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Power of the Melody of the Voice
Over Man and Beast
SINGERS WHO SAVED LIVES
The Way Lablache the Basso Con
quered a Bear and a Burglar Grisia
Control of a Madman With a Razor
A Musical Wifes Presence of Mind
That music really has charms to
soothe the savage beast is proved by
the many times that the power of song
has been the means of saving life On
one occasion when Luigi Lablache the
great opera basso was aimlessly stroll
ing through a French fair he was sur
prised by a sudden stampede of the
sightseers who rushed by him in a
great panic crying that one of the
great bears had escaped from the me
nagerie So surprised that he scarcely
realized his danger the singer stood
liis ground and almost immediately
fbimd himself face to face with the
maddened beast which halted for a
moment before making Its final rush
In that moment Lablache began to
sing one of his favorite airs in a voice
so deep and terrifying that the bear
slunk away thoroughly cowed
It was this same singer who when
confined to his bed by a broken leg
was surprised by his landlady who
burst into his room crying that a rob
ber was in the house and was about to
till her husband unless he revealed the
hiding place of their money and plate
Lablache unable because of his injury
to give other assistance began to sing
an aria in such thunderous tones as
to terrify the robber who fled
Mme Giulia Grisi was once travel
ing from the south of France to Paris
in company with several companions
of her own sex when their privacy
was intruded upon by a man who en
tered their apartment at a wayside sta
tion Before long he began to act so
oddly as to make the women appre
hensive and at last terrified them by
drawing a razor which he began to
flourish at the same time demanding
that he be permitted to sever their
heads The women realized that they
had a madman in the carriage with
them and also that they were without
protection until the next stop of the
train In consequence they became
hysterical all save Grisi who with
great coolness suddenly began to sing
In a soft voice that gradually assumed
volume as she gained the attention of
the man whose threatening attitude
gave way to rapt attention as the song
advanced Song after song did Grisi
sing and not another movement did
the man make until the next station
was reached when the alarm was giv
en and he was taken into custody It
transpired afterward that he had es
caped from a lunatic asylum
Jennie Lind once saved not only her
own but hundreds of other lives by
her gift of song A fire broke out back
of the stage in a small theater in her
native land where she was singing
The audience became alarmed and
there might have been a panic had not
Jennie Lind stepped coolly out upon
the stage and begun singing a favorite
folk song Reassured and entranced
the audience reseated themselves and
the fire was soon extinguished
Another well known opera star while
traveling with some friends in Mexico
was surprised by a company of half
treed bandits at whose approach the
escort fled leaving their charges to the
mercy of the robbers Th nttltudp of
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FRANKLIN PIERCE
Tlie fourteenth president of the United States was born at Hillsboro
N H in 1804 and died at Concord N H in 18G9 He won wide distinction
as a lawyer He resigned from the United States senate In 1S42 to resume
His profession and declined In turn an appointment to the senate the nomina
tion for governor and a place in the cabinet At the opening of the Mexican
war he enlisted as a private but shortly became a brigadier general doing
valiant service He was elected president on the Democratic ticket in 1852
His administration had much to do with the problems affecting slavery
Pierces conservative course made him unpopular in the north
the latter on finding that their captives
had little money and valuables was
menacing in the extreme and the trav
elers all expected to be murdered that
night When the robbers were eating
their supper the star began to sing
and his captors were so delighted that
they demanded more For a time he
gratified them but at last suggested
that he should sing for the freedom of
himself and his friends To this the
bandits cheered by wine and song
agreed and after having sung for an
hour he and his companion were free
Kneissel the notorious Bavarian
brigand once planned to rob a house
In the neighborhood of Munich and if
necessary to secure the money and
plate he knew was in the house mur
der the inmates a young married wo
man and her two female servants His
approach was heard by the wife who
instead of losing her head sat down
to her piano and began to sing The
brigand listened for awhile and was
on the point of forcing an entrance
into the room when the song ceased
and a mans voice struck up a rollick
ing air to be followed in a few mo
ments by a third mans voice singing
a familiar chorus Kneissel paused
The husband evidently had returned
unexpectedly and had brought Avith
him a friend He was not prepared to
attack the house against two men so
he beat a hasty retreat little thinking
that the voice he had heard proceeded
from the lips of the young wife a fine
singer who was an adept at mimicry
Some years ago a released convict
went to the house of the Indiana judge
who had sentenced him to prison with
the intention of shooting him As
he crept nearer to the window beside
which the judge was sitting and raised
his revolver to fire the sweet voice ot
the judges wife floated out on the
summer air from the bedroom where
she was singing her baby to sleep all
unconscious of her husbands peril
The lullaby she sang was one that the
convicts mother used to croon to him
and throwing aside his revolver he
walked boldly into the house and con
fessed to the judge his intention The
judge befriended him and he is today
one of themost influential and respect
ed citizens of a town in the far west
Addie Farrar in Chicago Record-Herald
Silk Manufacture 3
From all accounts silk manufacture
originated in China Chinese tradition
has it that the Emperor Foh Li taught
his people the art of cultivating the
silkworm as early as 5000 B C Spain
was the first European country to re
ceive the silkworms the Arab conquer
ors introducing them about the tenth
century probably from their home on
the borders of Persia The foundation
of the silk industry in France dates
from the year 1510 when Francis I
Imported silk workers from Milan
The Babys Fault
Nursemaid Im going to leave mum
Mistress Why whats the matter
Dont you like the baby Nursemaid
Yesm but he is that afraid of a po
liceman that I cant get near one
London Tatler
His Absentmindedness
Professor after dinner looking at
his empty plate in a rage There
weve had spinach and egg again
You know perfectly well Amelia that
I cant eat It Fiiegende Blatter
Sure Thing
Do you believe any of the plant or
arboreal kingdom would stick to man
if given the choice
I think the dogwood Baltimore
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ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE
Difference Between Instinct and
Reasoning Power
Most animals have little self con
sciousness and their reasoning powers
at best are of a low order but In kind
at least the powers are not different
from reason in man A horse reaches
over the fence to be company to an
other This is instinct When it lets
down the bars with Its teeth that Is
reason When a dog finds its way
home at night by the sense of smell
this may be Instinct when he drags a
stranger to his wounded master thati
is reason When a jack rabbit leaps
over a bush to escape a dog or runs in
a circle before a coyote or when It
lies Hat in the grass as a round ball of
gray inuisunguisnauie irom grass
this is instinct But the same animal
Is capable of reason tliat is of a dis
tinct choice among lines of action Not
long ago a rabbit came bounding across
the university campus at Palo Alto
As it passed a corner It suddenly faced
two hunting dogs running side by side
toward it It had the choice of turn
ing back its first instinct but a dan
gerous one of leaping over the dogs
or of tying on the ground It chose
none of these and its choice was in
stantaneous It ceased leaping ran
low and Avent between the dogs just
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and the surprise of the do s as they
stopped and tried to hurry md was
the same feeling that a i n would
have in like circumstances Evolu
tion and Animal Life
PLANT ODDITIES
Flowers That Possess Eyes Though
They May Not See
The night hath a thousand eyes but
a nasturtium leaf has more Holding
up his hand in front of a desert shrub
an experimenter has taken a micro
photograph showing half a dozen dis
tinct images of his fingers formed by
the eyes of the plant Many common
garden and wild flowers the nastur
tium begSnia clover wood sorrel and
bluebell among others possess eyes
situated on their leaves They are mi
nute protuberances filled with a trans
parent gummy matter which focuses
the rays of light on to a sensitive patch
of tissue at the back of it in a similar
manner to that in Avhich the eyes of an
animal do their work A common nas
turtium plant has thousauds of such
eyelets on its leaves forming thou
sands of minute images of the objects
around them But though a plant may
have eyes it does not follow that it
sees It is not yet known if the sense
impressions are telegraphed to some
central nerve exchange corresponding
to the brain of the animal In addition
to these light sense organs many plants
possess a touch of sensitiveness and a
response to electric stimuli that show
further resemblance to the animal
world while ferns mosses and sea
weeds in an early stage of their ex
istence are capable of actually swim
ming through water Chicago Tribune
The Lady In the Moon
An amateur astronomer writes of the
lady in the moon It is a very beau
tiful face seen in profile and uplifted
as though in proud disdain of thing
terrestrial The curve of the throat is
exquisite and indeed the entire outline
is iuarvelously lifelike The moon
lady may best be observed through a
small opera glass when our satellite is
at half At that time the tip of the
chin about touches the terminator
that is the dividing line between the
light and dark portions of the lunar
surface Most people can recognize
the man in the moon Well the hair
of the lady in which I can always fan
cy I see a spray of orange blossom
forms the mans left eye the nose and
mouth his nose and the chin and
throat the mans mouth
An Unhappy Comparison
A country minister had just received
his first call to the charge of a small
church and his wife of course was
highly excited so much so that she
was obliged to tell everybody of the
good news
One day she met a farmers wife and
began the conversation
Do you know Mrs Close she said
my husband has just secured the in
cumbency of a church and I cant tell
you how delighted I am I
Yes replied the sympathetic old
lady I quite understand your feel
ings I felt just that way when our
pig took the gold medal at the cattle
show Pearsons Weekly
Very Plain
Two country women mother and
daughter were at the circus for the
first time They were greatly taken
with the menagerie At last they came
to the hippopotamus and stood for
several minutes transfixed in silent
wonder Then the mother turned to
her daughter and said slowly and sol
emnly My Aint he plain
An Advantage
Now said Tommys mother I
hope youll profit by that spanking and
not be such a little savage hereafter
Boohoo blubbered Tommy I
wisht I wuz a little savage Little
savages mammas dont wear slippers
Exchange
Practical
What asked the dreamer would
you do if you could be a
day
king for a
Me answered the practical man
Id borrow enough money to live on
for the rest of my life London Tele
graph
Its so much easier to congratulate a
man on his success than it is to sym
pathize with him in his misfortune
Chicago News
Uncle Sam and the
Laiis Americans
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SE RETAKY 1I00T
affairs of
THE
the I a t i n
American re
publics have been
brought into spe
cial prominence by
the trip of Secre
tary Hoot to Mexi
co by the calling
of a Central Ameri
can peace confer
ence and by the
discussions over
the so called Drago
doctrine during the
peace conference at
The Hague Fur
ther prominence is
given to the subject of relations be
tween the United States and the other
republics of the continent by the visit
of a delegation of merchants from Uio
de Janeiro Their trip to this country
and tour of various industrial centers
are one result of the visit of Secretary
Root to Brazil last winter His pres
ent Mexican tour was planned by way
of completing the journey he then
made around South America He was
Invited to go to Mexico at that time
but circumstances did not permit and
fearing that an unfortunate interpreta
tion might be put upon his failure to
include the country of President Diaz
in his tour he promised to pay his re
spects to the sister republic later
Mr Roots jaunt is no ordinary pleas
ure junket but is believed to have con
siderable International significance
Naturally the principal object is the
strengthening of our relations both
political and commercial with Mexico
As the Mexican ambassador Senor
Enrique Creel recently said It will
mean the rounding out of the policy
which is to determine the attitude of
the United Stales to Latin America
About the middle of September a
protocol was signed at the state de
partment in Washington by the diplo
matic representatives of the five Cen
tral American republics accepting the
invitation of the United States and
Mexico to meet in the city by the Po
tomac early in November and negotiate
an agreement for permanent peace be-
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tween the states in question The
quarrels and even open hostilities be
tween them involving injury to the
property of citizens of Mexico and the
United States have caused much con
cern to the governments of the latter
countries The project of closer union
between them instead of jealousy and
strife has been mooted for some time
but now definite steps have been taken
to carry out a well considered plan
The agreement as to a conference was
brought about after long discussion
of the subject between the diplomatic
representatives of the five republics
The protocol signed binds the parties
to it to refrain from any movement
that might disturb the status quo and
endanger the success of the conference
The Hague conference has brought
into international prominence one of
the most eminent of the public men of
Latin America Dr Luis Maria Drago
of Argentina The so called Drago
doctrine has been one of the leading
themes at the conference and the ac
tion of the delegates from the United
States in espousing a somewhat modi
fied form of it has occasioned com
ment This action was in part the re
sult of Secretary Roots visit to South
America for while in Argentina he
became acquainted with Dr Drago
discussed with him his doctrine and
invited the distinguished South Amer
ican to visit Washington as his guest
on the conclusion of The Hague con
ference Argentina is one of the most
advanced of the South American coun
tries enjoys a stable government and
popular rights and a marked degree of
prosperity Dr Drago who is about
forty nine years of age an excellent
linguist and learned in the law and in
literature was minister of foreign af
fairs of Argentina in J002 and it was
then that the doctrine now known by
his name took its present form He
maintained that the collection of a
debt should not be made the occasion
of armed intervention in an American
country by a European power but
that recourse should be had by cred
itors to international law in the case
of delinquent debtors He urged that
armed intervention Implied occupation
of territory and was in violation of
the Monroe doctrine Dr Drago is talk
ed of as next president of Argentina
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PAGEANT
Professor Skeat on the Proper Pronun
ciation of tho Word
Instead of trusting to casual observ
ers it is far better to understand the
principles that govern our pronuncia
tion There is one principle In par
ticular which rightly considered gives
us a good deal of help In the Instance
under consideration
In my Primer of English Etymol
ogy I give some simple rules of ac
centuation Rule 1 Is as follows
When the length of a word Is aug
mented an original long vowel Is apt
to be shortened by the accentual stress
falling upon It Such augmentation
is due to the formation of a derivative
An easy example Is seen In the case
of cone pronounced with a long o
for if we form a derivative by adding
the sulllx ic the result Is conic with
a short o
There is a general principle that af
fects the whole language and sets up
a standard habit By way of illustra
tion compare bile with bilious crime
with criminal brake and bracken dine
and dinner mine and mineral coal and
collier and perhaps at least seventy
more A remarkable Instance Is seen
in collie which Is merely a new pro
nunciation of coaly Certain dogs
were once caned coaiy dogs necause
of their coal black markings An ox
tension of the same principle may be
made In comparing the dissyllabic
forms agent and cogent with the allied
trysyllables agitate and cogitate
When once such a principle has be
come general it is obvious that a word
like pageant will be Influenced by the
very large number of dissyllables that
have the former vowel short and this
is why the truly normal pronunciation
of the word resembles the a in Paget
I do not certainly know the origin of
that name but I suppose it is merely
the diminutive of page In which the
a Is shortened as a matter of course
simply ltecause the diminutive et has
beon added
The pronunciation of primer has of
ten been discussed and many are they
who think that they clinch the matter
by saying that the 1 In the Latin
primus is long for that proves noth
ing at all as regards modern English
and those who have studied our pe
culiar ways with the closest attention
are well aware that the normal way
is after all to pronounce it as if it
were spelled primmer We do not
therefore spell it with a double in be
cause that is not our system We write
tonic and conic and mimic In order to
show their connection with tone and
cone and mime and we trust that the
unfortunate reader after he has thus
had the etymology explained to him
will provide the pronunciation for him
self Such a word as pageant may be
usefully compared with magic and
tropic and agitate London Academy
SAVED BY QUICK WIT
The Escape of Sir Archibald Douglas
at Poitiers
In the battle of Toitiers lii a num
ber of Scottisli soldiers fought on the
side of the French and several of
them were taken prisoners by the Eng
lish Among them was Sir Archibald
Douglas half brother of Lord Wil
liam Douglas Being dressed in a suit
of splendid armor the victors thought
they had captured as indeed they
had some great nobleman Several
of the English were about to strip off
his armor when Sir William Itamsay
of Colluthie who was also a prisoner
happening to catch Sir Archibalds eye
gave him a meaning look Pretending
to be very angry he cried out You
rascal how is it that you are wearing
your masters armor Come here and
pull off my boots Douglas seeming
ly thoroughly cowed went humbly for
ward and drew off a boot with which
Sir William began to beat him The
English onlookers at once interfered
on Douglas behalf saying that he was
a person of great rank and a lord
What shouted Ramsay shaking
with laughter ne a lord Why he
Is a base knave and I suppose has
slain his master Go you villain and
search the field for the body of iny
cousin your master and when you
have found it let me know that I may
give it decent burial All this was
acted so naturally that the English
allowed Ramsay to ransom the pre
tended manservant for 40 shillings
The money having been paid Sir Wil
liam gave Douglas another thrashing
and then bade him begone Sir Archi
bald lost no time in effecting his es
cape which he owed solely to the In
genuity of his friend
Human Muscles
If the muscles in the arm of the
average man were put together and a
nervous impulse passed into them
their contraction would lift a weight
of 224 pounds from the ground Mus
cles have the unique power when stim
ulated by nerve impulse of contracting
somewhat as rubber bands might do
if they could squeeze themselves up
shorter They are in fact the reverse
of rubber for they contract only and
cannot stretch out Minneapolis Jour
nal
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They were weeping for the head of
the house whose automobile had gone
over the bank
Anyway said the widow drying
her tears for the moment his death
was in the height of fashion St
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