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COFFEE OR TEA?
The world is last adopting coilee
drinkirj", and Americans are the lead
era iu the movement. The rising gen
eration drinks four cups of coffee to one
of tea, and if the tendency continues
the ratio of diilereuce will lie even
more, striking. Twenty years ago the
world drank lets than half the
amount of coti'eu that it does now, and
it cost about twice as much as it does
today. Tea, on the other hand, has
made r.o such marked change eilht r in
price or consumption.
In any restaurant or hotel in Bos
ton you will he told that colfee drink
ing is less esteemed. No artificial in
fluences have brought about thi.
change of taste; it occurs simj ly atrl
naturally. The simulating illect i f
either drink appeaN to a highly i.i r
vous race.
Any wholesale grocery house that
sells both tea ami coffee will also tell
you coffee drinking is increasing,
while tea barely holds its own. In
both city and country the.-ame tenden
cy toward coflee is seen. Commercial
travelers now toll oiie che-t of tea
where five or six were sold thirty
years ago.
It would be interesting to speculate
over the iuflueuce that this change
may make iu the physical life of the
nation. Does a tea drinker make a
better soldier thau the coflee drinker?
Does the soldier who drinks neither
beverage make a superior fighter? It
might take a long and terrible war to
settle those queries, ami as this is the
age when peace has the call, and we all
want it, even if we have to fight to get
it, the inquiry must drop. But coflee
drinking goes on. Boston Globe.
COMBATING THE GERM PERIL.
Reports of the use of serums for
combating diseases come with remark
able frequency of late. Only last week
the report was published that a physi
cian in California has perfected :i li
quid extract from the metabolic pro
ducts given off by the pneumonia
germ, which has worked rapid and
marvelous cures. Within a period of
from twenty-four hours to four dns
niue cases of pneumonia, one of tuber
culosis and one or more of typhoid fev
er are stated. to have been cured by the
use of the fccrum.
At the same lime physicians of Man
kato, Minn., are suited to have deve
loped the cure of tetanus by the injec
tion of Epsom salt.- into the spinal co
lumn. Eleven wises of this heretofore
fatal disease are declared to have been
cured by this remedy.
Relative to these discoveries and the
reported cures effected by them, the
Pittsburg Dispatch observes: "The
fdur diseases mentioned constitute so
large a share of the ills that Hth is
heir to that such cures as claimed iu
these reports will, if verified open up
a new era as important to the life and
health of the world as those introduced
by vaccination and later by the diph
theria anti toxin. Still, it is well to be
cautious in accepting these remedies as
actually demonstrated. Since the
success of anti-toxin there has been
such a rage for the fightiug of diseases
of serums and injections as to produce
a long list of reported discoveries
which had a roseate start but did not
seem able to maiutaiu the promise of
effectiveness and safety. A dozen or
so cases of each disease do Lot afford a
reliable test of the remedy or preven
tive. The results of thousands or tens
of thousands of cases are needed to tell
the story."
The view expressed by the Dis
patch is a very sensible . - to take.
The ooutrol of a few case.- i each dis
ease by the use of the newly discover
ed remedies should not be accepted as
absolutely demonstrating their value
as curative agents. '
Still the human race has suffered so
largely from the effects of the four
disease mentioned that further results
from these remedies will be awaited
with much interest.
While thediscoveiy of the new and
effective remedies for the cure of old
diseases will continue to be jovfully
welcomed, it is not unlikely that the
greatest boon to mankiud iu the way
of immunity for diseases will come
through an awakening of universal in
terest in prevention, rather thau from
the discovery off effective crP-
Houston Post.
ORIGIN AND DESTINY OF THE
EARTH.
Iu discussing this subject nothing
but the most profound confidence in
ni' theory, sustained, as I believe, by
all the facts and phenomena of the
earth, internally aud externally, could
induce me to offer :i hypothesis so
completely at variance with all those
heretofore advanced, and with our
present one which is all but univer
sally accepted.
But I will waste no time in apolo
gizing if wrong I am with a great
throng of writers, a thoughtful, studi
ous set, fairly good company 1 pre
sume, if right I am alone, aud cau
well afford to be. In my opinion, this
world is us old as the space in which
it floats, and is new as your latest
breath. We arc told that all space is
the abode of worlds. It is equally
true that all space is the abidiug place
of atoms. It is further true that each
atom has a power of attraction pro
portionate with its bulk aud density
and that when atoms come into such
proximity that their attraction is
sufficiently strong they will come
together and be held thus by the same
force that brought them together, be
coming more compact by attraction
and adhesion with each additional
atom. Two of these atoms thus
brought together have formed a little
world of twice its former bulk and
power id" attraction. This formation
grows with a tapidly increasing vol
ume and attractive force, yet, incalcu
lable ages are spent iu its growth to
imtcnroid aud to asteroid. But it has
tiiii.. ;-.il ilic space of the universe is
i greater than the silent flood of
)vars befoie it.
Let us usmiiiic that our earth thus
started and that it has reached one
third its present size. It then drew to
it within a given length of time from
any given di-iuncc in space one-third
the amouut of material it would now
receive iu the same length of time
whether of atoms or meteors weighing
tous. This proportion has run through
every stage of its existence until now
we find, according to the best author
ity aud the closest calculation of the
scientific, that there are drawn to it
each twenty-four hours -10,000.000 of
meteors sufficiently large to he visible
to tin naked eye aud IS0,0UO,U0O
smaller ones visibSi; through an ordi
nary telescope. Of f..i!ise no definite
cm i mute cau bo made of the annual
increase by this material, but when we
con.-idcr that many meteorites reach
the earth, after having lost the greater
part of tlu ir bulk because of fusion in
our :itiuoStluie, whose weight ranges
from ounce.- to tons, we know it is very
great. Nor does this average include
the thickly strewn orbits through
which uc pass each August, nor the
more exteuvc November one, through
which e pass once every thirty-three
years.
All this being true, and there is no
doubt of it, it is plainly to be seen that
the earth adds largely to the surface
every 3ear. The question then arises:
If the earth lias thus grown from an
atom, how are we to account for her
internal heat? This is plain. Nature
is never incoherent. She presents no
illogical stumbling blocks. That
which man does in his tiny way, she
doe iu her gigantic way.
If we can produce heat by pressing
atom against atom, as when with a
hammer we strike a cold rod of iron
on an auvil, heating it unbearably hot
in a few blows, it is easy to see how,
with miles of cubic feet of earth press
ed one upon another, composed of
sharp, irregular grains with no room
for adjustment of atom to atom, these
atoms would for the same reason be
come heated. The same condition is
produced by friction. Friction is but
the pressing aud crushing of atoms
together without room for adjustment.
Calculate the weight of a cubic ioot
would have to bear at fifty, one hun
dred or two hundred miles beneath the
surface of the earth, and we will read
ily see the cause of this internal heat.
If this were not produced by pressure
but had its existence because of fire
that has died down to its present
depth, the same degree of heat at a
given depth from the mountain top,
whatever the height, would not de
velop as from a sea level. In further
proof of the theory that internal heat
is caused by pressure, there is not a
planet several times the earth's size,
the condition of whose atmosphere can
be accounted for in any other way,
while this theory offers a perfect solu
tion of it. Jupiter, with a distance
from the sun aud a surface and an
equator, all tending to insure his
atmosphere to be most tranquil, shows
exactly the opiwsite condition. His
"reat attraction should draw and hold
his atmosphere within a distance of his
surface less than half that of his own.
Yet w find that there are layers of
clouds and smoke, volcanic ajiR-ar-
anccs, cyclonic inaniie&iauons, aud
conditions so furious that nothing but
the most powerful elements raging in
comoai can account lor uiem. oaiurn
many times larger than the earth
wiin nis rings oj ugm nun nuuk! ami
heat attests the fact that he, too, is a
victim of his awful crushing attrac
tion. Uranus and Neptune show a light
far greater than the reflection from the
sun should be at their great distance.
Planets change to suns, and our sun,
the fittest example of them all, started,
like the system of which he is the
center, an atom, and gathered through
out his great circle of the universe;
until now an asteroid coming within
the grasp of his awful attraction leaves
its orbit in obedience to his all pow
erful strength, plunges into his fiery
surface producing a spot around whose
edges a bright light is manifested, till
by degrees this light grows nearer the
center and the spot has disappeared.
The sun is a demonstration of atomic
growth and its fate.
What will the earth's next move be
toward her fate?
Volcanic manifestations, upheavals
of mountain chains within the seas,
changes of seas to continents, as the
waters find their way into the tires
within. She has done this mauy times
within the ages past, as the mountains
of the earth attest. The heat will be
pressed closer and closer to her surface
with her growth, the ocean will find
its way at shorter intervals into the
forbidden element, continents will be
come more frequently insecure; the
crust will grow so thin that the fire
will press its way through unaided by
ocean until by the same degree and
stages that have marked and are mark
ing the fate of all the stars and larger
planets, the earth will go.
The origiu of one is the origin of all.
The growth of one the growth of all,
the fate of one the fate of all. George
James in Word aud Works.
AS A SOUTHERNER SAW
GRANT.
I have mentioned the fact that I had
strong personal reasons for being'
friendly to General Grant. If he had
not thrown his shield over me I should
have been outlawed aud driven into
exile. My battalion was in uorthern
Virginia on the Potomac, a hundred
miles from Appomattox, when Gener
al Lee surrendered. The Secretary of
War, Mr. Stanton, immediately issued
an order directing that all Confederate
soldiers in Virginia should be invited'
to surrender, aud offering them the
same paroles that were given to Lee's
army, but the order excepted iue.per
soually. General Grant, who was
then all powerful, interposed, and sent
me au offer of the same parole that he
had given General Lee. Such a ser
vice I could never forget.
He also did another thing which
showed the generosity of his nature.
A few weeks before the surrender a
small party of my men crossed the
Potomac one night and got into a fight,
in which a detective was killed. One
of the men was captured and sent to
Fort McHenry. After the war he
was tried by a military commission
and sentenced to be imprisoned. The
boy's mother went to see President
Johnson to beg a pardon for her sou,
but Johnson repelled her.
In her distress the mother went over
to the War Department to see General
Grant. He listened patiently to her
sorrowful story, theu rose and asked
her to go with him. He took her to the
White House, walked into the recep
tion room, and told the President that
there had been suffering enough, and
that he would not leave the room with
out a pardon for the young Southerner.
Johnson signed the necessary paper.
After my parole, I often was arrest
ed and otherwise molested.
When my wife passed through
Washington on her way to Baltimore,
she determined to go to the White
House to make a complaint. Her
father and President Johnson had ser
ved in Congress together, and had been
friends; so she told Johnson whose
daughter and whose wife she was. He
refused her. She left him and went to
sec General Grant at the War Depart
ment. He treated her as courteously
as if she had been the wife of a Union
soldier, and then wrote a letter which
he gave to her. He did not dictate
the letter to a clerk; the whole is in his
handwriting. It gave me liberty to
travel anywhere unmolested, as long as
I observed my parole. I preserve
that letter, framed, among my most
precious possessions.
I once said to General Grant.
"General, if you had been a South
ern man, would you have been in the
Southern Army?''
"Certainly", he replied.
He always spoke in the friendliest
manner of his old army comrades who
went with the South. Once, speaking
of Stonewall Jackson, who was with
him at West Point, he said to me:
"Jackson was the most conscientious
being I ever knew."
I saw Grant the day when he sigued
the Electoral Commission Bill to de
cide the Hayes-Tilden dispute. He
was in an unusually good humor, and
said that the man in whose favor the
commission decided should be inaugur
ated. He talked a good deal about
his earlv life in the army, and eave a
description of his first two battles
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Col. JohnaMosbyinafijney'?jg
.me.
THE TRIPLE X BRAND.
Hundred point men arc not so plen
tiful. A hundred point mau is one
who keeps his word; who is loyal to
the firm that employs him; who does
not listen for insults nor look for
slights; who carries a civil tougue in
his head; who is polite to straugers,
without being "fresh," who is consid
erate toward servants; who is moder
ate iu his eating aud drinkiug; who is
willing to learn; who is cautious aud
yet courageous. Hundred point mcu
may vary very much in ability, but
this is always true they arc safe men
to deal with, whether drivers of drays,
motormen, clerks, cashiers, engineers,
or presidents of railroads. The hun
dred point man may not look just like
other men, or dress like them, or talk
like them, but what he docs is true to
his own nature. He is himself. He
is more interested in doing his work
than iu what people will say about it.
He does not consider the gallery. He
acts his thought and thinks little of
the act. I never knew a hundred
point mau who was not one brought
up from early youth to make himself
useful, and to economize in the matter
of time and money. Necessity is bal
last. Nature intended that we should
all be poor that we should earn our
bread every day before we eat it.
When you find the hundred point man
you will find one who lives like a
person in moderate circumstances, no
matter what his finances are. Every
man who thinks he has the world by
the tail, aud is about to snap its dem-
nition head off for the delectation of
mankind, is unsafe, no matter how
great his genius iu the Hue of special
ties. The hundred point mau looks
after just one individual, aud that is
the mau under his own hat; he is one
who docs not spend money until he
earns it; who pays his way; who knows
that nothing is ever given for nothing;
who keeps his digits off other people's
property. When he does not know
what to say, why, he says nothing, aud
when he does not kuow what to do, he
does not do it. Elbert Hubbard.
TEXAS DOES BIG THINGS.
Texas has begun to do thiugs on a
big scale. She ought to since she is
not only the biggest state in the union
but she is bigger than any country in
Europe, except Russia, aud has within
her own limits the makings of au im
perial commonwealth. The southern
press gives illustration of how rapidly
Texas is rising to the needs of good
roads aud is building them, which is a
great deal better than to dieam of it
and argue for it.
Kejiorts arriving from all parts of
the state show thai the most marked
feature of this progress at the moment
is the devotion of the people to good
roads. No other of the western or
southwestern states could get along
better than Texas without much ex
pense for that kind of impnvement,
but Texas is not content wih that
fact All the states have bad roads
unless they have genuinely good ones.
There is no middle ground. The pic
tures of reinforced concrete bridges as
part of the good roads building iu the
neighborhood of San Autonio, for ex
ample, show that the state is thorough
ly alive and pushing forward.
It is estimated that Texas will spend
no lees thau $25,000,000 this year on
highway improvement. The chance
for bad work is large where there is so
great an expenditure iu s. short a
time, but it may be noted that in spite
of easy-going ways iu many respects,
the southern states have learned a les
son and are as a rule getting their mo
ney's worth in public expenditures.
Big Texas feels so big that it almost
costs a man his life to suggest that it
be split up into a handful of states, as
it has a right to be under its annexa
tion treaty with theUnited States. Its
size begins to tell splendidly in its fa
vor in a dozen resiects. Buffalo Eve
ning News.
Invisible Indians.
All Indians seem to have learned a
wonderful way of walking unseen,
making themselves invisible like cer
tain spiders, which, in case of alarm.
caused, for example, by a bird alight
ing on the bush their webs are spread
upon, immediately bounce themselves
up aud down on their elastic threads
so rapidly that only a blur i- visible.
The wild Indian power of escaping
observation, even where there is little
or no cover to ldde in, was probably
slowly acquired in hard hunting aud
fighting lessons while trying to ap
proach game, take enemies by surprise
or get safely away when compelled to
retreat. And this experience transmit
ted through many generations seems
at length to have become what Is
vaguely called instinct. John Muir in
Atlantic.
An Elusive Water Lily.
The water lily of the Amazon has
very elusive habits. The bud" open
twice, the iirst time just a chink at
the tip In the early sunrise hours, a
sort of premonitory symptom. On the
following evening it spread Its four
sepals with such alacrity that yon cau
see them move. But the big white bud
among them remains unchanged until
4 o'clock Id the morning, when it hur
riedly spreads its blossom wide open,
remaining ia this condition only half
an hour. Within the hour it has near
ly closed, and by another hour and a
half the entire flower has been drawn
under water by the colling of the stalk.
CAUGHT BY DRIVER ANTS.
Exciting Experience In West Africa
With These Deadly Pests.
The driver ants are a terrible pest in
West Africa. Crawling over the ground
in countless thousands, invincible to
anything but a wall of fire, they bring
quick death to every live thing unfor
tunate enough to be caught in their
path and leave behind them the skele
tons of lizards, rats, sheep, cattle and
even human beings. In bis book enti
tled "We Two In West Africa" Major
F. G. Guggisberg recounts the terrors
of one night when the pests invaded
his house:
I heard voices calling. "Get up; tho
ants arc on us!" Sitting bolt upright.
I found the room apparently in dark
ness. In reality the lantern on the
floor at the foot of the bed was still
burning, but as I threw my hand out
and felt tho heavy weight of the mos
quito net I suddenly realized that it
was coated with ants so thickly that
it kept the light out as effectively as a
velvet curtain.
Two bounds took me out of that
mosquito net and the hut. but it was
an uncanny feeling when ny feet
crunched through the living carpet of
ants. Hitting the side of the doorway
in my hasty exit, I brought down a
shower of the little pests on my bead
and shoulders from rafter, wall and
roof, and then the fun began.
Some people say that tho ant buries
his head in you and leaves it there,
others that be drives some other part
of his body into you. I didn't worry
about examining which theory was
correct. It did not affect the torture
of the result For the next ten min
ues I was standing in a state of na
ture in the open, the rain beating
down and the boys, hastily roused,
picking ants off my body by the light
of torches.
I was so engrossed in this new sport
that I quite forgot about Lees: then I
suddenly realized that be was not
there. I won n moral V. C. by going
into that infernal place and hauling
him out He was a pitiable sight in
the torchlight, his hair waving as if
in a breeze as the ants crawled
through It. his body black with them.
To pick them off was too slow a job.
I seized a tin of kerosene oil and
poured it over him. sweeping the en
emy off in thousands. One of my ham
mock boys rushed up with a flaming
torch, meaning in the kindness of his
heart to give master more light. I
yelled to him to keep away, and he.
thinking he was being urged on.
rushed toward us quicker than over.
Luckily Lees' cook stopped him in
time, and a tragedy was avert ed.
We spent the remainder of the night
under a tree. In spite of the discom
fort of it all the persistent rain, the
mist, the smarting pain of the ant
bites we could not help laughing at
the idea of our helplessness against
the little brutes that were occupying
our comfortable huts. However. th
only thing to do was to wait patiently
until they cleared out. -
A Repulsive People.
The inhabitants of Dutch New Guinea
are not an attractive nice. "The na
tive woman." says Dr. Eric Marshall,
the explorer, "drags up the children,
cuts the firewood, brings in the sago,
works the canoes, occasionally proving
her skill as a warrior in the family
and village quarrels, and always com
ing off best witli her tongue. She is
usually content with a strip of bark
cloth. When in mourning she dis
penses even with this. The male sex
predominates, and most of the men
have to be content with one wife. On
the dcatli of a man the widow, clad
like Eve. but as ugly as Satan, crawls
around the grave, wailing and chant
ing, performing weird movements with
arms and body, which may or may not
be meant for dancing." Pall Mall Ga
zette. A Bullet Stopped the Game.
Alfred dc Mussct, the poet and
dramatist, was almost as fond of
chess as of poetry. He played nearly
every night at the Cafe do la Itegence,
nnd even the revolution of February,
1S4S. did not divert him from his
habit. He turned up as usual and,
Gnding no one there to play with, in
sisted that the waiter should make a
game for him. The waiter did so,
though a fusillade was raging in the
street outside, and all went well until
& musket bullet smashed a mirror in
Immediate proximity to the board.
Mussct was anxious to continue in
spite of the interruption, but his op
ponent would not. "With monsieur's
permission." lie said, "we will adjourn
the game until after the republic has
been proclaimed." Paris Gaulols.
Blue Tits Love the Bees.
Bees have enemies of various kinds
like tho rest of creation. Every one
knows that many birds are insectiv
orous, but all insects do not form the
food of any one species. The bird
which has formed a taste for bees is
the blue tit. aud if a pair of these dis
cover a suitable nesting place in tho
neighborhood of an apiary it is sur
prising how man3 bees will be carried
off to satisfy them and their young.
Generally their work is mostly felt
where queen raising, is extensively in
dulged in. for queens nnd drones being
largest and slowest on the wing form
a desirable and easy prey. Agricul
tural Economist
Up to His Standard.
A merchant in a small town was
about to become bankrupt for the sev
enth time, ne called In the account
ants to go over his books. When they
had finished they told him he would
be able to pay o cents on the dollar.
A troubled look came over the mer
chant's face. "Heretofore." he ald,
"I have always paid 10 cents on the
dollar, and I'll do it now." he affirmed
as a benevolent smile overspread bis
face. "I'll pay the rest out of my own
pocket" Everybody's.
A Reminder.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak Did yon think of
me while I was away In the country,
John? Mr Crimsonbeak I certainly
did. dear. I wore that necktie you
bought me for my birthday, and every
body asked where on earth 1 got It,
and I had to tell them. Yonkers
Statesman.
Pretty Narrow.
Mrs. Hoyle Is there much room in
your flat? Mrs. Doyle I should say
not! There isn't room to give any
body a broad hint. Judge.
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GARBLED QUOTATIONS.
Popular Passages That Are Frequently
Rendered Incorrectly.
Almost everybody who quotes at all
misquotes. Nothing is more commot.
than to hear:
A man convinced against his will
Is of the samo opinion still.
This is an impossible condition of
mind, for no one can be convinced of
one opinion and at the same time hold
to an opposite one. What Butler wrote
was eminently sensible:
Ho that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
A famous passage of Scripture is of
ten misquoted thus: "ne that is with
out sin among you let him cast the
first stone." It should be. "Let him
first cast a stone."
Sometimes we are told, "Behold, how
great a fire a little matter kindlcth."
whereas St. James said, "Behold, how
great a matter aNittle fire kindletb."
which is quite a different thing.
We also hear that "a miss Is as good
as a mile." which is not as sensible
or forcible as the true proverb. "A
miss of au inch U as good as a mile."
"Look before you leap" should be
"Aud look before you ere you leap."
Pope is generally credited with hav
ing written:
Immodest wonts admit of no defense.
For want of decency Is want of sense.
though it would puzzle any one to find
the verses in his writings. They were
written by the Earl of Boscommon,
who died before Tope was born.
Franklin said. "Honesty is the best
policy," but the maxim is of Spanish
origin and may be found in "Don
Quixote." Pearson's Weekly.
Puzzled.
An aged colored man was passing a
fish store when he stopped to examine
a huge turtle chained in the doorway
as an advertisement
He had never seen a turtle before,
and he prodded the strange creature
curiously. Suddenly he popped his fin
ger into his mouth with a howl of
pain. After the liuger had stopped
bleeding he, gazed at it ruefully, then
eyed the turtle apprehensively.
"What's the matter. Bastns?" asked
the fish dealer, with a grin.
"Nuflin. sah; nuffin'. Ah was jest
wonderin whether Ah had been bit or
stung." Lippincott's.
Woes of Wealth.
"Then wealth doesn't bring happi
ness" "Xo. Since we inherited money my
people don't want me to loaf In the
grocery. And I an"t get no comfort
out of loafing in a bank. The hours
are too short." Pittsburg Post.
Honorable industry always travels
the same ro:id with enjoyment and
duty, and progress Is altogether Im
possible without it. Samuel Smiles.
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A Neted London Spot, the Scene ef
Many Famous Occurrences.
Tower Hill is perhaps both the most
important eminence and the most no
table spot in all London. Few of us
think what great persons have quietly
lived there and what others, equally
great, have wept and died upon it
To it, or rather to Great Tower
street, came Rochester to pursue his
trade as an Italian fortune teller,
while the bedizened Buckingham of
ten walked thither to consult a con
jurer, a shrewd, farseelng rogue, who.
when Fclton bought at the cutler's
shop on the summit of the bill for a
shilling the knife with which he killed
the duke's father, may have known
for what purpose it was required.
William Penn was born on this bill
In a house close to London wall. Forty-four
years later that Is, in A. D.
1GS5 a poet lay dead, choked by a
crust which starvation had urged him
to devour too greedily. In an upper
room of the Bull tavern. This was the
III fated Otway. At the time when
the son of the muses lay dead Better
ton, tho celebrated founder of the
stage after the restoration, was
wringing tears from the eyes of the
public, not for the famished dead, but
at his own fictitious sorrows In "Ven
ice Preserved."
It was in Great Tower street thnt
Peter the Groat used to pass his even
ings drinking hot pepper and brandy
with his boon companion. Lord Car
marthen. London Standard.
Sentimental Juries.
Mnitro Henri Bobert. the most fa
mous advocate iu criminal cases at thf
Paris bar. told an audience almost
entirely composed of ladies that before
any Jury a woman with some youth,
Eouio looks and a pretty voice has fifty
chances out of a hundred of being
acquitted, whereas a man would have
unly one. If she knows how to shec
tears at the right moment she neec
not worry a verdict of not guilty li
a dead certainty. Paris Letter.
m iegai noiiday.
"Bindlesworth seems to rather look
upon his wife with awe."
"Yes. 1 met him yesterday, and ho
wanted to borrow ?3 from me. I ask
ed him why he didn't go to his bank
for it. and he replied with surprise
that he was unable to conceal:
" 'Why. bless me! I'd forgotten that
the banks were open today, just the
same. You see. this is my wife's birth
day.' "-Chicago Kccord-Hcralil.
This Hard, Cruel World.
Airs. Crawford You can have all the
bread and butter you want, but no
more cake.
Willie Say. n:a. how is it 1 cau
never have a second helping of any
of the thing 1 like? Lippincott's.
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