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DAKOTA CO. H Ell AM dakoi v t i rv, m:ii. JOHN II. (i:M, . . Publisher. INFANTILE PARALYS'S. At various nolnt throughout the country there are vivid recollections of the death due to the mysterious outbreak of Infantile paralysis. Not only children, hut elderly persons were among Its victims. At New York (hone who died from the ninliidy Included a uroml ent business man am. n priest who haO visited young members of lilf- flock afflicted with infantile paralysis and caught the Illness from them There were numerous cases In Kt I'.nil ar.d Mlnnenimlls. Specialists In the Rockefeller laboratories at New York have been working on infantile paralysis for a year, uting monkeys In experiments which have demonstra ted that it is not duo to an abnonna' condition of the blood, but is an In tedious disease of the uplnal cord Despite acreful nilcropcoplc search for a distinctive microbe, so far none has been found. Experiments are now directed to the discovery of an anti toxin for Infantile paralysis such as that which has been used with marked success In the treatment of diphtheria. The knowledge that hns been gained of the nature of the disease is expected to facilitate the discovery of Its cure. It transpires that the recent report from Germany that a certificate of ln fpectlon on Importations of pork from America would be deemed adequate was erroneous. Tho German govern ment has not removed Its Interdict In this regard. Knowing that the special Inspection for trichina has been aban doned In this country, Germany will no longer request special certificates as to that disease, because It is rea llzed that no such certificates can be produced. This, of course, leaves mat ters unchanged. Hut at present there Is no worry as to exportatlons of American pork 'because a short supply of hogs and an avid market for pork have caused prices to mount to heights at which exportation is un profitable. a New York yachting writer re narks that the schooner Shamrock, nce a proud bearer ot the New York Yacht club pennant, has been "hum Sled" by conversion into a fishing boat ith gasoline engine. The service may i humble in comparison with the royal service of a well-kept racing rraft, but It is far from humble In somparlson with the fate of the latest racers for the America's cup, the ma jority of which have gone to the scrap rard with their first paint on their plates. A French astronomer announces that the comet which was visible recently Is not Halley's, and he promises that the genuine comet will appear in Au gust We positively refuse to get ex ited over any more comet announce tnents. It is too late now to get nythlng Into the magazines about an August comet, anyhow. An immigration inspector passed a woman who could not speak the lan guage when her parrot, weary of th jarley. ejaculated. "Cut that out!" "All right," said the Inspector. "Your par rot speaks English. That shows you save been In this country, as you say. You're admitted." Txok for a boom in tducated parrots. Ingenuity worthy of a better cause was that of a couple ot Jersey robbers who, on calling at a house and being admitted, bound and gagged the in states, after which one joyously played the piano to deceive the neighbors while the other gathered up the loot. This Is the whistler at the plow with a vengeance. It may become necessary for a be algn government to arrange a system of pensions for those who are killed or wounded in the war the automobile Is waging on the human race. A New Jersey man recelvec 200 for a tooth he lost in a fight with r. street car conductor. This is one of the ci idest as well as most expensive cases ot dentUtry on record. According to a physician everybody will be crazy in 2175, if the present ratio ot Increase does not decline. That will be a great year tor musical com edies. A Pittsburg sculptor arrested on a Paris street wore nothing but a pair ot socks. He probably thought he was at nome ana suma"Hiy clothed in smoke. Man gets nve year i- prison for putting dynamite on car tracks "Just for fun." It's horrible to think what would have happened to him if he'd been in earnest That professor who wants lr beetles killed at birth overlooks the possibili ty that he might not have survived to make the suggestion. The safe and sane coal mine Is among the things eagerly hoped for, but aa yet not probable. Edison plans to build a store where .customers will be waited on automat ilcally and clerks done away with. But will the machines be able to stand the Tush of Christmas shopping? It is pretty difficult for rich Ameri cans returning from Europe to pass up 4h opportunity of notoriety from customs hoi.se squabble. Virginia has a ben that photographs 3eopl on her eggs. Will the food corn IniUnlon. allow retouchlnxT HARMONY AND CONDITION THE GREAT FACTORS IN SUCCESS, SAYS GIBSON GEORGE (Copyrlg-ht, 1910, by Joseph n. Bowles.) It Is working together and working all the time, keeping in condition and having confidence In one's own ball club that wins. With the Pittsburg club it has been the case. I think Clarke has made us all better ball players by his own example. You see we have a crowd of fellows who like each other personally, and any one will do anything to help the oth ers. There Is a lot In that Then every man on the team will jump across the river for Clarke, and that helps more. He drilled the team work into us, and I think we have it. No one man won the pennant for us; .it was the whole bunch working together and fighting, no matter how badly we seemed beaten. Our style of play and team bitting broko up the other clubs, and we won it by making runs, which are all that count, and forgetting errors Just as fast as we made them. I had a hard season, being in nearly every game, but was lucky. I think the biggest part of the success of our pitchers last year was that they had confidence In my work and in the team behind them. If some of those clubs knew the chances we took they would wonder we ever won. It helps pitchers to know they can put that ball right over straight and feel that some one will go out and get it for tbem. A fellow does not properly understand the value of team work until he has caught a bunch of pitch ers who try to do exactly what they are signaled to do and never com plain if the catcher's judgment is wrong. It is a pleasure to catch pitch ers who will work with you as if you were one. That is the only way for a battery to work. If they get to crossing each other and mixing things "up the pitcher will look bad and tho catcher look worse, and the team will ose. I cannot tell much about how ' to "OLD ROMAN" COMISKEY OPENS $1,000,000 PARK Charles Comlakey. the "Old Roman" of baseball, has opened his fine new plant In Chicago. The new home of the "Sox" 1b about the finest place In which the great national game la played. It cost cloBe to a million dol lars, according to report Comlskey Is one of the big men in baseball, and the great success he has achieved is deserved. He has done much to place the game on the high plane where it now is found, and al though In the last two or three sea sons his team has not been very close to the top at any time, he has held the admiration of thousands ot "fans. When he placed his team In the American league ten years ago, the first game was with Milwaukee. The Sox loBt, but the 6,000 spectators were enthusiastic. From that day to this they have been rabid in their friend ship for the team. To show two things the belief of the Chicago fans In the White Sox, and the growth in the Interest In base ball It may be necessary only to say that on the day the new park was opened there were 30,000 persons In the grand stands and bleachers. Old time fans will be interested in a review of the lineup of Comlakey Invaders. "Dummy" Hoy covered cen ter field. McFarland was In the middle garden, and Lally in left. Hartman covered third base and Shugart, who is the only one of the old guard wh aided In opening Comlakey's first Chi cago park on hand as the gates were locked to major league ball, was at short. Padden took care of second base, while Isbell. for nine years a member of the team, was on the Initial sack. Sugden, only recently relegated to the BO-callod ' has beens." was be hind the bat and Katoll did the twirl- ng. Thinks Hairpins Give Luck. Nearly all baseball players are su perstitious, and many of them fear a "Jinks." Tom Tennant of the San Francisco team in tho Pacific Coast league focms to be In a class all by himself, however. If some one would search Tennant while playing first base for his team, he would find enough hairpins to stock a country .tore. Every time Tom finds a hulr p'li be picks It up and puts it to his pocket. He believes that, if he saw a hairpin and did not pick It up, ho wjuld not make a hit until he bad re trieved himself, by finding another nml btoilng It away. Judging from I ho records. Tom must hae found a good many hairpins this summer. Oc casionally Tow runs across a hatpin, and that Is always good for a borne run. Eetsher Praises Mattern. I'f'b Heai-ber ays that one of the hardest pitchers for him to get any Kind of a load on Is Al Mattern. He ban a map throw that has caught n:un n;i-rplng one foot off first. It is tu clobLst thing to a balk, without GIBSON. catch, because I think a fellow must stay back there and think and study and learn until he gets it for himself. There are some pointers, however, that may be of some use to young fellows who are just breaking in. Stand steady all the time nnd as nearly in throwing position as pos sible. Study tho batters, what kinds of bats they bring up, how they stand In the box, and try to think out what they are likely to try to do. Always step in as close as possible when ex pecting to have to make a throw or when the batter Is showing signs of bunting. De ready to go In at all times. Another thing, a catcher can do a pitcher a lot of damage by using bad Judgment In what to call for. Do not curve a pitcher to death. Make his work just as easy for him as the situation will permit, if you are giving the signals. It Is easier, of course, to catch the curves when they are out. It Is a bad Idea, too, for a catcher to try to protect himself at the expense of a pitcher. A catcher should not make pitchers pitch out too often and waste balls that may be valuable, just bo he can throw from better position to catch runners. A catcher ought to watch the base runners more closely than any other man doea. He ought to protect the pitcher by signaling him when to drive runners back, and at the same time to protect himseir. He ought never to allow a pitcher to pitch with players out of position, not until he is certain the whole team knows what the Blgnal is, If he has signaled for some throw. He ought always try to slow up pitchers when they are working too fast, and give them a chance to steady. No player can tell another one how to play, but each one learns something from experience which may help a youngster, and I hope these Ideas of mine will help some one. . I think they would have helped me if some one had told me at the start actually being a balk, ever seen. Left-handers have the advantage over right-handers in holding a runner on first, and the right-hander can keep a runny pretty close to third. Lumley Stays With Minors. The Philadelphia club has passed up larry Lumley, who refused to re port, after being secured from the Brooklyn club. Manager Dooln, not wishing to keep him out of the bust ness. and feeling that Lumley is hrough with the big league, hrts noti fied Brooklyn that he will waive claim, allowing Harry to remain at Bingham- ton, where he wants to stay. Brain Catches for St. Paul. Davy Drain has been doing the catching for the St. Paul team of the American association. The old third baseman is a handy man to have, when he can be switched from one po sition to another and make good as be is doing. Operation on Rellley'a Knee. Kid Rellley of the Columbus Amer ican association team has had to have an operation on bis knee, which put him out of the running at Clevelaiu laBt season. The injury is an old one, a remembrance of bis Interstate league days. Coakley Signs With Colonels. Ir. Andrew coaKiey, formerly a pitcher on the Chicago and Cincinnati National league teams, bus signed with Louisville. TRAVELING FAST PACE o-- HvV w Artie Hofman Is doing s whole lot to keep those Cuba at the top. Wheth er In center field or on first base he plays a great game. If he could split up his three bagtrs and home runs Into singles he would be leading the Isague In batting. AT f I " V - . V 1 m .,. , .4 V1 - V i v. : . POSITION OF THE UMPIRE NO LONGER DANGEROUS RETIREMENT OF JACK SHERIDAN CALLS TO MIND IMPROVE MENT OF GAME. John F. Sheridan, the oldest umpire in point of service In baseball, has laid down tho indicator and quit the busi ness, unless a plan among his friends to make him chief of umpires in the American league Is carried out He has an undertaking establishment In San Jose, Cal. Maybe be Intends to give his attention to "dead ones" here after. Ilo didn't find may this year in the American league. The retirement of Sheridan, If In deed ho quits for good, reminds us that umpiring under existing condi tions in baseball has been made an ideal position. There was a time, and It was not to many years r.go, when it was not tin easy matter to lind a man willing to assume the duties at any price. Today there are hundreds of applicants lor every position, because the. work Is easy now, where It was once a dangerous undertaking. One thing that the Btrict discipline now m voMie on the ball field has proved is that the game has not suf- iertu ny the Inauguration of rules which give the umpire complete con trol of the players. When steps were tak n In this direction, years ago, the cry went up that baseball was being killed, that the public wanted to see the players tight on the field, and to prevent these scenes would be to rob the game of Its most delightful fea ture. Subsequent results bave shown the falacy of this theory, for base ball today is a more popular sport than ever before, and Is catering to a much better class of patrons. In many cities the game is furnishing ine principal summer entertainment for the gentler sex, wnicb In itself is a wonderful achievement. All of the big cities have a splendid attendance of the lair sex, which has learned the game and is Ita most loyal supported. The elimination of rowdyism has brought auout this most encouraging condi tion. newer- jones, wno at present re sides in Portland, Ore., has signed to play center Held for the Chehalis team of the Washington State league. Jones was manager and star player of the tnicago White Sox, and ending his work In the big league by declining an offer of $10,000 a year. Sometime since ne went to the northwest to look after his timber Investments and to take a rest. With the Chehalis team he can play three games a week and have ample time for recreation and attending to his business. Eugene Moore, Pirate pitcher, hat been sent to the New Britain club of inu connect icui league. lie was sac rificed in crder that Cleon Webb might be saved. Webb was sent to that team in the first place, but Grand Rapids, Webb's old stamping grounds. howled and Webb was recalled. New Britain had, to be appeased and Moore was sent there. He can be recalled. Webb may be sent to a class A team, where ho, too. can be recalled if neces sary. Webb won seven games In a row and was the sensation of the Connecticut circuit "Chief Cadreau, the Chippewa In dian on the pitching staff of the Mlnot (N. D.) team, has established a new record for sheer endurance, even' for an Indian. Several weeks ago he waa hit by a pitched, ball, since which time his pitching arm has caused him more or less annoyance, and he has com plained of severe pain whenever he found It necessary to work In the box. Recently he pitched against Fessen- den, but bad to be taken out of the game. He was taken to a surgeon and the X-ray apparatus revealed the fact that his arm was broken. Cobb declares that left-handed bat ters can solve the sharp-breaking curve thrown by left-handed pitchers a curve that is too much for most of them by crowding in to the plate, stepping forward on the ball, and spearing it before it breaks. This, he says, is a comparatively easy thing with only a little practise. Most left- handed batters, Ty says, bave grown accustomed to Imagining themselves buffaloed by the port-side pitchers, and fall feebly from afar when that curve comes over. By crowding boldly In ward they can get busy with the ball, and will soon find themselves ma king all kinds of hits off the delivery that has so long confoozled them. Manager Patsy Donovan ot the Boston "Speed Boys," says: "In Speak er, Hooper and Duffy Lewis, I have the best set of throwing outfielders In the game today. Every one of them has an arm of steel and can peg true aud far. My team Is not only the youngest In the league, but will be a far better outfit next season. Lewis has played good ball and hit hard since tho season began. He la coming better every cay. It Is usu ally discouraging for a young ball player breaking Into the league, as he doesn't always hava the best of confi dence In himself. However, this fel low Is overcoming that aud will be a great ball player before long." Vincent Campbell will make one of the greatest youngsters In the outfield of any team In the country. The handsome Campbell la for all the world like Clarence Beaumont, when Ginger first broke Into the big show. The red haired hustler could not be a Burety on a fly ball, but once he over came that weakness he developed Into ono of the fastest men the game ever knew. Campbell will come along, too Some weeks ago the Brooklyn ub asked waivers on Pitcher C. Larger. Only Fred Lake, Boston manager, re fused to waive. Lake did the Su- perbas a great favor, for Barger has aluce wone four straight i Abbaticchlo, the veteran lnfielder, who haa been unconditionally released by the Pittsburg club, hu been claimed by the Boston Nationals. A friendship has been formed by Vann and Flynn of the Pirates. The fact that Flynn la a college maa at tracted the Arkaavaa collegian to Urn. VANDERBILT WINS J,L "31 LONDON. The many friends of Alfred O. Vanderbilt are congratulating the American on his achievement in winning the coaching Marathon held recently In connection with tho International Horse show. This is iue secona lime ne nas won me event ana ine cup now Becomes his property. Mr. Vanderbilt. whose coaching; service between London and Brighton is bo well known drove a team The distance was nearly ten miles and FROGS FOR PROFIT Marine Hospital Offers Market for Large Number of Croakers. Fish Commissioner Meehan Enthusi astic Over Industry Gives Explicit Directions for Success In This Venture Requires Much Care. Lansdowne, Pa. Frog farming has been carried on to some extent on many Pennsylvania estates in a small way for several years past In some Instances the presence of an inherited frog pond of goodly dimensions, where the croakers have heralded each spring for numberless years (and in creased in numbers in their congeni al quarters in marshy or swampy farm ponds). It has not been difficult to establish a profitable industry by simply catching quantities of the old frogs each year and allowing the oth ers to increase. In other instances the industry is followed as a fashionable fad, and owners of country Beats have historic ponds and streams devoted to frog raising under tho care of an expert, or new ponda are provided with this ob ject in view. The principal hotels of our large cities have for some years past demanded a sufficient quantity of frogs to provide their guests with fre quent treatn to the toothsome frog-leg suppers and to keep up a sufficient de mand to make the industry profitable. Now there is a new incentive to u ug-raising. vjia ur er iiulllrog, . so norous musician of our ponds, is found to be of special use for government experiments and he will now be In greater demand than ever. The ma rine hospital is planning to spend con siderable money this fiscal year for frogs for use In testing medicinal preparations at tho hygienic labora tory of the Institution. There are many things to consider in establishing profitable frog ponds. Fish Commissioner Meehan is en thusiastic over the Industry and he has given explicit directions for suc cess In this venture. He says those who decide to undertake frog farm ing may make up their minds before hand that the dayB whlctt will follow will not be free from care or anxiety. It will be speedily discovered that Weeps for Broken Violin Child Prodigy Leaves Audience After Ovation With Breaking Heart Over Accident St Louis. Although she scored a triumph before the Orpheus club in in East St. Louis at its concert at the Broadway theater, Miss Mary McCaus- land, the fifteen year-old St Louis vio lin prodigy, left the theater with a broken heart Her beloved violin, which she carried in its case under her arm, was broken and she Is fear ful that Its wonderful tones may never be restored. Just as she was leaving the stage after her final number, bowing and smiling In response to the enthusias tic applause that greeted her, she stumbled over a platform that had Gold Jaw Replaces Old One. New York. A remarkable opera tion has Just been performed at the Post-graduate hospital by which a man has been provided with an artifi cial Jaw of pure gold to replace a Jaw bone destroyed by disease. The oper ation Is said to be the first of the kind ever performed in a New York hospital. Michael Wood, 54 years old, of Greenwich, Conn., is the patient His disease had progressed so far that Wx)d's family believed his death waa only a question of months. Bear Surveys Engine. Altoona. Pa. A large black bar was seen by James Krause, employed In the Pennsylvania yards here, and by other railroaders, meandering V.ong the edge of the woods close to the tracks the other day. Drum did not seem to be afraid of the snorting horses and after a survey slowly re tired to the mountains again. Unole Exra Says: "Hoss senile ot-unttxnea belongs ..illy to the lom." JJoaton lieraid. A BRITISH CUP of grays of American trotting breed. the time 41 minutes. it is not sufficient to build pond3 after supposed beBt types, stock them and then stand aside and wait for the tau poles to change to frogs and the frogs to money or into delicious morsels of food. Enough has been learned of frog culture, however, to stimulate a country gentleman or a progressive farmer with an unutilized portion of swampy land to undertake it Fifty dollars will build the initial ponds and inclose them with a suitable fence. There Is always a strong prob ability that within a comparatively brief period, by the exercise of care. unceasing effort, and experiment, the work will develop Into a fair market Industry. Saved by a Feather Duster Stenographer's Cluck and Dust Dis peller Causes Shivering Chicks to Chirp Joyfully. New York. A batch of cold, moth erless chickens was saved by the genius of Lawyer Edward B. Clark f Jamaica and the ability of a stenog rapher to cluck like a hen. Clark's office Is at No. 336 Fulton street, Jamaica, and he has an estate on Grand street. But as his hens broke all the eggs he got under them he bought five chicks and took them to the office In a shoe box. The office was cold and the chicks peeped their discomfort, and as they grew colder their peepings grew weaker. Clark called on Lawyer Robert G. Pattio to consult about the best means to save their lives, when his eye light ed upon a feather duster, owned In fee simple by Stephen H. Voris. a third attorney. "The very thing," said he. A hole was made In the top ot the shoe box, the handle was poked through it, and the feather duster, inverted, was closed down upon the chickens. But they' continued to peep. "Twon't work," quoth Patrle. "Some one's got to cluck to give local color." First Clark, then Patrle, then Vorls clucked In their most persuasive style. The chickens, unlike the juries, declined to be swayed. been used by the leader of the chorus and fell headlong. She sprained her back and her left arm In the fall, but she did not think of that She recovered composure quickly nnd smiled to the audience to aasure them that she wasn't hurt.' and then looked down at her instrument. Miss McCausland picked It up ten derly and carried it off the stage, with difficulty holding back her tears. The audience had not understood that the violin was broken, but a ges ture by the girl told them and silence fell. The instrument is a Lupot and Is valued at $1,200. It is 113 years old. She purchased it last winter and still is devoting the money from her con certs to finish paying for it. Catch Big Royal Sturgeon Irish Fishermen Have Strange Bit of Success in Fishing Presented to King. Dublin. The capture of a royal sturgeon at St. Tadwall's island, Car digan bay, and Its immediate presen tation to the king, by whom it was ac cepted, recalls the right of the sover eign to royal fish, wrecks, treasure trove, waifs and strays. The royal fish are the wbale and the sturgeon, which when either thrown ashor caught near the coast are the prop erty of the sovereign on account as It la aald In the books, of their supe rior excellence. A similar right apper tained to the dukea of Normandy, from whom It probably came to the English sovereign, and Is still a pre rogative of the kings of Denmark. A distinction la made between the whale and the sturgeon, the wbale be ing divided between the king and the queen, the bead only bg the king's property and the tail the queen's. RISKS LIFE TO RESCUE BIRD Traveler In British Guiana Plunge for London Zoo. London. An Interesting addition to the birds on exhibition at the litiiulon 7.'ii)I(-st!c:il gnrdeim Is about to b made bv Sir William Ingram from Georgetown. British Guiana. His representative, Wilfrid Frost. has returned from an expedition into the Interior of British Guiana with livltiS specimens of the extremely rare b!rd, cock of the rock. The birds, with only stuffed speci mens of which the public Is familiar. are about the Klze of pigeons. The tilumage Is a beautiful bright red. though the tall and tips of tho wir.ss p. re dark brown, while the f-Titlie rs on the head form a pretty arch. Mr. Frost nnd his party bad an ad venturous journey. They were almost lo:;t in a busdi swamp and on two oc casions disaster almost overtook them by water. At one time their ennoe collided with a submerged log and the man at the bow was precipitated Into the river. At another Mr. Frost, In bis en deavor to pnve the cases containing the birds from toppling over, bail a narrow escape from being drowned himself. Before starting on this expedition Mr. Frost took a number of birds of naradlse from New Guinea to Tobat for Sir William Ingram, who Is experi menting with the breeding of these birds In the West Indies. ADDER IN GIRL'S MILK PAIL Six-Year-Old Tot Says, "See the Big Worm I Caught" Bracelet Prevents Bite. Waterbury, Conn. George C. Dens more of Mount Tobe sent the six-year-old daughter of a New York butcher, George Holden, to the barnyard for a milk pall. The child got the pail and. running to Densmore said: "See the big worm I caught" In the pall was a red adder, the deadliest serpent of New England. It had struck the girl on the arm, but a bracelet stopped the blow. Dens more killed the reptile. Not 20 feet away he came upon the mate, rushing to the rescue, and killed it also. Dens more says: "It will soon get to where we Tobe folks must choose between adders and summer boarders. We shall certainly not be able to keep both happily." Miss Adelaide McDonald, Vorls stenographer, was called and asked to thick for the chickens. Bending over the box, she clucked, in bo inviting and persuasive a man ner that every chick chirped Joyously and snuggled under the duster. They soon became warm and the batch was saved. PAYS HIS FARE WITH POETRY Stowaway's Verse-Making Gift Save Him From Service In Galleys on Pacific Liner. Seattle, Wash. George Parrott, poet and stowaway of Des Moines, Iowa,! who has wandered over the earth, ar rived here on the steamship Minne sota from Japan. Of all the queer hu n.nn fl . V. . U I I .1 here aa stowaways on Pacific liners. Parrott is the first live poet to steal a ride. Instead of riding Into the Se attle harbor In chains he was given a place of honor in the first cabin and since being dug out of the dirty hold has acquired enough money to pay a first-class passage to New York where he has been promised a good position on a weekly humorous publication. Long, lanky with raven black hair and a vacuous expression about his eyes he looked the poet he is. A water tender found him hiding in the paint room two days out of Yokohama. Parrott immediately made an ap peal In blank verse for mercy which induced the water tender to take him up to the galley for a meal. He was locked up but managed to send an ap peal in verse to the captain who came down to see the poeL Parrott on see ing the master immediately began firing poetry through the iron bars. Captain Carbin brought the youthful poet on deck and introduced him to passengers. Parrott announced a benefit at which be would recite poetry and It v.'as largely attended: and more than $200 was raised with which Parrott is going to New York. Bunion Kills Man. Altoona. Pa. As a result of having a sore bunyon on his right foot treat ed five weeks ago, Peter Morgan, aged (io, ioreman or ine macnine snop at the Pennsylvania South Altoona foundries, dieil nere. Following the treatment gangrene and blood poisoning developed and he suffered great agony until he lapsed Into a state of coma prior to death. There are not only royal fish, bufr royal fowl. It Is laid down In the old law books that a swan is a royal fowl, and that all swans which have no other owner belong to the king by virtue of his prerogative. The reason for the ancient right of the crown to the pos session of sturgeons and whales and swans seems to be that they- are in tho nature of things found without any apparent owner, and accordingly vest In the crown by way of excep tion from the general rule of law. Healthy Teacher In Texas. San Antonio, Texas. A movement rapidly spreading over this state will bave as Its result that all school teachers before they can be employed must submit a physician's certificate attesting to their good health. Muny cities and counties are al ready enforcing this rule and it Is expected now that the state school au thorities will take steps leading to the general adoption ot this uj4