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Those of you who are so fortunate
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heap blessings instead of reproaches
upon the head of poor Salvine for the
unpardonable sin he committed for
these lenses really give the eyes the
rest and relief that is sought but
very frequently not found in other
glasses They are all the name im
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with no visible joining The reading
lens is encased within the distance
lens which explains the absence of
the dividing line such an annoying
feature in the old style bifocals
Upon being told of these wonder
fully constructed lenses many persons
naturally doubt the truth of the state
ment and when they learn that they
can also be made in the rimless style
for both spectacles and eye glasses
they are even more surprised Not
until they have actually seen the
Krytoks will they believe that this
wonderful lens has been achieved
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increase in the demand for them and
by the number of letters the manufac
turers are receiving daily all express
ing appreciation of the superior mer
its possessed by the modern bifocals
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A Battle In the Sen
Did you ever see bluefish charge a
school of nierJradeu at sea That Is
something worth seeing The bluefish
throw their lines forward until they al
most surround the menhaden and they
attack them flank and rear The men
haden fairly make the water boil in
their efforts to escape while all around
the enemy is at them tearing relent
lessly Into all this commotion comes
a great shark Its a picnic for the
shark a school of menhaden all herded
up for Its benefit It swims leisurely
into the midst of them opens its mouth
and takes in half a dozen menhaden at
a gulp It swims around and bites out
half a dozen more from the school It
gorges itself without effort But the
menhaden are not nearly as much dis
turbed by the presence of the monster
swimming about among them as they
are by the charging bluefish The shark
takes half a dozen fish or more at a
bite while the bluefish only bites a
piece out of a single fish but there is
only one shark while there may be
thousands of bluefish plunging and
tearing incessantly and killing and
maiming at every stroke The sharks
a brute but under such circumstances
the menhaden have less of fear than
they have of contempt for him
A Photographic Warning
The following story of a 3oung lady
living in the country who came to
London to be photographed is told by
M A P and vouched for by a well
known Loudon photographer After
some days the lady Miss B was
informed the photograph was not a
success and another sitting was sug
gested This she agreed to but again
was informed that the photograph was
a failure There was a third sitting
In two days time she received an
urgent letter from the photographer
asking her to come up to his studio
and to bring a friend with her Miss
B went accompanied by her mother
and was shown the amazing results of
the three sittings The pictures of the
girl herself were quite good but in
each plate there was to be seen stand
ing behind her the figure of a man
holding a dagger in his uplifted hand
The features though faint were clear
ly discernible and Miss B recognized
them as those of her fiancee an officer
in the Indian army The effect of this
experience was so great that after a
few days she wrote out to India break
ing off the engagement
Louis Napoleon Answered
Lady Blessiugton did not always
meet with gratitude from some whose
position at last enabled them to serve
her She sheltered in her Loudon home
Louis Napoleon after he had escaped
from his prison in Ham After Louis
Napoleon became president of the
French republic he seems to have
turned the cold shoulder on Lady
Blesslngton and Count DOrsay when
they approached him in Paris There
was a story going at the time for the
accuracy of which we certainly will
not vouch but which appeared in sev
eral of the London papers Shortly be
fore Lady Blesslngtons death she met
so the story goes the president driving
in the Champs Elysees He stopped
his carriage she stopped hers and they
conversed for a few minutes His
manner seemed to her determinedly
fhilly Do you stay long in Paris
i j red as he was about to drive on
No she answered And you
London Spectator
George Eliot ana Romoln
George Eliots first arrangement with
the publisher of Itomola was for no
less a sum than 10000 guineas As
that is bo very large a figure he said
I must run It through fifteen numbers
of the Cornhill No she answered
it must finish In twelve numbers or
the artistic effect of the story will be
lost I quite understand the necessity
for Its prolongation from a commercial
point of view so well say 7000
guineas Instead of the 10000 And
7000 guineas was accordingly paid for
the copyright Three thousand guineas
seem a large sum to give up for an
artistic scruple but she did It
Differences of Opinion
Women are hard to understand
Bald the callpw philosopher
Not at all answered Mr Meekten
Henrietta has never yet spoken her
mind to me without making herself
perfectly elear Washington Star
Sinclair
And the
Beef Trust
Y
HE Beveridge bill has leaped
into prominence with a sud
denness almost startling and
so completely has it absorbed
public attention for the time being that
the rate bill for weeks In the very
forefront at Washington seems to
have been forgotten The rate bill
represents a movement to control rail
road freight rates In the interest of
shippers and the general public The
Beveridge meat inspection bill repre
sents an effort to safeguard the public
health in respect to one of the greatest
industries of the country that of the
slaughter of animals for food and the
dressing and packing of the meat for
shipment far and wide over the coun
try and over the inhabited parts of the
whole globe Incidentally the bill rep
resents also a movement to throw
proper restraints about the methods
pursued In the operation of the in
dustry and to Improve the conditions
under which the work is carried on
The honor of introducing the meat in
spection bill In the senate fell to the
senior senator from Indiana Albert J
Beveridge who Is one of the senate
leaders and an orator known for both
the force of his rhetoric aud the sharp
ness of his wit Senator Beveridge is
an author also and his book about the
Russian empire which appeared about
the time that war between Japan and
Russia broke out has been widely
read
Mr Beveridge is one of the younger
set among the Washington statesmen
as he will not be forty four years of
age until autumn and though he ban
enjoyed a university education he has
seen life from the point of view of
what President Roosevelt calls the
man with the patch on his breeches
for he was plowboy and railroad la
borer logger and teamster in early
days The meat inspection bill was
passed in the senate with remarkable
celerity as a rider of the agricultural
bill and it has been said that the bill
was hastily slung together tagged with
Mr Beverldges name and put through
when Mr Roosevelt had the Neill
Reynolds meat trust report in his
hands to use as a club to compel such
legislation if necessary On the con
trary however the statement is made
that Mr Beveridge was at work upon
the bill for two months prior to its in-
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troduction and was one of the first per
sons to call the presidents attention
to the alleged abuses In connection
with the meat packing industry
The most important factor of all in
bringing the movement for regulation
of the meat trusts operations to its
present status was the novel by Upton
Sinclair entitled The Jungle Like
Uncle Toms Cabin which did so
much to bring about the downfall of
slavery in this country and like Down
With Arms which led to the calling
of The Hague peace conference The
Jungle was written with the view of
bringing about a great reform Its au
thor was moved to indignation by the
conditions he witnessed in an investiga
tion of the Packingtowu district of Chi
cago and under the guise of fiction he
described a state of affairs in the pack
ing industry said by some to be even
worse than Sinclair painted It Presi
dent Roosevelt was so moved on read
ing the book that he determined his In
fluence should be used to rectify the
alleged abuses if they existed as de
scribed To ascertain this he had sev
eral Investigations made the most im
portant of which was that conducted
by Charles P Neill United States la
bor commissioner and James Bronson
Reynolds the settlement worker Their
report Is said to have substantiated in
the main the representations made in
Mr Sinclairs book
The Jungle is dedicated To the
Workingmen of America Its hero
passes through some terrible experi
ences as one of the throng of workers
in Packiugtown The indictment of
the evils of the industry was so strong
that Doubleday Page Co before
they agreed to the publication of Mr
Sinclairs manuscript sent a lawyer to
Chicago to Investigate the situation de
scribed His report substantiated the
authors picture and the story was
then given to the world
A Witty Divine
Dr James Yorke Bramston a well
known London divine was a good deal
of a wit To a woman who was pester
ing him about a marriage she desired
to see arranged he quietly remarked
My name Is Bramston not Brimstone
J I am not a maker of matches
A Fire In Home
A lawyer who visited Rome tell3
how the fire department grappled with
a blaze in the Eternal City He says
Thy fire was in what we would call
a grocery store It seemed a lonft
time before the lire department re
sponded but after awhile I saw a
hose wagon dash around the corner
with a number of firemen standing on
the running boards on each side The
wagon stopped at u hydrant and each
fireman jumped from the wagon with
a little roll of lioe The first man
coupled his to the hydrant and then
each man coupled his section to the
preceding section Finally they had
water on the fire and after another
long period a man with a plumed hat
drove up in a victoria He was the
chief The captain of the company
and the chief saluted with much cere
mony then shook hands and then held
a long and dignified conversation
Finally I suppose the captain told the
chief the grocery was on fire and the
chief acknowledged it was and com
plimented him on his perspicuity Oh
yes they finally put the fire out and
Rome still stands
Difficult Iluyimili inpr
One of the most curious sights that
one notices in the agricultural parts of
Norway is the peculiar way of drying
out the hay On account of the ex
treme dampness the grass rots if left
on the ground after it Is mowed Wood
en drying fences that stretch for hun
dreds of yards across the fields are
built and every night the hay is hung
out to dry like the family wash The
sun helps along in the daytime but it
is only a half hearted help and in the
neighborhood of Bergen where it is
said to rain 3G 1 daj s out of the year
the hay is almost always on the
fence In the lake districts where the
hilly country makes means of trans
portation very difficult a heavy copper
wire is stretched from the top of a
mountain to the village in the valley
below Down this huge masses of bay
are sent sailing through the air some
times whizzing dangerously near the
unwary tourists head New York
Tribune
Yes We Are RcnIIohh
We are a restless people observes
the Sedgwick Kan Pantagraph
Every thin woman longs to be fat
Every fat woman wants to grow thin
Every town man longs for the time
when he can retire to the quiet of the
country and every farmer hopes to
some day quit work and move to town
where he can take life easy Country
newspaper men would like to try their
hand on a city daily The fellows on
the big dailies dream of a time when
they can own a paper of their own
In youth we long for maturity In
age we yearn for the happy days of
childhood There is no excuse for it
other than that we all seem to be built
that way The grass seems to be just
a little bit greener and thriftier most
any direction from the place you occu
py right now Contentment is as near
to happiness as you can get in this
world
Boy Was n Good Listener
The Smiths were not overcautious in
discussing neighbors faults In the
presence of their little sou A van one
day backed up to the curb and much
to Mrs Smiths disgust her boy Tom
my assisted an objectionable neighbor
to move The little fellow worked
hard and made himself very useful
When the last wagonload had been
hauled away and the doors of the va
cant house locked Tommy returned
home tired and disgusted nis moth
er could not reconcile the boys early
enthusiasm with his present dejection
and she asked him what was the mat
ter
I worked and watched around the
house all day whined the tired little
fellow but I didnt see them take
any skeletons out of the closets
New York Times
Feminine Study of Mnn
Man is when all is said a vastly lova
ble being and even his faults indeed
chiefly his faults have a most unholy
attraction for us But man the con
quered is a very different creature
from man the conqueror The first is
always ready and longing to afford us
everything in the world we desire
ready to sell his immortal soul for our
pleasures The second grudges us a
kind word A Spinster in M A P
ConlcIIiiN Invective
Roscoe Conkliug like John J In
galls was a master at invective Conk
ling it is said once upon a time in
summing up to a jury thus attempted
to belittle tbe testimony of a rummy
faced knobby nosed witness for the
opposition Merhinks gentlemen I
can see that witness now his mouth
stretching across the wide desolation
of his face a sepulcher of rum and a
fountain of falsehood
Two of n Kind
A man waiting for a street car asked
a gentleman standing by It are time
for the street car aint it or have ary
one went out in the last few minutes
The answer is said to have been If
any have went I havent saw it
Greensboro N C Record
Escaped Her Too
Elderly Man greeting lady acquaint
ance I remember your face perfectly
miss but your name has escaped me
The Young Woman I dont wonder
It escaped me three years ago I am
married now
The Gniden Measure
Things have come to a pretty pass
remarked the guide as he led Algernon
and Tercy into the Yosemite valley
Lampoon
Banter Is a word whose origin no
scholar can trace
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