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Lewis, of Maryland, in advocating government
ownership of telephones, said:
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one great corporation in our country that has
not issued tons of counterfeit capital. Its stock
and bonds today represent the actual contribu
tions of its shareholders in money to a great
common enterprise, and we will not have that
unfortunate circumstance to deal with in tho
valuation of their properties."
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American telephone service the cheapest and
most efficient service in tho world.
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How a Nation
Was Made
By DONALD CHAMBERL!N
"Count." snltl King Victor Kiiiiiiiiti
ucl at n tlinu when both wore (iliiylnn
a dlplutiintlc Knrno lo keep tho Kuro
pnnn powers from Htnndlng In their
wny of nffectlng tho unity of Itnly.
"on whom enn you rely to befriend
usV"
"No one." wns tho laconic reply.
"In (lint '-nse we shnll have to fight
tlicm nil. which menus we nhnll not
sweoed In our purpose."
'I lime but one object, your majesty,
In what 1 nm doing now. I wl.h to
uiiipcl the emperor of France to de
jtle In our favor. He Is the only hov
.reign who wavera us to whnt is his In
torcxt lie Is supposed to hnvo been
eli'i-t'd by the people, nnd (he cause of
the i enpli. ngninst those who rule by
1 Ine right Is growing stronger every
dn In hnlf a century It will be the
main question of the day. .Ours Is the
cause of the oppressed against opprcs
pors Therefore It Is the cause for
vhl li the Napoleonic dynasty stands.
On the "(her side the emperor of
Prance cannot Ignore his Interests on
the side of the church. If I enn get a
lever by which I may pry him over to
our side wo win. Ho Is too powerful
for any of the other powers to oppose."
"But how get such a lever?"
"Dues your majesty remember tho
Princess PaollnlV"
"The woman who turned the bends
of all the men In the capltnl last win
ter and caused three duels?"
"The same. She Is enthusiastic for
Italian unity. She came to me to asl;
how she could servo her country. At
the time I wns wishing for that lever
I have mentioned. I told her to go to
Paris, worm herself into the confidence
of some one close to the emperor and.
If possible, possess herself of n stiito
secret thnt Napoleon would not have
"uiown Ho hates our main enemy,
Austria, and. whatsoever nctlon he
takes with us, will In the end play her
false If we can get some written
evidence as to what he Intends for the
power that deserted the husbnnd of
Mnrle Louise to Join the allies we enn
restore It to lilm In exchange for Ills
good will In our present necessities."
In n chateau near Paris the Princess
Pnollnl wns sitting In an ensy chnlr,
while Kmlle Levolsler snt near. Le
volsler wns the Kmperor Napoleon's
private secretary.
"I dnre say," remarked the princess,
"thnt the emperor reposes grent fnlth
In one who must necossnrlly know his
secrets."
"I nm a locked safe," was the reply.
"Iron safe locks may be picked,"
pursued the princess, "by those pos
sessing ineclinnlcnl skill. Were I the
repository of state papers of great im
portance I should keep them on rw
person."
"That's exactly where"
He stopped short. lie did not sus
pect this woman of having nny Inter
est in his documents, but It wa'J not
the part of one in Ills position lo tell
any one where he kept his Important
papers, nut his mind was rather on
the woman thnn on his documents, for
6ho hnd enthralled htm.
Presently she said she fell faint and
would like a glass of wine. lie cnlled
K servant, and a decanter and glasses
.vere brought. He poured n glass of
the wine for her, looking at her anx
iously. She sipped It Innguidly and
said: .
"To drink alone is like kissing waxy
lips. Drink with mo."
Levolsler poured himself a glass of
the wine and wns about to drluk when
she put her hand on his.
"In tho closet of my room are some
biscuit that I invariably tako with
wine between meals. Will you go and
get ono for mo?"
"I will send"-
Shc looked at him as if hurt that bo
would not himself do this favor for
her, nnd, rising, he left the room. Ho
hnd no sooner gone than she took a
powder from her corsage nnd dropped
it in tho glass he had left. He re
turned in a few minutes with the bis
cuit, and they drank together.
It wns not long before Levolsler be
gan to nod, and. rising, he stnggered
to n lounge and lay clown. He was
soon in a deep sleep, nnd the princess,
searching his pockets, found a docu
ment. It proved to be a memorandum
of a proposition to be made to the
czar of IJussIn for nn alliance against
Austria with reference to disposition
of certain Balkan provinces. Leaving
Levolsler sleeping on the lounge, she
went to her room, gathered what she
needed for Immediate use and left the
chateau
Two days later she stood in Cavour's
cabinet.
"Well." ho asked anxiously, "what
success?"
The princess hnnded him the stolen
document. Ho enst tils eyes over It
rapidly, then muttered thanks that
were Inaudible.
"1 fear that your highness has ev
erything a woman can wish for." he
pnld. "and I shall not be able to re
ward you."
"I have dono It for Italy," was the
reply.
Cavour waited for advices from the
Tuilerles, which came In due time.
An Italian princess hnd possessed her
self of a paper Important to the em
peror. If the government would see
thnt It was returned unused tho em
peror would reciprocate. The paper
wns returned nnd a request made that
Nnpoleon would not Interfere with
Victor Emmanuel's efforts to estobllsh
Italian unity. The requeb wns granted.
As Smart as His Boy.
When Sir William Gilbert was twen
tyseven nnd wns known to the world
as n promising writer, Ills father, who
was n retired naval surgeon, wrote a
scnilmetnphyslcal, semlmedical book
entitled "Shirley Hall Asylum." his
first book
Edith A. Brown, when preparing a i
biography of the younger man, having
heard thnt the son wns the incentive
from without which spurred Into ac
tion the inherent hut dormnnt literary
talent of tho father, asked if such wns
the fact
"Yes," replied tho author of the
"Bab Bn llnds" nnd the wittiest libret
tos ever written. "I think the little
success which had attended my hum
ble efforts certainly Influenced my fa
ther. "You see," ho ndded, with u suspi
cion of a smile, "my fnther never hnd
nn exalted idea of my ability. He
thought if I could write nuybody could
and forthwith ho began."
A Question of Brains.
At n club frequented by doctors the
dlscinslou came up recently whether
a person could live without a bruin.
During the discourse one of the doc
tors snltl: "When I wns practicing
medicine In Indlnnn n remarkable case
came under my supervision. A man
while out hunting had leaned upon his
shotgun and the weapon had gone off
nc Idetitnlly, making a large wound In
his head Just above the ear. The brain
was laid bare and in bringing the pa
t It'ii t to the hospital a handful of the
gray matter leaked out. Ho wns tre
panned and finally recovered, his men
tal faculties apparently ns good as
ever."
"Your story Is interesting," inter
rupted an auditor, "but it sounds to
me somewhat Inconsistent"
"Why so?" questioned tho narrator.
"Because." answered the other doc
tor, "If he had over hod u handful of
brains he wouldn't hnvo leaned on the
gun "National Monthly.
Great Crest of tho Sierra.
Mount Whitney, the highest point in
the United States, Is not nn Isolated
mountain peak, like Mount Shasta or
Mount ICaliilcr, but is tho loftiest point
in the grent California crest or enor
mous saw tooth ridge of the Sierra Ne
vada, Including many eminences al
most as high. Mount Whitney Is 14.
501 feet above sea level. Among those
of slightly lesser height are Mount
Wussell. less than a mile distant, 14,100
feet; Mount Williamson. 14,38-1 feet;
Mount Mulr. 14,203 feet; Mount Lang
ley. 14,0 1'J feet; Mount Barnard, 14,
003 feet, and Mount Tyndnll. 14,02."
feet The most distant of these is less
than six miles away.
By a strange freak of nature the low
est point of dry land In tho United
States Is less than eighty miles from
the highest Tho lowest point Is In
Deatli vnlley and Is 270 feet below sea
level. It Is said that from this point
Mount Whitney can be easily seen on
a clear day.
An Ignoble Use.
Washington Irving In "Crayon Pa
pers" says: "1 was onco at uu evening
entertainment given by the Duke of
Wellington at Apsley House to Wil
liam IV. The duke had manifested
his admiration of his great adversary.
Napoleon, by having portraits of him
In different parts of the house. At the
bottom of tho grand stnircaso stood
the colossal statue of the emperor by
Canova. It was of marble In tho an
tlque style, with ono arm partly ex
tended, holding a figure of Victory.
Over this arm the ladles In tripping
upstairs to the ball had thrown their
shawls. It was a singular office for
the statue of Napoleon to perform In
tho mansion of the Duke of Welling
ton 1
Inipcrlnl Caesar, dead and turned to clay:
Qualified.
"This." snld the able manager, "Is n
difficult part to play. The character
doesn't have to speak a word during
the performance, and yet ho Is on tho
stnge the greater part of tho time. Do
you think you can do It?"
"I should think I can!" exclaimed
the actor. "I'm well qualified for the
part I've been mnrried for twenty
years and haven't hud a chance to say
a word yet"
Old Love Letters.
Wife 1 came across a bundle of
your old love letters today. Uusband
Dld you read them over? Wife Yes.
Husband And what was the effect of
(hat perusal? Wife I wondered which
was the bigger fool you for writing
them or I for marrying you after
reiving tliem.
ro-
Reunited
By Chance
By F. A. MITCHCL
A Hint.
"Yes." said the young student
thoughtfully, "when l get interested In
a subject I never stop until I have em
braced It thoroughly."
"That's nice." was the hesitating re
ply. "Do-do you think I'm nn Inter
esting subject?"
Wisdom of Solomon.
Tho renson Solomon Is cnlled tho
wisest man Is becnuso he never tried
to tell each of his wives that bbo was
the only woman ho ever loved. Clu
clnnntl Enquirer.
Both Busy,
"The girl who Uuows she Is pretty
mnkes n fool of herself."
"And tho girl who doesn't know she
Is pretty mnkes a fool of sorao man."
Houston Post.
The Competitors.
"Is thero much competition In your
ofllco?" asked Miss Skittles.
"Sure!" replied the facetious Miss
Skids, "Between tho mirror and tho
clock "-Puck.
Wo peddlers I mean ue who c'.rlvt
about the country selling oik vuv
nicot with some very strange ex peri
ences.
On one of my excursions that 1 n-i
with a double twin and it ni;-vi v
wagon loaded with everything a f.it'n
er's wife could need I v:i looklni.
about me for a place In which to :ui
up for the night when I came to n
house standing beside the road Hint
looked inviting except for a certain
loneliness there was aliont it Wc
know Instinctively when a plut- Is oc
cupied and when lr id ties rted. unci
tho moment I looked at th 'cone i knev.
thnt no ono lived thcie. Novert clcs
I determined thnt if I could g t lit"
it I would stay there nil nUJit 'lit'
lock on (ho gateway le.idlng to tin
barn had fallen, and I had no trouble
In driving in my team. The barn wa
ns easy of access as tho gate, and i
drove beta horses nud wagon in ttndei
cover. I had feed for the animals- with
mo and, having fed Iheni, went lo tlu
house.
Looking In through n window. I .iv.
furniture which seemed to be new -that
Is, it hnd evidently never ium i
used. Something like mold hnd si't
tied upon It, Indicating that It had la en
there for a long time. A serovuirlvoi
from my wagon acted In place of a
jimmy to raise a sash, and 1 effected
nn entrance through a window.
I explored the house, all of which
had been evidently newly furnished
Indeed, some articles had not bei u uu
packed. In nn upper story I found the
plastering had in part given way from
water let through n roof Hint needed
repair, the water having run down n
wall against which stood a mantel
Tho mantel had been displaced and
leaned forward. Beside It on the floor
I picked up a letter which, though it
had been drenched, I could see Ind
never been opened, and with dillleultv
1 made out the address. Tho po-st
mark had boon too far damaged by wa
ter to be legible.
I made myself as comfortable as I
could during the night and the next
day drove on to the nearest postolllce.
where I turned over the letter to the
postmaster He rend the nddress and
looking up at me. asked where I had
found it. I told him, and, taking up a
hand magnifying glass, ho studied the
postmark for awhile, then said to him
self rather than to me:
"That must hnvo been the day be
fore tho intended wedding. Now I re
member Snm asked me to send nny
letter thnt might come for him to hi
new house. Andy!"
A young fellow ubout eighteen came
from the rear part of tho ollice. where
ho hnd been stamping letters, nnd the
postmaster asked him:
"Can you go back far enough in
memory to recall delivering n letter to
Sam .loslln a day or two before the
day lie was to have been married?"
The young man ransacked his memo
ry for nwhlle. then replied: "Yes. I can.
because I didn't find Mr. .ior.lin there,
nnd I didn't find nny one in the house
either. I went all over it nnd llnnlly
concluded thnt the front sleeping room
upstairs on the mantel was the best
place to leave it So I sot it up against
tho wnll and left it."
"Did tho mantel stand flush up
against the wall?" 1 asked.
"No. It was fl woodeii mantel and
had warped, leaving a cracR. 1 set It
up so thnt it wouldn't slip down the
crack."
"But it did. all tho same." I said.
"I remember thnt I got caught In a
terrific windstorm on my way back.
Maybe it shook tho house and Hie let
ter fell Into tho crack." suggested
Andy.
"Maybe that letter or Sam's not get
ting it explains the spilt." suggested the
postmaster.
"What spilt?" I asked.
"Why, Sam .loslln was to have mar
ried Annie Springer and had built and
furnished n new house. The cay of
tho wedding Annie didn't appear. Sam
had taken her away from Llll Ed
wards, u good for nothing fellow, who
had been courting her. nnd Sam, wh"
wns nn Impulsive man. made tip hN
mind that ut the Inst minute she had
thrown him over and hnd concluded b
marry Bill. Sam got a fit cm him au-1
shutting up the house, went away .ml
lias never been back here since."
He opened the letter, but the Ink h.:d
been so blurred that it would have re
quired a long time to decipher hnd li
not lieen very short. It read:
Oh, dearest, our wecldlni. must le put
off! I have Just heard that mother la
dylriK, and 1 must bo to her at onrc.
I went on peddling tin pans, wah
boards and the like, leaving the po-i
master to work out the romance. Sl
months later I drove by the houe li
which I had found the letter, and I -iv
at once as I approached It that it wa
ne longer deserted. I drove my te-un
Into the barn, and a joting man ail
woman came out to learn what I mean:
"Beckon I'll make myself at hi ,i
here," I snld.
"By whnt right?" asked the ninn an
grlly.
"I'm tho man that found n letter luv
somo tlmo ago."
Tho two looked at each other; thou
tho man grabbed one of my liandn and
tho woman the other, and the man
said:
"You come right In nnd occupy every
room In tho house."
I wns a good wliilo getting away
from thnt couple.
Buoyancy of Fresh and Salt Water.
A Chlnsse lad dropped ids bull In a
narrow hole and could not get it out
So lie poured water in the hole, think
ing that he would float the ball to the
surface. As the ball was slightly heav
ier than water, it reinained on tho bot
tom. Then he thought of mixing salt
with the water, as ho knew that salt
water would float denser objects than
fresh. This he did nnd wns rewnrded
with the Hunting ball.
This particular fact is demonstrated
nt the mouths of rivers. Objects rolling
along the bottom of n fresh river, too
heavy to come to the top, will rise
when they are carried out to sea. Tho
general rule also applies to floating
bodies. For Instance, a ship with a
cargo on the sea will sink sometimes a
foot on entering a fresh water port
On the other hand, if she leaves a fresh
water port with her cargo she will rise
when entering the ocean. So n ship
may bo loaded apparently too much at
a wharf and still bo all right on the
waves.
In building a dam tho fact of salt
water's being heavier than fresh must
be taken Into consideration, nnd the
dam for tho same head must be n good
deal stronger; this, too, without tnking
into consideration tho beating of waves,
etc. St. Louis Bepubllc.
Britain's Civil Service.
Life in n civil service ofilce is u very
drab affair today. But sixty years ago
it appears to havo had its compensa
tions. Sir Algernon West, who enter
ed the admiralty in 1S51, recalls, in
his "Reminiscences," tho figure of nn
ofilcial "always dressed In n black and
snuffy suit" It was the chief clerk.
This gentleman "occasionally camo to
the office in tho morning dressed in n
great frilled shirt front nnd evening
clothes nnd announced that, as he was
going to dine out that evening, he
should not he at the olllco the next
day. Frederick Locker, who always
wore kid gloves In the ofllco for fear
bo would dirty his hands with ink
was evidently not impressed
with the dignity of the man or the of
fice, for on my asking him what his
duties were he said. 'All I know is.
that whenever I want a clean towel or
a piece of fresh soap, I always ring
tho bell and send for the chief clcrkl'"
London Citizen.
An Unfortunate Phrase.
"Franz der kaiser," Napoleon's fn-ther-iu-law.
who was a rather weak
and silly ruler, had nevertheless a thor
oughgoing belief In absolutism and In
the divine right to rule of even the
most Incompetent of the Ilnpsburgs.
DIs abilities, such as they were, were
best displayed in catechisms that ho
wrote and printed for the use of his
humbler subjects and in peevish crit
icisms of those of superior intelligence.
According to the author of a recent
life of Archduchess Maria Louisa of
Austria entitled "An Imperial Vic
tim," the emperor onco raged against
his doctor for remarking that he had
"a good constitution."
"Never let me hear that word again!"
be said. "Say robust health it you
like. There is no sucli thing as a good
constitution."
Switzerland's Navy.
Long before Germany was to be reck
oned with as a sea power Switzerland
possessed a fleet equipped for warfare.
Eight hundred years ago on all the
larger Swiss lakes armed galleys were
maintained by the rival cantons. Skill
ed shipwrights had to lie imported from
Genoa for ihe construction of these
vessels, some of which curried crews of
MX) men The largest Swiss llotllln
was maintained on the Lake of Gene
va, when the Inhabitants of Geneva
were at war with Savoy. Since the
neutrality of Switzerland has been
guaranteed by the powers there has
been no need for warships on the lakes.
The Swiss, however, possess n mercan
tile navy, which carries a considerable
amount of trade over the 312 miles of
navigable waterways in the republic.
Line of Duty,
Uncle Luke had been ovei into Cal
houn county to see the sou of Ids old
master, now grown to ripe age nnd
judicial ofilce.
"Luke, how does Mr. .lolin look?"
asked the old gentleman "He's get
ting stout, eh?"
"Yas, suli." agreed Luke. "Ah will
say dat w'en Ah snw Mas'r John ev'y
buttin ou bis wnl.s'cont was doin' Its
duty, sab "New York Post.
Hardly Possible.
"Landlord, what is tills inscription
on your wlndowpane?"
"Some say it was scratched with n
diamond by the poet Cowper, but oth
ers say tho authenticity Is doubtful."
"I think so myself. Where would a
jnoet get a diamond?" Louisville Courier-Journal.
It Had a Charm.
"I do miss Mrs. Jones. She told mo
all the news of the parish.'
"Oh. that was only gossl- no truth
In it!"
"Well, there, I liked to 'ear It. Truth
or lies, 'twas all news to me." Lou
don Punch.
Artistic Temperament.
The Primn's nusband I see a Stock
Exchange seat has sold for $50,000.
The Prima My, how I'd llko to sing
In that house! New York Post.
Odd Temperament.
Physician -For your nllment nbso
luto rest Is a slue qua non. Patient
But, doctor, my system won't take any
quinine. Buffalo Express.
It Is In men ns in soils whero some
times there is n vein of gold which the
owner knows not of, Swift.
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