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El EirrMD Press-Jjnrnal
HEBBASKA
A man's own' mind Is tm mil rot
through which be sees the rest of tb
orld.
If a man really wanted to create a
sensation In the smart get of New
York he might try to do gome sensible
thing.
All it costs a ba nd man to ride any
distance on the front end of a blind
baggage car Is a revolver and a little
nerve.
. .The. . oldest Mason . Is beginning to
fet bis name In the papers again.
Look out for another of George Wash
ington's body servants.
Not enough wind for a yacht race is
too much for an air ship. What a
funny old world this would be if it
were not for the point of view.
Is the "zcbrula" prepared to per
petuate the picturesque and positive
characteristics which we have come
to associate with the American mule?
A Salt Lake paper asks. "What are
angels?" That is pretty hard, coming
from a place where the women are
supposed to be so largely in the ma
jority. Mr. Magelsscn will have to be num
bered wilh the lucky ones who have
Lad fame and greatness thrust upon
them. lie ought to be able to write
for almost any of the magazines now.
It is claimed, by an eminent utist
that in a crowd of clever men it is
always noticeable that a large major
ity of them are homely. S;iil we in
sist that not all homely men are
clever.
The Harvard boys who "gave out"
and quit harvesting wheat when the
Kansas girls went to work in the
fields with them showed the same old
streak. Men won't work as long as
the women will work for them.
Chemists of repute In Massachusetts
ire said to have demonstrated the fuel
value of mud taken from the swamps,
after it has been dried and properly
treated. What difference does it
make? a mud trust would soon have It
all.
Mexico is the only country which
surrenders American boodlers and
bribers upon the requisition of our au
thorities. Canada is the only country
which provides them with counsel
taken from the ministry of the prov
ince wherein they may happen to be
sojourning.
Men may write and write, and men
may think and think, but without the
printer their thought would be of lit
tle ralue to the world. Among all the
trades there is not one more honorable
r Important than that of the printer,
the man who edges up the metallic
messengers of thought with nimble
fiDgers or who manipulates with dex
terous hand the keyboard of that mar
Telous Invention which continually ex
cites intelligent wonder and admira
tion, the linotype, that monument to
Otto Mergenthaler's genius which the
wisest man should be proud to claim.
The composing and press rooms of a
great modern dally newspaper never
ceases to be Impressive to the thought
ful man, even though his days and
nights may be spent therein. The
world cannot do without the printer.
Figures will not lie, goes the maxim,
but figures do sometimes prevaricate.
Perhaps it would be better to say that
figures sometimes permit an errone
ous inference to be drawn from them.
This has received Illustration In the
analysis of vital statistics made by the
Insurance actuaries of the world at
their recent convention in New York.
The actuaries, that Is, have discovered
that while the "average of longevity"
kas Increased as a matter of figures It
has not 'ncreased as a matter of prac
tical value. In other words, pe pie
frown-up people do not live any
longer than their great-great grand
fathers lived. Tbey do not live as
toBg."rBe raverage c.f longevity" has
bean brought up by figuring in the In
fant mortality, which has greatly de
creased owing to improved ra dern
netboda of Infant hygiene, diet and
anltation. Grown-ups do not share in
. (be added longevity. Thanks to steam
beat, adulterated ford, high-pressure
bnalneM methods and oth t foes of
vitality, the twentieth century adu t
la at a disadvantage as compared with
Ma forefathers, even though be enjoys
totter medical attendance when be Is
stick. 80 that the "average of longev
ity" la a delusion and a snare just as
(it average of anything else Is likely
to be. We may, for example, reason
Oat tbe climate of a city whose
saa temperature Is 00 degree ought
ta be mild and equable, hut If we In
TMtlgate and And that tbe thermom
eter ranges between 100 above aero
tM Manor aad 90 below aero In wln
fcf we realize tbe unreliability of mean
frcyerataroa. What baa occurred to
fT.uraaat tbe "sversge of longevity" Is
Cat tbe mortality among tbe weak has
stetobe4; there bas been no Increase
J vitality among tbe strong. Tbe
Cxkar of weakllngs Is, therefore,
rtr, aad tbe condition of tbe mass
', 1 UamintMlr . deteriorated rather
it costly.
AM of ever?
1 Dr. JoV
1 tj c3r. Est, 1
said, so nr.? spite and Ill-nature "anions
the must epnsive luxuries in life."
It (-s s i s m .riniiiu.)' to be rude, 1.1
nitmvd or mean. It costs much tu
pi-, e way to wires' rained anger, to har
bor s,iiie and bad fa-Tug. If we ni.st
spend so much of our life fortes 011
others, were it not bitter to spend It
in kindness than in uukiuilnes-s?
"Getting even" is a hazardous bu-I-nes.
It Is much easier to get e;i
with the wrong In a man than it is tu
get evei. with the man in the wrong.
You can much better afford to remain
uneven with such a man than to lower
yourself to his lever. Hate hurts tin
hater more than the on hated. K--venge
is a poor investment. Look at
it rati'ina'ly fr 'in any standpoint, and
you must sei4 tint It nevi r pays. Yi.u
are oblu-e Ind-td if you h ive net learn
ed from experience that one little drop
of kindness holds more' of the rea! n
ter of life than d es a whole ocean i f
spite. You may search t lie wh ie
world of philosophy through and find
ro truer thought thm this that P'id .
envy, malice, hatr d. revmge nni all
the other evil passUm the ln-art is
h ir to work their lirst and wort in
jury to thWr possessors; thy c rroiie,
louler wrtt'lnd ml ib srroy tir--t the
heart In which they originate. The man
yon hate and plot against may Un w
nulling about It or care. If he gives
a tlionwht to j 0 i it tiny bp i.nl.v to d.
sr iso yon. Is It wor.h while t i till
jour siiil with poison for no lc:itr
ri salts than this? Is it wi-e to sk.tlii
gloomily in th bogs of i-piie, win 11
only a step will take you out into th
genial sunshine of kindness? Is it
sensible to duarf yourself in e.Toits tc
make some man lecogiiTe that you
are his e::emy at d c m hurt him, when
yon can cnnobl- youmlf by the f- r
h-ss effort i:eeary to make lilm see
t'.af yon are his fri n 1, and can In ip
him? What you give you get back in
kind. Is it not better to have th"
respect of others than tb ir batrn ai d
cent- mpt?
Tor some years pas; physicians h i" t
biea sounul. g an ahum on the appa
rent rapid Iiiir.-nse tn cancer. Their
argument Is based upon the official
mortality statistics of various conn
tries, which seem to show that tin.'
number of deaths from malignant tu
mors Is bic.niing gr-.-ntcr. is not n!y
absolutely and in proportion to the !u
(Tease of popu'ath.n. but ai.so in pro
portion to the deaths from all causes
Thus In England in IK) the d a h
rale from canter was nearly skty
eight 1 er one hundred thousand of tin
population, end In 1!) 0 it was a'lw.s'
igbty-flire? per one hundred thousand.
The ratio of deaths from cancer tc
those from all causes In persons ovi
thirty-live years of age was one oui
of twenty In IS'.)!), but in 1!.0 it w:;i
one out of twelve. The publication ol
th.se figures has created a feeling of
great uneasiness in England, and many
theories have been put forward t
account for them. But as a niatiet
of fact, the condition Is probably m,'
so bad as it appears to be. Figures at
notoriously misleading, and those ov
the prevalence of caucer art. doubtl.'.-
no exc-ptlm to the rule. In tbi: lirs'
place vital statistics are becjiulng
more accurate with each year, ami
figures are now returned from place?
whence none came ten years ag
Again, physicians are acquiring con
stantly greater accuracy in diagnosis
and many deaths which would former
ly have been .returned as from sotm
other cause are now put down to tun
cer. Another fact which sof;en
somewhat the terrifying aspect of
these statistics is that the genera!
length of life Is Increasing, and there
fore more people live to the age a'
which cancer commonly appears
These facts cannot, however, explain
away all the figures, and It is un
doubtedly true that cancer Is increas
ing more or less rapidly. But there li
a bright side to this, as to nearly all
things, for the very fa't of Its Increast
has drawn the attention of scientifh
Investigators In ell countries to can
cer, and each Is vying with the othet
In the attempt to solve the mystery
of the disease and to discover a m-an
to abate Its ravages.
Thinking of Whooping Couch.
Jacob Sobe-1 gives the results of hi
own experlr-nee with the paroxysms ol
whooping cough tri-flted by pulling tlx
lower Jaw downward and forward
Pulling the lower jaw downward and
forward controls the paroxysms ol
whooping cough In most instances ai d
moat of the timti. The method . li
usually more successful in older chll
dreu than In younger ones snd infant a
In cases without a whoop the explra
tory spasm with Its asphyxia is gener
ally overcome, and In those with a
whoop the latter Is prevented. It it
as successful as any single drug, 01
e cu more so. Mothers should tie In
Mrue-ted In Its use, so that attacks, es
pt-lally at night, might be arrested
Tbe manipulation Is harmless and
painless. Its only contraindication l
tbe presence of food In the mouth 01
oeaophagvi. Patients thus treated are
less likely to suffer fr m complication)
and sequels e than those treated only
medicinally. It is advisable to try tbi
method In other spasmodic coughs an.!
laryngeal spasms. Medical Record
Where tbe Money Went.
Charitable Lady I gave your fsthei
the money to boy you a coat last week
1 see you're not wearing It
Iloy No, mum, put It on a 'or
Lady On a borne! But be sboule
have thought of your comfort befon
that of an animal! London Punch.
f oe Blot Machines.
Ten years ago cents were little use
In California and the Houth, and wit
practically unknown In Nevada, V y
mlaf and Arisona. bat to-day tu.
circulate everywhere for tbe benefit o
tba alvt machines.
T ..
llnnd'inu Corn Crop.
In wctiuns where the corn crop Is
likely to lie t-lmrt it must It- handled
carefully to get the best results from
it. If the com Is fed and one has a
silo the ecru should be cut as soon as
It begins to dent and put into the silo.
It witiiaut the silo" then the plan
should be to allow the corn to stand
as lung as it Is possible to do so
without danger of front. When it is
cut it should be carefully shocked and
fed in any way that is the most econ
omical. While the writer doi s not like
the plan of feeding it to cattle In
open yards or fields with hogs to fol
low, the pij.n is one of icouomy, and.
perhaps, oiiglit to be followed this
year by those who have done it Ii ti
tifi.re. If possible to shred the corn
it t-luHihl he lim.f, for in this way the
cattle will ci iisunie the bulk of It.
Keep in niin.l the lesson which the
short eorn crop tenches, the value of
tbe sl'.o and plan for inc another
year.
Applet for I'll port.
f J rowers of high-grade apples should
buk into the prospects of the foreign
markets. OnTesnndcnts in the large
cities who ship apples to Iluiope ad
vise us that the demand is promising
and that prh cs will rule quite l iii.
They s.'iy. however, ll.'iit only the fin
est fruit should be sent, then it must
be properly wrapped in white or
tu-inila tissue paper, ami advocate the
I'se of the box, rather than the bar
rel. Trices are sm-h on the other side
that more fruit will be told if pucked
in boxes than if packed ill barrels.
Crisp apples are those preferred, and
mch varieties as Wealthy, Snow,
(iravensti in and Alexander are al
ways salable. Growers are advlsi-d
to communicate with some reliable
commission man and get In touch with
those who export apples, but only If
the quality is high, for it will not pay
to export poor fruit.
Ft :m i-nrnt Ti-cim.
In a recent address Secretary Wil
son, of the United States Iieiiartuient
of Agriculture, HKke as follows: "I
.11:1 sorry to say It, but It is a fact,
that unless something is done right
away there will lie very few tracts of
timber left in the country within
fifteen years. It may be a Utile longer,
but not much." I-ater in his remarks
he iIso said: "The only remedy lies
in educating the farmer tip to the
v m sity of planting trees, and Ui the
gr.irnment also planting."
This Is certainly a startling condi
tion of affairs and one which should
make every farmer, with land to
spare, more than willing to set out
forest trees, if not for his own profit,
for the benefit and protection of his
children and his children's children.
Tbe department at Washington will
be glad to co-operate with any farmer
who Is interested. Write the secretary
of agriculture.
A Vpt Oklahoma Knrm.
The Oklahomans claim to have the
largest farm In the southwest. It is
the 101 ranch In the Tonca reserva
tion, and is so big that It Is necessary
to plant several varieties of wheat
In It, one of which ripens several days
later than the other, In order that nil
of them may be harvested at their
prime. On this farm the wheat fields
are of 1.000 acres each, the cattle
pastures are 1.0)0 to 1,500 acres each
and pasture O.OOO head annually, the
corn rows are one and a half miles
long, requiring WX) mules and IiO0 run
to handle the crop, and It takes 30
self-binders three weeks to cut the
wheat crop snd a down or more steam
threshers 40 days to thresh It. There
are CO.000 seres In the ranch.
Potato Rot ant Time of DlRirinu.
The question of how soon blighted
potatoes should be dug has been fre
quently asked the authors, and a se
ries of Investigations lias been under
taken at the Vermont station to ascer
tain the proper time of digging. The
size of the plats and the extent of the
experiment are t-ojisldered too limited
to admit of .generalizations, but It ap
pears that there wus usually a greater
loss from the earlier digging. Ho far
as the Investigations go, they seem to
show that where there Is danger of po
tato rot It Is best to delay the digging
for ten days or more after the tops
have died. Exchange.
Attractive Verm Homes. '
In few other parts of New England
can so large a per cent of thrifty look
ing, well-kept, cosey farm homes lie
found as In Vermont. Business arid
professional men In the large cities are
beginning to appreciate this fact, and
are buying country homes and bring
ing tbelr families to grow up under
tbe healthful, Invigorating Influences
of country life at Its best The value
of farm property bas steadily In
creased for several years, snd there
are to-day comparatively few unoccu
pied farm homes In Vermont. New
England Homestead.
Dao't lty Patent Lime.
Reports from various sections tell of
men who are offering a so-called high
grade lime wblcb tbey claim contains
manorial value, usually sulphate of
Ime. Tbe product may bear out the
lalme made for It, fit bough It should
w remembered that sulphate of lima
s the same aa gypsum, which may
r- y
lie iKUight for about one-half the prkt
'oL,.il t,.r fl, ,,.-.l,,,.l If
lime is needed on the farm, buy un
slaked lime and use ft properly. If
fertilizers are needed, buy fertilizers,
but don't believe that any process ap
plied to lime will make It a valuable
fertilizer.
A !n d Iairr Cow.
A go.d dairy cow should have great
deptli ;f chest and also fair width of
floor ,f ehesr She should have a
large, capacious barrel that Is cap
able of utilizing generous quantities
of food, and her udder should be of
good size and well balanced as re
gards to size and jKirtion of quarters.
It should'cxtend well forward on the
iibdoijieu. 1 hp te;its should set well
,'ipi'rt and be of such size as to lie
conveniently jrasped by the milker.
The iiiiik veins should be huge, crook
id and 1 r.iiieliing. and the holes, o.'
milk wells, where the veins pass Into
the lio iy, should be large. The udder
!t'lf si.onid lie free from coarscnes?
end not njpar to ,p full of meaty
li.-sue when handled after milking.
Ifer skin should be soft and yellow,
and the l .-ilr should be s ift, mid siiky.
She should have a mild eye. a pointed
head and a dishing forehead.-Winchester
(liid.i Herald.
I'eu'.try .Not.-.
t'se carbolic acid occasionally to de
stroy lice.
live peiiltry a variety of both dry
mill ceeUcd food.
S-.-it'er (Ik fnocl so that the fowls
will !; t a 4 100 fas!.
filth, tbe nocitiiiulinion of dropping,
is a pi' iilie cause of disease.
Clover helps to keep the hens in gooil
! laying condition.
Mix all soft foods given fowls with
milk instead of water.
When hens lay thin shelled eggs It
shows they need lime.
(i round bone is one of the best ways
of supplying lime to poultry.
Secure good ventilation without ex
posure to drafts immediately upon the
fowls.
A table fowl should be fat, as a
preponderance of fat indicates excel
lent condition and health.
One advantage with ducks is that
they grow so rapidly that money can
be made quickly.
The object of enpouizing is to Im
prove the quality and increase the
weight of the fowls.
Old newspapers can often be used
to good advantage in making the poul
try house warm.
Kitted coal ashes and dry wood dust
makes one of the best mixtures for
the dust bat lis.
Lice do nut attack fowls that are in
a good condition as soon as they do
those in an linfioverished state.
Farm Note.
Hard coal ashes make a good mulch
for current bushes.
Strong lye made of bard-wood ashes
will cure ivy poisoning. Better If put
011 hot.
Keep the colts growing. If the pas
ture gets poor, give them bran ami
oats in tbe field.
Those who contemplate putting out
an orchard next spring should manure
the ground this fall.
All wire fences are made visible to
stock by attaching scrap tin to the
top wire. A good use for waste pro
duct. Tack the grapes for keeping n well
baked sawdust. To keep them a
short time, lay them on a sheft In a
dry, cool place.
Keep down the rasplwrry canes; four
or five good canes to every four feet
of row will give a better quality of
fruit than If thicker.
Try dropping powdered caustic
potasli in the mole runs and see If
it docs not drive the rooters away
to more agreeable forage grounds.
Some townsfolk slur people by call
ing them "old farmer" or "hayseed."
This Infers Ignorance wheu farmers
are not Ignorant nor uninformed. It
takes the smartest kind of people uow-H-diijs
to become farmers. The farm
er not being accustomed to town wayf
sometimes appears green when In
town, but the city man is far morel
verdant when he is In the country,
In digging potatoes known to bij
pure seed and of the sa.'ne variety fref
quent variations may orien ue noticed.
Home of these ore due only to differ
ences of soli, but others are true
"sports," and will reproduce tbelr
kind If planted another year. If these
sports are unusually productive and
valuable they should lie carefully
saved for planting. In this way some
of the best varieties of potatoes have
lieen originated, one or two kinds of
Late Itose being prominent Instances.
Better butter can tie made on tbe
farm than at tbe creamery If the same
care Is given. The managers of
creameries secure the best assistance
fo be had, and they aim to put good
butter on the market. The advantages
possessed by the farmer who makes
dairy butter are that he can feed bis
cows on the best foods, use more care1
snd work with cleaner surroundings,
A large proportion of creamery butted
la not uniform, as tbe milk coroaa
from many sources, bat dairy batter
la Injured In tbe churning and manlpu
latlon of tbe product by lMxparlenced
persona.
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t-M--M.4'l I I '
A newly arrived Westerner was con
fronted in a street of New York late .
at night by a rutnau wan levei-'u re
volver, who made the stereotyped de
mand: "(live me your money or Til
blow your brains out." "Blow away,"
said the Westerner; "you can live in
,"ew York without brains, but you
can't without money."
A South Sea Islander, at the close
of a religious meeting, offered the fol
lowing prayer: "O Cod, we are about
to go w our respective homes. I't
not the words we have heard be like
the fine clothes we wear soon to Ie
taken off and folded up in a box till
another Sabbath comes around. Bath
er, let Thy truth be like the tattoo on
our bodies ineffaceable till death."
The recent death of Martha Canary
better known as "Calamity Jane"
lias revived many tales of her remark
able adventures In tbe West during the
early troubles. Once, it is related, she
.was riding In a stage-coach driven by
Jack McCniill, a notorious character of
leaihvooil, S. I)., when a bund of In
I'ians swooped down. li-l'aull was
'.voundeil, and fell back on his seat.
The six passengers In the coach were
Telpless with frigid. "Calamity Jane"
scrambled to tin sent, lashed the
horses into a run. and escaped. It was
tills same MeCaull who afterward was
iaade the most memorable example of
'Calamity Jane's" vengeance. MeCnuIl
Miot "Wild Bill" Hickok from behind a
Hree, for a reason never known, after
"Wild Bill" had staked him. When
"Calamity Jane" henr.I of it. she start
id tit once to find MrCaull. "Wild
1:111" was her friend, and the fact that
she had once saved MW "anil's life did
not deter her from taking It. "I gave
it to him once," she declared. "I'll take
It back now." She came across blin
unexpectedly in meat-shop, seized a
cleaver, and. threatening to brain him
:if he moved, waited till her friends
bound him. She was one of those who
tugged hardest to pull him over a Cot
tonwood limb, and with grim satisfac
Tion she watched him kick his life
away.
Ir. Gardner told Walter Wellman
the following slory, the other day, of a
lucky escape from the bullet of 11 11 as
sassin which ex-Treslilelit Cleveland
once had: "Between bis two terms as
President. Mr. Cleveland lived in Mad
ison avenue. A demented fellow Im
agined that he was in love with Mrs.
Cleveland, mid used to send her a love
letter every day. fine morning, Mr.
Cleveland was coming down the steps
of bis house to drive to his law ollice
Jn William street, when this crazy fel
low met him face to face, and pulled
the trigger of a pistol alined straight
nt the heavy figure standing on the
Heps two yards alxive him. By one
of those miraculous interpositions of
chance, the cartridge missed fire. Be
fore the miscreant could use his weap
on again be was seized anil carried
rway. Ho was found to be Insane, and
in less than 21 hours was placed in an
asylum, while the story was kept out
of the newspapers. I was at the house
within a few minutes, and tint pistol
wns given to me. I have it yet; also
the bundle of crazy love-letters. It
was a well-made rlm-tire revolver, and
every other cartridge exploded at the
first trip of the trigger. Mr. Cleveland
probably owes bis life to the chance
that the one cartridge which had too
thick a rim was the one which the In
sane chap tried to tire,"
AMERICAN FARM CONDITIONS.
Avcrono of Cnltc 1 Sjtate Karma
Greater la 1IHJO limn in 1110.
The average size of farms for tin;
country as a whole was greater in llsxi
thin In IMS'). This is, of course, n
Juatlii matlcal corollary of the fact that
Ihe farm acreage Increased faster
tiitin the number of farms. It lias al
ready been pointed out, however, that
the additions to the farm acreage In
eluded large tracts of unimproved land
in the Western States, used as grazing
arms. While this has materially uf
ificlid the average size of farms for
the country as a whole, In the older
portions of the country there are no
Indications of any general movement
fowaid a consolidation of farms, or of
Any tendency on the part of fanners
"toward the cultivation of larger farms.
In the Northern Htates cast of the
(Mississippi there was no Very marked
change In tbe size of farms. .Massa
chusetts, Khode 1 sin nd, Pennsylvania,
'New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
jsliowed a slight diminution In the
average farm area, while tbe other
States In this region showed a slight
'Increase. In the Southern State east
of the Mississippi, on tbe other hand,
the Increase In the number of farms
far exceeded the Increase In farm area,
and consequently the average slue of
farms was materially diminished.
Only one half of the total farm acre
iige In 1800 was reported as Improved,
but this represents a gain over lwio of
i7.17d,4:m acres. Most of this Increase
,ln the crop-producing area of the coun
try was contributed by the States of
the Middle West, the greatest extefl
U n being shown In Minnesota, where
the increase during the decade exceed
ed 7,000,000 acres. lucres sea of be
tween 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 acres
(were reported for Iowa. North Da
kota and Oklahoma. On tbe other
liaud. In many Htates tbe area of Im
proved fsrm land was smaller In 1000
than In 1WM. A decresse Is shown In
'all tbe North Atlantic States, especial
ly In New England. This la due prlu
clpslly to a change In tbe kind of
farming carried on In thus- States; tb
raising of corn and wheat for the mar
ket, having become com pun lively un
profitable iinib-r the Influence of West
ern competition, b-is ls-en largely
superseded by dairy farming and mar
ket gardening. In these pursuits,
which are. of course, st mul ib-d by tbe
proximity of n large urban population,
the Eastern farmer appir-nily finds
It to his advantage to cultivate los
land than he once did, but to cultivate
It more Intensively. Accordingly, the
less fertile lands, and the meadow
lands that cannot be mown with ma
chines, have in many uiscs been con
vert d lido permanent pastures. Thn
Increased average fertility of the laud
1-1-111111111 under cultivation, the use of
the silo, and the growing tendency b
.cultivate corn and f?.rge crops, ln
s;ead of hay, for winter fei-d. are alt
factors which contribute to the s;unt
end enabling the farmer to raise on
a smaller nrei the winter f-cd for tlie
anlmals that tan be kept, during 'lie
summer, on the enlarged area of pas
ture land. Century.
PRESERVING THEIR DIGNITY.
A Little Iiiiine Tranaelifn in .
Which K.ich VVa Fuccemtnl.
"Being In Constantinople," said tlm
Ptiihtdeipbbili who bad circled tin
earth. "It was tip to me to buy a
Turkish seimiter. 1 believe ihey all d
that except the (icrmans, who run
pipes. In looking through ihe bazaar
I came across a weapon that had an
ancient look nod was assured that It
had been went by a Turkish gem rat
fifty years I cfore. The price asked
was about $:o In our inor.ey, and I
promptly declined buying. As' I ili'l
so the merchant tore bis hair and
cried out :
"What does this man want? This
weapon has slain twenty men. Is It
not gooil enough to hang on the wall:'
"1 was about to pass when he aUod
me what price I would give.
" -Not over ?10.' 1 n pTed.
"'.Vow may my beard be singed and
my hair torn out by the roots,' he
bowled as he walked about 'I give
you the word of a believer that this
sword has slain thirty men, but he
cause 1 must raise money to-day I
will take ?l."i for It. There-It Is
yours.'
"'Not for Sl-V I replied, knowing
that he would come down to my fig
ure. "Then let the blight fall upon me
and mine forever morel I say to you
and all men are my witnesses that
this sword has slain forty men, and
yet you cavil at the price. Not $I"
for such a relic? To-day 1 go buy
another wife and money I must have.
Take it for $1" and know that you
have robbed me.'
"'I said flo,' I replied as I looked
carelessly around.
"'And. may I never sleep or eat
again nor say my prayers,' he fairly
honied us he tore off bis robe. 'Here
Is a sword that bus slain its fifty men
ami lived in history, mid yet yon look
upon it with contempt. Ah, If 1 did
not need money within the hour! Bob
ber of the unfortunate, take it at $11
and begone.'
"'I'll pay you $11 on one considera
tion. Tell tin; truthfully how ninny
nicil this seimiter has slain?'
"He looked at me for a mluuie and
then stroked his whiskers and ri pili-d:
"-lf I answered sixty you would
tldnk me a liar, and if I answered
none you would have to lie to your
friends at home. Therefore, that each
may preserve his dignity, hand over
your $10 and lake the sacred relle
away.' "
Law Tiki Cosily a Luxury.
A lawyer, addressing the Ioulsiana
Bar Association, declared that litiga
tion has become so much of a luxury
that lawsuits are diminishing; Unit the
great expenditure of time as well as
of money required In the prosecution of
it lawsuit deters men from resorting to
the courts for the redress of their
grievances. A Southern judge wa
quoted as saying that he had spent
one-fourth of his professional life wait
ing in court houses for his cases to b
called. The delays of the law are an
ancient grievance, but it Is not certain
that they are an unmixed evil.
The deliberate procedure of the
courts may not encourage litigation,
but it promotes settlements out of
court. Substantial Justice Is often
rfc-iehed by compromise which fV
time and court costs. The slow meth
ods of the courts have resulted In vol
untary arbitration In certain trade dis
putes. Much of the law's delay is due
to the technical errors of lawyers In
the conduct of suits. An examination
of the records of appellate courts show
ed that a large percentage of appeals
were on points of practice. A more
thoroughly trained bar would, there
fore, hasten suits to Judgment. legis
lation being largely controlled by law
yers. It Is somewhat surprising that
avoidable delays In procedure have not
been removed. .Their removal, accord
ing to the ioulslnna attorney, would
tend to increase lawsuits and profes
sional "emoluments. Philadelphia
Ix-dger.
Another Paneral Ksadml.
Itepreaentatlve Sibley of Pennsylva
nia went to Mexico, a time ago, to look
after some Interests be has there. Be
ing a vigorous and energetic man, he
was worried by the shirtless habits
of the natives.
One day In tbe City of Mexico be
saw an Imposing funeral procession,
"Whose funeral Is thatr he naked
of a bian passing.
"No sabe," said tbe man,
"Good!" shouted Sibley; "now If they
will bury man inn, too, this country
will amount to something." Saturday
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