This idol of te brothel hood of tne nations of the western world is not a growth of yes terday. It was hjralded when ihe country was young by the clarion voice of Henry Clay; it wa cherished by Seward and Evarts, by Douglas and by Blaine. Twelve years ago we h?U the first reunion of the American re publics. Much was said and done des tined to be memorable in our history, opening ami blazing the way. alons; the path of peace and fraternal rela tions. We have made steady progress, we have grown day by day to a better understanding, until now we are look ing to our coining conference in the City of Mexico, in which we have the right to hope that with larger experi ence and profotinder study of the great problems before us results still more important and beneficent will be reached. As a means to thoie ends.as a concrete realization of those generous dreams which have led us thus far, we have this grand and beautiful spec tacle, never to be forgotten, a de'.ight to the eyes, a comfort to every patriot heart that, during the coming sum mer shall make the joyous pilgrimage to this enchanted scene, where lake and shore and sky, the rich, bright ci.y throbbing with vigorous life, and in the distance the flash and roar of the stupendous cataract, unite their varied attractions in one charm of powerful magic, such as the world has seldom seen. There has been statesmen and soldiers who have cherished the fancy in past years of a vast American army recruited from every country between the Arctic and the Antarctic seas, which should bind us together in one immense military power, that might overawe the older civilizations. But this conception belongs to the past, to an order of things that has gone, I hope, forever by. How far more in spiring is the thought of the results we see here now; how much more in keeping with the better times in whose light we live, and the still more glori ous future to which we look forward, is the result we see today of the armies of labor and Intelligence in every country of this new world, all work ing with one mind and one will, not to attain an unhappy pre-eminence in the art of destruction, but to advance in liberal emulation in the arts which tend to make them happier and better, to make this long-harassed and tor mented earth a brighter and more blest abode for men of good will. (Ap plause.) Our hearts have glowed within us as we have surveyed at every turn the evidences of theequallty and fraternity of progress under skies so distant, un der conditions so varying as thosa which obtain between Alaska and Cape Horn. I remember how, at a World's Fair in Paris, a great writer exclaim ed: "What a prodigious amount of intelligence there Is in the world." We can say. with hearts full of gratitude and pride: How prodigious is the prog ress of intelligence and industry in this New World of ours. All the triumphs of the spirit and of the skilled hands of labor, the gar nered treasures of science, the witch eries of art, the spoils of earth and air and sea are gathered here to warn, to delight, to encourage, and reward the ever-striving, the indomitable mind of man. Here you have force, which en ables men to conquer and tame the powers of nature: wealth, not meant, as Tennyson sang, to rest in moulded heaps, but smlt with the free light to melt and fatten lower lands: beauty, not for the selfish gratification of the few, but for the joy of the many to fill their days with gladness and their nights with music. The Lady' Slipper. The lady's slipper, known also as the whippoorwill's shoe and the moc casin flower, grows in deep, shady woods, often in company with mosses, ferns and trilliums. It is such a pret ty flower that few people who see it can resist the temptation to pick it, and it is. therefore, becoming every day more difficult to find. It has many attractions for the bee, for it not only provides him wit i plenty of food, but also furnishes him with a splendid ban quet hall. Just over the front entrance you will see two rows of dark spots. They are a sign that the hungry bee can read, and they mean: "This way to the dining room." He pushes open the elastic sides of the doorway to which the dots lead, and enters the beautiful golden chamber, and when Le has feasted he pays for his dinner on hi3 way out by carrying on his back some of the lady slipper's golden pol len dust that she wants taken to one of her neighbors. The yellow lady's slipper blooms about the frjginnini; of June, a little later than her elder sister, the pink moccasin flower. Married Colored Girl. Fred Zegar. a white man of Belvi dere. 111., was married to Miss Pernie Newman, a colored girl, at the home of the bride's tister near Belvidere, who is also married to a white man. . ,, i . i . . i . i ine aisapprovai oi relatives, no en- treated him to change his mind, had ! no effect on Zegar. A woman may love flattery and yet ' 10, 1792. and came to this country sev dispise an awkward flatterer. j enty-three years ago. MURDERERS. Slayers of There rllow Man Are So Alt Illiterate. Ijacenaire, the Manfred of the gutter, who adorned the romantic epoch, prac ticed a poetry of aorta, professed a philosophy of all sorts, studied for the bar and wrote for the newspapers, Troppmann, gifted with a superior in telligence, shared that passion for sen sational novels which in the days that pass does not necessarily stigmatize its victims as members of the criminal conspiracy. Barre has an exception ally distinguished career at the Lycee at Angers; his co-mate in study and in sin, Lebiez, was a most promising student, the very banner of his schooL The lively intelligence of the Abbe Auriol seemed to justify his uncle in educating him for a schoolmaster and hih superficial abilities served to pass him Into the priesthood. The Abbe Boudes was a man of extraordinary parts. The Abbe Bruneau was en dowed with excellent capacity and a thorough education. Campi had the right by birth and education to sit at the table of respectable people, which wopms an equivalent for the privilege or keeping a gig. Pranzini had travel ed far. had an amazing facility for lan guages, was declared to be equally pro ficient iu Engisli. French, Italian, Greek, Turkish. Arabic, Russian and Hindustani. Frado was more redoubt able, intellectually and criminally, than either Cainpl or Pranzini. Tho murderer of the affair at Sidi-Mabrouk was a Quarter-Latin man of letters, a ready quoter of Sophocles, Taine, Do Vlgny and Senancour. The other Al gerian murderer chronicled by Mr. Irv ing was a talented engineer, fond of music and a clever talker. Albert Pel, as repulsive physically as he was re pulsive mentally, was fond of musiu and fond of chemistry. Vaillant was a student of Darwin, Buchner and Her bert Spencer. Emile Henri was intelli gent enough to secure an exhibi tion from the Ecole Jean Baptiste Say and to take his degree as bachelor of science at 16. From Irving's Studies of French Criminals. NO REST IN AMERICA. Machinery Here I Not Permitted to l.t Until Out-of-Ilate. An experienced railroad man, writes Victor Smith in the New York Press. has the following to say regarding English railway methods: 'it is sin gular, to say the least, that the Eng lish railway managers have just dis covered that American locomotives consume more coal, use more oil and require more repairs than those of their home make. If this is a fact it could have been demonstrated in a trial lasting a month. Over here we wouldn't accept an English locomotive as a gift. It would be regarded as an antiquated monstrosity. I fear the British are beginning to feel a trifle sore over America's commercial Inva sion of all the markets of the world, and the Midland railway people aro trying to knock us on our locomo tives." Continuing, the official said: "The chairman of the Midland made one impressive statement, namely: 'We tend our engines carefully, rest them, clean them and do everything to make them last.' In this country we rest nothing, not even ourselves. Bishop Cumberland's familiar saying, it is better to wear out than to rust out,' has taken hold of us, body, soul and breeches. The Englishman rests his hats, shoes, trousers, coats, horses, carriages and whatever else he may own, animate and Inanimate, A few advanced Americans have recently adopted the practice of 'treeing' their shoes for a rest, and the result Is long er wear without losing shape. Some of our locomotives are never allowed to cool off from one year's end to another. Little wonder that they do not live to be classed among the antiques." A Bercaford Story. A story of Lord Charle3 Beresford's early exploits In Parliament crops up again. An old county member, sadly troubled by gout, made a practice of retiring to one of the benches under the reporters' gallery, behind the speaker's chair. His habit was to take off his boots, which he placed under the bench, lie down at full length, and doze securely under the shade of the gallery till his rest was disturbed by the call for a divisiou, when he would slip on his boots. Lord Charles Beres ford observed the place where the honorable member had put his boots, and when he was sound asleep took away one. which he hid. When the division came the victim was com pelled to leave his seculsion and walk into the lobby with only one boot on. amid the roars of good-humored laugh ter. Reward of Ooe Penny. "Honesty is its own reward," is the new shape in which tne proverb pre sents itself to Harry Ils, a mason liv ing at 67 Lower Thorn street, Reading. Recently picking up a purse in the street containing 320 in notes and gold, he was going to take It to the police station, when work was over, but about half an hour afterwards was adressed by a man understood to be a commercial traveler from London, who proved himself to be the owner. Ilea handed over the purse, the man gavs him a coin, and was far away before the other could realize that ho had been rewarded for his find wiih one penny. Vanishing London. It is stated that the proprietary rights in New Inn, Wych. street, will be purchased for 175,000, the site of the inn being required for carrying out the Ixmdon County council's im provements in the nort?i side of the Strand, says the London Builder. Since the destruction of Strand inn .by the Protector Somerset, this inn Is the onlv law seminary that has remained in the possession of the Middle Tem ple society. Some 300 years ago the site of New inn was that of a travel er's hostelry known as Our Lady's inn from its sign of the Virgin Mary. Laborer lOff lear Old. Barney Morris, famous laborer, who s employed in Prospect park. B.ook- lyn has just ueen cpieuraujis " hundred and ninth birthday and is to - - tn M- fitiq six be found attending to his duties six days a week tne year ruuuu. l.nvn in County Cavan, Ireland. June . 1 TT woa ACCOMPLISHED
