TOPICS OF TEE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
'Comments and Criticisms Based Upon
the Unjj > cnin Mof the Day Uietori-
cal and Newa Notes.
One peculiarity about many who trav
el the road to fame ia that they gather
so little dust.
By the invention of a blue" soap a
iFrench chemist hopes to make wash
day bluer than ever.
After all , what is wireless telegraphy
"but a later phase of the old habit of
ihavinir words over nothing ?
One of the strong points about the
automobile as a family carriage is that
It never takes fright at an engine.
Cuba is becoming rapidly American
ized. Yet while it has adopted railway -
way strikes they have not taken the
iform of collisions.
They say golf is making great ad
vances os an outdoor sport. This is
very likely , as an energetic player can
iget over a couple of counties in a day.
When a man sacrifices his personal interests -
terests for the public good , that is pa
triotism. When he sacrifices the public -
lic good for his private interests , that
is plain rascality.
"Since nobody wishes to die every-
'body must be glad he was born , " says
'Senator Depew. As no man would
Lave to die if he hadn't been born this
is a trifle vague.
It is a rather interesting fact that the
mew Spanish minister to Washington
married an American lady , who , in her
younger days , refused the proffered
'hand ' of Admiral Dewey.
A French physician declares that a
microbe is responsible for baldness , but
he fails to explain why it is that all the
victims of this particular microbe insist
on sitting in the front rows at the
vaudeville shows.
An English clergyman , in comment
ing upon recent multi-millionaire mar
riages , says that the love of money in
that country is so great that some are
"even willing to marry for it. " Some
people , too , will even work for it
Another judge has stepped down
from his bench to thrash personally a
wife-beater who grew insolent on be
ing sentenced. It may be a doubtful
precedent to establish , but it helps to
stamp the wife-beater as among the
meanest of curs this unrebuked itch-
.ing of the judicial elbow toward his
chastisement.
A year or two ago the vast region of
South Central Africa < now known as
Rhodesia , was practically savage , unex
plored and unknown. To-day it is un
der a civilized constitution , and every
man , Englishman or Kaffir , who works
for his living and is able to write his
name , is entitled lo cast one ballot and
no more. It is practically manhood
suffrage in the heart of the dark con
tinent.
A contemporary , after reading sev
eral deeds of mingled daring and self-
sacrifice performed by our soldiers in
the Philippines , is painfully affected
because there is no Victoria cross in
this country. It may console our con
temporary to learn that there is some
thing our soldiers think better , and that
is the medal of honor , open to the com
petition of all courage and devotion
without regard to the rank of their pos
sessors.
Prof. A. W. Small is an optimist.
Nevertheless he thinks that he sees
clouds on the social horizon already
bigger than a man's hand. If they con
tinue to enlarge , in the shape of trusts ,
to the bursting point , the result will be ,
he thinks , something like this : "The
men whose business it is to communi
cate ideas to their generation will be
gagged by those who publish ideas ;
and the publishers will be shackled by
the manufacturers of paper ; and the
paper-makers will be held up and hin
dered by the transportation trusts ; and
the transporters by the producers of
steel ; and the steel industries by the
coal operators ; and the coal miners by
the oil-producers ; and the oil magnates
by the stove-makers and the oil con
sumers ; and the cook-stove men and
their aids and abettors by the sugar
trust ; and the sugar interest by Wall
street ; and the stockbrokers and spec
ulators by the labor unions ; and the
labor unions by the farmers ; and the
farmers God help them by every
body ! " A grim tragedy of combina
tions ! Or rather a philosophical primer ,
that defines in a homely way the antag
onisms that will grow out of the pres
ent craze for centralizing the industrial
forces of the country.
A New York judge recently sentenced
: i remarkable man to a five-year term in
Sing Sing for theit. The man is known
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[ V1 Jt-
as Pietro Fernandez , and before his
sentence he engaged in a philosophical
dialogue with the Recorder that is
probably unique in the history of
courts. When asked whether he could
make up his mind to reform , Fernandez
replied : "A very ridiculous propisition.
I wish to say right here , your Honor ,
- that only one out of about one hundred
criminals who come here and tell you
ythat they intend to reform ever do re-
* form. I don't believe it's in me to reform -
form , although such a thing is possible.
n have known of stranger' things than
| 1hat. I wish , however , to tell the truth ,
land , in telling it , I must say that I
irealiy don't think there is any earthly
ichance for me to reform. " It is said
that actors are rarely good judges of
and tt is probable that so ext
perlenced a criminal as Fer
mitted himself to be is not a good au
thority on the philosophy of criminol
ogy. If his theory that only one crim
inal out of a hundred ever reforms
were true , the outlook for society
would be bad indeed. But the facts do
not warrant his conclusions , and it is
most likely that his mind has been
warped by association with other crim
inals. The logic of an otherwise fine
mind breaks at the point of reforma
tion , else he would see that reform in
his case would be but common sense ,
as it is admitted that he has wasted a
large portion of his life in prison. His
philosophy would tend to prove the the
ory that criminals such as he are but
the victims of a mental lesion.
Notwithstanding the vast output of
thousands of steam printing-presses ,
there are multitudes of our American
population who are on short rations of
reading matter. Either they live re
mote from libraries and dealers , or they
lack the means to buy books or sub
scribe for papers. Colporteurs find
families without even a Bible , and in
many a back town or frontier settle
ment are hungry people to whom a
bright book , an illustrated mugaxiue ,
or a good newspaper is a cause for
gladness and gratitude. To meet this
need , various agencies have been es
tablished for the placing of the whole
some and attractive literature wher
ever it is likely to be wanted and wel
comed. One city church is a center for
receiving aud distributing to distant
places tons of selected material , and
the ladies who conduct the correspon
dence become deeply interested in people
ple whom they are never to see. The
moral of all this is : Don't waste good
reading-matter , and don't allow it to
accumulate uuusued in closets and
garrets ; you need not wait to find or
organize a distributing agency. Every
reader who will give a minute's atten
tion to the subject can think of some
less favored neighbor perhaps the
choreman , the washerwoman and her
children , or a poor "shut-in" to whom
an ocasional gift of this kind would
com * like a sunbeam. There are hos
pitals where the daily coming of a
package of newspapers from the gath
er-all box at the railway station is an
event to which the invalids look for
ward as a relief from louesomeuess on
an antidote for pain. And many a
message of the true , the beautiful and
the good can be carried for one cent to
the remotest corner of the laud.
A little more than one year ago tlKi
first gun of the Spanish-American war
was fired. Previous to this the nation
lad been engaged in what now seem *
petty dissensions over the tariff , the
currency and other minor issues. 1/it-
tie did any of us dream of UK ? far-readi
ng problems which this war would pre
sent to us. The man who would have
predicted the present state of affairs
eighteen months ago would have stood
a good chance of being adjudged insane.
But it is after this fashion that most
reat problems come upon a generation.
Only a few can foresee their coming ,
but when once they arrive , there is
lothing to do but to proceed with their
solution. Each generation has its own
) eculiar questions to meet and settle
No wand then we come to a place where
we imagine that all the rough places
have been made smooth , and that those
who come after us are to be mere dere
licts upon life's ocean , drifting with the
winds and the tides. When Charles
Sunnier entered the Senate of the Unit
ed States the veteran Thomas H. Benton -
ton of Missouri said to him one day :
"Suniner , you have come upon tlx ? stage
too late. The compromise act of 18.10
has settled all the great questions ; all
that is left for yeu and your associates-
is to tinker a little with the tariff and
pass the appropriation bills. " Deluded
man ! Before Suuiner's first term in the
Senate had expired he had become one
of the chief actors in the most stupendous
deus drama thus far enacted in Amer
ica. Undoubtedly many leaders in
many generations have thought just as
Benton thought \vhen they came to
wards the end of their lives. They
looked upon the world's work as all
being done. Neither men nor nations
are able to tell what a day will bring
forth. In the drama of life the scenes
shift even more quickly than they do
upon the mimic stage. It is folly to ex
pect or look forward to any age of tran-
quility. To do battle seems to be the
law of life. Each generation has its
responsibilities which it cannot escape ,
and its problems , whose solution cannot
be postponed.
A King's Charity.
Any poor child who likes to presenter
or herself at the gate of the
Royal Palace at Madrid at 0 o'clock in
the evening can have a bowl of per
ridge. This custom originated through
the young King having been detained f j
in a remote district , owing to a break
down of the engine. lie became hun
gry , but no food was obtainable ; his
mother improved the occasion by tell
ing him that many a poor child had to \
go to bed hungry , which so impressed
the youngster that he urged his mother
to institute this charity.
Church Divorce liaivs. '
The lower house of the convocation
of the Church of England has passed
a resolution declaring that the law of
the church does not recognize divorce
and asking the Bishops to devote them
selves to securing action of Parliameu4
to the end that the church shall not
marry divorced persons.
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Feminine Attributes.
It is a small wonder that the ship is
a she to a sailor and his sweetheart.
She has a waist , collars , stays , laces , ;
bonnets , ties , ribbons , watches and
chains.
Parisian Buddhists.
There is a Buddhist temple in Paris , :
svhere there are about 300 followers o *
that religion. ;
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"BUST THE TKUSTS. "
THIS IS LIKELY TO BE THE DEM
OCRATIC SLOGAN.
Opinion at the St. Louis Banquet and
Conference Takes Shape for the
Coming : Campaign Declared that
"Silver Can Wait. "
St. Louis correspondence :
"Bust the trusts" is to be the Demo
cratic war cry for 1900 if the hanpeniiigb
of Thursday in St. Louis are a true index
Hundreds of Democrats went to the
Mound City to talk shop , exchange views
and to feast at a $2 per plate banquet on
the tanbark floor of the Coliseum. The
opinions expressed by these Democrats ,
the confidential chats in hotel corridors ,
the whispered confessions exchangee
when two politicians "buttonholed" each
other and the speeches by Democratic
orators at the Coliseum were * 'anti-trust. , "
Free silver is regarded as an issue that
can wait. When free silver was mention
ed by the after dinner speakers the old
familiar words raised hearty cheers , but
the yell came when "anti-trust" was call
ed up.
The bill of fare and program of speeches
at the dinner was labeled "anti-trust ban
quet. " The topics for the set speeches
were trusts and monopolies. Before
Champ Clark had finished his address the
Democrats around the tables took cour
age and began to say openly what they
had whispered during the day that "sil
ver can wait ; the Senate is gold for six
years , but we" can win on the platform
bust the trusts. ' "
The banquet was a huge , unmistakable
success. Nearly 2,000 men sat around the
tables , which were plialanxed in the arena
of the Coliseum. In the amphitheater
some 7,500 women and men lingered to
see 2,000 hungry Democrats eat and to
hear 2,000 Democrats yell and shout when
William J. Bryan came into the place. An
overflow meeting was held in the audito
rium of the Music Hall building. The
seating capacity of the Music Hall is
0,000 , and every seat was filled , the aisles
were jammed and the walls were banked
five deep with those who found standing
room. It is estimated that 20,000 people
tieard Col. Bryan and the other speakers ,
for the orators spoke in each place.
Enthusiasm was rampant in the Coli
seum. Every man and woman in the huge
room had a little flag , and the excited flut-
terings of the tiny standards added mate
rially to the picturesque character of the
scene.
The speechmaking began with the ad
dress of welcome by Harry B. Hawes , the
president of the Jefferson Club , under
whose auspices the banquet was given.
Champ Clark in presenting some banners
to district committees made a brief but
characteristic address.
When Mr. Clark had finished the crowd
began calling for Bryan. They broke into
the speechmaking of C. B. Faris , who ac
cepted the banners presented by Congress
man Clark , and nearly howled down M. E.
lentou , who also made a speech of accept
ance , with their persistent demands for
Bryan. But the order of the program was
maintained , and M. C. Wetmore of St.
Louis spoke on "Trusts and Democracy. "
He was followed by Congressman David
A. De Armond of Missouri , who spoke on
"The Trust and Its Parents. "
The crowd grew impatient bofo t he
had finished and again the cries for Bryan
broke out. But the Missouri man kept on
despite the vociferous reminders that it
was 10 o'clock and growing late. It was
on the program for the audience to sing
"America" before Mr. Bryan spoke. The
committee on arrangements , with an eye
for effective climaxes , had arranged mat
ters so that Mr. Bryan's ovation would be
one of the old-fashioned kind. But it
needed no program or arrangements to
make Mr. Bryan feel he was welcome.
The cheers for him began while Con
gressman De Armond was walking to his
seat. The band broke into "America. "
The crowd of men and women rose with a
great shout , and the shouts and cheers
drowned the music of the band. The mu-
picians played two verses of the old song
and then the audience stopped cheering
and took up the words. From "America"
the band changed to "Hold the Fort. "
Scarcely any one heard the music , for Mr.
Bryan came forward , and for three min
utes he stood in silence while the Demo
crats tried to lift the roof. Mr. Bryan
was hoarse. The speechmaking of two
days previous had strained the vocal
chords , but he managed to overcome the
poor acoustics of the hall with his won
derful voice ; the hoarseness disappeared
before he was half through his speech.
He finished in a tumult of wild applause.
Mr. Bryan Speaks.
Mr. Bryan's subject was "Monopolies , "
and he spoke as follows :
Ail actor who visited Nebraska recently ,
upon learning from a Republican that con-
tidence had been restored , remarked that he
had examined Webster's dictionary to learn
what "contidence" meant , and found confi
dence defined as "trust , " and then he un
derstood that confidence had been really re
stored
More trusts have been formed during the
last two years than existed at the beginning
of the p resell t administration , and the nom
inal capitalization of the trusts now in ex
istence approaches , if it does not equal In
amount , the world's total supply of gold and
silver. The influence of these trusts has be
come so enormous that the people , without
respect to party , are asking themselves how
the evil can be remedied.
The purpose of the trusts is to control the
product of some article of merchandise , and
the methods employed are : First , the union
of all individual iu-u > ries under one man
agement or in one corporation , and , second ,
the crushing out of new rivals. A monopoly
when once complete not on dictates terms
to those who buy the product , but it also
dictates terms to those who sell the raw
material and to the e who furnish the labor.
If the trusts are permitted to continue , we
shall find an industrial aristocracy growing
up in the United States which will prove as
destructive of our ideals as a landed aris
tocracy would.
The principle of monopoly is Incompatible
with our institutions. Man's necessities
compel him to become a purchaser , and
where there Is but one seller the purchaser
Is completely at the mercy of the seller.
Where there is competition between pro
ducers the purchaser is sure to obtain what
lie wants at n reasonable price. When com
petition Is eliminated the price is continued
not by reason , but by the greed of the one
ivho possesses the monopoly.
It has been said that the power to tax Is
power to destroy. A monopoly possesses
the power to tax ; It can levy such assess
ments as it will upon the purchaser , and
ive can no more afford to permit such a
lower fo be exercised by private Individuals
haii we could afford to authorize a private
ndividual to use the machinery of taxation
n order to enrich himself at the expense of
ils fellows.
The Government would be guilty of gross ;
neglect if it permitted an individual to se-
ure a monopoly even without legislative
isslstauce , but it Is still more culpable if by
eglslntive act It furnishes the means by
vhieh a monopoly is secured. Th'e corpora-
ion Is tue means now employed by those
who seek to ijecure. a monopoly. Since the
corporation Is % fictitious person , created by
law , the power that creates can regulate ,
restrain or annihilate. To say that the Gov
ernment Is impotent to prevent the organi
zation of trusts is to say that it has called
Into existence a fictitious person , and that
the fictitious person created has become
greater than the creator.
Onf of the difficulties which have been en
countered In opposing trusts Is that the
i trust hides behind the Federal Constitution
' when attacked by State legislation , and
shields Itself behind its State charter when
attacked In the Federal courts. No remedy
will be complete that is not coextensive
with the Federal government. If the ex
tinguishment of the trusts Is left to State
legislation the public at large will be vic
timized as long as a single State will fur
nish a robbers' roost where the spoils col
lected in other States can be divided.
Just now people are startled by the prin
ciple of monopoly as it manifests Itself In
the industrial trust , and well may they be
startled. The principle , however. Is the
same as that which manifests itself in the
effort of the national bankers to secure a
monopoly of the Issue of paper money. The
greenback is a rival of the bank note , and
its presence is a constai-t menace to the
banks of issue. Some who recognize the
evils that flow from a soap trust seem Indif
ferent to the dangers that attend the forma
tion of a paper money trust.
The principle of monopoly not only lies at
the foundation of the attempt to destroy the
greenbacks , but It is the controlling princi
ple that underlies the crusade against silver
as a standard money. Between ISoO and
I860 , when the production of gold was in
creasing and the production of silver was
small , three nations demonetized gold and
gave to-silver a monopoly of mint privileges.
Early in the ' 70's the financiers became
alarmed at the increase in the production of
silver , and conspired to destroy silver as a
standard money and give a monopoly to
gold , the production of which at that time
was stationary.
The standard money trust Is not only the
parent trust , but is in the hands of for
eigners.
The Republican party is impotent to de
stroy the trusts. It is controlled by those
who are interested In trusts , and its cam
paign fund and sinews of war are supplied
by the trusts. Abraham Lincoln in the
very beginning of his presidential career ,
warned the country against the threatened
attempt to put capital above labor in the
structure of the government. Modern re
publicanism Is fulfilling the prophecy made
by Lincoln It is putting the dollar above
the man. The Democratic party Is opposed
to the principle of monopoly wherever it
manifests Itself. It has declared war on
the trusts. Not a little trust only , but a big
trust ? s well. Not against one kind of trust
only , but against all trusts. The man who
opposes trusts in Congress is entitled to as
much credit for bravery as the man who
swam a river or marched up San Juan hill.
O. H. P. Beluiont for Bryan.
When Mr. Bryan sat down there were
calls for O. H. P. Behnoiit , and ex-Gov.
Stone led the New Yurk mail to the front
of the platform. Mr. Belmont began by
saying : "If I wore in complete party con
trol I would point to an easy path to tri
umph. I'd name Bryan the candidate ,
make Bryan the platform , and with Bry
an as the issue go before the people. " He
declared that lie would give his full sup
port to the platform and candidate of the
Democratic convention of 1000. He said
he believed the platform would declare
for the election of United States Senators
by the people. He dwelt at length on the
trusts , and said trusts were the pure re
sult of the carefully matured principle of
protection , which has kept the Republican
party going , furnished its money and
fought its campaigns. He ended by say
ing :
And on the subject of harmony , speaking
for New York alone , if you give us Bryan
for a candidate and "smash the trusts" for
a war-cry , the Empire State Democracy ,
moving as a unit , will sweep to victory.
Alt-celd Speaks for Silver.
The crowd called for ex-Gov. John P.
Altgeld , and the Illinois man cam- for
ward while the audience applauded him
cordially. He gave the only free silver
speech of the evening , and declared that if
the Democratic party should abandon the"
ratio of 10 to 1 it would amount to aban
doning the cause for which the Democrats
fought in 1890. He urged the Democrats
to stand by the whole of the Chicago plat
form , which , he said , could be added to ,
but which could not be taken from. Then
lie launched into the silver question , in
which he alluded to Bryan as the leadei
of the party.
YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.
Boys in the Argentine Republic Pose
as Men at 14.
We hear a good deal said of Young
America and his impudence , writes
Frank G. Carpenter. The boys of the
Argentine are even more precocious
than those of the United States. An
Argentine father seldom whips his son ,
and children have much more liberty
south of the equator than north of it.
The Sunday school is almost unknown ,
and ideas of morality are so loose thai
children are brought up in a most per
nicious way. As to lying , this is common
[
mon among men , women and children.
The poiite lie is met with everywhere ,
and a father will sometimes say about
his little girl or boy in admiring tones :
"Why , hear that child lie , " or "How
well it does lie ; " "Why , I could not lin
better than that myself. " They do not
think it disgraceful to lie , and have the
Spanish idea of honor. You might ,
for instance , call an Argentine a liar ,
and he would think nothing of it. He
might think it a compliment more than
anything else. But if you should call
him a coward he could not consistently
rest until he had knocked you down or
stabbed you in the back. .
The young Argentine learns wickedness - .
ness at a much earlier age than do our
*
boys. Many of them have repraved
minds at 14 , and already pose as men.
Boys begin to talk politics before they
are out of knee pants. Nearly every )
college has its political factions. The
boys organize revolutions against the
professors , thus training themselves to
get up revolutions against the government -
ment when they grow older. The well- t :
to-do young Argentine is not brought
up to any business. He has a preju
dice against trade and work , thoagh he [
will study for a profession. It is the >
fashionable thing to study law , and
thus get the title of doctor to the name ,
though the young man may never'ex
pect to practice. t ]
The children , as a rule , learn the lan )
guages easily , and many young men
speak English and French. Girls are
also good linguists , but outside of the
languages they know but little.
Precious Stones His Fortune. nsi
The , shah Is
present enormously 01
wealthy , and almost the whole of his 01w
fortune consists of diamonds and prec SL
ious stones. The royal family of Persia SLSI
s one of the largest in the world. There SI
ire some thousands of princes and SIbi
biPi
princesses , and the present occupant Pi
Piai
jf the throne has a family 'of about ai
twenty.
Conquest of Us.
I see some one says that England
about owns this country and is now
furnishing us a policy of conquest.
You can arrive at it by examining our
osrorts. Since 1873 our excess of ex
ports over imports of all kinds has been
$3f)10,100,295 , which means that we
should have received that much in
money , gold and silver , in return.
When you examine the tables of gold
and silver for the same period you find
that the net result is not an importation
of gold and silver to us in payment of
our merchandise , but that we have
also exported for the same period
$392,000,000 of gold and silver in ex
cess of that imported. What does all
this mean ? It means that practically
four billion dollars' worth of our cere
als , gold , silver , etc. , has gone mainly
to England , to pay interest on bonds
and dividends on their American stock.
We have in twenty-live years given
them four billion dollars' worth of our
exports , for which we have received
nothing.
The wretched financial policy En
gland gave us has lowered the ex
changeable value of our breadstuffs
with their money till we can never
hope to pay the principal on the debt
we owe their money-changers. Talk
about conquest ! They have cunning
ly exploited us ! We are becoming En
glish slaves ! Moses said : "If you
want to destroy a people loan them
money. " And Rothschild & Co. are act
ing on his advice. To one who can see
clearly the current of events , England's
peaceful conquest of the United States
s what we should be discussing. The
poor Filipino is to be pitied , but so is
iie proud , vanity-bitten nation , tum
bling to its fall unless broad-minded
statesmanship shall come to the front.
John B. McDowell , in Chicago Jour
nal.
Depressing KfTei-'ts.
The depressing effect of the gold
standard on the industries of the land
s such that only an extraordinary con-
uuctiou of most favorable circum
stances , such as crop failures abroad
ind unprecedented home crops for two
years , has been able to stay for the
noment the downward course of prices
and tarn a scanty How of gold to our
shores. But for these strange and con
clusive facts prices would be lower
than ever , ami bond issues to maintain
gold redemption the order of the day.
It seems as though Providence , seeing
we were madly determined on self-de
struction , interfered wonderfully to
prevent it.
An unparalleled excess of exports
over imports of over one billion dollars
lars in two years is due mainly to
our vast agricultural exports , nearly
nine hundred millions of dollars'
worth of which was sent out the last
fiscal year. This , under a wise money
system , would have sent a most won
derful tlood-tide of prosperity through
out our land , but , as it is , it has simply
arrested the fall of prices for the mo
ment by adding slightly to our gold cur
rency. The bulk of the vast sum due
us wis kept back to be paid on our
foreign indebtedness that has been
doubled under the gold standard. What
would have been our financial condi
tion if , instead of big crops to fill a big
foreign demand , we had had poor crops
and no foreign demand ? It can be
better imagined than told.
All Forts.
A teacup holds one gill.
The bogs of Ireland cover 2,800,000
orcros.
The Plain of Sharon is about twenty
miles wide.
A Chicago justice has fined a man $25
or being a liar.
A New Jersey man has voted 143
Imes n seventy years , and is proud of
liis record.
American -birds have decreased in
lumber nearly 00 per cent , in the last
if teen years.
Bears have been more plentiful in
Elungary lately than at any time with-
n the past fifteen years.
Secretaiy Hay has promised to at-
eud the ceremonies attendant upon the
ayiiig of the corner-stone of Chicago's
lew postoffice.
The residents of Alva , Oklahoma ,
lave decided to change the name of
hat town to Capron , in honor of the
ough Rider captain killed at Sauti-
iso.
Some of the colored people in Ala-
ama try to cure themselves of rheu- [
natism by sleeping with a young dog.
Cbey imagine that the disease is thus
irausniitted to the dog.
A French doctor has invented an elec-
ric helmet , inside of which is a small
uotor that vibrates strips of steel , the
notor making 000 turns per minute ,
"his whizzing is supposed to cure nerv-
us headache , and put the sufferer to
sleep. :
In Cyprus the first articles of gold of
mcient workmanship discovered on
he island has just been found. It is a
lateof _ gold throe inches long by one
ind a half inches broad , and on it are
he figures of a sphinx and two beard-
ess warriors.
Here are some preventives used in va-
ious parts of the world : A dried snake-
kin is good against snake bites , a piece :
f a human skull against epilepsy , a
rolf's tooth against hydrophobia , an
.labaster bead against tempest and
lail , a sapphire , against blindness , a
nail shell against gravel or fever , a
ronze Byzantine coin against warts , a
ig's tooth against trouble in teething ,
nd a horse chestnut against the rheu- i
autism. :
MRS. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY.
Fox Many Years She Was One of So
ciety's Handsomest Leaders.
Mrs. William C. Whitney , who died
recently , at the Whitney country home-
on Long Island , was one of three hand
some daughters of Dr. William May , of
Baltimore , and was long a social lead
er. As a girl Edith May visited Ger
many with her father and there met
Capt Randolph , a dashing officer of
the English arrnj- . Randolph was
married , but fell in love with the beau
tiful American and went to England
for a divorce. He got it. Long before
this Dr. May had taken his daughters-
back to Baltimore , as he did not ap
prove of the English officer's atten
tions. Capt. Randolph came to this
country later , when he was free to-
marry , and Dr. May gave his consent.
The marriage took place. Capt. Ran-
MRS. WILLIAM C. WIIITNEV.
dolph was stationed In Canada
there the family lived until his death.
Then the widow returned to New York.
Her means were modest , but she was-
popular in society.
Mrs. Whitney remained a widow for
some years after the death of her first
husband. On Sept. 29 , IStMi , she was
married to William C. Whitney ki St ,
Savior's Church at Bar Harbor , in the
presence of a few friends. Mr. Whitney -
_ ney had been a widower then for four
years. His first wife and the second
Mrs. Whitney had been friends for
some years and the families were fre
quently together. Mrs. Whitney was-
related to many families well known in
New York society , as , for example , the
Kanes , Winthrops and Oelriehses.
Mrs. Whitney met in 1S9S with the ac
cident which resulted in her death. OB.
Feb. 21 she was riding to one of the
hunts at Aiken , S. C. While she was-
riding tinder a bridge her head struck
a timber. She had frequently ridden
under the same bridge without acci
dent. But it happened on this day
that she was riding a hunter much
larger than the horse she habitually
rode. She was knocked off the horse
ind ever after that time was practic
ally a helpless invalid. She was re
moved to New York as soon as her
condition made It possible. Later she
was removed in her husband's yacht to-
Bar Harbor , and finally was taken to-
Westbury , L. I. Mrs. Whitney had al
ways been fond of racing , and a spe
cial track was laid out for her at West-
bury so situated that she could watcb
the contests on it from a window of her
room. Mrs. Whitney had two daugh
ters by her first husband and they sur
vive.
A Gallant Small Boy.
A heroic rescue was performed mte-
ly in San Francisco by a boy only eight
years old. The San Bruno Hotel haci
taken fire , and the flames were not dis
covered until it was too late to save-
the building , or , as it afterward turned
out , to get out of it all its inmates.
While the fire was raging little Theo
dore Steiner , eight years old , the son of
the proprietor of the hotel , learned
that a baby , a year old , the child of
one of the guests , had been left m art
upper room. Theodore did not wait
to apprise some older person of this
fact ; he acted instantly on his own re
sponsibility.
Rushing up the stairs in the midst
of fire and smoke , he disappeared from *
the view of the bystanders. At that
very moment the walls began to tot
ter. Those who had seen the boy en
ter gave him up for lost. He was , in
deed , gone a surprisingly long time ,
but finally , at the very last moment
when it would have been possible for
anyone to come out of the building
alive , he emerged , bearing the baby in
his arms. He had rescued it from
what in a moment more would have-
been death.
Protest Against a Sunday Lair.
There is a law against working on-
Sunday in Bavaria , but the paper mills
ire protesting on the ground that their
supply of water power is so uncertain-
hat they are compelled to make use
jf it whenever they can , and that by
not taking advantage of a strong cur
rent , occurring on Sunday , they are-
ipt to lose a great deal of time. The-
authorities are considering the suspen
sion of the law regarding pipermills. .
AFamiliar Saying.
The origin of the saying "as dean as
i whistle" is ascribed to the "whistle-
ankard" of olden times , in which the-
svhistle came into play when the tank-
mi was emptied or "cleared out" to an-
lounce to the waiter that more liquor
vas required.
Unmarked Graves.
Eight of the twenty-four Governors
) f Indiana who have died lie in un-
narked graves , and yet in their time-
hey were the marked men of the hour.
A Symptom.
Manford What makes you think the-
jirl loves you ?
Sanford She has begun belittling alE
Jie other girls that I know.
In every neighborhood you will find :
lot of people who borrow so muck.
hat they are talked about.
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