Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1904 — Page 4

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Getting pessimistic about that Hcnuctt will already? A dollar is good for a vote, sometimes. Mr. Bryan says: "I cannot, call politics a game." Mr. Bryan is one of those sportsmen who hate to confess that they cannot play a good game. In San Francisco an entire Jury häs been arrested for bribery. They will probably be convicted unlesa the jury which tries the!3 can be "fixed." No member of -the United States Senate mas e,ver expelled for being convicted of crime. It Is never too late to establish a precedent, however. A major In the Russian army ' gets $450 a year. A major in the United States army gets from J2.500 to ,500. It appears that each gets about what he cams. No, Mr. Hearst has not introduced a fingle bill in Congress. But it must not be forgotten that he has been kept busy introducing bills to delegates, and big ones at that. Emperor Menelik decorated twenty-nine of the thirty members of the Skinner party. Congress should start an investigation of Mr. Thirty; there is something wrong there. Tom Johnson offers to give Cleveland a -ccnt street railway fare. The only condition is that the street railway's entire taxation shall be remitted. Generous, Democratic Tom! Of course, Russia sides with England in this Thibetan business. Is it not a tight between Christian civilization and the heathen yellow peril? Should like to hear from the Czar on this point. A Russian newspaper calls the United States an "insolent parvenu." Now, If those people are not more careful, some American newspapers may come out and express . open sympathy for Japan. It is becoming evident that one David Bennett Hill wants the Democratic nomination for a friend of his, and that he Isgoln to get it If he has to annex Tammany Hall to Wolferfs Roost. President Remscn, of Johns Hopkins University, found one student In eighty who could identify a Bible quotation. But, then, Johns Hopkins students are more ad vanqed than the ordinary college men. Former Senator Pcttigrew, of South Da kota, sajs he will not vote for "Cleveland, or any Democrat like him." The Democrats, therefore, must be careful not to nominate any fat man who goes fishing and duck hunting. The Pittsburg Post is a Democratic paper, and the Pittsburg. Post says that the Hearst boom is inflated with money. The look of surprised grief on the face of the double-leaded columns in other Democratic organs Is really pitiful. Who would have thought it? In the Chicago American of Sunday laere is a neacume reading: "Michael Farley Drops Dead from Hearst Disease.' We wonder what will happen to the proof- ,- The Democratic orgun doubtless wishes . the disease were less prevalent or more generally fatal. Car-barn murderer Nledermeyer seems to fcave rtrock a scheme to cheat the gallows of all Its Intended victims but himself. lie is willing to confess to any crime for t tjrhieh some other person has been sentenced. This is a noble Idea: as long as he remains alive every condemned murder- . tr in the country ' may hope. "Where there 13 so much smoke there Kust.be some fire." s.tys the adage. The rnoie la universal and omnipresent, and the fire comes in an outburst of hot fellci ttiioa fcy Indiana laundrymcn that natural

gas has given out and soft coal returned t? stay forever. Itesui't. a great increase in everybody's "washings" and in the receipts of the laundrymcn. PIli:SIDi:.T KOOSKYLT AMD Till. PEOPLK. In the recent tilt between Senator Beveridge and Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, when the former ald the Republican party had already agreed upon Its leader In the coming campaign, Mr. Simmons intimated that Its loader had been forced upon the party by a mysterious power. The Indiana senator replied: "The senator from North Carolina speaks of the 'mysterious power responsible for our candidate's selection. I'll tell you what the power Is; it is the people. The people have selected our candidate, and we are not afraid to name him. The name of our candidate and the next President is the name of the present President, Theodore Roosevelt, and we are glad to name him." This was a happy retort, and it is true. Senator Simmons's allusion to some "mysterious power" that had forced Mr. Roosevelt on the Republican party as its prospective candidate In the next election was evidently intended in a sinister sense. He meant to imply that the so-callcd "money power," Wall street, the railroad magnates, the trusts, the great corporations, or some other mysterious power which Democrats are fond of citing as owning and

controlling the Republican party, had forced it to accept Mr. Roosevelt as a can didate for a second term. If this were true t would be greatly to the discredit of the party and ought to weaken Mr. Roosevelt before the people, but it is far from being true. One does not need to have been a very close student of politics to know that within the last year there was an organzed attempt on the rart of the influences above referred to to side track Mr. Roose velt in favor of some other Republican candidate. For a few months there were plain indications that Wall street, the railroad magnates, the trusts and the money power were trying to shelve Mr. Roosevelt and bring forward another can didate. The movement began shortly after the commencement of the suit against tho Northern Securities Company and the beef trust. Quite unnecessarily and unreasonably the Interests referred to were alarmed by these suits and worked themselves into a belief that President Roosevelt was going to make a raid on vested property nterests. They began to hint that he was not just the man for President, that he was too impetuous, too rash, and that property interests' and values would bo safer under a more conservative President. This movement continued for several months, the Democrats doing what they could to strengthen it and lending their disinterested aid in bringing out other Re publican candidates who they felt quite sure would be more satisfactory to the business interests of the country than Mr. Roosevelt and a better guaranty of conservative government in caso of RepubIcan success. But the movement made very little headway. It never got beyond the "hot-air" stage, and one fine morning t collapsed entirely. The Interests that had started it in good faith discovered that they were mistaken, and when this year's conventions began to meet and district after district and State after State instructed for Roosevelt they saw he was going tobe overwhelmingly indorsed by the people and they abandoned the movement. Now one hears no more of Mr. Roosevelt's radicalism or impetuosity, and from present appearances he will be the strongest candidate for President that could possibly be named. The "mysterious power" that prevented the shelving of Mr. Roosevelt when An attempt was made to do so and that led to his selection as the Republican candidate was the people. He Is to-day the most popular man in America with the masses of the people. They admire him for his courage, his Americanism and his conscien tious adherence to principle, and they have absolute confidence In his integrity. If there has been anyforcing of him on the Republican party as a candidate for re election it is the people who have done it. THE PHOIIiniTION PARTY. The Prohibition party, whose State convention meets here to-day, is not as large as some other political parties, but it has the courage of Its convictions as much as any. and is entitled to stand up and be counted. In the last national election it polled in the country at large 20S.914 votes. If these could have been lumped in some one State its candidate for President might have received several electoral votes, but as they were scattered in forty he was not in the running. Singularly enough in Maine, which has a. prohibition law, he received only 2.585 votes to C6.S22 for Bryan and C5.425 for McKinley. Prohibition has made more progress in state legislation than it is ever likely to in national. The Maine law dates from 1S5I and is now incorporated in the Constitu tion. In 1S52 Massachusetts, Rhode Island 4 and Vermont passed prohibitory laws, which were subsequently repealed by the two former States. Kansas and South Da kota have constitutional prohibition, but it has been defeated In Texas, Oregon, Ten nessec, Pennsylvania ( and Nebraska. Some Northern and several Southern States have local option laws by which practical prohibition is secured In many localities. Prohibition of this kind prevails much more extensively in the South than in tho North. The organization of the Prohibition party was due to the failure of both of the great national parties to tak a satisfactory position on the question, and dates from 1SGS. Its first national convention was held in Chicago in September, ISO. Its first national ticket, nominated at Columbus, O., on Feb. 22, 1S72, received only 5.607 votes. Since then its successive candidates for President have been Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, in 1S76; Neal Dow. of Maine, in 1SS0; Governor St. John.'of Kansas, in 1SSI; Clinton B. Flsk. of New Jersey, in 1SSS; John Bidwell, of California, in l&C. In lSDtJ the party spilt and different factions nominated two candidates; In 1900 It united again on John G. Woolley,kof Illinois, and he received from a few hundred to several thousand votes in forty States. The last national convention made a violent attack on President McKinley for permitting the use of wine in the White House and also held him responsible for the army canteen "with all Its dire brood of disease, immorality, sin and death in this country, in Cuba, in Porto Rico and the Philippines." It declared "that tho only policy which the government of the United States can of right uphold as to the liquor traffic under the national Constitution upon any territory, under the military or civil control

of that government is tho policy of prohibition." The convention which meets here to-day will doubtless renew this demand as to all our Territories and new inland possessions, and also as to the canal zone In Panama, which will soon come under national control. General Miles has recently written a letter deprecating the sale of liquor in the Philippines, which probably was intended as a bid for the nomination for President. The temperance sentiment in the United States has grown steadily for many years past, but it may be doubted if that growth Is due to the Prohibition party. Its violence of attack and denunciation has weakened the party. The last national convention declared that "the revenue policy which makes our government a partner with distillers and brewers and barkeepers is a disgrace to our civilization, an outrage upon humanity and a crime against God." That is a pretty severe arraignment of the government for collecting a large part of its necessary revenues from a product and a business which it cannot" interfere with in the States. The national Prohibition vote was 213,954 In 1SSS and 270,710 in 1592, against 2üS,9H In 1300. THE OLDL.iT POET. England's greatest living poet celebrates his sixty-third birthday to-day. Such a title is usually a difficult one to award; but there are few who will deny it now

to Algernon Charles Swinburne. He has seen his contemporaries pass away one by one, and some were greater and some less than lie. Now he Is alone; his position in English letters is unique, and there 13 none to be mentioned in the same breath with him. Of late years his output has been small, on account of his falling health and strength. Swinburne belonged to a group of dis tinctive singers who reached the height of their popularity in the sixties. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of them, and others were William Morris and John Leicester Warren, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Philip Bourke Marsten ana Oliver Madox Brown. Their influence over contemporary poetry was remarkable; it was easy to catch their mannerisms and tricks, and imitators sprung up on every side. But the greatest of them all was Swinburne. His earliest work was a drama, "The Queen Mother," which nobody read. Then came "Atalanta in Calydon," also a drama, but in the classic form. People read this, and they knew that a new singer had arisen. What could not be expected of a poet who wrote the wonderful music of the Atalanta choruses! Swinburne was hailed as the coming poet, and another volume was eagerly awaited. Imagine, then, the sensation caused by the appearance of "Poems and Ballads." Half England shouted with joy and half Er gland hissed in scorn, but all bought the book. It was, as if some skillful palpter had executed a daring nude and put it on exhibition in a Puritan community. Even those who gasped aud blushed could not forbear a second look. The music was divine the thought, inexcusable. In extenuation of this volume, it may be pleaded that it was a youthful indiscretion. The lyrics contained in it had been written before "Atalanta," and were collected and published In response to a popular demand. Volume after volume of verse has since come from Swinburne's pen and he has never repeated his boyish folly. And yet so lasting an impression did "Poems and Ballads" make that to nine readers out of ten "Swinburne's poems" means something lovely but naughty beautiful in form, but not to be left on the drawing-room table where the children might get it. Posterity will 'give Swinburne Justice; though it will never write his name with those of Tennyson, Browning and Keats. For his strength and his weakness are one; he. is too brilliant, too musical, too delightfully, soothingly smooth. The eye soon tires of the garish hues and turns for rest to sober tints again. One wearies of the breathless gallop that was so exhilarating at first, and longs for a steed which will jog and let him think. For the reader catches himself murmuring the lines for the mere sensuous joy of their sound; their musical swing and melodious alliteration and assurance. After a few pages of this, it is borne in upon the reader that h'e has not the slightest notion of what the poet is talking about. But Swinburne showed what could be done with the English language, and it was a revelation. Under his touch the 'hissing, spitting guttural" that Byron complained of becomes as sonorous as Greek, as soft as Italian. In this he has never had an equal; he is the master of word-music. His tricks and mannerisms make him easily imitated, but the imitations are as easily detected. He may be sneered at by the fastidious, but this in never be denied: that the mighty chorus of English poetry would lack many a phrase of Its dlvinest harmony without Ids added notes. Two destructive floods within a week have demonstrated the Inadequacy of longstanding levees to protect considerable portions of the city. A large amount of property has been destroyed, property values have been reduced, many persons had narrow escapes and an incalculable amount of discomfort has been caused. Who is responsible for this? It is not altogether a satisfactory answer to say that it was due to storms and floods which could not have been foreseen or controlled. If that is true it is also true that they could have been more effectively guarded against. This is particularly true of tho Water Company and the Street Railway Company. Corporations which control public utilities and have valuable franchises from the city are under a moral obligation to adopt preventive measures agalnstthe interruption of the service they owe to the public. They have no right to take anything for granted or to incur any risk that can be guarded against. This is particularly true when, as in the case of the Water Company, the city and thousands of persons have contracts under which they have paid in advance for water. It Is not much satisfaction to be told "we thought our protective measures were adequate, but we find we were mistaken." It will be a great mistake to slmjMy patch up the broken levees, restoring them perhap to their former condition and then awaiting the next great flood. Experience has shown that these levees were mere makeshift affairs and entirely Inadequate. Instead of restoring them by patchwork . the whole ground should be gone over by competent engineers, a better system should be adopted and new levees constructed much better and stronger than

the old ones. Now is the time to make the city floodproofl and render impossible a repetition of the disastrous experience of the last ten days. The action of the4 City Council in cutting the bond ordinance from "$3)0,000 to JliVoO is not likely to meet general approval. The estimates submitted by Mayor Holtzman were reasonable and his argument for the Immediate construction of ifood bridges was convincing: There is but one way to do the necessary bridge building, and that is to do it right. Claptrap affairs have proved very expensive, and a "penny wise and pound foolish" policy ia not what the people had a right to expect from the City Council. Indianapolis is a great and beautiful city, and It is to be hoped that Mayor Holtzman will lind the Council willing to furnish sufTicicnt money to give tho city permanent and satisfactory bridge facilities. MINOR TOPICS.

The spring poet is with us a little belated, but he makes up in grandeur what he lost in time. A Massachusetts-avenue tailor shop displays the following sign: "The springtime is opening And work is bo pin. Our prices is right So aend your work In." An eleven-year-old New York boy has Inherited a fortune of $10,000,000, but he hasn't been told about it lest it worry him.. Tho average adult doesn't worry much about such things; his health remains fairly good if he manages to survive the heart failure. The correspondents say that on the Yahi river native theaters are running and tho people are undisturbed. Naturally; people who are attending a native theater cannot be disturbed by any smaller racket like a battle or a bombardment. An Austrian village named Schweiner has had its name changed to Janoslavicsz, because Schweiner Is German for hog. What the new name means does not appear; it sounds like pickled pigs feet with sauer kraut. "Wild scramble of merry children on the White House lawn." Everybody knows about the annual Easter sport in Washington, but this head-line reveals for the first time that the children scramble theirs. Fashionably dressed women this year will wear a big flower over each ear. Kind of flower not specified, but don't get uneasy it will be the kind that costs just as much as the bonnet whose place it takes. John W. Gates is getting ready to corner the supply of rice. This may annoy some people, but there are a lot of prospective brides who hope that he will get it done before June. A Philadelphia woman has been arrested for changing the figures on a note from $1,000 to $10,000. There is more than one way to raise money on a note If you know how. New York women are planning a clubhouse where they can drink and smoke. The New York men, meanwhile, would do well to organize a Mothers' Congress. Manuel Garcia, the famous vocal teacher, is one hundred years old. He has been a noted man In his day and yet most people think he is a cigar! Justice Brewer, of Chicago, says "There's a bigger man than Shakspearc." And John D. Rockefeller and Clyde Fitch blushed simultaneously. Senator Gorman says the President is a Czar. Then let the poor man alone can't you see that be has a yellow peril to suppress? Jiminez leaves Santo Domingo without arms and penniless. But he will never give up until he Is without feet and breathless. The Maharajah of Jeypore will wear $4,000,000 of jewels to the St. Louis fair. There is no telling who will wear them away. "Emperor William holds the cards" is a European proverb. But, if late rumors are to be trusted, he is about to cash iu. The manuscript of "Paradise Lost" has been sold again. Milton certainly must have made a lot of carbon copies. IHIa'a Book on Rooierelt. Those who are not acquainted with President Roosevelt will be almost certain to say that the praise in Mr. RIls's book is extravagant. Indeed, I thought so myself when-1 came to Mr. Itiis's enumeration of the President's faults, and found nothing except some criticisms of his dancing and singing. It struck me that an impartial portrait painter ought to find more blemishes than that; but his "impulsiveness" hardly seemed objectionable where the impulse was always on the right side and never got us Into difficulties; the fact that he talks a good deal, to which. Indeed, Mr. Riis refers, is hardly undesirable when he talks so well that you would rathör listen to him than to any one else, and would generally prefer it even to talking yourself, which Is, perhaps, the highest standard of acceptability. One who understands the President and the relations he has sustained to Mr. Riis will realize that this book is the inevitable expression of the enthusiasm of a man who loves a friend that Is w.rthy of all love and who is Immensely proud, a. he has a right to be, of every act and trait ani word of his hero. Willlara Dudley Foulke, In fe Outlook. Circumspect Cashier. One of the best-known bank cashiers In this city, who Is up to snuff, regards his time almost as valuable as the stuff in his vaults, and he takes care of the minutes. Occasionally, however, the caller becomes a bore, but this cashier is too cautious to offend even this kind of a nuisance. It is good business as well as good banking to treat people decently. Noticing one of those little metal banks on the desk in front of Mr. Cashier the other day, I i casually asked him if he kept it there for the '.'posit of his loose change. Turning the right side of the thing around to me, I was surprised to see that it was a clock instead of a safe. In that way he manages to keep tab on the time without frequently taking cut his watch, something which Is always calculated to offend even the bore, and this man never intends to be offensive to his callers. It pays to be circuraspect. rittsburg Dispatch. Tho Bryan .Method. If Judge TarkT is an interrogation point, why arc not the other candidates describable in Mr. I'.ryan's succinct way? For Instance: Judge Parker? Grover Cleveland! W. J. IJryan !!! Willy Hearst New York Press. "Why Smoke Aacends. No substance tends to rise; all substances tend downward toward the center of the earth. Why docs smoke rise? Because It is pushed up by the heavier, or cold, air. If wc could manage to render smoke cold before it leaves the chimney it would he Hat cn the groanl New York Press. An Amerloanliini. This will be a sorry uorld if ever the time comes when everybody has been able to find that proverbial room at the top. When that day arrives there will be a strong demand for coalcart drivers and stevedores. Baltimore Amcrlcan. That Cruel Judge. Was it not "cruel and unusual" hence plainly unconstitutional fur that New Haven judge to make Mr. Bryan kit down and keep Uli? New York World.

SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

He Had Studied Medicine. Dr. Coleman, of Columbu. O , has culled some answeis of medical students In certain examinations, which al?o Illustrate the thoroughness of some medical Instruction and the value of state board of examiners For example: Q. Define normal bronchial respiration, and state where It Is heard. A. .Normal bronchial respiration is a sound heard in the broncho while breathing. American Medicine. Is Life Merc Chemical Reaction t Then Dr. Loeb. of the University of Chicago, astounds us all by proving that unfertilized epgs will develop. If Immersed in chemical solution, showing life to be a sort of chemical reaction. Mind has been run down Into the nervous system, and the psychologists are dropping the Word soul, and, lastly, It Is fast becoming apparent tint life is a property of matter in the same write as gravity or magnetism; 1 not Imposed cn matter, but inherent in it. Verily one who indulges In a ride In the car of science is taken through strange courtfries, anl will not believe his senses or his Intuitions er after. Kate Sanborn, in National Magazinf." w Safety Lnmp Device. An Invention hlch is claimed to give absolute safety to oil lamps is being applied to practical uses In England. The device consists of a circular metal bo$, the size varying according to the candle power required. In the box is a deposit of salt, oer which is a layer of cotton waste .specially prepared. Running through the cotton packing is an asbestos wick, practically Indestructible and requiring only occasional attention. Uy Immersing the box In petroleum or paraffin the cotton waste absorbs the required quantity of oil is a few minutes, and the application of a light to the asbestos wick then produces a bright, stc-aiy, white light, better and at a lower cost than the lamp using the oil direct. It is claimed that the "abcstlne" lamp may be inverted, may exhaust itself, may be thrown down or whirled around, but, there be ing no free oil or gas that can be ignited, there can. consequently, be no fire or explosion. De troit Free Press. Disease Caused by Sunlight. While the rajs of the sun possess a stimulating and beneficial effect in disease, and can be used with advantage as a therapeutic agent, yet, according to recent investigations, they also may act injuriously and cause disease. That there is a difference in the therapeutic value between the actinic rays, or those located at tho violet end of the rpectrum, and the red rays was appreciated by Finsen, and the former were used in the treatment of such skin diseases as lupus vulgaris, or tuberculosis of the skin, while the latter were found effective in cases of smallpox. One of the most recent researches In this department Is by Professor Fermi, and is given In a late number of the Archiv fur Hygiene. In these experiments a large number of human subjects were exposed to direct sunlight for varying periods, and in a large percentage of cases it was found that there resulted the following set of symptoms, cephalagia (headache), dryness of the nasal mucosa, snutlling, coryza (cold in the head), pharyngitis, weariness, slight conjunctivitis, dryness of the lips, fever, pseudo-Influenza, constipation, insomnia, epistaxls (nose bleed), and various pains. From this list of symptoms experienced by his patients and from the observed coincidence of certain diseases and meteorological conditions, Professor Fermi concludes that exposure to the sun's rays is a predisposing factor in coryza, influenza, hay fever and epidemic meningitis. Harper's Weekly. The Diseases of Metals. Many metals show symptoms of poisoning, rendering them unfit for use. Thus steel can, by means of small quantities of hydrogen and under certain circumstances, be very seriously affectcdi Let us take two steel bars of the same material, both heated to a red heat, one surrounded by air, the other exposed to the influences of hydrogen or hydrogen gas, chilling both bars in water after heating; we shall find the bar heated In hydrogen to be brittle, whereas the other bar, heated in air, will turn out . to be far suierior. The hydrogen has in this instance acted, like poison upon the heated steel, and very email quantities of such poisonous matter will suffice to produce very violent effects. The disease in question can be radically cured, it only being necessary to anneal the 'poisoned bar, repeating the process by heating exposed to air. The poisoned steel, by being allowed to lie for a long time, will, without any further expert treatment, show signs of improvement to a certain degree, the poison gradually leaving it. A better treatment still is boiling in water or oil, which process may be compared to using warm compresses In the case of human beings. Similar symptoms of poisoning, caused by hydrogen or gases containing hydrogen (as gas for lighting purposes), are apparent in copper when exposed to red heat. Not every kind of copper is susceptible to this poisoning in equal degree. Metals can become diseased from improper treatment, as, for instance, copper and steel when exposed a certain length of time to temperatures exceeding fixed limits. The copper. In consequence, loses a great part of its ductility and bending qualities. In steel the disease can become so virulent that a steel bar so infected can, on falling on the ground, break to pieces. The technical expert calls such disease "overheating." rrof. E. Heyn in Harper's Magazine for April. - To Regulate Plant Growth. Agriculturists have discovered recently that the quality and size of certain plants and vegetables are Improved by several transplantings. In this work, however, it is difficult to take up the roots at such a depth as not to disturb and hinder the growth of the leaves, owing to the great length to which the roots enter the earth. With the aid of a new device this operation can now be performed to much better advantage. The idea is to insert a metallic open-mesh fabric in the earth beneath the seed, the preferred manner of working being to lay a strip of the screen in the bottom of a long trench, covering it several inches deep with earth, and then planting the seed in the ordinary manner. As the tap, or main root, descends from the seed it will strive to pass through the fine mesh of the screen, but will be choked, causing branch roots to spread out laterally above the screen. This regulator is the Idea of Edmund E. Rlslen, of San Saba, Tex. New York Times. Japan's Debt to Us. "What was the greatest service rendered Japan the United States?" I asked Mr. Takahlra, Japanese minister, to the United States. The minister leaned forward in his chair, his fingers nervously tapped the top of his desk. Then he said: "It was the United States, represented by Commodofe Perry, "that opened the Empire of Japan. No other nation but an Anglo-Saxon nation could have done so well so auspiciously for there is no civilization like the Anglo-Saxon civilization." Mr. Takahira took a pen from his desk and, pointing to It, said: "The Japanese believe that the civilization represented by the pen is greater than all the civilization represented by the sword. Education and literature were the keynotes in the awakening of Japan. I. F. Marcosson, in World's Work. Never Heard of Roekcfeller. Little M'ss Carnegie consented to be Interviewed. Somebody asked her what she would do if she had $1.000.000. "I do not comprehend." she replied in French. "Certainly you know what money is," chorused the reporters. "I know it is something my papa has more of than anybody else." she answered. , "More than Mr. Rockefeller?" Who Is he?"inquired Miss Carnegie. Philadelphia Record. Curious Facts About Russian Priests. A white Russian priest must be married, but he cannot marry a second time. If his wife dies he must enter a monastery. Hence the Russians tell many stories of the extraordinary means to which the priests resort in guarding the health of their wive. If the priest's consort sneezes a wild panic ensues in the household. The World's Work. M'arning to the Ladles. In round figures there are 30.000,000 microbes In a plate of Ice cream, and the name of the microbe would drive the most alphabetically notorious Russian to suicide. We merely mention this as a warning to our lady friends, knowing that the imminent heated term has tore tempt-tioas.-AtlaaU Constltutloo.

j . THE HUMORISTS.

Paten A'itae. In the battle Gertrude took The count. She couldn't Get the dock. Puck. liver neen There f Of all sad word.: of tongue or rrn I think the saddest ones are when Ycur gasoline has run its course And small boys chorus Gitta horse. Automobile Magazine. Cid Nothing. Hicks The way Uragley talks of proUdins for his wife he seems to think nothing too god for her. WicksH'm! And the way he actually I rovides for her he seems to think nothing Is srood enough for her.-rhi!afielphla Lessor. Quite So! "A dog that run? under a carriage Is called a carriage dog. is it not?" Certainly." "Well, wh.it would you call a dog that runs under an automobile?" "Why, a dead dog!" Automobile Magazine. An Insurmountable Diflleulty. "That is right. Johnny." raid Miss Dlmpletcn. the rretty teacher, "that Is the figure 6. Now,- if you will write it wrong side up it will be 9. Try it." "Aw," replied little Johnny Boobleby. "I can't stand on my head and write, too!" Collier's Weekly. One More I'nforl nnnte. "Well. Smlke." said the blind man to the beggar, "how's the world using you?" "Rotten." said t?mike. "VWth a brand-new hard-luck story, warranted to bring tears to the eyes of a rhinoceros, all I took In last week was sixty-seven shares of United States Steel common, and a pound, of the certificates of the shipbuilding trust.! There ain't nothln insgin these days." Town Topics. Not Interested In the City. CItiman I hear your church pave that bright young minister a trial last Sunday. Subbubs Y'es. He spoke on "The Heavenly City." CItiman Do you think he Is likely to be called to your church permanently? Subbubs I'm afraid not. His text was rather unfortunate. Y'ou see, the members of the congregation are all suburbanites. Catholic Standard. Dlnz's Great Vitality. "Now that the presidential elections are so soon to come off In Mexico," said a man who has Just returned from a visit to that country, "there is great Interest as to the condition of General Diaz's health. I had occasion to consult the same physician who attends the Diaz family, and he informed me that General Diaz, though he would be seventy-three years of age on Sept. W is still possessed, of wonderful vitality and will undoubtedly be able to fill out the term If he is elected again this June. "I further obtained Information of a most surprising character as to the secret of General Diaz's health. It seems that the old hero is a man of most abstemious habits. . He neither smokes nor drinks, and he is fairly a crank over physical culture. Never a morning passes, they say, that the general, before going to his bath, does not take a ten minutes' course in vigorous calisthenic exercises. Only when he wants to be particularly cordial to a visitor does he allow himself the luxury of a cigar. "For the average Mexican to do without cigars Is real suffering, but General Diaz, I am told, broke himself of the habit by sheer force of will. He has a very happy home life, his second wife being devoted to him, and his only son. a young man of about thirty, is a captain of engineers in the Mexican army. There is no doubt about the general being elected If he will accept it." Washington Times. Lack am Defined in a Word. "Dunwolde filled his pine and puffed meditatively before he answered. Then he said: I don't care what it is called fate, chance, luck, kismet call it anything you want, there's an element of chance that has to do with a man's success. You know, and I know, a score cf men of brainy attainment, good hard-working fellows, who make but a pittance when compared with the wad rolled up by an illiterate contractor who can hardly sign his name. And the careless, slip-shod fellow who goes on his whistling way and doesn't car If school keeps or not, or if the world goes round on its axis once in twenty-four hours or once in forty-eight those fellows get along and make their piles of money. You can put it down as an axiom that success in life is nine-tenths 'luck and the other tenth ability. "You're talking like a freshman, not like a senior," said John. "You're too radical, Arthur. Lots of fellows hit the bull's eye lots don't. And when they don't hit it's their own fault. Their mental eyesight, or their business eyesight, or their hustling eyesight is at faultperhaps all three. All of us get a chance to shoot ence or twice in our lives and it's a case of 'miss and out largely Just as it is in any other tournament." From "The Failure." A "Standard' City. A standard city is one having gravity water works, with head sufficient at all hours to thror over flve-story buildings. The main surply pipe to be In duplicate unless intermediate storage reservoir be provided. Water pipes and mains to be not less than six Inches in diameter in dwelling section and not less than eight Inches (as a minimum) in mercantile section (they Ought .to be ten Inches and twelve Inches); a paid fire department, twelve men to each steamer; not l?ss than two steam fire engines to each square mile of compact portion, or one to each 10.00 population up to tOO.000 populatic-a; hook and ladder trucks,' one to every four steamers; fire alarm telegraph: efficient police; paved, macadamized or other hard streets, the majority of which say GO per cent. are seventy feet or more in width; a good building law, well enforced; no outlying exposures, such as lumber districts, etc., to cause sweeping fires; no unjust municipal and stale taxation, and a previous five-year fire record of not exceeding $3 annual fire loss to each $1,0U0 of Insurance. Insurance PreRs. How Gates Viewed It. When Wall street was excited recently over the reported settlement of the rennrylvania-Gould warfare, a reporter asked John W. Gate whether he ' believed a settlement was likely. "All I can say," said the Western hustler, "Is to tell you a story which accurately descrltf-s how I feel about it. "When I was in Saratoga two years ago I heard of an English chap who went driving one morning in an open carriage. He had on his light white togs and looked very swell. When he got out in the country several miles It started to rain. The Englishman did not know whether to go cn or turn bark. lie saw a countryman plodding along In the distance, so he drove up to Mm. " Now, my man,' said the Britisher, Van you toll me If it is likely to step raining?" The countryman paused a moment, surveyed the outfit In silence, and replied: Wa-al. it always has. "Now." said Mr. Gates, "that Is what I'll say to you." New York Commercial. Country I'state in Xew York City. Clifton Berley. the home'of the late Sir Roderick Cameron. H ore of the few places rf Its kind In the world situated within the limlü of a great city It Is a country place of three hundred acres of wood and meadow belonging to the two sons of the former owner. It Is situated on the shores of Staten Island, and though but a short sail from the busy center of New York city and Wall street. Cliftrtn Berley, with its magnificent trees and undulating stretches of turf and woodlands, can. yet be called a representative country place. The noise and hum of civilization, the dust of the elevated and the maddening clang of the cable cars, all seem so far away that one might almost be In another world; and yet. officially speaking, one is a3 much within the bourtds of Greater New York as If standing on the Brooklyn bridge or on the corner of Twenty-third street. Country Life. Chan ice of Venue for narton, Senator Burton may be pardoned for desiring a new trial with change of venue to the court that let Senator Dietrich cX-Pittsburg Dlajatch.

STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.

A Four-Year-Old "Woman. The frln1s cf Miss Helle Hsgner. x-lal sec tary to Mrs. Rnw.-eit. te'.l with great glee' story rf her eajly ehildhood. When she wa f. ur years eld she broke om rule of rental discipline and was turned over to hT father for correct kn. Belle.' said hr father. "I am grieved to tay that I shall te oLMkM to spank you." Father," the future social secretary replied, "you would not strike a woman, would yt-u? New York World. Little Difference. Michael Davltt. during his recent visit to America, talked one day to a reporter about the cheerful:ien of the Irl.-h character. . "The very poorest anion; us don't decponl." he said. "No man's condition U so wretched but he can crack a Joke atout It. "There was a i-orr oil peat cutter one day w hom the parish pi lebt Invited to his houM t dinner. " 'Come in. Pat. he sali. 'It ln't much cf a dinner only beef and boer and potatoes but, indeed, you're very welcome to It.

" 'Sure, ycur reverer.ee.' snll the old fell-w, his eyes twinkling. "I'd have you make n apologies about the d'.rier. It's the same as I'd be getting at hon.e. ba'rrin the boef and beer.' " Cleveland Plain Dealer. Costly Aecldcnt to a Ply. An accident to a common house fly has caused the employment cf an expert accountant for a period of seven months In the offices of a prominent grain company in the Chamber of Commerce. For months this accountant has teert seeking to find an error of an even hundred dollars on the books of the ccmprny. He went over v the books hundreds of times, but found no error. Last week be paused .suddenly at an Item of $110. 111. pencil rented on the figure 1. when it suddenly broke In two and slid down the page-. It turned out that the supposed figure "I" was a fly leg, which had become pasted In front of th making the item to all apiearance $140. The fly had undoubtedly been Jammed In thbook when It was clo.-ed and one of the legs ha-1 adhered to the page In su:h a v. ay as to baffl the expert. St. Paul Dispatch. Got rinrk nt Vandex-btlt. When George Westlnghouse. as a young Inventor, was trying to interest capitalists In his f automatic brake, the device which now plays so Important a part In the operation of ratlroad. trains, he wrote a letter to Commodore Cornelius Yanderbilt. president ' of the New Yorlc Central Railroad Company, carefully explaining the details of the invention. Very promptly his letter eame back to him. Indorsed in big. scrawl- p Ing letters. In the hand of Commodore Yanderbilt: "I have no time to waste on fools." Afterward, when the Pennsylvania Rallroat had taken up the automatic brake and It wss proving very successful. Commodore Yanderbilt sent young Mr. Westinghouse a request to call on him. The Inventor returned the letter. Indorsed on the bottom as follows: 'I have no tlm to waste on fools." Success. Why He Didn't Go to Confesalon. In Washington Dr. Depew often attends rellSlou9 services at one of the Roman CatholiJ churches. The other morning on Pennsylvania avenue, he met Bourke Cockran. Hailing th representative, he invited him to co to confes- . sional, adding. Jocularly, "You know you need ; it." "Very like, very like." replied Cockran; "hut I'd be afraid to go to the priest who had Just shrived you, Depew. His ghostly capabilities would be pretty well exhausted" After a laugh Dr. Depew -aid It reminded him of the Irishman when his priest urged him to go to confession. "I know I ought, your rlv'rence, but I'm afeari to go among me enemies." , "But. Mike," resionded the rriest. "our blessed Lord went among His enemies." "Yis. your rlv'rence. True for ye. He did. Anl they didn't do a thing to 111m. did theyr' Nevr York Mail.

The Value of Old Men. America is the youn? man's country, we are s told, because so many of the conspicuous figures among us are young men. The thing is tall conventionally, as t there were some moral virtue In being young; as if, too. the greatest tragedy in American history was not the death som forty years ago of half a million men in'th prime cf life, which deprived our generations ct Its wisest counselors. Experience is the only school which gives a degree honored of all men. and a man of three-sccre, with the vigor of llf still In him, should be the most useful citizen of a community. The awful catastrophe at Baltimore furnlshe-i a splendid Instance. The conflagration had been raging for twelve hours. Chief Horton, of th 1 fire department, had been disabled by a live wire. The fighters were without a head. Then William C. McAfee, veteran fire chle., retired for age an accounted an old man, offered his services to the mayor. They were accepted. Donnlug hi oilskin and grabbing his trumpet the old chief went into action. At once the men knew they had a leader. They needed one. The fire was roaring down to the river bank where were soma great rosin works filled with turpentine. And as they went, so must go East Baltimore. "There will be hell to pay If the fire gets into that rosin," yelled McAfee through his trumpet. "If enough of you men will follow me, we'll fo In there and dump the whole outfit In the bay." They followed the leader and they saved East Baltimore. Leslie's Monthly. Fascination of CIrcns Life. A man who is connected with the circus was sneaking the other day about the fascination of the life. "Few people who have tried ths circus like any other life." he said. "Not long ago a young man atked for a poldh. I gavs. him seme work among the animals, and. af-1 though he was both cultured and refined, hs seemed to find a great pleasure in minglln with the performers and being ameng the animals. After awhile h grew ery ill and asked to be sent home. His home was lr. Chicago, anfl when he went off I never-expected to see him again. Some weeks later I received a letter from his father, telling me his son's history. Ills roving tendencies had been a source of sorrow to the family, and in the letter the fathef begged me not to give his son employment again, as he had a good opening for him in his own oince, where there were excellent pnwr0- Inquiry revealed the fact that the father was wealthy man. I had scarcely answered th father's letter when one came from the son. which, although I answered It In a discouraging way. brought him on to the East again, and to-day he Is still with us. eking out a miserable existence as a keeper of wild animals. Philadelphia Record. CnuslnR Iron to Strlra. Elisha required a stick to make the ax of Iron iwl.-i. We have never learned the properties of that stick. But there Is a pretty trick of causing a piece of Iron to swim of Its own accord. Let it b a half-Inch thick, say. and two Inches square, or have it round, and perfectly smoots! rn rr M. at 1nt Place the SHOOl n Bid against the perfectly smooth, square end of an open glass tube, say, an inch and a t alf In diameter, and hold It there until it and the tub are lowered Into a vessel of water to a depth greater than about eight times the thickness of the Iron. Remove the hand and the iron will remain in its place, the upward pressure of the water preventing its sinking. This Is the prin ciple of the iron ship. New York Tress. Law and Iluslness. I asked one of Folk's confessed boodle, onee, whether. If he had It all to do over again, he would boodle again. "Yes." he -aid. thoughtfully, "but I would tudy law." "Why?" 1 asked. "So as I could take trm instead o bribes," he said, without hunir. In other words, he saw. as Bryan saw. and Stone and the commercial world see. that what is txwlling In politics is business in the practice of tre law. And the practice of law is business. Lincoln Steffens, in April McClure'a. Not neneflelal to Ilryan. Neither the political, nor the personal, nor again the legal repu?tion of the Boy Orator of the Platte has benefited by his recent excurtloa into the law courts. The will he drew doe n't held water; he trUd to evade the law by resorfS to a subterfuge; and he valued at leg than 15.. OK) tho reputation for disinterestedness that ft ill attached to him In some minds. Nor does ths) Hon. WillUra J. Bryan even know hoy to to. tuve la tourt eX Janice. Xew York Sua.

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