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DIFFER IN HABITS
CARE OF DESKS NOT AN INDICA
TION OF ABILITY.
White Sam Mm Hwt Have Things
Just Be, Others Oe Much Work
AntM theiJtmeet Apparent
Confucian.
"Carious aboat men's desk habits,"
aaM a au whose baslness takes him
ahoat more or less Into various sorts'
of offices. T was in an office yester
day where I had occasion to write
"'Here, ait down at my desk,' says
the sua. 'I guess you can find a place
there.'
"And I did find a place there after
moviag one or two things, but that
was all I found a place just big
eaough to write in, and that square in
the adddle of the desk.
"This was a flat top desk and, ex
cept for that small, bare spot in the
middle, It was just.covered with pa
pers and things of every description,
aad these not folded or stacked os set
p about in any orderly manner, but
all apparently in the utmost confusion.
"The desk looked as though its
owaer, when he had got through with
a document or bill, just pushed it back
from the bare spot on the desk. And
so he had stuff piled up on his desk
overlapping and lying around any way
all around the top if his desk, and
actually sloping down from all around
to that bare spot like a little flat val
ley, where he wrote in the center at
the front
"And this was a business man, too,
and, moreover, as I was told, a man
who has accumulated a comfortable
property la the pursuit of his business.
.And I found him, in the dealings I
d with him, not only personally ami
able ia all things, as indicated by his
cheery call to use his desk, but fair
aad exact in his business ways.
" "How he ever did business with his
.desk littered up in that way, how he
ever found anything there that he
wanted, or how he ever remembered
anything I don't see; but as far as I
know he never forgot anything that
was important
ilt made me think of something a
mlalster asked me once. I was saying
to this minister, talking about preach
ing extemporaneously, that I should
think when a man got up in the pulpit
'to preach without any notes that he'd
be apt to forget some' of the things he
wanted to say, and the minister said
that sometimes you might forget
things in that way, but then he recall
ed what an experienced old clergyman
had said to him in reply to the same
suggestion, from himself, which was to
the effect that the things the preacher
forgot to say were usually the things
not worth remembering.
"And maybe it was so about the for
gotten things in the pile of papers on
that desk.
"But he wasn't the only man I have
met who kept his desk apparently in
the greatest disorder, but was never
theless successful; and then I have
known plenty of men who went as far
the other way and who would have a
fit unless they could keep everything
on their desks just so.
"The inkstand must be here and the
stamp box 'here, and the pen rack
here;, all just so, and kept so; and
with no litter anywhere, with every
thing free aad clear and in order.
Aad I have known men who couldn't
write unless they had their paper
squared just right and all that; pre
cise men, who must have everything
just so before they could get to work;
all the very opposite of the man with
the littered desk, who has at least in
his favor the fact that he doesn't
worry himself over trifles, but keeps
on serene through it all.
"And while I have known men who
must have everything just .so neat
about their desks, fresh blotters and
clean inkstands and all that I have
known other men who didn't care if
their desks were a foot thick with
dust and who only asked that their
things should not be moved or shifted
about; just simply and only that their
desks be let alone.
"As a matter of fact there is in
these days less and less disorder in
business methods and more and more
system; this in an age of system."
Historical.
Alexander the Great paused in his
weeping.
"I'm glad to hear of this man Funs
ton," he remarked. "I thought I had
licked everything in my class."
' Then they explained to him gently
knowing that he was melancholy from
fear of going stale, that Funston had
aot happened yet
Calling for a fresh handkerchief,
Alexander resumed his weeping.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Reason.
Squlggs I don't see why you refer
to Beatem as a tailor-made man. I'm
sure he's not extraordinarily well
dressed.
Squaggs No, not that but because
old Snips, the tailor, made him pay
for a suit of clothes, which was the
first thing he has ever been known to
pay for.
Rainy Day Money.
r "Is your husband putting by any
thing for a rainy day?" asked the
prudent relative.
"I think so," answered young Mrs.
Torkias. "I heard him mention sev
eral horses yesterday' that he said
always rua best oa a muddy track."
Repose.
The most beautiful thing about the
New York clubman is his repose. If
you want to be a successful clubman
cultivate repose. Eat drink, think
aad dream repose. Never hurry. Never
at excited. Talk deliberately and
mysteriously. Let your eyes droop.
Never appear Interested in anything.
Hake believe you have seen whatever
of Mfe that's fit or unfit to print and
are leokiag only tor rest Let nothing
surprise you. Appear Jxred Avoid
- introductions. Be "at home" to' bo.
body. Keep your hat oa. Never shake
l New Tone
CHARACTER IN THE TONGUE.
Germany's Way of Sizing People Up
Available Chiefly to Doctors.
' Germany has taken up the pastime
of reading character and telling for:
tunes by the tongue. Somebody has
been making a study-of the organ of
jspeech and has discovered that it Is
lull of Indications.
' A long tongue is said to denote
ujpaaness of character, it suggests gea
jsMBity aad free handedness. Its pos
sessor makes friends and enemies
easily, hat doesn't save money.
When the tongue is long aad thick
the openness degenerates into a ten
dency to gossip and scandal. The fu
ture of the owner Is beset with trou
bles of his own making. It also iadi
cates flightiness and inconstancy.
Short tongues indicate secretiveness
and dissimulation. Their owners make
good detectives aad attorneys.
The owner may acquire some money
by economy and guile, but has not
largeness of spirit to make a great
fortune. Thin pointed tongues are
found in diffident people who do not
succeed In life.
Short and broad ones accompany
craft and falsehood; the person who
has such a tongue is compelled by It
to deceive and betray, whatever effort
he may make to keep straight
The vibrant quavering tongue de
notes the artistic temperament Bril
liant carmine 'hue is 'a sign of long
life, pale pink tongue denotes weak
ness of character and delicacy of con
stitution. "If it's all true," says a German
newspaper, "it is lucky that it is only
at the doctor and not at our friends
that we stick out our tongues."
TWO TYPES OF LAWYERS.
But the Late Judge Thayer Was ef a
Different Kind.
A Philadelphian was praising for his
learning and uprightness the late
Judge M. Russell Thayer.
He quoted the moving passage from
Judge Thayer's will:
" 'Owing to the fact that almost my
entire life has been passed in the pub
lic service of the United States and
of the state of Pennsylvania, I have
but a small estate to leave to my dear
children and wife.'
"Those are different words," he said,
"from the kind we have been hearing
lately. It seems odd to us to think of
a public servant regarding his post
as anything but a plum tree. We have
here another proof that a man really
honorable can never become rich.
"Judge Thayer was 'an honorable
man. First as a 'lawyer, afterwards as
a judge, he treated all with whom he
had dealings with the greatest fair
ness. Once, years ago,safter he had
served me well in a difficult case, I
remonstrated with him about the
smallness of his fee.
" 'Well,' he said, smiling, and smell
ing the flower in his buttonhole. 'I,
you know, am not that type of lawyer
whose client once said:
"'I never was entirely ruined but
twice. Once when I lost a lawsuit and
once when I gained one. "
Ade's Autobiography.
Met Henry W. Savage the other day,
and accumulated the following quite
characteristic story of George Ade.
As of course you know, Mr. Savage
produced "The Sultan of Sulu,"
"Peggy from Paris" and other comic
operas of which Mr. Ade's prolific pen
was the proud progenitor, and .he was
urging the Hoosier librettist to write
another musical comedy for the Sav
age office.
"Can't do it governor," cried Mr.
Ade, shaking his head, gloomily;
"can't do it; I can't write lyrics to
save my immortal soul."
"You can't write -lyrics?" echoed the
tail manager. "Well I'd like to know
what's the matter with 'R-em-o-r-s-e.' "
"Great Sulu's Sultan!" walled Ade,
grimly; "R-e-m-o-r-s-e wasn't a lyric;
it was autobiography."
Grapes Grown Under Glass.
The grape of grapes for the table
is grown in Belgium, and under glass.
It is inno Arcadian rustic spot that
this ideal culture flourishes, but in
the wideawake metropolitan suburb
of Hoezlaert near Brussels. Here
there is a whole region of glass noth
ing but glass over a wide vista. The
spectacle is one' of the shows of the
country for amateurs and sightseers
alike.
A good many lovers of table fruit
whose interest in the subject extends
no further than the dessert stand will
probably be surprised to learn that it
is from no native hothouse, but from
Hoezlaert that the great fruiterers
of London, Paris, the Riviera, Vienna,
Berlin, St Petersburg, and, mirable
dicta, even New York, receive the
bulk of their winter supplies. Every
Friday hundreds of chests of choice
fruit admirably packed, are de
spatched to the United States alone.
The price at Hoezlaert la a minimnm
of 15 pence a pound oa the vine, with
fivepence added for packing. The
choicest bunches are those that weigh
about two pounds.
Condensation With a Vengeance.
A Kansas editor Is said to have, en
tertained extreme ideas with refer
ence to the value of a "condensed
style." On one occaaioa owing to lack
of space he wielded his pencil at the
end of a syndicate serial story with
this result in the way of compression:
"Reginald took a small brandy, then
his hat his departure, besides no no
tice of his pursuers, meantime a re
volver out of his pocket aad lastly his
own life."
Underdone.
Bobby gazed critically at his new
baby brother.
"Don't you like aim. dear?" asked
the nurse.
"Y esbe admitted. "But don't
you think "you ought to aead him
back for a miautea? He's too rare!"
Clevelaad Leader.
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"Henry." said Mrs. Peck. T am go
ing to get a phoaograph aad talk
into It ao that If I happen to die first
you caa still hear say voice."
"Perhaps," replied Henry, bob.
fully, "I will die first" Houston Post
THE DARING DYNAMITE MAN.
Death May Come Any Time, but He
Doesn't Fear It
"Some dayl guess "'twill get me. -We
never know."
J. B. Boone, professional powder
man, dynamite and nitroglycerin han
dler, moved cautiously about afire as
he talked. At his feet lay 50 pounds
of dynamite frozen. Three feet away
was a roaring fire. He was at a stone
aaarry at Courtney, Mo., where the
sight before 500 pounds of his materi
als had exploded. And he had built
the fire to thaw out more.
"This is the dangerous part of the
work," he said. "The jar of a cinder
popping from the fire, striking this
dynamite, would make it explode. A
twig snapped against it or some ob
ject dropped upon it would bring the
end. Dynamite is not exploded by
" eat It requires some jar some fric
tion. When it is frozen and it freezes
sooner than water it is fairly safe to
handle. But in thawing the warmer it
becomes the more sensitive it is.
When these sticks are warm a dime
dropped upon them will make them
explode. It's a dangerous business."
No screen was between the dyna
mite and the fire where "the powder
man" worked. If he feared that fatal
cinder popping from the dry sticks in
the fire be did not show it In a
methodical, careful way, this grave,
quiet man worked swiftly and silently
by the fire.
"I began it with my father when I
was 15 years old " he said. "More
than 20 years now I've been a powder
man, and well, I'm here to-day, any
how." But he would venture no prediction
for the morrow.
CUSTOM OF YUMA INDIANS.
Burning the Dead One of Their In
teresting Ceremonies.
Burning the dead as observed
among the Yumas is interesting. The
body is first thoroughly wrapped and
then placed in logs and brush over a
hole in the ground. A bed of logs is
built up at each side and at the head
of the bier, which is next covered over
and strewn about with dry fagots.
The ilnmes are applied and, while they
burn, the clothing, blankets, " etc.,. of
the deceased are added to the 'fire.
The horse of the dead man, however,
is not burned among the Yumas, as is
the custom with some Indians. A day
or two after death the wigwam of the
deceased, if an adult, is burned, the
rest of the family then going to live
with some relative. The Yumas make
a great sbow of sorrow over their
dead. Later ihey are- never mentioned
at all. The medicine men are still
largely in control among the Yumas,
and the government makes no attempt
to interfere. Usually their patients
grow sicker, so that they proclaim
them doomed to die and their proph
ecy will almost always come true.
When Love Is Young.
They had reached that stage of
the engagement when there is usually
more or less speculation as to the fu
ture on the part of the bride-to-be.
"It doesn't seem,' Tom. dear, that
we could ever speak a cross word to
each other, does it, dearest?" she mur
mured from his coat lapel.
"Never, sweetheart!" declared Tom
stoutly.
"But. dear." she persisted, "if
mind I say if if some- morning the
steak should be burned and the coffee
cold, and you were tempted to be just
a bit just a teeny wee bit cross,
what would you do?" ,
She looked up into his face anx
iously, and he felt that his reply
must be one that would fully reassure
her. After a moment's thought he ex
claimed, triumphantly: "I'd go down
town and get my breakfastt" Puck.
Whisky was Not for Her.
A woman who apparently had been
averse to entering a saloon ap
proached the bartender in a fashion
able North Side place the other even
ing and in low tones called for a quart
of whisky. Five or six men were
standing near the end of the bar. says
the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Now, I don't want you to think
this is for me," said the woman in
way of explanation, at the same time
glancing furtively at the men near the
end of the bar. "My husband, who is
ill sent me for the liquor and I did not
want to come because I thought you
might think it was for me, and I
naturally would feel embarrassed.
"What do you drink, wood alcohol?"
returned the bartender in a matter-of-fact
way. The men near the end of
the bar laughed aloud.
"I didn't come in here to be insult
ed," returned the woman savagely,, at
the same time manifesting her con
tempt for the loungers with a vicious
stare.
"And I would like to inform you'
that I do not propose to have my
goods insulted, either," said the bar
tender in a determined tone of voice.
After parleying several minutes the
bartender handed the woman the bot
tle of whisky and she hurried from
the place, slamming the door violently.
VThey come in here that way almost
every day," said the bartender in ex
plaining the woman's embarrassment
"Many men are too lazy to go after
liquor themselves and they send their
wives. That woman was no doubt
telling the truth when she said she did
not want the whisky for herself. I was
just kidding her."
Hottentot
The origin of this name for the na
tives of South Africa is peculiar. It is
said that the early Dutch soldiers at
the Cape of Good Hope particularly
noticed the click that forms so dis
tinct a feature of the Kaffir language,
which sounded to them like a continu
ous repetition of the syllables "hot"
and "tot" They therefore called the
natives Hottentots, the "en" meaning
"and" in the Dutch language.
Dog Days.
Bill Did you get any frankfurters
while you- were on your vacation?
Jill No; I asked for 'em several
times, but they told me they were
out of season.
"That's all nonsense! You were
away during the dog days, weren't
you?" Yonkers Statesman.
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Bennett's pianos are pay
ing dividends of Pleasure
and Profit every day in the
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Many of the most important business men have
purchased the piano on the investment basis. Not
merely as an investment in pleasure, but as an invest
ment that will give them the necessary relaxation
from business cares, just as they join a golf club.
Business is being conducted at higher pressure to
day than ever before. The man who is demersed in
business cares during the day need to get absolutely
away from them during the few hours that he can call
his own. The active mind needs a rest outside of busi
ness hours.
At the Bad Nauheim in Germany, where thousands
go to recuperate from the results of overwork, the pi
ano is being used as a course in the cure. First tried
experimentally, it was found to have a very beneficial
effect in nervous and mental troubles and is now an
established feature at this celebrated Sanitarium.
The very act of playing the Piano takes the mind
completely away from the beaten path of thought.
The Piano does not play itself you are the one who
does the playing, and you are compelled to give atten
tion to the playing. Therein lies its fascination and its
benefit.
Music is a tonic. The medical world is giving
more anj more attention to it as a therapeutic agent.
But to get the best effects from music you must have a
hand in the production of it yourself.
Let business men who receive their customary
dividend checks consider whether there is any more
semsible investment than-to put the money ina Piano,
through which they can secure immunity from the
harassing cares of the day and be the fresher for next
day's duties.
TERMS No payment down. Monthly
payments of $4, $5, $6, $7, $8 or $10.00
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OUR NEW HOME.
The Journal is now lo
cated in its new location
on Eleventh street, in the
building formerly occupi
ed by Frischholz Bros. A
complete plant for -handling
all kinds of printing
lias been iuatallcd, includ
ing new machinery and
the very latest faces of
job type. Book and mag
azine binding an exceri-ciK-cd
binder lias charge
of this work, tall and
see samples. Ind." phone
161). Neb. Bell phone 201.
THE JOURNAL,
411 Eleventh Street.
Real Ettate Loans.
We are prepared to make loans on
all kind" of rea' estate at the lowest
rate on ?ay term?. Beohpr Hocken
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Acre Prooerty.
We have 160 acres of choice land
one-hair mile from citT limits for
Ue in 10 acre tracts.
Elliott. Speice & Co.
R. S. Palmer the tailor, cleans, dyt-s
and repairs Ladie's and Gents' clothing.
Hats cleaned and reblockud. Buttons
made to order. Agent Gennania Dye
Works. Nebraska phone 194
"By their works ye jhall know them.'"
When yon want good Job printing, and
book-binding call at the Journal office.
New location on Eleventh street.
Write Vincaot A Landon ltel Etate
Agents. Washington, Kan., for their re
vised list of Kansas, Neb., and western
hinds. Get our list b-for you buy
We have a good heating stove and
fnrnace Inmp coal at $5 50 per ton, and
all other good cals.
L. W. Wenver & Son
Dr. D. T. Martyn, jr., office new
Oolambns Star Bank building.
Tender onta and prompt deuery at
Guria'a Market.
NEBRASKA
THEIR FAVORITE BEVERAGES.
What Some of the World's Great Men
Preferred to Drink.
The entertaining author of "Collec
tions and Recollections" has been
writing on the favorite beverages of
great men. Thackeray's choice was
claret. He said "that "our intellect
ripens with good cheer and throws off
surprising crops under, the influence
of that admirable liquid, claret." Mr.
Gladstone, to whom the other pleas
ures of the table meant nothing, was
a stickler for port, a believer in it, a
judge of it. Mr. Russell says that the
only feeble speech he ever heard from
Gladstone was made after dinner at
an otherwise hospitable house, where
wine was not suffered to appear.
Lord Tennyson drank his bottle of
port every day, and drank it undecant
ed, for,- as he justly observed, a de
canter holds only eight glasses, but a
black bottle nine. Mr. Browning, if he
could have his own way, drank port
all through dinner, as well as after it.
Sir Moses Montefiore, who lived to
complete his hundred years, drank a
bottle of port wine every day after he
came to man's estate. Mr. Finching,
th wine merchant in '"Little Dorritt,"
thought champagne "weak but palata
ble," and Lord St Jerome, in "Lo
thair," was esteemed by the young
men a patriot "because he always gave
his best champagne at his ball sup
pers." Town and Country.
WOMAN IN STRANGE FIELDS.
Exploration and. Discovery No Longer
Left' to the Sterner Sex.
Not long ago the triumph of a wo
man who had ascended one of the
Himalaya peaks to a height hitherto
unequaled by any mountain climber
was duly chronicled. A few days later
a foreign news item announced the ar
rival in South Africa of an American
young woman who seeks the jungle
in order to study the language of the
monkey tribe. She is alone in her
daring quest and appears to have a
full realization of its perils.
Still another venturesome woman is
Margaret Selenka, of German birth,
who is to head an important scientific
expedition to Java in the early part of
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the endeavor to establish the identity
of a fossil man-ape found on the
island, as the so-called missing link.
It is evident that these women are
admitting no handicap because of
their sex. They are courageously en
tering regions that few men have pen
etrated and their action suggests that
It may not be long before the suprem
acy of the sterner sex in the fields of
exploration and discovery will be very
seriously questioned. '
BRITISH MILITARY TRAINING.
Soldier Play at War an a Vaat Traat
of Land.
England has reserved a tract of lama
several hundred square miles ia ex
tent on which her soldiers play at
war, according to F. A. Talbot ia the
Technical World Magazine. The Ras-ilan-Japanese
war served to emphasise
the radical revolution which has takea,
place in warfare doe to the remarkav
ble improvements which have
wrought in the devising of long
and quick-firing weapons, combiaai
with improvements in explosives.
The result of this revolution ia war
fare is that a battle front may range
ever as much as 60 or 70 miles. Coa
equently a grave difficulty presents
Itself in the training of an army to
comply with and to understand these
aaw conditions, since it is essential'
that an army in peace should be
brought to a high standard of effi
ciency which will enable it to cope
with any peculiar difficulty, that may
Siresent itself in actual combat. But
o train an army upon this basis ne
cessitates a vast tract of land having
ft conformation of the most difficult
aature and far removed from the in
luences of human habitations, to en
Ible the men to have the fullest scope
n which to practice the new condi
tions of their science.
KEEN INTELLIGENCE WANTED.
I Story That Illustrates What Banks
Are Looking For.
Pierce Jay, the commissioner of
janks of Massachusetts, at the Ameri
can Bankers' association's convention
in St. Louis, advocated a better ac
counting system.
"But above all," said Mr. Jay, In a
discussion of his idea, "we want intel
ligence, if embezzlement is to be thor
oughly put down. Systems are good,
but intelligence is better, and in cash
iers and tellers and bookkeepers and
note clerks we want the same keen,
quick intelligence that characterized
old CapL Hiram Cack of Gloucester.
"Cack lay very ill. One day he got
down-hearted, feeling that his case
was hopeless.
" I fear, doctor,' he said, 'there Isn't
much hope for me.'
"'Oh, yes, there is,' the doctor an
swered. 'Three years ago I was in
your condition precisely, and look at
me now.
"Cack, intelligent and alert, said
quickly:
'"What doctor did you have?"
Sorrows of a Humorist.
"This thing of being a humorist is
about the saddest thing I know,"
sighed Simeon Ford. "An ordinary
person can have his moods and hu
mors as he pleases, but I must always
be on the job. I am constantly being
invited out. not because I'm liked for
myself alone or because of my manly
beauty, but because I am expected' to
entertain the assemblage. The rest
of the company may be as dull as
dishwater, but if I do not shake up the
gathering with a few jokes the hostess
glares at me and really feels resentful.
I may be sunk in the slough of
despond, but just as soon as I take
my seat all lean forward and eye me
expectantly.
"My son, never get a reputation for
being funny. It is the most mournful
thing on earth."
Organ to Save Woodpile.
A number of years ago a village in
the eastern part of the town of Middle
boro was very much wrought up over
the introduction of a musical instru
ment in their church service. At the
final meeting when the matter was to
be settled excitement ran high.
One man whose reputation for hon
est dealings was not always above sus
picion made a fiery speech in opposi
tion. A neighbor whose back yard
joined the speaker's could hardly wait
for the close of the remarks. Then
jumping to his feet without waiting to
address the chairman, he said:
"Gosh, sir, if I had known the gen
tleman was so afraid of an organ I
should have had one hung on my
woodpile years ago." '
Wires Need a Rest.
"Messages," said a" telegraph op
erator, "always slide over the wires
better on Monday than on any other
day. The wires, you see, have profited
by their Sunday rest.
"It is a fact that inanimate as well
as animate things get tired and need
a vacation occasionally. You know
how true this is of razors, of automo
biles, of locomotives and it is just as
true of telegraph wires.
"A wire after its Sunday rest gives.
a quicker, a fuller and a more delicate
transmission. It is like a piano that
has just been tuned."
Proper Coat of Arms.
John Thomas Brady got in to-night
from St.' Louis. John Thomas stopped
a little while in Pittsburg on his way
here.
"I heard some of them guys out
there talking about getting a coat-of-arms,"
he said. "Now. take it from
me that the only right thing for most
of this bunch in the way of a coat-of-arnis
would be a set of burglar's tools
properly displayed." Washington
Correspondence.
A Slight Difference.
Friend Well, did you get your copy
right for that last work?
Author (mournfully) I did. but the
printers didn'L Baltimore Amer
ican. t
Continuous Performance.
Well-Meaning Friend Why have
you never reformed?
Mr Highball Never reformed?
Why. I reform every morning.
Can He Do It.
Luther Burbank had just finished
his seedless orange, his thornless
rose, and his eyeless potato.
"What are you going to originate
now?" some one asked him.
"A lemonless campaign," replied
the wizard.
Relief in the Baby's Cries.
"Why doesn't your wife sing to the
baby when she cries?"
"She used to, until she discovered
that the neighbors preferred to hear
the baby." Cleveland Leader.
NEW IDCA OP CONOUKWTIOW.
la Primarily
it
A Loadoa ahyalclaa. Or. W. Plifcat,
Tamer, who has made a
tady of the disease far
advances the theory that the
world is attacking the aroMeai ef ei
smmptioB by aa ntterly false roate.
His view, ariefy stated, ia that 1
ercalosis ia aa aalmal disease a
urily derived, ia all cases, front
tie. It belongs he says, to the
imH rrflnn rtf Maommtm illnf ITS Ba
which the original soarce of iafectlea
Jlsaplaat. Bovine cattle derive taber
( ealosis from timothy aad other allied
' grasses by natural affiaity.
! Maa acquires the disease ay inges
tion or inoculation, never ay inhala
tion. It is not hereditary; aeither ia
there any predlspositloa to it ia the
fadtvidaal. The ba-iUas ia a state of
aature is saprophyte, feeding oa decay
, of the vegetable world. Bat the ba
cillus becomes pathogeaic capable of
causing disease la cattle whea they
are deprived of actinism or the prop
erty of the chemical rays la sunlight,
it would, if all this be tree, become
reasonable to. assume that by restor
ing actinism to cattle the bacillus
would again become a saprophyte,, la
which case consumption would be ex
tirpated. NO SNAKES IN CANADA.
The Great Forests Are Singularly
Free frem Reptiles.
A curious thing about Canadian for
ests is that there are no snakes, and
even from a description the Indian
guides did not seem to understand
what a snake would be like.
Fishing all through Caaada is aa
good as the hunting, and should one
fall to bag a moose he is fully recom
pensed for the trip by the abundance
of other game, including bear and
deer. There is a weird melancholy
about Canadian forests, with their
hundreds of small lakes and rivers
scattered here and there, and although
the scenery never rises to the magnifi
cent, there is something haunting,
aside from the sport in it. that draws
the hunter back season after season.
Canada is filled with legends aad
strange superstitions, most of them of
Indian origin, and all of them interest
ing to a degree, especially when re
lated by one of the Indian guides who
can be induced to talk. Leslie's
Weekly.
A Skating One.
Tvette Guilbert, the famous French
actress, is an excellent skater. In the
Bois de Boulogne, in Paris, there is an
ice rink where Mme. Guilbert's skating
is one of the principal attractions.
Talking about skating ia New York
one day, Mme. Guilbert said:
"It is only through perseverance
that one learns to skate well. I am
sure no one ever suffered more than
I in learning' to skate.
"I remember one 'day In my girl
hood, the second or third time I had
ever been on the ice, I was returning
home In a crowded omnibus, and a
kfnd old man got up and offered me
his seat.
"I shook my head, and the old man
laughed a good deal when I said:
" 'No, thank you. I've been skatiag.
and I'm tired of sitting down.' "
Longing fer Country Life.
A strange thing is the universal
longing of professional men and others
who have come to the city and have
prospered as they advance in life to
get back to the country. It is seldom
that they do return, and whea they
do there is often disappointment and
things do not appear as they did long
ago. The change Is la the maa him
self, but he thinks it is ia the country.
Nevertheless, the desire to get back
to the old country place to end one's
days is very general. Sir Walter Scott
refers to it and compares the coarse
of a man through the world to that of
the hare which is-started from her
lair and after a long chase and mak
ing a large circle ends by returning
to the nest from which she started.
All Pieces But the Pawn.
The archbishop of Canterbury, oa
one occasion, when addressing the
members of a chess club, said that
though he "was not a distinguished
chess player, he could claim to be a
representative of chess in an unusual
degree, for he had seen a good deal
of kings and queens, had lived ia two
castles and was the only living man
who was both a knight and a bishop,
so that he represented all the pieces
except the pawn."
A Sausage Secret. S
Dr. John L. Morse of Boston, aa au
thority on pure foods, said recently
that the public could not expect pure
food at a low price.
"Take milk, for Instance." he said.
"Milk absolutely pure 'cannot be sold
to-day under 15 cents a quart.
"And so. till we are willing to pay
for a genuine article. Imitation arti
cles, adulterated articles, will be sold
to us.
"And the morality of the dealers
will grow worse and worse, till, finally.
I can imagine a sausage maker saying
on his deathbed to his son:
"'Always bear la miad, my lad. that
sausage can be made oat of aaytalag
even out of meat' "
The Crawnina Btow.
"Mothers and nurses have devised
and invented many ways of procuring
obedience and correct behavior from
their little charges," said a park po
liceman. "The familiar 'bogy maa' ia
still employed, but the times chaage
and the people with .them.
"The last fine day. whea the park
was filled with mothers aad nurses,
I heard a new way of appealiag to the
love or fear of a child. A tvit.hw
dressed young womaa leadlag aa irre
pressible youngster, after making an
sorts of threats aad promises without
effect,. said: 'Child! Child! rm i.-
hs wrusies unoer my eyes."
Net Eneugk Style
The Butler The house ia oa Ire.
madam. Here are the head area
ades. Mrs. Pacekillr-Tea should have
brought them oa a tray. William.
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