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A writer In tl.a Revue Sclentiriquo
discusses the c.1. . ;j of ivy growing on
walla of varlors Hurts, nml arrives at
the following ( om luslons: It Is not
advisable to allow the plant to grow
on walls formed of newly cut stone,
since It noon destroys the smooth but
face, although the damage docs not
extend to any noticeable depth; It Is
bad for ancient walls of cut stone, tho
joints of which have been opened by
the various effects of time and the
weather; It Is not Injurious on brick
walls, If the Inhabitants are not sub
ject to rheumatism; and it is useful
on ancient walls of rubble, since its
interlaced branches tend to prevent
the fall of loose stones.
According to same of the farmers of
East Africa, tin lion should be pro
tected as a useful animal, notwith
standing the fact that once In a while
he kills a in:m. The lion, they main
tain. Is a great destroyer of noxious
herbivorous animals, such as zebras
and antelopes, which are a scourge to
the fields. In one district they say no
less than 34G lions have recently been
killed by hunters, and they estimate
that this represents the saving of
3,"..000 to 40,000 zebras and antelopes,
which would otherwise have fallen a
prey to the lions that have been de
stroyed. Of course the hunters Bhoot
lebras and antelopes also, but this fact,
they think, does not counterbalance
the destruction of those animals that
would have been effected by the slain
lions.
The experience of the corps of tel
egraphers employed to operate the
wireless apparatus used by the French
In the recent campaign in Morocco
suggests that the Hertzian waves de
velop various affections of the eyes. A
slight conjunctivitis, resembling that
occurring among those who work with
arc lampB, wa3 commonly observed,
together with a few cases of a more
serious nature. Two cases of eczema
were apparently due to the same cause,
and one man suffered from palpitation
of the heart after working for any
great length of time at the sending
Instruments. Doctor Belille Is Inclined
to think that many cases of neuras
thenia and nervousness, now becoming
common in the navy, may be due to
the influence of the waves used in
wireless telegraphy.
The Immense cavern (the Giant Grot
to) Is situated near Trieste, Austria,
and is said to be the largest known to
exist. It consists of one vast chamber,
787 feet leng, 433 feet broad and 452
feet high. There are three entrances,
two in the roof, and one at the edge
of the roof, which has recently been
provided with ladders and steps, so
that visitors can safely descend into
the grotto. Once on the bottom, prog
ress is easy. The cavern contains re
markable groups of stalactites, some of
them of gigantic size and others of
bizarre shapes. The tallest stalactite
has a length of a little more than 39
feet. No side or underlying caverns
have yet been discovered. The bottom
of the grotto is 525 feet below the sur
fact of the ground forming the top of
the roof, which in turn is about 1,580
fet above sea level.
A "Leelle Dllt'rence."
"Yes, sir, gentlemen; thar's a leetU
difference between farmin' out west
an back here in old Varmont, sata
Uncle Si Eggmann to the cronies
around the stove at the cross-roads !
store, on his return from a visit to his i
Drother in uaKota. ow, oui mar
in the west they don't think they've
reelly got a farm unless it totals about
3,000 or 4,000 acres; an' If they air j
raisin' stock they speak o' 5,000 head !
as bein' a 'leetle bunch o' cattle' An j
takes 'em 'bout half a day to noe one
row o corn, the rows air so long, an
they harvest corn an' wheat enough on
one farm to fill our town hall. Now,
that's a leetle dlff'rent from what it is
here in New England, where we call
20 acres o' ground, a couple o' dozen
hens, an' a rooster, six or eight keows,
an' a rozberry patch, a farm. Yes,
sir, gentlemen, thar's a turrlble dlff
rence between farmin' east an' farm
in' west a most turrlble dlff'rence!"
Puck.
Appreciation tor a Poet.
On the day It was announced thai
the body of poor John Davidson had
been found, I read a brief paragraph
showing how such a calamity might
easily have been avoided. The In
habitants of Tourcolng, In the north
of France, are very proud of their
local dialectic poet, M. Jules Wat
teun. Instead of waiting to erect a
statue to him after death they have
made sure that he shall be put be
yond the reach of financial worry,
that bane of so many poets great and
email, during his lifetime. There
was a demonstration In honor of M.
Watteun last year and a public sub
scription was opened. The sum col
lected has now been utilized to build
the poet a house, which shall be his
during his lifetime and then revert
to the commune, and In addition to
secure him an annuity; while if his
death precedes that of his wife an
annuity of half the value will be paid
'.o her so long as she lives.
A Ilrlitht Idea.
"Hogan's cow bruk into the straw
berry patch this mornin', sorr, an' it's
hlvvy damages we sh'uld git from
him."
"U'b no use, Patrick. He'll be sure
to swear it was somebody else's cow."
"The dlvll a bit, sorr. He can't. 01
Bhut the baste in there fur ivldence."
Judge.
A Slibt Mlatak.
Captain of the Territorial Regiment
(excitedly ) Seen iny baggage any
where. Private Noggs?"
Private Noggs (misunderstanding)
Yes, sir; I seed 'er about five min
utes ago walking down the 'ill with tht
parson. Illustrated Bits.
A man fools himself when he imag
ines other men never tire, of hearing
lm talk.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook Is not the
first and very likely will not bo the
last to offer the public a "gold brick,"
In the way of great discoveries, says
the "Washington Tost. The fakers
have been found In all land3, and In
almost all times, and their dealings
have been in fake discoveries In
science, in medicine, in literature.
Some were successful in fooling the
public for long periods; others were
soon caught and exposed. For thre9
centuries we have had among us
persons persistently claiming that
Shakespeare was a colossal faker,
and palmed off on a credulous
public the writings of one Bacon,
as being the productions of his
own brain and pen. The Baconites
are still very strong in numbers and
literary ability. Dr. Cook has had
many predecessors and will no doubt
have many successors in he years to
come, and the people will continue to
be gullible. P. T. Barnum, the great
bowman, Bald the people liked to be
humbugged. That may be putting it
pretty strong, but when we have once
been humbugged it delights our souls
to see somebody else get Into the same
category.
One of the greatest. If not the great
est, commercial latte3 trtr peipcwui.d
upon the public was that of John Law
In his famous Mississippi bubble, dur
ing the reign of LouU XV. France at
that time was bankrupt, when along
came a canny Scotchman, John Law,
with his scheme to make all French
men roll In wealth, and presented his
plan to colonize Louisiana. Paper
money, or rather paper promises, was
to be the basis of this wealth, and he
flooded the nation with his paper.
Princes and peasants, nobles and
clergy, men and women fought for
the chances to subscribe for this stock.
In one day he had all France rolling
in wealth and on the next steeped
worse than ever in poverty. Before the
collapse, however, all Europe was In
a erase to buy shares in the Mississip
pi company, and history says that at
one time there were halt a million
foreigners in Paris eagerly speculat
ing in the stocks and the prices rose
to 15,000 francs a share. But the end
came, and It came suddenly. No one
except Law was Icoklng for a break.
He saw It coming and fled the king
dom. Law found his example in what his
tory knows ao the "South Sea Bubble."
This was a scheme that found its birth
in the active brain of William Pater
son, during the reign of Queen Anne.
Paterson was the founder of the Bank
of England, and had won high fame as
a sound financier, so it was easy for
hlm t0 flnd buyers for his shares when
he placed the glittering South Sea
scheme of colonization before the eyes
of the people. He selected the Isthmus
of Panama as the place to plant his
colony. Advertisers of gold mines and
other get-rlch-qulck schemes Might
flnd It to their advantage carefully to
peruse the flamboyant pamphlets Is
sued by Paterson nearly two centuries
ago. After a while the end came:
tha ,.,,.,, Iri,Pned and died, money
became 8carce in Scotland, and nobody
wanted to purchase any more of the
Bhareg( and Panama was left to its fe-
vers.
There have been fakers of history,
and the name of Herodotus, like that
of Abou ben Adhem, leads all the rest.
Ho hag aiwav8 been called the "Father
of History," because he was the first
to attempt to put into concrete form
the story of what the world had done
and what It was then doing. For near
ly 2,400 years he has been read with
delight by scholars, and they freely
admit that his historical "gold bricks"
are so well garbed that they are almost
as good as the genuine article.
Among the hosts of literary gold
brick peddlers, Thcmas Chatterton will
ever stand at the head. "The marvel
ous boy that perished In his pride,
when only 14 years of age, fooled all
the literary people of England. Upon
some old parchments he found among
the things his father had left he pre
tended to have discovered fragments
of ancient poems, sermons, and articles
des.. iptlve of the city churches, all
written In the old lettering and spell
ing. They showed remarkable pow
ers, both for a poet and a descriptive
writer, and at once had all literary
London agog. It was not long, how
ever, before the literary world found
that it had been hoaxed by a boy.
Chatterton went to London at the age
of 17 to make his way as a writer, but
soon fell Into habits of intemperance,
and at the age of 18 he ended his life
by drinking poison
One of the popular poets of the pres
ent day In his early career handed out
to the public a specimen gold brick
which was so much like the genuine
article that most of the literary crit
ics were taken In. James Whitcomb
Riley said, in a conversation with a
friend, that he could write a poem
that would be readily accepted as be
ing an original by that master poeii
ral genius of America, Edsar Allan
Poe. A few days later a paper In a
small Indiana town announced that
r..-nong sonio rubbish In an attic an old
book had been found that once belong
ed to Poe, and on the fly leaf was an
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
To avoid scraping new potatoes let
them boil for a little while until their
skins are ready to peel off, strip them
and put them Into the oven to finish
cooking.
Washing lamp chimneys by Immers
ing them In water often makes them
brittle. A safer way to clean thera
is to held them for a few minute
jver a steaming kettle, and then pol
ish briskly with a soft cloth
original and unpublished poem by that
author. It attracted wide attention,
and was almost universally accepted
by the critics as genuine, but when
an offer of a large sum came for the
manuscript by a collector the fake was
acknowledged.
It Is hard to determine to what
class the great Moon hoax properly be
longs, whether among those against
science or literature. So complete was
It as a treatise on science and astron
omy that It entrapped the great Ara
go Into accepting It. Its author was a
literary genius, with a very largo
knowledge of science and astronomy.
It purported to be the story of how
Sir John Hem-hell had constructed a
powerful telescope, and had been able
to bring the moon in so close a range
of vision as to be able to distinguish
animals and men moving on Its sur
face. Known truths of science were so
cleverly Interwoven with the imagi
nary that the closest observer had
hard work to distinguish between the
false and the true.
The people of England have had at
least two gold bricks offered them in
the shape of spurious claimants to the
crown. At least half a dozen claim
ants to be the Dauphin of France, the
son of Louis XVI, who was supposed
to have been starved to death during
the French Revolution, have appeared
at one time or another. In 1603 Otre
flef, a monk, pretended to be Demetri
us, son of the Czar Ivan, who had been
murdered. We know little of any re
ligious impostors prior to the coming
of Christ, although the Bible tells us
that several false Christs had arisen
before the coming of One now acknowl
edged by the Christian world as the
real Redeemer. But since his day
claimants of divine rights have been
many. Mahomet, perhaps, is clearly
entitled to stand at the head, and to
day his followers are counted by the
millions.
Evidently getting his inspiration
from the story of Mahomet, Joseph
Smith, the father of Mormonlsm, dis
covered his Bible written on plates of
gold, which had been hidden for ages
until the anger guided hini to the hid
Ing place. The first book of Mormon
did not contain all the present creed
of that sect, but wa3 added to from
time to time by Smith, who, like his
prototype, Mahomet, had visions many,
In which he talked with God. In the
year 743 one Adelbert, a' Gaul, pre
tended to have received a letter from
Christ, which had fallen down from
heaven as he walked the streets, and
was picked up by him. He soon ob
tained many followers, who went out
into the wilderness and lived as John
the Baptist had lived, on locusts and
wild honey. They soon fell under the
ban of Rome and were put down.
Spain furnished one of the most
successful and most Impudent of his
class of Impostors In one Gonsalvo
Marten, who In 1360 claimed to be the
angel Gabriel who had been sent down
to earth to reform the churches and
drive out error. Lady Hester Stan
hope, the favorite niece of William
Pitt, the great minister of Great Brit
ain, withdrew to Syria, and there de
clared herself to be the bride of the
Messiah.
America has furnished Its share of
religious enthusiasts. Among them
William Miller stands out the .most
prominent, because of the number of
converts he made. In these later days
we have had Alexander Dowle, Elijah
II, with his noted city ZIon and his
many troubles with the courts. But
It would take page after page to tell of
all the religious fakes that have led
the people at one time or another.
One of the most Impudent as well as
successful fakes ever perpetrated was
that of the Cardiff giant, or petrlflod
man. In making some excavations
near the town of Cardiff, In Onondago
County, New York, the workmen un
earthed this supposed petrifaction, oi
at least this was the claim made by
those who were engineering the thing.
It was taken over the country and put
on exhibition In all the large cities,
proving to be a drawing card for the
exhibitors, who' reaped a comfortable
fortune from It. The whole thing was
a fake. (It had been cut In Chicago
out of a block of gypsum.
Forgeries for political purposes have
been Quite common In America. The
most noted of these is the Morey let
ter of 1880, when Gen. Garfield was the
Republican candidate for the presi
dency. The letter pretended to have
been written in reply to one addressed
to him by Morey, in which Gen. Garfield
took strong grounds against the ex
clusion of the Orientals. -A
few years later another political
letter, which, however, was not a forg
ery, caused a widespread commotion in
this country and resultedln the call
Ing home of the British minister at the
suggestion of President Cleveland. Mr.
Cleveland was a candidate for re-elec
tion, and the tariff was In issue. A
pretended former subject of Queen
Victoria wrote to Mr. Sackvllle-West,
the British minister, saying that while
he was an American by adoption he de
sired to vote In the way that would
do the most good to Great Britain, and
asked for his opinion as to what ef
fect the tariff would have on the moth
It is said that prunes are greatly
Improved if a little cider is added to
the water in which they are cooked.
Before cooking canned goods place
in a colander and drain off all Juice
and rinse with cold water. The sea
soning must be supplied with good
fresh butter, milk, salt and pepper.
Canvas shoes may be cleaned with
soup and water if oii works quickly,
so that the moisture doe not pene
trate the canvas. Make a thick lather
of pure white soap atti warm witer.
er country. It was a political trap
and ought not to have deceived even
a tyro In politics, but the minister fell
headlong into the trap and replied,
advising his correspondent to vote for
Mr. Cleveland.
The most infamous of all such forg
eries was that perpetrated in May,
1864, by two newspaper men of New
York City. The two parties were pre
paring to enter upon a new political
campaign, and the government was
putting forth its strongest efforts to
put an end to the Civil War. One
night, just as all the morning papers
were about to go to press, a procla
mation, written on Associated Press
paper, and purporting to come from
the office of the association, was de
livered at all of the New York news
paper offices. The proclamation bore
the signature of President Lincoln, and
was written In the most depressing
spirit, giving new details of the horri
ble slaughter on the Southern battle
fields, and calling for a new levy of
400,000 men. The effect of such a
proclamation, written in such a vein,
may well be imagined.
How many Philadelphia capitalists
mourn the dollars which disappeared
from their coffers Into the cavernous
and rapacious maw of the Keeley mo
tor, that mysterious invention that
was to revolutionize the mechanical
world! A twin brother to the Kedey
motor was the Logan sport, Ind., lamp
that, once lighted, was to go on and
on, like the brook, and never need re
plenishing or trimming. The light
went out, and so did the inventor, tak
ing with him the good hard dollars of
a hundred or so of his dupes.
Pittsburg millionaires, Cleveland
bankers, New York capitalists and dia
mond dealers all paid tribute, and
heavy tribute, to the brilliant and mys
terious schemes of Cassle Chadwlck,
just as the Parisian money-makers
did to the Humbert family.
Since history first began to be writ
ten there have been fakers ready to
make diamonds out of charcoal and
transmute base metal into the purest
of gold, and they all found willing
dupes.
Americans of the last generations
laughed and grew fat over the fakes
offered them by that prince of show
men, Phlneas T. Barnum. The world
will never again see his like. There
was Jolce Heth, the negress, 161 years
old, who had once belonged to Augus
tine Washington, the father of the Im
mortal George, and who was an eye
witness to the cutting down of the
cherry tree. DIs de Bar, with her
spirit pictures, has beert exposed time
and again. Of faking travelers we
have had hundreds of them. Witness
Amerlcus Vespuslus, who gave to our
continent Its name. He faked the hon
ors which belonged to Columbus, and
saw many lands no one else has seen.
There was Sir John Mandevllle and
Marco Polo. They had their believers
In their day, but in this Iconoclastic
age they are put down as fakers.
It la not so many years ago that the
false Roger Tlcheborne handed out to
the English people a first-class gold
brick when he set up his claim to vast
estates. He won notoriety and a long
term In prison. There was Peter Ney,
the North Carolina school teacher, who
some fourscore years ago bad nearly
all the people In the two Carolina
ready to back him as Napoleon's great
est marshal, Michael Ney.
There have been deceptions which
accomplished a good purpose. Take
that of the Cld, who died on the field
of battle, and his officers tied him,
rlothed In full armor, on the back of
his war steed, sitting upright with
sword clasped In his mailed hand,
I'artaera la Mlaerr.
"Could you tell me what a Xantlppe
la, Mr. Scboles. My husband called
me one."
"It is a woman like my wife."
"It is an honor, then." Meggendor
fer Blatter.
SllKht Be Anything.
"Is your occupation a sedentary
one?"
"No'm; 'taln't nothlu' so blfaluUn
It's Just sittln' down sew in' by the
dav." Baltimore American.
DB COOS'S NOTORIOUS FOBEaUNHES.
Nearly three centuries ago there was a great explorer, who sought the
Northwest passage, which was the dream of explorers In the seventeenth
century as the North Pole has been the dream of explorers of a later gen
eration. He had made several attempts to find that mysterious and ever
elusive passage to Cathay, and at last had been told of a mighty river far
in the interior of the new continent, which would lead him to the salt sea
of the West. This great explorer was Samuel de Champlaln, the founder of
Quebec and the discoverer of the Great Lakes.
At the same time there was another who was ambitious for fame as a
great and successful explorer. This ambitious young man spent a winter
in Canada among the Indians. One day he suddenly appeared at Quebec,
Just as a ship was sailing for France. He arrived in France, and had won
drous tales to tell of great discoveries, of hardships endured, of difficulties
surmounted and dangers dared. He was received by the King and Queen
and all the notables of the kingdom, and again and again told the story of
how he bad succeeded where Champlaln and Cadillac and Cartler and a host
of others had failed. He was tho hero of the hour, the pet of Paris and of
France. Honors were showered upon him. He told how he had paddled up
this river in his canoe, and down that; how he had threaded his way through
dense forests, and fought with wild beasts, and with wilder and more savage
men; how ui last he had come to the shores of a great salt sea, a boundless
ocean stretching ever and ever westward. All this, and much. more, glibly
fell from his tongue a dozen times a day, and the King and nobles vied with
one another In their haste and liberality to fit out a new expedition under
Champlaln to complete the discoveries and set up a claim to the land and the
ocean for the kingdom of France.
Much against his will, the "discoverer" was forced by the King to go
with this new expedition as Its pilot and guide. Champlaln landed at Quebec,
and almost immediately started on bis quest for the salt sea. Day after
day he pushed his little force through the wilderness, until at last he came
to a tribe of Indians, who recognized his guide.
Then came the end. It was developed that the guide had spent the
winter with these Indians, and bad not been a mile farther west. He had
never seen the salt sea, end the Indians themselves had never heard of any
such sea within thousands of leagues of where they were. Champlaln
turned back toward Quebec, and Nicholas Vignau, the great fakir of the
seventeenth century, quietly dropped out of sight.
that his soldiers might not know he
was dead. Being led by a dead general
they won the battle. Had they known
of his death they would have been
disheartened and lost a victory.
Only three or four years ago the
good people of Washington and Alex
andria were handed a first-class gold
brick from the historic Carlyle man
sion house, in the shape of a "petri
fied" head, supposed to be the head of
a British soldier. It was pronounced
genuine by a distinguished antiquar'
Ian of the Smithsonian Institution.
The "discoverer" coined quite a few
museum dimes before the fake was ex
posed. Of nature fakers, according to
our late chief magistrate, the very
woods are full.
MADISON SQUABS GARDEN
NOW TO BE WKECKED.
New York's Madison Square Gar
den, designed by the late Stanford
White and erected at a cost of f 3,000,
000, has been sold to a real estate syn
dicate and will be torn down and re-
i
9mM
MaDIHON hquabe gabmcn.
placed by a modern office building.
The property has been on the market
for some time at $3,000,000.
IN CHICAGO.
Every 6 minutes a child Is born.
Every 7 minutes there Is a funeral.
Every 2 days some one Is murdered.
Every 13 minutes a couple gets mar
ried. Every 10 minutes an immigrant ar
rives. Every 3 minutes some one is ar
rested. Every 42 minutes a new business
firm starts up.
an Jk
In ,?f
GORKY NOW IN DISFAVOB.
nnaalaa Writer to Ue Excluded from
(evolutionary Party.
The pleasant life led by Maxim
Gorky at Capri, beneath the warm
Italian skies, does not meet with the
approval of his comrades of the Social
Democratic or Revolutionary party.
They resent the manner in which he
UAI1U OOBKT.
welcomed a change from his former ex
treme poverty. He has been arraigned
for a "tendency to good living and a
love of comfort," and the former cob
bler's apprentice, butcher's boy, kitch
en scullion and tramp, who Is now the
most famous of the younger Russian
men of letters, Is to be excluded from
the party for which he has sacrificed
so much. Admirers of Gorky In this
country and in England do not approve
o the attitude taken by the revolu
tionists. Evtn after he had won literary fame
as the "prince of pessimists" Gorky
had a hard struggle for liberty and a
living. In 1905 he was imprisoned In
the Peter and Paul Fortress at 8t.
Petersburg, and but for an agltat'on
throughout Europe would doubtless
have lost his head.
An Appropriate Hint,
"That seems to be a curious name
you have for your mule."
Tea, suh. I calls him Climate,
'cause de mo' you abuses him de mo'
disagreeable be gits." Washington
Star.
At Ilia Merer.
"Yes; she threatened to go home to
ber mother."
"And how did you keep her from
doing it!"
. "I refused to button her gown for
her. Kansas City Journal
life
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Carthage, Mo., Women Co-Operatt
and Believe Have Solved
Servant Problem.
THEY LIVE WITHOUT COOKS.
Co-Operative Kitchen Where Eaok
Member Shares the Expense
Proves a Success.
The co-operative kitchen, founded
recently by Carthage women, has pass
ed the experimental stage and will bow
become a permanent institution, a cor
respondent of the Kansas City Star
says. A number of women who had
been troubled by the servant problem
decided about three months ago to
pool their Interests, or rather their
troubles, and endeavor by their com
bined efforts to secure servants aad
gratify their appetite wlthoat contam
inating the feminine portion of their
several families with the odor of the
kitchen.
Many were skeptical when the idea
of the undertaking was first suggest
ed, but those even most positive of the
failure of the undertaking have now
applied for admission to the dream
ful kitchen, where servant troubles
are only horrid nightmares, delicious
meals the regular order and content
ment relgss supreme.
It was decided to lease a residence
and convert It into the oo-Operatlve
kitchen. Three large rooms were made
into a dining room. Each family
furnished its own table and chairs.
and every one "chipped in" to furnish
the kitchen and second floor, where
one large room Is used for the chil
dren. A nurse Is always waiting to
take the crying baby while the "old
folks" are enjoying their meal. Tht
balance of the second floor is used
as the servants' quarters. A regular
menu Is served, but should any fam
ily wish something special It is
bought and charged extra. Each mem
ber bears her pro rata of the expense.
OUSTED FROM CHIEF FOR
ESTER'S POSITION BY TAFT.
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Gilford Ptnchot, who was released
from the service of the government,
has made the study of the conserva
tion of forests his life work. His fath
er was Interested in forestry, and it
was Plnchot money that endowed at
Yale the first chair for the study of
forestry established in any American
university. He is a man of large
means, and it is said that he always
distributed his salary among his sub
ordinates, and at various times went
into his own pocket to carry out im
portant work for the government. Aft
er being graduated at Yale Mr. Pln
chot went abroad, where he studied
European methods of forest preserva
tion. Upon his return to this country
he became chief forester of the great
Vauderbllt estate, Blltrnore, and, after
spending four years In private life, he
was in 1897 made special agent of the
Interior Department to report on for
est preserves. His advancement was
rapid, and in 1898 President Roosevelt
appointed him head of the forest serv
ice. Mr. Balllnger at that time was
chief of the land office, and Mr. Pln
chot was his superior. When Mr. Bal
llnger became Secretary of the Interior
positions were reversed. Mr. Plnchot
Is 45 years old.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
Attending to your own business is
about the most effective method of Re
form. The averse man seems to think It
lessens his dignity to admit the most
common fact.
The average friendship ends in this:
How much I did for him; how little
he did for me.
The world is also improving in this
respect: fewer barbers call themselTei
tonsorlal artist