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A FEW ILLUSTRATED POINTS ON THE WEARING OF EYEGLASSES
My dear friend I do not wonder
that the new glasses you have had so
short a time are causing your eyes to
pain said an optician as he exam
ined the partially dilapidated eye
glasses which were handed him by
his friend who had pronounced his
glasses a success from the first hut
of late had found them hurting his
eyes Glasses worn as carelessly as
you have been wearing these cannot
fail to hurt your eyes remarked the
expert In fr t it would be strange
if they failed to hurt you
Am I really wearing them careless
ly asked his friend in surprise I
had not the least idea that they were
not just as you adjusted them
In the first place remarked the
optician your glasses are not clean
You have depended on an occasional
breath and the corner of your hand
kerchief while in reality they need a
frequent bath in warm water In fact
a little soap will improve the bath
Be careful always to shake the dust
from the cloth or chamois that you
use in cleaning them as the little
particles are apt to scratch the sur
face of the lens and cloud it
Another thing The use of the
chain you are wearing is nothing
short of an anchor chain A chain
so heavy invariably drags the glasses
out of focus Would suggest a much
shorter chain to be worn which is
also a safer plan as a longer chain is
always getting tangled and is apt to
catch on something which may be the
cause of pulling yuur glasses from
your face or out of your pocket and
many times straining them out of
shape
On examining the nose piece I
should say that you have made the
practice of putting them on and tak
ing them off as if they were cast iron
instead of a delicate piece of mechan
ism carefully adjusted to your indi
vidual eyes and nose The frame is
dreadfully out of line I must twist
it back into shape before you put them
on again
Allowing glasses to tilt forward as
yours did when you came in robs
them of half their service and is
often positively injurious Such a
slant as they attained on your nose
would not be permissible even for read
ing glasses which are only in occa
sional use And again I notice you
have evidently lost the good substan
tial case which I gave you for your
glasses and replaced it with this
flimsy affair which perhaps accounts
for some of the mishaps that have be
fallen your glasses Here is a new
one which will render it impossible
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come out of gear And should they
become bent again 1 advise you to
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in the old style where the dividing
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BERUN IS MACHINE MADE
KiibIIhIi Writer CallH It Stiff IUsfld
Hid Rectilinear
Was Berlin made last year or the
year before It is impossible to say
from looking at it Some of the trees
iu the streets look at least ten years
old but they must have been planted
long before the city was thought of
The houses and the streets and the
lampposts and the statues are all much
too neat and new to have endured the
rains of more than one winter It is
all in fact quite too new to be com
fortable One feels afraid to sleep in
anj of the houses lest rheumatism
should be lying in wait in rooms where
the plaster has not had time to harden
I drove from the station in a drosh
ki with a monstrously old horse Time
had bent his forelegs into a very good
imitation of a switchback railway and
as we plodded solemnly along the
brand new asphalt roadway with the
brand new houses on either side and
an occasional brand new electric car
with a brand new driver in a brand
new uniform I found myself wonder
ing what the old horse must think of it
all One day he may have been grazing
in an open field and when he passed
that way a week or so later he found a
new broad boulevard with hotels and
shops and churches and great blocks of
fiats all sprung up like mushrooms
Berlin then is si great deal too per
fect to be satisfactory It is the ma
chine made not the hand made article
it was very decidedly made not
born There is no spontaneity in It no
life Compared to say London it is
like a beautiful marble statue to a liv
ing woman
Berlin is iu fact an awful object
lesson to emperors and others who try
to make a capital city out of a respect
able village It is easy to put up im
posing buildings if you have the mon
eyand to cut out broad tree lined
roads and have everything neat and
nice and fine but you only make your
village bigger and finer without mak
ing it any the more a capital city
There is no getting away from the feel
ing that Berlin is a viliige a big vil
lage a beautiful rectilinear new-out-of-the-bandbox
villaco but a village all
the same London Chronicle
GIRGENTI THE BEAUTIFUL
No PInce of Ruiiix I tlie World More
Beautiful Than This
Every one has heard of Girgenti as
of Syracuse before coining to Sicily
The most beautiful city of antiquity
has left an endearing name and if the
Girgenti of today be far from the Agri
gentuin of Roman splendor and still
further from the Acragas of Greek
beauty and magnificence it is still no
bly worth seeing Even the least re
sponsive imagination can hardly fail to
apprehend some idea of what this town
must have been of old when Acragas
with its vast extent and over 200000
inhabitants looked out across the dark
blue waters of the Greek sea or Mare
Africano from a lordly wilderness of
superb temples and magnificent build
ings of all kinds Today it is worth a
pilgrimage from the ends of the earth
There is perhaps no place of ruin in
the whole world more beautiful than
this To see it as the present writer
last saw it in a golden sunset glow
with the great temples gleaming like
yellow ivory and the town itself of a
dusky gold and the sea beyond and up
lands and mountains behind irradiated
with a serene glory of light is to see
what will be for life an unforgettable
impression an ever deeply moving re
membrance
To localize the three loveliest views
in Sicily and I fancy that most travel
ers would agree with me I should
specify that from the terrace of the
Hotel Timeo at Taormina that from
the monastery -hostelry of Madonna del
Tindaro over Tyndaris and the Aeolian
isles and that from the terrace of the
Hotel Belvedere on the south wall of
Girgenti looking out on the lovely
temples the beautiful uplands and
slopes and the blue sea washing Porto
Empedocle below Century
How Cnnmln AYik Xnmecl
According to an eminent authority
when the Portuguese under Gaspar
Cortereal in loOO first ascended the St
Lawrence they believed it to be the
strait of which they were in quest
through which a passage might be dis
covered into the Indian sea When
however they arrived at the point
when they could clearly ascertain that
this was no strait but a river they ex
claimed repeatedly in their disappoint
ment Ca nada Here nothing
These words remembered by the na
tives were repeated to the next Euro
peans who visited the land The new
comers hearing the phrase so frequent
ly conjectured that it must be the
name of the country so Canada it
remains
Money Mntle No Difference
A poor but worthy old couple had a
rare stroke of luck Some relative died
and left them a fortune of 20 The
night of the arrival of the lawyers let
ter telling them of their good fortune
they sat up late discussing the future
and what they were to do with the
great sum they had inherited When
they had done and were rising to go to
bed the old man said with a grand air
of magnanimity Weel I suppose
Janet thisll mak nae difference Well
just speak to the neebours as before
London Standard
The Fact For the Fiprnre
Of course said the bachelor girl I
am lonely but I am afraid marriage
would be out of the frying pan into tho
fire
Its more likely answered Miss
Cayenne to be out of the chafing dish
Into the gas stove Washington Star
There will nevor be universal peace
It is an idle dream People will always
get married
UNCLE SAMS FARMS
TAKING LAND FROM THE INDIAN
TO MAKE THEM
How lieu Men of the ICloiva Co
inniiehe Apache unci Other Tribes
Will lie CoinneiiMnteri For Ij iikIm
Owned by Them Soon to Ke Opened
There is an old song that used to be
quite popular in days gone by and
which contained the words Uncle
Sam is rich enough to give us all a
farm The giving away of farms
has often been done at the expense of
the Indian Sometimes the Indian lias
been paid for his lands sometimes he
has been tricked out of them In most
cases whether he has been paid for
them or not he has got tho worst of
the deal In the act recently passed
providing for the opening up to settle
ment of 01000 acres of grazing lands
belonging to the Kiowa Comanche and
Apache tribes it was provided that
none of the lands should be sold for
less than per acre
At first the Indians concerned were
opposed to the plan to open up their
lands but since they have come to un
derstand the fact that their funds
would lie largely increased by tlie
change tlfey have adopted a favorable
attitude toward it Chief Quauah Par-
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ker of the Comanche tribe and Chief
Lone Wolf of the Kiowas are among
those who favor the sale of tlie lands
The hill originally fixed 10 as the
minimum price for an acr in the sl
but President Roosevelt refused to in
dorse it unless this minimum price
per acre was raised to
Chief Quanah Tarker is one of the
most inliuentiai and progressive In
dians in the west His mother was
Cynthia Ann Parker a white woman
who was stolen as a child from her
parents The story of her capture her
life among the Comanches her mar
riage to a chief of the tribe her recap
ture by the whites and her preference
for the people of her adoption form
one of the most romantic tales of the
early days of Texas Chief Parker was
born about 1S34 lie has been a valiant
advocate of the rights of his fathers
race and has been talked of as a sen
ator from Oklahoma
The chief smokes his pipe of peacj
not in a tepee but on the veranda of
his residence a structure of some pre
tensions and he has many men both
Indians and whites in his employ He
has thousands of head of cattle and
his extensive Ians arc all inclosed by
neat fences The chief has been called
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an Indian millionaire but it is said
that the amount of his wealth is prob
ably not in excess of 100000
The lands of the Comanches Kiowas
and Apaches which are to be opened
for settlement are in Oklahoma Other
Indian lands are also to be thrown
open soon and these tire located in
Montana and Wyoming and form part
of the reservations of the Shoshone
Flathead and Crow tribes About
1000000 acres of tlie Crow reservation
in southern Montana and about the
same amount of land in the Shoshone
reservation in Wyoming are to be
niade ready for white settlement
while several hundred thousand acres
will be opened in the Flathead reserva
tion near Missoula Mont On the lat
ter reservation tlie government has al
ready been at work converting the land
into productive ranches by artificial
irrigation The Crow Indians are In
the main industrious and are noted as
stock growers They are also engaged
in agriculture and for tlie purpose of
irrigating tlielr land have constructed
a ditch which supplies -100000 acres
with water
THE SPANIARD
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Lottery Ticket
Of the courteous manners of all Span
lards a traveler writes So anxious is
every one to be of service to others
that the stranger is apt to consider the
Spaniards very inquisitive people An
experience in a Madrid tramcar was
enlightening in tills direction A wom
an in getting into the car appeared to
have slipped and hurt her fool She
and her husband began an animated
discussion upon the incident and of
-the dozen others in tlie car every one
except ourselves craned forward to lis
ten The passengers were well assort
ed ranging as they did from a captain
in uniform down to a woman almost
of tho beggar clas But one and all
In turn joined in tho discussion without
exciting the least resentment opinions
being apparently welcomed Gentle
men arriving at their destination ceased
arguing raised their hats and went
out leaving others in possession until
the principals left
There is no hour of the day or
night which a Spaniard deems inappro
priate to tlie practice of smoking the
same writer observes Whenever he
finds time hanging heavily which is
frequently he lights a cigarette Time
hangs heavily on a Spaniards mind in
the brief interval between the courses
at lunch and dinner whenever he
wakes at night when traveling be
tween station and hotel in an omnibus
and always when in a railway train
regardless of la lie The practice of
smoking is so universal in Spain that
railway compartments for nonsmok
ers exist in theory only an I th h ihlf
combined with that of loud talking t
all hours of the night and morning
makes tlie avenge Spaniard unsir
able as a traveling companion esiecial
ly at night
Of the sturdy bcr ars who overrun
Madrid The beggars usually have
some pretense for asking alms in ihe
shape of a decrepit guitar or li idle un
der the cloak whore it remains An
other plea is tle sale of lottery ticket-
the lottery being a great institution in
Spain Each ticket costs f pesetas
fabont 1 and bcgsiars in absolute
rags as often as not children rush
about with strings of these for sale
Chicago News
WIT IN CONGRESS
Some Fnmoiis Retorts 3Iirie During
the 1 1 cut of leute
One of tlie most famous of Iteeds re
torts was made at the expense of
Springer of Illinois The Maine giant
had just read one of Springers own
speeches in refutation of the hitters
argument just concluded The Iii
noisan launched into philosophy upon
the privilege of progressive thinkers to
change their opinions
I honor them for it he continued
An honest man is the noblest work of
God As for me Mr Chairman in tlie
words of an eminent American states
man I would rather bo right than be
president
The gentleman from Illinois nee lnt
worry iir Chairman drawled It owl
Hell never be either
During the bitter light against iteed
rules the house was thrown into con
vulsions by General Spinola who
pointing to the painting of the Siege
of Yorktown hanging in the hall
i graveiy accused rpeauer kcpi oi count
ing the ITessiaus in the background of
the picture in order to make uj a quo
rum
The general always wore a tremen
dously high collar so high in fact that
Representative Tim Campbell tapped
it one day with the ferule of his cane
and inquired to the amusement of the
house Is General Spinola within
During the famous deadlock fight in
tlie house over the civil rights bill Gen
eral Ben Butler favored a Sund jy ses
sion
Had as I am I have some respect
for Gods day replied Sam Handall of
Pennsylvania
Dont the Pible say that it is lawful
to pull your ox or ass out of a pit oi
ihe Sabbath asked Rutlor You
have thirty seven asses on your side of
the house and I want to get them out
of this ditch tomorrow I think I am
orrpged in holy work
Dont do it replied Randall -I
erncet some day to see you in a better
world
Youll be there as you are here a
member of tho lower house flashed
back tho general with telling effect
A merican Magazine
A Hnmlreil 31 ill ion ima
A peep into the heavens through a
liodorn telescope is a peep into the
very depths of mystery With such an
instrument one may gaze upon 100
OGOOUO stars each of them a burning
blazing sun From Avliat little Ave
know of creation we cannot but be
lieve that each of those suns is giving
light and heat to a train of planets
just in the same manner that our sun
gives light and life to his little Hock of
worlds Beyond those 100000000 suns
there may be hundreds of millions
more Thus they may continue sys
rem after system and worlds without
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Intimate Friend V1iat was the
broach of senatorial courtesy of which
you accused Senator Graball Senator
Grafton fiercely Why the scoundrel
approached the interests I represent
and offered to work for 2 per cent less
tesal expenses than theyre paying me
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Friend What did you find the most
difficult thing when you wrote your
first verses Poet To find some one
who would let me read them to him
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