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FOR SICK SOLDIERS. LUXURIOUS SANITARIUM BUILT FOR CARE OF ENLISTED MEN. ■ Million-Dollar Health Home Just Com pleted at Hot Springs, South Da kota, Begins a Beneficent ‘ Mission. Opcte Sam him ever been geenrous in his treatment of the mep who havw served under his banner, and has been disposed to provide every means possible for the preservation of the health and morals of the enlisted men. As an evidence of this one may point with pride to the magnificent sanitarium which has just been com pleted at Hot Springs, South Dakota, at a cost of almost a million dollars, and which is for the exclusive use of sick and disabled soldiers of the United States. And the best part of ‘it all is that everythrng about the place is free, and not only free, but the government will pay the railroad Tare and traveling expenses of any old soldier who cannot afford to pay his •own way. The house is the great Battle Moun tain sanitarium, the largest of the government hospitals and the most complete sanitarium in the world. Al though the sanitarium was officially dedicated in April of this year the old soldiers are just beginning to arrive in numbers. At presSM there is room for 336 sick people, but this number can be increased to 500 with out much trouble. More thaw $800,000 has already been expended on the san itarium exclusive of the grounds. The grounds of the hospital cover nearly 4,000 acres and includes the famous “Battle Mountain,” where a few hundred years ago the warlike Sioux Indians cooped np an entire tribe of its enemies and wiped them from the face of the earth, killing every single member of the hostile tribe. The place has since been known to all Western Indians as “Bat tle Mountain.” The idea of utilizing the waters from the springs for the old soldiers was first evolved by Capt H. El Palmer of Omaha, who Is a member of the board of managers for the soldiers’ homes. It took Captain Palmer sev eral years to convince congress that the necessary appropriations should, be made. However, this was finally accomplished and three years ago ac tual construction work began. The Battle Mountain 8anitarlum. It is the belief of Captain Palmer that within three months the demand for rooms will be so great that the ca pacity of the wards will be increased to the limit. Only curable cases are taken, and if the patient does not show, within a reasonable time, that he is being benefited, he is sent back home and a new patient admitted in hi» place. “Battle Mountain” is a sol diers’ sanitarium, not a soldiers' home. And any C. A. R. man in the country who is sick and needs attention will be more than welcome at the sani tarium. CLEVER POLICEMAN BY PROCESS OF DEDUCTION HE DETECTS TWO CRIMINALS. And Than by Prompt and 8trenuous Action Ha Captures Them and Secures from Them Their Loot. r ” t Fatter and Faster He Ran, Until to His Joy He Foumf Himself Gain ing on the Train. Deduction is certainly an asset which every police constable should L possess. But. unfortunately. It is a rare quality: and yet Jhe following story will show that there is at least one police constable in Saltash, Corn wall. who possesses the-power to an extraordinary degree. This policeman was walking beside the railway one Saturday afternoon in December, no doubt little thinking that his presence in such a deserted neighborhood would prove of service. Nor would it have been, most prob ably, had not at that moment the shrill sound of a whistle fallen upon the policeman’s ears. Coming to wards him at a reduced speed was a train The policeman stepped from the track, and. pausing on his way, idly scanned the passengers sitting at ease within the compartments. . There was the farmer seated in one corner smoking, and, It may be, vig orously discussing the latest market price of wheat; and there was the country-woman returning from her weekly journey to the market. But what interested idle policeman more particularly—there, seated by the window of a compartment, were two men attired in tbeir working clothes. “Miners,” reflected the constable, deducting the fact from their somber drab apparel. Then: “Curious that they should be re turning from their work at this hour of the day." Possibly one of them had been taken ill, and the other had been sent to see him safely home? But no—they were in a smoking carriage, and that was hardly the compartment in which one would con vey a sick man. Turning quickly about, when the carriage containing the two objects of his interest had scarcely passed him, liie policeman broke into a run. First he passed one carriage, then another. Then the tender of the en gine lay on his left, and then he was shouting and waving his arms, Signal ing to the driver to stop. The signal was answered, the train was brought to a standstill. Panting out his mikslon, the police man explained that there were twoa men on board the train whom he wished to search. Escorted by the guard the police man entered the carriage. At the sight of him the two miners crouched right back in their seats. * Such an eventuality as this bad never crossed their minds. There, homing up seemingly from nowhere, stood a stern “arm of the law.” It was all up with them, and, with no show of re&’.stance, the two men allowed themselves to be searched aua relieved of a considerable quan tity of copper which they had pur loined from the mine in which they were employed. He Was Justified. It was * case of breach of promise. The defendant was allowed to say a. word ini’ bis own behalf. “Yea," be said. “I kissed her almost continually every evening I called at her house.” The counsel for the plaintiff was pleased. “Then you confess it?” he said. “Yes, I do confess it But I had to 4o it" “You had to do it What do you sauna?” ■ J “That was the only way I cduld keep her from singing." The jury gave a verdict lor the de fendant without louring their aunts, r | .... ^ AH Htid Mmtngi. “So the proprietor of this hotel has • Mg phonograph that plays while yon diner “Tea. and Home of the selections are very -appropriate. For instance, U he thinks his gtiesw are getting impa tient he ppta on such pieces as: ‘Life Is Too Short to Worry’ and ‘All Things Opma to Who Waits.’ ” “H’mt Pr*ttj good idea.” “Tea, but the ’last selection beats them all. If he thinks yon might over look tipping the waiter he pats on Klp ptlng's recessions!: ‘Lest We Forgetl Lest We Forget!’"—Chicago Daily News. Doubtful Compliment. Stippler—Did Miss Kitts admire Dobhdr^-I^oa’t know. attgDl«r—WT»iit did $e gay shoot CHICAGO PHYSICIAN HONORED Dr. Frank Billings. Dr. Prank Billings, who has been elected president of the National Asso ciation for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, is a distinguished prac titioner in Chicago who long has been noted as a diagnostician. He is a member of most- of the technical societies of the medical profession and is consulting physician in many of the Chicago hospitals. He is the dean of Rush Medical College. In 1902-03 Dr. Billings was president of the American Medical Association, and he also has been president of the Chicago Medical Society. He was born in Highland, Wis., in 1854, and was graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1881. IN HARNESS AT 100. Amazing Energy Displayed by an Eng lish Clergyman. - f In days when a man is considered obsolete at 60, one learns with amaze ment that Rev. Thomas Lord, the doyen of Congregational ministers, is still able to conduct divine service, al though to-day he celebrates his hun dredth birthday. This remarkable old gentleman, who was cradled the year after Pitt and Fox died, and was a full-grown man while George IV. was still on the throne, has been preaching for more than three-quarters of a cen tury. Mr. Lord has, however, a formidable rival in Rev. Richard Rymer, who has been a Methodist minister for 81 years, and is now within three years of his century. Only a few weeks ago Rev. Hugh Pritchard, of Anglesey, completed his hundred years, and until recently was a keen sportsman—fishing, hunting and shooting being his favorite pas times. Mr. Pritchard was ordained 77 years ago, when Queen Victoria was playing with her dolls.—West minster Gazette. Population of Rome. According to the last general cen sus of 1901 the resident population of the whole province of Rome was esti mated at 1,142,526, and the fluctuating population, Italian and foreign, at 54, THEY FORMED A FLY TRUST. Canny Kids Worked the Bounty Prop osition for All It Was Worth. Once In Hartford the flies were bo numerous for a time, and so trouble some, that Mrs. Clemens conceived the idea of paying George a bounty on all the flies he might kill. The children saw an opportunity here for the ac quisition of sudden wealth. They sup posed that their mother merely want ed to accumulate dead flies, for some aeAhetic or scientific reason or other, and they judged that the more flies she could get the happier she would be; so they went into business with George on a commission. Straightway the dead flies began to arrive in such quantities that Mrs. Clemens was pleased beyond words with the suc cess of hef idea. Next, she was aston ished that one house could furnish so many. She was paying an extrava gantly high bounty, and it presently began to look as if by this addition to our expenses we were now probably living beyond our income. After a few days there was peace and comfort; not a fly was discovera ble in the house; there wasn’t a strag gler left Still, to Mrs. Clemens’ sur prise, the dead flies continued to ar rive by the plateful, and the bounty expense was as crushing -as ever. Then she made inquiry, and found that our innocent litle rascals had SCHWAB WANTS TO SELL PALACE Is is reported that Charles M. Schwab wants to sell his new mansion in Riverside drive and has placed it in the hands of brokers. The house, with its furnishings, is said to have cost $350,000,000. % Mr. Schwab, it is understood, is tired of living in the big house and wishes to escape from the burdens the life entails. 383. The increase since the annexa tion ot Rome to the Italian kingdom in 187JL has been very considerable. At that time the aggregate population amoivited to only 836,704, so that with in the comparatively short period of 30 years the inhabitants of the prov ince have increased by fully 305,822. According to the above census the number of foreigners in Rome in 1901 was 9,855, the Germans numbering 1,844, the British 1,739, and the French 1,386. • The population of Rome is stat ed to be 520,196.—Westminster Ga zette. Not Meant for Him. “See here!” Indignantly cried the transient guest, “there’s a collar but ton in this beef stew.” “O! that's a mistake, sir,” raid the bright waiter. v “A mistake? Well, I should say—” “Ye®, sir; we never give extras ex cept to our regular customers.”— Catholic Standard and Times. Fame and Fortune. “That young physician is working hard.” "Yes,” answered the veteran prac titioner. “He is on the track of dis covery that will mean fame and for tune. He is trying to invent a new name that will make some old ail ment fashionable.”—Washington Star. Best for the Peer. “Surely,” remarked the good man, “it goes without saying that ‘honesty is the best policy.’ ” “It Is,” replied the wise man, “until you get prominent enough to drop policy anft alart playing the stock pfrn»4dlpht» Press. established a fly trust, and had hired all the children in the neighborhood to collect flies on a cheap and unbur densome commission.—Mark Twain’s Autobiography in North American Re view. Breath Revives Bees. "Your bees are doing well this spring. Here are a couple of dead ones, though,” said the visitor. “Give ’em to me and watch me blow on ’em,” said the bee 'man. He laid the inanimate bees on a fence rail and breathed softly upon them. They stirred feebly, they kick ed out their tiny legs, in a moment they flew away. “Nohtin’ revives bees like human breath” said the bee man, chuckling. It’s better’n cordial to ’em." “They Uke it. do they?” “Like it? No. They hate it—hate it like p’ison. That’s why it is, when a bee lights on ye, so long as ye hold yer breath ’twon’t sting.” Had His Boots. “And you say the girl’s father came looking for you the other night when yon called?” x “Indeed he did.” “And you fled, I suppose, so his quest was bootless?” “Well, I didn’t fly soon enough, and hie quest was positively not bootless." —Yonkers Statesman. Women’s Chance in Literature. The world is waiting for the woman author, who need not be great, but only natural and downright, to reveal to it (as a male world) the true in wardness of a woman’s nature, far fwll^Jtowanl^othbr Wjpmngm,, wlgaat-i how she really feels when she ts kis* ed by a^maa, and hog she feels when ■he la not kissed, artra thouaaad ott er things which a man author eaa only gneaa at and la no eaas baa as posnsd. Here, sorely, is a shgato flsr a —Trim writer.—Academy. FOR THE WEDDING FEAST. Chicken Salad One of the Most De pendable of Relishes. Chicken salad is the most dependa ble relish to serve at the wedding feast. It never holds the possibilities of ptomaine poisoning as fish may and it does not wilt as a green salad would, if the reception runs for some length. Here is an old family recipe: This quantity should make very nearly two quarts of salad, sufficient for 20 peo ple, if served with sandwiches and ices. Select two plump fowl, not too old, simmer in botlihg water Until ten der. Do not cut them up before cook ing, and do not cook in cold water, as this draws out the juice. When ten der, remove from the liquor, cool and cut into dice. Add one pint of celery cut in dice, mixed lightly, sprinkled with a little salt. If you do not like oil use this dressing: Beat the yolks of seven eggs, add seven pinches of mustard, seven teaspoonfuls of sugar; place in a porcelain stew pan, add slowly seven tablespoonfuls of boiling vinegar. Cook slowly until thick; mix with the chicken, add one cupful of good sweet cream, whipped light, and salt and pepper to taste. If you like oil try this mayonnaise dressing: Into the well-beaten yolk of one egg add drop by drop one pint of olive oil. Boil two egg3 hard; rub into the yolks a dash of cayenne pepper, one-half spoonful of salt. Add this to the yolks and oil. Now add finely chopped whites of the eggs and juice of half a lemon; mix well, then add the well-beaten white of the uncooked egg, and the dressing is ready for use. “HAY STOVE” IS HANDY. Saves Fuel and Discomfort During the Hot Weather. Here is a good way to keep the kitchen cool and also to save fuel: Take an old trunk or a wooden box about the size of a trunk, fill with hay, pack tightly and make four or five holqf in the hay to accommodate pots of different sizes. Prepare your meat, vegetables, rice, fruit or whatever you wish to cook, put on gas stove and let come to boiling point. Take off and put Into holes in your hay stove; have a tightly fitting cover on each pot and close the lid, which must also be ^lned with hay and lastly with netting or cheesecloth to keep the hay from spill ing. If put in while preparing lunch eon or just after everything will come out nicely and thoroughly done for a seven o’clock dinner. Oatmeal may be cooked over night. Have tried this in the house and in camp during summer when we would put our dinner to cook at daybreak, go on an excursion, come back at noon hungry and tired, lift the lid of our hay stove and find our din ner ready to be served and eaten. Everything gets thoroughly done with out burning or boiling dry. Macaroni a la Creole. Take the required amount of maca roni or spaghetti; put over to boil in slightly salted boiling water; take three or four generous slices of break fast bacon, rather fat. cut up in small dice, put in frying pan and fry; cut up one or two good-sized onions and a very little garlic (if liked), fry in ba con fat but do not burn; now open a good sized can of tomatoes and pour contents in with bacon and onions, cook until tomatoes are all dissolved; take one-half pound common cheese, cut in small pieces, put in with the to matoes; when cheese is melted pour all over the macaroni, which has pre viously been drained in colander; stir all together and serve. Don’t forget to season with salt and pepper to suit taste. This is a southern dish and is fine. » Good Treatment for Floor. The simplest and one of the pretti est of treatments for a floor is as fol lows: Wash the floor well and let it dry. Then go over it with a cloth dipped from time to time in coal oil, which not only cleanses, but pene trates the floor so that less of the boil ed oil is required. In two quarts of boiled oil put beeswax the size of half of an ega; and boil together till melted and tho;oughly mixed. The utmost care must be taken in doing this, as both materials are inflammable. While the oil is still warm apply with a wide paint brush. If the wood has a handsome grain, the oil brings it out beautifully. It only requires dust ing from week to week. Caramel Junket. If one is fond of caramel or plain junket, there Is no dessert for sum mer more delicate. Two cups of milk, one-third cup of sugar, one-third cup of boiling water, one junket tab let, a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Heat milk until blood warm. Caramelize sugar, add boiling water, and cook until syrup is re duced to one-third cup. Cool, and add milk slowly to syrup. Break the tablet into small bits, or powder it, add to mixture, with salt and vanilla. Turn into cups or dish, let stand until the junket congeals. Then piece in the refrigerator to chill. Just before serving cover the top with whipped cream and chopped nuts. If plain junket is preferred it may be flavored with sherry wine or nut meg lasfrwryl at vanilla. Pineapple Marmalade. Pepl and grate or chop as many pineapples as are desired, using a sil ver knife or fork in the ' operation. Medsnre or weigh and allow a pound of sugar, to each pound of fruit. Mix well and stand In a cool place over night In the morning cook for half an hour or until soft enough to put through a coarse sieve. Strain, return to the preserving kettle, and continue cooking, stirring almost con stantly for half an hour or longer un til a clear amber jelly that will thick en Into a paste as it cools. Put Into ■men jars and seal when cool. Pineapple Souffle. One can grated pineapple, one scant cup sugar, one-half box gelatin, q^e plat cigtm whipped. Boll pine apple and sugar M minutes, cool, and add cooled prepared gelatin. Mix and stir often while It is setting. When It Is almost stiff add the cream, which has been whipped and pat la a mold. Ppt in a cool place to hardca aad Mt of whipped »naia ea MONUMENT FOR DOGS. GRAVES OF ARISTOCRATIC CANINES ARE MARKED. Wister Family of Germantown, Pa., Continuea Custom Inaugurated Over Century Ago by Fa mous Artist Peale. Philadelphia.—The aristocratic dogs belonging to the noted Wister family of Germantown have special honors conferred upon them after they are called from this earth to dog heaven. These blooded canines are treated during life with all the consideration due the extent of their pedigree, and even ofter death their names are passed on to posterity upon enduring monuments erected above their graves. In thus honoring their canine fav orites, the Wisters have perpetuated the example set by the famous art ist, Charles Wilson Peale, one of the founders of the Philadelphia Academy of the Tine Arts, whose homestead and Wisters now occupy. More than a century and a half ago the great artist erected a monument above the grave of his pet dog. It was only a wooden shaft, resting upon a marble base. Painted white, it resembled marble. It was always kept in good repair, and when the wood began to decay it was replaced, from time to time, by a new shaft, an exact replica of the original. Then, in 1820, the Peale homestead passed into the hands of William Logan Fisher, who presented it to his daughter when she married William Wister. Peale is said to have erected the first monument to his pet in 1772, soon after his return from Mount Vernon, where he had painted the now celebrated portrait of ’Washington. Its successor stood there when the Wisters came into the possession of the estate. In their preservation of the historic glories of the homestead, as well as of their own family, shed ding a social luster upon everything in their possession, they have from generation to generation passed down the eustom of entombing their dog pets beside the dust of Peale’s fav orite. The inscription on the monu ment, however, changes with succes sive occupants of the plot of ground. Beside the beautiful driveway' lead ing up to the historic Peale home stead, now the Wister mansion, a short distance from Wister statloi-, can still be seen the humble whits shaft. The last family pet to whlcn this simple but imposing memorial was erected was “General.” The monument bears the inscription: "GENERAL.” June. 1888. December, 1900. But another household favorite, soon probably to pass to the notable canine cemetery, is a handsome brown Newfoundland. He has reached the distinction of mature years—In dogdom—and during his lifetime so far has behaved with the full social dignity and aristocratic honor of his Dog Monument at Germantown, Pa. patron family. When his last sum mons comes the Wisters will reward him, too, by strict adherence to fam ily traditions in giving him a place be neath or beside the monument that, has marked the resting place of so many aristocratic dogs. With its 150 years’ record, this lit tle plot of ground, it is claimed, is the most notable dog cemetery in the city. In fact, the cemetery is so notable that ever since revolutionary days dogs have been just dying to ge” into it. MARRIES STEEL MAGNATE. Mabelle Gilman, Former Actress, Now Wife of W. E. Corey. New York.—Mabelle Gilman, former ly a musical comedy performer, who r ... MRS. W. E. COREY. (Former Actress Who Recently Be came Bride of Steel Trust Chief.) the other day became the wife of W. E. Corey, president of the United States Steel Corporation, is well known to the amusement loving pub lic. She is a California girl, and first played In this city under the manage ment of the late Augustin Daly. Later she appeared in musical com edy, and subsequently won popularity in London in “Dolly Varden,” “Amo relle” and other .plays. Miss Gilman was mentioned in the divorce pro ceedings of the first Mrs. Corey, who obtained her decree of separation, with charge of her son, on July 3') last. Various rumors since that time were that Corey and Miss Gilman were to be married in Paris, where Miss Gilman and her mother lived some time. Mr. Corey was recently reelected president of the Steel Cor poration. Corey first became prominently known to the general public when, in August, 1903, he succeeded Charles M. Schawb as head of the steel trust. It was in that year that Mabelle Gil man visited Pittsburg as a member of the “Mocking Bird” company. Mr. Corey occupied a box at the theater on the first night, and was seen with the actress frequently throughout the stay of the company. No Grumblers Wanted. The Englishmen and the English women who come out here prepared to fall in with conditions of a new country, and who are everlastingly making the remark in a desparagirig tone: “We don't do it that way at home,” will find Canada all right, and the friendly nod and the helping hand, if need be, on all, sides. Grumblers are not wanted.—Brantford (Ont.) Courier. HIGH POST FOR SHERMAN. Illinois Lieutenant Governor Placed on 8panieh Claims Commission. Washington.—Lawrence Y. Sher man, lieutenant governor of Illinois, has been appointed a member of the Spanish treaty claims commission at a salary of $5,000 per annum, and has ac cepted a vacancy that existed on the commission caused by the election to congress of G. J. Diekema of Mich igan. This is the commission headed by former Senator Chandler of New Hampshire. Mr. Sherman has the backing of Senators Cullom and Hop kins for the position. The office of lieutenant governor pays but $1,000 a year, and in one year Mr. Sherman will receive more remuneration than he would in his entire four years’ term as lieutenant governor. In addition he will occupy a position not only of national but in ternational importance. Mr. Sherman is a cousin of former Gov. Richard Yates and has lived in Illinois since 1859, less than a year after his birth in Miami county, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and began tie practice of law in Ma comb in 1882, where he was later 'i elected city attorney, and after serv ing two years became judge of McDon ough county. In 1896 he was first elected to the legislature and served four successive terms. He was speak er of the forty-first and forty-second as semblies, and in 1904 was elected lieu tenant governor of the state. I I I I I From Prayer to Laughter. A revival meeting was In progress and Sister Jones was called upon for testimony. Being meek and humble, she said: “I do not feel as though I should stand here and give testimony. I have been a transgressor for a good many years and have only recently seen the light. I believe that my place is in a dark comer behind the door.” Brother Smith was next called upon for his testimony aad, following the example set by Sister Jones, said: “I. too, have been a sinner for more than 40 years, and I do not think It would be fitting for me to stand before this assembly as a model. I think my place is behind the door, in a dark comer with Sister Jones.” And he wondered why the meeting was eo«vu|Sed wtth the laughter of those ' who came up to prkyl—Cleve land Leader. A Narrow Escape. Fussy Fred—I come purty near goln’ t’ work yisterday. Drowsy lmve—Why didn’t yuan? Fussy Fred—Just afore I got do ■I Bond* New and Old Concrete. The difficulty so long found In bond ing together new and old concrete has been obviated by a recent patent. This bond consists of an extract of coal tar. used instead of water as the mixing agent for neat Portland cement. The mixtnre is laid in one-eighth inch to one-quarter inch layers on the old con crete surface, and immediately fol lowed by aew concrete or mortar. The inventor says that the compound is entirely insoluble, and forms a com plete and monolithic bond between the old and new work. Hard Word to Spell, Too. Senior Partner—That new indy shorthand clerk who types your let ters spells ridiculously. Junior Partner—Does she? Well, if she* does, U'*r ahpqt the only word she can spell, so far as my observation goes. What We Are Coming To. “Why won’t the children play vita you, Uttle girl?" “They say my father works for a trust”