The Silk Hat Issue. The municipal council of the little French town of Courteuil is discussing an ordinance forbidding the wearing of tall silk hats within its borders. The “stovepipe” is condemned in the argument of the advocates of the ordi nance as a “ridiculous headgear” which by reason of its costliness constitutes a badge of social superiority, and is, therefore, humiliating to those who never wear it. The tall hat, reformers declare, “is used only by artisocrats who live and grow fat on the sweat of the poor.” A Century's Growth Illustrated. Only 100 years ago the other day the Thames saw a curious little scene which the newspapers reported as fol lows: “An experiment took place on the river Thames for the purpose of working a barge or any other heavy craft against the tide by means of a steam engine of a very simple con struction. The moment the engine .was set to work the barge was brought about, answering her helm quickly, and she made her way against a strong current at the rate of two nines and a half an hour.” Most of us would rather watch others than work ourselves. A man does not possess what he has but what he Is. Time is like a verb that can only be 'sf use in the present tense. 8iT? Permoncr.t'y Cured. No etp ornerroUMien* arte* flrwt day's ur-e of l»r. Kline's Great Nerve hestorer. peml for FKEE 82.00 trial bottle and treatise. Us. U. H. Kune, Ltd.. »3i Area St.. Philadelphia.. Pa* The best praise of the sermon is its practice. Lame back makes a young man feel old. Wizard Oil riiakes an old man feel young. See your druggist. Boiling anger scalds nobody’s fingers but our own. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago —Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17.1900. There are 11,700 hotels in Paris. GREATLY REDUCED RATES via WABASH R. 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In a country where a quarter of a century ago a rattlesnake was to be found under every rock and in every hillock, the reptile is rapidly becoming a rarity. With his human relative, the Apache, the rattler is disappearing from Arizona and is now found only in the most isolated districts. To the advance of civilization and the unre mitting warfare of the road runner and the king snake may be attributed the extermination of the rattler. Wherever irrigation has found its way the rattlesnake has been driven to highes ground and there the prospect or and miner have slain him whenever and wherever found. The road run ner, that long-legged, feathered war rior, the fighting cock of the desert? has done his part and done it well. Much resembling but more lightly con structed than the fighting cock, the road runner is one of the most dreaded enemies of the rattler. In fact, so great are hfs snake killing proclivities that heavy penalties are provided by the territorial statutes as a protection to him from the gun of the hunter. Apparently Immune to the venom in the poison sac of the rattler, the road runner attacks the largest snake with Impunity and was never known to lose a fight. Frequently, indeed, the road runner has been known to battle with and kill a pair of large diamond rat tlers, whose total weight was five times that of his own. Not so com mon an enemy to the rattlesnake, but no less deadly, is the king snake, a large species of the bull snake family. Rarely seen in the lower countries, but often found in the northern forests and higher mountains, the king snake wages constant warfare on the rattler and when his great lithe form coils around the body of the rattlesnake the life of the latter is a matter of only a few seconds. Herbert Housland, a prospector, had an experience with a rattler, a king snake and a road run ner a few days ago which he will not soon forget. He was with a party in the Bradshaw mountains, south of Prescott, and was guarding camp for the day. He had lain down to sleep, when he was suddenly aroused to find a great rattlesnake coiled upon his breast. ‘‘I almost suffocated from fearing to breathe lest I should be bit ten,” he said. "The snake was greatly excited and in a minute I saw the cause. A king snake was trying to excite the rattler to combat, and my person was the chosen battleground. The king snake had probably forced the rattler to refuge upon my body, and following up his aggressive tactics was running in a circle around the rattler very rapidly. He crossed my breast from left to right and my thighs from right to left, and within less than a foot of the rattler’s body. The velocity of the snake was most wonderful. It seemed to be one con tinuous ring, and part of the time r could seemingly see three of four rings at once. I made a slight movement with right foot, which attracted the rattler’s attention for an instant, and that was fatal to him. At that one false movement of his eyes the king snake darted in and seized the rattler by the throat, close up to his head and began instantly to coil around his vic tim. They rolled off me In tlreir death struggle and became one tangled mass for ten minutes when the rattler's sounds died away gradually. While I lay exhausted from my fright a road runner darted out of a bush, and grab bing the two snakes in his beak, be gan to drag them away. Theweightwas too great, but he killed the king snake by a blow from his long bill and ran away as I arose. I threw the two rep tiles into the bushes, and there the bird and his mate devoured them.’ How to Hutton a Coat. The art of properly buttoning a coat —any coat—is, do it the other way. That is to say that nine out of every fen of us button our coats the wrong way; we commence with the topmost button when we should commence with the bottommost. The frailest por tion of a coat, in respect to shape-re taining qualities—no matter how well made—is the region of collar and lapels. The swagger merchant tailor always cautions his customer to “wear it buttoned a few days so that the col lar may set properly.” Then, this ad mitted, it follows that tugs and strains affecting this part of the garment tend to destroy its symmetry. Drawing the coat together by the topbutton and buttonhole for the purpose of fasten ing, exerts a pull all around the shoul ders and neck region, which, by repe tition, in time will give the smartest coat a hang-dog appearance.—Chat. Ancient Ca«t Steel. The manufacture of cast steel in In dia can be traced back over 2,000 years, while there are also examples of wrought iron work nearly as old. Near Delhi, close to the Kutub, there is an enormous wrought iron pillar which weighs ten tons and is thought to be over 1,800 years old.—Chicago Chron icle. Our Own Kangaroo. A miniature kangaroo has been dis covered in the far west. It strides around like a kangaroo, making great jumps on its hind legs, which are long and powerful. It also has a sur prisingly long tail, which adds to its resemblance to the marsupial after which it is named. tu Tern'll Practical Housekeeping. Mrs. St. Justin Beale is soon to open a school In New York to teach girls of all nationalities how to cook, wash, sweep, dust and perform all the prac tical duties of the household. A strong effort will be made to instill in them tact, politeness, patience, tidiness, kindness and silence. Lunch es, fashionable dinners and ball sup pers will be served on the shortest notice. Dressmaking, millinery, hair dressing and other things in this line are to be put in. Loving Cup for Cervera. Arthur Bird, a wealthy resident of Sidney, N. Y., has inaugurated a move ment among school children to present a loving cup to Admiral Cervera, the Spanish naval commander. Mr. Bird is an enthusiastic admirer of Admiral Schley, but thinks the American sail or's counterpart in the Spanish ser vice is the man who steamed out of Santiago knowing he went to destruc tion. Little Dunmon'i Otf