"Hurrah. * *
The history of uiiiny a race may be
read In its battle cry. The "Banzai ! "
of the Japanese , tlie "Faghaghballab ! "
of the Irish , and our own "Hurrah ! "
ihavc found their origin far back in
Jbistory.
Although many authorities have de
clared that the word "hurrah" is a de
velopment of the Jewish "Ilosannab , "
I the consensus of opinion now is that it
is a corruption of the ancient battle
cry of the wild Norsemen , "Tur aie ! "
meaning , "Thor aid us ! " Formerly the
word was spelled "Huzza" and pro
nounced "Hurray. " In one form or
4 another it Is used by almost every
nation.
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: "A GOOD LOOKER.7'
Appearances Have 3Ineh to Do
Success in Business.
. ' "Send me a good looker. I don't
mean pretty , you know , but one who'
know how to dresss the tailor made
kind who visits the hairdresser and
the manicure. Of course I know it
costs , but we are willing to pay for
at. " This was a telephone message re
ceived by a large employment agency
from a business man who required the
services of a young woman bookkeeper
and general office assistant.
A shabby necktie or soiled linen or a
cheap , well worn hat may cost you
very dear , for it may be a turning
point fn some one's mind who has been
thinking of patronizing you. Business
jnen are keen eyed , very sharps and j
-often influenced by little thing. Many I
ii worthy youth has been sent away
-when applying for a situation because
of some telltale-in his dress or manner
nvhich made a bad impression.
\ Young men may so far emphasize
life niafter of dress that their good ap
pearance is about all there is to them.
At the same time appearances have
anuch to do with one's advancement ,
-especially in large cities. In New York
It is almost impossible for young men
-to get a start who are obliged to over-
v-come the handicap of an unfavorable
impression. It seems as though New |
Yorkers would forgive anything quick
er than a slovenly or a poverty stricken
appearance. Success Magazine.
Discouraged.
"Lovely Fancee Oh , George , I some
times think I would rather die than be
married !
George What , darling ! Rather die ?
Lovely F.incee Yes ; you don't have
to rehearse half a dozen times for that ,
jou know.
WHAT'S THE USE ?
To Pour in Coffee AVhen It Acts na
u Vicloun Enemy.
Fasters have gone without food for
many days at a time but no one can go
without sleep. "For a long time I have
not been sleeping well , often lying
' * ' .awake for two or three hours during
the night , but now I sleep sound every
night and wake up refreshed and vig
orous , " says a Calif , woman.
"Do you know why ? It's because I
used to drink coffee , but I finally cut
rit out and began using Postuin. Twice
hi since then I have drank coffee and
'both times I passed a sleepless night ,
-nud so I am doubly convinced coffee
caused the trouble and Postum re-
jnoved it.
, ' "My brother was In the habit of
-drinking coffee three times a day. He
was troubled with sour stomach and I
would often notice him getting soda
from the can to relieve the distress in
his stomach ; lately hardly a day passed
without a dose of soda for relief.
"Finally he tried a cup of Postum
and liked it so well he gave up coffee
jind since then has been drinking Pos-
-tura in its place , and says he has not
once been troubled with sour stomach. "
Even after this lady's experience
with coffee her brother did not susper-
for a time that coffee was causing h\
-.sour stomach , but easily proved it
Coffee is not suspected in thousands
sDf cases Just like this , but it's easily
proved. A ten days' trial works won--
.ders. "There's a Reason. "
Head the famous little book , "Thg
Koad to Wellville , " ID packages.
3J
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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
MILK , A REMABKABLE FOOD.
HENRY DWIGHT CHAFIN gives some
absorbingly interesting facts about milk , the
article of diet with which everyone is .so
familiar , "and about which so little is gen
erally known. " To quote one passage :
"Milk , as is leaves the cow's udder , con
tains bacteria. If the cow is dirty or there
Is loose hay around , dust from -the cow's body and the
hay settles In the milk pail , and this dust is swarming
with bacteria. As soon as they reach the warm milk they
commence to multiply , and in a few hours they may have
increased until there are millions to the teaspoonful of
milk. It is these bacteria that causes milk to sour , but
most of them are not only harmless but positively bene
ficial. According to Professor Conn , half a teaspoonful of
cream which was sour enough to be churned for butter-
snakins contained 1,300,000,000 bacteria. If bacteria were
as harmful as some imagine , no one would be alive , for
who has not drunk buttermilk or eaten cottage cheese
made from , sour milk which contains so many bacteria
that few could grasp the numbers contained in a pint
of it ?
"The bacteria are plants belonging to the same class
as yeast and mushrooms. No one is afraid to use yeast
in bread-making , or to eat mushrooms , so no one should
be afraid to drink milk simply because it contains simi
lar vegetable forms. Sometimes poisonous bacteria gel
into milk , but the cases of poisoning resulting arc , com
paratively speaking , rare , and no one need give up drink
ing milk on this account. " North American Review.
BUSINESS EDUCATION.
N no other iield has education in the United
States made such marked advance within
the last few years as in the direction of
commercial knowledge and training. The
last two decades were notable for progress
in technical and mechanical education. They
were the era of the chemist , the electrician
and the civil and mechanical engineer. The era of the
man of business has begun.
Commercial schools and business colleges formerly con
tented themselves with teaching arithmetic , bookkeeping ,
banking , typewriting , stenography and commercial law.
They have been obliged greatly to broaden their scope.
In the larger cities the free commercial high schools , the
evening schools and the Young Men's Christian Associa
tions , most of which maintain educational departments ,
find themselves compelled , in deference to popular de
mand , to establish classes in advertising , salesmanship ,
reaT estate , investments and other subjects which reflect
the prevalent interest in business. Some of the colleges
maintain postgraduate courses for the study of interna
tional trade in its broadest aspects , as well as in detail.
In business life itself a change has been , goiug on not
unlike that which has taken place in agriculture a move
ment toward intensive and systematic cultivation of spe
cial fields. This has been fostered by , and in turn has
fostered , the invention of countless ingenious "systems"
and appliances for filing correspondence , keeping accounts.
There are Innumerable stories of
Revolutionary days in Charleston ,
South Carolina. The old ladies used
to tell with glee Low , when the Brit-
isL were supposed to be out of the
way , the young fellows would come
Lome to dance with them. A message
would go to the nearest cousins and
friends , and a supper be cooked. It ,
might be only rice and bacon , but it *
was good to hungry men , declares
Charleston's historian , Mrs. Ravenal.
The dance and the feast would con
tinue until the stars grew pale.
Often these merrymakings were dis
turbed by the enemy ; but there was
always a negro or two on the watch ,
and the harsh note of the screech-owl
or the cry of the whippoorwill would
give the alarm. Then "partings in hot
haste , " a rush for the horses , a sLarp
Ecmffie , a hot pursuit , and perhaps a
prisoner taken.
The young men had odd adventures.
One young fellow betrayed himself by
his appetite. He was pursued and had
taken shelter at Mrs. Motto's place ,
on South Santee. She rolled him up
in a carpet , and pushing it against
the wall , told Lim to keep quiet until
the enemy had gone and she could re
lease him.
Unluckily , he heard through the open
window his hostess giving directions
to the cook about the chickens which
were to be dressed for the dragons'
dinner. He could not bear to be left
out , and thrust his head from the car
pet chrysalis , and cried out , "Keep the
giblets for me ! "
The soldiers heard , and he was at
once caught and carried off , to repent
it leisure of his Indiscretion.
How Clouds mid FOJ .H Differ.
Clouds are bodies of moisture evapo
rated from the earth and again partial
ly condensed in the upper regions of
the air. Fogs differ from clouds only
in one respect they come in contact
with the surface of the earth while
clouds are elevated above our heads.
When the surface of the earth is
warmer than the lower air the vapor
of the earth , being condensed by the
chill alp , becomes mist or fog. But
when the lower air is warmer than the
earth the vapor rises through the air
and becomes cloud. Fog and mist dif
fer in this respect that mist is a fine
rain , while fog Is vapor not sufficiently
condensed to allow of its precipitation
in drops.
Succeeded.
"She married him to reform him. "
"Did she succeed ? "
"Sure ! He used to be a spendthrift
and now he has nothing to spend. "
Houston Post
You can't correct a mistake by tell
ing how hard you tried.
ascertaining costs and attracting customers. It Is easlei
to study business now than ever before , because business
is more nearly reduced to a science.
The new education has one great attraction : it fits the
young man quickly for a "job , " and helps him to get it
This in itself is good. The only danger is that the "job"
may come to look like the end to be attained rather than
the means by which to attain it. The end is not making
a living , but living. One must know business to succeed
in it , but one must also know something more than busi
ness to make a real success of life. Youth's Companion.
A'HIGHWAY OF EMPISE.
VXADA naturally was disappointed in the
outcome of the recent Imperial Conference
of Colonial Premiers in London , but she has
already found in a proposal made in the
closing days of the conference partial con
solation for the failure of her cherished
plans for English preference for colonial
goods. This proposal is for an independent service be
tween England and Australia and New Zealand vik Can
ada. The scheme is chiefly the work of Lord Strat'hcona
and the Honorable Clifford Sifton , and contemplates a
highway of empire which would make Canada a halfway -
way house between the motherland and her principal col
onies , excepting South Africa. As outlined in the pro
posals submitted in the last stages of the conference by
Premier Laurier , with the concurrence of the govern
ments of Australia and New ealand ; jit is proposed to
establish with adequate state aid a fast Service "between
English ports and Canada by means of three twenty-five-
knot steamers , winch will bring England within four
Ja > of Halifax "and eight days of Vancouver. From the
latter port an cighteen-knot service is to be established to
Australia and New Zealand , and also to China and Japan.
The project will involve , it is estimated , a state subsidy
of one million pounds sterling annually for ten years.
The Outlook.
SANITATION OF SMALL TOWNS.
E hear much of the reduction in the death
rate of large cities in recent years , but very
little about the improvements of the health
of small towns. It is well known that all
the infectious diseases claim many less vic
tims in city life than thej- did twenty-five
years ago. and the reason for it is not far
to seek. Cities established departments of health , gave
to them ample powers , and then insisted on their being
effective if their appropriations were to be continued.
The consequence has been that not only has much suf
fering been spared , but thousands nay , even hundreds
of thousands of people are now alive who. in the words
of one prominent sanitarian , have no business being a-live
they would have been dead if the death rate that pre
vailed twenty years ago still obtained. Had they died
their death would have been considered as from the
hand of God. We know that their living is the result of
the taking of some very simple measures for the pre-
vcntidn of disease. The Independent.
MAKE TWAIN TO-DAY.
MARK TWAIN'S LATEST PHOTOGRAPH , TAKEN IN ENGLAND.
Hero is exactly Low Mark Twain , America's greatest humorist , looks to
day in his seventy-second year. This photograph was taken in England after
his arrival there on his recent joky , king-entertaining visit The hair is
three-score-and-twelve , the face 50 , the eyes 30 , and the spirit , as we all
know , boyish.
THE NEGHITOS.
Odd aiarririRC Ceremony of Tlie.se
HarlmrouH Little People.
Belonging as they do to the lowest
type of civilization as yet discovered ,
the Negritos of Malaysia and their
ways are well worth studying. Simple ,
primitive , barbarous little people , their
customs are those of prehistoric man.
They have no fixed home or settle
ments , but are wanderers over their
mountainous islands , sleeping under a
banana leaf , living on herbs and ber
ries and game.
Tlreir marriage ceremony is a unique
survival of early life. The suitor and
a few companions dance about the
shelter of the desired girl. There is
a curious resemblance between the
dances of the prospective bridegroom
and those of many of the game birds
of our woodland. lUnally the girl , ac
companied by her mother , starts to
ward the dwelling of the 3oung men.
They frequently stop , squatting in the
trail -yhile the aroent suitor and Ms
companions continue their entreating
and bewitching dances , wkiding round
and round the girl. Presents are gen
erally demanded and must be given
before the reluctant bride will pro
ceed. Finally the women arrive near
a steep bamboo platform. A wild
shout pierces the air , and the bride
groom , like a frenzied animal , tears
through the Negritos assembled at the
base of the platform , snatches the
bride in his arms and flies up the in
cline with his mate , where th'ey sit
during the wedding feast New York
Herald.
A Graiumnrln.ii.
"That Lorse thief over there is a
great stickler for correct English. "
"He is ? "
"Yes. He always fibds fault with the
judge's sentences. " Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The average man can express his
sympathy for another's sorrow aboot
na effectively as he can trim a bat
EXCAVATING THE PANAMA CANAL.
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HUGE "STEAM NAVVY" AT WORK IN A PANAMA CANAL CUTTING.
The Panama Canal is being excavated by means of digging machines hav
ing the appearance of mechanical hands armed with steel nails , which tear
away nearly a truckload of material at a single effort A line of "flat cars"
is seen waiting for the soil as the arm comes swinging back from the face
of the cutting. The sight is a fascinating one to watch.
STTTKDY SECBETABY WILSON.
Man IVho Has Built Up the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
For more than ten years Hon. James
Wilson has held the position of Sec
retary of Agriculture and under him
the department has grown to be one
of the most Important of the branches
of government When he .became Sec
retary , the department consisted of a
few scientists and a couple of roll-top
desks and was not seriously regarded
anywhere. He proceeded at once to
revolutionize it , his main idea being to
protect the home market and grab all *
the foreign trade he could. He acted
on the theory that this was the Little
Father department of the government
and that the development of the in
dustry which he represented was his
chief concern. While other cabinet of
ficers devote themselves to the routine
humdrum of their duties , writes a
Washington correspondent , Wilson has
been "projicking" around the whole
BECEETAEY JAMES WILSOX.
globe in search of things. He has de
veloped such an ear that he can hear
an apple grow in Thibet ; and as soon
as he does he dispatches an expedition
after it In Finland they grow alco
hol potatoes , immense things , as big
as your head , and no earthly good for
eating. Wilson sent after them and
had them brought here and natural
ized not to eat , but to get alcohol out
of. A year or so back he sent some
scientists into the interior of China
to get a rare peach , never heard of out
of that section , and never heard of in
most of China said by legendary
sharps to be the original peach that
Eve buncoed Adam with , but Wilson
did not go after it on account of its
historical value , but because It was
good to eat
He imported macaroni wheat from
Italj- , and set the unimaginative farm
ers of America to raising that high-
class product He fostered the Suma
tra leaf tobacco growing Industry. It
Is due to him that the mohair industry
has grown to its present proportions.
He found that we spend § 24,000,000 a
year for mohair , and he couldn't see
whj- mohair could not be raised here.
He brought it over , and now we are
raising it on -tremendous scale in
Arizona and Texas , and men are get
ting rich on it
Then he started in on milch goats.
His idea was that any poor man who
had room enough to keep a couple of
feats could raise his own milk supply ;
and trivial as this seems , it is worth
counting to a man who has to figure
Tip pennies Instead of dollars when he
looks over his household accounts.
He has started the task of restoring
the extinct Morgan horse. The Mor
gan horse was the highest breed we
ever had in this country. Its center of
origin and development was New Eng
land , particularly Vermont The civil
war took all the Morgan horses into
the cavalry , and he stern emigra
tion which followed the war finished
the breed. They got mixed up with
others until a pure-bred Morgan horse
became unknown and the breed entire
ly disappeared. Wilson took up this
task about two years ago. He got a
man in Vermont to give 200 acres for
a Morgan horse farm , and Wilson Is
running it
He has also gone in for developing a
distinct breed of American coach horse ,
lie has got a place out In Colorado
where the work is being managed by
one of his scientists , and expects to
produce an extraordinarily handsome
breed of horses. George Rommel is
the man in general direction of this
scheme.
Wilson has given a great deal of at
tention to the problem of corn breed
ing , of solving the problem how to get
as much corn as possible on one hill.
If a man gets only two or three ears
to a hill Wilson regards it as a waste
of productive force , because the. total
number of bushels produced is less
than It ought to be. He sent out to
Illinois and got Shamel , the most dis
tinguished corn breeder in the world , -
to come east and take charge of this
scheme.
These are merely a few Illustrations
of the way in which Secretary Wilson
has been playing the Little Father for
ten years. His department Is now one
of the greatest in the government and
he has thousands of men under him
while his predecessors had scores or
hundreds.
Nobody can do more with Congress
than Secretary Wilson. Every year It
is announced that expenses are going
to be cut down not
on the i/avy or
army , but on civil expenses , rivers and
harbors , postoffices , agriculture and
such things. The River and Harbors
Committee swears that river and har
bor expenses shall not be cut down , and
the Postoffice Department throws'fits. .
But Secretary Wilson goes down to the
Agricultural Committee , meets blank
and hostile faces , 'and in two hearings
has them all won over to his side. Not
by blarney , not by rhetoric. By jam
ming facts Into them in his nasal
snarl.
There are refreshing things about
Wilson , in this age of kow-towing to
the powers that be. He bends the
knee to nobody , not even to Roosevelt
He never antagonizes anybody reck
lessly , and never surrenders his opinion
to anybody. And In a fight he is a holy-
terror. For he fights as craftily as he
fights boldly.
Wilson was the man back of the
great fight on meat inspection consequent
quent upon Upton Sinclair's disclosure
of the beef-packing
horrors. He was
badof the Beveridge bill , back of the
President's activities ; never in the fore
ground , hardly ever heard of , but con
tinually and remorselessly pushing the
packers and their congressional advo
cates into the background.
Cnntlon.
Under oath the oil magnate was
asked how much he possessed.
"Your honor , " he said , "before this
outrage goes further I would like to
know if there Is present any representa
tive of the assessor. "
He was assured on this point , and
also that newspaper men had been ex
cluded.
"And you ask me how much I am.
wortihr
"Yes. "
"I don't know. " Philadelphia
Ledger. ,
Reminder * .
"Is your wife spiteful ? "
"The worst ever ! She keeps all my
old love letters. " Detroit Free Press.
As a rule , wlien a girl begins to giv
some thought to her beauty It begins
to deteriorate.
