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Matrimony and Cyspej.s a
T is not good for man or woman to cat alone.
Thus medical authority has spoken for .roars.
solitary diner out. having no company be
fore him , other than his food , swallows it im-
j properly masticated , hurries one course upon
I another before the stomach can properly adjust
itself to the conditions that tax it , and acquires
a dyspepsia that distress him severely and makes life a bhii
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The increase in dyspepsia and kindred ailments , so one
who has been gathering information asserts , is largely due
to the Independence manifested by both sexes regarding
matrimony. In other words , were there fewer bachelors
and bachelor maidens there would be less demand for ton
ics to brace up an impaired digestion.
In spite of the orthodox joke about the j'oung wife
ruining her husband's digestive apparatus by her attempts
at cookery , it is establisned that there ar : . in reality , much
fewer cases of dyspepsia among the wedded than among
those who choose to remain single.
Food consumption should be a task of slow process ,
and the mind should be free from arr- and unnecessary ex
citement during the meak hour. This is best established
when two persons dine together and enjoy such good-na
tured chaff , raillery or interesting chat as diverts them for
the moment.
A few are so gifted as to be able to dine alone and
dine deliberately by the amusement derived from their sur
roundings , but the rule is , as the restaurant-keepers can
"well testify to. that the single diner eats his meal in from
one-third to one-half the time taken by those who dine in
company.
The inference , of course , established by this research is
that matrimony is a good thing for dyspepsia , and possibly
this fact may establish a new line of thought in some
crusty bachelors and fussy bachelor maidens , who are
unable to eat a meal without topping it off with a few
specially prepared tablets and nostrums to help out their
poor stomachs. New York Telegram.
Farming a Great Industry.
HE annual report of the Secretary of Agricul
ture shows that farming is still the chief busi-
.iess of the people of the United States. Fast
s our other industries have grown , especially
vithin recent years , agriculture still far sur-
lasses any of them in the amount of its cap
ital , in the value of its products and in the
number of people engaged in it
We have been bo.istiiig of the rapidity with which our
exports of manufactured goods have increased , of our
"conquests of the markets of the world , " but Secretary
Wilson shows that the balance of trade in all products ex
cept those of agriculture ran against us $8155.000,000 dur
ing the last fourteen years. The balance of trade in agri
cultural products was § 4,800.000.000 in onr favor , however ,
so that the total balance in our favor , thanks to the fann
er , was $3.940.000.000. While we have not been able to
turn out or , at least , have not turned out enough of other
commodities to supply our wants , we have raised enough
farm produce not only to meet our own demands , but to
feed a large part of the rest of the world ; and the agri
cultural lands of the country still possess large resources
that never have been exploited. In the couse of time the
country's industrial population no doubt will become so
great as to consume all the food that the land can be forced
to produce. Kansas City Journal.
EngJish as the World's Language.
HERE is a significance , more important and
far-nac'hing than appears on the surface , in the
announcement that the English language is to
be the medium employed in the arbitration of
v § pfrA rne Venezuelan dispute at The Hague court. It
\jjs \ ri tirgJ IK'S so * ollo been the custom , still very generally
in vogue , for such exchanges to be carried on in
French that French has become recognized as the diplo
matic tongue , the language to be observed in international
courts and in the interchange of communications between
nations. The first radical departure from this rule was in
3SS ! ) . when English was used in the international parlia
ment that settled the Sainoan dispute between England ,
Germany , and the United States.
The growth of the United States as a world power has
f BATTLING WITH AN ANCHOR.
To hoist to the cat-head an anchor
weighing eight thousand pounds , with
a gale of wind bloAving and a tremendous
deus sea rising , is a difficult task.
The New York Sun tells how this
\vuik was undertaken on a warship in
LIiipton Roads. In order to raise the
anchor to the deck of the ship the
hundred-pound cat-block had to be
fastened by the huge hook which de-
pendt-d from it to the ring in the bal
ancing band 011 the anchor shank so
that the power of the winch could be
' 1 IIP great anchor hung so that when
tTit- wave receded it was clear of the
water , but each incoming crest sub-
inergrd it. several feet. As the ship
tossed on the waves there was great
C.gor that the enormous weight of
the anchor would send the anchor
through her thin plating. But with
seas big enough to toss the ship about
11 ? easily as if she were a flshing-
jjoal. and to swing that anchor back
iir.tl forth like the pendulum of a toy
Hock , it was no child's game to hook
the cat-block.
Two men were chosen , each a fine
specimen of the American sailor. Just
under the arms of each a line was
made fast , and men on deck stood
ready to haul away in case of need.
The two sailors "watched their
\ chance , and , when the ship's head
" Avas well out of water , over they went
) Thej- had hardly reached the anchor
} -when a wave rolled in that surged four
feet above their heads. When It
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passed both were clinging , almost
breathless , to the shank of the an
.1 . chor.
chor.But
But the instant they \vere clear of
water they jumped to their work and
strove to get the block in place. With
the ship hauling one Tray and the wind
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undoubtedly had a greater influence in this step tovrard
making English the universal language than any other
cause. This nation is now an interested party in any dis
putes that may arise In the Pacific. She has her interests
in China , by reason of the united action of the Powers
during the Boxer revolt , and her position as arbitrator and
peace preserver In South America has become more pro
nounced with the development of that continent and its
American continent. Russia , it is true , has a larger popu-
pean countries. More people speak the English language
than use any other tongue spoken in Europe or on the
American continent : Russia , it is true , has a larger popu
lation than the United States and Great Britain combined
but millions of her citizens do not speak the Russian Ian
guage. Aside from oilier considerations , the 'e is a force
and directness to plain English that are not found in any
other tongue , and international relations are now such tha
plain , direct , concise terms are needed to avoid complica
tions. The adoption of English as the diplomatic Ian
guage is but a natural step in the right direction. Wash
ington Post '
How We Catch Colds.
London Hospital , a medical magazine
maintains that colds are caught , the colds that
M have nasal catarrh for their chief symptom
in the same way that other infectious diseases
! * fi a are caught , by the lodgment of a germ. The
character of the germ is not specified. This is
no new discovery or theory. Knowing persons
have long been careful about exposing themselves to in
fection by persons who have a cold , lest they "catch" it.
The old notion that a cold is result of exposure to draught
or to coid air , or of getting the feet wet , has been aban
doned , although it is true that one may get a chill in thai
way which will afford some of the symptoms and sensa
tions of the nasal catarrh caused by a noxious germ. It
is safer to avoid close contact , and all unnecessary contact ,
with a person who has this cold. A horse that has been
wintered out often catches a cold upon being brought into
the stable in the spring. Experiments with disinfectants
have shown that it is not the warmth of the stable that
induces the cold. Arctic voyagers are commonly free of
colds until their return to a community where they pre
vail. Iu t.he small rocky island of St Kildaone , of the
Western Hebrides. Scotland , colds are unknown except
when it is visited by some vessel , and it is said that the
inhabitants can distinguish between the different kinds
of colds brought by different ships. There is much similar
evidence relating to the subject , and the Hospital declares
that "some source of infection must be present before it
is possible to catch cold. " What appears to be needed is
a specific germicide which may be used either for pre
vention or cure. Boston Herald.
Fue ! from the Marshes.
series of experiments has lately been conducted
under the auspices of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology , into the fuel value of
marsh mud. Now the anuounciraient is made
t this material contains the elements of coal
an equal if not greater amount than peat.
The fact is well known that the mud bogs of
Holland , of some parts of Germany , and yet more of Rus
sia , are being worked commercially on an extensive scale
for the supply of what is in fact artificial coal , resem
bling it in appearance , iu specific gravity , , in heat uuits and
iu effective service , in this country , Mr. Edward Atkin
son says , we may be justified in considering it proved
that New England and many other sections , distant from
coal mines , are in possession of material that can be con
verted into domestic fuel at lower cost than any coal can
be secured , and in many respects of better quality for
cooking and other domestic purposes. It is also available
for gas production : also for conversion into coke at lower
cost and of purer quality than any other fuel that can be
obtained in New England. Mr. Atkinson considers the
secret of conversion to be solved ; and he also asks this
question : 'May it not be possible that the Irish peasants
who have been converting the turf of their hill slopes into
domestic fuel for generations have taught the scientists a
lesson in heat and power which they had wholly over
looked ? " As long as New England cannot have natural
gas , she may find "mud coal" from the marshes a gooil
substitute. Buffalo Commercial.
blowing another there was small
chance for them to drag that hundred-
pound block in still a third way. Again
and again they had it almost fast
ened , when a great wave knocked it
away and buried them far out of sight.
Still the two men struggled at their
task.
Then the inevitable happened. The
great cat-block swung far out as the
ship plunged forward , hung poised an
instant , as if taking deliberate aim ,
and came sweeping back straight at
the head of one of the two men. It
struck him on the back of the head
and knocked him ten feet from the an
chor into the sea.
The rush of an incoming wave swept
him away from the ship , and for a mo
ment it seemed as if he would sure
ly be lost. Then was justified the wis
dom which had placed the line about
his shoulders. The men on deck drew
him in , unconscious but safe , and in
ten minutes he was declaring to the
officer in charge that he could surely
hook that block next time.
But the captain had formed another
plan. He determined to haul up the
anchor as far as was possible , so that
it should have the smallest room for
play , and to make harbor. Just at
nightfall she reached quiet waters ,
and once more the unruly anchor was
let go again.
WAS THIS MAN HONORABLE
Tried to Beat an Express Company , but
Lost by the Transaction.
Now that the Mary and Ann prob
lem has been disposed of let me tell
of an actual case which came within
my knowledge several years ago , says
the Brooklyn Eagle. These were the
facts : A wealthy and close-flsted bank
er in a certain Illinois city was accus
tomed to sending currency by express
to his correspondent bank In Chica
go. Somehow the express agent got a
suspicion that the banker was saving
expressage by sending larger sums
than he pretended , so one day when
the banker brought in a package which
he said contained ? u,000 the agent gave
him a receipt as usual for that amount ,
and later in his private office opened
the package and found that it con
tained $10,000. Without saying a word
to anj'body the agent hid the package
away in his safe and awaited develop
ments. In a few days the banker came
in to say that the Chicago bank had not
received the package.
"Very well , " said the agent. "I will
send out a tracer for It"
A few days later he told the banker
that the package must have been lost
in transit , so he counted out $5,000 and
handed it over to him.
Now , the agent fully expected the
banker to object to a settlement on a
J5,000 basis and was prepared to tell
him that when he paid double expressage -
age on all the packages he had sent
in the past the remainder of the $10.000
would be returned to him. But the
banker preferred to lose the money
rather than confess his dishonest
methods , so he accepted the $5.000 and
signed the regular release , believing
that nobody but himself knew the lost
package contained double that amount.
Up to this time the agent had acted
faithfully in the interest of his com
pany , but now a question arose In his
mind as to who rightfully owns the
remaining $5.COO.
Never mind what he actually did
with it The question is , dear reader ,
what would you have done with it ,
and why ?
Good Linguists.
No less than 111 officers of the Brit
ish army have qualified as interpre
ters In the Russian language , 83 'of.
whom belong to the Indian servlca.
. )
Few men can afford to staaid on
their dignity all the time. It i * nee- .
essary to get off and ' hustl * occasion- '
ally.
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GREATNESS OF THE
LOUIS WORLD : FAIR
Chicago , Paris and Buffalo Expositions Could Be Swallowed Up in
It , with Room Left for Omaha , Atlanta or Charleston.
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BY ROBERTUS LOVE.
World's Fair at St. Louis will
THE the greatest exi > ositioii ever
held. The superlative adjective
describing this exposition is used with
a.uhority. The acreage of the Louisiana
Purchase'Exposition site is sutlicicnt to
include the combined acreage of the
World's Columbian Exposition at Chi
t-ago in lS9r > , the Paris exposition in 1SS9
and the Pan-American exposition at Buf
falo iu 1900 , with space enough left over
to accommodate an exposition like that of
Omaha or Atlanta or Charleston. Upon
thtse 1,2-10 acres has been built nn as
semblage of edifices surpassing in archi
tectural splendors "the grandeur that
was Greece and the glory that was
Koine. " Within these buildings is being
installed a universal collection of the
products of nature and man , more com
prehensive , more diversified , more inter-
( -sting to the average human than ever
-.VMS attempted before in the history of
rie ! race. |
The World's Fair at St. Louis is far
t.Toater than was contemplated by its
creators. It has been estimated that at
least thirty per cent of the extent of this
exposition has boon added to the original
conception , the promoters of the enter
prise merely promising at the outset that
they would build an exposition larger
and more universally inclusive than any
predecessor. The enterprise has grown
by involuntary accretion. Like a snow
ball set rolling , it has gathered size and
soli-lily , until it now is crystallized into
a tiling of such immensity that even the
nu'u who set the ball a-roliing marvel
at its magnitude.
Great Imposition Site.
The exposition site is a mile and a
quarter by a mile and three-quarters in
extent. Six miles of fence enclose the
grounds. The Intramural Railway , op-
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r.iXAU.L. Ot.EDUCATION. .
. iled by electricity , which has just been
uaiileted , has fourteen miles of track ;
t runs around the exposition as a belt
' . K- , with loops to take passengers into
: e midst of the magnificence here and
I : ere. and there are seventeen stations
it which the sightseer may get aboard
> r alight.
The World's Fair has nineteen exhibit
naiuces. The outdoor exhibits include
-i-vfiral features of striking novelty and
\tent that never have been seen at nny
' v | > osition. Among these may be men
tioned the Mining Gulch of eleven acres ,
situated in a natural ravine running out
from the edge of the main picture of the
exposition , where the processes of mining
and reducing the various metals of com
merce will be , , demonstrated daily at
model mines and furnaces in actual op-
. rarion ; the physical culture section.
ULiTHERN FACADE , PALA ii , Ux v . u iAJJU&TitiES COVERS
FOURTEEN ACRES.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
It costs $2.740 to kill a man in war.
.lews are barred from Siberia as be-
tiii undesirable.settlers.
There are 2.S35 licensed automobiles
11 the State of New York.
There are 230 glaciers in the Alps
hat are said to be over five miles iu
st. Petersburg has the highest death
.ie : for any European capital , 51 per
ur it v * asic
Leather waste is no longer wasted.
Manufacturers use it in a compressed
form , instead of iron , to make cog
wheels.
The Empty Box.
Miss Verisopht "Why wasn't Mrs.
Tiarabump at the opera last night , L
wonder ? "
Miss Verjuice "She had such a cold
that she couldn't speak above a whfcp-
er , so of course there was no use in
her fftfing. " Judge ,
of St. Peter , and there Ls being set ny
within this home of music the largent
pipe organ ever constructed.
The Cascade Gardens are new to expo
sitions. Terraced hillsides leading down
from Festival Hall and the Colonnade of
States to the Grand Basin , or lagoon , ara
fitted with stately stairways , whose bal-
PALACE OF MACLLLNEllY THIS BUILDING COVERS TEX ACRES.
which includes a splendid stone building
for gymnasium exhibitions and au out
door stadium like those ot" ancient
Greece , where will be held the quadren
nial Olympian games and many other
| notable athletic contests ; the rose garden
, of six acres , in which will be in bloom
30,000 roses of various hues ; the Aerial
Concourse , from which great airships
lr < m various countries will start upon the
contest for the grand prize of $200,000
and a number of lesser prizes ; the Suuk-
fu Garden between two of the grand ex-
1-iLit palaces ; the Gardens of the Na
tions , several foreign countries having
reproduced , upon the liberal allotment oi"
1 ground surrounding their government
Ktildings , some of the famous gardens of
i their chief cities or monarchical estates.
Features of Kiiormous Matrnltudc. '
Another feature of enormous magni-
i tu le which no other exposition has
i known , even on a small scale , is the
Philippine Islands Exposition aptly
termed an exposition within an exposi
tion. This occupies forty acres and inv -
v hides a group of buildings having names
l.iuiihar to those of the main exposition !
Education , Agriculture. Ethnology , i
Government and the like. One thousand
natives of the islands will live in this
Filipino reservation during the World's
Fair , carrying on the occupations iu j
which they engage at home , so that the ;
ireneral visitor may observe here iu St. j
Louis a considerable bit of the life and j
enterprise of the far-off archipelago. A I
reproduction of a part of the walled city '
of Manila is one of the interesting features - j
tures of this enterprise , and there are
huts and shacks and large buildings coil- '
strutted by the natives themselves , of
native bamboo and uipa , and outfitted
with native household utensils and fur
niture.
There is more than a mile's length of
picturesque lagoons , upon which the Ve
netian gondolier will push the Veuetian
gondola. Festival Hall , the central ar
chitectural feature of the great fair , has
a dome larger than that of the cathedral
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ustrades and landings support statues'
by the world's most famous sculptors ,
and down the slopes rush and roar tite-
waters from splendid fountains , leapiu.jp
and splashing over artificial cascade con
structions.
Government V reP Represented.
The i'nlJi'd Stati-- . ! : < > vi > riuscnt is rep-
r ? . - utvil i. . ThenL
-i ; : - never -i < > rr. > a *
main Government lmiuKi. , hi unich nJt
tiie adnriitist rnlivtami executive depart
ments oi. the government will show ex
hibits ; , and the Smithsonian Institution.
: md other governmental enterprises o i
general interest will have space. There *
is a separate building devoted to fisheries , !
in which the United States Fish Coiu-1
mission is to make an exhibit of living ;
( jshcs and other water foods and com-r
inevcial products , from the minnow t * >
the whale. There is au Indian exhibit ,
with a separate building , wherein will be !
OF
( Corner entrance. The doorway Is 00 feet
high and the building covers nine
Indian schools in open session , and. all
tribes of the red man will be represented1
ellmolojrically and otherwise. The- Alaska - }
ka exhibit will astonish the world , m !
showing the marvelous agricultural re
sources of Uncle Sam's "farthest aortk * *
territory. The government also has ex
tensive exhibits of the
life-saving ser
vice , the army and iiavy armament anii
vessels , the Bureau of Plant Industry , *
the Agricultural College , forestry aa4 ,
other branches of industry and enter
prise. A ground map o the Uaitei
States , covering several acres and shew ]
ing each State growing its- most disti - '
tive crops , is one special feature.
Forty-seven States and' territories eA
the United States are participating fer
the fair. All but threeor four of thes %
have separate buildings Some of tb *
State buildings are os large and elegaat
an exhibit palaces at aa ordinary exposi
lion. More than $ G.OCO000 is the aggre
gate of appropriation for State and territory - '
tory participation.
Fifty foreign governments are taking
part in this World's Fair. Most of them'
will have buildings of their own. llaay
of these foreign buildings are completed
and others are going up rapidly. Go-1
many , Great Britain , France , Japan *
Russia , Brazil , Belgium and other uj .
tions have erected
buildings larger and
more ornate than
any foreign
govern
ment structures ever seen at an expost-i
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ALL OVER THE WORLD. '
An ostrich farm will be exhibited by
Arizona at the '
next World's Fab. '
A man in Manchester , England has
invented an electric pickpocket
alarm.
The United States
uses about a third , * i
more coffee than all the rest of the ;
Every rural school in Sweden
possesses a garden , In which the stn !
dents receive practical Instruct !
u Ia
horticulture.
