1 Appalling Expenses of Modern Beau Brummek w Ones. FARE'S r uU D»tf*E.R FIX A WORROV3 BRiDFj3Roort miu. do nocc TO BooH BOS.HtA-i AT THE BRECC^t-f: WAKF-R^TWAH A TX3KEH TornAU TOHcTiOH-a,. THE. VAULT HC^T WOM v*Hat to PACK AND ROM TO t>o IT_ Some Expend at Least $2 0,000 Each on Wardrobe. ihe modern American Beau Brum mel expends $20,000 a year for his clothes. The original Beau Brummel was an exquisite, who dressed that the world might gaze upon him in won der and admiration. His twentieth century representative cares not a whit for mere externals, but he is a heritable sybarite. “Thousands for comfort, but not one cent for per fumes,” is the paraphrase which might fit the well-dressed man of to- ; day. He leaves faddishness and i scents to dancing masters and hair- ; dressers and asks to be merely well groomed. It is not New York’s multi millionaires alone who expend this amount on clothes. Boston, Philadel _ _ __ — phia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver and San Francisco all boast their quota of sartorial spendthrifts, but ceitain New York firms, haber dashers, trousersmakers (the term tail or is obsolete) and importers of men's wear practically control the extrava gant trade. Men like the Vanderbilts. Goulds and Astors, who have both country and city homes, have their wardrobes in duplicate; that is. one complete wardrobe is maintained in the town house and on.1 in the country, and clothing is not carried back and forth. This keeps the garments in better condition and is well worth extra ex pense. THE LOSS FROM STRIKES. Labor Disturbances Cost an Immense Amount of Money. The statistics on this subject show a loss to the country from strikes that is simply appalling. We, who are so familiar with the word “strike” that we scarcely give it a second glance while reading our papers, have not tae slightest conception of the vast amount of money that has been lost through labor disturbances. Available figures show that in the 1 twenty years between 1881 and 190U there were 22,793 strikes, which cost the country in wages, expenses and direct loss of trade the enormous sum of $396,769,392! During the same pe riod there were 1,005 lockouts, costing $72,199,189, making a total of $468 968,581! Here is a loss of almost half a billion dollars figured from three items only—that is, loss of wages, assist ance, or money advanced to strikers Ly their sympathizers, and loss to em ployers. It would be a fair computa tion to estimate an equal sum lost dt rectiy and indirectly by the general public because of the strikes. Total, *one billion dollars in twenty years!—Woman’s Home Companion. Agency Formed to Jog the Memory. The frequent cases of weakness or loss of memory which threaten to make this age remarkable have given rise in Vienna to the establishment of a “Memento Agency.” whose function is to relieve of anxiety those people who can not rely on their own recol ection with regard to future engage ments. The agency issues a double envelope to its clients. In one, on which you write your name, address and the date on which you wish to have your memory jogged, you inclose a note of the particular business of which you want reminding. You seal it up and send it, in the second en velope, to the agency, which returns you the inclosure exactly at the de sired time. You are thus freed from all intermediate worry. There is only one possible flaw in this arrangement. Who can guarantee that the employes of the agency will not also lapse into forgetfulness? Money Invented in Railroads. Of the sum which had been invested in the world’s railroads at the close of 1902 it is estimated, according to the English Railway Magazine, that more than £3.760,000,000 has been spent on 184.000 miles of European railroad and £3.232,000,000 on the 337,000 miles owned by the rest of the ^ world. On this basis it is found that the road* of Europe represent an in vestment of £22.952 a mile, while those of the rest of the world average £11,405. Great Britain’s railroads rep resent the highest cost per mile, fig ures standing at £51.368. while those of Belgium come next with £30,048. Putting It Delicately. “Henry," said Mrs. Fussy as they wrnt in to dinner, “I wish you would tell Willie in some way. so it will not offend him, that he takes too much sugar in his coffee. It isn’t good for him, and I know his mother wouldn’t allow it.” ‘•Willie,” said Mr. Fussy a few min utes later, turning to the young nephew who was visiting him, “you don’t mix quite enough coffee with your sugar.”—Boston Post. Japanese Army Telegraph. Electricity never played so import ant a role as it does at present in the !ar East. The Japanaese generals use noth telegraph and telephone in is suing their commands. A.s soon as firing is heard in any direction bam boo poles are planted and wires strung, and in a short time the line is ready for use. Record for Pigeon Flyin. By flying 301 miles in four hours, the pigeons of the Adelaide (Aus tralia) Flying club have established t world's record. SPRUNG FROM SAME SOURCE. Whale and Lion Said to Be of Identi cal Origin. As every one knows or ought to know, the whale is not a fish, but mammal, and zoologists have long pondered and disputed about its fam ily tree. In Eocene times the ances tors of mammals were beginning to take shape somewhat like those of to day and to lose the grotesqueness in herited front their reptilian progeni tors. To be sure, animals were very different from those of to-day. Horses were no larger than dogs and had five toes, while cattlelike tinoceras, twice the size of an ox, with six horns, tusklike teeth and five toes, cropped the heritage of Wyoming. Along wi*h these peculiar plant feeders there dwelt some very primitive flesh eat ers, to which Prof. Cape gave the name of ereadonta. The scene shifts to modern times. Prof. Fraas of Stuttgart, Germany, is delving in the rocks near Cairo, Egypt. He is getting out huge jaw bones that have been petrified. The jawbones are those of whales and the rocks near Cairo were, in Eocene times, the seashore. The professor has studied his whale jaws and com pared their teeth with other fossil teeth. Now he tells us in a recent Abhandlungen that these teeth of an cient whales are like those of the ancient carniverous creodonts. From this he argues that on Eocene or ear lier times some primitive flesh eater took to an aquatic life. From these old times to the present whales have been becoming more fishlike. It is hard to believe that the raven ous lion and inoffensive and toothless whale of to-day had a common ances tor, yet they both have the same tastes for blood, only the whale swal lows his food whole. Don't Grow Old. Many women become middle-aged from the simple reason that they al low middle-aged habits to steal upon them, and relapse into a state of phys ical indolence just at a time when they should fight against this ten dency to give up exercise, says Worn j an's Life. “The best preventatives against growing middle-aged,” says a j charming woman of 45, whose un wrinkled face and slim figure give her the appearance of being at least 15 years younger than her real age, “are cheerfulness, a strict determina tion not to worry over trifles, and a sense of humor that saves one from depression. A cold tub every morn ing. a walk every day in rain and sun shine, face massage with cold cream at night, ten minutes’ physical exer cise immediately on rising, friction of the hair to stimulate its growth, will keep any woman free from wrinkles, and will preserve the contour of her figure. Servant Problem an Old One. How ancient is the servant prob lem? A correspondent quotes from a letter dated North Yarmouth, Maine. March 26, 1785, as follows: “I have been without any but Betsy about a fortnight, and am determined to con tinue so rather than endeavor to hire one of this country. The pride of in dependence is so prevalent here that the people had rather slave at home than live in my kitchen in plenty, j Were I to take them to my table they j would have no objection to oblige me. i The want of good domestics is general, j therefore I have less reason to com j plain, but I wish a method could be ! found to render us less dependent j upon them.” --- Past and Present. So our rich American citizens are | buying up feudal castles in England | What a shock the click of the type j writer must be to ancient skeletons j in armor! And think of sending tele | grams to the steel trust from haunted i and queens kissed hands with death! j chambers where kings held court. —Atlanta Constitution. ENOUGH TO MAKE HIM SWEAR. Money in His Pocket When He Thought He Was Penniless. “I was brought up to use a good line of talk.” says a young man who lives out near the Catholic university, “i’ve been married now six months, and the only time my wife has ever heard a curse word from my lips was last Sunday morning. I went to a poker party over by the navy yard Saturday night. My wife knew 1 was going, and just to show her what a harmless little game it was going to be I gave her most of my money be fore I left home. It was a very mild game we played, but the grain of the table was against me and by midnight I was broke. I didn’t want to make a touch right there, so. as 1 was young and strong, I concluded I’d stroll downtown and borrow car fare of a newspaper man I knew. It was a nice night for a walk. Well, I frisked into the newspaper man’s office and found that he'd gone to Baltimore. I’ve lived in Washington all my life, but I am not known at any hotel. There was no place where I'd be allowed to stay without baggage except on the C. O. D. basis, so off I set for home, alone in the starry night, with a brand-new pair of patent leathers on. I romped under the wire two lengths ahead of the milkman and went to bed. Along about 9 o'clock my wiie came in and woke me. “‘What's the matter?’ I said. ‘Are they ready to amputate my feet?’ “T just wanted some money for the Sunday papers,’ said she, picking up my vest. “ ‘You'll have to pawn something,' I said. ‘I'm brtike.’ “She was poking in my watch pock et. “ ‘Don't take my watch.’ I said. “ ‘I don’t want it.’ she answered. ‘I want that $5 bill I put here before you went away.’ “It was there too. I bet you any man would hare said exactly what 1 said.” LONG SIEGES IN HISTORY. Some Gallant Defenses Made by Be leaguered Garrisons. The longest siege of antiquity was that of Ashdod by the Egyptians. Ac cording to one authority it lasted nine teen years. Another fixes it at tvven ty-r.ine years. Fabled Troy was he sieged for ten years. The siege of Jerusalem hv Titus A. D. 7**, though not the longest, was the most sanguinary on record. Syra cuse. 214 B. C.. held out against the Romans for three years, and Carthage resisted them. 147 B. C.. for two years Famous among sieges was that of Par ma. which capitulated in 1585 after a year's investment. Candia. in Crete, surrendered to the Turks ir. 1669 atter a siege of twenty four years, during which, it is said 200,000 were slain. Gibraltar success fully resisted the Spaniards ant1 French from July 16, 1779, to Feb. 5, 1783. Among modern sieges that of Se vastopol. 1854-55, is interesting, inas much as the besieged were Russians Sevastopol and Port Arthur are sea ports. When the former was investee the Russians blockaded the harbot with sunken battleships. When the evacuation took place they sank all ol their remaining ships. The siege ol Sevastopol lasted 349 days, during which the besieged were heavily rein forced. If You and I— If love were what the rose is. And I were like the leaf. Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather. Rlown fields or flowerful closes. Green pleasures or gray grief; If love were what the rose is. And I were like the leaf. If I were what the words are. And love were like the tune. With double sound and single Delight our lips would mingle, With kisses glad as birds are That get sweet rain at noon; If 1 were what the words are. And love were like the tune. If you were Apiil's lady. And I were lord in May. We rl throw with leaves for hours. And draw for days with flowers, Till day like night were shady. And night were bright like day; If you were April's lady. And 1 were lord in May. If you were queen of pleasure. And I were king of pain. We'd hunt down love together. Pluck out his flying-feather. And teach his feet a measure. And find his mouth a rein: If you wrere queen of pleasure, And 1 were king of pain. —Swinburne. Prevention of Railroad Wrecks. In the good time coming there wil not be any single-track railroads no: any trains going in opposite direction: on the same track; grade crossing: will have been abolished, the road beds, tracks and rolling stock of al roads will be as sound and safe a& science, skill and money can make tbem. and no effort to insure safety will be spread. Very few of our enor mous aggregate of deaths and injur ies by rail would have occurred had all of these conditions been present It is the absence of most of them that piles up the appalling list. So long as that absence exists the slaughtering will go on. It will decrease in pro portion to the extent to which the obvious causes are removed.—Wash ington Post. Fruit Culture in Ireland. Sir Horace Plunkett, presiding at a conference of fruit grow-ers held at Ballsbridge, Dublin, said that the farmers of the north of Ireland, where the soil was not the most suit able, had built up a fruit industry which was an object lesson to the rest of the country. From the one station of Annamore, county Armagh, the strawberries dispatched by rail had risen from 100 tons to 700 tons in the course of a few years. Seeks Japanese Trade. Canada is pushing for sales in Ja pan. Consuls are being appointed with authority to pay for early statistical information. Sample rooms will be at tached to the consulates. Japanese products will be exhibited In cornmer cial museums in Canada. Import Thorium Nitrate. Thorium nitrate to the amount of 64,520 pounds, valued at $232,155, was imported into the United States last year, for use principally it- the manu facture of incandescent gaslight man li£S_ j BREAKS THE RECORD A TWENTIETH CENTURY FLYER IN THE MEDICAL HELD. Rheumatism Rapidly amt Radically Cured, Quick Work of a Famous Remedy. Convenience, comfort, safety, speed tire demanded by the traveling public in OammatloD, alia;* pain, cure* wind coll»~ ZScabotUa. He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the i consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing Is, in Itself, ample reward.—Seneca. Important to Mothers. examine carefully every bottle of CASTORTA, : a safe and sure remedy for infanta and children, , and see that it Bean the Signature »f Is Vee For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Other states may boast of their cap tains of industry, but Kentucky has \ ncorr/plirwentary Ph>sician. Dr. Garth, a. witty physician of the r^tirt of Queen Anne, had prescribed a nauseous dose for the great warrior, t':.e Dune of Marlborough. When the . dike objected to following the direc ; tions the sharp-tongued Duchess Sarah broke in by saying: “I’ll be hanged if it does not cure you.” “There, my lord,” interposed Garth, “you had better swallow it; you will gain either way.” Seagull a Weatherwise Bird. The seagull makes a splendid living ; barometer, says the Lahore Tribune, j If a convoy of seagulls fly seaward early in the morning, sailors and fish ermen know that the day will be fine | and the wind fair; but if the birds keep inland—though there be no haze hanging out toward the sea to denote unpleasant weather—interested folk know that the elements will be unfa-1 ; vorable. - Paid for Daughter’s Opportunity. That his 17-year-old daughter might get her chance on the stage, a well known English stock broker guaran teed the whole of the expenses of a new production, conditionally upon j his favorite being given, and trained, for the leading role. The venture cost him over £7,000, but the ycung lady ! has since earned a creditable theatri j cal reputation. Firmness Needed. A fireman on a Jersey Central loco motive climbed down on the pilot and knocked a man off the track when the | engine got close to him. Tresspassing | on the railroad tracks must be sternly i suppressed.—Buffalo Express. — All Love Admiration. No truthful woman will admit that she’d rather be a violet hidden in the woodland than an American Beauty in a florist’s window’. New York Girls Must Smoke. It’s funny how a girl’s lips can smell of tobacco smoke when she has been in a room alone with a man.—New York Press. Modern Education. The Birmingham (Eng.) school au thorities not only teach the children to cook, but how to shop economic ally. Mother Cray’s Sweet powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse i in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30.000 tes timonials. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample t FREE. Address A. S.Olmsted, LeRoy,N. Y. ! Thought for School Boys. The boy who does not go to school does not know what Saturday is.— Maltbie D. Babcock. Happiness Thrown Away. 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