OPINIONS OF GREAT, .PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Awakco, f the Yellow Ratev
""ITHKHTO the white race from the reinotfst
fcjj Ihiitorlc times to tbe present baa been praetical-
I If alone Id Its position of dominance. So far
4 concerns the evolution of civilized man. It
rOj . klmifbt almost be aald that there bat bwn tut
c in the world.
ih most momentous or ibe developments
f the present war la that for the first time a white nation
Inula Itself not only chackrd lu Ita ouward inarch by i
aatlon of yellow men but beaten by tfcat nation on land
ind aea. It Is too early to say that this situation my not
t reversed before the war la ended, out there are not
bcklug signs that the races of which the Japanese are
Aie foremost fxeniplars have been wakened already to s
tense of their latent power. China and India hsTe been
itlrred by the deed of tbe Japanese. Not only the peoples
pf these great countries but many others of railed Mongol.
Hindoo and Malay descent are wondering why thry. too,
taay not adopt the arms and implements of Occidental
eivlllzation and deal with the white races jon an equal
footing. 4 " "' -"
Some of the ultimate possibilities of rhis vast stirring''
f the yellow racis may be gathered from tbe fact that
f the 1.500,000,000 or l.fWO.OW.OOO people in the world
Asia alone lias S'TJ.W.eno, or whom more than 4JO,OOO,00
ire In the Chinese empire. 55.000,000 are Japanese and
Koreans, 20t,310,000 are Hindoos, 3').000.000 Maylaysiana
nd IR.000,000 Indo-Chlii'se. To group nil the Asiatic peo
lles by religions, there are about 773,000,000 Buddhists,
Confucians, fchtntolsts and Mohammedans, s against about
12,500,000 Christian.
That these people, aroused to a sense of their racial and
religious solidarity and equipped with the tools of Western
tlvlllsation, may bring new problems into existence In the
world's economy Is clear. Will the two races live side
ky side, rylng with each othor In advancement toward
higher civilization or will one strive to exploit the other? A
rsntury or more may elapse before the result Is known, so
trrreschlng may be the eons, quonoei of the present great
rtruggle Chicago Newii.
His Lat Wiil
MAN. either throuch ambition. sense of rtniv
lor In self -defense against boredom, works bunl
I accumulates property. ' Should he mHrry,
ut- ia v"-v.n:u to MVJlur IMMTHIiy lor U1S
to carry a life insurance for her benefit, to
,-lve his children every- advantage of education
as It Is now understood or misunderstood. ' H1
Works cheerfully, rinds little pleasure outside of his dully
routine, Is prematurely old lie dies. He may l.e a wld
wer; be may leave behind hi; a second wife; or lie may
leave his ouly wife, the mother of hir. children. Ills will
Is open!, and read. H has made a i 'ssoii.'tble provision
for those near him. Hut he took tbe liberty before his
death of bequeathing certain sums of money, throiiL-h r
feeling of sentiment or duty to others, sums that will len
hi comparatively slight degree the money which would
etherwls be distributed among those already In pecuniary
comfort. The poor wretch thought he had this right. At
.ice there Is strife. The lawyers are consulted and en
listed. There Is n trial. The character of the dead man
Is dragged from his colfin. Was he nurr-r? Was he not
Insane? Foibles and harmless eccentricities are paraded
for scorn aod mockery. There was a time when the Initial
phrase, "In the Name of God. Amen," was of solemn and
kblding force. Tbe dead mail spoke. Who can use the
hrase to-day with any assurance that It will be regarded
after he Is cold and voiceless? Boston Herald.
linf nished Education.
ll"TKK reiirw niri flier, n-u Imnllr a Irtwn In
TfT I Western Kansas which did not show many
B I foundations on which no superstructures had
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-ru n i-vit-ii. i uv louuuii i nan rciiiiiuieu mi
overcd bivause of the collapse of the boom
Some of them were small and shallow. Other
were la hi broad and deep. The elements as
sailed them nil alike. The rain washed the mortar fron.
between their bricks and stones. The frosts disintegrated
t! bricks and stones themselves. Foundations which, If
built upon lu the ordinary way would have endured fo
fenerations, fell, in a few years, Into such utter ruin that
when "xood time" n turnea to Kansas it was lu all cases
unsafe and. In many impossible, to erect buildings Upon
them. Only small portions of the material they contained
could be utilized In the construction of other foundations.
Not unlike the fate which th'se abandoned foundations
suffered Is that which overtakes the educations which
many men acquire in the schools. Schools and cuiirg
lay but the foundation of fdueatlon. They may lay it
broad and sleep, but if no superstructure is later erected
over It th foundation will quickly fall to pieces. Aaso
clstion, the mortar that binds the bricks and stones of the
mind together, will be washed away lu time. Ideas, which
sre the mind's bricks and stones, will crumbis and fall
apart. A foundation without a superstructure Is worth
less, it has no adaptation to Its environment. Nature will
not let It long exist. There are thousands of men and
women who have a smaller sura total of knowledge and
reajioning power at 30 or 40 than they had when they threw
aside their school teit books. They have erected for them
selves no lnt'llectual superstructure, and their Intellectual
foundation. eiug unprotected, has fallen into decay. Chi
ctfgo'Trlliune. ' '
Lhjna as a Great Power.
K have witnessed with aiDuzement and ad
A T Imlrutiou the advent of Japan among the
rF I world's great powers. Is It possible that st no
significant that tie one Ejropean who knows
the Chinese better than any other, and has
long sustained ofllcial relations with them, has
full faith in this possibility. Kir Hobert Hart, to whom we
refer, . has lately presented to the Dowager Empress a
scheme for array and naval organization which has not only
engaged the attention of the court but commands the warm
approvslof so much of public sentiment as finds expres
slon In the native newspapers.
Briefly, Sir Robert Hart estimates that a reorganisa
tion of the land taxes may be made to yield a revenue of
WO.000,000 taels (about f-'75,iOO,000 without pressing se(
verely upon the people. Out of this revenue he propose.-,
financing a reconstruction of the land forces on the bash
of four army corps of 50,000 regular troeps each; the con
strucflon of three fleets, each composed of ten ,large an;'
ten smaller warships, ten first-clans' torpedo iMsis and tei
smaller one; the building of arsenals, the maintenance o '
naval academies, the establishment of modern schools, snc
the cTeatlou of nu adequate salary list for the civil admin
Istratlon. and figures upon a sufficient tralance to provide i
sinking fund.
This Rje:ns ambitious, and It may be lmpoWible. Bu
Sir Hobert Hart Is no dreamer, and be knows the Chlnesi '
as we liave said, better than any other Ivnropean. If tli
Chinese have It In them to rise to the opportunity which h
points out to them, tbe future dismemberment of the Ch
uese empire will not be the e'nsy task that some diplomatist
have Imagined. Boston Journal.
Relative to Slang.
t'ltlSTS seldom will excuse slang, and alway-
I will Insist that a better phraxe-or word algl;
J liakve been substituted for its use, until th
-tiinT Wrtril nr oVni'OCuinii KAfmAa rrrn ft ,wl unn
;he language. Even then there will be man.
not tolerant of Its use at first, but opposltlo
becomes less and less in evidence as time aeeu
touis tbe ear to, receive gratefully that which once seemec
harsh, crude and Inelegant.
It Is true, too, that much of the slang of one age fall
Into disuse the next, so that the language suffers but litth
If any, from its temporary acceptance, while such words a
may have Incorporated themselves permanently into th
general structure fit so well that no one Is tearfully so
Heltons to have them removed
A Western minister recently said:
"Slang is largely the result of Indolence and lack o
self-respect. While In the origin of some terms common!
jsed as slang there may be wit and n measure of original
t.v. yet no person can Indulge in the use of these barbarism
vlthout serious loss
' "I have heard men use slang in most earnest prayet
If a tmtn dfes not wish to use slang on his death bed or !
'he pulpit or the schoolroom, office or social circle, It won!
lie well not to use It anywhere." New Y ei; T '..-.,..,
A DLLIGlliriL CAUSIKOPilL
After the terrible steamship nd
railway accidents which made the
past season memorable. It Is pleasant
to rend of an affair so delightful for
its victims as the recent sinking of the
M;ssb-Hi,pl lilver steamer Chaliuette
proved to be. The Chalmettc was the
last of the old-time cotton packets on
the MlssUsiiid. There are many big
stern-wheel coit(m-e:irriers, and sever
al sidcwlK-el passenger bouts, but the
Cialmi-tte was a re.lc of the old St.
l-oyis-Xew (ifU'.iiis trade. .She was the
City tf VleksiMirg ot the Anchor line,
but whs rebuilt tnue. yenr.i 4io to
curry cotton to the port of Chaliuette.
below New Oiie.iiis. She could stow
five thousand live hundrej bales ou
Let- spacious cici U, and with tier guards
awash and the cotton stacked high
above her cabin deck, was spectacle
once common, henceforth to be un
known, on the river. Vi lien the Loii.M
biih Purchase Exposition opened she
was .put on as n through boat from
New Orleans to the fair, anil thus
opened a trade .which had been dead
for some years.
On a Saturday In July she started
North .with about forty passemeers
end a lot of freight. Late Tuesday
afternoon she was within thirty-five
Uiiles.of Natchez when, lu backing out
froui.B landing, she struck a snag and
knocked a hole In the stem. Hhe
swung' round with both ends resting
on tiie bank in a little eddy, but with
seventy feet of water under her nmid
ahiHMrtAiid began to till.
'I tie passengers were quickly noti
fied, the gang plank was run ashore,
and everybody walked out and found
a seat on the (.cully sloping, grassy
levec.lo watch the spectacular de.nli
of the last of the packets. The crew
hastily In ought the passengers' bag
gage ashore, then brought the fur
naces front the valley and lill the pro
rlslons from the ptmtry, and tbe ta
ble from the saloon.
In half an hour the steamer broke In
two and sank. Then as darkness set
tled over the river the passengers on
the levee began a picnic supper, pre
pared by the darky cooks over the res
cued furnaces. There was no lack of
supplies; the evetiihg "was gloriously
cool and still. A more beautiful locu-.
lion for a picnic could hardly have
been selecteE. '.A skiff 'hitfl c?m sent
up to Natchez for help, oini until an
other steamer came to get tbeui the
irlrls of the party, grouped on the
levee,- man the ild Fungs; and listened
In turn to the roustabouts and the
cook-rootn daik'os singing not the old
plantation melodies, for few of the
river IihuiIs know tlie;ii, bnt the mod
ern "nig-tlnic" songs which come
South to them from the vaudeville'
state. "Under the B.uuboo- Tree" and
all the rem of them in'ide the bight
melodious, and at last, when the pic-,!
nlc was beginning to pull, the rescuing
steamer ciime ami 'took all op imard for
Nntcht whence- they went on their
way by rail to their domination.
each racc i ra oooa.
Orientals ld fb Object Htroniily to
Western 1 tuples on Itaut Score.
li e.Hijrii nations, with their usual
cou vit, Imagine that they are supcr.iijr
iu every .respect to the races of. another
color and consequently' to Uioso'oC- the
Far East. One of tin charges wluVh
H'hlto uieu -bring against. t!w nero -4s
th.it the- odor o.iiaiuitlg;froni liim' Is
the reverse of pleasant and occasion
ally, -In hot weather, is alui(t uubcitf-
ahic. , -.- ' . - ' '
The Caucasian never 'pauses to think
tlut possibly the odor of his sititi J
by no tu nils plo. slng-to tl ji-.tase A
smHI'ofeiift ftfgrij' or the lnd!.tri.: 'Ni-v-ertltclesV
it Is slated -that the RracU'pf,
the wBitn'tiian Is'uot so rwgraW. to bie
negro as It Is imagined, but Is, In fact,
objectionable to a decree. ',
AceordiUg to a nceut Isstle df the
New York Times, a Japanese hn-dlfal
man has published a trea tan crtfrcerll
Ing the odor of the Occidental races,
declaring Uiut it takes souie time for
the' Oriental to bucome accustom !
to it ; ; ,
The writer advances . the theory'
which has been discussed before that
each race has Its peculiar odor, that ft
is partly radical, but Is' In' a measure
Influenced by dietary ehd other condl-'
tions. . ' .'"".'- , .
TJjft'.Titpancse do not smell each oth
er, but the perfume, from thfir bodlos
Is waf.:d by the breezes to -the Kus-slan.-i,
- who can 'd'stlnguish the s nell
of tlcilr C!iemi"S at a long distance. The
writer, however; states tii.-it it Is noih-
j inx like tlie pungent and penetrating
icainnaUon proL'e.'a.ni from the West
'crn tinllons. In wlili'h tr.-ces of garlic
and ancient cheese and the voia'.'zation
of a cotir . and over-abundant dietary
are s.ire to b found.
There ore n-risins to tiiink tilat 'he
'.Tapancse rtoetjr may be right mil per
'hr ps each race ha-s Its characteristic
lodor. :
Cert.iiti It Is that prlin'tlve races
have a mneh keeti'r sense of siir-U
thin the members of a higlilv civil 7.c,l
rice. With clvlliznt'on and the rrt of
living In an artificial manner, from iris-'
u-c the senses of sight and smell bo
eon." l"s Hfiito. The Japines'i buve
not embraced clvillzatlot) for M.ioj!?.
a period lis to losH the (jnalltlos of . a
n-!e living In a 8t.'ti o( aturo.r In
deed, rlie great nn.rHy. are tint civ
ilized at all. Chicago Chronicle; 1 '
, . Gratitude, t .
Mr. Sklnnlong 1 -hope,: detfr, -that
you will lie happy now thiit-uiielo has,
k'ft us a fortune. ' ' . '.
1 Mrs.' Kklnalo'ng Yes' but don't you
sitppoxe we call break .the will? , Ha
flias U-f $1,000,, to. charity. Detroit
,Pree Frees.
; ' Kxpert Ailvce. . ...
"-Mrs. Roui'ly,' you've been married
r Keveriil years,' nnd am about (
ttke njfi myself a hushniul. What ml
'v'li'yould you give iner, .
t ;i.enru ;i.o piJ .ouiiiaiie. ivirom
bii'f Psea.'...',
A tiinn's 'ist coinpluliit Is that lie it
sick and old.
OLD-
FAVORITES x
'
Tubal Cin.
Old Tubal Cain was a msu of miht
In the days when Ewrth was young;
3 tbe tierce red light of hi furnace
bright
Th strokes of his bamnwr rung;
ind be lifted high his brawny hind
On the Iron glowing clear.
fill the sparks rushed out in scari't
hos-ers.
As he fashioned tbe sword and spar,
and he sang: "Hurrah for iuy handi
work! Hurrah for the spear and the sword!
'.lurrali tor the bund that shall wield
tbein well!
For he tbsU be king sod krd."
To Tubal Cain came nisDy a one,
As he wrought by bis roaring firs,
lud each one prayed for a strong wteel
blade
As the crown of hi desire;
lud he made them weapons sharp and
strong.
Till tliey shouted loud for glee,
ind give him girts of peirl and gold,
And spoils of the forest free,
ind they sang: "Hurrah for Tubal Cain.
Who hath given us strength anew!
Hurrah for the smith, hurrah for the
fire,
Aud hurrah for the metal true!"
But a sudden change came o'er his heart
Ere the setting of the sun.
And Tubal Cain was filled with pain
For tli evil he had done;
He saw that men, with rage and hate,
Made war upon their kind;
1'hat the land was red with the blood
they shed.
In their lust for carnage blind,
ttid he said: "Alas! that ever I made,
Or that skill of mine should plan,
The spear and the sword for men whose
. 'i"y
Is to slay their fellow man!"
ind' for m:iny a day old Tubal Cain
Sat brooding o'er his woe;
ind his hand forbore to smite the ore.
And hi- furnace smoldered low.
3 ut he rnp at last with a cheerful face,
And s bright, courageous eye,
ind bared bis strong right arm for worn,
' While the quick tiames mounted high,
ind he sang: "Hurrah for my handi
work!'' And the red sjmrks lit the nir:
'Not alone for t'le blade waa the bright
steel made"
And he fashioned the first plowshare.
ind men, taught wisdom from the past,
lu friendship Joined tlieir hands.
Jung tile sword in the hall, the spear oa
the wall.
And plowed the willing lands;
ind sani?: "Hurrnh for Tubal Cain!
Our st inch g ol friend is he;
And for the plowshare and the plow
To him our praise shall be.
But while oppression lifts Its head.
Or a tyrant would be lord, '
Though we may thank bim for the plow,
We'll not forget the sword!"
Charles Mackay.
QUiCK LUc-Crt RECORDS.
Jueer Combinations Picked Out by
home . of the J.utcm.
The manager of the quick lunch
nilace shuddered, although the day
nas hot, and bestowed a gaze of niln
led wonder and reproach upon tho
iroud back of the man who had just
licked up a number of dishes of food
'rom the counter and was weaving
Is way through the crowd wllh them
il.illfully balanced in two hands like
l vaudeville Juggler picking his wny
htoss ft stage tilled with tosscd-up
jiiraphemalia, according to the Wusli
!i gton Star.
"Say," hoarsely Inquired the mana
ger, "d'je see what that man took
.villi him to cat?"
The man to whom the question was
iddressed had not noticed. '
'A l.owl of ml.k, a di-h of sliced cu
'Uiubersr two deviled crabs and a
Veep of'.rliubnrb pie," groan d the
Kai'nug'-r, fiel.ng tentatively i.f the
'ourth button of his waistcoat.
"Just try and figure that out," lie
vent on. "How would yoti like to try
i combination 'like- that m.lX ciicutn
.crs, crybs and pie? Wlie:i that man
irst came lu her ' It was dtir tig tin
list bud hot spell of the summer -nnd
elected thai iissoitai nt of dainties,
i.tM'd hi. n try Montaiemiey smi:e.
" Tot :' said I.
"lie looked me over without a
"iii
HryV mil 1 he.
ou bet tne man, I suppose.' said
, Mliat you could Ik at him over '.be
inks by two mil tlr.e? to p ay and
ru didn't li ake j.o d .'
lie rented bis crabs and cucumbers
i ml , bis bowl of milk and his pie on
He counti r and look' d me over.
"'Say. what's ihp matter? b fl mi
y nked me, with' ft ir.y-t fieii look.
."Then I to!d 'him bow weird that
(iinbinatl n of bis looi el.
r
.."'Oil, Unit's it. Is it V said he, sm!l-tvu-.
'Oou t you let a li tli thing tuo
h'ut bother you. Y'ought t'e .-ecu
i' grandfather. He used to smoke a
lay pipe and cat butte.ed gl.igei bread
ud green api 1 s at tie same time,
aid whistle "( Id Zip C in" without
Hissing a tio c.' ami be walked over
o 1.1s srdt and began bis dainty
ttnch on. . '
I kept an eye on bin. n 'Vrthe
es, and lno!;ed up Ihe te'eph ne tuim
r r of the -'r."'t nmbiil ri'-e l os-dtai.
?ut tie jtlst v. enl right ah ud as he's
fiTlncr lion'. -" ,"
"While I was st 11 studying h'm I
nuld pot keei my rje ofT of Iiltn
i" walked .tip to the count r rnd s
ecfd a pie p of (old m ii"r rle and
ta'll glas of bed tea to top off with.-
' Hi' s been back every we k day
inee. nnd lint's about bl retjiair
icondny ration. Ile'e got to lie one of
my sbw piece, lie's figure A In the
axbtbltion.
"Hut there sre 4bers. Pee that
litilp man over yond-T with the white
siders and tbe pink cherks the one
off there in tbe c rnT? What do you
suppose bis regular winter and t-uni-nier
high noon refectory Is, and lit
tweri for years past? A plate of bread
and butter, two large dill pickles and
a cup of cocoa. Every week-d iy of
the year that old boy with the white
things at the sides of his countenance
commits that kind of an assault and
battery on his diaphragm, and, say.
just look at him cheeks pink and
healthy, eyes as clear as filtered well
water, and more hair on the top of
bis bead than I've yot although he's
CO, if he's a day.
"He told me the other day that he
hadn't had a sick minute lu sixteen
years. That by the way, is how it i-i
with most of tbe cormorants. The
tougher the kind of conglomerations
they habitually get away with tb-
healthier tbey look. But they're prob
ably born that way. And as a matter
of fact, the majority of the men who
come In here for lunch seem to Just
try to loop-the loop with their di
gestive apparatus."
SURPRISE FOR BIG GRIZZLY.
Took a l'hotouraph of Himaelf While
KxuminiiiK a Camera.
Hert (iibbs is tbe amateur photog
rapher lear hunter of all Round valley,
ltut be doesn't bunt that class of sub
jects since a big Mendocino grizzly
took bis camera away from him. He
had shot everything in his neighbor
hood, and to his prized collection of
snaps of living birds, squirrels and
deer he longed to add the photograph
of a live bear one with a fierce, whis
kered phiz, with tonjeue lolling out and
eyes gleaming In all tbe savage fire of
lowest brutedoru.
He was brave, was Hert, aud hlled
with the enthusiasm of the true "fiend"
took his solitary way Into tbe far
woods nrined with his loaded picture
box. While cautiously beating up a
huckleberry patch, trying to flush bis
bear, he fell over a bank and badly
sprained an ankle. After lying all
night disabled where be had fallen be
concluded that he was doomed to re
main there till be starved to death. He
photographed in his mind his emaciat
ed body found days hence, and the
f ml Idea came to him to take a lust
"shot" at himself. He bad heard that
people In tbe last ditch always reserv
ed last shots for their personal uses,
lie would do this, and the faithful
camera would give up a farewell view
of him taken while dying.
Then be fastened a string to the
shutter of the machine, placed it on a
log and was beginning to ' iOOu nat
ural" before it when a huge grizzly
lumbered out of the brush lanche.
Gibbs heuved himself in one mighty
spring. His ankle was disabled, but
he found no didlculty in getting up a
near-by tree. The bear paid no atten
tion to hi in, but squatting on his
haunches, proceeded to Instruct him
self In camera craft He picked It up
with bis forepaws and wag making a
minute examination with eyes and
nose when the shutter snapped. The
sharp sound frightened him, and, drop
ping the box, be galloped off Into tbe
woods.
Gibbs came down from the tree
cured of the sprain, picked up his cam
era and went home. Then he devel
oped the photograph which tbe grizzly
bud taken of Itself with the lust shot
he bad reserved for himself. San
I'Yuncisco Call.
Cy's Choice.
Cyrus I'ettingill made brooms for a
living and Ezra Hoskins kept a store
in the New Hampshire town. where
both of them lived. One day, says the
Columbia Record, Cy came in with a
loud of brooms, and then dickering be
guu. "Kzra, I 'want to sell you these
brooms."
"All right, Cy, I'll take them."
"I don't want any store pay," con
tinued Cy. "1 wuut cash for them."
After a thoughtful pause Ezra said,
"I tell you what I'll do, Cy. I'll give
you half cash and half trade."
Cy pulled a straw out of one of the
brooms and looked at It, as If for
inspiration.
I guess that'll be all right," he said,
at last.
Alter Kzra had put the brooms in
their place in the store, he said:
"Here's jour money, Cy. Now,
what do you want in trade?"
Cy's shrewd, glance swept over the
inlsi'cl'aiie is stock of the store.
"VW'll. li.)-:.," said he, "If it's all the
same to you, I'll take brooms."
1 1 cm in urn tiom Ice.
I In .Montana, the experiment 1ms been
j tried of freezing watir to be used for
I Irrigation. As soon as the weather be
j comes such as to melt the Ice It Is fit
lor the operations requiring the. water.
Tin! plan, which ro far Is In the na
ture of an exp riment, consists In mak
ing a series of shallow basins on the
slope of a hill In such locations that,
when water Is plentiful, they may be
filled, each of those below tlie highest
receiv'ng 'aueeesslvt ly the overflow
from the one above It.
Once frozen, the Ice In these shallow
reservoirs Is there, until the thaw se:s
In, when It melts so slowly as to k' ep
up a supply of moisture sufllclent for
the gcrmlii.itlan nnd growth of the
early crops. This unique method has
been tried so far only Id the vlcln'ty of
Dillon, but !t appears to bo successful
and Is to be given n trial In seviral
other favorable lo"alItles.
The last Federal census noted thirty
million workers.
The wife of a shoemaker at Moras.
Bohemia, has given birth to four chil
dren at the smif tiine. She was as
ready the mother of sixteen. -
The barbers in India are Raid, by
those who have visited that country,
to be so jikillful that they can shavf
a sleeping man without waking hiui.
A Western firm is now manufactur
ing a new liquid fuel for gasoline
automobiles, and it is said to propel a
machine nearly as far again as a Ilk
quantity of gasoline.
It is easy to pray in Japan. Paint
ed prayers are attached to posts, an4
small wheels are fastened to them.
The passerby gives the wheel a whirl,
and that counts as a prayer.
A dentist comes forward with th
suggestion that casts should be take
of prisoners' mouths as a means of
identification. He claims that th
mouths of no two people are alike.
A lake lias been discovered on Kildin
Island, Lapland, which contains fresh
witter on the top and salt water on th
bottom. The lake rises and falls with
the tide aud is evidently connected
with the sea by an underground chan
nel. Australia has no orphan asylums.
Every child who is not supported by
parents becomes a ward of the Stat
and is paid a pension for support and
placed in a private family, wher
board and clothes are provided until
the fourteenth birthday.
Chinese styles come up from tbe
South, Shanghai being the Paris that
sets the fashions for all people sav
tbe court Manchus. Just now th
Worth and Ooucet of Shanghai hav
trimmed the baggy, loose-sleeved Chi
nese coat down to the scantiest line.
Central Africans make a kind of
sweet beer which Is effervescent and
tastes a good deal like champagne. It
is made by rifixing water and banana
juice and allowing this to turn sour.
It Is said to be wholesome, but It
Is drunk only by women and children.
An electric third rail system that
Is claimed to be safe and trustworthy
has been invented by a Chicago man.
By means of his device. In which the
third rail Is inverted and practically
hidden from view, the inventor de
clines It impossible for persons or ani
mals to come in contact with th
charged rail.
A Minneapolis genius has invented
a twenty-six inch umbrella which will
fold up, frame and all, Into a little
case to be carried In the pocket. Th
handle and all the ribs consist of fin
and very strong steel tubes In sec
tions, which telescope one inside of th
other. The covering of very fine silk,
which takes up but little room. Th
wooden handle of the umbrella la hol
low, and receives trll the rest of. th
telescoping umbrella rod when shot
up. A small and light case, not too
big for the pocket Is provided to con
tain the whole, which is thtis secured
from irregular borrowers and the peril
of exposure which always attend It
use. If It Is a toy which the Mlnnca-.
polls mechanician Is giving us. It is an
Ingenious one. if an article of real,
utility, the generation of rainy daisifcs
and nil wet went her adventurers ought
to rise up nnd call liiiu blessed.
The Barber Try some hair restorer?-
The Philosopher Oh, no; I have
long ceased to regard hair an one of
the necessaries of life. Brooklyn Life.
The. Wronif Point of View, v
The New-Yorker In Chicago catches
a whiff of certain strong odors that
float over from the stockyards, wash
ing impartially about the walls of hov
els and palaces, and shudders with re
pulsion, forgetful of all the good thing .
that hang, as it were, upon that smell.
Instead of accepting it with forti
tude as merely another manifestation,'
of that boundless enterprise that i
sowing the tropical jungle and the arc
tic ice-fields with the tin can of civili
zation, he is conscious only of a smell
a vile smell.
All the fine, elusive significance of
it escapes lilm. lie fails to discern tho
romance that hangs about it, softening
its aggressive actuality tis tlie blue
mist does the outlines of the moun
tains. He does not slop to reflect that
tho tin can follows tlie smell, and civ
ilization tho tin can. Never having in.
all his elegant, punctilious existence
been cast away ' in the white North,
or lost in a tropical undergrowth, lie
fails to realize Hint there are moments
when tlio sight, even of one of those
discarded cans might bo ns grateful t
a man as It was erstwhile to' the Har
lem goat. Four-Track News.
Tlie Value oi Absence. .
When Thomas Valentine Cooper was
chairman of tlie Republican State com
mittee In Pennsylvania be had consid
erable difficulty in managing a certain
candidate for Congress, who was a
miserable talker, but thought that'll
was gifted with the eloquence of De
mosthenes. f .
There- was one township in th
county that seemed doubtful, nud tho
candidate wits anxious to go there and
air his oratory.
"Mr. Chairman," he said to Cooper,
"I should like to o down to .that
township on Saturday night ami inak
a speech. You know the vote will be
close there. What do you say?"
"No." ropl'od Cooper, with, great
emphasis on the little word, "wc want
to carry that town di I p. Stay away
from there,"
He stayed nway, nnd was elected.
One of the m. rvels of the ft go Is th
little Indignation a girl will show nt
her father's great wrongs, nnd th.
great Indignation she will show at bcr
lover's little one.
