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The best cooks make the poorest suf
fragettes. Borne husbands talk In their sleep
because It la the only chance they set
at heme.
Anyhow, a wife who Is beaten by
her husband cannot say she gets no
attention.
'Tie harder to see, the older we
grow, the Incentive for glee In beau
tiful snow,
Prof. Jesperson says It doesn't make
no difference If you do use two nega
tives In the same sentence; this Is a
free country.
Commander Peary thinks that the
Wright might fly to the pole. Take
the Walter Wellman route and bear
away a little to the left.
"You can't amuse the people of this
world into the kingdom of Ood," says
a preacher. Neither can you send
them there with a grouch.
To remedy the rather unusual con
dltiou of cheapness, or to prevent any
further declines In price due to abun
lance, a cement trust has been started.
King Alfonso is said to be a tre
mendous eater. If his majesty Is try
Ins to fatten himself It Is apparent
that he will have to adopt some other
plan.
New York stock manipulators are
gain busy making It plain that the
lamb who doeen't wish to be shorn
should look for pasture as far as pos
sible from Wall street.
Such is fame. Dr. Cook's books on
the ascent of Mt. KInley, and the dis
covery of the north pol are being re
tired from the travel shelves to the
fiction shelves of the public libraries.
Argentina Is going to spend $22,000,
000 for two Dreadnoughts, but how
can she hope to preserve peace with
them if none of her neighbors decide
to spend a like amount tor a similar
purpose T ,
Perhaps Edison waa thinking of the
iteadlly Increasing cost of things to
eat and wear when he announced a
few days ago that the ordinary work-
Ingman will eventually have to be pro
vided with an income of $200,000 a
fear.
The Rhode Island legislature pro
poses to enact a, law intended to pre
vent hasty marriages. It will hardly
have a noticeable effect as long as peo
ple may contract hasty marriages by
itepplng across the boundaries of that
diminutive state.
Peary announces , that he is ambi
tious to discover the south pole and
plant the Stars and Stripes there. We
guess the people of thla country will
be willing to try to worry along with
out calling for help while he is mak
ing the effort; but he should be warn
ed now that the relief expedition busi
ness Is called oft.
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Not so many years ago "farmer" was
ibout as scornful a slang term as could
be applied to anybody who blundered, 1
stumbled or "got in bad." But what
would the average man In tho streets
lay to-day f somebody shouted at him,
"You farmer"? Wouldn't he throw bis
chest out and spring a smile as broad
as If he owned a gold mine? He cer
tainly would. The farmer doesn't wear
bis hayseed In his hair any longer. He
aelU it and buys an automobile. And
when "doctor, lawyer, merchant, thief
point their fingers nt him and say,
"You're It," he merely throws lb the
peed clutch and smiles back along tbe
wind.
Following the removal of the duty
on hides and skins, the Importation
or these articles has increased by near
ly one-quarter. The total Importations
for the year were' worth about a hun
dred million dollars, or sixteen mil
lions more than tho greatest previous
amount. Nearly a third in value was
repreaented by goat skins. More than
one-half of these came from the Brit-
isa tasi jnaics, ana more than one
half of tbe cattle skins came from
Mexico and South America. But the
large Increase in Imports has not been
followed by any reduction in the re-
tall price of shoes and other leather
goods.
Tbe evidence of the Broiaw separa
tion suit Is a disclosure of Jealousy,
tf family bickerings, of suspicion, of
espionage ana or cocKtaiis. ii is a
story of high life and of unhappy
lives. The picture, as painted on the
witness stand is dark and repellent
and the trail of the dollar la over it
all. The mechanic who has a stead)
job, at a fair wage and who occupied
a modest and contented home with his
family, gets a, thousand times more
pleasure and satisfaction out of life
than the Broaw outfit and Is of more
use In the world. 'Money cun buy fine
houses and fine raiment, expensive
equipages, rich gravies, liveried serv
ants and other luxuries, but it can't
buy happiness. Rightly used, wealth
can serve great and noble purposes and
do a lot of good, pquandcred and per
verted, It can only build whited sep
ulchres. Nobody who reads the Brokaw
serial develops any envy for the
Pro;. aw million. It thowy that pleas
ure, when resting wholly on a founda
tion of cash ant' dealing In terms of
the marketplace, became a mockery.
The old proverb-maker who, tbousandu
cf years ago, declared that "better is
a dinner of herbs where love Is than a
stalled ox and hatied therewith" knew
bis business.
James J. Hill raibtr acutely calls It
tbe cost of h!h I'vlna, rather than the
high cost of living. This, of course,
does not settle tbe problem, but It may
act people to thinking. Thtt family
llTlng" Is a commingling of neces
sities and Injuries, very confused and
well-nigh impossible, of segregation.
The old adage that the luxuries of yes
terday are the necessities of to-day
applies. A dozen years ago the tele
phone, for example, had become a uurI
ness necessity. It was a household lux
ury. To-day It is becoming a house
hold necessity. It adds $15 or moro
a year to the house expense, or enough
to clothe one of the younger children
for twelve months, yet houafYeepers
doat see how they can do without the
telephone. It does their marketing for
them. It discharges en any of their so
cial obligations, and It keeps them 'n
touch with their friends. The woman
of the house would not be without the
telephone, and wonders how her moth
er could. But her mother did and
probably was a better housekeeper, be
cause, Instead of depending on quick
ordering of daba of necessities, she
planned to buy her supplies In bulk
and got better prices. The coat of high
living, as Mr. Hill puts It, is worth
the examination by every family. It
will take some Roman virtue to draw
tbe line between what is needed and
what is wanted. The cost of schooling.
for Illustration, Is increasing notwith
standing all that the state contributes.
A generalon ago the cost of books
often drove promising and ambitious
boys from school. To-day it is ait
the cost of books, but crazy Ideas we
have how school children should dress,
that cause grief. No individual can
dogmatize for any family, but each
family would do well to dogmatize -n
the subject for Itself. It would not
take much experimenting to reveal how
little tbe luxuries contribute to family
happiness In proportion to the anxi
eties they bring on, when tbe family
Income la compared with tbe family
outgo at the end of the week or month.
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t A DINNER IN THE DESERT.
Those who travel in far countries
sometimes have to put up with strange
food. In a book by Mrs. Roland WU
klns, entitled "By Desert Ways to
Baghdad," there is an account of a
night In the desert when any kind of
food would have been welcome to the
author's companions and herself.
The cook came in. with a pleasing
expression.
"What will you have for supper?" he
said.
"What tan we have?" we answered
with the caution arising from long ex
perience of limited possibilities.
"What you wish," he said, with as
much assurance and affability aa If he
were presenting a huge bill of fare.
"Got a fowl?" I said.
"There Is not one left," he answered.
"Eggs, then," I suggested, with a
humor of desperation.
"No fowl, no eggs," he answered,
with pitying superiority.
"Well, we will have what there is,"
I said.
"There la nothing," ho answered,
cheerfully.
Was there nothing left of our stores 1
I rummaged In the box which held
them. Everything waa wet and ellroy;
a few, bar of chocolate were soaked In
borrll, emanating from a broken bot
tle; two dirty linen bags contained
respectively a little tea and rice; a
disgusting looking pasty mess in what ,
naa ont o ueeii a nvicuuni u uua
aroused my curiosity. Could It be?
Yes, protein flour, "eminently suitable
for travelers, forming a delicious and
sustaining meal when no other food is
procurable."
"X.," I said "shall we eat"
"Don't talk about it," said X. "Cook
everything together."
We put a can of water on the fire
and threw In the rice and protein. Tbe
chocolate and borrll were added. With
an air of pride, Hassan produced a
small, round, grimy object, which he
held aloft with pride.
"Onion!" we all shouted simultane
ously In excited, ungovernable greed.
He nodded gleefully, and then pull
ing a long, dagger-like knife from his
belt, he cut the treasure into slices
and let tbem fall Into the bubbling
pot.
When the moment of complete merg
ence seemed to have arrived, he lifted
the pot off the fire and placed It bet-
tween us and handed ua each a spoon.
My companion swallowed a few mouth-
fuls. '
"We must leave some for the men,"
she said, with a look of apology, as
she put the spoon down. I agreed
cheerfully.
"Correct to m.
Our earliest quotation for this or foi
the kindred phrases "to salt one to a
T." Is of 1693. Can any one help as
T,' Ms of 1G93. Can any one help as
to an earlier example? No one of our
many lnoUuves throws any light upon
Us origin. A current obvious conjec
ture would explain "a T" aa meaning
"a T square," but to this there are va
rious objections. We have no evi
dence as yet that the name "T square"
goes buck to the seventeenth century,
und no example of Its being called
simply "a T," and In few If any of
our Instances would the substitution
of "a T Bquare" for "a T" make any
tolerable sense. The notion seems
rather tr be that of minute exact ness,
ns it were "to the minutest point.
Hut the evidence Is mainly negative.
If examples can bo found of "T
square" before 1700 or of Its reduction
simply to "T" or1 of earlier examples
of "to a T" they may help to settle
the actual origin. London Notes and
Queries.
Not I tip I'xok'l.
Mistress (who has received a broad
hint that an extra "evening lioff" will
be w(U-ouied) CW -.Ij me, Mary,
that you want to go out with a young
man this evening. Is It urgent?
.Mary .-o, mum, u ami. iibh mo
own Mint. London Sketch.
Alter a man nag oeen married a
while ho does hate to walk down
street with bis wife hunting on hit
arm.
Tbe trouble with cute children Is
tbey soon outgrow It, and become Impudent.
STOP FUNERAL EXTRAVAGANCE.
YOUNQ business man died unexpectedly,
leaving a widow and three sniftll children.
For two years he had worked hard to es
tablish a business, which was Just begin
ning to pay well and gave promise of be
coming highly profitable during the com
ing spring and summer. But his cash re
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sources were small, his insurance was almost nothing,
and, with bis ability and hard work taken away, the
business he left offered precarious support for tbe widow
and children. All this his widow knew. Yet, with rent
overdue, the doctor to pay, and her children and herself
to look out for, she burled her husband's body in a
150 casket, and the undertaker's total bill ran more
than $250.
The desire of the living io pay final tribute to the
dead frequently outweighs the dictates of common sense
and prudence, even to the point of violating the known
wishes of the dead. Extravagance along this line Is
encouraged by undertakers, who suggest expensive fu
nerals and offer long-time credit, as many a family
knows to its sorrow.
In other countries societies, the members of which
agree to keep all funerals under their direction within
a certain cost limit, have done much to check extrava
gance. There is room for organizations to reduce fu
neral expenses in this country, and a movement in that
direction should be encouraged. Chicago Journal.
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EXPENSIVE ERRAND BOYS.
HE American farmer in 1909 received $300,
000,000 for the egg crop. The American
consumer paid $540,000,000 for the sumo
eggs. Who got the difference of $240,000,
000? The farmer raised the hens, took
care of them, fed them, housed them, aud
paid about 50 cents apiece for the care of
It cost him not less than $75,000,000 to
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each one.
keep the hens satisfied and prolific,
his earnings were reduced to $225,000,000,
body else got $240,000,000 which is $15,000,000 more
than the farmer received. From the, time the eggs left
the farmer to the time they reached the consumer the
price on them was almost doubled. And the consumer,
of course, paid.
Somewhere there i3 a leech in the egg market and the
butter market and the meat market and the grocery mar
ket, and all the other markets, that is sucking away at
tbe American consumer's pocketbook. Until this leech
is found and beheaded prices of living will be tremen
dously high, and will grow higher, just so long aa there
remains anything In the pocketbook to be sucked out.
It has not yvt been shown that the leech Is not the rail
England's first
Sunday newspaper
appeared In 17S0.
It has been found in Nova Scotia
that the lobster's chief enemy la not
the dogfish but the lobster.
One of the tricks In the fur trade
la to iiiBert white hairs in foxes and
to 8llver fQxe8
The Industry of making lebkuchen,
or honey cake, Is worth to the German
city of Nuremburg about one million
dollars a year.
In Louisiana the law permits a
widow to marry again only provided
she has waited ten months after the
death of her husband.
Sand Is the curse of Portuguese East
Africa. It blocks the rivers and har
bors and stretches In a vast sea to
ward the Interior, effectually cutting
oft the coast towns from the high
lands. Besides, it makes the problem
of transportation the bugbear of the
planter.
Nearly $1,000,000 worth of timber
was imported into Natal in 190S. The
country is practically treeless, so far
as there Is any commercial value in
the timber.
Up to 1789 the chief water works
of New York city was in Chatham
street, now Park row. The water was
carted about the city in casks and
sold from carts.
It was so cold In New York part
of the winter of 1779 that residents
in the vicinity were compelled to cut
down the tall trees that stood at what
la now the head of Wall street to
make kindling wood.
Yaddo, tho Saratoga home from
which Spencer Trask started on his
fatal trip to New York, la one of the
show places of the spa town, It de
rives its name from the utterance of
a little daughter of tho Trasks. When
she crossed for the first time a rustle
bridge over the picturesque sheet of
water which lies near the home, she
pointed and said: "Yaddo," which was
as near as her baby tongue could get
to the word "shadow," and she did not
know that the childish utterance hud
given a name to the place.
"If I had my way." lr. Macnamara
once confessed to an Interviewer,
should be singing in 'Carmen' insto:ul
of making speeches from the treasury
bench.' But, unfortunately, the Brit
ish public thinks a great deal more
of a man who can make a bad speech
than a man who run sing a good
Bong." West minuter (Gazette.
Curious customs are noted unions
the MljuB, u little known Asiatic race,
by an explorer, who writes: "Though
living on the borders of Thibet, no
tune of Buddhism is touiul anion
them. Their religion Is uninilstlc and
consists In the propitiation of the vart
ous spirits to whom sickness, failure
of crop und audi like calamities are
attributed. The propitiation takes the
form usually of th; sacrifice of a fowl
or a pig. a small portion being Bet
bide for the spirit, the rest going
down the throats of the offerer and
his family."
Mr. Wa'a Itulea tor Lonaevltr,
The delightful Mr. Wu Ting fang
lately ambassador from China to the
United States, Is described la Mis
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
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road and the express companies. In 1909 the traction
companies Increased their Indebtedness by $1,015,000,000.
The Interest that Is to be paid on this, of course, comes
out of the public's pocketbook. And tbe express com
panies during the year paid dividends that ranked
among the highest on the whole list of industrial in
stitutions. They're expensive errand boys, the railroads
and the express companies. Cincinnati Post.
that may be received with incredulity by the mass
of the people, she goes on to apologize even for hinting
that really "nice" people could live on ao meager a
sum, but Is obliged to admit that by dint of a great effort
It may be done In a way.
She asks what denials are necessary for those who
contemplate living on $.",,000 a year, and then, seeing no
body rising to answer her, answers it herself by saying
that great self-denial will be necessary to keep the wolt
from the door.
The one consideration that forces Itself on the mind
alter perusal of Maria's reflections is the tremendous
amount of self-denial that is being practiced all over
the country by persons who are living nobly on thla
small amount, not able to have more than one automo
bllo and one Bhort trip to Europe annually. St. Paul
Dispatch.
So, all together,
But some-
la that it is picked up by the wheels of automobiles
and scattered to the four winds of heaven. The wear
on the good roads leading out from automobile centers
like all of the large cities shows conclusively that an
improved material Is urgently needed. The bituminous
road seems to serve the purpose because it has sufficient
resiliency to meet the needs of traffic and at the same
time is compact enough to prevent the particles from
being picked up by rubber tires. Nebraska State Journal.
Juliet Bredon's book on her uncle, Sir
Robert Hart, as having certain theo
ries concerning one's diet and one's
mental attitude toward life which have
had much currency among Occidentals
of late years.
Wu Ting-fang prided himself upon
his alert manner, which made him ap
pear much younger than ne really wa,
and his favorite boast was that ae
meant to live to be two hundred. Fur
thermore, he would explain how the
feat waa to be accomplished.
Tbe first thing, naturally, was diet.
The man who would cheat time should
live on nuts, like the squirrels. Under
no conditions should he touch sa't,
and he should begin and end eacn
meal with a teaspoonful of olive oil.
"I have hung scrolls lu my bed
room," Wu Ting went on to explain.
with these sentences written upon
them in English and In Chinese: 'I
a.'.n young, I am healthy. I am cheer
ful.'
"Immediately I enter the room my
eye falls upon these precepts. I say
to myself, 'Why, of course I am, and
therefore I am.' " 6
Was ever simpler or saner' method
discovered for warding off old age?
WHAT HABIT WILL DO.
"It was a cold, misty morning In
Liverpool, and urgent business re
quired my presence in Sheffield Rt
once, so I was In a hurry," says a
young American girl who lately re
turned from England.
"I expected the unavoidable delay of
the custom house, and sighed resign
edly. An official opened my suit caae.
ran his hand hurriedly about, closed
It with a snap, and returning It to
me, Bald politely, Theuk you!' All
In about two minutes! Joyfully I
hailed a cab. and was driven to the
railway station. As I paid my fare
the cabman said distinctly, 'Thenk
you!' with emphasis on the 'you.'
When 1 bought my ticket, the man at
the window said emphatically, 'Thenk
you!'
"This time I noted the oddly rising
inflection and long drawn lingering
on the lust word. The guard who
examined my ticket closed the com
partment window with a bang, but I
caught a fulnt 'Thenk you!" aa the
train started.
"Arrived in Sheffield, I registered
nt the station hotel, and the young
limn at the desk said 'Tbvnk you!'
as I signed my name. I took a tram
car up town, und gasped in amaze ns
the conductor collected my fare.
'Thenk you!' he said, earnestly, ns he
punched a little ticket receipt for the
half penny which I gave him. 'Let
me olT at High street, please.' Thenk
you, I will,' be replied. I'rescutly I
thought he nodded as he looked nt
me, and as I started to my feet, I
asked, 'High street?' 'No, thenk you,'
he answered, 'not yet.'
"I inquired the way of a passer-by,
and as he directed me he said, 'Thenk
you, good afternoon.' This was really
making me dizzy, and my mind re
verted to an entertaining habit of my
childhood, when I would repeat the
tame word over and over until It lost
all meaning to my brain.
"At I stepped out of the creeping
thing which tbey call a 'lift' ever
then, tbe elevator boy fixed me with
COST OF LIVING.
N THE current number of Vogue la a most
pathetic essay by Maria Scott on the suc
cessful management of a small income.
Maria admits though reluctantly that a
young couple may venture to begin life In
a simple manner on $5,000 a year. Realiz
ing that this is a drastic saying and one
ROAD THAT STANDS WEAR,.
EW JERSEY claims to have discovered that
bituminous roads cost less than macadam
and stand the wear of automobile traffic
much better. The State has eighty-five
miles of this road already and announces
that it will lay no more of the old-fashioned
kind. The objection to macadam
a penetrating eye. 'Thenk you!' he
said softly, end I hastened onward.
"In the shops it was horrible. En
tering a draper's, the tall man in a
frock coat who stood by the door
would pounce on me and thank me
before I could possibly ask for what
I wanted to buy. I don't know what
I was being thanked for much of the
time, but those two words were thrown
at me bo often that it finally got on
my nerves, and I felt like shouting,
'Don't don't say it!'
"The salesgirl 'thenked' me before
I made my purchase, and 'thenked'
me afterward; the cash boy 'thenked'
me as he passed me"1y; and lf. as
I hurried out, I collided with any one
walking down the narrow aisle, I
might beg their pardon In the clearest
tones, yet ever the answer given to
me was, 'Thenk you!'
"It was toyond analysis or explana
tion, and questioning was utterly of
no avail. Once or twice I ventured to
Inquire as to the wherefore of the
thing, but the answer made me shud
der, and caused me to forbear. 'It
has always been the custom, thenk
you!' And coming back across the
sea I found relief at home, but some
times even yet I toss feverishly in
my sleep, and waking with a start, I
think I hear, as If from some dim
bo. 'Thenk you!' "
ONCE DUMB, SPEAKS AGAIN.
KiiRlUh Woman Airikrm In Morn.
Inw with Sieerh Keatored.
A remarkable case of a dumb worn
an recovering her speech Is reported
from Leeds, according to a London
newspaper.
For eleven years Mrs. Ida Colllng
wood. aged 33. the wife of a carpenter,
had not been able to utter a single
word. A fortnight after her marriage
she had a paralytic seizure, which left
her speechless. Doctors and special
ists were consulted, but from none of
them did she derive any benefit.
A few .mornings ago, however, Mrs.
Colllngwood, after a fortnight's Illness
In bed, startled her father-in-law by
suddenly uttering the word "the."
Mr. Colllngwood, Sr., informed his son
of what had occurred and when the
husband put questions to his wife he
found that she was able to reply.
Slowly but surely the woman, de
lighted as much as her husband at be
ing able once again to give artleuli
tlon to her thoughts. Increased her
vocabulary, until at last In simple lan
guage she was able to carry on a con
versation. Mrs. Colllngwood was en
gaged nearly the whole of next day In
taking lessons In conversation from
her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Collins
wood have one child, a little 10-year-old
girl named Doris, who until a few
days ago had never heard her mother's
voice.
a It Mrii-k lul.
Fattier Flynn Your daughter seemt
far from robust. 1 notice. Patrick. She
looks rather fan-faced.
O'Brien Begorra. jer rlvirence, an'
Is It two-faced ye'd want her to be
look In'? Boston Herald.
Ilia l a of Lot.
"Let us confess our love," murmured
the heroine, "and live for love here
after." "Suits me,' responded the hero. "I'm
about out of epigrams." Washington
Herald.
Even a truth lovlug detective U a
shadowy reputation.
OUR NATIONAL GREATNESS.
lorn lieeorda, tarh aa Fire
ot to lie I'rond Of.
Our national habit of boasting, while
It has no more grievous result than
to make us appear ridiculous, amounts
to a species of self-deception which
Is both ludicrous and reproachful, says
the New York Mail. To say that we
are the richest nation In the worid
Is merely stating a single fact. Ta
say that we are the most wasteful, is
stating another truth which is equal
ly Important, even though it be less
pleasing to the national pride. We
are wasteful aUnost.crlminally waste
fulnot only of our great natural re
sources such as timber and coal, but
of human life itseir. The record is
more than a record It 1b an indict
ment. Take the story of fire losses by way
of illustration. The census bureau in
a report concerning fire departments
and fire losses In 158 leading Ameri
can cities in 1907 states that the losse3
In those municipalities amounted to
more than $48,000,000, on which there
was $42,000,000 of Insurance. William
H. Tolman, director of the New York
museum of safety appliances, states
that the per capita fire loss of the
United States in 1907 wap $2.58. which
was twice as great as be average
among the great nations of Europe.
It Is estimated by recognized experts
that due care and the use of approved
preventive measures would effect a
yearly saving of $300,000,000 worth of
property In the United States.
Consider the cost of protection from
fire in this country. The per capita
average In the 158 cities covered by
the census report was $1.65 In 1907.
The per capita in Berlin Is 2ft cents
a year. In London It Is 19 cents, and
In Milan only 17 cents. In the 15S
A-merican cities that had $48,000,000
of fire losses in 1907 the taxpayers
were assessed $38,000,000 for the main
tenance of their fire departments. The
protection was costly and It protect
ed only In a limited degree.
Ltudi uiiu di on
A person who waits for a street car
at a proper cross walk, sees the car
coming, and is struck and injured by
it through his own negligence, is held.
In Wood vs. Omaha & C. B. street rail
way company (Neb.), 120 N. W. 1121,
22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 228, not to be en
titled to recover damages on the sole
ground that the motorman failed to
sound the gong.
That a sidetrack of a railroad can
not be regarded as for public use,
where it reaches a private factory,
and the railroad company has connect
ed for its use only when It can use It
without interfering with the business
of the manufacturer, is held in Pere
Marquette R. Co. vs. United States
Gypsum Co., 154 Mich. 290, 117 N. W.
733, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 181.
The liability of a master for injury
to an employe because of a defective
railroad track, which he had promised
to repair, upon complaint by the serv
ant of its defective condition, Is held,
in Morgan vs. Rainier Beach Lumber
Co., 51 Wash. 335, 98 Pac. 1120, 22 L.
R. A. (N. S.) 472, not to be affected
by the fact that the repair was not
to be made until the happening of a
future event, such as the return of a
section boss, which had not occurred
at the time of the injury.
An Innkeeper Is held, la Rockhlll
vs. Congress Hotel Co., 237 111. 98, 86
NT. E. 740. 22 L. R. A. N. S.) 576, not
to be relieved from liability for the
value of Jewels forming part of the
contents of a fcandbag of a guest,
which is lost -ivhile in the actual pos
session of Xls servant, by a statute
requiring Jiim to keep a safe and post
notices chat he will not be liable for
the rnluables not delivered for deposit
tbtreln, and upon compliance there
with he shall not be liable for loss
unless it shall occur by a servant em
ployed by him In tho inn.
Tho constitutionality of the law
providing increased penalties for ha
bitual criminals was assailed in State
vs. Le Pitre, 103 Pacific Reporter, 27.
The Washington Supreme Court de
cided that while the habitual criminal
statute was a thing of modern crea
tion, and there are many rules of law
which may seem inconsistent with its
purpose and the procedure adopted to
compass it, it Is nevertheless sound in
principle and sustained by reason.
Aside from the offender and his vic
tim, there is always another party
concerned in every crime committed
the state and it does no violence
to any constitutional guaranty for the
state to rid Itself of depravity when
its efforts to reform have failed. The
act is not ex post facto. It does not
deny the right of trial by Jury, it
does not put the offender twice in
Jeopardy. It does not inflict a double
punishment for the same offense, or
inflict a cruel or unusual punishment,
or impose a penalty for a crime com
mitted outside of the state. It merely
provides an increased punishment for
the last offense. The spirit of the law
Is in keeping with the acknowledged
power tt the legislature to provide a
minimum and maximum term within
which the trial court may exercise its
discretion in fixing sentence, takfiig
Into consideration, Is it should al
ways, the character of the person as
well as the probability of reforma
tion; or the legislature may take
uwuy all discretion and fix a penalty
ibsolutc.
JuatlfleatloQ,
The old durky hud driven his fare to
the hotel and was now demanding a
dollar for his service.
What!" prc-ied the passenger, "a
dollar for that distance? Why, It isn't
half a mile as the crow files."
"Dat's true, boss," returned Sambo,
with an appealing smile, ."but ye see,
sub, dat old crow be ain't got free
wives an' ten chllluns to suppoht, not
to mention de keep fo' de hoes." Har
per's Wekly.
Marriage is cither a success, a faij,
ur or a compromise
; i
Old Favorites
i
i1 '. u
The Marlner'a Drram.
slumbers of midnight the sailor-boy
lay;
Ills hammock swung loose at the
fport of the wind,
Cut, watchworn and weary, his cares
flew uwuy,
And visions of happiness danced o'er
his mind.
Me dreamed of his home, of his dear
native bowers,
And pleasures tbut waited on life'
merry morn;
'.Vlillo Memory stood gldewlse, half
covered with flowers,
And restored every rose, but secreted
Its thorn.
Then Fancy her magical pinions spread
wldo,
And iHde the young dreamer in ec
etacy rise:
Now far, far behind him the Kreen
waters glide,
And the cot of bis forefathers bless
es his eyes.
Tbe Jessamine clambers in flowers o'er
the thatch.
And the swallow chirps sweet from
her nest in the wall;
All trembling with transport, he raises
tho latch.
And the voices of loved ones reply to
his call.
A futfcer bends o'er him with looks of
delight;
Ills cheek Is impcarled with a moth
er's warm tear;
Ar.d the lips of the boy in a love-kiss
unite
With the lips of the maid whom his
bosom holds dear.
The heart of the sleeper beats high !n
his breast;
Joy quickens his pulses all hard
ships seem o'er,
lnd a murmur of happiness steals
through his rest: "
"O God! thou hast blessed me; I ask:
for no more."
Ah. what is that flame which now
bursts on his eye?
Ah, what Is' that sound which now
'larms on his ear? ,
'TIs the lightning's red gleam, paintlns
hell on the sky!
'Tis the crashing of thunders, the
groan of the sphere!
He springs from his hammock he files
to the deck! .
Amrfzement confronts him with Im
ages dire;
Wild winds and mad waves drive the
vessel a wreck
The masts tly In splinters the
shrouds are on flre!
Like mountains the billows tremend
ously swell;
In vain the lost wretch calls on Mer
cy to save;
Unseen hands of spirits are rlngl-B
his knell.
And the Death-angel flaps his broad
wings o'er the wave!
O sailor-boy, woe to, thy dream of de
llght! In darkness dissolves the gay frost
work of bliss.
Where, now. Is the picture that Fancy
. touched bright
Thy parents' fond pressure, and
love's honeyed kiss?
O sailor-boy, sailor-boy, never again
Shall home, love, or kindred thy
wishes repay!
Unblessed and unhonored, down deep
in the main
Full many a fathom, thy frame shall
decay.
No tomb ehall e'er plead to remem
brance for thee.
Or redeem form or frame from the
merciless surge;
But the white foam of waves shall thy
winding-sheet be,
And winds. In the midnight of win
ter, thy dirge!
On a bed of green sea-flowers thy
limbs shall be laid;
Around thy white bones the red coral'
shall grow;
Of thy fair yellow locks, threada 4t
amber be made;
And every part suit to thy mansion
below.
Days, months, years, wid ages shall-
circle away.
And still the vast waters above thee
shall roll;
Earth loses thy pattern for ever and
aye.
O sabor-boy, sailor-boy, peace to thy
soul!
- William Dimond.
Hard to Get Kid of Gneat.
Jerrle McCurtle was often the guest
of friends who on account of his pleas
ant ways extended to him that sort of
old Irish hospitality which enabled a
visitor In my own family who came
for a fortnight to stay for six years,
says London Tit-Bits.
In McCartie's case the visit
stretched to nearly doubt that time.
After eight or nine years, however, his
kinsman got a little tired of his guest
and let him know of his old mansion's
proposed renovation, saying that he
had signed a contract for having it
painted from garret to cellar.
"By George!" said Jerry, "It's for
tunate that I don't object to the smell
of paint, and it will be well to have
someone to keep an eye on the paint
ers, now that the wall-fruit is ripen
ing." Some months passed. Then his host
informed him that he was going to'
be married, adding: "I thought I'd
tell you in good time, so that you
could make leisurely preparations to
go, as the lady and you may not hit
It off as well as you and I do."
With cheerful eyes Jerry grasped his
cousin's hand, sayins:
"Oh, Dan, dear, you have my hearty
thanks for your consideration; but,
dear, dear boy, surely if you can put
up with her I can."
No one but the owner has any great
use for a dug that la so little dog it is
adorned with ribbons and bells.
It is pretty Bafe to distrust the man
who claims to be working overtime as
a peacemaker.
We don't accomplish much but try
to keep ahead of the special aaaslona
in that respect
