VALUE Of CHEESECLOTH.
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CHARGE TIES SEXTvLIAN LAW.
By M. E.
t would n sk ouf public tuen to rf
the talk which gives the inference
that everything In our corporation life
I rotten; which flleturt biiBlner-s men
and bnrms our fair reputation all over
the world. It In not true tVat our
bmtlness generally la being conducted
Tn unlawful linos.
dify contradiction, tlixtt the railroads
of this country, the great Interest
about which there Is much talk and
abuse, nre being conducted to-day In
accordance with the letter and spirit
of the law. The worthier clam, the
V. E. IMiAIXS.
. reformer who hopes, without work, to pet some of his
t neighbors' property, are very few. We should not en
. courage this aumbor or lend our people, who are nearly
all comparatively well off. to think that there la any
class In tills country trying to oppress unotlier.
Above nil, the . Sherman law. no-called, should be
t changed. I have repeatedly stated, and I think my eon
, t ruction of that law has been agreed to by the highest
.j in the land, that imder the present terms, and If strictly
.construed, no man cau honestly canape In business wlth
. .out danger ef violating it. Any agreement, ahuoet, be
tween two parties la a com piracy. TUIb spirit haa been
enlarged and re-enacted l:i State Legislatures until It has
produced even worse conditions. In my own State leg
' islatlon Is so strict thil If two butchers ou opposite cor
j ners of tln street should agree upon the price af beef
steak it would ho a penitentiary offense, uad conspiracy
can be proved" without the usual form of evidcuce.
;X7HY THE ECKCIKE HAH IS PASSING.
By Frederick Treves.
I am afraid that a long time will elapse
before people break off the extraordinary
hshit of taking medicine when they are sick.
It is a prejudice deep down In the hearts of
the ponplo. Why it exists it la hanl to Bay,
but there it Is, and I suppose It must con
tinue totr.c little time longer. (
: If you picture the environment of a doc
tor, you set; u room with a multitude of
-shelves covered with bottles from Hour to ceiling. These
-bottles rapidly are vanishing, und the time la not far dU
taut when they will be reduced to uu extremely small
f cumber. The empty shelves will lie replaced by simple
living, suitable diet, plenty of sun aud plenty of fresh
air. The astonishing history of certain Infectious mal
adies surpasses in Interest every romance that ev,er haa
been written. The tuhcrclu at this moment Is killing
60,000 people per annual. Not one of thone people need
die the disease la preventable.
Take consumption. In the years 1801-5, the mortality
(Tom consumption Iu Great Britain was twenty-five per
10,000, but It has dropped until now it is lees than twelve
per 10,000. This com;cls us to ask what Is going to hap
pen if this sort of thing goes on. It means this It will
bo Impossible to llnd deaths from scarlet fever, typhoid,
cholera, diphtheria and the like. There used to be 200
deper houses in England. There Is not one In existence
now, except ns a curiosity, and leprosy has left Kng
land since the eighteenth century. In Ilt5, in the short
Iperlod of six months, if Macaulay Is to be trusted, 100,
000 people died of the black death. Where is it now?
It has vanished. lid anyone at that time ever dreaiu of
suggesting that the day could iossibly come when death
" "HAMLIN. THE EAEE2." I
When Cyrus Hamlin was a student
at-Bowdoin College, he added some
thing to his studies which was not a
part of the curriculum, a providential
elective, s was proved many years
later when he became president of Itob
ert College in Constantinople, and when
the necessity for good bread for the
soldiers of the Crimea was brought to
his notice. In "Cyrus Hamlin, Mis
sionary, Statesman, Inventor," tha
story lkj given : .
One day at Iiowdoin, Professor Smith
delivered a lecture on the steam engine
to ; Hamlin's class, not one of whom,
perhaps, had ever seen a steam engine.
Those were the days of the stnge-eoacb
and .'the ox team.
After the lecture : he said to Profes
sor Smith, "I believe I could make an
engine."
The profersor replied. "I, think you
can make' anything you undertake,
Hamlin., and I wish you would try."
lie did try, and succeeded. By work
ing twelve and sometimes fifteen hours
each day, Ue built a stenm engine suf
ficiently larsce to be of real service as
a part of the philosophical apparatus
of the eollevre.
During the Crimean War there was
gnat need, of good 'bread, and not a
eteuni flour mill in Consrnnlinopie. The
memory of his steam engine encouraged
President Hamlin to think that he
could establish a flour mill and a bak
ery, and cpst good wheat bread upon
the troubled waters cf that Eastern
war.
lie Imported a steam engine from the
United States, a-id by the help of Civ's
"Dlctlonrry of th Arts," d after la
bors whl 'h 'surpassed the legendary la
bors of Hercules, lie was rer.dy to grind
Hour.
Might not n chemist make good
bread? Ho had the theory lu his head;
the next thins was to have the art at
Ills fing'T enils. This is tin; way be
speaks of the r 'iil! :
"My bread came out a;-. Cat as a pan
cake, anil t; st!tir fur i :nital man to
eat. But the next was better, ami the
third was eatable."
He was son sell In;; bread bo sweet,
so palatal!,-, and In leaves so iii.ich
alxive the lejal weight that "Hamlin's
Br-'ad" became famous.
One day lit was Invited to visit the
military hospital at S.-utarl then filled
With sic' ai:.l wounde, soldiers. The
chief physleVin said to him. "Are you
Hamlin, the hai
"No, sir." replied Doctor Hamlin, "I
am tiie Keverend Mr. Hamlin, uu
American tiiir'siiin.iry."
"That Is about as correct as any
thing I (set in this country," said Doe
tor Mapleti.ii. . "i t,ond for a baker und
get a missionary."
Before the misunderstanding went
far. her I,,-:or Hamlin cp!alncd that
he was both a misdom,ry ami a mak
er of bread. The rec.ilt of the cooler
ence was that tic English secured
gmid bread at one half less than the
jirlce they had been payluj for sour
lagmlli, Banker.
from leprosy and plague would bo unknown? Yet blaelt
death has now no place la the British Isles. As an Irish
man would say: "Black death has found that England
Is no place to live In."
FINANCIERS AS
I onn slate, and
falls to those who seek and to thosa who possess them I
Men become money nuid. They want money, not for the
privileges which it will afford, hut to endeavor to satisfy
an Insatiable greed. Our ago la sadly afflicted with this
Inglorious mania, and men are endeavoring to get money,
honestly if it Is convenient, but they must get money.
What Instance of this uncontrollable passion of greed
have been seen recently lu the diabolical system of re
hates by which great corporations have grown richer and
respectable smaller dealers have been crushed to the
wall, and the high-handed robberies aud vulgar criminal
extravagances of Insurance ofiiclals!
Somebody has been recently Insisting that the very
rich are Insane, that the acquisition ef the jwwer which
great wealth brings unsettles men's minds. It Is true,
however, that selfishness and arrogance and vulgar ex
travagance, and foolhardiness aud utter defiance of nil
laws of safety and society characterize some men who
become suddenly rich. The awful slaughter of the auto
mobile maniac Illustrates this tendency among prosper
ous people.
WHY WOMEN DO
and they weigh well the advantages they might gain by
marrying.
It cannot biuestloned that woman's independence as
to niarriage makes for her happiness, not only as an in
dividual, but as a sex. If the financial question could
be eliminated, matrimony would be ns nearly Ideal a
thing ns we possibly could connive, and It seems to be
a proved fact that there Is little domestic unhappiuess
among the women who marry from wise choice rather
than conventional necessity. Love then becomes the rul
ing element, as It should be always.
The whole situation is simply this: In the past there
was but one future for the girl matrimony. To-day
woman regards herself as an individual. She looks at
man from a higher viewpoint, and she weighs his powers
of making her happy w ith her own ability to do the same
thing. Marriage is no longer a necessity, and when she
has mastered on art she can take the same attitude that
inau does of choosing the one she wants, if she does
not find what she likes, she has the same prerogative as
the bachelor.
bread,' which the soldiers could hardly
oat.
MUSIHIC0LL3 AND TOADSTOOLS.
Hen 11 ;r the Only (irnulne Safe Role la
o I'.tit Your SlrnL Without 'Um.
Perhaps there would be fewer poison
ings from the eating of what nre called
"toadstools";1 If people both could and
would get it through or, rather, into
their beads that there are no such
things as. toadstools, at least In the
fcensu in .which the word is commonly
used, says the New York Times.
The popular Impression, which
amounts to a conviction. Is that there
are two kinds of fungi, one that is edi
ble aud oue that Is ihiIsoiious, and that
when the former have been called
mushrooms and the latter toadstools a
suGlcient distinction has been made.
Of course words can be so employed,
aud tho name of a thing certainly Is
the' name by which it is known, but the
trouble is that in this case tho distinc
tion (Iocs not distinguish, that Its fail
ure to do bo makes it extremely danger
ous, and, not least Important, that it
causes great range among the scientific
folk and not much less among tho folk
who only have a seieiitif turn of mlud.
The danger arises from the fact that
too often the person who has been told
that a certain fungus Is n toadstool
and therefore; not to be eafen, assumes
that if he avoids that particular varie
ty in the future lie Is safe. Had he
bwn told that it was one of the many
Iolsonous varieties of muahrooms he
would not only, ha vo acquired a bit of
accurate information, with incidental
realization of what an immense number
of varieties of inushr.Kms there are,
but he would have been put on his
guard against giving undue weight, to
having learned to recognise one variety
that should bo avoided.
To the mycologist a mushroom is n
mushroom when It Isn't something
with a much longer name, which It usu
ally is and for him its mushroom-ties,
so to speak. Is not at all affected by the
Utile detail whether its consumption as
rear food is followed by deatli or sur
vival. sAs a practical man he docs,, to
lie sure, divide the spoils lui knows
Into the edible and the non-edible, but
he never calls th latter tondstools, as
if they were something e,uitc different
from the former, for he knows that
they are all of one family and that
tlwre Is no one peculiarity by which
they can be divldi d.
The old rule If you eat It and live
It is a mushroom: If you eat It and die
It is a toad1 1 ol has an element of
truth lu It, thouvr'i there are certain
s'.g is by which an unknown and uneat
en mie linsuii can be accused of being
po'sonou without- much danger of do
ing It an injustice. Perhaps a good
way s to let th'V!i .ill alone. Even the
Ix'st of them -Is of no mensurable value
as food ami is Innocuous only when
gathered at Jur.t the right time and
promptly prepared lu Just the right
way. As f. r the gustatory merits of
tin? mushroom, they nre chiefly the
products tif suggestion and Imagination.
Every man thl;iksr lie's a devilish
;ood critic.
MONTY MANIACS.
By Her. Dr. Charles E. Locke,
Americans are manifesting an Itching for
money beyond all reasea. Money has Its good
sides as well as Its evil. It cau purchase
privileges and multiply chances and anni
hilate distance. Money mnkes possible tho
greatest philanthropic schemes and gonerosi
tles. Money amkei'-the world go, and It can
be wade humanity's supretuest blessing.
Alas, that riches so often prove to be pit
NOT MARHY.
By Henry S. Prttchett.
There Is the general supposition that col
lege women do not marry ; that higher edu
cation Is leading thein away from the home.
This is true, but it also applies to women
outside of colleges -women who have mas
tered an art or a profession. Marriage with
them Is not a necessity from the point of
support ; they have their liberty and inde
pendence and self-support In their own hands,
$ HER LITTLE MISTAKE.
A lady who has a great respect for
tho conventions, and ulso an abiding
fear of the mental angles of thu "heatU-i
en" ghlnee," says a writer in the Bo
hemian, recently went down Into New
York's Chinatown, and there began a,
search for n curio to give to a frlncd.
She walked Into n shop on Pell street,
acknowledged tho bow of the grave
gentlemau who owned the place, aud
looked about her. She noticed a curi
ous dagger, and in the pufols which
she had supposed all Chinamen to un
derstand, said :
i "Say, John, how nine bee ketchuni
this knife " ..- I .
- The price named seemed to her enor
mous. , "Whats a matter you?" said the lndy.
"No 'wantee buy store, wantee get
knife." '
The proprietor gravely took the dag
ger from her. band.
:"The .price! madam," he said. In per
fect English, ''la tweuty-flve dollars,
and the 'price Is reasonable. The knlfo
is considered one of the finest speci
mens of tho work of Muey Ling, the
armorer who won fame In the fourth
dynasty. If madam will look closely,
she may be able to see the mark." Then
he held the blade up for her nearer
vision.
"And do you know," said the lady,
when speaking of the occurrence, "he
so took me off my feet that I fled from
the shop with a hastily stammered
apology.
. "I understood later that be was a
college graduate, and one of the men
who are 'advancing China. But what
I have never been able quite to solve
is whether he exeeted mo to. believe
in Mr. Muey I.lng of the fourth dy
nasty, and how much he was just hnv
Ing fun with the Intelligent American
woman who was trying to talk down
to him."
I'rotttnble I'nrable.
Before tho collection was taken at a
negro place of worship tl;e minister, a
colored man, declared his regret that it
certain brother had retired to rest the
night before without locking thu door
of his fovvlhoi.se, to find iu the morn
ing that all his chickens had vanished.
"I don't want to be personal," he con
tinued, "but I hah my suspicions as to
who stole dem chickens. If I'm right
In dose suspicious, dat man won't put
any money in do box which will now
be passed round." There was u grand
collection, not n single mouther of the
congregation feigning sleep. "Now,
bredcreu," unnoumed the minister "I
don't want all yoah appetites sjioiit by
wondering where dat brother lives who
don't lock his chickens at night. Dat
brother don't exist, man friend ho
was a parable foh purposes oh fiuanoe!"
Humility is ono of the Ingredients a
self-made mnn occasionally forgets to
mix with bis material.
A man should remind his wife occa
sionally that a little credit is a dan-
j gerous thing.
Fabrics.
Cheesecloth should 1 nsed mora
jrommonly for household purposes than
Jit Is. The material turn tho special
merit of being firm, yet so loosely wo
en that grease cornea out readily In
washing; thus It Is more easily kept
clean than linen or ernflh, for which It
may many times l sultltnted. An
unbleached quality that costs not more
than 6 cents a yard Is quite ns good
for general use as more cxitenslve fab
rics. ,
The best kind of dishcloth are mndt
of It. The material should lie doubled,
raw edge turned In and stitched on
the machine. This will wear, aud be
cause It cleans so easily, Is most sani
tary for warm weather, In that It will
rot become saturated and smell of
grease, saya the New York Evening
Telegram, lllnslng In soap nnd water
will be all that Is necessary for cleans
ing. For nice furniture, it Is the best kind
of cloth for cleaning, and all cabinet
makers Veep three sets for work. The
first In used for applying the oil, the
second to rub It off, and tho third la
the polisher. Similar treatment for
dining-room tables will keep tlirra la
the pink of condition.
Cheesecloth will save tho dally use,
of an egg In boiled coffee, merely by
having small bags of the cotton kept
In the kitchen. X'ut the grounds Into
one, and twist the top around tight
with thread, n sixiol of which should
be bandy for the purpose. The same
bag may be used many times. There
Is nothing In the cleaning line for
which It Is not good.
Windows nnd mirrors will never
have a sjiock of lint on their shining
surface If cheooolotn Is rsod, and for
all kinds of work It will be found In
valuable. A bag made of It should
always be kept In the kitchen for
stmlnlr.g soups.
Tissue pnpor Is mother valuable
household asset that nil housekeepers
do not appreciate. All of It that comes
Into the house should be saved. Moist
ened with alcohol, It polishes mirrors
to perfection, and even dry will make
them shine. Silver, nil hardwoods
used for furniture, nnd steel, also
brass. If not badly tarnished, will re
sond Immediately to 'treatment with
tissue paper, 'and for packlug of nil
kinds It Is most useful. Lace, silk and
all ribbon should always be Ironed be
tween two layers of It, for the materi
als will not then lie shiny.
A mouse seldom lives longer than
three years.
The annual fish catch of England Is
valued at ?53,W50,000.
The factories of Japan close on the
1st and 15th of each month.
The absorbing capacity of a brick
Is about sixteen ounces of water.
There were. 188 banks In Germany
at the close of 1000, with capital of
$850,000,000 and reserves of $233,475,
000. t
The Methodist Conference at Mil
waukee ndopted n resolution asking
President Roosevelt to stop United
States army men from playing base
ball on Sunday.
Lord Brampton (Sir Henry Haw
kins) celebrated his ninetieth birthday
recently, wheu ho gave this character
istic advice : "Never get mixed up In
lawsuits or the law. I think I kuow
something about It."
Coal mining has become ono of In
dla'B great Industries. The output
last yeur was !,7S4.250 tons, whereas
the average annual production for the
decade ending 1S03 was only 2.75.8,
CIO. The coal now being worked Is
near the surface, and with the cheap
labor employed, India Is nble to deliver
its coal at the pit's month cheaper
than any other country In the world.
The overage price a ton delivered on
board freight car was $1.40 In 1900
and 1007.
Probably in no other State in the
Union does n big ranch constitute a
district, a family the members of a
school board, and the son of tho fam
ily the only pupil In the school dis
trict. Such condition exist on the
Woods ranch, near Hardin, Colo. The
president of the School Board Is
Charles Allyn, manager of the ranch;
the secretary Is his wife, the treasur
er n young woman living In the home,
and the pupil of the school tho nlne-year-old
son of the Allyns.
Th Kn'luif I'nanlnn.
The automobile enthusiast was nenr
lng the end. The latest photographs
of his beloved car adorned the walls
aliout blm and the odor of gasoline
tilled the sick room. On n low table
at the bedside they had spread his kit
j of tools and within reaching distance
was ins gleaming i.orn.
He looked the outfit over with a dim
ming eye.
Then he faintly smiled.
''Take nwny that can of ontl-freoze,"
he hoarsely whispered. "I won't need
it where I'm going."
In the effort he made to laugh ho
stalled his heart. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
TIie.OM Wny anil tho r.
The young lady from Boston was ex
plaining. "Take nn egg," she said, "and make
a perforation In the base ami a oorro
sjwmdiiig one in the apex. The it you
apply the lips to the aperture, and by
forcibly Inhaling the breath the shell Is
entirely discharged of its contents."
An old lady who was listening ex
claimed; "It bents all how folks do th'ngs
nowadays. When I was a gal (hey
made n hole In each end and sucked."
Judge.
After all, most of us have pretty
contented dispositions, or else thero
would be more uidiapplnoss, consider
ing how often we bee our owu faces la
the glass.
How ugly it tlowct look wheu It la
going to seed!
i
SOCIETY ATTD THE
tT Is a singular thing that
own rights, in which It would appear that
there ought to be a certain Justice, seems
always, in fact, to be a very, narrowing
priH-ess, death dealing to any fine enlighten
ment. The special structure Itself rests ou
the consideration of the rights of others,
ami alt social life In the home resta on It. Nothing Is
in itself good for anything except In the good that we
get out of It, so that the most beautifully furnished
house, the most finely cultured people, may not make
for anything vital, anything that stimulates the Imag
ination or the heart or the Intellect; they may not give
any of the spiritual comfort Which Is Informed with
heart -blessing luterest ' No one who goes .to such a
house gets anything from It as a household, hut. food
and drink and comfortable chairs, and outside conversa
tion. There Is not hi tie more to give you could get the
same In a club or a li'rod drawing-room. Yet the, small
est llvlrg room may have that asvect ef homellfc ln.lt
which shows It to be the real thing aud a power
power, because the action and retroaction of intimate
and sympathetic and unselfish Interest among the mem
bers of a family ' generate eome spiritual ,thlng which
know the difference between the person who is. conven
tionally delightful In society and the person who Is de
lightful In society because she Is delightful at home.
I la rper's Bazar; " ' ,. f
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE, ' , ,'
IFE Is much easier than
L fore the discovery of bteani and electricity.
I We 'cross the 'ocean In live days, tho con
I t l.. r....M t.tnl ,,....... a.
Ulltlll III luui, i rl'i.i& in luna U1.11UIK 1.1,
telegraph without lres.' We have sky
scrapers with 'elevators. 1 Automobiles and
trolley ears carry us about rapidly. Subways
and elevated railroads eat up space' lh the great cities.
But the life of those who Inhabit the earth ti- hun
dred years hen(e will lie much easier than ours. Our
modern Improvements will then bo ancient history, re
garded much as we regard the stage coach. Here, for
example, is a hint of what the future lias lu store; In
one daily newt-paper are four separate telegrams telling
of the progress of Inventors In four different parts of
tho world. . , i (. . . .',.'.
From Ixmdou comes the news that the British admir
alty Is considering .a. new form of murine engine, resciu
bllng the turbine but with Important differences, which
will drive n ship through the water at the ralo'of 100
miles nn hour. In San Francisco the city electrician Is
working ou a device that will enable, every policeman
to keep in communication with headquarters by means
of wireless telegraphy, the receiving station being his
When the young woman wbo had
been cnlled to tho manager's office' got
out of the elevator she was wearing
her hat and her Jacket, was oh her
arm. As she passed the perfumery
counter the girl with the lopping bang
called to her and she stopped.
"Folks sick, Mame?" asked. the girl
with the hang.1" " ,
"They ain't now, but they will be ns
Boon's I get home," replied Maine. "I
expect they'll have s'teeti different
kinds o lits. I got leave o' absence
without pay.""
"You're kidding me!" 1
"No. honest !"
"Wus you making n roar?"
"Not me. I got it by tho complaint
route, all right, but It wasn't me mak
ing the complaint, ' A , customer. 1
didn't turn handsprings to wait; ou hot
and then get out in thu aisle for her to
wipe her feet gn me." ,
"Pshaw!" ' '
"Don't you never think it." said
Maine. "It ain't pshaw nor yet plsu
tush. It's what. If you want to
breathe, you wait till the customer's
got his check und his change and then
do It easy."
"O' course, you don't , want to get
too flossy, Mame," said the glrj with
the bang.
"Was I too flossy?" demanded Maine.
"Well, If I was I'd like to know It. 'I
wns talking to Annie aimut something
when tho customer come up anj 1
didn't notice her. Sho didn't blow no
born or even sound a gong.- First
thing I knoyy she says, 'Are you very
busy, If you please Y ,
"Was I busy ! I guess she knew
whether I was bury or not. Huh! And
bo-o-o pollle. Well, I didn't say noth
ing. I just went on finishing what I
was saying to Annie. It wouldn't have
taken me more than a minute, but she
was iu u rush. Her time was worth a
dollar and a half u sis-ond. 'If you
will please wait on me.' sho says.
"Well. I broke off tight there. I'd
like to know what more she could have
wanted than that. 'Was there some-
.tiling?' I says.
"'I want some hairpins,' she says.
"'Kight iu that tray,' I says, joint
ing to It.
"So she went to mussing around In
it and I went on to finish what I was
saying to Annie. Presently sho coughs.
Well, I ain't any lady, throat doctor
and I didn't take no notice of it, so
she says, ns If I was dirt : I wish you
could find time to wait on me. If y4ii
haven't time I must ask for some
young lady who has.' What do you
think of that?
"Then she takes n hnlrpln out of her
hair. 'I want some like that,' she
says.
" 'We don't keep 'em,' I says.
"'Don't you think you could tell bet
ter If you were to look ut It?" she
bays.
"'Haven't got 'em.' I says.
"What do jou think she done? Went
right up ami complained to the mana
ger that I was InsJent und Indifferent
and I get word that I'm wuuted.
Seemed there was Home pins In stock
like she showed me and she'd been get
ting 'em rluht ulung, but they wuwt't iu
mm
HOME.
to stand ou one's
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poiidnn.ee for the Islands, elected a majority of tho fif t
members of the : assembly. The total vote, In a, popula
tion of more Uiau Oeven millions, was about a hundred
thousand.,: In .Manila, a city containing more than 200,
000 people, only a; few more than 7,000 votes were cast
, The Islands were governed by tho army from 1898 till
1902, when a civil commission, created' by Congress, took '
charge of the administration of public business. The ;
civil, commission contlnued'the policy of establishing loqal
self-government begun by the military riders., Arrange? ,
ments, were made for elecrtpg mayors and town councils ;
.by popular vote, and for the choice of provincial govern-...
ors by vote of the councils. At present the government
of about t30Q towns Is as Independent as that of towns
In America. , ' ' " ' ''' "
The census was completed In 1905, and the ercatlort
of an' Independent elected assembly to assist In making 1
laws for the wbolo group of 'Islands was promised at tb.o
expiration of. two years. If order was preserved in, the ,
meantime. It Is In fululluicut of this promise that the ,
recent election was called. , .. . ;-. . . 1
Tho hew assembly will be 'the popular branch of the
Filipino legislature. IU acts will have to be approved
by tho Phlllpptne commission, sitting ' as a" legislative
body. This' commission, containing four Amerlcaus and'
three Filipinos, has been the Responsible governing body1
since the withdrawal of. tho military governor in 1002. '
Youth's Companion. , . . .
It used to be, be-
the tray and how wns I to know that?
As far as tho other Went, L says to
Mr. Biggs, 'I treated her like' a lady,'
1 says, 'but she Just wanted, to be snip
pety and make trouble,' I Bays., .
" 'We expect our salesladies to bo po
lite and pleasant to customers,' ho soya
'Wo expect 'cm to take pains to bo
agreeable and assist purchasers and to
keep In mlud that they have uo social
obligations to their fellow employes
during business hours.' He gave me
that kind of talk for about ten min
utes and then be put me on top of the
toboggan and let go." '
"Seepis strange he'd Ore you Just for
that," said tha girl with the bang.
"I guess she must bave had sonic
kind of a pull," sajd Manie. Chicago
Dally News, ' , ,
COST OP STEAM YACHTS,
A bant $2ft an Hoar Ilqalred from
. f Owner nf ! Veli '
Tw'enty-flve dollars an hour seems a
big amount to pay for one's pleasure,
but with the millionaire expenses la of
uo consideration where bis comfort Is
concerned.' He has taken to yachting
with a aeal that Is Increasing every
year an id his iloutlng homo is a marvel
of iMtiuty, says the Broadway Maga
zine. , ... '. - -
Thero nre registered in the United
States over 1,200 Bou-golng steam yuehts
representing, approximately, $(50,000,-
0(H). i Of these more thun 300 fly tho
flag of tho New York Yacht Club. Oth-
ors steam under the colors of the
Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead,
or the Atlantic Yncht Club or smaller
clubs. " There are more steam yachts
registered In this country than lu Eng
land or France or Germany.'
Probably not one of the dozen big
steam yachts In the New York Yacht
Club fleet cost to build und equip less
than .?500,00o. But the cost of main
tenance is quite another" story. No
one knows, of course, just how much
It costs Mr. Morgan to keep the Cor
sair going. But If such a yncht, for
cxnmplc, carrying u crew of sixty men;
Is kept in commission for six mouths
out of the twelve, the pay roll will
run close to $:!D,(HiO. To feed the crew,
to pay for coal aud oil, for dx'klng
aud other necessary oxeiiscB will call
for. au exis'iidituie of from $30,000 to
$50,04 H) or more. Then there Is the ex
pense of entertaining the owner, bis
family nnd his guests on cruise- :t mat
ter of $20.004) bringing the total cost
very near the $100.04)0 mark. Never lu
all history was another such costly and
luxurious vehicle. Any one of a dozen
American yachts now skimming tho
seven seas is costing Its owner from
$15,04M) to $2,o4H u month. This
means an outlay running from $500 to
$7K) u day, or approximately $25 nn
hour. If the owner is entertaining n
party of eight persons on a foreign
cruise exactly $75 u day, tir $5,000 per
cruise, is pent ou each Individual
guest.
"A miss Is as good as a mile," said
the deer ns It ran ava$ "A nilsa is
as bad ns u mile," sr. Id th.i 'Miutcr a
he reloaded bis gun.
lielme't; thus permitting the whole force to be instantly ,
summoned in case of net d. ' Brussels tells us of aa ,
airship which seeps to have solved all the problems of
aerial navigation, and lit Morrlstown, N. J a machine,
is coming to completion which will write letters talked
into It, thus doing away with stenographers and typist.,
A hundred years hence the world will be a different
place from what It Is to-day. Most work will be done
by machinery, apace will bo virtually annihilated, com
munication all. oyer the enrth will be instantaneous.
What then will pecome of notional prejudices? Tb
world will be one, nation. War will disappear. All peo-'
pies wll speak one language. .
But will poverty be wiped out? Will man's real oosw
cerns, those ef his own nature, be less disturbing? Will
envy, hate ' and' all uncharltableuess die away? . WiU
man be any happier, any more conteut? -Chicago Jour '
ual. ,""".' ' ' '
Philippines to date. I ' . ",
years ago the Philippine Islands cam
Into the possession of the United State
.through conquest and purchase. ' '
; The first general flection for members C f
a nntional legislature was held ou July SO,
and the Naclonalista party, or the party' 4 '
f faction of which demands Immediate lndo-.
AN ODD SUPERSTITION..
Drltlah Fishermen Italic at the Kam I
; j of Graham. .
One of the most curious of British ;
fishermen's superstitious, the one whlcbi .
perhaps to this day has the strongest. V
hold npon them, Is that connected with! J
the name of Graham. No fisherman
will go to sea if he has heard this 1
name mentioned, nor will he do any ;,
mnnncr of work upon thnt day. k lie
will refuse to sail in a' boat with any,
onn bearing the' name, and a bouse
painter from Newcastle cnlled Graham,
who bad been sent to do some, work '
In one of the large bouses, found, his .
life made so miserable by the villagers
that lie Incontinently returued to the .
town, leaving his work uncompleted.'
The women who bult the Hues In the ;
winter will unbnit every hook and re-i ,
bait the whole length the labor of
linnra If tlipv hear It mentioned. ' A'
local tradesmau bearing tills nnfortu-'
nate patrouynilc is never referred to'
save aa "ruff ;". another, an Innkeeper, ;
Is known as "Lucky Bits.';; No ration- '
al explanation Is to be found. On one
of the most intelligent fishermen being .
qniestloned on the subject he, laughed
tho Idea-to acorn. Why,, his daughter '
was married to a Graham., put, b
added, a strange thing Muappetied two f
years ago when he was off at the her- 1
ring fishing and had not been home '
ror some weess. - Having receirwi a;.--
Ill III l ,11111. 111 . ' . .. 1 DVU .
law was 111. he hulled a passing boat'
which had come from the north, ask-j
ing if they had heard how -Jack GraJ;
bam was. "And, wnd ye beieev't, ne
soonor hud an syed thu words than
theor wes a crash, nnd the mast went
jower tho side !" None of the crew
. 1 . t.lii, t i. 41m rnef ft ttiri tn-
,n(iUUC 11 IU"" L tuw -. J . w.u v... j .
New York Post
Suffered for Ilia 1'lilek.ena. .
' In Lontlon ns far back as 1T01 a city,
ordinance was passed to suppress tha
early morning cries of the street hucki
Bters. This law wan so Bevere that a'
(person arrested twice for the same of-j
fenso could be Imprisoned for ten
years. Thero Is one record of,, a man
lingering lu prison for ten,, years..
When bis time was up be wns asked,
what his crime was.
' "For selling chickens that 'squawk
ed." was the reply. t t
In the confusion of the trial the fnct
was not brought out that the chickens
and not tho man were responsible for
the din that aroused tho wrath of the
disturbed citizens. . ,i s
. A T'iiuoriry l'onltlon.
rue itoss tio out employe wno nas
I . ...III. .1... f..ntr. ...... t '
hi-u nun iiiu uiiii mi i j j cum i ill
sorry, Watson, but owing to the bud :
state of business I don't see my way
clear to keep you on ufttr the end of
this month."
Watson Well, sir, if you Buy I must
go I supiswe I'll have to, but if I'd
known this wasn't to be u permanent
Job I'd never have accepted It." Tat-
The I. am Juurner.
"The last thin; I saw Galley he was
bound for California. Iion't you wish
you could travel the way h,e did?"
"No, he's tleiMl."
"I know ho Is now, but "
"I hope to travel In the opposite di
rection." Philadelphia Press.
Mot I.lke filotLter r;atle.
Wifey How do you like my cake,
dearie?
lluhhy Why It's or original, my
love, extremely original. Kansas City
Times.
If you exiwct to net rich, you must.
j make money when times ur dull.