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BOYS SHOULD LEARN TO COOK. THIEVES AMONG THE 400. SNAKE TRUST IN PHILADELPHIA. Mrs. Marion Foster Washbtirne.the masculine sex, as w1I as the fetn--aised quita a little whirlwind .f In-lining, a good know ledge if ih eco- terested comment tiy ht-r talk before recent session of the Woman's club In Chicago by advocating that boys ishould be trained to cook an well as girls. Uulte a little ripple of bretzy dls ussion tu created by the spoak tr's novel ilea for co-education In the domestic sciene-, a ripple start'.d In the club assembly, which gradually widened it circumference to inctud-j the parents and educators of the city generaily, and even Instructors In the east. "Yes, I think it a very tood ulan for schools and educators to begin to train tmall boys to oook and to understand the domestic machinery." Mrs. Wash burns said, in reply to a question. "The Idea Isn't really a new one at all, you know. Boys and girls are taught together that way In the I'r-ebel ..-.ool In Germany, and the results 'ore most satisfactory. Domestic silence for both girls and boys will form an Important part of the curriculum of the new Chicago institute, the school or- ganized by Mrs. F.mmons Blaine. They will be trained together from the kin Jcrgarten up, through all the higher grades of the Institute. The boys will be taught to cook, and sweep, and dual with the girls, while the girls will share the Instruction In manuil train ing with the boys. The same plan of dual work was put in operation In a little kindergarten on the We.it Side, and It was thor-sighly eff-vilve and successful. Once every week we all went down In the kitchen and learned bow to cook. The children, of course, thought it was the greatest fun Iniugin ble. The boys were as eager to try It is the girls, and they learned just as Bsily and Just as thoroughly. Well, all joys ieve to cxk, or men "either, for :hat matter. It is the delight of their learts to conciwt some sort of a cull nary dainty in an amateurish wny, of ;ourse, to be sure or to manipulate a z-hafing dish My idea, therefore, has this object" rn view. It doe not aim to train, t oys and men to U-ome ernci-nt and valu- able servants, but it endea vors to give A BUNCH OF SHORT STORIES. One day in a, town where be wns to lecture, relates the Moi.le Journal. Mr Ueerher went into a barber shori to be shaved. The barber, not knowing him. asked him whether he was going to hear the needier lecture. "I guess so." was the reply. "Well," continued the barber. "If you haven't got a ticket you ran't get one. They're all sold, and you'll have to st.ind." "That's Just my luck," said Mr Iteechcr. "I always did have to stand when I henrd that nun; talk." The palm f r absent-mli'.d-dn-s:' should be accorded to a learned (', man professor, reports Collier's week ly. One day h noticed his wife placing a bunch of flowers on his dsk. "Wlmt do they mem?" h asked. "Why." she demanded, "don't you know thai tln Is the anniversary of your marriage?" "Ah, Indeed Is It?" said Ih profcKH.ii politely. "Kindly l.t me know wh'-r yours comes round ami I will return your attention in kind." Just after the speaker h;ol made up his committer, relate the New Yot l Tribune, a mmls-r of the middle went approached him one day and. shaking him genially by Hie hand, said: "I want to thank you. .Mr. Speaker: I am on a fine committee." Mr. Henderson smiled broadly. He wa reeli:g mote complaints than thanks In those days and words of commendation were dear to him. "I am glad you are satisfied," he replied. "I like to please the boys when I can." The member laughed grimly: "Of course you' know what committee I refer lo." he said, "the committee of the whole, but 1 wouldn't mind If you could find me a chair on some other committee, too; t think I rould do the woik of both." The dry humor which prompted this Incident pleased the speaker Immensely, mid his colleague did not ask in vain. Covcrnor fthaw of Iowa had amusing xperiencc with newspaper men dur ing a recent visit down east. "One re sorter," he said, "referred to me as a 'dapper little old man:' another said 'hat my clothes didn't fit me. and that ( was 'no orator, accotdlng to classical tuandards.' but Ihe funniest compliment IS ICE CREAM Beware of Ice cream and soft drink. fruits and Ices, for behind them lurk aath! More than twice as many persons flied lat year from inability lo curb '.heir appetite for these sinner luxu ries than were can led to their grave !rom dread consumption and fever (sol 1iers Included ) A clipping bureau an.) l medical Journal's statistics tell a tale f dire disaster from thesr tvlls, well they may be called. "While consumption killed forty in !ne state, nearly 100 died from eating too much Ice cream. In Chicago and vicinity, malaria proved fatal to thirty, nhlle ninety persons were murdered iy swallowing peach and cherry stones. In the state of New Jersey ten died from heart disease, while Ice cold Irlnks killed Iwlre that number. A mart in Canton, O., died from eat ng cherries and Ice cream at the same lime, Ibe acid fermenting with cream. nctulis of household management, that the man may bring to the service ot his wife and home his business habits of mind, engendered by bis business training. That is the point tt tcw (i actly. Iomestlc management should be run upon a business haul just as a man's downtown interests are run. Partly from natural aptitude and partly because a man begins tarly in life to train his mind on business prin ciples, the man Is better able '.nan the woman to place the househol i man agement on a common-sense, econom ical running basis. "I do not sec why the man should not be Interested in the domestic sciences and the application of those scientific theories to the special practice of !.! own particular domain as well as the woman. And he will be interested, too if he ha been trained to comprehend their meaning. He will be able ther to solve many a domestic problem and to disentangle many a complicated household puzzle. If he knows bow things should be done he can direct others how to do them, and should thi house be left without servants and ai the same time Ms wife be ill In bd he can descend Into the kitchen arc cook her an appetizing meal without being forced to the necessity of 8 lllnj In his mother-in-law or his sisters 01 cousins to help him out of his emer gency. It Is high time that men hlvouK be able to conduct their own householc managements without the aid of theli feminine relatives. "There Is one object of training bnyj to cook and to understan I the systerr of domestic economics. Another rcsul likely to develop from such training Is the removal of the little sting o! degradation which now seems to cllni to the profession of domestic ust.-rul neH." New York and New Jersey are stil talking about saving the palisades and the quarrymen re un at work de- stroying mem. i ne miter ucsiroy n In a day than the talk woul.l pieservt In a century. f ever received was during Ihe cam paign last fall In my own state. Aftei I had made a speech before a crowd that had gathered to hear a debate be tween General Weaver anil myself, at old farmer pushed his way through t where I stood, grasped my hand, ano said, with every Indication of sincer admiiation: 'Governor, that was a lliu rpeech an excellent speech! Do yot know, you reminded me very stronglj of Abraham Lincoln In your liowers o; llltiHtratlon! Of course, you are a bet i ter-lonklng man than Lincoln was. ! Then stepping bac k and taking auothei look at me from head to feet, and evi dently Intending to emphasize the com pllmeiit. lie added: 'Hut not much ! either!' " The wife of the admiral of th- navj l. noted for her brightness at repartee At the time of her engagement to thi hero of Manila bay. relates the Phila delphia Post, she was muc h annoyed at the publicity given to her ever movement, and very sensitive to riti I ( ism. An editor of one of the Wash ! luglon paper called to her over th telephone one day in regard to a pho tograph that had been sent to blni t use In a descriptive article. "H i yt poor." explained the editor, who wa an old friend of Mrs. liewey's "that ' dislike to use it. Are ;nu sine yen. know which one I refer to?" "Oh, yes,' said Mrs. Dewey, "that's all right." Rut I don't think It Is all right." said the editor. "Don't you want Justice done you?" "No," replied Mis. Dewey, "I only hope for mercy." Miss Helen Gould has undertaken work for the benefit of the employes of the Missouri Pacific system In the west which will cost a large amount of mon ey. It Is planned to establis bund sup port railroad Young Men's Christian as sociations at different points along tlx road and to equip associations already organized with libraries. A man named Jeff Davis Is a candi date for governor of Arkansas, yet tin name hasn't set the political woods on fire. UNHEALTHY? In Oshkosh, Wis., a young woman at tended a dance, Hiid after eating eight een plates of Ice cream fell dead. He! name was Mary Blake. But ravenous appetites for cold stuff on a hot day Is not all the evil there is to soft drinks. A number of well known ted drinks are known to contain poisonous adds. The soft drink habit Is more fatal lo young women than lo Ihe men. This Is attributed to feminine weakness and the manner In which they consume, their drinks, namely, through a straw. A well known doctor said to a Journal correspondent: "I know of several girls who have died from sipping Ices through a straw. This Is Ihe reason: In sucking the Ices up the cold substance strikes (he palate of the mouth and cools the head. Then when the young women walk In the sun and exert themselves the cold re acts, giving them severe headache, which Is later followed by a fever, and In some esses death has resulted," Is kleptomania Increasing among so ciety women? It would seem so from the observa tion of detectives in New York and other large cities. Another sign of this was the curious order received last week by a Broadway (New Yorkl manufacturing jeweler. It was for a half dozen gold nails with a Jewel in the head of each and two dozen tiny gold chains for fasten ing small objects to a table. The novel articles were made, and when the jeweler's customer called, a well known Fifth avenue society wo man, he asked her the use to which the delicate objects were to be put. "Well, you see," she said, "I have a number of very valuable objects of art, which are very expensive. Hut they are very small and easily handled. As the wife of a man in public position I am obliged to open my house during the season to J he friends of my hus band and the curiosity-seeing public In general. On my reception days, there fore, my house is crowded with all sorts of people. Iast winter I suffered the loss of several of the most valua ble of my treasures. I have long been trying to devise some plan by which I can keep my objects of art outside of my cabinets and yet not have them stolen, for that Is the only word I ran use In regard to the loss of my treas ures. I have concluded that I must either nail down some of the brio-a- brac or chain it securely to the table, and hence I am going to try this rem edy. That is why I want these nails and chains." She then explained that the little chains were for fastening the delicate lace napkins or dollies to the banquet table. Her guests seemed to have a special penchant for pkking up these dalnly things and carrying them otT as "favors." I.ast winter social circles In Wash ington were greatly bewildered and shocked by the doings of one of the best-known women In official life. Finally one, the wife of a prominent diplomat, determined to stop the raid upon the doilies, and at the next lunch eon she seated the suspected klepto maniac next to her. When the dollies were brought on she watched her guest and discovered that the latter laid her dolly on the table, and carelessly drop ping her handkerchief over it, picked up both. The hostess, In a most charming manner, turned to her guest and said: 1 "Pardon me, my dear Mrs. . but I am afraid you have my most exquisite doily in your handkerchley. H is so fine that I am afraid It will be crushed, and therefore call your attention to your Inadvertence In taking it up with your handkerchief." The guest was not In the least abash ed, and with a laugh she shook out her ABOUT HIGH ( Hy 1 i inlsoti Maxim.) 1 know of nothing more widely mis understood than the nature and action of explosives. In the popular novel we often read of the demolition of a whole block of buildings with a few ounces of dynamite. I once read a story of how a Russian Nihilist blew up a huge bridge and killed a hundred horsemen with less than a pint of nitroglycerine. These wild accounts of the action .of explosives contained in fiction actually voice much of the popular idea. The failure of dynamite to fulfill expecta tions as to its destructlveness has sav ed many lives and served to get many criminals Into trouble. An attempt was once made to blow up Ixindon bridge with a mere handful of dyns- . mite. A dynamiter once attempted to destroy the house of parliament with a few pounds of explosive, and instead of laying that whole grest structure In ruins, as he expected, he simply blew a small hole In the ground floor and broke a little glass. Under a similar misconception of the power of high explosives many dyna mite guns have been proposed, and some have actually been made and used In service, which were capable of throwing only from one to two pounds of explosives. Built under the errone ous conception that extreme sensitive ness In a high explosive must neces sarily be a concomitant of force, these dynamite throwers have usually been air guns. With the exceedingly high trajectory, and short range of such weapons, together with the miniature quantity of explosive thrown. they tit hv no nosslbllllv be of much ! practical use, except by disappoint ment to teach some valuable lessons. The dynumlte cruiser Vesuvius at San tiago threw a few shells containing from 100 to LHKl pounds of gun cotton; but as these had no power of penetrat ing earthworks and exploded upon im pact, and as the shells were too thin to be of any pi act leal service as mis siles, they served but little useful pur pose except lo make a loud noise and thus, perhaps, to frighten the enemy. The popular Idea of an explosive Is that It Is something capable of going off, or burning up instantly, iand of smashing things generally. Its com position and the peculiar action of Its elements upon one another, producing the phenomenon of explosion, and the laws which govern explosive combus tion, are not generally understood by those not versed In chemistry- A word of explanation may not be out of place. The action of explosion Is a form of combustion, and ordinary combustion may be said to be a slow form of ex plosion. We all know that there Is a handkerchief and the dolly fell back on the table, whereupon she exclaimed: "Why, dear me, so I have. How very careless of me." There were significant smiles all around the table, but no more doilies were lost that season. Sions picked up from dinner tables and slipped up Into the sleeves and pieces of bric-a-brac concealed in muffs were other freaks of this nania for stealing among society women. It is said that the wives of the prom inent officials in Washington fear more the society kleptomaniacs than they do the petty thieving of the general crowd of visitors who come to their houses tm the days of their official receptions, and it Is likely that the scheme of the New York woman who ordered the Jew eled nails, will be w idely adopted. By Sergeant William Morris, of Cap tain McCIusky's detective force, New York: Detectives are always engaged to protect the belongings of the wealthy who open their houses for large social functions, and I have known many in stances where their services were called into practical use. We recognize no su.'h comfortable term as kleptomania. We call it stealing nothing more or less. I know cases where a wealthy woman has gotten off free mi the plea of so called kleptomania; but had she been pmr and wretched no such defence would have been granted. If a wealthy woman enters a shop and, having plen ty of money, takes what Is not hers, she Is called a "kleptomaniac," and the proprietor of" the shop is lenient and she Is discharged with a reprimand. Hut If a poor woman does the same thing she is dealt with severely by the law and her crime is called stealing. For the life of me I can't see any dif ference. Both women are tempted, both yield, and yet the one is excused be cause she said she "could not help it." and the other is punished. Oftentimes the plea of insanity is made by counsel In order to get a rich client free, and tiuite often the pris oner Is no more Insane than you or f. They call kleptomania a form of In sanity. I wish I could think so, but 1 can't. A murderer may say, "I couldn't help It;" a wife-beater may say, "I didn't mean to;" but shall the law let such go free? A rich woman who steals her neighbor's doilies or dainty bric-a-brac is exactly as guilty ns the poor, dazed creature of the slums who stands convicted with the toys, or the clothes, or the cakes phe has stolen for her children. "Bobby, didn't 1 tell you not to go in the parlor when Mr. Hopkins comep to see your sister?" "Ma. I didn't go In. I jes' stuck my head in the door an' made some faces at him." EXPLOSIVES. sill, stance in the air called oxygen, which is necessary to support combus tion. We know that without air a fire will not burn. Coal in the grate can burn no faster than the supply of air which reaches it will permit. If, how ever, a grate full of coal could be sup plied with enough air nil at. once to effect Its complete combustion. It would explode with the violence of the strong est dynamite, and exert force enough, were it properly controlled, to throw a twelve-inch Hhell weighing 1 ,00ft pounds through a f')t of solid steel. Since the production of liquid air, and, from It, liquid oxygen, such an explosive can actually be made, which Is really much stronger, weight Tor weight, than pure nitroglycerine. This may be done by pulverizing the coal or carbon, and then wetting It with liquid oxygen. We see, then, than an explosive is a body consisting of some combustible substance combined with enough oxy gen to burn the combustible, and as It contains Its own oxygen within Itself and does not depend upon a necessarily slo wsupply of atmospheric air, It Is capable of burning up, as it were, si) at once. TWO KXCITING WOlJf HUNTS. The wolf has not entirely nlsappeared from Indiana. There are enough of them left lo give farmers and sports men something to do In some sections. At least two wolf hunts have been held In that state since the first of the year, snd those who participated In them say the fox drives, that have been more common In recent years, pale In excite ment when compared to the rounding up of half u dozen or more wolves. The wolves are shy, and their hiding places are not close to human habita tions. A hundred farmers have had a hunt along the marshes of the Kanka kee, in Laporte county. A Walkerton hunter shot two of the animals, and K. N. Card of Laporte killed three. A number of men in the hunting posse tach shot a wolf. In this hunt sixteen wolves were taken. There are sections In the western part of the state where wolves are frequently seen, and the hunters about, montlcello have had a drive. Two handsome specimens were killed. Before they were shot a fox hound was turned within the circle of hunters and there was a lively chase. The pelts of the wolves were In fine condition, the fur being two Inches long. Five wolres are said to have escaped, while the hunters were closing their lines. (loosebone prophets and the weathet sharps in general say spring l due. Well, let her spring. Jacobus Hope of Philadelphia ; the president, vice president, secieia'y and treasurer of a snake trust. .Mr. Hope has cornered the snake mark;t. Snakes labeled "Jacobus Hope, Phila delphia, Pa.," are coming to the city from all quarters of the globe by rail, by steamer, on horseback and on foot. Like Joe Lelter of Chicago, when he cornered the wheat market, Mr. Hope means to have the snakes actually In his possession. The snake hunters of India have been snaking day and night to fill the orders of Jacobus Hope, Philadelphia. "Send every python you can lay your hands on," were the cabled instructions of Mr. Hope, and as a result India's supply of pythons and anacondas is well-nigh exhausted. India, it is reported, had a cold spell, which gave the snake crop a setback, from which it will take a year or so to recover. Several hundred yards of snake are expected from India any day now. All snakes sell by the yard. The regular price of a python up to ten feet is 2.o0. Beyond that length the price grows abruptly steeper. A twenty-two-foot python Is worth about $300. Boa constrictors from South Africa are headed this way. They come in boxes that look like giants' coffins. The baggagemen will be in no doubt as to the nature of his baggage, as an able-bodied boa constrictor does not smell like peaches. Thousands of dollars' worth of boa THE VANDERBILTS IN LENT. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt have been giving a series of the most luxurious house parties at Biltmore ever since the beginning of Lent. The coming and going of guests have been continuous and the wonders of Kilt more have been enjoyed by many of the most interesting society, literary and musical people in New York. Biltmore is a palace and one of the grandest in all the whole world, and the life there is ideal past picturing. One's wishes are granted as If by magic. The Vanderbilts employ at Biltmore house and about the estate 200 serv ants. ' I -l The banquet hall, where a number of costume dinners have been given re cently, seats 150 people. It is a room of wonderful magnificence, and Is the most expensive room in the house. Th walls are covered with rare gobelin tapestries, which have as a border the heads of stags, wild boars and other game. The room is the height of the house and is lighted from the skylight. There Is also a gallery where musi cians can be stationed. The room boasts of two of the most magnificent fireplaces that have ever been built. They are enormous in size and are. noted for the beauty of their carved wood. Off of this spacious banquet chamber Is the regular dining room, which is small In comparison, but per fect In Its every appointment. The library Is the leather room of the house. It. is on the first floor at the left of the broad hall. Its many win dows open on the yiiay.za. The entire furnishings are leather. The book cases entirely encircle the walls. The novelty of this rooms Is the huge fire place, which Is so constructed that a. stairway leading from Mr. Vander bilt's private apartments above is built down the middle of the chimney to CANS TURNED What becomes of all the old tin cans? Is a question asked about as often as what becomes of all the pins. The end of the millions of pins has never been answered, but the first ques tion can be, as far as New York is con cerned. Briefly, HOO.O' discarded tin cans, ex clusively of wash boilers, basins, cups end others divers sort of tinware, arc collected in this city each week, and as rapidly as gathered are transformed Into solder, can-Iron and window-sash weights. Everything about the tin can is utilized, even to the paper. ThiB, il is vouched for, provides a light and de lectable dessert for omnivorous billy goats. ' At the works there Is a veritable mountain of tin cans, where the recipi ent of delicate French peas fraternizes with the vessel which contained mar rowfats, and where the can once con taining aristocratic brandied peaches lies in helpless proximity lo on;- one the home ot plebeian beans. They are brought there by thousands. not only by a dozen or so hucksters, but by teams constantly In use. They are gathered from private places, ash barrels and dumps all over the city. Fifty tons a week are brought In, and as Ihe average Is three can to the pound, one may easily see that there are tremendous numbers of them. The factory pays the hucksters 15 a ton, though they get (hem free. The first work of the day Is taking these, cans to an auxiliary stack of the furnace by means of a conveyer, con sisting of moving buckets, which tiooop them up and bear them Into the re ceptacle. They are exposed to a heat of from 400 to 500 degrees. At this tem perature the solder Is nailed off and by a rotary screen sifted Into a separate channel to be afterward purified. Th" sans are left to go down another way, constrictors will soon be In tha city. Texas Is rushing east "hog" snakes, "w hip" snakes and thunder snakes. A, few barrels of blue racers, chicken, snakes, bull snakes and milk snakes are coming from New Mexico, while, Arizona will be able to spare several crates of ribbon snakes, black snakes and adders, not to mention a Gila mon ster or so. In answer to Mr. Hone's cry for snakes Mexico will send tarantulas and scorpions. As soon as the weather moderates the busy little Jerseylte with his stout canvas bag will go snaking. Pine snakes are the Jerseyites" specialties. These snakes sell at retail at so much, a foot. They grow to a length of fiva feet. "Never," said Mr. Hope, "has thenv been such a demand for snakes. I have orders from Maine to California, and never, it seems to me, have they been so scarce. The zoological gardens and museums are wanting new snakes. The small tent shows, of which there are more than 250 In the United States, are getting ready to start out. Each of these shows carries from ten to twenty snakes and the proprietors all want their orders filled immediately. I tun rushing the snakes on as fast as pos sible, but," concluded Mr. Hope, pa thetically, "I can't make snakes." Chicago Tribune: "Oh, John, baby la trying to swallow a cork!" "A cork. Maria? Stop 'er!" what is ordinarily the mantlepiece, but in this case is a railed landing from, which steps reach the floor on either side. It is said that the beautiful suite ot rooms now occupied by Mrs. Vander bilt were originally furnished for Mr. Vanderbilt's mother. They consist of bedroom, bath, sitting room and dining room. It Is in this latter room that Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt dine when, they are alone. The Vanderbilts are enthusiastic over Biltmore and are continually improv ing their vast estate. Mr. Vanderbilt has started a settle ment for his tenantry. A dozen com pact, comfortable houses have been built with every modern improvement, and a gymnasium, school house and? hospital are now in process of erection. These new buildings are all at Bilt more station, where All Souls' church. In which Mr. Vanderbilt is so much In terested, is situated. The fortunate rector of All Souls' Church, Rev. Dr. Swope, has Just been presented with a fine new stable, and Mr. Vanderbilt is also planning to build him a new and much larger rectory. "You are looking pretty well," said ex-Speaker Reed to Senator McComas, in Washington. "And you are looking both pretty and well," said Senator McComas to ex-Speaker Heed. All ot which goes to show that the junior sen ator from Maryland Is something of a diplomat himself. And the funny pari of the Incident Is that Reed blushed like a schoolgirl and seemed tickled to death. Teacher Why did you behave m badly and make me keep you after school? Tommy Because there's a big boy w ho is going to lick me when 1 go home. INTO DOLLARS. Then the cans are sorted. Those with sides Intact are picked out for what la called "can iron." About one-fifth of a can's entire weight can be used for this purpose, while solder Is yielded to the extent of forty pounds to the ton. An employe went Into the building snd pointed out something whleh looked like a clothes wringer. "Through this," he said, "the still useful sides of the cans are passed, fo that they may be straightened out. They are put into bundles of fifty pounds' weight each, and sold to man ufacturers of trunks and other articles where their use is required. They average- 350 or less plates to the bundle, according to whether they are pint, quart or gallon size." "Here is where the refuse tin, amounting to about forty out of the fifty tons weight of cans each week, Ih melted after It Is sorted from th Holder and the can Iron. "It Is a fact little known In this coun try," says the Chicago Tribune, "that the strong character of the president of the South African Aepublic was bolded by the teaching of an American minister who went out to South Africa In issfi from North Carolina. In that year Rev. Dr. Daniel Lindley, then a young clergyman, was preaching at the Rocky River Presbyterian church, near Charlotte, N. C. lie was appoint ed a missionary, and went out to the then Dark continent, being, It is claim ed, the first Protestant missionary In South Africa. One of his pupils waa the young Paul Kruger, who was con verted under his preaching, and for whom he contracted a great liking. Dr. Lindley returned home to North Caro lina for a visit ten years later and people still living in Charlotte remem ber that he talked much of the young Kruger."