PEARY'S EXPEDITION
A preliminary trip to be
MADE THIS YEAR.
Htatlona to Ixt Established In North
Greenland — Arctic Highlanders Will
Collect Meat and Kura and Train
Hogs—The Hash to the fills
In I HUM.
His Plan's Well Matured.
Nkw York, May US.— Lieutenant
Peary, who has Just received five year:/
leave from the navy department, In an
interview outlined hia plana for hm
proposed Arctic expedition On July H
he will start nortli on the preliminary
journey, the sole objects of which is to
make arrangements for the final trip,
which will be begun In July, 1898.
Lieutenant Peary will first pick out a
route for his preliminary voyage. He
will select one of the St. Johns sealers
and have it ready to leave Boston l>e
tween July A and 8. At Boston the
steamer will take on board a store of
supplies.
Lieutenant Peary'a object in hia pre
liminary voyage will be to communi
cate with a colony of Kaquirnaux at
Whale sound, who are known a* the
Arctic highlanders. He will pick out
six or eight of the most Intelligent
young men in the colony and prepare
them to take their families north with
them and establish another colony
which, a year later, will be his base of
mippiice. At this village they will
work throughout the year collecting
meat, furs, bear skins to be made into
boots, sledges and other supplies and
training a puck of the best Ksipiimaux
dogs obtainable. Lieutenant Peary
says he could utilize the entire tribe
in his work were it necessary, He
will have his men urrunge affairs so
that when he sees them in the summer
of 1868 they will be ready to move
north with him at a day's notice.
Peary will he accompanied in this
summer's trip by Ills wife and her
8-year-old daughter, but on the main
expedition Mrs. Peary and the child
will remain in this country. The jour
ney tills summer will be from Boston
to Sidney, then to Cape Breton, where
the ship will take on coat; through
the GuU of St. Lawrence to Relic
island and up the Labrador coast to
the mouth of Hudson's strait, then to
Resolution island and across to the
South ifreenland coast to Melville
hay, and finally to wiiulc sound,which
will be reached in the latter part of
July. The return will be made in
September, Lieutenant 1’eary is en
thusiastic over the plans of liis trip,
and is looking forward to his five
years' work with the greatest pleas
ure.
“The project is entirely my own,"
he said. "The American Geographi
cal society, the technical society most
capable of passing on the project, lias
indorsed it and has promised to sub
scribe money for the trip when it is
needed. The American Museum of
Natural History lias also subscribed
1 have outlined plans very carefully,
more so than before, and have made
use of all the experience J have gained
in previous experiences. 1 depend
largely for my success upon the opera
tion of the Ksquiinaux, but 1 have com
plete confidence in them and f know
that I can trust them to do everything
that I tcil them and to have everything
in readiness for me when I am pre
pared to start on the main expedition
for the pole.
“As for tile plans for the main ex
pedition, 1 can say little more than lias
already been published. 1 am thor
oughly^dccided on one project, and
that is that 1 shall take with me very
few white men. 1 shall give much at
tention to the selection of my surgeon,
who must lie vigorous, active and
thoroughly enthusiastic. I shall time
the maiu expedition carefully and be
prepared to make the final dash for
the pole at precisely the time when all
tiie conditions are most fuvoruble.
There will lx* much to do, but 1 am do
terimued that there shall tie nodeluys.
for any interference with the plans
tiiat I have outlined might ha fatal to
the entire project."
TO MAKE BETTER CITIZENS
Aiuerlran liotltut. of Clvtra llolil* It*
Twelflli Annual Meeting.
W’akiiisoto.v, May 3a. The twelfth
annual meeting of the American In
stitute of Civics was held in this city
yesterday. Senator Hawley of Conuoe
ticut presiding The president of the
nsaoemtion, Henry Kundell Waite of
New York, presented a report of the
year's doing*, which showed that, not
withstanding Ute depressed condition
of tlnaiiciai alTair* throughout the
country, the institute had made eu
eon rug mg progress in the work U>
which it is devoted
The object of the institute is to pro
luote a higher standard of ettUenshkp
through education and by other
means.
Aa lanoee»l*e taileaa tsauelssOew.
lion a Mai s. The cauoMUntlnu
to dny of /nvcA'in, founder of the
• inter uf Item.*biles end suruamed the
A noetic of t.iwrame was the moat tut
■ovsslve 'erenow* witnessed |l Ah
IVter's since the abolition of the lent
porel power of the po|a'% || U estl
meted that tn.Ot *’ laoipie were In the
ksulivs
GOME/ TO MKK M'KINLKV
t afcaa t nwoweadev-ta t htef Is Mess s
two ta IS. I so.d moss
Cull tl tti so Ms* * Ad«o*s
huts t ubn so* reeeirwd hv the iouni
jnntA }r« sterday to the efft.l that
IAmisI Itooie* will lempo<s>dv re
sign as mmuisudsr of the Insurgent
forces Ska! con** In this lountfl S*
sects Is* i uf w«r pro tent of the
thins repnhiie to wsihf with tVasi
•lent M- hmiej an the • uhnn siinntnni
IhMlng Ms ahseuen 11. n«< «i tooh
Mill ewwwau t
NOT GUILTY.
So Say* the Jury In the Case of Have
meyer.
Washington. May 2*. —There was
again the same crowd of distinguished
persons at the llavemcyer trial this
morning. When court opened Dis
trict Attorney Davis entered upon his
apply to the motion of the defense to
order an acquittal, which Mr. Have
meyer's counsel argued yesterday.
Mr. Davis took up the six propositions
upon which the defense based the mo
tion and met them in order, though
not as laid down by the defense.
After the prosecution closed its argu
ment the judge sustained the motion
»f the defense and the jury, in ac
cordance with the instructions of the
court, returned a verdict of not guilty.
It is understood by many that the
M/quittal of Mr. llavemcyer would
cause tiie indictments against John K.
Searles, secretary of the refining com
pany, and Mr. Ldwards and Mr. Shri
ver, t lie newspaper men, to be quashed.
Mr. Davis, the district attorney, how
ever, said that the verdict in this case
would not affect the case of John K.
•Searles, whose trial will b« proceeded
with to-morrow. Mr. Davis said that
Mr. Searles had directly refused to an
swer questions, and that his case was
in no way parallel with that of Mr.
llavemcyer s.
INVESTORS SWINDLED.
New Yorkers Caught for Much Money-*
Tourlioil by a Promotor.
Nrw Yohk, May 3a.—The many per
sons who were Inveigled Into all sorts
of schemes by Dr. (1. H. Griffin, who
formerly had an office at No. 1U Broad
way. aru mourning the toss of their
money and wondering what hat be
come of tiie smooth-tongued promoter.
Dr. Griffin left town suddenly a short
time ago, und only now Is the extent
4>f Ills scheming coming to light. The
companies which lie organized are too
numerous to mention. Among them
were the Nanaimo Coal Mining com
pany of British Columbia, the Central
Islip I,nml and Improvement company
of Long Island, the Massapequa Land
and Improvement company of Long
Island, the West Asbury Water com
pany and the I’antlier Mountain Coni
and Coke company of West Virginia.
in udilitlon to these corporate con
cerns he was interested in a syndicate
which intended to build it railroad
tbri ugh the coal Helds of New Bruns
vv.ck, ' unuuu. wiiii oi ilie nr*L persons
whom he interested in the railroad
project was George Deiuet/.. Mr. Dc
metz invested 810,000 in the railroad,
and later turned over to Dr, Griffin
$">,000 in addition. The road was
never built.
Hardly hud this deul been begun be
fore Dr. Griffin announced him
self as tin* owner of lurge and
valuable coul properties in British
Columbia and organized a com
pany by the name of the Nan
aimo Coal Mining company, of
British Columbia, under the laws of
West Virginia. Stock was issued to the
amount of 83,000,000,and bonds amount
in;; to 81,500,000. Dr. Griffin was
president of the company and several
New Yorkers were interested finan
cially in the scheme. The bonds and
stocks were printed in Montreal, and
the Western Loan and Trust company
of Montreal registered the bonds of
tiie company and guaranteed the in
terest on them, amounting to 1180,000
per year.
Dr. Griffin then went to London to
dispose of them, but, meanwhile, the
trust company investigated in British
Columbia and cabled to London, which
prevented his selling the bonds to in
vestors there.
As president of the Panther Moun
tain Coal and Coke company of West
Virginia Griffin received 8500,000 in
bonds, which he was to dispose of in
London. He found it difficult to sell
the bonds and obtained a loan on them
of something like $53,000
WHISKY-DRINKING WAGER
litres Chlcsgiiaus Kntrrrd the Rat e —
One Orstl, Two Dying
Ciiicaoo, Muy 5’s. Yesterday after
noon in n saloon kept by Carl Sehoep
| fer a number of men engaged in an
' argument as to who could drink the
most whisky Finally Jacob Conrad.
Joseph Holtiiu and Carl Kisleiteii be
gan tile contest The salooukce|>er
supplied the whisky in small beer
glasses. Courad was ahead on the mini
I „.t> .. f .l,„.,L ... I.I,. 1--1
Hint fell to the floor. He wits drugged
into » room and left lying on tlie
floor, while the other two drank on.
They became unconscious in a slier'
time and were left lying on the floor
la'side t onrad Word was sent to the
police, and when they reached the
place i on rad was dead. Hot uni dying
and KlateWu Itt a critical condition
The saloonkeeper waa arrested,
charged vsith manslaughter
Agf trail are let Alaska
w tniisslut, May :• The secre
lary of agriculture has appointed a
hoard, of which It Kitten of Oregon
*tt», Ore , chatriuau of the hoard of
regents of the tHegoa agricultural
•ollege aad It. •tan 1st Idsst of thla
eitjr, are meushers. to go to Vakha to
iasetiiga'.e the aerda of aa agricuttur
*' esperiment slalom tu that tern
‘ory. and to recur* data incident to
the establish neat o# auvh aa laalitu
lion The party will sail (runs Taco
in a June a
twltlys Messers lee lallei.
tnn'Ano Matin < merge M Pull
man has tv* < «.d ft urn Archduke Hat
aet two magaiMcent uaedala and a
nsfhly wrought diploma aa Icslosnmieis
"f honor and wserit ta founding aad
halldtng the ant print Iowa la the
world this distinction for the s«h
ur b i anus ar Ike tv ru t of an eahltu
0**a ta the lute,ns' M»as Htgieaw and
Pharsaaeeuttcai rtpaitua is i'r ague,
of which the arebduhe was promotes
Pullman w>m against Use *ettieasa«ta
created by hrupp. the gun man
Heat ns the area, maker of and
Hama sun li ugt< M* r
FOREST PROTECTION
SCIENTISTS MAKE REPORT TC
THE PRESIDENT.
The Orrtt Cost of rreventtng Flood* It)
Europe Mint He Followed Eventu
ally In Thl* Country—Forestry
Bureau and Ollier Improve*
merit*.
All About Our Forest*.
, Washington, May 27. — President
McKinley has sent to the Senate the
detailed report on forestry made by
the committee of the National Academy
of Science at the request of the Secre
tary of the Interior.
The polity of forest reservation was
begun during the administration of
President Harrison, in obedience to
the urgent importunities of I)r. U. K.
Fernow, the government forestry ex
pert: Edward Bowers, counsel for the
American Forestry association; Hobert
Underwood Johnson of New York, and
other students on the subject. la re
sponse to the President's suggestion,
Congress.on March 3,1891,enacted alaw
authorizing such reservation by exec
utive order as the president might
deem expedient, and soon afterward a
proclamation was issued -'serving
about 13,000,000 acres. this was
followed early In President CUve
land's term by an order reserving tha
Cascade range In Oregon, emlx-acing
4,492,800 acrea Then the forestry
commission was appointed, consisting
of Professor C. 8. Sargent of Harvard
university, Oeneral L. H. Abbott,
United States engineer; Professor W.
H. Brewer of Yale nnlverslty, Alexan
der Agassi/, of Harvard, Clifford Pinch
eon and Arnold Ilayne. After a thor
ough investigation and putiunt inquiry
without compensation, the commission
reported in favor of the reservation of
thirteen additional tracts, amounting
in the aggregate to 22,000,000 acres,
and, in honor of the memory of Wash
ington, President Cleveland issued
on the 103th anniversary of the birth
of tiie first President, the 22d of Feb
ruary, 1897, an order complying with
the recommendations of the commis
sion. Thereupon the Senators and
Representatives in Congress for the
states in which the reservations are
located, protested Unit the withdrawal
of so much timber laud from use and
settlement would be a great hardship
to the people, in that it would deprive
them of the necessary timber for
building and wood for fuel, and a
clause was inserted in the sundry civil
appropriation bill of the last Congress
revoking the order while it was pend
ing in the Senate. The House refused
to concur, and. after a prolonged con
test, the Senate conferees receded
from the amendment. lint the bill
failed for the reason that it didn't
reach the President iu lime for liissig
nutu re.
The western senators, disappointed
over tiie failure of their plans for the
revocation of the order, turned their
attention to importuning the Presi
dent to accomplish the purpose by an
executive order, and several confer
ences were had with President Mc
Kinley and Secretary Bliss of the in
terior department. As a result the
members of the commission were sum
moned to appear before Secretary Bliss
on the last day of March. At this con
ference, during which the senators
and representatives for the states of
Washington, Wyoming, Montana,
Utah and South Dakota were present,
the commission agreed to a modifica
tion of its report in order to appease,
to some extent, the clamor of the
western representatives. The report
transmitted to Congress to-day is the
result of this agreement
The gencrul conclusions of the com
mittee were announced in un ubstract
furnished by the committee some
weeks ago.
Millions of dollurs have been ex
pended during recent years in Kurope
in cheeking the force of floods, due to
denuded mountain slopes, l>y the con
struction of stoue dams ami river beds
and planting sod and t"ces. The com
mittee predicts that similar exjtendi
turcs in this country must follow
the destruction of mountain forests if
the narrow valleys of the West are to
continue inhabitable. Fire and pus
tllrHio- lire cited as ctiictiv t lircatcninc/
the reserve forest lands of the public
damaiii —Illegal timber cuttiiigdaiungc
being comparatively insignificant.
The committee saye that the gov
ernment, in ucrinitting free pasturage
of sheep 011 the public domaiu in
states am*, territories is clearly unjust
to people elsewhere who must own or
hire pastures Traces of depredaltuua
were visible in ait the reserve* visited.
The segregations of these great bodies
of reserved lauds cauuot be with
drawn from all occupation and use.
but should be managed for the beueltt
of the people of the whole country,
not fur a c as* or section The report
say* that, under a strict Interpretation
of the interior department tn.uuo MJti
acre* of land are thus theoretically
■ hut out from alt hautan occupation
or enjoy i*o'n I. a toad It low of affairs
that should not omtlaue
l.and m«*,» valuable fyr tie mineral
de 1*0*1'* of agricultural crops lhaa fur
its timber should be taken from the
reserval "«» and sold to miners sad
farmer*, mature timber should be eut
and sold settler* within or adjacent In
the boundaries usable to procure It la
other ways should be authorised to
tabs such mater Mat from ’rr*n>4 for
eats aa s accessary for their seed*
and prospector* should he allowed In
aernvh the forest* for minerals
tbs hauS’a Ibtrd entente
I UK llftf kin# IT hh *h and ilaruar (
ago*' ores his inability to meet pay
ments on his borne. HI* sender t
Hnrbett form.ru a vteeh in the Hi
I tonal ttanh of tlliaoi*, which coils,reed
a f*« month* ago. iK-4 aod bdl*4
hUMaeif today This is the th-1<1 *«,<
«trie maul ting ft we* 'k* tailurn *1 to
hanh
LAKE MICHIGAN.
The Mean* by Which It In Mmle Xntlf.
•hie All the Year Round.
Navigation on Lake Michigan is nev
er closed. Steamers run back and forth
across the lake and between the ports
of the west shore of the lake during
the entire winter with remarkable reg
ularity. The drat attempts at winter
navigation in the trans-lake routes
were made by the Detroit and Milwau
kee Railroad Company and by the now
defunct Kngelmann Transportation
Company many years a^o, and the suc
cess of winter ventures becnme estab
lished us the character of the steamers
was improved and developments were
made In marine enginery. Now winter
navigation proceeds ulmost uninter
ruptedly, and the new car ferries steam
back and forth with little regard for
weather or for Ice. The success of the
tar ferries on Lake Michigan and the
car ferry which defies winter In the
Htralts of Mackinac Is probably the
cause of the announcement that nego
tiations are in progress looking to the
construction of ice-breaking freight
steamers that will enable their owners
to keep them in commission on the
l-aku Superior and lower lake route
during the winter. The report Is with
out foundation.
There Is a vast difference between the
navigation of latke Michigan from one
shore to the other and along its west
shore and the navigation of the great
lakes throughput their lengths and
through the inter-lake channels. Ice
breaktag Is expensive, and occasionally
the Ice floes defy the crushing powers
of the best of the so-called Ice break
ers. One of the car ferries was recent
ly stalled by a floe near Menominee,
which defied not only the steamer, but
the explosive power of dynamite. The
trouble of winter navigation on the
chain of lakes would occur In the In
ter-lake channels and In the canals.
Owing to the clogging effects of the Ice
It would be ulmost Impossible to oper
ate canals during midwinter.
Another and a very serious bar to
general lake navigation In winter is
the prevalence of snow-storms, during
which nothing whatever can be seen.
nnow ih more oestrum vo to tne sight
than fog and during u driving snow
storm It Is impossible to see anything
ahead, even in the daytime. Winter
navigators on Lake Michigan, who are
never out of sight of land for any great
length of time, experience their chief
annoyance from snow-storms. They
manage to steam Into port when snow
Is flying thick, because of their famil
iarity with the route, but they occasion
ally get into trouble while they are
wrapped in "the tumultous privacy of
the Htorm.”
It does not follow, by uny means,
that becauHe winter navigation Ih suc
cessful on Lake Michigan It can be
made successful in the upper and lower
lake service.
CURE FOR KLEPTOMANIA.
Fffecllvrnens of Several I.itKlim of Two
Hlrch Rods.
An Englishman believes he has a
cure for kleptomania. He is a west
end shopkeeper, and the west end
shops have been said to suffer greatly
since Mrs. Castle's case of kleptomania
has been brought before the public,
says the New York Times. There is
a great difficulty In dealing with these
peculators, he says, and by making an
object lesson of some one he is In
danger of bringing discredit upon his
establishment which would more than
offset his losses by theft, and in expos
ing the guilty person many Innocent
people are made to suffer. The oper
ators are also exceedingly artful, but
his method, which worked a cure in
one case, was a success as far as it
_fPlv„ . . L_t. -_ 1 I_ V •
• ”V wuvpnovpti > IUMUO LI1CM. 11
in the most merciful method he could
employ and the guilty person is the
only sufferer. He had watched a wom
an one day and caught her with a quan
tity of vnluable goods from his estab
lishment in her possession. He In
vited her to the office, where It was
found that she had a shoplifter's
pocket. In the office the proprietor ex
plained to the woman the disgrace that
would come to her and her family If
she were prosecuted and Imprisoned,
and gave her the choice of that or a
punishment he would suggest. He ex
plained the nature of It to her nnd she
at cepted the alternative. A muscular
sister of the shopkeeper was then
called in and left ulone with the wom
an, to whom she administered home
made discipline, by means of two
birch rods, until, after ten or a dosen
strokes, the woman screamed for
mercy. She was allowed to depart and
was never again seen In the shop
This proceeding brings up the question
of corporal punishment. The Idea ad
vanced Is that the woman was In this
esse mercifully cured, while If brought
to trlsl she would probably have es
caped with uo more punishment than
the illsgrscs. Kvldeuce would have
been brought In a* lu her mental Ir
res|»iuslblllty and Innocent people
would have been paraded before the
public with her,
•Wllwurr
Mrs kksluwuod "1 was speaking
With Miss Kbier today Ilk* sats that
every body tells her that ahe holds her
age remarkably Mrs Orimm Ye*
itb* ha* tan a n» fur th* last all years
•« mr knowledge * Mosiua Irwascript
t small Imtitii
kmaadr tsilgkilag from her wheel at
the roadside where Murtlmurw awaits
her! Have I kept ras wait lag to a 4.
dear Murtlmurw loaf’ Many
ixlrl bare passed atuiw the hour ap»
puts ted lor war masting fudge
» ti»i»4l**i
fashte* at Mask lus wilt hate to
bring mum# fifty in I
«r# mil * (li* «*l i * !%*• mi ft i#*4ft
Id lit# !»*• i ’ « | n tfc#
4*a*l INftm IVimh
THE ARGOT OF PARIS AND THE
“PATTER” OF LONDON.
ll I* Thoroughly Rfprwfntallf*—Origin
I* (lord to Explitln It Chungei Ma
terially Every Two or Three Yean—
V.motion* of Criminals*
HE language of
criminals the ar
got of Paris, the
"patter” of London
has been carefully
Inves 11 g a t e <1 by
numerous writers,
with very variant
results, says Popu
lar Science Month
ly. Its origin is
difficult to explain.
Criminals, say many authors, have
found It necessary to adopt a technical
language for their own protection, that
they may be able to converse In pub
lic without being understood. "They
have been forced to do this, and have
made a language as sinister and as vile
as themselves.” This theory cannot be
admitted. Certainly the argot Is sinis
ter and vile, and thoroughly represen
tative of the class that uses It, but fur
ther thnn this we cannot go. The the
ory that the use of this dialect is of
any assistance to the criminal Is Inad
missible. Most policemen anil all pris
on officers know this slang, sometimes
better than the thieves. To speak It
in the hearing of a detective Is to in
vite arrest; to speak it In the presence
of the general public would arouse sus
picion and attract attention—two
things which are especially to be avoid
ed. Why, then, does it exist? Dr.
Laurent of the Sante prison, in Parts,
lias given an explanation which has at
least nothing to contradict It: The
persons engaged in every trade form a
species of dialect or technical phrase
ology which Is spoken and understood
only by themselves. Criminals, who
practice a trade as old as any, have
gradually acquired a language moro
adapted to their wants, more In keeping
wmi men mens aim iiiuugms. nusi-ia
ble, heartless, engaged In a perpetual
struggle against morality, law and de
cency, they have acquired a language
of debased words and cynical meta
phor*, a language of abbreviated ex
pressions and obscene synonym*. The
general tendency of the criminal to re
duce the abstract to the concrete, to de
note the substantive by one of Its at
tributes, Is shown very clearly in his
synecdochlhi phraseology. Thus a
purse is a “leather;” a street car Is a
"short," comparing Its length with a
railroad car; a handkerchief is a
“wipe,” and a pair of shoes “a pair of
kicks,” Again, some of the terms ap
pear to he purely arbitrary and were
It not that the creative power is as
absent In criminals as in women 1
should not hesitate to stale It as a fact.
But it seems wiser to conclude merely
that the origin of these terms has be
come obscured. To suppose that they
were created would be in too distinct
contradiction to all obtainable evi
dence, Indirect though it may be. Such
expressions are to “kip,” meaning to
sleep; to "spiel,” to make a speech;
“Jerve,” a waistcoat pocket; “thimble,”
a watch; to "do a lam,” meaning to
run. Some of the expressions are de
scriptive. To run from a police of
ficer is to “do a hot foot." A person
who is always listening to other peo
ple’s conversation is called a "rubber
neck.” The word “push,” meaning a
crowd, Is occasionally seen'in the news
papers. To be arrested is to be
“pinched;” to be convicted is to “fall.”
To refuse a person’s appeal Is to “give
him the marble heart.” Such expres
sions require no explanation. This dia
lect has mutilated the mother tongue;
it has also borrowed liberally from oth
er languages, but without method or
etymology. Criminals are not gram
marians. Neither are they linguists,
and at first sight It would seem strange
that they should import words from
other countries. We will find, however,
that in any prison the percentage of in
mates of foreign birth will be large;
in America It is about 15 per cent. A
foreign expression which seems apt or
an improvement on the one in present
use Is rapidly diffused through the pris
on. in cases where It Is especially de
scriptive It may become permanent, but
Its life is usually short.
The argot of the crime class chunges
materially every two or three years. It
Is ephemeral, us shifting as Its users.
Victor Hugo exaggerates only slightly
when he says; "The argot changes
more In ten years than the language
does III len centuries.” Thus in the
last three years there have been three
different words for "watch”— "super,”
"thimble” and “yellow and white” -
each of which was. In turn, the only
term used.
Every writer on the subject has no
Heed that the argot la rich In expres
sions to denote certain common net Iona.
Thla le a peculiarity shared by all prim
Hive languages tbs only difference
teing In the selection of the common
Si-la I bus la Manscrit there are near
ly IW roots which express the Idea uf
hilling or wounding, without counting i
secondary derivations itugx. of these !
toots at* embodied in our language to
day In the dialect of the thieves there ,
are nearly one hundred expressions to i
signify theft It was mksenary for the ;
ptchpinhet to describe the vartewa
po*h#t* In a mane nothing and in a j
woman * dreea. The average man doo*
n»i often need In eperify a particular t
pmrhet s hew he due* he lev* hi* hand j
on It |u anatal the poverty of hie inn
gunge. the thief has a separate name ;
ter *a>h separate pw> her Hut in vptte
nf ht* rt. hneaa in evnunyma. ahinx m
In Haetf a marked sign of -leg*nets, y
ter i he lendemrf uf a language t* to
aim last* tea a* nontax* giving to *n> h
n different Otii* *1 uv .t.is* the S'got 1
ih a poor language It ha* not a single
(•{esnius ter shairavt emotion to ai- !
«
enipt to render a philosophic thought,
i moral emotion, a synthetic or aesthet
c Idea Into the dialect of the thief
would be like attempting to translate
‘electricity" or "steam engine" into
[.atin. It is impossible, because the
words do not exist. They are n<it need
ed. The criminal has no more con
ception of abstract emotion than a
blind man has of color. A fact which
Joes not seem to ally the argot to a
primitive language is its ability to form
additional words from it* own T%
aources, a power of self-development
which we And in the old Anglo-Saxon
and especially In the German of to-day.
This trait Is the more striking as It
seems In direct contradiction to the Im
potence of the English language in this
respect. The English has little forma
tive power; it relies on the Greek and
Latin languages for the extension of Its
vocabulary.
BLONDE AND BRUNETTE.
The Ilalf-anil-Half Line I* Near the
Alp*.
In a rough way, the extremes in the
distribution in the blond and brunette
varieties within the population of Eu
rope are as follows: At the northern
limit we And that about one-third of
the people are pure blondes, character
ized by light hair and blue eyes; about
one-tentb are pure brunettes; the re
mainder, over one-half, being mixed
with a tendency to blondness, says the
Popular Science Monthly. On the oth
er hand. In the south of Italy the pure
blondB have almost entirely disap
peared. About one-half of the popu
lation are pure brunettes, with a deep
brown or black hair and eyes of a cor
responding shade and the other half
Is mixed, with a tendency to brunette
ness. The half-and-half line seems to
lie about where It ought, not. far from
the Alps. Yet it does not follow the
parallels of latitude. A circle de
sirlbed with Copenhagen as a center,
sweeping around near Vienna, across
the middle of Switzerland, theneee up
through the British Isles, might serve
roughly to Indicate such a boundary.
North of It blondness prevails, al
though always with an appreciable per
centage of pure brunettes. South of It
brunettencss Anally dominates quite
exclusively. n hiiouju noi ihii oi noie
that toward the east there In a alight
though constant increase of brunette
ness along tiie same degrees of latitude
and that the western portion of the
British isles is a northern outpost of
the brunette type.
Thus we see at a glance that there
is a gradual though constant increase
In the proportion of dark eyes and hair
from north to south. There are none
oi those sharp contrasts which appear
ed upon our map showing the distribu
tion of the long and broad heads of
Europe. On that map the extremes
were separated by only half of a con-'
tfnent in either direction from the
Alps; whereas, In this case the change
from dark to light covers the whole
extent of the continent, it is as if a
blending wash had been spread over
the map of head form, toning down all
Its sharp racial division lines.
So Naughty.
"Do you enjoy novel-reading, Miss
Belinda?’’
“Oh, very much; one can associate
with people In Action that one wouldn’t
dare to speak to In real life.’’—Tit
Bits.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Frederick Sounders of the Astor li
brary is the oldest living librarian.
He was assisted to his place by Wash
ington Irving.
Ex-Postmaster General Wilson Is to
be inaugurated president of Washing
ton and Lee University, Lexington, Va.,
on Tuesday, Sept. 14.
The king of Siam is to visit Queen
Victoria next summer in his 2,500 ton
steam yacht Maha Chakri, which was
built for him in Scotland.
John Tweed of Chelsea and once of
Glasgow has been commissioned to ex
ecute the statue of Cecil Rhodes, which
is to be erected at Buluwayo.
Mrs. Langtry's daughter Jean will
make her debut during the present
season In i.ondon. She is a second edi
tion of her mother, though much small
er.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Is having his portrait painted by the
Viennese artist. Eduard Horowitx. He
sits for the artist in the Historical Art
Museum, where the directors' office
has been tlttetl up for the purpose.
Miss Main he Heraril. daughter of g
former professor of the t'nlted States
military academy at West Point, who
lias been | tost mistress at that place
since 1856. has resigned her position
owing to sickness and InUrmttlns of
age.
One hundred pen and Ink drawings
by the lete tieorge Du Manner, which
belong to hie estate, have Just arrived
In New lork from lamdon They are
the originals of hla famous satirical
single Illustrations well known la
Hunch.
The oldest actor In Ike world la
Henry Uiel. He will be ninety three
on hie nett birthday and was an setae
fur sltiy live years as a child he wee
rowed out to Htymouth Hound and saw
Napoleon walking the quarlerdech of
the Helterophua
Mother tionenge Kennedy who la
said to have been the oldest sue In
Ireland, died recently nl the t'reultaa
I'uaeani Mia. krueh. I'ounty I'wrk The
reverend mother had spent titty three
rears at the -uaveat and ana M yearn
eld When she died
t‘r*eide«i M« (Matey a mother's name
>• Nancy so aae that of the mother of
Abraham Idnealn Of the other great*
tente m-ube** given names there era
Mur Kusebetbs three Marys law Kit
tee, two ieaen taw Anaa* and on*
m> h «d Huennaa Netty AMrmU, Hemh.
i*hoebe, Harriet Hugh in Malt tan nag
Hart*.
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