DAVIS FOB SENATOR 1RKANSA3 GOVERNOR TO SUC Cj-^D JAilES H. BERRY. ‘Cornfield Lawyer,” Nominated at State Primaries by Popuiar Vote, a Picturesque Being—Is a Crafty Politic.an. Little ilock. Ark.—Arkansas is going to scad to tae Lnited Blates benute Gov. jeft Davis, wao is, like Tinman, a ‘•coraaeid lawyer," and proud o£ it. Staid o.u ber.nior James H. Berry has been ueieated in the state primary, anu Davis nomination by the Demo cratic party is believed to be equiva lent to e.etucn. i.e is a politician wuo flourishes at close range with a con stituency that depends upon oral, not priuteu, campaign arguments, i.e has been attorney general once, and thrice governor, ue is 44 years olu. ••Jeui," as he is familiarly known, knows what turn will please the class of voters which he wishes to reach. The absence of an issue is no bar to him. He is the issue himself. He al ways has appealed to the "back coun ty” farmer and the laborer, playing upon their sympathies and on their prejudices. He is a good story-teller and a nun of great personal magnet ism, which he knows how to employ to advantage. In his campaigns “Jed” devotes the greater part of his time to the smaller towns and to the cotin try districts, for here his strength lies. In nis first campaign for governor Davis devised an appeal to sympathy which incidentally proved a great ad vertisement for a proprietary medi cine, and he went through antics that a street fakir could well have copied as an aid tn selling the compound. Charges of trickery and fraud were being hurled at him, trom which he Claimed he was tinder great nervous strain. He would stop in the midd'e of a vigorous address, the perspiration pouring from his face, and dramat ically uncork a bottle and pour the contents down his back and bosom. He was charged by his opponents with spending more money for this medi cine than for his railroad fare in the campaign. His recent race for United States senator was devoid of many of the pic GOV. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ("Arkansas Jeff.” Who Will Undoubtedly Succeed Senator iserry.J turesque plays which indelibly im pressed his personality upon the minds of the people of his native state. "Do you know what is the matter with those fellows down there in Little Hock?” he would say. “I can tell you. They’re mad. They're mad as can be, because they’re net in of fice any more. I turned the whoie set of high-collared roosters out when 1 was first elected your governor, and put the men from the picw handles in their places.’ tor ail that, he had a well-oiled, efficient political machine. in his second campaign lor governor Davis wore an old white hat similar to those worn by the residents of the dis tricts which he visited. A pair of honte-kuit white socks could be plainly seen above his shoetops, while fas tened diagonally across his shoulders would be a single suspender strap. “Those city folks down there won’t speak to me,” he would s-ay. "I’m not dressed up enougn for them,” and off the coat would come and expose the one ’’gallus.” Before his third term as governor Davis made a campaign for vindica tion, so he styied it. He had been charged with appropriating part of his contingent fund, allowed by the state, to his personal use. He was arraigned before a special committee of the legis lature, and impeachment was much talked of, but it failed. "I am a strong believer in the prin ciples that ihe United States senators should be elected, as they are in ibis state, by popular vote,” said Senator Elect Davis, in a recent interview. “The people ought to select the of ficers without the legislature, and in this way do away with the fraud and corruption in the legislature in sena torial matters, 'i his will give the poor man a chance.” Davis recently closed all the gam bling houses, pool rooms and Sunday saloons iu tioi Springs, and appointed a prosecuting attorney, on the recom mendaticn of the ministers of that city, who, he believed,, would enforce the law. This followed a coolness be tween him and the Hot Springs offi cials, who were for Berry in the sena torial race. Davis political promises always have been made good after election, and he has made tartful use of his appointive power. He is quick to see a deception, Vis a master of details, knows "every body in * r'-«r>vns,” and is conceded to be a good lawyer. , Returned wi*li Thirds. \ “I come,” began the poor wyman la thin shawl, "to ask you for sore tliVa to keen the wolf from (he door.” \ Mie manuracturer took some:h:ng j /ron\the shelf. “Tflere is one of our patented game i .traps. Set it a litt'e distance way, 5 and th» wolf will never reach the I door.”—Royal Magazine. (Grouchy. "Does your rheumatism bother you much T” “I should say it did. Every idiot. I meet asks questions about it”—Cleve land Leader. POWER OF F.. . CH cal:net Clemenceau, Minister of the Interior, Is a Genius in ~-.ar.y Lines. Paris.—It is agreed on all sldei th u the domia^n. figi.e in h: French cabinet is not riarr.e.i, h premier and the mi .liter o. j s i e, nor even B urg ois, the fo ei n mi - [ ister, bat C.emenceau, ihe mm ster ol j the interior. Clemenceau came in o prominence in France on the revoi io larv ave j that fodowed the Franc -Ge m n war. he l> c e i.ed with having de ; vised the Doula ist mo e nen . Boa ; langer, by ad.o a in ex tens me s : ures against Ger n ny in revenue for ; the de.eat su e ed by rra. ee n he war, a quired a wi’e popu ar ty. There was a rlTt on he p-’rt o ita - i a s, ana •• h ts end Oriean s s. o make Bo.t'a r er di tato••. T e Ti I. .. 1 GEORGES B. CLEMENCEAU. (Minister of Interior and Mainstay of the French Cabinet.) rard cabinet was form d for the pur pose ol suppressing this movement. Boulanger was sentenced to life im prisonment. He esc ped and uied ii exile, 'ihe failure of Boulangi in a d the Panama scan al turne 1 Clemer teau out of politics and he en.er d the newspaper field. Clemenceau is a genius. He Is mas ter of a Liti.ig s y.e of oratory. He is called “Wrecker of Ministries.” He is a brilliant journalist who ,e duces his enemies to p wder, as he did in the Dreyfus easy H - is an ex cellent hand with a rapier oa the duelling ground. He is the president's chair weign loO ; THE HORNS OF THIS ( HAIR WERE ALL GROWN BY ONE ELK. pounds. Tae two sets whi h form the back and front are among the larg est antlers on retord. There is p:ac tically no material ot' er ihan bon used in the chair’s constructioa. T e - prongs are adjusted in a way that gives the chair considerable firm ness, and only a few steel bo’.ts w re used to hold ths antlers together ; The chair is valued at $1,000 and w. 3 pres n Led to Pre ident Roosevelt by the citizens of Tacoma. Sugar Cane from Afghanistan. l-nuer the auspices of King Habibul I ]ah, of Afghanistan, the cultivation of | the sugar cane in the lowlands about Je’.alabad, near the Indian frontier, has become an accomplished fact. Samples presented to him during his visit to that place ware so good in quality that he ordered that a large supply of the best kinds of cane slips for planting ■ shall be obtained from India. Drummers in Switzerland. Eng.ana was represented in Switzer land last year by 53 commercial travel ers; Germany, which enjoys the lion’s share of the Swiss import trade, em ploys an army of nearly 5,000 “drum mers,” and is followed by France, with | 1.K8C of these enterprising agents, who > annually sell $10,0u0,000 worth of French merchandise. England Buys Parnell’s Home. 1 he old Avondale house and estate in County Wicklow, once the home and property of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist leader, has been | purchased by the government, which j will turn the place into a forestry i school lor Ireland. The rooms former ly occupied by Mr. Parnell are to be kept as they were in his lifetime. Justice. "Yes, Skinner was quite prosperous at one time, but he's having bis trials now.” “Yes, and he’s guilty an avary' count.”—Philadelphia Preaa. \ GIVE THE UNPOPULAR TEACHER A CHANCE. Schoolgirls Often Prejudice Them selves Unreasonably Against a Teacher — The Native Diffidence and Shyness of Some Teachers Hake Them Appear Stiff end Stern — Unprepossessing Teachers Often Heroines—Oiris Have a Way of Worshiping the Teacher with the Lovely Eyes—Charm Is Capital —Give a New Teacher Your Confi dence. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. Two bright heads were bent together over the same book. As they reached the last page Susan looked at Penelope and sighed. “There," she said, "that is ended. We shall recite to-morrow to dear Miss M., and then next week will see us in Miss B.'s classroom, and good by to good times tor six months. Every girl who has ever been with Miss B. ; fairly hates her, unless she happens to be one of her pets. She has pets,j and they may do anything, but the reot of the class are always getting de-: merits and being scolded and made to do extra work. I wish 1 could be Rip Van Winkle and sleep straight through the next grade. Miss W., who has the class higher than Miss B., is a darling. But one can’t reach her with out having to undergo the misery of the class below.” “Aren’t you exaggerating?” asked Penelope. “I have seen Miss B. a num ber of times, and she looks harm less. I cannot understand why she is so unpopular. The teachers appear ta find her pleasant.” "Oh, she is pleasant enough, with them and with visiting parents,” ex claimed Sue. "It is ou.y her owa girls to whom she is a tyrant. You have not lived here very long, but I have gone through this school, frora the kindergarten up, and so have my sisters. Lucy and Mildred and their friends have the same opinion that 1 have. Everybody dreads Miss B.” Penelope's dark eyes grew thought ful. “Well, Sue," she said, “my fa ther has always taught me to value fair play, and it does not look to me like fair play to begin in a new class with one’s mind made ud that she is going to dislike the teacher. That cre ates a false situation at the outset. Whv should we blindly accept what other j people say without waiting to see for ourselves where the truth of the mat ter lies? Poor Miss B has a hard road to travel, if the girls do not trust her before they have given her tha slightest trial. I, for one, shall do my work in the best way l can, and i shall try to love Miss B. and to make hre love me.” Susan gave her head a toss. "I pre dict, Penelope, that you will be a fa vorite.” she said, scornfully. "Not at all, but 1 have a conscience, and I am going to give my teacher the benefit of a chance. 1 wish you would Join me. Perhaps if you and I take the lead, some of the others will fo - low, and Miss B. for once may have the pleasure of teaching a class who are not determined to misunderstand her intentions and who ere not doing what they can to make ner work hart. I believe in making my teacher’s end easy, if I can. Mother was a teacher before her marriage, and she has told me a good deal about the seamy side of a teacher s life.” • • • • • Penelope had in her girlish wisdom i caught the thread of a clew that had j tangled itself and led far back into j the years during which the unpopular i teacher had occupied her chair. Miss B. was exceptionally well equipped, a student painstaking and profound, the graduate of one co'lege and file successful prize-winner in post-gradu ate work in another, she lacked the magnetism which in itself makes some women adorable and adored. In truth, she was more and more afraid of the girls she taught; her native diffident and shyness made her seem stiff and stern; she encrusted herself as diffi dent people often do in a chain-armor of reserve. She recoiled from the unspoken criticism of the girls who sat before her, and though she hon estly tried she was seldofn able to make them feel that she cared foi them personally. They supposed tha; in her view they were so many pegs in a row or pawns on a chessboard, and they resented the impersonality of her near-sighted gaze. Girls are sometimes very heartless, and insteal of feeling pitiful when occasionally they saw a quiver of pain cross Miss B.’s countenance, such a token of sen sitiveness on her part only made them dislike her the more. In her endeavor to be just and to exact the best work of which the class was capable, shi often went too far and marked too se verely any failure. If right relations are not existent between teacher and scholars it Is very difficult for either to accomplish much. Often it would be for the benefit of all concerned were i the teacher to be transplanted to a now environment where she could be gin unhampered by unfriendly tradi tions. it a teacher in the depths of her own soul is aware that she is no dis ciplinarian, she probably makes ef forts in the direction where she is weak, and the result is a continual \ conflict between her class and herself. 1 TIi# resistance may not be open, but ' it !• always ready to break out like a smouldering fire. Nothing on earth Is ltarder to vanquish *han a preju dice, and the less reasonable it be the more stubborn it probably is in main taining its ground. I wish I could persuade girls to imi tate Penelope and be fair to the un popular teacher in whose interest i am holding a brief. She may no* be happy and at ease in her home life. In the background there may be an ailing father or mother whose welfare is a matter of deep anxiety to her, and whose care robs her of sleep. For instance, I know a teacher rather unpopular in the classroom, who for several years lost half of her night's rest in sitting up with and ministering to an invalid sister. Thera was no one else to taka her place. and in consequence she brought with her to school an- atmosphere of fa tigue which made Itself felt without her knowledge. Irritability Is often born of weariness. • • • • • Girls are by the waz of worship ing teachers because of little externals that have not very much to do with the teacher’s efficiency. A teacher who has lovely eyes and beautiful hair, and the suspicion of a dimple when she smiles, or who wears pretty thing! and is very attractive as to waists and stocks, has a great advantage over her plainer associate, who is indifferent to dress. On the whole, I sympatnlze with girls in admiring the teacher who is invariably immaculate and tidy, and who has about her the bright attract iveness of perfect health and the beauty that is typical of womanly goodness. It is our duty whether wo are girls in our teens or women be yond them always to look as charm ing and to behave as amiable as we can. When the unpopular teacher for gets this fact or ignores it, when she is willfully eccentric or lapses into mannerisms that are awkward and un gainly, she sacrifices part of her cap ital and makes It a foregone conclu sion that she will not succeed as sha ought. But I put It to every one of you. Is it fair to start new worn with a new teacher without being a* least willing to give her your confidence? Or if you are already in a class and do not like your teacher, is it never worth while to be honest and candid and in quire if you are not just a little bit to blame for the state of things your selves? In this world a lot of troub'e springs from misunderstandings that might as well never come to the front, and people who should be goo l friends stand aloof and never get ac quainted because they let a trifling and non-essential thing keep them apart. A very thoughtful writer has sal 1 that in every human soul there is ae innermost room, and that if we could discover it we should learn secret that we never find out when we are only in the outer courts. This mar be too philosophical fo>- you, dear girls, but I want you to believe that there is something very sweet about the most unpopular teacher you have ever had, if you will take pains ti search for it. “There's so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us. That it ill behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us." (Copyright. 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) A SIMPLE PRETTY BODICE. Full Directions for Staking and About the Kinds and Quantity of Materials Bequired. Here is a simple and pretty bodies for malting to a dress of woolen ma terial. It has a tight-fitting lining, fastening down the center front; tc this the lace vest is attached. It is sewn to the right front and made to hook over to the left. The material back is tucked three times down the I BODICE FOR AFTERNOON DRESS. center btfore being set to the lining; the fronts are aiso tucked from the shoulders to the bust. The left front wraps the right, and is ornamented with tiny velvet buttons. The collar is faced with velvet, and fans o*' cream soft lace fall from under the ends in front. Leg-of-mutton sleevfes with velvet cuffs, above which are sewn tiny buttons on the outside of arm. The shaped waistband is of material. Materials required: Two yards 4G inches wide, two yards lin ing one-quarter yard lace, and one half yard velvet. THE HOME DOCTOR. To soothe the pain of a bruised finger hold the damaged finger in hot water. It will relieve the paia more quickly than any other remedy. Cure for Warts.—To cure warts oc the hands, rub a title castor oil o?i them after washing the hands. A lit tle should also oe put on at night. After a few applications, the warts will begin to dry up. I^ood for Nervous People.—As a rule, salt meat is not adapted to the requirements of nervous people, as nutritious juices go into the brine to a great extent. Fish of all kinds is good for them. Itaw eggs, contrary to the common opinion, are not as digestible as those that have been well cooked. Good bread, sweet but ter and lean meat are the best food for the nerves. People troubled wita insomnia and nervous starting from sleep and sensations of fal.iug can often be cured by limiting them selves to a diet of milk alone for a time. An adult should take a pint at a meal, and take four meals a day. People with weakened nerves require frequently a larger quantity of water than those whose nerves and brains are strong. It aids the digestion of these by making it soluble, and seems to have a direct tonic effect. —Good Literature. To Friends in Mourning. Cards of invitation should be sent to acquaintances and friends that are in mourning, giving them the privilege of declining. THAT IS, IN HIS OWN PAR TICULAR LINE. Freeman Griggs, A. M., Proved Bight to Title He Had Conferred Upon Himself—Had Henshaw at Disadvantage. Henshaw Is one of those men who, if not exactly dishonest, certainly justly wins the reputation of being “slow pay." He hates to pay a bill—especially a small bill; it's like pulling teeth to extract money from his purse, and he therefore has a well-defined suspicion that every unknown visitor to his office is a dun. He has hedged himself about with more guards and has made himself more difficult of approach than J. Pier pont Morgan. He jiiways sends out front to see if the way is clear before he ven tures out of his office to go home, and when close pressed has a private egress AKTKR MONEY.” ’ Into a back hall and so escapes by the rear stairway and the freight door of the building. The other day the boy brought in a card which he read with suspicion. “Freeman Griggs. A. M.," he repeated. “Do I know the man, boy?” “I don’t think so,” replied the buEer. “X never rememoer of seeing him be fore.” “Hem! ‘Freeman Griggs, A. M.,‘ ” re peated Henshaw. “ ‘Master of Arts.’ College man. Look like a professor, boy?” “Well, he’s got eyeglasses on,” admit ted the dbubtfu! youngster. Now, if Henshaw has a weakness at all, it is for education, culture and the long-haired cult. He has written and published a pamrhlet himself on some thing that nobo ly eise is interested in, and therefore feels himself e'jual to fraternizing with men whose names carry any weight of abbreviations after them. “Send him in,” said Henshaw. In bustled a wideawake looking young man. He had removed his eye glasses before he got to the door, and he bore down on Henshaw, drawing a billcase from his pocket as though pre pared to "hold him up” at the point of it. “I’m collector for Campbell & Gore. Here’s a little bill against you. My clients want their money,” he said, slapping the document down upon Hen shaw's desk. Henshaw bristled and stared from the card to his visitor. “Vv no let you in here?” he demanded. “Why, the boy. Just sent in my card, you know. You’ve got it in your hand, there.” “Huh! This your card?” grunted the1 disgusted Henshaw. “ ’Freeman Griggs, A. M.?’ ” “That’s me. Freeman Griggs.” “I’d like to know where you took your degree, young man," said Henshaw, with scorn. “ ‘Degree?’ Oh, you mean those let ters? Rather a bright idea, don’t you think? My own. I’m Freeman Griggs, A. M.—after money. And I’m after money now; do I get it?” He got it. ORGAN CF ANCIENT DATE. Alusuical Instrument That Was In vented During the Reign of Alfred tire Great. This picture shows one of the first organs ever made. It was invented (luring the reign of Alfred the Great, who was a great patron of music and was just finding its way into the churches about 900 A. D. OWL AND MINK IN FIGHT. Bird Had Seized P'w*. Found Itself Unable to Carry It on. While hauling wood on the Matta wamkeag river A. W. Rollins, of Wvtopitlock, discovered a moving ob ject a short distance from the road,: and leaving his team he ha-tened to ascertain what it was when, to his! surprise, he found it to be a large owl in combat with a good sized mink, says a Lewiston (Me.) dispatch. After a struggle of several moments the owl attempted to rise with its prey, but wa3 able to a=read only a few feet when the mink fell to the ground, wtnre it was soon killed by several well-directed blows from Rol lins’ whip. _-_ Queer Swiss Miser. An extraordin-.ry miser was "Fa ther” Aeby, who died the other day in Rerne, Switzerland. He has been referred to by newspaper correspon dents as "the most miserable miser in all Europe.” Since he was 20 years of age, when he inherited a large fortune, he had lived on char ity and an expenditure of three cent3 a day. He died at the age of 70 and hia body was so emaciated that it re sembled a mummy. He left securities valued at $750,000. $100,000 in gold . and aflver coin concealed about bis house and so relati ea. i RETURN TO IDOL WORSHIP. Russian Tribes Take Peculiar Advan tage of Recent Edict Issued by the Czar. Four villages of Uschum circuit in Russia have informed the govern ment that in accordance with the czar’s edict, guaranteeing freedom of worship, they returned to their old religion, the worship of the idols. These people call themselves Tschere misses and belong to an ancient Fin nish tribe. Their chief idol is a curi ous rock "sacred to the god Chum balat.” It is situated near a public road, and the travelers in the post chaise can witntss the worship paid to this ancient god by slaughtering chickens and small game at the foot of the holy rock, allowing the earth to drink the blood. Chumbalat the heathens esteem the chief of their many gods; be is said to be able to send one suffering, sick ness and even death. The name means "Old Man on the Mountain.” The god Is supposed to reside under the great rock. “If the tribe should ever be in danger, Chumbalat will rise from beneath the rock and de fend us,” say the people. “He wears golden armor and rides a mighty war horse.” Nicholas is distressed that his edict should have resulted in the revival of heathenism, but cannot forbid idola try under the terms of the published ukase. TIMEPIECE IS VERY OLD. Clock Recently Exhibited in Berlin a Work of Art of the Mid dle Ages. This clock, which was exhibited in Berlin, dates from the sixteenth c^n ■— tury. At that time it was evident ly used in traveling. ARE AT HOME IN WATER. Nature Has So Equipped the Caribou That Swimming Is No Task for Him. Clad with a coat of oily wool next his skin, the caribou is covered exteriorly with a dense pelage of fine quills. Every caribou, indeed, wears a cork jacket, and when this is prime the crea ture seems on the water rather than in the water. No other quadruped that I know swims as high as the caribou. Their speed afloat is so great that it takes the best of canoemen to overtake a vigorous buck. A good paddler is sup posed to cover about six miles an hour, so the caribou probably goes five. There are many kinds of woodland and rough country over which the caribou cannot travel so fast as this. What wonder, then, that they are sc ready to take to the water as soon as they find it in their course. Mr. Munn assured me that several times he saw caribou swim a broad bay that was in their line, though a trifling deflection would have given them easy wralking along the shore to the same point, and with but little increase of distance. CUT ON POLISHED SHELL. Prehistoric artists nave left ut works of art engraved on polished shell. The most anci nt are the masks upon which the human face is depicted. LIVE DUCKS FOR DECOYS. Arkansas Hunter Has Evolved Scheme Which Brings the Best o£ Besuits. J. F. Berger, of Anthony, who if an enthusiastic duck shoot r, Las se cured two pairs of domesticated mal lard ducks for decoys. 1 The ducks are taken to the hunting grounds in small coverei baskets. Tc keep them from flying when in use a , light leather strap vith a buckl d j novise attached to a long shore cord j is placed about their necks and a j weight or anchor tied to one foot. This, however, do s not diminish their ability to swim, and when placed , in the water, th y go to the limit ol , their shore cord. For results they ‘ pake the old-fashioned wooden de ?oys look like 30 cents.—Arkansas City' rraveler. _______ g Not Much Wasted. t Ma Twaddle—You car less boy— i you've spilled your milk all over youi 1 lew spring clothes! S Tommy Twaddles—Well, isn’t there * my more milk?—Cleveland Leader. c - t An Old Story. f Mr. Subub—What’s new, dear? Mrs. Subub (dejectedly)—The cook’s jone! Mr. Subub—My dear, I asked what’s 3 iewT—Puck. JAPANESE ARMY SUTLERS. The Canteen Follows Closely in the Wake of the Moving Troops. One who was with the Japanes* army in Manchuria for six months says: "Old foreign campaigners re marked in the field that no army prob ably ever had so many canteens in its wake. When the army was not marching there was always a canteen or two not far to the rear of every division. When it settled down t» recuperate after a battle canteen* were quickly established in Mancha houses. These carried cigarettes, writing paper, postcards, beer, imita tion brandy, imitation whisky, imita tion port, imitation sherry, sake and sometimes Manila cigars. "Japanese are keen traders. Not 200 feet back of the Nanshan batter* one day in the seven-day battle of the Shaho there was a Japanese peddler selling cigarettes, Chinese sweetcakes, rice and beer to the reserves. Dur.ng the same battle the canteens were never more than three miles back of the front line of trenches. As the Japanese soldier’s pay 1* only $1.36 a month and the army sav ing banks had, considering that, phenomenal deposits, there was not much spending money in the army. A bottle of beer cost ten cents and a packet of cigarettes about threa cents. "Whenever tnere was a triing bat tle the commander-in-cliief would or der sake distributed as a ration. Ob the mikado’s birthday a year ago one extra double packet of cigarettes wa* distributed to each man in the field. This cost the emperor more than $15. 000. Otherwise when the distribution was possible ten cigarettes a day went with the regular ration. "One day in an American periodical received at camp there was a solemn poem celebrating the abstinence of the Japanese from drink. “This caused concern among th« Japanese officers, who disliked th* emphasis laid upon the difference be tween their army and a European army and the commissary general told the foreign observers: “ 'Our soldiers like drink as well as any other soldiers. Sometimes they need it when they cannot get it an I we send it to them in the trenches.’ As a matter of fact, though the peas ant at home has a hard enough tim* to supply himself with food, he is not more averse than other people to strong liquor once he learns the tas;* of it. Many a man will go home from the campaign with tastes he never had betore. The manufacture of beer is still a young industry in Japan, but from the time the process was import ed it nas grown to enormous propor tions. Headquarters, even battalion headquarters in underground bom* proof trenches, were always supplied with beer or sweet wine. Marshal Oyama liked sw-eet champagne. Th* strategist of the war. Gen. Kodema, drank claret with every meal.” INCIDENTAL INSOMNIA. Bleep May Be Wooed by Taking a Series of Deep Inspir ations. It commonly happens that persons otherwise apparently in good health find a difficulty in sleeping without a break, their night's rest being inter ruptid by turns of wakefulness; after t falling asleep for an hour or two they awaken—a modified or incidental in somnia takes the place of normal re pose, says a correspondent of the Lon don Lancet. I believe, and 1 suggest, that this may be due to a disturbance of the equilibrium of the cerebral cir culation. The cause of the disturbance may be various. I do not propose to enter into the question of cause, but I have in many instances successfully count racted the result by forced in spiratory movements by assisting and encouraging the return flow of blood to the heart; by a rapid and thorough ex pansion of the chest cavity, by tho vacuity produced, the blood in tho great veins of the neck and upper thor ax is sucktd in and hastened on to its ultimate destination. The large serrati muscles (costo scapulares) are more especially called on for this duty. The serratus. by its hindermost attchment to the pos terior border of the scapula, as a muscle of “extraordinary” inspiration, requires for its action in thi3 ca pacity that the scapula should be iteadily and firmly held to the spine by the muscles allocated to this end —in other words, by the shoulders be ng vigorously held backward. The leep breathing thus carried out for i, 12 or 15 inspirations usually suf Ices to induce the wished for s >mno enLe. Anyway, it is an experiment tasily tried and without risk. The influence of respiratory move nents is demonstrated by the effect of i prolonged and forced expiratory ac ton. The impediment to the return low of blood Is easily to be observed vhen a vocalist with an uncovered leek is singing a long-sustained high lote; the external jugular veins will je seen in their course across the iterno-mastoid muscle in a state of xtreme distension, accompanied by ongestion of fhe veins of the head md face, Indicating hindrance to the flood current toward the heart. Dwindling Republic. San Marino, the smallest republic in he world, will soon be without volers t its rate of emigration keeps up. it ias only 1,700, including widows, but t is still a good repuoiic. Recently :s assembly decided to abolish the xecutive council, the members of vhich have been elected for life lereafter members wi.l bo elected for hree years only. Skippers’ Town. Searsport, Me., is a town of man/t kippers, having been represented on he high seas by 142 captains of fuir lgged ships The year 1885 was the est in her history in this respect for i ears port then had 77 captains’ in ctive service. They were not all resi ents of the town, but all either lived here or were born there, so that was he place they hailed from. f In the Usual Way. jf Friend—Do thoughts that came ta Cb ou long ago ever return? Scribbler—O, yes—if I incl0Be 1 tamped envelope.—Stray Stories. 1