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1HIIMIIHHItlllH OLD FAVORITES TTf TT Charge of the LIBht IirtBade. Half league, liulf a league Half a league onward, Aii in the valley of Death rWle thi nil hundred. "Kvrwur.i, the Light Brigade! Uirnrge for the guns!" ho said; Into the vslley of Death Rdo thesix hundred. "fcWwurd, the Light Brigade:" Wan there a iiihii dismayed? Net Uiuusb the soldier kuew HWo one bud blundered. TSMsra uot to Diake reply. Ubelrs nut to reaxon why, Ttfcetrn but to do and die; late the vjilley of Death Itod the aix hundred. CtiHiua to right of them, (Janiiou to left of them, Caiw.ni in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, liultlly they rode and well, Into the jaw of J)euth, Into the mouth of Hell. R'ie the tiix hundred. KUsiied nil their suljcru bare, Khmlti! ax they turned in air, Habriiig the gunners there, Charging an army while All the world wondered; Iluuj''d in the battery aiuoke lUidit through the line they broke; iJuHxaek and KuxMian Ilmsed from the suber stroke, Hhnttered and sundered. Then tiiey rode baek, but not Mut the nx hundred. Cimuuit to right of them, Guuian to left of them, Onnsxm behind them TWie.yed and thundered; Stymied at with hIioI and shell, Wlufc- aorse and hero fell, "Jjjr that bod fought o well Cnmtt through the juwg of Death Haiti frim the mouth of Hell All Uiat was left of them, Ix-ft of aix hundred. Wh can their glory fade? 0! the wild charge they made! AU the world wondered. Honor the charge they made! loir the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred. -Lord Tennyson. lilt HRMLtSS, NECESSARY CAT. The -word rat, as used by the Greeks, apparently slguiiied the martin cat, a Hwrt f arboreal ferret. The cat came lutu doju.tieotlon, however. In Europe shortly after the Christian era, and the first specimens brought Into England wore very highly valued. Since ItH In troduction as h domesticated animal, the cat ban been carried by voyagers to al most every part of the habitable globe, and It is quite certain that It has co xnluakxl with tbe various smaller wild cats of tbe countries to which It has been taken. Thus, In Scotland It Is known to have mated with the wild cat whii'h wns formerly so abundant In the forests of that country, hh, ne--cordlng to Sir William Jardlne. cats UN01IAIKt.O A NOOK A CAT. were ao laa. freely wl were bred ami kept in bouses that could scarcely be distinguished from the or dinary wild cut; but such specimens ver seen III the south of hng- La Africa the domestic cat crosses it ii the wild Caller cat. and the hybrid so produced are quite tame. In India tie domestic species tins crossed -wltt) several of tbe smaller native wild rats, aad the same may be stated re garding the cats of America, conse quently we have a (treat amount of vurlaUsa ami variety la tbe domestic animal. Home varieties have exceed ing halr' These were formerly al ways known as Persian or Aurora cats. Tbew lug haired Angora cats are re markably beautiful In appearance, and they have been carried as et to the varlua countries In Kurope, and evert to ladla and China: heuce varieties of thru are now exhibited as French and ltusaias and other long-hatred cuts, but they are merely descendants from the original Persian, altered somewhat by climate ami by their new condition of life Thus the Uusslan long-haired cat, eiiwl to the cold tempera t tire of that country, has become coarser In fur than the original Pern Inn. The majority of cat retain the short hair which Is char acteristic f " "HnVrent "P'les. but lo consequence of the mixed parent age, various colorings nnd dlflerent uia-klnft-s have bwii produced In the domesticated socles. Thus we have numerous aamples of what may b call- Ifeolora, as, lor esaiupir, puie sure black and various tints or Ihfw er sandy brown. Then, again, ih colors are Interallied i. aaflntu arranieBieiit, aa war N aeea la thee parti-colored cats 1. which whits to M " ed set white, In sequence of their kin to various wild species, various markings are to be seen In try? domesticated varieties. Thus we bi.Ve striped or tabby cats of various colors, and spotted cats, both of which have a strong resemblance to the large wild striped or spotted spe cies known aa tigers and leopards. Sometimes markings take place in A CRAFTY SEAL. StoU frost Fisherman, bat Wn Caaajhi Map pi a Andy Fitzgerald, a fisherman of this vicinity, says the Del Mar correspond ent of the Cincinnati Kuquirer, had a unique experience and made some easy money while lishlng off the banks about five mUra from this place one which It is difficult to trace the origin, tljig WPt.ki U(i an(.UOred at the Bucn, ror exumple, may be seen In that singular variety termed the Siamese cat, which Ik of a dun color, with black: extremities very much like the mark lugs of a pug dog. Montreal Star. OLDEST OF LAW BOOKS. Code of King Hammurabi in 8ton Juat Found at 3ua. "This Inscription Is doubtless the most important find that has ever been made In Babylonian literature." Such Is the opinion expressed by Prof. Hugo Wlnckler, of the Universi ty of lierlin, in bis translation, just published, of the Laws of Hammurabi, taken from a stele discovered a few months ago by the French expedition that has been for years engaged in archaeological researches In Suna, the ancient capital of Persia, under the di rection of Prof. De Morgan. The In scription was found on a dlorite block, 2.25 meters In height, taken from the old royal rastle In Stisa. The stele contains, besides a picture Illustrating bow King Hammurabi re ceived these laws from the sun god, a complete legal code of '282 separate laws, of which, however, Xos. 00 to 09 have been chiseled out. The gap Is In part remedied by fragments found ln: the great library of Assurlinnlpnl. There are sixteen columns of inscrip tion found on the front of the stone' beneath the picture of Hammurabi, and twenty-eight on the rear. A special Introduction and conclude lug admonition to future generations to observe faithfully the requirements of this code Indicate that the laws con tained In It were made by Hammurabi, the contemporary of Abraham, the Am raphal of the Scriptures, and that this Is the oldest corpus Juris extant, ante-! dating even the days of Moses by half! Bur- Eight-Yenr-ll( Colored Child priae Minitern. Lonnle Lawrence Dennis, a colored boy, aged 8 years, is creating much in- a thousand years or more, the date of it,'r,Kt ln l!i'liK'!on church circles by the Hammurabi being about 23(H) B. 0; I tlls ,alKS 011 i-"i subjects. lie has That a Babylonian Inscription of this1' ' ,,(f'" ""1'Hng evangelical services in banks and was fishing for sauddabs with a hand line, when lie noticed a large seal hoveritig about the tpot where his line lay. By and by he pulled up with a sanddab on his book and began to haul In the line, but be fore he could land the tibti the seal had grabbed It and eaten It. Two or three times the seal thus forestalled him, and then Fitzgerald put out a line on the ttther side of the boat, leaving the other Hue out for the entertainment of tba seal. While the animal was watching that line Fitzgerald took In about a dozen fl.sh with the other, and was con gratulating himself upon outwitting the animal, when he heard a noise be hind him, and, turning, beheld the seal In the boat In the act of devouring the ash he had so recently taught. When the seal had finished his nienl be crawled up the little deck over an apartment in the prow of the boat, and, stretching himself at full length In the sun, proceeded to take a nap. When he had become oblivious of his surroundings Fitzgerald crept forward with a rope In which he bad prepared a dipping noose, and, sliding It over the leal until it was back of the flippers, h drew It taut, and then with a sudden lurch pulled the surprised prisoner to the open hatch and rolled him in and shut down the hatch. I'pon his return to this port he dis posed of his prisoner to a Georgia visi tor for $!.", to be taken to that South ern State nnd there placed ln a little lake on the purchaser's estate. 11 EflDHTdDM als OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS A Indian Servant Girls. I but there is a very good practical reason why he should net; NEW solution of the servant girl problem Is being Be wiu lose "is Job. discussed in the large cities of the West. Indian ! u rollows, therefore, that a branch of education, so im- girlst from special 'raining schools, are being em ployed as servant girls. It la said that the Indian girls who have been properly trained are found to be perfect embodiments of satisfactory domestic service. Five thousand or more Indian girls have been engaged from the various Indian schools of the Southwest to act as domestics in the homes of wealthy people in Kansas City, Chicago, St. Ix)Uis and Denver. Most of these girls are from the Chilaceo and Haskell Indian schools. The Indian girls are physically strong. They are, as a rule, faithful, polite and unobtrusive. The idea of employing Indian girl domestics Is now being seriously considered by some of the rich families of Eastern cities. Buffalo Enquirer. w IOWA BOY CLEVER FREACHER. sort should be found in the Persian capital Is readily explained by tbe fact that It was brought to Snsa as booty by the Elamlte kings, and It Is uot the only specimen of the kind here found, the transfer being made probably In the seventeenth or sixteenth century. The discovery only confirms what was. Indicated by the Tcl-cl-Amnrua finds in Egypt dating from the fourteenth cen-j tury, which are also ln cuneiform wrltJ Ing, namely, tlmt this was at that early1 period the common language of di plomacy and International and busl-1 ncss communication. An analysis of these laws shows that the code was confined to secular mat ters; and, while In many Instances It forces upon the reader, both by Its agreements and Its disagreements, a comparison with the legal system of Pentateuch, It Is sharply distinguished from this by the absence of religious or ceremonial commands anil prohibi tions. It Is exclusively a civil code. In general It shows Its Semitic origin by recognizing, even to a greater extent than Is done by the Pentateuch, the lex tallonls of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; and many of the merciful characteristics of the Mosaic legislation are conspicuous by their abj sence. But within fbese limitations It doubtless Is what Wlnckler calls It, "one of tli" most important original sources In the history of mankind in general." The original text, together with a French translation. Is published by the Assyrlologlst of the expedition. P. V. Schell, In the fourth volume of the. "Delegation en Perse," the official nar rative of the expedition. There Is a remarkable monotony In the forms of these laws, each beginning with th word "If," nnd this peculiarity, as well ns Its stringent measures, Is suggestive of the Draconian legislation. New York Sun. the African Methodist Church. It i said be has never attended school a ill The Necessity of Courage. HEN a man Is depressed he may be sure that the indulgence in physical actions characteris tic of depression, such as moping and sighing, still more Increase his depression, while his first attempt at more sensible conduct will prove that the deliberate and at first artificial assumption of cheerfulness and activity will, after a while, actually bring about a more cheerful frame of rjilnd. Slow move ments, slow speech, physical action of every kind deliber ately rendered slow. Is an antidote to the Irritation of a man harassed and pressed with affairs, which good sense will suggest to him, although be may know nothing about the psychological theory of attaining a desired condition of mental quiet by, at first, Imitating the bodily gesture of a calm mind, tin the other hand, the giving way to quick, Irritated bodily movements Is sure to cause an accession of Irritability. New York Dally News. r I.0.NN1B LAWtlKNCK JJhNNIS. To Combat Co-opcrutiou. The rapid growth of the co-operative distributing societies In Great Britain ban led to the organization of a Trad crs' Defense Association for the pur pose of protecting the small shopkeep or against threatened extermination The anti-co-operative rising began In Ht. Helens, the center of the glass In dustry In Lancashire, and has already spread to neighboring towns. The antls have an organ, the Tradesman and Shopkeeper, and have published a pamphlet with the expressive title, "How to Fight the Co-op." Their chief weapon of attack Is the boycott. Huch m Simple Way I The Pilgrim tells the story of a woman property bolder In New York whose agent brought her an Insurance policy on her house. "You'd better give me a check for the premium now," he said. "How much Is It?" she asked. "A little more than one hundred dollars. Walt a minute and I will get the exnet amount." "Oh, how tiresome!" said the lady. "And I am in such a hurry! Till the company to let It stand, and deduef It from what fhey will owe me when the house burns down." Hearing of the Thruxli. The hearing of the common thrush Is inarvelously acute. It can hear a worm moving underground, locate the prey by the noise, and haul It out. Mule Animala. Tbe giraffe, armadillo and porcupine have no vocal cords and are, therufore, mute. WbaliM and atrpeaU are alav volcelM". day ln his life, but has been educated by his mother. Several Burlington ministers lmv taken a lively Interest In the boy, and having put numerous questions con cerning the scripture to him, hav been surprised by the straight forward aess and Intelligence of his answers. One of the Mifn. The member of Congress wns a new one in Washington. After he hud tin Islicd bis dinner at the restaurant th waller brought him pie for dessert, nnrj there was a knife with ii. The new member looked at the pic ami at tin knife. 'Major," he said" to his companion "do you think that waiter suspects 1 am a Western Congressman V" "Hardly. How should he know any thing about It? You were never Ir here before, were you 7" "No." "Then how In thunder does he know who you are?" "I dou't know. But If he doesn't what did be bring that knife with the pli for?" New Y'ork Times. The Meat-Eater's Defence. HERE are certain esthetic persons who quail before a luscious Mood red steak. These persons are hard ly abreast of scientific thought or else they would also quail before the corpse of the gentle asparagus. Tbe asparagus Is undoubtedly a form of life and the distinction between the higher vegetables and the lower animals is hard to make. Bacteria, for Instance, though usually supposed to fall In the field of zoology, are said to belong of rights to botany. The fact is that the vegetarian agitation served Its purpose In emphasizing the good there Is In eating a fair proportion of vegetables and the evil there is In eating an unfair proportion of meat. This pur pose being accomplished, exclusive devotion to a vegetable diet Is perhaps no longer necessary except during sickness No one, of course, can object to "an affection a la liato for a bashful young potato or a not too French French bean" itt n comic opera, but an affection of the propngan (list kind for fruits, cereals and vegetables as the antago nists of meats Is happily no longer a desirable feature of modern life. We are now allowed by the highest, author! ties to enjoy the taste and stimulus of meat without com ouuetion. Chicago Tribune. portant.tfcat a man is Judged by all the world afrliliteratel If he neglects It, should not be neglected in tbe school. Our public schools and colleges are not Shakspeare facto ries. They are for the education of average people. Wash Ington Times. M The Use of Both Hands. L'CH of the mechanical work that la now with the right hand could be done aa well with the left hand. If that member were sufficiently trained, and the division of labor thus made pos sible would not only result In more efficient work, but ln an Increased quautlty of it. It Is, of course, very evident that when both hands are equally dexterous, they may be used alternately, and the worker never need stop for rest; for its soon as one hand gets tired he can use the other. Just why one employs the right arm in so uinny things iu preference to the left is a question which has not yet received a conclusive answer. The more commonly ac cepted idea is that the habit is directly due to the fact that a mother invariably carries a child on her left arm, so tbat she, the carrier, may have tbe free use of her right arm. Then, again, there are those who say the physiological construction of the nerves and veins that enter the right arm is different to that of those which enter the left one, the nerves and veins of the right arm being more promi nent. But, despite the fact that an examination of the left arm of a left-handed person reveals the fact that his left ' arm contains more prominent veins and nerves than his right, it Ir, nevertheless, impossible to say whether the phenomenon noticed is the effect of the habit or the habit' the effect of the phenomenon. Even a slight accident to the right hand incapacitate one nowadays from all manner of work, whereas. If the use of the left hand were cultivated as it should be, such misfortunes would lose much of their terror. St. James' Budget. T 5 The Value of Spelling. OMEBODY with views of spelling more original than orthodox lias written to a Chicago paper to protest against the prominence given to this study ln college examination papers. He contends that no professor or set of professors can Justly condemn a freshman for being a poor speller, so long as no stress was laid on this branch of education before the days of Samuel Johu son. In other words, If so great a man as Shakspeare had n right to spell his own name In six different ways, and George Washington was shaky on orthography, a mere college student should be forgiven for not being able to master the Intricacies of twentieth century spelling. 'liils sound plausible, and, judging from the kind of work the pupils In American public schools turn out, there are many parents In this laud who hold similar views. But the fallacy of the argument lies in the fact that the average high school graduate Is not expected to be a Shakspeare or a George Washington, and that lie Is -expected In most cases to be the clerk or bookkeeper of an ordinary business ririu. His employer will not ask him If be can write Immortal plays or h-nd an army. He will ask blni to write a note to Mr. Smith at such nnd such a number, Broadway; and that ioie will look ridiculous If the name of the street Is stalled bonetlcnlly. Of course there Is no reason, logically, why -ei-i should rot introduce phonetic spelling In his otilce- Vast Increase of Wealth. ' HE Increase of wealth within the past twenty-five years, in this country, has been enormous. By this statement we mean that the country is richer in everything that makes a country rich, but also and chiefly that there are now multitudes of very rich men where a quarter of a century ago there were only a few. Fifty years ago it was easy to name the Individual who had an income of firty thousand dollars a year. Such an income implied productive property of more than a million. The American style Is the most extravagant in the world. It demands the best everywhere, and usually gets it, and pays the highest, prices for it. Are we..' then a nation of spendthrifts, the rich people setting the' pace nnd the rest, following as fast and as far as they can? We do not think so. We are called money worshipers by some; and reckless prodigals by others. Neither charge is correct. There Is a new scale of wealth, and there aro many more people who have large possessions than ever before in our history. But there is as large a proportion. ui m-u.-ooie anu uiruiy persons in tne country as ever." There are fewer reckless spendthrifts, nnd more rich aaen who are bestowing vast sums of money in philanthropic and charitable works. The wealth which is gathered is not hoarded. Much of it is distributed throughout the com munity, and a larger proportion than in former times la given away in charity and philanthropy. There Is also less self-denial and less saving, the severer virtues have been sent to the background, and charity and friendliness and hospitality are displayed and advertised. The good things which multi-millionaires are doing with their gold are pub lished far and wide, and "the woman with two mites" has little chance of commendation in comparison with them. What the end will be it is impossible to predict. It is evi dent now that the rich are getting richer, that the cost of everything which rich people use and demnnd Is growing greater every day, and that competition has stretched be yond business, and entered social, and even church life, In ways that are offensive to good breeding and menacing to pure religion. I'nless along with the new scale of living and personal expenditure comes a new standard of hnrievn. lence nnd self-sacrifice, we shall only repeat In this repub lic the experience of other ages, and reap an evil and pain ful hnrvost. Great wealth without mercy, charity and self rWntton is not a blessing but a eurse.-New York Observer. AMUSEMENTS OF YALE MEN. His Awfnl Predicament. First Kussian Nobleman "Urea. Scottovlcb! What Is tbe matterskofl with the archbishopskl? He seems tt be having a lltovlcii!" Second liusslan Nobleman "Oh, tin Grand Dukeskl Ivan Alexaudervlcl KutmynoseofT Is about to marry tin second daughter of the Grand Duchesi Andabtilosln of the Schklnkenburg Ktr.enblatter, the Duchess Anastasll Verina Pauline Celesta; and the clergy man has several of the names stuci erosswlseovlch In his tbroatskl.' Smart Set. A Conclllatorr Measure. I see," said Mtv Uobbett, "the Cen sus Bureau has located the center o United Mates' population In an Indium farmer's barnyard." "Pin glad of It," his wife answered "With, butter and eggs going up ever; day. It's high time to do Hoinethlti) to conciliate the cows and bens." Brooklyn Eagle. Mlk. A Literary Man. Mrs. Casey I hear your son tins gone Into literature. Mrs. Clancy Mo lie has. He's got i Job as Janitor In a library. Judge. Any woman who speaks IU of he neighbor give them license to get bad at her. It U easy to gauge a maa's empt) is hn he la full. Member of the Senior Clunn Take to ' Keedlnti Pqulrrclo. The establishment of a squirrel com mons In the center of the Yale campus Is the Innovation that the present senior class has to Its credit. Each class (Li ring its stay of four years on the cpu plans to Introduce some novel rm of amusement which shall thrive after It leaves the university und which Is always associated with Its numerals. In this way top-spinning, hoop-roll Ing, crap shooting and the several oth er amusements that have become part of the university undergraduate pro gram have been Introduced. The mem bers of the class of 1908, however, have the honor of Introducing tbe first amusement which has a tendency In. the line of feeding the hungry and housing tbe homeless. The Yale campus, with Its beautiful elms, has always been an Ideal home for the squirrels and tbe chipmunks and many years ago they, wlthrfheL respective families, sought the peace supposed to be within the classic walls of Yale. Hut the Introduction of the Boston terrier as a roomer there, as well as a frequent visitor, frightened away many of these Hve'y little ani mals, until a couple of years ago the sight of a squirrel was most uncom mon. Then a reaction set In, the terrier was ostracized or nt least was curlall ed In his liberty, and the blight, busy little animals were encouraged to re turn to their abandoned farms by the Yale boys. Then plans were made to keep frisky chaps on the campus, with the result tbat what may very prop erly be termed a squirrel commons now exists. All during the early fall the Yale tneu congregate In uumlter on their respective fences, and with bags full of peaists and walnuts, entice the squirrels nnd chipmunks to come down to supper. Another amusement, which Is said to have originated up near the Sheffield scientific school, Is pitching pennies. litoliing pennies has been one of the frolics of the Yale campus since the Introduction of the first monkey Into New Haven. But the occupants of the freshman dormitories have originated a feature which Intensifies the fun to the Yale mind. It took the Italian with the hurdy gurdy less than twenty-four hours after his arrival In town to learn that the fertile Held for bis labors was In the region of the Y'ale campus. And he soon came to real lee that the fresh men were his best customers. As a result, directly after dinner, during the fall evenings, there are llued up a doz en of these musical artists with their several Instruments dispensing "Boolo Yale," "We Won't Go Home Put II Morning," "We Must Love Some One," and other Yale favorites In a distract ing chorus. At first, when there were compara tively few Instruments . In the city, there was fun enough in simply danc ing to the music or In tossing pennies from the windows, but as competition grew keen nnd more Italians appeared the fun grew more furious. One night, snys the Boston Herald, nn old favorite held up his hand for the accustomed coin, nnd when It land ed It wns hot. Instinctively he tossed It up to be en tight by the next fellow, who In turn let It fly. The boys heat ed the pennies In flic 11 replaces of their rooms, nnd then dropped (hem down to the unsuspecting Neapolitans. Now (here Is more caution on the part of the players, but every night the boys rnln die rod-hot coins down, and (be grasping musicians pitch each ot them up In the nir to cool, ns they hesitate whether to risk a scorched band or allow their neighbors to become richer nn account of tbelr timidity. CRABBING IN MARYLAND. An Ingenious Method by Which Man) Are Caught for the Market. Those who crab for market a th Choptank river, Maryland, have aa in genious method of catching crake rq quantity. A rope about the thickness of a clothesline, several hundred fe4 long, is kept colled ln a keg. The gtsnct the cover the more pleasant the ant with the fisherman to tbe ratttng grounds, for at Intervals of tw feet along the entire length of the rop he has untwisted It and inserted I he strands short pieces of salted The torsion of the strands holds thess) tightly iu place. Each end of the tap has a keg buoy attached, together wH a heavy stone. Arriving at the favored plaoe, s ally on oyster beds, he throws a keg overboard and pays out hln highly seenieii rope ns ue sans, wnea fAe other end Is reached he anchors It wtVk another stone nnd throws oat avnetker buoy. After lowering his sail, he waUn a few minutes, then takes his stand on (he bow of his Ixiat. Alongside of hha Is his bimiinir net with k4L. feet long. He raises tba buoy aad stone nnd, hand over hand, pulls his' bont along the line. When a crab, clinging to lis refreshment, comes In sight, he sel.es his net, dashes It fl ier (lie crab nnd flings It Into tbe boat The wnt-v ei'tili inn. kl. t.1.a & - j "wm.-n uim UUH1 SUM! dive for the bottom, but such Is the llshermnirs dexterity that his net Is swifter than the crab. One seldom gets uwny. Several hundreds of crabs are often taken nt each overhauling of the rape. W hen he has caught all he wants, says the writer In Country Life In America, he packs them In barrels and sella Usesa to a h.esl denier, who ships tham ta mar ket. If a man baa neither .'rlttii s enemies he has lives' ta vsla. .