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V if r J - I rvi. V Pcrsont!, Plaices and Things OLDEST MUSEUM ON RECORD. Collection Made 2,530 Years Ago of Clay Tablets. A museum of Nippur of the sixth century, II. C, discovered by Prof. Illlprerht. has rumo Into the posses slor of the University of Pennsyl vania. The museum is not very Ms, being entirely contained In a largo earthen Jar, but the contents are very valu able, from a historical point of view, and show that the ideas of the early curator were much like those of tnc present curators. Whether tho specimens were ex cavated or purchased Is not known, but they undoubtedly represent a collection which must have been mailo during the time of HHshazzar, since it was found in one of the upper strata at Nippur. The best specimen in the Jar is an inscription containing the titles of Sargon I., who lived about 3.xot H. C. There is a black stone votive tablet of UrGur, 27o) It. C, which tells that this king built the great wall around the city of Nippur. An interesting tablet gives some astronomical observations on Virgo and Scorpio. The little museum con tains nineteen pieces in all. New York Tribune. CHRISTENS NEW WAR VESSEL. Miss Nell Chamblis of Chattanooga Figures at Notable Launching. The new second-class protected cruiser Chattanooga, one of six ves sels of similar design authorized by Congress, was launched last week from the yards of the United States W V, . ''' r n i if ' ',' i i, u it i i 'I'V.. IfM f 17IS3 IVLL ckitzjus" Shipbuilding company, of which Lewis Nixon is president, at Elizabeth port. N. J. Mis3 Nell Chamblis. daughter of Mayor Chamblis of Chattanooga, chris tened the vessel. Rush to Marry School Teachers. In the school districts adjacent to Miller, S. D.. there is almost a panic because of the larg.3 number of school- ma'ams who are getting married. The great influx of new settlers re cently is responsible for the many weddings. In one diiir'.ct there have been three teachers in as many months. The following card was seen by a horse buyer ttcked to a school house door in an isolated Hyde county district where it had been im possible to get a teacher: "Teacher wanted If single, must be old and unattractive, as two wealthy bach elors threaten to marry the next teacher cf this school." To avoid a clash on account of the notice a com promise was agreed to so that the two very determined old maids now teach school the week about. OFFICIAL SEAL FOR QUIGLEY. Presentation Made Upon Archbishop's Arrival at Chicago. Official seal and motto of Arch bishop James Edward Qulgley has been selected by him. Every arch bishop has his own seal and motto, which remains the seal of the arch Mocese throughout bis reign thereof. , ,aC Arrb- 8'r of Arrfabla&9 bUbnp F &. QclCl'T- Two Archiepiscopal Seals. The new archbishop's favorite patron saint fs St. Joseph, and his official senl which will appear upon official documents and notices of the arch diocese will continue the motto "Go to Joseph" in Latin. When the new archbishop assumed his duties at Chi cago the Rev. Francis J. Barry, pres ent chancellor and secretary of the archdiocese, presented him with the seal. Powder for Blasting. Blasting powders as choap e.ti powerful as dynamite but safer are coming into use. Dynamite easily freezes and thawing is dangerous, while the nitroglycerin it contains easily leaks out and explodes. Dyna mite deteriorates very easily. Som? of the modern powders are solid and practically uninfluenced by weather or explosion. At least one is so tough that it can be hammered on an anvil without Igniting. Will Take Transvaal Census. Preparations are being made for taking a census of the Transvaal at the end of the year in connection with a census scheme for the whole of South Africa. Wild Deer Flees to City. Lack of food on the snowclad hills drove a wild deer into a suburb of Vienna. It was chased anci died of ffjght. Many Spsak Irish Language. Of the 42,000 emigrants from Ire land last year a very large number spoke tba anient Irish language. nuiWiiuiuuiUimiiUAWUwwiAUiUWg OF PUBLIC INTEREST TTTTTrnVVVTTTTT"TTTTTTTTmm7Tt7TTTI rTirtnlK HEAD OF RAILWAY TRAINMEN. P. H. Morrissey Long Prominent in Labor Organizations. P. II. Morrissey, who, as grand mas ter of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Is figuring In the Wabash strike agitation in St. Louis, began bis career in railroad business in as G&WD INSTEP Frap&ssEy a clerk In the Chicago and Alton at Hloomlngton. 111., his native city. Since 1888 he has been prominent as an or ganizer of railway trainmen, and he has risen progressively In the service of the movement, occupying many po sitions from that of clerk to that of grand master. Mr. Morrissey 13 41 years old. AS GOOD AS MIND-READING. How to Tell a Number Any Person Is Thinking Of. The tricks of the mind reader are very puzzling to the little folks, yet any child can learn a few things in that line that will afford them much entertainment, as well as mystifying their companions. Here Is how one can tell any number a companion may be thinking of: Ask a person to think of some num ber and then tell her to double it. Tell her to multiply the sum by five and then to tell you the product and you will tell her the number thought cf in the beginning. This product will, of course, be so very much larger than the number started with that she will not hesitate to tell yoft her result. If you take off the last figure of the product, which will always be a cipher, you will have the number thought of in the beginning. For instance, suppose she started with the number seventeen. Doubling It would give thirty-four and multi plying by five would give 170. Strik ing off the cipher you will have sev enteen, the number thought of in the beginning. MGR. CONATY TO BE BISHOP. Appointment to Los Angeles Diocese Is Recommended to the Pope. As a result of the favorable report of Cardinal Satolli, prefect of the con Monsignor Conaty. gregatfon of studies, the congrega tion of the propaganda has decided to propose to the pope that he ap point Mgr. Conaty, former rector of the Catholic university at Washing ton, as bishop of Los Angeles, Cal., in succession to Right Rev. George Montgomery, recently appointed co adjutor archbishop of San Francisco. Knew What He'd Do With It. Congressman Lacey of Iowa, tells how a specimen of young America upset him on one occasion. Mr. Lacey was endeavoring to show his audience that great evil was sure to result from the Wilson tariff bill and dwelt on the alleged fact that capital ists were afraid to invest their money. "I ask any one of you gentle men." he said, "if your grandmother were to die and leave you $10,000 what would you do with It?" There was perfect quiet for a moment; then suddenly a youngster, sitting on he gallery rail with his legs dangling over, cried out: "I know." "Well, what would you do with it?" repeated Judge Lacey. "I'd buy a tombstone," wa3 the answer, and such a roar of laughter went up that Mr. Lacey was forced to cut short his remarks. One Reason for Longevity. The oldest man in California has added two years to his century. He has been a smoker for eighty-five years and a moderate drinker for seventy-five years, but never touched modern breakfast foods. Comparison of Two Navies. serHamy UNITED S STATES. In 1906 the navies of the United States and Germany will compare as in the above diagram. Good Excuse for Begging. sM,o,.rra, with besrsine. a Halifax man advanced the excuse that hr a. wa3 "lama through vaccmaiioc , asS3 ?0ll THE NEW BUHEAU LIBERAL EXPENDITURE OF THE ruurut o ivi Secretary Cortelyou Has Liberal Ideas of the Necessities of His Depart ment Many Places Made for the Faithful. The main purpose for which the new department of commerce at Washington was created appears in Secretary Cortelyou's first official de liverance. It was to provide places and salaries and expense accounts for several hundred more people. In addition to the expenditures already authorized for the bureaus' heretofore attached to other depart ments ana now transferred to that of commerce Mr. Cortelyou asks an annual appropriation of $609,690 for the new clerks, solicitors and exam iners whom he finds it necessary to appoint. As showing how one thing calls for another it may be said that he wants twenty men In his own office, seventy-one men in his chief clerk's office, twenty men in the "ap pointment" office the place where the other taxeaters are looked after seven men in the library which he intends to establish and nine men to care for the stationery which he and his assistants will use. This is not all, either. The govern ment having created a new depart ment with an immense amount of official machinery, it is necessary, of course, that it should prepare to house the institution in a manner corresponding with its dignity and importance. On this point Mr. Cortel you has ideas of his own. He thinks the department of commerce building should not be inferior in convenience or beauty to the structures which commercial and financial houses at the great centers of American trade are erecting for the transaction of their business, and he therefore rec ommends the appropriation of $7,000, 000 for the building, exclusive of the site. For the other running expenses of the new department Mr. Cortelyou asks $150,000 for contingent items this is to be mere pocket money $150,000 for traveling and $600,000 for printing. No doubt as other needs of the strenuous and simple life occur to the new secretary he will make his desires known with equal moderation. A Reasonable Demand Refused. In so far as Mr. Lodge represents the administration, It coolly refuses that the people may gain full ac quaintance with the proceedings of the United States in the Philippine Islands and of the conditions there existing. Autocratic monarchy could not go further than this in dealing with a most reasonable popular re quest. There must be reasons for this refusal, but there cannot be any which rest upon the broad principles of a Republican government account able to the people and ready to give them full knowledge of all its pro ceedings. Nothing could be more un American than a strenuosity of evas ion and a conspiracy of suppression, and even the outward look of these things should be avoided. An Evidence of Prosperity. There was a very important piece of news in the papers the other morn ing. It came from Washington and related the fact that the war depart ment has notified the governors of all the states in the union that it is pre pared to supply them upon demand with a stock of "riot cartridges." Prosperity being almost sickeningly abundance and the trusts proclaiming that the compact organization of in dustry is a guarantee that it will re main for many years, is it not a little strange that the government, at this of all times, should have deemed it wise to shatter the precedents of more than a century and distribute to the gov ernors of all the states a special "riot" cartridge? Secretary Cortelyou's Opportunity. The list of bureaus and divisions of the new department of commerce and labor, over which Secretary Cortel you is to preside, reads like an enum eration of the titles and dignities of an oriental deposit. Secretary Cortel you is a man of sense and we look to him to abolish or consolidate about two-thirds of these bureaus as soon as he gets the ropes learned, and in the course of a 3'ear or two he could probably wipe out most of the remain ing one-third. There is a great deal too much of the circumlocution office way of doing business in Washing ton and too many Tite Barnacies in the service. We have hopes of Cortel you. Will They Rest Under the Stigma? We have heard much of "the dig nity of the senate," but if its dignity is not sensitive enough to resent the charge openly made by the president that one-tenth of all its members have been the recipients of telegrams sent to them by or on behalf of tie great est monopoly in the country, ordering not requesting or urging, but order ing them to cast their votes against bills obnoxious to that mcrcpoly, of what stuff is it made? There was once a senate of the Unite 1 States on nine of whose members no such imputation as this could have rested for a single day without provoking their indignant demand for a full In vestigation. Absurdity of Secret Sessions. There is a point in Senator Bur ton's sarcasm about the need cf hav ing a "committee on publication" in connection with the secret sessions of the senate. The profound secrets of the Senate's executive sessions leak out as promptly and regularly as those of a gossiping village tea table. Senators are, of course, on their honor not to "divulge." but they really blab everything like so many school girls. Moreover, there is a continual controversy over what is executive business of the senate and what Is not. When they them selves thus treat the secrecy of the Senate as an absurd survival, why should the public preserve any re spect for it? The truth is that it is necessarily outgrown with the growth of the Senate. The form may be maintained,' but the substance Is gone. You m'ght as well expect a town meeting to be really secret as the Senate. Good Riddance to Congress. This nation has not had many con gresses whose opportunities were fairer than those of these body ex piring in confusion to do things both useful and honorable. It has lacked any which failed more miserably. It has been In conflict with the presi dent; it has been a betrar of the public. For nobody has it done so much as lor Interests and influences which are dangerous to the general welfare and destructive of republican institutions. For the dying Congress there are no ' mourners among the people of the United States. Good riddance when It Is gone! May we have better ceeds from apd a sweeter memory of Its successor! s Proclamations, Contradicted, i Time and again we have received the very highest assurance that the Philippines especially Luzon are at peace and we have been asked to con template the beneficent regime of the commission, with its complicated machinery of justice, its enlightened and far-reaching system of education, and its softening and uplifting influ ence upon the benighted natives. But we have never seen one of these halcyon proclamations that was not effectually contradicted within a week, nor do we believe there has been a time during the past four years when a white man's life was safe a few miles beyond the walls of Manila. Tariff Reform Sentiment Growing. Even in his Democratic views on the tariff Mr. Ingalls would be able to command a large support from the Republicans of the west, who are dis gusted with the refusal of the Repub lican leaders to revise the sacred schedules of the tariff. There is not a particle of doubt as to how western Republicans feel on this, and it is strange the Republican leaders are apparently unable to realize the strength of this sentiment, so strong that it almost led to open disunion un til the western Republican congress men retreated from the position that they had taken earlier. Plundered to the Limit. The United States is suffering from a great coal hold-up, with the parties responsible for it not yet identified. Coal barons and railroads standing in with them have produced an intol erable situation. The big strike of last year was largely manipulated. Fortunately, the winter is nearly over and there will be time to study means of relief. The people are especially disgusted with coal trusts and cor ners. They have been plundered and oppressed beyond the line of endur ance and demand to be protected by effective government and legislative measures. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Clearly a Confidence Game. Representative Cannon, chairman of the appropriations committee of the present and predestined speaker of the next Congress, states "with em phasis" that neither the Hanna nor any such bill pensioning ex-slaves will or can, in his opinion, ever become a law. However, Senator Hanna's in troduction "by request" of such a bill will enable many a dishonest white rascal to play upon the credulity and the pockets of that best element of our Afro-American population the faithful, simple and overtrustful rem nant of negro freedmen. Status of the Beef Trust. The action of United States Circuit Judge Grcsscup in the "beef trust" case at Chicago is not to be taken as more than a suggestion of the possi bilities in further proceedings. The utmost point reached by it is a con cession to the petitioners in the case that they have a standing in court. Whether they can make good the averments in their petition is yet to be shown. The granting of a prelim inary injunction is the first step gained in the attack on the beef trust. It gives a foothold for more serious operations. Savagery of the Tariff. The savageries of our present high tariff law are of considerable variety, but one that reflects upon our nation al intelligence less credit than any other it would be easy to name is the 25 per cent duty on books. The duty on books is a barbarous exaction un worthy of an enlightened age and It is time, that public sentiment should be aroused to the belittling and dam aging effect of the bigotry which is responsible for such indefensible leg islation. Too Much of a Coincidence. When bids were opened at the navy department for 5,666 tons of armor plate it was found that the figures pre sented by the Carnegie and Bethle hem steel companies were exactly the same on each item and on the total. As these bills were "competitive," and as no one would charge the compan ies with comparing notes, the inter ested citizen is free to marvel at the minute precision which must mark calculations In the steel trade. Rockefeller as a Trust Buster. Rockefeller, of course, did not mean to do anything, but he caused a rush in the direction of trust legis lation such as not even the president had been able to accomplish. It is funny to regard Rockefeller as a trust buster, but he really was, in a sense. Where the Boys Went. The bishop coadjutor of Pennsylva nia, Alexander Mackay-Smith, was on the way one Sunday morning from the Bryn Mawr railroad station to the chapel of Bryn Mawr college, where he was to preach. As he drove along the country road he saw a little boy with a ball and bat and a catcher's mask. The bishop caused his carriage to pull up. "Little boy," he said, leaning out, "little boy." "Sir," returned the lad. "Do you know where little boys go who play ball on Sunday?" "Yes, sir," the other answered. "They go to Heston's lot, over fhere behind the dam." ' NO TARIFF KEF011M REPUBLICANS ARE STILL WED DED TO PROTECTION. Trusts and Combines Have More Than Doubled Under the Dingley Tariff Republican Oligarchy in Congress Prevents Reform. When it is considered that, tii rates Df the present tariff law were pur posely made higher than was neces sary, the fact that the Republicans are unwilling to revise this extraor dinary protection to the trusts and combines, shows that the corporations control legislation. The Dingley law has been in operation since 1897 and 5n consequence of the extreme protec tion it affords its beneficiaries, they have increased and multiplied to an. enormous extent. Mr. Littlcfield of Maine is authority for a list of trusts which was lately published in the Congressional Record, which gives nearly 800 trusts and com bines with a total capitalization of $14,000,000,000. This good Republican authority is a complete answer to the charge that the Democrats had padded the list published in the Democratic campaign book, for political effCct as the last named list contained but 287 corporations, with a total capitaliza tion of $6,972,418,851. This list was compiled in the summer of 1902 and if the list given by Mr. Littlefield is a correct one there has been an in crease since then of more than double the number of corporations and capi talization. With such facts staring the Republicans of Congress in the face, it would be naturally expected that some legislation would be en acted to dislodge the most obnoxious trusts that are protected by the tariff, padded in their interests. Two or three Republican members of Con gress did attempt to lower the Ding ley rates and introduced bills for that end, but the Ways and Means com nilttee, which Is controlled by the pro tection Interests, would not report such bills to the house, so that discus sion and a vote might be had thereon. President Garfield, who was for many years a member of the Ways and Means committee said, that the tariff hearings were one long exhibi tion of selfishness and greed. Every man spoke up shamelessly for his own pocket. No one had a word to say for the good of the whole country." The above quotation is from an edi torial in the New York Post of Feb ruary in the present year, and is doubtless reliable as the Post usually is. This indictment of the oligarchy that dominated the Republican party when Gen. Garfield was one of its leaders, could be again returned against the present Congress which is controlled by Payne, Grosvenor and Dalzell, the present Republican lead ers. The Democrats and Independent Republicans are under the present rules of the House of Representatives, powerless to effect any relief from the domination of these active friends of the trusts and combines. The bills for the reduction of the tariff are safely pigeon-holed and are not al lowed to be even considered by the committee. Could there be a greater farce of popular representative gov ernment than this suppression of free discussion of a crying evil. A great majority of the voters are favorable to reform, but under the rule of King Caucus are unable to at tain it. How long will those Repub licans, who plainly see that trusts are robbing them, submit to this corpora tion domination? A few independent voters added to the Democrats in the close congressional districts and states could defeat the ring that now contrails congress. Will they do it? For the past six years many Repub lican candidates for Congress have promised to vote for reform, but when elected have quietly secumbed to the trust and combine influences when they reached Washington. Will the independent Republican voters be will ing to accept the same promise In 1904? These voters must remember that the Republican party is pledged to protection and the Democrates, by inheritance and tradition and by party platforms, have always been committed to a tariff for revenue, and are therefore the party through whom refbrm must come. The Rule of the Few. The great industries of the country are now in a few hands; competition has been suppressed. A few monop olists control nearly all the railroads, coal, iron, oil, beef, sugar, tobacco and whisky and many other articles of necessity and luxury. This mon Dply has been consummated and per fected in the past four years. It is a revolution. The old order of com petition is now changed for monopoly and the increased burden is borne by the people. The suffering from the rapacity of the coal barons will be repeated by other monopolists when the opportunity offers. The New York Herald says that thirteen men control the railroads whose only object is to heap up vast fortunes at 'the expense of the people. The trust magnates have the same incentive and avarice is their guiding star. How it will all end is beyond the ken of the wisest; but that the American people will continue to submit to trust domination is hardly conceivable to those who do not believe that they are idiots. Con gress, which could give relief, has shown itself the tool of the few in stead of the friend of the many. Window Glass Prices to Advance. According to the National Glass Budget of Feb. 21, thuwindow glass manufacturers, both inVanjuout of the trust, have about decided fo "shut down the trust mills on March 15, and the "independents" on April 15, in order to restrict production and make pos sible a "substantial advance in the price of glass" to take effect about March 3. Iron-clad agreements are now being signed by the different manufacturing concerns of the three combines an dthe independents. The agreement is to run two years. " The cause of this two-year trust is said to be the introduction of blow ing machines by the American Win low Glass Co. These machines will STeatly reduce the cost of making glass. With this advantage the trust Could, by reducing 'prices one-half or Dore, soon drive Its competitors out of tho Hell and gain full control of the business. It prefers owing to the present very high prices and enor mous profits, to give its competitors two years more and to prevent the people from obtaining any Immediate benefit from the introduction of those labor-saving machines. Thus this natural blessing of mankind in, through the agency of Dingley tariff duties and the consequent trusts, turned into a curse. It in high time to put window glass on tho free list. A bill for this purpose was Introduced a few weeks ago by Congressman James M. Griggs and Is being pushed by the Knights of Labor and tho Democrats in Congress. It should bo passed promptly. With glass on tho free list, the trust would have to sell it at low prices to hold the market. Why should this most obnoxious trust be licensed to further continue its tax upon Pur sunlight? Republican Trust-Busting. The Republican members of Con gress may be backward in enacting laws that the people demand or de sire, but when they come to creating new offices with fat salaries, their in dustry is unquestioned. Having es tablished the new department of com merce and labor, of court-e it has to be provided with officials and clerks and money to pay them and other ex penses. There are thirteen bureaus, which are already provided for by ap propriations already made. Mr. Cortelyou, the new secretary, has fur nished an estimate to Congress for the other three bureaus, which are necessary under the new law, and asks for $600,000 for salaries and nearly a million dollars for various ex penses. No doubt all that he asks Congress to provide is necessary if a real trust-busting department is in tended, but until the Republican lead ers are assured that there will not be a'ay too strenuous work in that di rection, there will be no such extra vagant sum voted as Mr. Cortelyou asks for. The trusts and corporations have too many friends in Congress to allow a precedent for large appropria tions to be made, that might be used to annoy them, when some administra tion will be in power that really would be intent on trust-busting. If, Mr. Cortelyou, after a year's trial, is found to be conservative and only does just enough trust-busting to fool the peo ple into believing that something is being done, the next Congress will be found quite willing to fill his requisi tions, even to the extravagant amount that he now asks for. Republican trust-busting is an ac complishment that requires education to make perfect and the most neces sary part of it is, to make a good show ing and yet accomplish nothing. Imperialism Still an Issue. The Republicans have been claim ing that the whole trouble in the Phil ippines has been settled and that the Supreme court had long ago decided the legal status of the inhabitants. But the evidence in all against their claims for the late news from the Islands tells of the most unsatisfac tory conditions existing there. The Manila Times of December 29 de scribes the Moros dying by hundreds from cholera which is sweeping the whole Lake Lanao district of Min danao. The cable dispatch from Governor Taft to the President urging legislation which he says is necessary for the welfare and political neces sities of the people, also shows a most critical state of affairs. The article by Justice Brewer in Scribners forcasting important cases that are yet to come before the Supreme court, deals with "questions arising out of our insular possessions." "To what extent," he adds, "the provisions of the constitution operate in these pos sessions is yet undetermined." Evi dently Justice Brewer does not con sider the legal status of the islands settled by any means and yet Repub licans in and out of Congress keep repeating their fables that Imperialism is no longer an issue. An Unsavory Record. Creating unnecessary offices is no new crime of the present audacious Republican majority for many such instances might be quoted. One of the most flagrant cases is the law just passed oy congress, estaoiisning a new United States court in North Carolina. The officials of the Depart ment of Justice reported that the ad ditional court was altogether unneces sary and would but add an uncalled for expense. But the Republicans de manded it for the sake of the patron age it would create and they have been successful. The bill was signed by President Roosevelt in spite of the fact that the law advision of the ad ministration said it was unnecessary. What with filching offices to which its partisans were not elected, and creating places that are not needed, the Republican party has made a rec ord which the honest taxpayer will hardly endorse. Twenty Billions of Free Trade. Much more is said about our for eign than about our internal com merce. Yet the treasury department estimates the annual value of our in ternal commerce at about twenty bil lions, which is equal to the entire in ternational commerce of the world. Trade between the states doubled in yearly value between 1890 and 1900 a much more rapid rate of increase than shown by our foreign commerce in the same period. But then com merce between the states Is free, a3 between the forty-five commonwealths of the Union, thanks to the constitu tion, commerce can never be restricted in its growth by any kind of tariff. The prodigious prosperity cf these United States is bottomed on its vast internal commerce whose corner stone is free trade. Not Ready to "Curb the Trusts." The depth and sincerity of the Re publican oligarchy's desire to "curb the trusts" was exhibited when the United States Senate by an almost straight party vote refused to take up the Littlefield anti-trust bill. This was the one measure of the session which most certainly promised to make clear trie doings of the "bad trusts," at least those to be formed in the future. Its passage would have shown that the majority "mean busi ness"; its shelving shows they do not. DANGERS OF UNWASHED FRUIT Millions of Disease Germs Cluster on Small Bunches. On that bunch of cherries you buy from the Italian on the street corner ar.d eat with so much relish are clus tared four or five millions of danger ous disease germs. Exceedingly minute they are, and the flavor of tho fruit is in no wise impaired by their presence, but there they are Just the same micrococci, bacilli, spirilla whole families of them. When we eat an unwashed pear about 200,000 bacteria are carried Into the system, twice that numbor on a handful of garden strawberries, and still larger numbers on raspber ries, grapes and currants. Tho most infested fruits are cherries, with 12,000,000 bacteria to the half pound; currants with 11,000,000 and grapes with 8,000,000. i A man will readily consume a half pound of grnpes at a sitting, and if the gtatc of his health leaves him open to the attacks of disease, it can bo appreciated what a tremendous risk he runs of poisonous Infection by tho germs. Not many weeks ngo inquiry was made into the state of I 'no miff ace air in this city. The air for several fet above the ground waH found to bo lit erally swarming with bacteria. Now it is a matter of everyday observa tion that the fruits exposed for sale on the sidewalks and curbs of New York are placed at no great distance from the pavement. In many in stances they are so near the ground as to be in the very center of the germ-bearing strata of air. Tho In ference is obvious. Yet In spito of these facts, not one In a hundred who hastily buys an apple or a banana on the corner gives the matter of bac teria the slightest thought, and not one in a thousand goes the length of taking the sanitary precaution of washing the fruit. New York Press. HATS ARE A HABIT. Those Used to Going Without Head Coverings Seem Healthy. Some time ago 1 spoke of a young friend of mine who had recently given up wearing a hat on every occasion when his mental condition was not liable to be questioned. I scarcely think he has pursued his laudable pur pose during the recent severe weather. But I believe if you take to this kind of thing early enough you may make it last throughout your life. I know the other day, going alone Pall Mall on one of the coldest days we have had this season, I saw unt of tho smallest bluecoat boys It has ever been my fortune to behold, of course without a head-covering, but he did not seem to feel the cold In the least. He was bright and rosy, he chattered qayly, he laughed merrily, he stopped and looked In at tho shop windows, anl he sauntered along slowly as if It were a summer's day. I mused over this infinitesimal blue coat boy and marveled at his Inde pendence of the cutting northeast winds and biting frost, and I wondered whether colds hi the head were en tirely due to wearing hats. And then I noted that he wore yel low stockings. Now, possibly, yellow stockings are an antidote to all hiber nal misery, and that is why my young friend looked so jovial, while all of us around him were steeped in fur coats and mufflers and misery. I do not, somehow, think that I should look well in yellow stockings, but I would gladly don a pair if they would cure me of the ferocious cold from which I am now suffering. I should like to see an article In tho Lancet on "Yellow Stockings as a Cure for Catarrh." London Graphic. A DENTIST FOR CROCODILES. Zoo Should Get One to Amuse the Children. "I wish we had a crocodile plover here. It would amuse the children," said John Lover, a keeper at the Zoo. "What kind of a bird is a croco dile plover?" some one. asked. "It's the crocodile's dentist," Ivover replied. "It keeps the crocodile's mouth In good condition. "The crocodile," he went on, "Is much annoyed by a parasitic insect that enters his mouth and breeds' there, in crannies that he can't get at. The plover feeds on this insect and will go into a crocodile's mouth fearlessly after it. The crocodile seems to recognize instinctively that the bird is his friend. He lets It hop in and out of his mouth without molestation. The children would be much amused to see such a sight. We ought to get a crocodile plover by all means." "Crocodile plover. Humsh!" re marked a bystander in a pointed manner. Philadelphia Record. The Lord's Intermediary. Along with the snng little fortune that Deacon Jones had accumulated as the leading grocer of Ooobevilio Cove, his bump of self-esteem which was original fairly Jarge, had in creased proportianately. until. a3 the richest man in the Cove, he felt him self entitled to considerable deference its patron saint. In fact. When one day good old Parson Abbeck went to him for a subscription to home mis sionswhich he got he remarked: -Deacon. I cannot help noticing that your fellow-citizens seem to hold you In high esteem." "Waal, yis," replied the Deacon complacently; "guess that's 'bout so. The Covers do look up to me. Parson, that's a fact; and I well, I look ut to God!" ' Roosts With the Chickens. Farmer Johnson of Red Rock is the owner of a cat, which, from kitten hood, almost, has shown a great fond. ness for the society of chickens. From the ttme Tom was half-grown It has been no nnusual sight to soe him at night on the roost with the chicken a He follows thorn all day. He betrays no attachment for any one fowl but tssoeiates Impartially with all. Th rhicks have become accustomed mm, ana ne is evidently regarded as l protector. Tom retains sufficient cat a -nature to He curled up snu- and (v. warm. Tom frequently can bo seen side by side with a setting hen on he. aest, wherein he Is content to reny T. tor hours. New York World. v i it ' 1.- f v. s 'A ( ..