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Tale* up the picture, gaze
On whet sin- used to wear
Jn foolish, olden day*—
See how she fixed her hair.
The things she wears to-day
lexig heme may make men smile—
A year Horn now we may
h.augh at this summer's style.
Take up (he picture—tee!
And yet your father swore
A fond fidelity
In spite of what she wore.
Ah. lovely ones. T guess
"fwus God that made you fair.
And not the foolish dress
The world has made you wear.
—New York Herald.
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THE STUDENT’S STORY.
I'. I BY WH. W. KKKYKS,
I Copyrighted, IMS, by The Authors Publishing Company L—__J
■'It makes me nervous to think of
it," said the old druggist, as we gath
ered around the cheerful Are one win
ter evening. “Yes, It was a close call.
“I was ambitious those days, and 1
determined before leaving the univer
sity to make a mark for myself in the
field of chemistry, and you may be
sure I was working hard.
"In those early days, liquified car
bonic acid agas was merely a labora
tory experiment, and high explosives,
outside of gun cottnu, were compara
tively unknown.
"It. was in this field that I was work- 1
ing. and it was due to the premature ;
explosion of a mixture akin to nitro- j
glycerine that. I think 1 owe my life.
"Attending the university at the
time was a student by the name of j
Agathos, a Greek lie certainly was, j
and his stupendous intellect made him
always a welcome companion, in fact,
he and I were quite chummy, and
wlilhi I was not busy with chemistry,
we/vere solving knotty problems con
reining the construction of the uni
verse.
“Ou the night that my hair turned
gray,” continued the doctor—glancing
at the still raven locks of his wife
who Bat opposite, “I bad kept the na
ture of my secret well, and not even
my student friends knew the danger
ous composition in the huge beakers
which I was manipulating.
“I think the hour was 11 p. m., or
thereabouts, anil I was alone in the
recesses of the main laboratory, busy
with combination of nitrates and car
bon. when hearing a step. I turned
and saw the face of my friend Aga
thos.
"For some moments he watched me
as l observed the thermometer In the
nitric bath, and then we engaged in
conversation.
“ Brown,’ he murmured, ‘I have to
day separated a now alkaloid, from
the plant, coca-erythroxylon. and its
effects on the human system are truly
remarkable—here, try a dose; taste
less as water, 1 assure you;’ and. fool
that i was, I took the proffered glass
of water, into which lie dissolved a ]
fine white powder, and l have always
regretted that l did so.
“The subtle drug paralyzed every
muscle of my body and bereft me of
the power of speech; 1 was like one
iu a trance; my intellect, liowvcer,
was unimpaired nay, even stimulat
edflind my eyesight was good, for al!
I could not turn u.y eyes in their sock
ets.
“It was at. this juncture 11 learned
that 1 was alone with a madman!
“Deftly be removed the parapher
nalia from an operating table, and lift
ing me bodily, 1 was soon lying on the
marble slab, as if a subject for the
clinic.
“ 'Now-.' I could hear him mutter. ‘I
shall soon test the material qualities
of the human soul—but 1 must have
those dissecting instruments;' and
while he was gone I was engaged in
the most agonizing reflections. 1
•'I remembered that in ail our pre
vious discourse ou life and immortal
lty lie had argued that ttie human
soul, if there wan one, was as materi
fr=-* i
"Here, try a dose; tasteless as water,
I assure you.”
&1 as the heart or lungs, or other or
gans of the body, and, being a close
Btudeut of vivisection, he maintained
the soul could, under proper condi
tions, be isolated and observed pre
vious to its flight, at the exact instant
of dissolution. It was clear, then,
that I was the subject chosen tor this
terrible esperliueut!
“Vainly I tried to cry aloud, but my
jaws were as firmly locked as ir rigor
mortis hnd actually set in. 1 tried to
move, but 1 experienced only the hor
rible emotions of one about to be
buried alive!
"It was clear enough to me that he
had obtained this fiendish idea from
an old Ionian manuscript, written in
the fifth century before the advent of
Christ, clearly the work of a monk, by
name Koryphanos, for I had read the
theorem time and again, and was sur
prised at its absurdity.
"Thus it was that I was somewhat
prepared for the terrible operation to
follow, which consisted of removing
the epidermis from the entire vis
cera, or in other words, in stripping
A blinding flash, a jar that must have
shaken the building to its founda
tion.
the entire chest of everything but the
intervening thin membrane, so the ac
tion of the various organs could be ob
served while the patient was yet alive.
It was thus that Agathos expected to
pry into the secrets of the Almighty
and observe the transit of the human
soul.
It was clear the Greek wa3 crazy,
and it is a fact that insane persons
always select their dearest friends for
victims.
“At last I heard his footfalls swift
ly coming along the empty aisles,
flanked on either hand with racks of
phials, retorts and glassware of all
kinds, and I could well see my finish.
“I could discern the subtle odor of
ether, amt as he stooped over mo, his
eyes burned almost with the fury of
a lion!
“His next act was to deftly remove
all covering from my chest and for an
instant he listened attentively to the
beating of my heart. Next he began
to sharpen those murderous looking
surgical knives, of which he had a
goodly supply, and having completed
this task to his satisfaction, he un
corked a large bottle of ether, the
only known anesthetic of that time,
and began saturating a sponge with
it, when a strange sputtering sound
from the direction of the rack where
I had been conducting my experiment
caused him to desist.
“Already I saw salvation in sight,
for, as the student of even elementary
chemistry knows, concentrated acids
heat violently when they combine
with other substances, even with wat
er, and i knew the mixture of nltro
carbon (I was using the light hydro
carbon, turpentine. Instead of glycer
ine) with powerful nitric acid, had
gone too long without attention. An
explosion was likely to occur at any
moment,
“Anyhow, I reflected, I had much
rather be blown to atoms than to be
cut up piecemeal while yet alive.
While the sputtering continued Aga
thos regarded it with an air of uncer
tainty, as if undecided what to do
with the mess.
“The insidious drug with which 1
was charged—it must have been co
caine—was beginning to leave me, so
that I was able to partly turn, ami 1
am since thankful I turned my back in
the right direction, else 1 would have
been blinded.
“Agathos was bending over my ap
paratus. which contained a full quart
of substance more powerful and oven
more unstable than nitro glycerine,
when, the cooling bath not being re
newed, it exploded by reason of the
excess of beat.
“There was a blinding flash, a Jai
that must have shaken the building tc
its foundations, and amid the sound
of crashing glass I lost consciousness.
‘ Weeks and weeks. I am told, I
hovered at death's door with brain
fever, from which I finally emerged
alive, due to the skill of my nurse,
the lady you see sitting across the ta
ble there—my wife.
“There was scarcely a bottle or pane
of glass in the laboratory that was not
broken to fragments, and thousands
of dollars’ Worth of fine Instruments
were rendered useless.
“Agathos was blown completely to
atoms, and I am told it was with diffi
culty that enough of his remains could
be found to give decent burial.
‘‘When I recovered completely I was
placed in the sweat box by the facul
ty to ascertain the cause of the explo
sion; but as you may surmise, they
never learned the exact formula of
that dangerous composition.
"My once black hair turned to
snowy white, and for a long time af
terward I would wake with a sort of
nightmare to experience the sensa
tion of cold steel penetrating my vi
tals.
"The immortality of the soul, or its
very existence may remain in doubt,
but I still have the fifth century parch
ment that came near sacrificing me to
the cause of science, aud I never re
gard its uncial text without a shud
der."
HOW THEY READ THE PAPER.
Varying Departments Which Interest
Different People.
"Very old persons,” said an ohserv
er, "nearly always, on unfolding their
newspapers, turn to the personal col
umns. This la because, in the first
place, they are more likely to find
news of their friends there than in the
news columns or In any other part ol
the paper; and, because, in the second
place, they are interested in personal
matters—they have the subject so
much in their minds.
"Young girls turn first to the soci
ety news and weddings, and after that
to the fashions. Young men of the
healthy, open-air sort, turn first to the
sporting news; while boys univer
sally turn to this page, too. The actor,
of course, reads the dramatic col
umns, and the writer the book re
views; but neither of these depart
ments, I fancy, does any part of the
disinterested public consult first ot
all.
"The elderly gentleman of pompous
appearance reads the 'leaders’ first;
while his corpulent, cheerful wife
reads the recipes on the ‘household’ |
page. Some clergymen road the wills
of the dead, to see what charities have
been remembered with bequests.
There are many people vho read the
crimes, the scandals and the shocking
accidents first. Poets, as a rule, will
not read the newspapers at all.
WHY SHE LIKED VENUS.
Housemaid's Preference Had Very
Practical Basis.
“A practical point of view will in
fluence even an artistic judgment,”
said the lady with the Burne-Jones
chignon, as I discovered the other
day when my new servant seemed to
take such interest in the objects of
art in my parlor as no maid of the
many who have preceded her in the
bouse ever showed. Pleased with her
really intelligent interest in my pic
tures and bric-a-brac, I took pains t4
show her the best points of each ol*
ject, and reaily l found the task a
pleasant and unique experience. But
I wish bow that I had not asked her,
as I did at the end of the impromptu
exhibition, which of the objects she
liked best.
" ‘This is the one I like best,
ma'am.’ said Mary, pointing with her
feather duster to the armless Venus
of Milo.
“ 'Well.' thought I, ‘this is getting
more and more Interesting. Here is
Mary showing high artistic judgment.’
“ ’And why do you like the Venus
best, Mary?’ I asked, anxious to bear
her estimate of the famous statue.
“‘Why. sure, ma'am, it's the aisiest
to doost!’ replied Mary, and 1 hastily
closed the private view.”
The Knell of the Irish Joke.
Wherever the breezes carry
The language that Shakespeare spoke,
The chambers of progress echo
The knell of the Irish Joke.
Wherever the snn Is vying
With the warmth of the Critic soul,
From the lo Ifries of truth, tile dirges
For scorn and for falsehood l oll.
In a land that is strange In Its humor,
Kver comic Itself In its mirth.
The jibe at the conquered and friendless.
And the rough burlesque had their
birth.
Like th" plague that Journeys In vessels
This tasteless derision spread.
And the scorn of a realm then building
Was heaped oa the builders' head.
Hut the shackles on Celtic effort,
The walls by the tyrant laid,
After ages, at length li< shattered
On the highways a new age made.
In the regions whose name should b«
“Future.’’
The dawn of a new day broke,
As a mist from our race It is rolling
The curse of the Irish joke.
—Thomas J. Heg.tn In The Pilot.
Women Brokers.
Two young women in New York
have lately made a hit as stock brok
ers. One of them was a school teach
er. Many women would rather deal
with a woman broker when possible:
and the men in the same line like
her because she carries on her af
fairs in a businesslike way. Th*
other woman broker, who has an up
town office, Is just as discreet and
systematic. They are both making
money.
The Latest Girl Fad.
The latest is a polished floor walk.
Olrls are so clever that even those
who have rag carpets on every floor
at home walk on the streets as if they
had to mince around on highly pol
ished hardwood when at bom*.—Atch
ison Globe.
TRIBUTE TO YANKEE INGENUITY
—
Chinese Paper Describes a Truly Won
derful Invention.
Admiral Dewey was a prominent
figure at the Saratoga races. Usually
he occupied a box. One afternoon a
little party of farmers came up to
shake hands with him and. naturally,
the talk turned to agriculture.
“When 1 was in the Philippines.”
said the admiral, "an American resi
dent brought me a Chinese paper. He
said this paper would interest me be
cause it contained an account of an
American invention. Then, with a
smile, he translated a paragraph that
ran something like this:
“ ‘The ingenuity of the yankeo is
typified well in a hen’s nest that he
has recently invented and patented.
This nest Increases the laying capacity
of the hens to an unlimited degree.
In the bottom of it there is a trap door,
governed by a delicate spring. The
hen lays an egg. the weight of which
causes the trap door to open, where
upon the egg drops down into a sub
lerreanean compartment ami the door
closes very swiftly and silently again.
The lion gets up. turns to look at the
egg, but sees none there. So she de
cides that she must be mistaken in
thinking she had laid, and she sits
down again and deposits another egg,
which, like its predecessor, disappears.
Tlie process continues indefinitely.' ”
BLIND PEOPLE AS MASSEURS.
Occupation for Which They Are Pecu
liarly Well Suited.
An institute for massage by the
blind, which is about to be started in
England under a committee that in
clude* many representative medical
men, is not an experiment. It has
been proved that the blind can become
expert in the practice of massage,
whica in Japan is commonly recog
nized as their work. The occupations
open to the blind are few and rarely
remunerative. This difficulty is one
of the gravest obstacles to the im
provement of the condition of this af
flicted class. There are already sev
eral blind masseurs in England. Blind
students must obtain first-class medi
cal certificates in an art which is
daily more used, especially by sur
geons in sprains and bruises, and mas
seures will be allowed to treat only
women and children and masseurs
only men. It is worthy of note that
the blind are usually endowed with a
sense of touch exceptionally fine, so
lhat here, and perhaps here alone, is
a field in which they may surpass their
seeing fellows, massage being depen
dent for its success upon the nicety of
its application, dependent in its turn
on the nicety of'the operator’s tactile
sense.
You and I.
The winter wind Is wailing, sad and law.
Across the lake and through the tus
tllng sedge;
The splendor of the golden afterglow
Oleums through the blackness of the
great yew hedge:
And this I read on earth and in the sky:
VVe ought to be together, y ou and 1.
Rapt th-nugh its rosy changes into dark,
Fades all the west; and through the
shadowy trees,
And In the silent uplands of the park
Creeps the soft sighing of the rising
breese.
Tt does but echo to my weary sigh.
We ought to be together, you and 1.
My hand is lonely for your clasping
dear:
My ear is tired, waiting for your call:
I want your strength to help, your laugh
to cheer:
Heart, soul and senses need you, one
and all.
I droop without your full, frank sympa
thy:
We ought to be together, you and I.
We want each other so. to comprehend
The dream, the hope, things planned or
seen, or wrought:
Companion, comforter, ar.d guide, and
friend,
As much as love asks love, does thought
need thought.
I.lfe Is bo short, so fust the lone hours
fly.
We might to be together, you and 1.
—Inldentltlcd.
Tipping at the Waldorf.
One of the stock stories about tip
ping i:. that of the waiter in a swell
hotel sneering at a quarter and re
marking to the giver, "I hog pardon;
haven’t you made a mistake?” A few
nights ago, in the main dining-room
of the Waldorf-Astoria, where tips
range from a quarter to $.■>.* Western
er (not John Watch-Me Gates this
time) said to his two companions
"Watch me paralyze this waitef. He
ain't worth a cuss; he hasn't showed
us any extra attention and doesn't de
serve a cent, but here goes.”
The bill being paid and change
placed before him in a plate, he hand
?d the waiter a copper cent. As he
•xpected. gareou turned up his nose
and said:
"I beg pardon, haven’t you made
' a mistake?”
"Not at all," was the reply: not
at all. You are quite welcome. I never
give less.”
Waiter duly paralyzed.—New York
Press.
Free Lunch for Women.
Usually the grocery department or
the big grocery stores is thronged
with women all day long. Many of
them make a point of partaking of all
the solids and liquids that are offered
as sample*. Yesterday oue stylishly
dressed woman was heard to say to
her companion:
"Nonsense, my dear, don’t be fool
ish! Of course, you needn't bring any
thing. unless you really want to. Why.
I wander around here three times a
week and manage to make a very sub
stantial luncheon by going from one
counter to another. The men don’t
mind taking a bite of free lunch in the
saloons, and why should we not do
likewise In the department stores?”—
‘ New York Pres*
For the individual
1796 ? 1872 8 1952
W HERE OTHERS GIVE UP IS
JUST WHERE WE GET OUR
SECOND BREATH. J*
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!; A better on bow j
(By a Correspondent.)
What should 1 know about law? I
am the average Individual, neither or
dinary nor extraordinary, neither fool
nor sage. During my business life I
have occasionally consulted a lawyer,
have had several lawsuits, and have
learned some law.
A lawyer once told me that when
he was studying in an office for admis
sion to the bar, he thought of writing
an essay on “Popular Misconceptions
of Daw,” and asked the advice of his
preceptor about it, who said: “Young
man, you better write an article on
‘Lawyers’ Misconceptions of Law.’"
The student’s ready response was: “I
believe that subject is too broad.”
A Lawyer’s Knowledge.
Some people believe a lawyer should
know everything, and when they dis
cover their lawyer does not, begin to
look for another one. Such persons
usually have as many lawyers as they
have legal propositions lodged In their
brains. Whenever the lawyer fails, so
does their faith. They seem never to
come to the conclusion that a lawyer
should not be expected to know it all
'any more than any other person in his
'particular calling or business.
Although a lawyer should not be
'expected to know everything he should
be expected and should know those
•things which will fulfill the purposes
for which ho is sought to be used by
‘his clients. A legal author well says:
“An attorney agrees that he possesses
iat least the average degree of skill and
learning in his profession in that part
of the country he practices, and that
he will exercise that learning and skill
'with reasonable care and diligence.”
Courts of Equity.
I always supposed a court of equity
*was a court of justice until I learned
!to my sorrow that it was not. I asked
my lawyer the real meaning of a court
of equity. He said it was a court of
chancery. “And what is a court of
chancery?” “It is that side of the
court as distinguished from the law
side.” “And how do you distinguish
it?” “The difference between a court
tof equity and a court of law i3 that
joquity begins where the law ends, that
equity reaches those cases the law
■does not, that equity takes jurisdiction
of those matters only where the law
falls to provide a remedy.” As I did
not fully understand his explanation
he further said: "These courts of
equity are an outgrowth of the Eng
lish common law. At an early day the
•only courts were the law courts, mid
as in many cases persons were
wronged, and the courts of law af
forded no remedy, it became the cus
tom to petition the king for justice
to be done. These cases became so
numerous that the king finally re
ferred them to the Lord High Chancel
lor, and he, in turn, feeling burdened
.by them, secured the establishment
of regular courts of chancery, from
which we derive the term ’chancery,’
and which are called courts of equity
b»:ause they seek to do equity in
those cases where the law fails to do
bo.’’ As an illustration he mentioned
the case of a court of equity granting
an injunction in a matter where a
court of law could only give damages
which would be an entirely inadequate
remedy.
On Common Sense.
I have found law as a rule if found
ed on good sense. It is, or •'hould be,
simply common sense. Some laws,
no doubt, especially statutes, are
based on error and wrong, but in the
main they are “the science of social
order and the perfection of human
reason ”
The best definition for law I have
ever seen is the simple one: “Law is
a rule of action.” There are longer
definitions, and those going more Into
detail, but none so general and com
prehensive.
In endeavoring to remember differ
ent distinctions In law I have found it
useful to memorize certain apt
phrases. One of the best I recollect
Is that of Justice Story, who, in re
ferring to particular powers of gov
ernment, says: “The difference be
tween the departments undoubtedly
is that the legislature makes, the ex
ecutive executes and the Judiciary
construes the laws."
Some Legal Definitions.
Until I had my first lawsuit I al
ways thought the pleadings In a case
were the speeches of the attorneys;
I then learned that they were not, but
were m fact the preliminary written
statements of the cause of action for
the plaintiff and the defense on the
part of the defendant, and wero en
tirely distinct from the forensic argu
ments of the lawyers. My first im
pression was that a good pleader was
a good speaker, one who could con
vince a judge or persuade a jury; my
later knowledge was that a good
pleader wras a lawyer who could prop
erly state the case of his client on pa
per In legal phraseology and accord
ing to the legal effect.
Probably the shortest will ever writ
ten Is that spoken of by Rabelais. It
was as follows: “I owe much, I have
nAttiing, I give the rest to the poor."
Ixjrd Mansfield says: “There is
nothing so unlike as a simile, and
nothing more apt to mislead.”
Judge Cooley defines a constitution
as “The body of rules and maxims in
accordance with which the powers ol
sovereignty are habitually exercised."
Coleridge gays: "A nation Is the
unity of a people.”
A countryman once went to the of
fice of a Justice of the peace to be
married. After the conclusion of th*
ceremony he asked the justice whaf
were his fees. The justice replied:
“Well, the law allows me >1.50."
"Very well,” said the countryman
“here Is 50 cents more, that makos
>2.00.”
secrets Always Kept.
Lawyers are as a rule, good to keep
secrets. The ethics of their profes
sion gives them training. Every con
scientious lawyer must consider “his
lips sealed with sacred silence."
"A maxim,” says Bispham, "Is the
embodiment of a general truth In the
shape of a familiar adage.”
It Is a principle that every wrong
has a remedy. Even the smallest one
is entitled to compensation. “The in
significance of the injury goes to the
extent of the recovery and not to the
light of action.” To illustrate: In
some cases one cent damages are
awarded.
Law Index of Little Value.
I once asked an attorney whether
an Index of law could not be made
such as those outside the profession
could use. lie said that an index
might be made, and in fact many do
exist, but that it could not be put to
universal use because of the lack of
knowledge of basic principles and fa
miliarity of legal terms, and then told
the following story: An owner of a
sugar camp had the misfortune to
have n neighbor who kept sheep. One
night the sheep broke through the
rail fence and drank the sap, upset
the sugar troughs and otherwise
played havoc in the camp. The owner
of the camp went to a Justice of the
peace of little learning and plenty of
books who bad unfortunately been ad
mitted to the bar. The case was stat
ed to the legal adviser, who said the
matter was such a perplexing opa
that he must consider it for a Hew
days before giving his advice. ‘If
then told his client he thought it mi
wise to begin suit as he could not sea
as there was any cause for action.
The client thought otherwise, and
said it seemed plain to him that
where one man's sheep broke a fence
and destroyed another's property the
law would give damages. The attor
ney replied, “Well, you don’t know.
Do you see all these books? I have I
looked through them all, and I find
nothing about ‘sheep,’ ‘rail fence,’
‘sap’ or ’sugar trough.’ ” If he had
known how to use his books he would
have found all he wanted under the
head of “torts” and “trespass.”
Causes of Legislation.
If lawyers were consulted more
about preliminary business matters
there would be much less litigation.
This is well shown by the fact that
there is so much more litigation here
than in England, where every bu3l
ness man has his solicitor and scarce
ly makes a business move without
consulting him; while here the aver
age man acts as his own lawyer. The
old saying is no doubt true: "A man
who acts as his own lawyer has a fool
for a client J. H.
