In Nay Beware oi Dyspepsia. No Girls. “You didn’t stay long at Wombat’s country place.” "No, tie promised to show me the beauties of his neighborhood and then tried to point out a lot of scenery.” Well Known. Blohhs—Is Harduppe pretty well known to your town? Slobta—l should say he Is. He’s so well tmown he can't even borrow an umbreHa.—Philadelphia Record. Evidently an Amateur. “Getting ready for your suburban gardening?” “Yep. I’ve got a spade, a pick, a hoe, a rake and some garden seed, but I’ve ransacked the market and nobody seems to have any angle worms for sale.” Somebody Was Interested. Maybe she meant it as a compliment, maybe slm didn’t. He likes to believe. that she aid. At dinner he said: “I sa.w Dr. Parkhurst on Madison avenue today.” avenue today.” "Well” and “Huh” being the only comments on that remark, he went on: "Now, I wonder if Dr. Parkhurst Is telling anybody at this time that he saw me on Madison avenue today?” Then said the woman sweetly: "If he is, I am'sure he is telling them something more interesting than what you are telling us.”—New York Times. HURT HIM. Customer—That razor you’re using tnust be rather old. ^ Barber—How can you tell, sir? Customer—It has so many teeth. A WIDOW’S LUCK Quit the Thing That Was Slowly ln« juring Her. A woman tells how coffee kept her from insuring her life: “I suffered for many years chiefly from trouble with my heart; with severe nervous headaches and neu ralgia; but although Incapacitated At times for my housework, I did not realize the gravity of my condition till 2 was rejected for life insurance, be cause, the examining physician said, my heart was so bad he could not pass me. “This distressed me very much, as 2 was a widow and had a child de pendent spon me. It was to protect her future that 1 wanted to insure my Hie. “Fortunately for me, I happened to read an advertisement containing a testimonial from a man who had been , affected In the same way that I was with heart trouble, and who was bene fited by leaving off coffee and using Postum. I grasped at the hope this held out, and made the change at once. “My health began to Improve imme diately. The headaches and neuralgia disappeared, I gained In flesh, and my appetite came hack to me. Greatest of all, my heart was strengthened from the beginning, and soon all the distressing symptoms passed away. No more waking up iu the night with my heart trying to fly out of {ny mouth! “Then I again made application for life Insurance, and had no trouble in passing the medical examination. "It was seven years ago that 1 be gan to use Postum and I am using it still, and shall continue to do so, as I find It a guarantee of good health.” Name given by Postum Company, Bat tle Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason.” Read the big little book, “The Road to WeRville,” in pkgs. B*«r read the above lettrrf A new one appear# (*om time to time. They are molM, far, and full of human totereat. j The Linotype s Birthday j I a——— The Mergenthaler linotype, that won derful machine which put this article intc type foe printing was 21 years old last week. If newspaper men and printers were not too busy to do anything but work, they might have celebrated the day as a great holiday, with thanksgivings and burnt offerings and libations; for without this machine the newspaper of today could not exist. The linotype was not born, Mlnerva llke, from any Jovian brow, but as it stands today is the product of the minds of the many master mechanics who have added Improvement after Improvement, until the perfections and the perversities of the machine make it seem a body of metal endowed with a human heart and brain. The idea upon which the linotype was perfected Was, however, the conception of Ottmar Mergenthaler, whose name the machine bears, and whose heirs collect a royalty of $50 upon every machine sold. This idea took shape in 1883, the first Mergenthaler machine was built in 1886, and the second one later in the same year. Machines of the type of the second model were used in many newspaper and job printing offices, but there was yet some thing lacking. In 1890 the shortcomings of the older machines were recognized and Mr. Mergenthaler perfected and patented a machine which embodied all the essen tial principles of the linotype of today. That patent was granted on April 8, 1890, and therefore the linotype is 21 years old today—old enough to vote. The difference between the machines of 1886 and the machine of 1890 was so radi cal that the real reign of the Mergen thaler may be said to date from the intro duction of the latter t'’pe. Since that time it is true that thousands of improvements have been patented and applied to the machine, but none of them has radically interfered with the principle of the pat ent of 1890. Perhaps other improvements will yet be made—certainly some Inventive genius ought to devise a system of bal ancing the casting lever so that every operator would not hang a tin bucket of type metal “pigs” on the lever of even the newest machine in the chop. But that is a bit of technique. The real reason why the linotype leaped into universal favor as soon as it was perfected in 1890 was that It was the first practical machine to offer a substitute for the slow and laborious process of setting type by hand. Scores of Inventors had tried for years, with more or less suc cess, to construct a typesetting machine. The reason Mergenthaler succeeded where so many had failed was that he discard ed the idea bf setting type and substituted for it the Idea of casting type, a line at a time. HIb first machine was fitted with a num ber of vertical, moveable bars, Into each of which was cut the dies of all the let ters of the alphabet, small letters and capitals, the figures, characters and other signs used In printing. By touching a key on a keyboard, like that of a typewriter, the bars would fall until the die corres ponding with the letter on the keyboard presented Itself exactly before the orifice of a mould connected with a pot of molten type metal. When a whole line of letters had been assembled in this fashion the metal was Injected Into the mould and a line of type was cast—thus the name line o’ type, linotype. The second machine of 1885 was constructed on the theory that the long dle-bars were too cumbersome. It had an independent matrix, or die, for each letter or figure. These were forced down through upright slots into the cast ing box by currents of compressed air. The machine was practicable, but It was liable to get out of order and It did not meet with universal approval. About 200 machines of this kind were built. . The machine of 1830 obviated these de fects by permitting the matrices to fall by force of gravity from an inclined mag azine. Mr. Mergenthaler also materially improved the mechanism of the distribu tion of the used matrices after the cast ing of a line of type. The product of the Invention of 1890 incorporated, as has been said, every essential feature of the ma chine as built today. After the first machine of 1885 was con structed a company was formed to make anu sell the linotypes. This company was bought out for $300,000 by a syndicate, of newspaper publishers composed of White law Reid, of the New York Tribune, Walter N. Haldeman, of the Louisville Courier-Journal Victor Lawson and M. E. Stone, of the Chicago News, Harry Smith, of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, W. H. Rand, of the Rand-McNally company, and Stll aon Hutchins, of the Washington Post. The first machine to be used commer cially was set up In the office of the New York Tribune. In 1888 Mr. Mergenthaler and the company suspended relations, and the factory of the company was moved to Brooklyn, Mr. Mergenthaler remaining in Baltimore. The wedge-shaped justlfler, a device Introduced In the second Mergen thaler machine to "justify" the lines of matrices (that Is to make them fill the line by spreading the spaces between the words) became the subject of litigation and for years there was a quarrel In the courts about a thousand and one details now happily forgotten. In the «• nd all the disputes were settled by purchase, and when the perfected machine of 189# came out arrangements were made by which the company and the Inventor shared In the profits. The profits were soon to be very large, for when the practical machine was pro duced almost every newspaper wanted It at once. For several years the factories were behind -on orders and the linotypes were to be had only for cash f. *. b. While the litigation over the patents was pending, Mr. Mergenthaler Invented an other kind of justlfler, but It was aband oned when the settlement was made. The first machine of the 1890 type—the modem and perfected linotype—was used In the office of the Brooklyn Standard Union. the next In the offlce of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Brooklyn Standard-Union also was the first news paper to use the linotype with union la bor. The Typographical union at first was inclined to oppose the Introduction of the machines, but its men soon bowed to the Inevitable and hustled out of the dusty al leys of the old hand-set composing rooms to learn to operate the machines. With the Introduction of the linotype and the transfer of the newspaper print shop from the realm of the handicrafts to the dominion of machinery, It was said that romance would die out of the printers' trade. Of course It wasn’t the death of romance that the printers’ union objected to: It was the substitution of one machine with one man for eight men. But as tha newspapers, being assisted by the discov ery of cheap processes for making spruco wood pulp paper, at once expanded so that the composing room now employes nearly as many men as In the old hand-set days, and at better wages, the union’s fears were soon at rest. The printers know, and the editors who work with them know, that the Mergen thaler has added to, rather than detracted from, the glory of their Jobs. The man wh8 sits at the keyboard of a linotype Is by compulsion of necessity more stead fast, more sober and more Industrious than his prototype at the case in the hand set days. It takes a man to run a lino type. There Is a Joy in the rattle and click of the composing room, a delight In the odor of the hot metal, a thrill In the whir of the motors that never had ltscoun. ternart In the good old days. No man who has once known the spell of the linotype ever can escape its Influence. The perfections of the Merganthaler have been lauded In a dozen tongues, Its shortcoming have been apologized for In a thousand editorials, but no one but the men who work with this machine have any notion of how god-llke are Its virtues, how human Its faults. In the old days a tramp printer occasionally would fall from the water wagon just when he was most needed, but never was there man so per verse as a linotype on a spree. All over the country there are hundreds of well behaved linotypes that never strayed from the narrow path of virtue, that are model machines, that never have stayed out nights and that don’t know the first rules of poker—but there isn’t a one of them that isn’t waiting quietly and patiently for that time when the whole shop depends upon It to get out the paper and the ma chinist Is out to lunch. When that time comes, even the best and noblest linotype will go on a spree. They a«e machines, but they are printers. The man In whose brain this machine was conceived was Ottmar Mergenthaler. He was born In Wurttemberg In 1854, was brought up In the clock-making trade, and came to the United States In 1872. His Idea for the linotype was originated In 1883, the first machine was built and patented In 1885, and the perfected principle was ap plied, as has been said, In the machine patented 21 years ago today. Mr. Mer genthaler died at his home in Baltimore In 1899. The linotype has revolutionised the busi ness of printing and thereby has made a new era In journalism. Without this ma chine the huge newspapers of today, with their wide variety of matter designed to please the fancy of a wide variety of read ers, would be utterly impossible. Landscape Gardening I*rederlck J. Haskln In Sioux City Tribune. Landscape gardening as a profession is one of the newer callings in America, but during the past decade it has progressed faster than any other. In communities where the appearance of the landscape has never before been considered, beauti ful picturesque effects will be achieved during the coming summer. After an American business man has acquired a comfortable competence his mind natur ally turns towards securing beautiful en vironments for himself. The American landscape gardener Is prepared to meet these demands, so that all who are able to employ high skill In out-of-door art. can And plenty of their own countrymen com petent to produce the required effects. America now rivals Europe both In the number and beauty of Its large landed es tates. The competent landscape gardener must be both a scientist and an artist. He must have a scientific education enabling him quickly to determine the chemical compo sition of soil, the relative heat, and cold of a locality from Its exposure lo the sun, as well as the climatic conditions required for the growth of the various trees, plants and shrubbery. Then, in addition to pos sessing the eye of an artist, he Bhould have the ingenuity of an Inventor for he must be ever ready to suggest original de signs in compliance with some idea, per haps absolutely Incongruous, of his em ployer. The work of a skilled landscape gardener may be felt In its practical commercial value In a year or two. A progressive real estate firm In a New England village two years ago employed a landscape gardener to improve the appearance of three blocks of ground for the site of several apartment houses. The situation was carefully stud ied. a practical plan laid C3it in which certain hardy trees and shrubs were suit ably placed. Proper attention was given to tin parking and some plain, comfort able apartment houses were erected. Al though these were much less expensive and elaborate In their construction than other houses in adjoining squares they were Immediately tuken at much higher rent, the rental value In a single apart ment averaging from $15 lo $30 a month higher, all because of the attractive sur roundings. The value of the landscape gardener's work is being recognized by the municipal authorities and In consequence the present season Is showing more active results along this line. Skelton, la., appropriated $10,000 lo be utilized this spring by a newly appointed landscape gardener to provide the proper embellishment of three open squares which have been neglected eye sores In the town for years. This Is the beginning of a movement towards secur ing a larger public park. The landscape gardener In every city should affiliate with the local Improvement erganlzatlons and endeavor to unify the efforts In town beautifying already under way, In the high schools In many of the cities landscape gardening forms a supplemen tary part of the manual training course. Illustrated lectures are given on the growth of different trees and shrubs showing the result of properly applied ef forts. In the rural high schools, which are becoming so numerous, especially In the middle west, landscape gardening Is taught In a practical manner. The Unit ed States department of agriculture is aid ing In this work, nnd this year Is putting forth a greater effort than usual. While even 10 years ago a landscape gardener of any ambition felt obliged to go to Europe to secure his education, quite as good facil ities for studying this profession in his own land are now being provided. The best Ideas of Europe have been brought to America and have been enlarged and improved by the versatility of ths Ameri can workman. The result of landscape gardening is be coming so widespread that within the next quarter of a century Europeans will visit the United States as much for the beauty of the Scenery as for other reasons. This year, miles of beauty will be created from what nas been squalor and ugliness. Every large manufacturing interest Is be coming keenly alive to the need of beau tifying their grounds. The great railroads are employing landscape gardeners to re move unsightly landmarks and make each mile beautiful to the traveler. In railroad gardening the planting of trees Is an Im portant matter. Large trees serve as storm breaks and are most effective In protect ing the tracks. The Northwestern rail roads are cultivating hundreds of acres of trees which are being transplanted as rap idly as possible along their tracks. As these grow in size they will lessen the destructive powers of the wind and shield the roads from the heaviest snow falls In this way their utilitarian value In la bor saving becomes an economic feature In addition to this, the long miles of tree lesh prairies, which have been so monoto nous to the traveler across the continent will be greatly varied, for scientific skill will fairly produce trees where they have fsver grown before. Louisiana produced more than half the rice grown In the United State* laat year. I j NO MYSTERIES TO BURNS.] Detective Bums In McClure'*. The finding of writers of anonymous letters Illustrates only a little of what I mean when I say there a»e no mys teries. I don't care what the case may be. every criminal leaves a track by which he may be traced. The criminal understands this after you get him, though he has made his plans ever so carefully; but he thinks that the next time he will not be caught. "The next time" he will Just as surely leave a track—of another kind, penhaps, but a track neverthe less. It all seems so simple—afterward. It always seems that the particr.lar track left might have been avoided. For example, there was a very Inter esting feature In the land-frauds cases. United States Senator Mitchell of Ore gon was convicted of participation in tlu.se frauds. Senator Mitchell’s law partner, Judge Tanner, while being in terrogated by Mr. Francis J. Honey, who was at that time assistant to the United States attorney general, and who wa» conducting the investigation before the grand Jury, stated that there was a partnership agreement, drawt, up at the time of the formation of th* partnership between Senator Mitchell and himself, which contained, a stipula tion whereby all moneys received by the Arm for practising before the de partments at Washington were to go to Judgo Tanner—It being, of course, a violation of the federal statutes for Senator Mitchell to accept money earned !n this way. Here was the track—wide, broad, and deep—and yet. those two clever lawyers entirely over looked it. Why the necessity of such a clause? This suggested suspicious circumstances, and, therefore, led me to make a close scrutiny of the con tract, which was produced by Judge Tanner and was turned over to me by Mr. Heney. On investigation, I found a water mark In the paper, and two misspelled words in the document; I also noted that a dark ribbon had been used in Its typewriting. And how simple, was the procedure that led to the undoing of these men! My investigation dis closed th« fact that this particular paper had not been manufactured until 1903, while the date of the contract be tween Senator Mitchell and Judge Tan ner written on this paper was dated 1901. It was, therefore, a physical Im possibility for this particular contract to have been written at the time stated by them. Further Investigation disclosed the fact that Judge Tanner's son was, at the time of the investigation, acting as the stenographer of the law Arm. Therefore it was fair to assume that, I tills contract was written as a detent-.*, this young man had done the typewrit ing. He was Immediately called be fore the grand Jury. He denied typewriting a partnership agree ment between his father and Sen ator Mitchell. Ho was asked then and there to write a letter, dictated by Mr. Heney, In which Mr, Heney used the two misspelled words found in the partnership agreement—the word “sal ary” was spelled “aalery." and the word "constituent" was spelled “cotv Btituant." Judge Tanner’s son mis spelled these two words just as he had, written them In the partnership agree ment. When Judge Tanner was con fronted by this situation, he came Into open court and confessed to perjury. Again Interested In the psychology of such a situation, I asked the Judge: “How In the world Is it possible that you walked Into such a trap—men as learned In the law as you and Senator Mitchell—especially In view of the fact of the high place you have held in this community, having been a Judge on the .bench and one of the leading attorneys of the bar?" He said: “Mr. Burns, that question Is easily answered: I was not a detec tive.” The Victory of Quinine. From Harper’s Weekly. In 1832, when the French were con ducting a campaign of conquest lh Al geria, the mortality among the troops and colonists there was frightful. France was being continually called upon for fresh levies of men and youths to supply this terrible loss, chiefly from fever Incidental to the climate. At that time the practice of bleed ing still prevailed. “Bleed them till, they are white," was the Injunction which Brousals, the head physician of the French, gave to his followers, when the condition of the soldiers was reported no him. At Bone, In one year, out of an ef fective force of 6.600 men, 1,100 died oi Illness In the hospital. Most of them had been “hied to the white." At this time the effects of sulphate* of quinine were known, but few phy sicians ventured to employ It. One Malllott. had Interested himself in the new remedy, and, going to Bone In the medical service of the government, he resdlved to see If It would not redueo the frightful mortality, which was one to every three and one-half men who entered the hospital. At first he employed the quinine merely as an adjunct to the bleeding. He soon found that bleeding was kill ing the men, and that quinine was saving them. Little by little he left off bleeding, to the great scandal of the medical profession. Exactly In preportion as the bleeding ceased, the deaths In the hospital de creased. In two years the deaths fell off from one In three and a half, of all who entered the hospital, to one in 20, and finally to one In 46. Maillot, quite naturally enough, be came an earnest opponent of bleeding; but he was so actively resisted and. so ceaselessly vilified, that Ije became embittered toward his colleagues. Nearly 30 years passed before Mail lot saw the complete triumph of his Ideas. Doctors continued to bleed their patients heartily for all manner of Ills. But In 1860 Maillot was made com mander of the Legion of Honor and chief of the medical staff of the French Army, and his influence, with others, In bringing about a virtual revolution In the practice of medicine, was fully recognized. Not the Suit’s Fault. From the Washington Star. Governor W. R. Stubbs, at Kansas, apropos of a bill he was promoting, said at a recent banquet: "The opponents of this bill find fault with it. Well, in that, they remind me of Jack Hughes. “The tailor brought Jack home a new suit the other day. Jack went upstairs to try it on. Then, 10 min utes later, he shouted down to his wife: “ 'That fool tailor’s made a botch out of the vest!' '"How. John?* Mrs. Hughes asked. “ ‘Why,’ said Jack, ‘he’s put a but ton too many at the top and a button cole too many at the bottom.' “ A Hair Dresser’s Version. From the Woman's Homo Companion. A woman's crowning glory is her cuffs, braids, switches, pompadours, Chignons, Psyche knots, clusters, nets,’ rolls, rats and Billie Burke curls. A Modern Visionary. From the Woman’s Home Companion. Post—“Thompson claims that ht once saw a vision.” Parker—"Blonde or brunet?” That Ti red Feeling That comes to you every spring is a sign that your blood is wanting in vitality, just as pimples and other eruptions are signs that it is impure.. Do not delay treatment; begin at once to taka Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which effects its wonderful cures, net simply because tt contains sarsaparilla, but because It combines the utmost remedial values twenty different Ingredients, raised to their highest efficiency for th® cure «C all spring troubles, that tired feeling and loss of appetite. There is no rsaS. substitute; Insist on having Hood’s Sarsaparilla “I felt tired all the time and could not sleep nights. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla a little while I could sleep well and the tired feeling had gone. This great medicine ha* »hh cured me of scrofula, which -ha*„ troubled me from childhood.’' Mn. C. M. Root, Box 25, Gilead. Coaa. A Missionary Tree. A missionary, during a Lenten tea, said, pointedly: “X have established missionary trees all over the country. But perhaps you don’t know what a missionary tree is? A missionary tree is one whose profit goes entirely to missions. "A Roxborough farmer has in his ap filb orchard a golden pippin tree that helps to support the Chinese mission. A Florida woman has an orange tree that helps to uplift the cannibals of New Guinea. A California nut farmer1 devotes a walnut tree to the spread of the faith in Zanzibar. "Missionary treeB," the speaker end ad, "are very good things, biit the principle that underlies them need not be confined to farms and farmers.” It Was Muffing. “‘Bugs' Raymond, the handsome and brilliant pitcher of the New York Gi ants, is a great wit on the field,” said a sporting editor at the Pen and Pen cil club in Philadelphia. "Raymond was disgusted one day at his team’s wretched outfleldlng. Bat ter after batter sent up high files, and these easy balls were muffed alter nately by left and center. "Bugs at the sixth muff threw down his glove and stamped on It. “ ‘There’s an epidemic in the out field,’ he said, 'but, by Jingo! it Isn’t catching.’ ’’ Subject to Restrictions. “I was cleanin’ fo’ a new lady las' Week an' de dirt in her kitchen was a sight, po' thing,” said Rose, Mrs. Fra zer’s dark-skinned charwoman. “But why did she let it get like that?” asked the lady. "I dunno’, ma'am. Guess she never seen It. 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