lz fcnty Herald,
mm M. MML EaallilniJ
Nolan Is a mean greatly valued In lm
pressing upon the consciousness of the
child that every American owm an al
most Incalculable debt to his coufftry-W
"Land of the pilgrim' pride."
A man's opinion on currency legtsla-
flon Js often accepted for what he la
north.
A California tcnnister lias Inherited
$50,000. Good fortune never reins but
that it pours.
Maybe more young men woaid Join
the army If they could be- assured that
there would be a chance to fight.
"Lying Is often caused by Indiges
tion," says the British Medical Jour
nal. And sometimes by Indigestible P"l-
Itics.
A Rochester (N. Y.) man dll sud
denly after shovelling the snow from his
sidewalk. Make the boys. get out and
do It
The Indianapolis News says an elec
trical plant fcas been discovered In
Nicaragua. Was It trying to steal
water power?
Malaria disappears rrom the list of
human diseases, and mosquito fever
takes Us place the same thing under
a name that truly tells Its origin. Hud
air has nothing to do with It.
A wooden leg war Is tn progress, and
as a consequence wooden legs can be
bought for much less than ever before.
Now Is the time to have your leg cut
off If you are going to lose one.
Five tons of human hair are said to
be annually Imported by merchants of
London. This may be an Item of Inter
est to wives who have a habit of yank
ing their husbands' out by the roots.
We could never understand how any
body could take pleasure In predicting
calamities, yet some of the so-called
prophets seem to enjoy themselves at
it, whether or not their predictions
come true.
"A thoughtless man," says John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., "may do morn harm
In giving away money -than he Ins any
Idea of." The country will at once ac
quit young Mr. Rockefeller of tun slight
est guilt In this particular.
The poets have sung the praises of
youth and of age. . On their pages the
charms of the maiden,
Standing with reluctant feet.
Where the brook and river meet.
vie with the serenity and wisdom of
the spirit which has reached "The lasj
of life, for which the first was made.1!
tint who has a good word, even la
prose, for middle age? The woman of
forty, or approaching fifty, Is unsung,
although we should surely miss her
sadly If she were absent from actual
life as she Is from tho world of verse.
If middle age seems uninteresting to
th Imagination, It Is by no means un
deslrablo for the possessor of It. A
woman's real happiness often arrives
Just as she finds, from her mirror or
her calendar, that she Is no longer
young. On that fortunate any sne is
emancipated from many tedious tasks.
She need no longer dance, either liter
ally or metaphorically, when she la
weary. She need not distrust her judg
ment for lack of experience. If she
wishes, she may array herself In vel
vet, because she Is old enough; yet
she Is not required to abandon muslin,
since she Is not too old. In fact, mid
dle age Is the halcyon day as regards
dress, for becomlngness may be substi
tuted for modishness, and the whole
realm of color and material Is open to
her mature taste and good sense. The
girl may be unhappy unless she Is call
ed handsome or lovely, or at least pret
ty. The middle-aged may be quite con
tent with that genial adjective "nice-
looking," which almost any carefully
dressed woman may deserve. The most
precious possession of middle life Is
the sense of having "found oneself." A
clear vision of her place, her friends
and herself should be the dower of the
woman of forty, be she plump or thin,
rich or poor, married or single. To be
middle-aged, to know the fact, to re
joice in It, gives a woman a large, fair
view such as one may command from
a lofty table-land, where the horizon
Is almost as wide as that from the
mountalntop, while the air Is gentler,
the soli more fertile and the aunshlne
more gracious. May the years from
forty to fifty be as long na they are
happy; and after fifty well, no twentieth-century
woman Is ever over fifty.
Old Favorites
Faal Revere' Hid.
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the mldnlcht rids of Paul Revere,
On tht eighteenth of April, In Seventy
Ave ;
ITardly a man Is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and
year.
II said to bis friend, "If the British
march
By land or sea from the town to-nixht,
Usng a lantern aloft In the bil fry-arch
0( tie North Cliurob tower as a signal
light-
One, If by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be.
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and
farm.
For tie coiiutry folks to be up a! arm.
Then he saU, "Good nigh 7 and with
mnEad oar.
Silently rowed to the tVarlestovm shore,
Just aa the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings
lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bur,
And a huge black bulk, that wns magt-
fied
By lta own reflection lo the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend, throng alley and
street,
Wanders and watches wl2iS eager ears,
Till In the silence arovad him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door.
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grena
dier.
Marching down to their boats on the
shore.
Tien he climbed to the tower of the
church,
Dp the wooden stairs, with stealthy
tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the. pigeons from their
perch,
On the sombre rafters, that round him
made
Maases and moving shapes of sbsde,
Up the trembling ladder, steep and tall.
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
moment on the roofs of the town.
And the moonlight flowing over all.
A Syracuse writer has gone to the
trouble of digging up the fact that this
country has never bad among Its Pres
idents a Charles, a ojsepb, or a Rob
ert. We could name several gentle
men who think It high time for one of
the three to be added to the list.
"NEFARIOUS SCOUNDRELS."
Lhassa, formerly the mysterious fo--
bldden city, will, If report be true, bo
Joined vto the rest of the world by tele
graph, and thero Is to be a Tlbctun
newspaper. There will be no more ce
lestial calm for a people who must
learn to put a telegraph message Into
ten words, and must read In thi morn
ing paper that there has been a terri
ble fire In Chen Lung'a barn at East
Hankow.
Indeed, the Imperial argument for
peace Is applicable to all lands. Peace
la the most profitable of all Interna
tional policies. In the whole circuit of
the globe to-day It la Impossible to find
two nations between which a war
would not be not only unprofitable, but
also positively detrimental to both. The
world la to-day so closely occupied and
II its nations are so closely related
that the conquest of even one of tho
smallest countries would affect others
and almost Inevitably lend to trouble
some complications for the victor. The
whole world might well adopt the Ger
man imperial policy of "peace, and
again peace," development of commerce
and industries, and a constantly widen
ing national culture.
ioiwiintanaing that It was one of
the most appalling natural catastro
phes on record, tho earthqunke in Kar-
atagh has scarcely atirred the sympa
thies of the good people of America.
Karatagh is In Bokhara, one hundred
miles southeast of. Samarkand, sur
rounded by mountalnes ten and twelve
thousand feet high. The earthquake
not oniy, aestroyed the town, but sev-
eral surrounding villages, and resulted
In the loss of twelve thousand lives. So
remote Is It from what we coll civiliza
tion that ten days elapsed before any
aeiauea account or the disaster reach
ed the outer world. The absence of
any common bond between Bokhara
ana America doubtless explains tho
lack of Interest here, for sympathy
travels aiong tuo lines of commerce.
Lawbreakers are frequently de
nounced, and rewards are offered for
the apprehension of especially trouble
some or dangerous orrenuers, in the
newspapers of to-day ; but It Is not the
custom to mix denunciation with adver
tisement after the fashion of our an
cestors. With them, righteous wrath
would not be denied the comfort of ept
tbets, even In purely business communication.
No modern advertising column 1 Is
likely to contain an advertisement as
vigorous In Its language aa one pub
lished In an old Newburyport Herald
of Just a century ago, threatening with
"public exposure" no mention is made
of prosecution If he should repeat his
raids, the "Nefarious Scoundrel, void
of cither manners or breeding," who
had stolen apples from a certain or
chard.
Whether or not the remainder of the
crop was spared, It Is Impossible not to
feci that the satisfaction of seeing "Ne
farious Scoundrel" In good black print
must have proved eminently soothing to
the spirit of the peppery old gentleman
who penned the advertisement
The disproportion between the lan
gunge, and the offense reminds one of
that trlul. In another old colonial town.
at which a pompous Judge bad dis
coursed so eloquently on the offended
majesty of the law and the wicked
ness of lawbreakers In general, that the
plaintiff, who was simple-minded, be
gan to fear the special larceny in quea
tlon "would be lost sight of.
"Don't ye hang him, Judge P he
broke In. "No, don't ye hang him I
Mebbe he desarves It, for goln' agin
the Law and the Prophets, but I dou't
want he should forget he stole my three
biggest pumpkins I I want he should
set sorrowln' In Jnlt, and remember
whnt brung him there. Try and for
give him his other villainies, judge, and
Jest you jail him for them pumpkins I
Her Leap Year Proposal.
It would be little remarkable If the
children of some of the Immigrants en
tering New York harbor, notably those
ad-eyed little ones escaping from the
terrors of eastern Europe, should feel
themselves, through uo fault of their
own, In the position of that misguided
man whose repudiation of his country
and subsequent miseries have been lin-
agtnea ana immortalized by Edward
fcverett Hale. Hut when these bewll-
dered boys and girls "without a coun
try- leave r.itis Island behind them.
and enter tho great educational pnlaces
maintained by the metropolis, what a
change must begin In the clilldixli con
sciousness! How like "a dream come
true" must it seem to them when they
find themselves In the wine, patient and
friendly hands of the teachers employed
by the city to transform tho polyclot
throngs consigned to Its cure Into little
sons and daughters of the Great Repuli-
llcl Think of u class composed of chil
dren of twenty-two different nationali
ties, which has leumed In six mouths'
time to read Knglish J For not only by
their genuine affection for the (lag of
their new country, but by the remark
able progress made In many Instances,
do these children whom one hesitates
longer to call "foreigners" show their
Appreciation of the greatest ift (if the
republic to all her children, adopted
and native tho gift of a free educa
tion. Especially Interesting Is the fuct
that lr. Hale's 'The Man Without a
Country". Is quite generally used as a
text book on patriotism in the school
where the children of the Immigrants
tru The story of wretched Philip
(l mil
Miss Sweet 1 huvo Juri proposed
marriage to your sou, Mr. Ie Uoldbug,
and been accepted.
Mr. De Uoldbug (sternly) Can you
support hi iu In the style be has been
accustomed to?
Work.
"Shunter Is going to read an essa
on 'Work' before tho debating society
to-night."
"How did he happen to choose that
subject? He's the laziest inuu In the
world."
That's Just It ; he's going to argue
against It." Detroit Free Press.
Tuo l.ate lile.
Gerald 1 would die for you.
Gcraldinc But pa says you are
dead one alreudy. New York l'resn.
An automobile Is no more unpopular
lu the country than a hunter from
towav
A voice In the darkless, a knock at the
door.
And a 'word that shall echo forever more!
For, borne on the nlglit wind of the 1'nst,
Through all otiv hiotory, to the Inst,,
In the hour of darkness and pril and
need,
The people will wnkon and liste: te, bear
The hurrying hoof beats of Mint s'eerl.
And the midnight monxnge ot Paul Re
vere. II. W. Longfellow.
Beneath, In the church yard, lay the dead,
In their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped In silence so deep and still
That he could bear, like a sentinel's
tread.
The watchufl night-wind, as it went,
Creeping along from tent to tent.
And seeming to wbifiper, "All Is well I"
moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret
dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead ;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and tide.
Booted and spurred, with a heavy tride
On the opposite shore walked I'aul Re
vere.
Now he patted his horse's side,
Now gazed at the landscape far and near.
Then, Impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened bis suddle-
glrth ;
Bat mostly he watched with eager eareh,
The belfry tower of the Old North
Church,
As It rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely, and spectral, and sombre, and
still,
And lot as he looks, on the belfry's
height
A slimmer, and then a gleam of light I
lis springs to the saddle, the bridle be
turns,
But lingers and gates, till full on his
sight.
A second light In the belfry burns !
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape In the moonlight, a bulk in the
dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in pars
ing, a spark,
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and
fleet;
That was all I And yet, through the
gloom and the light
The fate ot a nation was riding that
night ;
And the spark struck out by that steel
In his flight, t
Kindled the land into flame with Its
beat.
Us has left the village and mounted the
steep
And beneath him, tranquil, and broad
and deep,
Is the mystic, meeting the ocean tides
And under the alders that skirt its edge.
Now soft on the sand, now loud ou the
ledge,
Is beard the tramp ot bis steed as he
ride.
It was twelve by the village clock,
When he crossed the bridge Into Med-
ford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer's dog,
And felt the damp of the river foz.
That rises after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock,
When be galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swing tn the mooulight as be named.
And the metiug bouse windows, blank
and Dare,
Case at him with a spectral glare,
Aa if tbey already stood agtiHHt,
At the bloody work -they would look upon,
It wss two by the village clock.
When he came to the bridge in Concord
town.
He heard the bleating of the flock.
And the twitter of binls among the treea,
Ana leu ma uream oi me morning
oreeie,
Blowing over the meadows brown.
And one was safe and asleep Iu his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall.
bo that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket ball.
You know the rest. In the books you
nave reaa.
ITow the British regulars fired snd fled
How the farmers gave them ball for ball
From behind each fence and farm yard
wall.
Chasing the red coats down the lane,
Then crossing the field to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to Are an load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere,
And so through the night went bis cry
of alarm,
To every Middlesex, village and farm
cry ot defiance and not of fear,
WA3H DAY AN EVENT TIIEEB
In Franec Laundering 1 Onlr Oone
Few T Intra a Year.
It was unfortunate, perhaps, that
we had nrrived during the "lessivc;"
Hint Is always a most Important func
tion In France, says Mine. Wnddhigton
In Scrlbnera.. In almost nil tho lily
IioiiBcs In the country (small ones", too)
that Is the way they do their wash
lug; osice n month or once every thrct
months, according to the size of the
establishment, the whole washing of
the household Is done; nil the linen,
master's, servants', guests'; house Is
turned nnt; the Ultra closets cleaned
and nlred! Every one looks busy and
energetic. H Js quite n long affair
lusts three ftf four days. I often went
to see tM performance when we made
our "Tussive" at the chateau every
molih.
I ll always interested our i-.iikiihu unci
American friends, as the washing is
never done lu that way in cither of
heir eonntrfes. It was very conven
er at our place as we had plenty of
room, the "invoir' stooti nt tne top
f the steps leading into the kitchen
gardens; there wns n lnrge, square
tank sunk In the ground so that the
women could kneel to their work, then
n little higher another of beautiful
lear water, all under rover. Just
across the path there was a small
louse with a blazing wood lire; In the
middle an enormous tub where all the
inen wns passed through wood ashes.
There were four "lesslveuses" (washer
women), sturdy ieasnnt women with
short skirts, sabots and turbans (made
of blue and white checked calico) on
their heads, their strong red arm
bared above the elbow. The Merc
Michtm, the eldest of the four, direct
ed everything and kept them well at
work, allowed very little talking; they
generally chatter when they are wash
ing and very often quarrel. When
they are washing at the public "la
volr" In the village one hears their
shrill voices from a grent distance.
Our "llngere," Mine. Hubert, superin
tended the whole operation ; she was
very keen about It and remonstrated
vigorously when they slapped the lin
en too hard' sometimes with the little
flat sticks, like spades, they use. The
linen nil came out beautifully white
and smooth, hadn't the yellow look
that all city washed clothes have.
3000000000000
A MISCHIEVOUS ELEPHANT.
DOOOOOOOOOOOCX
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOti
Coco, n small elephant In a circus
menagerie, Is known as the most mis
chievous animal among nil the large
herd of elephants in this show. Coco,
writes Ellen Velvln In "Wild Animal
Celebrities," was boru in the circus.
and from tho very first few mouths of
his life attracted attention, not only
on account of his constant mischief.
but also because he Is one of the most
affectionate and amusing aiilnmlt lu
captivity.
Coco began one day to pull down the
gas pipes over his head; and when
those, had been put to rights again, he
tried to Investigate the electric llht
by drawing the bulb over to his mouth
with his trunk, and was barely savl
iroiu criismnK it, mm jiroouiuy cnusin
his own death.
Just round a corner of the wall
where he and his companions ar usu
ally fastened up, underneath Madison
Simre Garden, is a water faucet
where the men get the drinking water
for the elephants. One nlcht when,
after the performance, the lights had
lieen put out with the exception of one
or two, and all the men lind gone but
the watchman, Coco was very quiet
and thoughtful, and us' all the elephants
seemed quiet and comfortable, the
watchman settled himself In bis chair
and began to doze.
Suddenly he was conscious of a curl
ous sound- like running water, and
after listening a inoniei:!, looked down
on the tloor, and wus rprlsed to see
the floor swimming In water and
stream ouring from the faucet. The
watchman knew at once what had hap
pened. Coixi had turned on the wate
faucet and flooded the place. It took
alsiut an hour with a lot of men to
get the animals dry and comfortable
once more, and Coco was made to un
derstand, by having his trunk rapped
smartly every time he attempted t
put It round the faucet, that he was
not to do that again.
o I ha "Worst.
Settlement workers go among the
poor to teach ; occasionally, howver,
they are taught, as lu an Instance the
Boston Post reports.
One afternoon Mrs. Murphy appear
ed at the settlement house, all dressed
up In her best bonnet and shawl, as is
the custom. A huge bluck and blue
spot disfigured one side of her face,
however, and one eye wns nearly
closed.
"Why, Mrs. Murphy, what is the
mutter?" cried one of the teachers; and
then, realizing that she might have
asked a tactless question, she hastily
turned It off by Baying. "Well, cheer
up. you might be worse tiff."
"Sure aii' 1 might," responded the In
dlgnant Mrs. Murphy. "I might not bi
married at all!" which was rather
pointed, as all the teachers at the house
are single women.'
Her Simplicity.
"Charlie, dear," wild young Mrs. Tor
kins, "what beautiful luuues they give
race horses."
"Yes."
"I don't blame you for liking to con
verse with- bookmakers. They must
have lovely vocabularies." Washing
ton Star.
A new serio-comic song is entitled
"I'm So Poor that I Have No Place
to Stick My Gum When 1 Eat"
TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO DISAPPEAR FOR VARIOUS REAS0N3.
i 1 p. C "0 o""'"' l.'rs k
AWAYFCOM ffTjL IT
HOME LpilS e v
TO TIGHT atGifn; r. s
WEN CONTINUE. TO RUN
J' KOME. TO BECOME.
TRAMPS."
If all the persona who during each year disappear from
fhelr homes and places of business, leaving behind them
no clews by means of which their whereabouts can be
traced, could be assembled In one locality It would be
found there were enough of them to found a good-sized
city, says the Chicago Journal. Records kept by the po
lice and charitable organizations show that the number
of persons who disappear Is larg-. It Includes the man
who. has become tired of supporting his wife and chil
dren and goes away to begin life anew. It Includes the
trusted employe who has abused his trust and has fled
to escape punishment. In the ranks of those who have
disappeared are ninny whose disappearance cannot be
ascribed wholly to themselves.
The police have to deal with so ninny cases of missing
persons that they attach small linKrtanee to any case
In which It Is known that the man or the woman who
Is missing Is addicted to drink. Rough und ready psy
chologists In their way. are the police. They know that
many of the persons who go away leaving no trace be
hind are Impelled to their departure by drinking.
Many other cases find their solution iu the fascina
tion which some member of the opposite sex iias exer
cised over the tierson who has disappeared. There ar;
many cases reported to the police as cases of mysterious
disappearance which later turn out to have been elope
ments. The personal columns of the newspapers,, called in
England "the agony columns," contain almost every day
requests for Information concerning the whereabouts of
men and women for whom somebody Is seeking. In Rome
of the mare businesslike inquiries $1 Is offered for the
correct address. Business houses and money lenders In
sert mnny of these advertisements for business reasons,
but there is no one who cau tell even approximately the
number of cases in which It Is some anxious mother, fa
ther, husband, wife, sister, brother, son or daughter who
Is In quest of Information about some loved one.
The Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America
are constantly appealed to for information about miss
ing persons. The War Cry contains each week a depart
ment which is maintained for collecting such Information
anil distributing It. Almost every newspaper published
in a foreign language lu Chicago and other great cities
receives requests similar to those made of the War Cry.
The irksoineiHss of domestic routine and the fear of
parental displeasure of one sort or another used to be
the principal motives which Impelled young persona to
leave their borne. Many of the disappearances which
take place nowadays may be traced to either of these
causes, but the complexity of modern life has glveu rise
to many other causes. One young woman, for Instance,
left her homo because her mother objected to her going
to a matinee twice a week. A young man who worked
for $10 a week left home because his father Insisted on
getting $3 a week for his room and board.
The boys who run away from home to fight Indians
and who succeed lu getting far from home are almost a
negligible quantity. Only a few days ago one of th
most experienced observers of tramp life stated that the
lure of the road had never appealed more strongly to
young men than It does at the present time. In address
ing a meeting of boy tramps this observer, who himself
has been a tramp, exposed the fallacy of the theory held
by many, boys that there is something worth while in
tramp life.
Many of the young women who disappear run away "to
go on the stage." Most of the disappearances of this
class take place In the fall of each year. Young women
who have become familiar with the stage through the
work of summer stock companies in their 'home towns or
who have met stage people leave their homes when sum
mer is over and come to the city to get places in the
chorus of musical attractions or as minor members of
dramatic companies. Their parents write to the police
asking that the young women be found and sent back
home.
The ease with which persons may live in the city with
out having their whereabouts known makes Chicago the
favorite refuge, not only for persons who disappear from
other cities, but for many persons who find life distaste
ful In 'the surroundings to which they have become ac
customed. Many of the disappearances are found upon
investigation to be cases In which the missing person baa
removed to a distant neighborhood within the city's lim
its. Sometimes a change of address to a place only a few
blocks has been sutiicient to throw off the scent any per
sons Interested iu finding the one who has disappeared.
Disappearances which are caused by business troubles
seem to be more frequent In January and February than
In any other mouths In the year. Discouraging disclos
ures concerning the year's business often drive business
men Into seclusion. Men who watch the reports of mer
cantile rating agencies look for more disappearances at
the beginning of the year than at any other time.
PLAQUE OF WHITE ANTS.
I Fortune Awaits Their Extermina
tion In Australia.
A fortune awaits the man who will
come to the aid of the people of Aus
tralia with au effective plan to rid
the people of that country ot white
ants.
Not only are they an annoying Test,
but their destructlveness Is costly.
They have an especial taste for the
woodwork of houses, and the dam-ige
they do reaches Into astonishing figures.
llefore the white man s advent
houses were unknown. The n-Kirlg-iocs
of the vast territory knew noth
ing of such structures, u few sheets of
bark composing the shelter they tcin
lKjrarlly required. Rut even then the
White ants abounded. They ate the
standing trees In the forest; tluy do
vourcd fallen branches; they mudo nest
In logs and roots.
With civilization and house tulld
Ing came new spheres for their activi
ty. W.' erever woodwork was ued, lu
city center or bush hut, the creature
had to be guarded against, and th ut
most enre and precaution were often fu
tile lu tho contest. Buildings have had
to be remodeled and sometimes taen
down becnuse of tho extent of he rav
ages. A building lu the country, known
to be affected with white ants, becomes
practically unsalable. Occasionally the
affected board or Joist or several affect
ed ones are removed and sound timber
Introduced, In the hope of making good
the Injury ; but rarely does such pitch
ing avalV.
The white ant Is an unseen worker.
It may havo secured a lodgment lu
a house many years back; ?uva
tlons of the creatures may hava ived
and worked and died without Tent
ing by sound or otherwise the slight
est suspicion of their presence; and
It is only when they hare consumed
the entire substance underneath that
the shell of the wood falls In ind dis
aster la revealed.
NEW USE FOB THE MAGIC LANTERN.
Saut- (or I be tiooae,
"So Miss I'.lder took advantage of
leap year and promised to Cholly, eh?"
"Yep. Rut Cholly succeeded In get
ting the fatal day put off till June."
"How did he do It?"
"Told her It would take him that long
to get his trousseau ready." Cleveland
Plain IValer.
Can a man be called a cannibal be
es use tw lives on bis father In law?
? piiili OShn Apr
'V.f-y.
rHfSoA VP nD
"I hear that the rich merchant gotall his daughters engaged at his soiree
last night. However did he do it?" ,
"It was a nntural conclusion.' At thebeglnning of the evening he showed
them all his house, property, faetorles.ete., with the magic lantern." Flie-
geude Rlaetter.
QUEER CURE FOR SNAKE BITE.
Illle of the Reptile Salil . to Be au
Autluote.
"Take a hair of ' the dog that bit
you," is an old saw that, as a sug
gested remedy, has led many a man
out of the frying pan Into the fire, and
It cannot certainly be recommended as
a cure suitable for modern times, when
au antidote is more recommcndable.
Dogs are not, however, the only ani
mals whose bite Is to be fenred, and
those iieople whose travels have led
them to far lands know that poison
ous snakes are much more to he dread
ed, says Chambers' Jouriiaf. Though
by far tho greater number of thoe
liersons thus bitten die, there Is a cer
tain number who recover, thanks to
prompt measures, and thanks also to
the administration of the exact reme
dy which any particular snake bite re
quires. The poison ejected by the tooth of
asps and scricuts varies as much as
docs the iKilson from the spoken worth
of the wicked, and It has lately been
discovered espovlaly Iu Brazil, which
secuis to hold the record for Its variety
of death-giving snakes that the serum
with which those bitten are treated
should vary, according to the kind of
snake. But this, though advantageous
to know iu theory, is of small practical
use, since the traveler cannot be sure of
having exactly the right serum with
him at the moment of the fatal bite.
It has lately been rejiorted that, on
th principle of the old adage men
tioned above which thus serves a turn,
an almost certain cure for snake bite,
of the reptile which has attacked any,
one, and which the snake being gen
erally killed on the spot Is naturally
at hand. The gall bladder Is extracted.
Its contents filtered and the fluid in
jected under the skin. The method
sounds somewhat complicated, but no
snake-bitten person will complain If by
this means he escapes a rapid death.
The exiierlments made have given the
best results, those recovering from the
poisonous bite of a South American
snake coming off with nothing worse
than an abscess at the point of pene
tration of the snake's tooth.
r'llea.
The astonishing abundance of flle
during the latter part of the summer la
accounted for by the estimate made by
an eminent entomologist that the pro
geny of a single house fly In the course
of one summer will number 2,ONO,320i
It if were not for the Innumerable ene
mies provided by nature for the de
struction of the fly, tho whole air
would be filled by the end of August
with swarms of flies, which would ren,
tier life lnsupiiortable.
StrU-llr Appropriate.
Gladys Why Is Miss Strlctlelgh
wearing only half-mourning for het
brother?
Gwendolyn He was ouly her half.,
brother, you know. Baltimore Amer.
lean.
Few men can look themselves overh
and give their faults a fair bearing.
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