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V " Opsnsons of Great Papers on-Important Subjects. ' HEABT FAILURE AND CRIME. lEART failure Is the prime cause of crime and pauperism , according to an English phy sician of. repute. When a man is insufficiently nourished , this savant says , the heart muscle shares with the other muscles in the general mal nutrition. * As the result of this the heart fails and dilates and is perhaps never again able to maintain the same blood pressure and to produce the former strength of muscle , nerve or will power. Thus the man cannot keep his normal place in the social scale and degenerates Into a chronic loafer , i rggar or thief. Undoubtedly tfeere Is much in tYis theory , for , though great crimes require physical energy in the criminal'the petty criminal , like the beggar and iV pauper , is always deficient in vitality. 'Whatever the cause , his heart Is Invariably weak. Thus laziness of V'.e sort that afflicts tramps Is really a disease. The healthy man delights In physical labor , and the converse is r-i less true that the man who does not delight in physic ; . ; labor , who Is what we call lazy , Is not a healthy man. So far as observation in this counlr goes , however , the cause of this heart failure among : . : wrecks of life is almost always excessive indulgen- : in drink , and not insufficient food. Alcohol wears o ; lie heart in a little time and the heart , once worn out , . . . rer recovers Its old vigor. * In the rare Instances , lee , who' * insufficient food is the cause , or one of the causes of hi- "L failure , back o'f it generally lies alcohol , for the man 10 lets alcohol alone Is able to got all the food he needs nourish him abuud- cntly. Chicago Journal. PERILS OF TSA'v rL. , RAVELING , as Mark Twain says , is much safer than staying at home , for statistics prove that most people ciie in their own beds. But travel has discovered unsus pected terrors since the national conference of State and provincial boards of health began investigating it. One of the principal addresses at the conference was by Dr. Roseuau of the United States Marine Hospital Service. He declared that the dangers of contact with the sleeping car and its furnishings were very great , though perhaps less now than they used to be. Wash basins and drinking glasses , he thought , were particular ly perilous. And unless bedding , curtains , carpets and cushions are disinfected at brief intervals , they are sources of tubercular and other * infection. All this is undoubtedly true. Microbes In millions lie ENGINEERS OF BIBLE TIMES. " " " i Same Kind of "Work as Simplon Tun nel Done 2COO Years Agro. Unmistakable evidence exists that 2- 500 years ago certain Hebrew engineers Hin the time pf King 'Hezekiah ) exe cuted exactly the same kind of work which was carried out in the Simplqu tunnel , though perhaps on a slightly smaller 'scale. _ > { > Bertholet , .a professor at the University of Basel , is the gentleman who claims to have made this discovery. .The Jewish records state that King Jffezekiah , or Ezekias , who reigned at -Jerusalem 727 B. C. , Avas much troubled ' .at the bad state of the water supplied ; to the people of that city. He accord ingly had a vast reservoir made at the t Agate's 'of the city , to which water was fed from various springs lying at great er or less distances from the reservoir in Question. .C - - - i At first his project seemed doomed to failure , as there existed between Jeru salem and the springs from which the .water was to , be derived a high chain of hills , over which it would be iin- possible to convey the water. It was therefore determined to open.'a passage for the water through the solid rock. ' One of the Sirach MSS. , dating from , this period states in this connection : "Hezekiah fortified his city by bringing water thereto and he bored through the solid rock by means of bronze and lie collected the water in a reservoir. " Recent explorations have enabled this predecessor of the Simplon to be thor oughly identified. It is said to be .the Shiloan tunnel , by means of which wa ter was brought down from a source to the east of Jerusalem and poured into the pool of Siloam , mentioned in the Bible. This conduit is 300 yards long. The distance , as the bird Hies , between the two mouths ofthe tunnel' is only 3GO yards , which proves that the work was not executed in a perfectly . straight line due doubtless to the difii- cult'.es which the engineers 'encountered in their task , which ( for the period ) was of a really marvelous nafure. That the. work was commenced from both ends of the tunnel is riot only proved by the inscription , but also by the fact that the marks of the boring tools , picks , etc. , may still be seen , all bearing in opposite directions. Tbe di rection of the tunnel was altered sev eral times during the construction there of , as there are several short galleries , which were evidently abandoned as , soon as.it . was -noted that wprking was done out of lin& The floorof the tu'u- nel is finished with the greatest care > and - theworkings vary from llvo- eighths of a yard to one yard in width ' by from three feet to nine feet in height , more or less , according to the hardness of the rock. * In the light of modern engineering Bclence the following questidns suggest themselves : How did these old-time en gineers gauge their direction , recognize and remedy their errors in alignment ? * What tools did they use to execute a piece of work which has remained with out equal for 2,500 years ? New York Tribune. a ot a bsariy \ * - / in wait for the luckless traveler in all public places , par ticularly such confined and airless - places as the sleep ing car. If they can find a foothold in his system they will take it , and from that moment he is booked for a much longer journey than he meant to take , over a road where there are no sleeping cars. However , let us not therefore condemn ourselves to stay where we are for the rest of our lives. Microbes are our enemies , but they may be circumvented. Nothing is more firmly settled than that fear of Infection is by far the greatest cause of infection , greater even than the microbes themselves. Therefore take this advice down in your notebook : * Keep your digestion in order when you go traveling , drink plenty of water , the purer the better ; breathe deeply and banish fear ; so shall you defy the microbe and live to die at home. Kansas City World. THE TVTAW WITH THE PATCH ON HIS BREECHES. _ HIS Is the day for the man with a patch on his breeches to come forward and the- man-of-the-dollar to to the . " 1 - - - go rear. That was a fine epigram President Roosevelt velt let fall In a private conversation. It has all the ring in it of robust democracy the restatement of the equality of man and the denunciation of special privilege. Every citizen of the republic is , and of right ought to be , equal before the law with every other citizen the millionaire with aloseta full of breeches and the man with only one pair and a patch. * It is good to note this restatement of the theory of our government. ! This is not a government of the classes by the classes arid for the classes , but of the masses by the masses and for tbe masses. The man with a patch on his breeches belongs not to the classes but to the masses. He docs not enjoy special privileges because the clases have dominated the masses and taken over their government. - * . - Therefore the President dees well to say the men of the masses should come forward to claim for themselves every privilege granted to every other man. , Either the- man-of-the-dolhir should be dispossessed of his special opportunity or the man with the patch should be given like opportunity. For it is true that this government must cease to be a government of dollars , by dollars and for dollars , or perish from the earth. The man with the patch is coming forward. Don't mistake that. He is learning as never before about the unrighteous reign of privilege. He is amazed , angry , determined. The man with a patch on his breeches in in the majority in this country. And this is a country of majorities. Des Moines News. EGYPT'S GTTASDIANS ANCIENT AND MODEKN. - : : -y.-- : ' S ' # - -m/ * t- ? X " , 'W ' , t' l J , ' ' * . -BRITISH SOLDIERS AT THE SPHINX. When the British soldier goes to Egypt one of the first things he does is to visit the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Tuis , picture illustrates a particularly 'interesting visit , namely , of sonic of the troops sent out from Malta recently in view of the encroachments of the Sul tan in Egyptian territory , among them the Lancashire Fusiliers. They were particularly interested , in the Sphinx , for they wear it as' ' their regimental badge in memory-of their fight in Egypt in 1SOL The great Sphinx at Ghizeh is hewn out of natural rock and lies The "Chcrryhle Brothers. " Dickens lovers throughout the world will , be interested to hear that the ware house in Manchester of the Grant Bros. the originals of the "Brothers Chcrryble" is to be altered in a way that will abolish some of its interior historic features. Curiously enough , it is just 4ifty years since Daniel , the younger Cherryble , passed away. It has Ueen supposed that in drawing these characters Dickens relied entire ly on reportx but , , In fact , he had made the acquaintance of the brothers Grant at Manchester two months before "Nicholas Nickleby" was written. He met them at a dinner party , and the friendship was maintained for many years. Many of the Cherryble attri butes were drawn from real life , nota bly the apopletic Jratler .at the Linkin- water dinner. 'ticipated. hi * mas- about a quarter of a mile southeast oi the Great Pyramid. It is sculptured out of a spur of the rock itself while masonry has been added in certain places to complete the slab. It is 172 feet long and 5G feet high. It is extremely - tromely old , being contemporary with the Pyramids themselves1. Pictures of the Sphinx are said to make it "look much bigger than it really appears among the sand , " but its colossal char acter is clearly seeil in comparison with tbe size of the clambering soldiers. The bise of the monument is very apt to be silted up with the eand of the desert. ter's wish for a fresh bottle of wine by holding it behind his back , with the corkscrew already inserted. Pall Mall Gazette. A Confidence. "Of course , " said the ponderous ' statesman , "in the course of my re marks I said some things which were not popularly understood. " "How do you know that ? " "Because , " rejoined the ponderous statesman , dropping his voice to a whis per , "I didn't understand 'em myself. * * Washington Star. About the only things in the house which the women regard as important not to disturb are the cream , and the baby. \ Ever notice that an .old debt Is uord to pay ? " ' KNIFE TO PREVENT CRIME. Philadelphia PhyNlcInnw Perform Operations on Seven Children. Following the theories of the country' * foremost pli3sicians and the recent-rul < ings in the1 juvenile courts the Pennsyl vania Society for the Protection of Chil dren from Cruelty , working in conjunc- j tion with Director Coplin of the bureau , of health and charities , and Chief Apbptt of the bureau of health , has 'instituted the practice of performing operations upon children given into its charge when medi cal opinion is rendered that such course is likely to prevent a criminal career. This is the first effortof , the sort ever made in this country. The subjects of the experiments were operated on at the infirmary of the society in Philadelphia. Seven children were put under the knife by the city's moat prominent surgeons , who performed opera tions calculated to improve tlie mental and moral condition of the patients. The physicians who either participated or were interested in the operations were : Dr. S. Weir Mitchell , Dr. A. C. Abbott , Dr. George W. Dougherty , Dr. F. H. Der- cum , Dr. W. W. Hawke , Dr. Alfred Gor don , Dr. Charles K. Mills : , Dr. Louis Starr and Dr. Fred Freley. While only seven children were operat ed upon , Dr. L. C. Wessells and Dr. A. C. Butcher , who were detailed to the task by Director Coplin , have examined 1,407 cases which were brought into the tempo rary custody of the society , and other sim ilar operations will take place shortly , provided the consent of the parents can be secured. . Of 'the total number examined about 50 per cent were found to be suffering' from refraction of the eyes and glasses have been ordered for all of these. While conducting the examinations the physicians made most minute inquiries Into the past history of the children and their parents , as well as regarding their pre.sent health. Dr. Alfred Gordon reported thatjie has discovered a surprisingly 'large number of cases of feeble minded children , supposed to be the victims of cruelty , who are , in reality , in a condition' bordering closely upon imbecility , and calling for constant of a character which the busy par * are unable to give them. GAGE'S SON A SUICIDi. Shoots Himself in a Scuttle Hotel While Wife Searches for Him. Eli A. Gage , son of former Secretary of tlie Treasury Lyman J. Gage of. Chicago cage , committed suicide by shooting him self through the heart in a room in the Tourist Hotel , a second-class lodging house on the edge of the red light district of Seattle. He had registered under the name of J. AY. Gorst , , had no baggage and was almost without funds. His wife and child , who came to join him a few days ago , were at tlie Grey- stone , a fashionable boarding house. For two days Mrs. Gage had been searching for her husband , employing detectives to aid her ; but even his friends had been un able to locate him. Mr. Gage had been changing from one hotel to another and registering under as sumed names for two weeks. 'His ac quaintances say they nre not surprised at the suicide , as iTe liad been : acting strange ly for some time , and had been drinking heavily. Gage worked for the North American Trading and Transportation Company during 1S9G-97 on the Yukon river steam er Weare. He hadtrouble in Alaska , where he was almost killed in a saloon row at Circle City in 1SOO. His father , his wife's uncle , Oapt. P. B. Weare , and J. J. Heal } * , all in , the trading company , interceded for ihim. Afterward lie went to Chicago. Not long ago Gage left Chicago for the West , and applied for a berth in the Alaska service .of the Northwestern Steamship Company in Seattle less than a * month ago. After reaching Seattle he deposited § 000 in one of the local banks. A statement rendered July 2-i showed he liad $211 left , but at the time he killed himself had only $7.uO. Heavy drinking is given as the catlse of the suicide. for Trades Unionists. The executive council of the American Federation of Labor has issued ks gen eral campaign program to "all organized labor * and friends in the United States. " It points that Congress has been so "pre occupied looking after the interests of vast corporations and predatory wealth" and members in their rush for the al mighty dollar that "they have had no j j time and as little inclination" to support ! the legislation asked in the interest of the J laboring man. It says patience ceased to j be a virtue , and hence the March 21 'bill of grievances presented to the administra tion. Appeal now is made to the Ameri can people "to demonstrate their determi nation that this republic of ours shall continue to be of , for and by the people , rather than of. for and by the almighty dollar. " It is recommended to name only union men or to influence the nomination of labor men by whatever party is found most available. For this work" a committee - tee of three has been chosen , namely , Samuel ( uel Gompers , James O'Connell and Frank Morrison. Hotel for Working 6irls. A big hotel exclusively for wouking girls , to be known as the Trowmart inn , is about ready for business at Abingdon Square , New York City. It aims to defer for wage-earning girls what the Mills ho tels have done for men. Oulv self-sup porting women between the ages of 15 and 35 will 'be entertained , and only those earning $15 and less , but a few rooms will be reserved for transients. The price for room and hoard is to be $4.50 or $5 , including breakfast and dinner. The din ing roosi soat5 250 persons. Sewing , washing and ironing rooms will be free to guests day and night : also library and re ception rooms. W. H. R. Martin , who is back of the plan , says he expects the \otel to pay for itself. Interesting News Items. Sophia and Corinne Piddian of Brook lyn , N. T.were drowned while boating on Lake George. The extensive warehouse of the Franco- American Oil Company at Marseilles burned , -injuring six persons. Ferdinand Von Saar , author and member - ber of the upper house of the Austrian Reichsrath , is dead , having shot himself. The mutinous seamen of the Russian cruiser Terek fcave been landed in Spain and forwarded to Russia by the Russian comul. J v I SHUTTING OUT THE WOMEN. j j They Are Being : Excluded from OJ flee TVorlc In Chicago. There is a movement in the Chicago business world to supplant women with men much has manifested itself there in various ways lately. The female employes of the Barber Asphalt Company quit un der orders July 1. In the Chicago post- office Postmaster Busse has placed women under the ban. County Treasurer Han- berg will give no employment to women .in his entire office force. The Chicago United States pension office is an Eveless Eden. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company long ago separated all its wom en emploj-es-from their jobs. In explana tion one of the officers of the latter said : "It was clear to us that a girl stenog rapher never could be developed into a de partment head. Her physical and mental limitations were such as to make her unr dependable at those strenuous times which arise often in the affairs of all concerns doing large business. If urgent need on the part of the company suggested that shj ; work a little longer on Saturday than usual she was found with a positively un breakable matinee date. In short , whila she might be good for the one thing sha was doing , the qualifications for growth into the class of employes we could pro mote . and eventually pension were not there. It was evident that for every one woman we had in our employ we were forfeiting" chance pf finding ; a man ivith ability to grow into greatness in the railroad business. "For instance , a stenographer serving the acting president of a railroad com pany is in a position to acquire compre hensive knowledge of the railroad busi ness. If the stenographer 'be a woman no matter how competent Jier work will be more or less perfunctory and the knowledge she is in a position to acquire will not -help her to become anything other than what she is , the president's stenographer. A young man in the same position will absorb information and busi ness methods that ought to make of him an 'invaluable employe in .more important lines of railroad work. So the order dis criminating against women was issued. It is not absolute by any means , 'but ' it indicates the general policy of "the road. " Gorky's * Opinion .of Americrt. In an article in Appleton's Booklovers * Magazine , Maxim Gorky , the Russian rev olutionist and author , speaks out plainly what his impression of this country dur ing his 'brief ' visit Has 'been ' , Upon his ar rival in New York , he says , 'he ' noticed that on the dark bronze statue of the Goddess of Lizerty , green rust had accu- umlated ; but he says he did not then know that the passionate -idealism of the young democracy had also became covered with rust , "eating away the soul with the cor rosive of commercialism. " He did t not realize that the disease of money craving ( had assumed such proportions in America. He says be loves energy , but not when men expend it for their own destruction. Everywhere 'lie sees a senseless treadmill . of ia'bor , but nowhere do we feel the beau ty of free creation. Nowhere , as in New York , Lave people seemed to him so unfor tunate and so thojoughly enslaved to life , nowhere "so tragicomically edf-satisfied as in this -huge phantasmagoria of stone , iron and glass. " Hate LaTT Becomes Effective. The first step for the enforcement of [ Mie new railroad rate law has been taken by the interstate commerce commission , which has ordered an expert to appraise and fix a value on every railroad in the . United States , that the commission may determine whether any rate is reasonable and just. Prof. Henry C. Adams of the J university of Michigan and statistician for I the 'interstate commerce commission , has . been invited to 'enter the employ of the j commission , to devise a uniform system of j bookkeeping for all the railroads , and to appraise their value. The new system , it i.7 hoped , will be in operation by July 1 , 1907 , and the roads will be required to observe a fiscal year corresponding to that of the government. Standard L.ONC.S Bis : Contract. The contract for lubricating the rolling stock of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg , which heretofore lias been held by the Standard Oil Company with an an nual revenue of # 112,000 , has been can celled , owing to disclosures made before the interstate commerce commission. It was shown that the Pennsylvania in ten years saved $1,000,000 by having secretly a more liberal contract than was given any other railroad company. The at- tornej's for the commission say that the Standard is receiving rebates from the railroads in the form of excessive prices , and- that they are paying at least 50 per cent more than would be charged by inde pendent companies. Short News Notes. George -Snj-der , aged 30 years , a clerk in the Carnegie steel works , Pittsburg , committed suicide by cutting his throat. Kraft a-Bellaire Ohio saloonkeeper i Henry , , , keeper , was fatally shot and his porter , Michael Maxson , dangerously wounded by two masked men who attempted to rob the saloon. * Andrew L. Davenport , a negro , was hanged in-the jail yard at Newport News , Ya. , for the murder of William Thomas , also a ; negro. Davenport made-a full con fession. Mrs. George J. JacJrson , whose husband is said to be the son of a millionaire efFort Fort Worth , Texas , drank a quantity of carbolic acid after a quarrel in a Los Angeles hotel. Thomas Reid and Martin Krafee were perhaps fatally injured and a dozen other persons were less seriously Tiurt in Wor cester , Mass. , when a 'runaway electric ear struck a telegraph pole. Ignatz Krewzyp , an insane patient in a Scranton , Pa. , asylum , yesterday killed Mrs. Ann Golden and Ann Yan Yalen , fellow inmates , and mortally wounded Richard Davies , an attendant. Delegate Mark Smith and Judge L. O. Cowan , both of Tucson , Ariz. , have sold the Congresso and the El Senado mines , located near Hermosillo , Mexico , to & British syndicate for $250,000. Charles Davenport , who was convicted ac Trenton , N. J. , of trying to kill his j daughter Josephine by sending- her a box of poisoned candy , was sentenced to fif teen years In the State prison. Circuit Attorney Sager of St. Louli nolle pressed the perjury charges against Charles A. Gutke , former member of the house of delegates , thus disposing of the last but one of tha notorious boodle casaa HON. W. H. KELBAUGH OF WEST VIRGINIA PRAISES PE-RU-NA. Hon. W. H. Kelbaugh. A Cold at Any Time of the Tear , Es pecially in Uot Weather , is Very De pressing to the System. Pe-ru-na * an Uncqualcd Tonic for Such Cases. Read What People Say About It. Hon. W. H. Kelbaugh , Ex-Member. * W. Va. Legislature , 204 9th street , N. < E. , Washington , D. C. , writes : ' | i "You can use my name and\\ \ \ I word at all times for Peruna as a V medicine and tonic unequaled. Ir have tried it for a stubborn cold and badly run down system. tried all sorts of other medicines and paid several expensive doctor - < > tor bills. Peruna cured mer strengthened me more than ever , and saved me money. " Mrs. Clara Litterst , Seafield , Ind. . says : "Last fall I took a severe cold. I took Peruna , began to improve and kept OD so until I was able to do my work. " Jnst So Much of Truth. "What's that sign you're making- there ? " asked the grocer. " 'Fresh eggs , ' " replied the ue\y clerk. "Make it 'Fresh-laid eggs. ' " "Why cr everybody knows 'the f eggs were fresh when they were laid. " "Exactly , and that's all that it's safe for us to say about them. " Philadel phia Press. Oat of the Dim Past. Belshazzar's attention had been called to the handwriting on the wall. "Looks like a Chinese laundry check , " ae said , careless ! } " . But he learned later that it was a tveigh check and that he was short weight DAZED WITH PAIN. The Sufferings of n. Citizen of Olyra- pin. "Wash. * L. S. Gorharaof 51G East 4th Stn Olympia , Wash. , says : "Six years ago I got wet and took cold , and was soon flat in bed , suffering tortures with my back. Every move ment caused an ago nizing pain- and the persistency of it ex hausted me , so that for a time I was dazed and stupid. On tna advice of a friend I began using Doanr3 Kidney Pills , and soon noticed a change for the better. The kidney secretions had been disordered and irregular , and con tained a heavy sediment , but in a week's time the urine was clear and .natural again and the passages regular. Gradually tbe aching and soreness left my back and then the lameness. I used six boxes to make sure of a cure , and the trouble has never returned. " ' - Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. , Buffalo , N. Y. \ The Old Story. Ant ( to the Elephant ) Since I have become a socialist I do not see why- because I am smallennd weaker than you , I should continually get out of the way to let you have the middle of the rpad. That's final. Elephant ( to the Ant ) If you don't I'll just put' my foot on you. That's fiat Baltimore American. BABY COVESED WITH SOKES. Would Scratch andTear theFleshUn less Hands Were Tied "Would. Have Died but for Cuticura. " ' My little son , when about a year and a half old , began to have sores come out on his face. I had a phy sician treat him , but the sores grew worse. Then they began to come on hie arms , then on other parts of'hia body"and then one came on his chest , -worse than the others. Then I called another physician. Still he grew Averse. At the end of about a year and a half of suffering he' grew so bad I had to tie his hands in cloths at night to keep him from scratching the sores and tear ing the flesh. He got to be a mere skeleton , and was hardly able to walk. My Aunt advised me to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent to tbedrug store and got a cake of Soap and a box of the Ointment , and at the end of about two months the sores were all well. He has never had any sores of any kind since. He is now strong and healthy , and I can sincerely say that only for your most Avonderful remedies ray precious child -would have died rrom those terrible sores. Mrs. TSg- lert Sheldon , R. F. D. No. 1 , Wood * Tille , COHIL , April 22 , 1005. " '