Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 301, Hammond, Lake County, 10 June 1907 — Page 4

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. Monday, Juna 10, 1907.

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Considering l.ls surroundings, Bishop Charles I'. Ajiderson of tho Episcopal diocese of Chicago, said some daring things in his convocation sermon at the University of Chicago yesterday. For one thing, he said, that twentieth century progress was crushing out individualism. lie was as unsparing of the combinations of wealth, as he was of the combinations of labor as a curse, hading to this stifling of individualism. He talked learnedly and forcefully of the importance of the unit in business and society, but ho pointed rather vaguely to the way along which this unit could assert itself. Perhaps the Bishop was oblivious of his environment. The trend of his remarks and his surroundings were incongruous speaking as he was in a stately hall of a stately university, which in itself is one of tho by-products of tho most tremendous individuality killer in the whole world. The University of Chicago is supported largely by John D. Rockefeller's bounty and somewhat by the bounty of other capitalists. The support it receives from its own student body is a mere drop in the bucket. John D. Rockefeller is educating tho students in his unquestionably great university, that they may be better workmen to enter his and other trust's employ. The vast majority of the men and women who study within the walls of this stupendous institution of learning, will not fill the so-called higher walks of life. They will eventually find their level with the masses. They will know something about astronomy and something about psychology and something about a whole lot of other things that'are desirable to know something about, but only a very few of them will find a position in which any individuality

their education may have developed in .them, may be used in their own behalf. Positions In which individuality la of any value to its possessor, are few and far between in these piping days of peace. The idea then resolves Itself into this. Rockefeller and the University of Chicago are educating a lot of men to become clerks of perhaps a higher order than they might have been without their college training, but the product of the schools will not earn any moro money because of their superiority. That is what the University of Chicago is doing for individuality, cultivating men's tastes for what is good in life, but in no wise fitting them for the gratification of these tastes. It and all the colleges in creation as they are at present conducted could not stem the tide of oppression of the unit that John D. Rockefeller and Unionism are doing to discourage it. As an example of what tho spirit breathed by combination breeds, take machinery for example, lien of a mechanical turn all admit that the progress in invention in machinery has been checked. A workman invents some useful appliance. He must sell or dispose of It to a corporation, for in no other -way can he manufacture or apply it. Where does his individuality enter into the matter, further than in tho invention of the appliance itself? If there was a chance for him to manufacture and put his invention on the market himself, he would go on Improving it and developing new ideas. As it is, ho is satisfied with the price paid for the patent outright or in his royalties. The incident is closed so far as he is concerned. A university education would not, on the part of tho inventor, overcome that tendency of the present time, "I have done my part. Now let the other fellow do the rest." THERE is a lot of things about this high finance that the simple mind cannot grasp. A few weeks ago Thomas F. Ryan was reported to have retired from the arena. He had, it was said, arrived at the goal of his ambition, the possession of $100,000,000. and was quito content to quit and spend the remainder of his days on the home place in Virginia. Now it is reported that he is over in Europe trying to borrow money to meet his traction obligations. WILBUR GLEN VOLIVA, the assumptive successor of John Alexander Dowle, is entitled to the job. He says that by next Thursday he will "either be in jail or out of it." That it Is the gift of prophecy from which there is no getting away. IT SFEAKS well for the patriotism of this country when a man who can make J100.000 a year as a corporation lawyer, is willing to accept the presidency at a salary half that much. CHARLES M. HILL, said to be the inventor of the self-binder, died yesterday ia the insane hospital at Indianapolis, lie left an enduring monument in the harvester trust. THE LABORER is getting twice as much for his hire than he got ten years ago, but he will be just as llatly broke when values recede to a normal basis.

WITH THE EDITORS People Talked About. The quietude with which Richard Croker lias managed his domestic affairs ought to set some other prominent New Yorkers thinking. Washington Star. The fact that Vice President Fairbanks "warmed up" to the Indianapolis occasion looks somewhat hopeful for the weather during the rest of the summer. The beauties of tho English language are again evident in the case of that western man who had skipped with the town funds and was described as "six feet tn II and $lh000 short." Washington Post. If Abe Hummel is called to testify in all the cases he knows something about b.e will not have to spend lnu:h time in prison. Washington Star. "Vice President Fairbanks is a lover of amateur theatricals." says an Indiana contemporary. If that be so. he 'must take positive delight in presiding over some sessions of the United States senate. Washington Herald. No wonder Kurokl was afTected by the sight of blood in' the Chicago packing houses. The distinguished Japanese general didn't have a chance to become accustomed to it in the recent war with Russia. The blooming bleeding was all on 'tother side. St. Louis Republic. Just before sailing for Europe the

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OF THE UNIT. other day Dr. Parkhurst said: "I have nothing to say about anything or any body." What a quiet world this would be if Tom Lawson, W. J. Bryan and a few others were to be suddenly stricken in the same way. Washington Post. Collier's Weekly has wrecked the loghouse in which Vice President Fairbanks was born and has battered the poor boy and struggling student stories until there is not much left of the Fairbanks autobiography except a vaulting ambition with a broken pole. Duluth News-Tribune. In passing an ordinance requiring $250 liquor license fee. Fort Wayne would merely be in line with other progressive cities of the state. It appears to be the almost universal opinion in the state that the maximum fee is none too large, and it is. therefore, generally in force. In the following cities of Indiana the fee is $250: Indianapolis. Evansville, Terre Haute, Decatur,' Columbus. Hartford City, Montpeiier, Lebanon, I.ogansport. Brazil. Augurn, Muncie, Elkhart, Goshen, Conersville. Marion, Huntington, Sey:nour, Rensselaer. Bedford, Warsaw, Bloomington. Crawfordsville, KendalviHe. Valparaiso, Rushvilie, Anderson, Wabash and Richmond. In Plymouth tho fee is $175, in Hammond and Jef-ft-rsonville it is $150, and In South Bend and Fort Wayne it is $100. Thus it will be seen that Fort Wayne is practically in a class by herself. With hardly a noteworthy exception the other cities of Indiana exact the $250 license fee and would make it even higher did the law allow them to do so. Fort Wayne News. An advertisement 1b THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES par tor Itself before the lsauo that contains It reaches onethird of ths laden.

SUMM ARIES 21 SPORT GIL

STANDING OF THE CLUBS. AT10.AL LEAGUE. Club. W. L. Pet. Chicago 35 O .795 New York it 14 .674 Philadelphia 2S 17 .605 Pittsburg 21 18 .538 Boston 17 26 .395 Cincinnati 17 27 .36 Brooklyn 15 2S .349 .St. Louis 13 34 .277 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Club. W. L. Pet. t hlingo 25 15 .059 Cleveland 29 16 .644 I'etroit 24 16 .600 Philadelphia 23 20 .535 New York 19 21 .47 5 St. Louis IS 27 .400 Washington 14 2G .350 Boston 14 Zi .326 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Club. W. U Pet. Columbus 2S 16 .636 Minneapolis 23 19 .543 Kansas City 21 20 .512 Indianapolis 25 24 .510 Toledo 22 22 .500 Milwaukee 21 24 .467 Louisville IS 24 .429 St. Paul 19 23 .404 CENTRAL LEAGUE. Club. W. L. Pet. Wheeling 20 15 .571 Evansville 21 16 .568 Springfield 20 16 .556 Canton 18 15 .545 South Bend 17 IS .4fc6 Pay ton 17 20 .459 Grand Rapids 16 21 .432 Terre Haute 14 22 .389 THREE EYE LEAGUE. Club. W. L. Pet. Rock Island 24 11 .6S6 Decatur 22 12 .647 Springfield 19 13 .594 Peoria IS 15 .545 Cedar Rapids 19 16 .543 Clinton 17 IS .486 Bloomington 10 20 .333 Dubuque 5 29 .147 WESTERN LEAGUE. Club. W. L. Pet. Des Moines 24 16 .600 Omaha 26 20 .565 Lincoln 23 19 .548 Denver 20 17 .541 Sioux City 19 22 .463 Puc-blo 13 31 .295 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. NATIONAL I.EAGl'E. Chicago, 4; Philaelphia, 2. New York, 3; St. Louis, 0. Brooklyn, 3; Cincinnati, 1. (First game). Cincinnati, 11; Brooklyn, 2. (Second game). AMERI C A N ASSOCIATION. Columbus, 5; Minneapolis, 4. Indianapolis, 5; Milwaukee, 2. Louisville, S; Kansas City, 5. Toledo, 13; St. Paul. 4. THREE EVE LEAGUE. Hock Island, 4; Peoria, 3. Bloomington, 6; Clinton, 0. Decatur, 4; Cedar Rapids, 3. Springfield, 3; Dubuque, 0. CENTRAL LEAGUE. South Bend, 1; Springfield, 0. Dayton, 6; Grand Rapids, 3. Canton, 2; Terre Haute, 1. Evansville, 5; Wheeling, 1. Omaha, 3; Denver, 2. Des Moines, 0; Lincoln, 0. (Fivo in nings rain). Pueblo-Sioux City rain. GAMES TODAY. Philadelphia at Chicago. Brooklyn at Pittsburg. New York at St. Louis. Boston at Cincinnati. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Chicago at Washington. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Detroit at New York. Cleveland at Boston. The Naps are rejolcin over the downfall of tho Sox on the eastern trip and are already boasting of their chances, and King Nap stated that it would he but a few days now before tho Cleveland sluggers would bo in first position. It is true that the Cleveland team has made a wonderful showing on the eastern trip and have been cleaning up their opponents with great ease. Poor old Grif felt their sting at New York, and his team is practically out of the running now, because of the poor material doing box honors. The Sox surely had a Jonah week, losing three games in succession, the two with the crippled Athletics and one with Washington on Saturday. However, the twirling artists of tlie Sox are .real game stickers and will be out this week for blood and unless luck breaks badly they will hold the top of the heap. It has been shown so far that Cleveland and Detroit will be the l ad men to deal with unless, perchance, Griffith's bunch comes to light later on or the Boston Americans get their swing, but there seems to be little chance of either team coming to the front. The Cubs are finding things altogether too easy and are trimming everything that comes along regularly. In fact, the Chicago bunch are so far ahead of other teams In class that it is likely to be a runaway race and the fans are already losing interest in the National league race. The Phillies blew into town yesterday and were trimmed by a score of 4 to 2. although they got one more hit than did the home team. Lundgren was in the box and only in one inning did he show any signs of going up in the air. In every inning the visitors got a man on base, but only in the eighth, when several passes and a couple of sacrifices made it look as though there would be something doing, but Lundy I settled down and it was all over in a ! few moments. Chick Fraser is likely to pitch this afternoon against Pittinger or Corridon for the Phillies. The New Y'ork horsemen and the pony followers all over the country are looking forward to the Suburban handicap, which is only ten days away. From the road now it looks as though there would be about sixteen starters in the event, although there are sixty horses eligible. The class of the horses that are liable to start is ex cellent, however, and barring accident, i etc., which will throw out some of the i 3 . i . . . , , . feUUU UUCa, LIIO BUOU1U UO OeaUl). Burgomaster, thee tampion last year, J

HAMMOND BALL TEAM

UIUC THE nflv iiu mil uni Game With Chicago Heights Outfit a Victory for Locals. The baseball game yesterday at Hub bard's park between Hammond and the Chicago Heights team resulted In a vic tory for the locals by a score of 10 to Chicago Heights getting their lone run In the last of the lourta. The weather man was kind for the first time this season and a large crowd, numbering nearly 1,000 people, turned out for the game, which started at 3 o'clock. Lederer and McAleer, the battery for Chicago Heights, did not work up to their usual standard, with the result that several of Hammond's runs were made thorugh carelessness of the bat tery. In the last of the third inning with two men out and two strikes on him. Christie, the new first baseman from South Chicago, swatted the ball for a two bagger and before Lederer could get back his control, the locals made three runs. In the fourth Hammond annexed two more. In the fifth two more and the other three runs came in during the seventh and eighth innings. McMahon Not Up to Standard. McMahon was in the box for the lo cals but did not work up to his usual standard, although he pulled out of some awful holes when the spectators expected to see several runs chalked up for the Heights. A large bunch of rooters accompani ed the team from Chicago Heights, but after Hammond had scored seven runs thev lost heart and hardly a sound came from their quarter of the field. Next Sunday the team will go to Chicago Heights. The preliminary game yesterday be tween the Duffys of Chicago and the Joe Long Colts resulted in a victory for the Colts, score 4-5. will this year face the Keene stable entry, and Superman and Montgomery will make the running all that is required for the big Hamburg son, who carries a lot more weight. There will be a novel long distance walking contest In the near future. Henry Schmehl will leave Chicago on a hike to Portland. Me., and at the same hour Edward Payson Weston, the New York ped, will start from Portland and wane to Chicago. The contest is not a dual one, but will be looked upon as a race between the two men. Weston figures the trip about thirty days and Schmehl says that he can do better than that. The Pullman football team won the championship yesterday in a rough contest with Coal City, whom they de feated by a score of 2 to 1. The match took place at the Pullman driving park and was witnessed by a big audience of fans. The home team outplayed and out generaled the Coal City bunch and the game was replete with stirring incidents. The teams play again next Sunday in Chicago for the Spalding trophy. Big Bill Dineen, the former star twlrler of the Boston Americans, will now wear a St. Louis uniform. He was sent alone by President Taylor at his own request. Knight, the third base man was tried out at Boston last Saturday in Jimmy Collin's place and made a great hit, playing like a star and Collins did equally as well at Philadelphia, where he won the game ! OV niS playing, dusiuu ia Bvrn..wB . of the old material and substituting younger men. A good move. Saturday's meet at Marshall field was the best one pulled off this sea son and the records of several events went by the board. Mercersburg came on from the east and walked away aMth the meet, and made the other teams look like selling platers. Many of the treo boys will enter Chicago university next fall. The Giants found some one they could trim at last and yesterday St. Louis went down to defeat by a score of 2 to 0. McGinnitV was the man to do the trick and evidently found his back into shaoe after the Chi cago Cubs were out of sight. The bouts next Friday evening at Chieasro Heiehts promise to be good ones and a big crowd will leave Ham mond and South Chicago In automo biles for the meeting. The boys en tered are training hard and will put up lively six and ten round goes. William J. Davis of 9030 Buffalo aver,a south rhiraeo. has resigned his job as engineer at the Steel "compani on win c-o to San Francisco this week to train Bill Squires for his fu ture matches. Beware of 0intment3 for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange th whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured Jby F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of,the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is takea internally and made in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75o per hnttl A I. TI , ,. nitl, fnr ...,11 I u&o iiaii a 4. euiuj --

Mother Goose. The most popular children's boot ever written was "Mother Goose's Melodiea." Mrs. Goose, or Mother Goose, as she -was familiarly called, was tho mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet, a Eoston printer early in the century. When his first child was born his mother-in-law devoted all her attention to the baby and. It Is said, greatly annoyed Fleet by her persistent and not particularly musical chanting of the old English ditties she had heard in her childhood. The idea occurred to Fleet of writing down these songs and pub

lishing them in book form. The oldest extant copy bears the date of 1719. The price marked on the title page was "two coppers." This account of the origin of Mother Goose is discred ited by some critics, who declare that in 1C97 Ferrault published "Contes de ma Mere 1'Oye," or "Stories of Mother Goose." The name Mother Goose was familiar in French folklore, being used by writers of this literature over a century before the time of Perrault, The Status of a Meteorite. A meteorite fell on a Vermont farm In 1S9C. It was a valuable meteorite. and the landlord, at once stepped up and claimed it. "All minerals and metals on the land belong to me," he said. "That's in the lease." But the tenant demurred. "This me teorite," he said, "wasn't on the farm, you must remember, when the lease was drawn up." The landlord perceived the Justice of that claim. He thought a moment. Then he said decisively, "I claim her as flying game." But the tenant was ready for him. "She's got neither wings nor feathers," he said. "Therefore, a3 ground game, she's mine." They continued their argument, and in the heat of it a revenue officer, arriving with a truck, proceeded to put the meteorite aboard. "I claim her for the government," he said, "as an article Introduced into the country without payment of duty." A Hotel Experience. One fashionable hotel on Fifth ave nue refuses to give any receipt for Jewelry deposited In its safe or hold Itself responsible for a greater amount than $2r0. Its explanation of this rule is based on an experience which seems excuse enough. Two guests of the hotel kept their valuables and money In the safe. They left them there when they went abroad, sometimes to stay for six months. Once the wife came back alone and drew out all the money and valuables. As she had of ten done so before the clerks gave the box to her as a matter of course. It was not until her husband had return ed and wanted the same valuables that the hotel knew of their divorce. The husband brought suit and recovered all he claimed. Since that result of Its confidence In its guests the hotel has limited its responsibility to $250. New York Sun. A Cholera Belt. "The cholera belt," said a pale AngloIndian, "is not an Imaginary girdle, like your pie belt, but a real girdle. which every foreign resident of India wears day and night. In winter the belt is made of heavy wool. In the summer It is made of light wool. It is never taken on. Even when you are sleeping in a temperature of 103 de grees, tossing and moaning and per spiring, despite the punkah that fans you from above, you still keep on your cholera belt, no matter what else you shed. Every Anglo-Indian has a couple of dozen cholera belts. They are said to prevent cholera, and I have no doubt they do so. At any rate, I never heard of any wearer of a cholera belt whom cholera ever seized upon." The Light That Failed. It was by an accident that Mr. Kip ling got his famous title, "The Light That Failed." He had almost decided to call the novel "The Failure." al though he was dissatisfied with this. One evening as he was sitting in his study reading by lamplight the light went suddenly down almost failed, in fact. In a second Kipling Jumped up, exclaiming excitedly, "By Jove, I've got it!" Pointing to the lamp, he said. 'The Light That Failed." London Standard. The Man Fish. Mathew Buchinger, mentioned In old English wonder books as the "man fish," was the most remarkable monstrosity of his time. lie had neither hands, arms, feet nor legs. From his shoulders grew two finlike excrescences, and along his back there were sev eral rows of scales. He had the lidless eyes characteristic of the fish species and a Queer puckered mouth and no ears. The Two Garrlcks. George Garrick, brother of the cele brated David, was the latter's most devoted slave and laborious pack horse. On coming behind the scene he usually Inquired, "Has David wanted me?" It being asked once how George came to die so soon after the demise of his fa mous brother, a wag replied. "David wanted him." Love and Dyspepsia. Young Wife (sobbing) I am afraid. Karl, you have forgotten what the Herr Pastor said so beautifully at our wedding how love believes anything, suffers anything Young Husband Oh, no; I haven't, but I didn't hear him say that love can eat anything. Fliegende Blatter. Self Made Man. A rich financier said to one of our confreres who has more wit than wealth. "When I began business, sir, I had nothing." "But those with whom you did business had something." Independance Roumain

Copyright, 1307, by E. C. Parce'.ls. While I was in hospital at Madras a nindoo sailor who had a cot next to mine was visited by a sea captain with whom he had served. I overheard much of their conversation. The Hindoo finally died. The name "of the captain was Dralues. A few weeks later people were calling him Dreams. Ho-was a good sailor, but poor in pocket. The native had told him a secret before he died. Tho father of the dying native had been a sepoy in the great mutloy, and when the rebellion had been stamped out he had to go Into hidiug and live his last days In the jungle. When it became apparent that the English would conquer, a movo was made by all the wealthy Hindoos to save their fortunes. The father was attached to the force of the nabob of Mysore and with certain others removed treasure to the amount of a million dollars from that province to the coast and thence by sailing craft to one of the Laccadives. There it was buried. The fa ther could not tell the sou what par ticular Island it was, nor did he know whether the treasure was recovered after the war. He was wounded in battle soon after his return to the coast, and when peace came he became a fugitive to save himself. The treas ure was taken ashore at night and de posited In a cave. That was the story told to the son, and that was the son who told it to the captain. The story was over twenty years old then. You will ask why the son hadn't made a try for the treasure. In the first place, for twenty years after the war the English were very vigilant about such things, but claimed a big share of whatever the natives found. Again, the son was poor lu pocket and distrustful of his fellow men. If he had had the money to fit out an expedition, he would have had to take five or six persons Into his confidence, and the chance of his being murdered and despoiled was good indeed. Had he gone to the owner of any craft and offered half he would have been laughed at. He had simply come to the conclusion that tho island was one of the Laccadive group, and he could not say that the treasure had not been removed years before. He simply hung on to his secret and waited, and he was waiting yet when he was stabbed in a street brawl. Captain Dralnes at once determined to try for the treasure. He had to have money, and he had to have men and in this way it came to be known that he was off after a million. No one knew whither he was bound, but everywhere he showed up be was ridiculed and laughed at Before he left port he was spoken of as Captain Dreams. He resigned from his ship, chartered a native craft and selected a crew to be depended on. He fitted tho craft to fight as well as to sail, and ho got away from Madras in the night and was out of sight of the coast next morning. He had his all in the enter Drise. and it was a case of make or break with him. The run down to the crouD was made, but that was only tbe beginning. Some of the islands are only sand bars or rocky islets, while others are four or five miles in circumrerence anu heavily wooded. They had to be searched In rotation. The craft would be anchored in the channel between two islands while parties landed on either to search for a cave. This searching took up lots of time. At the end of three mouths only eight of tbe Islands had been explored, and the men were ready for mutiny. The pro visions were gone, and a hundred dif ferent disappointments had soured the tempers of the men. They agreed to search the ninth island, but would go no farther. If nothing was found there, the captain must head for the coast, even if he had to go in chains Fortune stands bv some men In strange ways. Half the Island hat been explored when there came a great gale, and a French Bhip that had been dismasted and abandoned at sea came driving in. She furnished plenty of pro visions, and it was seen that the salvage of her cargo would give every man a good thing, treasure or no treasure. The next day after the wreck drove ashore Captain Dreams set out to gather some wild fruit. In their search the men had discovered no animals of any sort. The captain had not gone forty rods when a goat sprang out of the bushes and raced away. He turned at a tangent to follow her and ten minutes later found himself at the base of a rocky cliff with a cave entrance five feet above the ground. It was the nabob's treasure house, and the treasure was there. He had a portion of it with him when he returned to the men. Just what the treasure amounted to in dollars and cents no one outside of the treasure party ever learned, but the cargo taken from the wreck sold for $40,000 at the Portuguese port of Goa. Captain Dreams was ready to sail away and only waiting for the tide when a native craft with a crew of thirty fishermen and shell gatherers appeared and undertook to despoil him. But for his muskets they would have aone so, and his craft would never have been heard of more. In the fight he inflicted a loss of five men killed and sailed triumphantly away. The English government heard of his find and tried to bring him to the mark, but the Portuguese governor refused to deliver him up, and after a year he sailed for France and may be living in that country today. Ninety-nine of the hunts for buried treasure have turned out costly disappointments, but this was an exception. The treasure wa3 I there, and it was secured. M. QUAD.

An Abrupt Finalo. Joaquin Miller had Just won recoraiJ

tlon as the poet of the Sierra and waa worting on a paper la Oresron. H had been contributing verses and Khar stories and had just begun a tale about the soldiers on the frontier who sof. fered with scurvy. The editor wanted the scurvy story for the morning publication, but Joaquin Miller could not concentrate upon his work. His mind leaped to the anticipated joy of a great social function occurring that evening, for at this time he was a social lion! However, he had proceeded ia his story up to the point of the conditional cure for the disease whore all the soldiers suffering with scurvy had boon buried, with only their head exposed to view. The editor was yelling "Copy!" The poet's mind refused t: work. He could not finish the tale, leaving his soldier la such a plight. Suddenly an inspiration came to him. Ho grabbed hit pencil and wrote rapidly the following words: "And a she wolf came along and ate off all their heads." Then he made a bee line for tbe door and was not seea again until the next d.iy. His story; was not published. A Cnoie of Divorce. "What is tbe inost frequent cause ob divorce?" the lawyer was asked. "It is nearly incredible," he Bald, "but a thing that causes divorce oftener than you'd imagine 1$ married people's quarreling over their right to open one another's letters. The husband will claim that he is entitled to open tho wife's mail. The wife will claim that she is entitlod to open the husband's. In the letters of neither will there be anythlug of u private or compromising naiure, but nevertheless they both want to get their mail In violate it enrages them to have It opened and road. Quarrels over thia letter opening question vex, I suppose, 00 per cent of married couples. Of this IX) per cent a distressingly largo proportion go on from bad to worse till they wind up in tho divorce court. So, young man, when you come to marry, leave your wife's mall alone, no matter how she may pry Into yours." New York Press. Quick Wit SaTed His Life. "The strangest and most thrilling piece of swordsmanship I ever saw," said the fencing master, "was In Vermont. I was spending the autumn la a mountainous part of the state, and there was a military encampment near my hotel. One morning an officer's horse started to bolt with the man during parade and made at breakneck speed toward a precipice. The ofncer tried to 6top the horse, tried to turn his head no use. On dashed tho frantic animal straight for the abyss. We all held our breaths. In another Instant we expected to see horse and rider go over the cliff. But the officer when within fifty feet of the edg drew his sword and plunged It twice deep into the horse. The horse stag gered, slowed, keeled over, dying. Tha man had sacrificed the animal's life t save his own." Ages In the Animal Kingdom. A great variance as to length of Ufa appears among different animals. Soma Insects live for only a few hours, whil fish, elephants and turtles are fre quently centenarians. The averagai life of the mosquito Is three days Toads usually live to the age of about; fifteen years, while carp have beeir known to reach 150. Chickens llvm from twelve to fifteen years, dogs to( the age of ten and occasionally fifteen and parrots to extreme age. These birds have been known to pass tha age of 200 years. Turtles are also frequently centenarians, as are storks, and elephants are said to reach the age of 300 years. Whales have been known to live for 400 years. Postage Stamps. The largest postage stamp ever issued was a five cent stamp of tbe United States Intended for newspaper postage. It was 4 by 2 Inches in size. The smallest postage stamp, on the other hand, was a twenty-five pfennig stamp of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Issued in 1S5G. It was one-fourth tha size of an ordinary postage stamp. Incidentally it has been calculated that about 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps have been issued by the various countries of the earth. Fate. A strange comedy and tragedy wasi woven into the lives of Ibsen and BJornson. As young men they were great friends; then politics flung them apart; they quarreled and never met for years and years. Strange fate brought the children of these two great writers together, and Bjornson's daughter married Ibsen's only child. The fathers met after a quarter of a century of separation at the wedding of their children. Age and Tears. The man of forty must not think himself old. He is only beginning really to live. A man's usefulness Is gone only when he ceases to grow. Age la not a matter of increasing years so, much as of waning enthusiasm. Milwaukee Journal. Mens ores. Teacher Now, you have all cradled about liquid measure, and I think yon know It Johnny, you may now tell me what measure treats of inches, feet audi rards. Johnny Tape measure, teacher., The Lobsters. "Well." said the first lobster la s. bored tone, "what are you going to do now?" "Get dressed for dinner," the seconri lobster answerd, yawning. A present joy Is worth a thousand past sorrows or future tips. Stat Journal.

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