Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 18, Hammond, Lake County, 9 July 1907 — Page 4

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The' report that Deputy Food Inspector Tucker has submitted to the state health authorities at Indianapolis and the pending cases based on the same, although not particularly alarming, is not calculated to strengthen the. Hammond householder's faith in the food he is given to cut. It is not at all probables that worse, conditions prevail here than in any other part of the state. Tho ill effects of what Mr. Tucker has discovered are not (strikingly apparent. The sickness and death rate in Hammond and vicinity is not abnormally high. This assertion is mads without immediate reference to the figures. Observing residents and visitors have noted for some time the careless handling of foodstuffs in Hammond and fungus settlements that have come with tho growth of tho Calumet region as an industrial center. They had not read tho rules and regulations of the statu department of health, but they knew that if such rules and regulations existed they were a dead letter as far as the dealers in and handlers of provisions were concerned. By obeying the senso of smell they could track tho putrid beef, and lly-blown veal, and the rancid butter and the formaldehyded milk to its source. They could watch where tho (lies were thickest and find tho emporium of the baker, and the pastry cook, and the ico cream vendor. They could see carcasses of veal, mutton and hogs and quarters of beef playing tho silent role of catch-basin for tho 111th of the streets. They could see tho "marked down" eggs and tho blue legged chickens in tho windows. They could see over-ripe tomato and the mildewed cabbages. Uut tho observing citizens did not have to eat those things, and as the poople who had to cat them seethed to wax fat on them, the observing citizens kept on their way complacently. According to Mr. Tucker, who sticks closely to the rules of the state board of health, the sanitary condition of tho food shops of Hammond and vicinity are nothing short of appalling, measured by state standards. The simple rule of cleanliness practically has been ignored. The state board of health can do much to bring about a better state of affairs by Inspection and prosecution, but that much will not bo enough without the co-operation of the citizens. Let every woman why buys foodstuffs provide herself with a copy of the pure food laws and Insist that tho things she buys for her table are wholesome and cleanly handled. The dealers will live up to the laws if the customers Insist.

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It is an unfortunate thing that, although as a rule the lawyers in Hammond are on a par with those of any other city in the state and are generally men of Integrity, there are a few of the representatives of this profession here who are unscrupulous and positively unreliable. It is a shame that the good name of the fraternity should be besmirched by the activity of a few men who are what lawyers generally term "shysters." In every community of tho size of this city there are to bo found a few of the disciples of Klackstone who are living a hand to mouth existence. Some of these unfortunates who have missed the opportunity to make good hod carriers of themselves in order to enter the "grand old profesh," live honestly on the crumbs that fall from the tables of their more successful brothers. Others, however, when they fiml thej- cannot discharge a shell intended for a ten-gauge shotgun through the bore of a 22-ritle, abandoned a legitimate effort to earn a livelihood and are content to live from the proceeds of their trickery. A bad lawyer Is the greatest menace to tho peace and prosperity of a community that it could have. He will not stop at anything from aiding and abetting a blackmailer, to selling out a client's case for a few dollars more than his fee would have amounted to. There are several men of this stripe in Hammond whose operations have become so notorious it is surprising that the members of the Hammond bar do not take cognizance of the facts and institute disbarment proceedings. Tlie Indiana laws regulating the admission to the bar of attorneys are very lax, and until there Is reform along tins line irrespunsiblcs will swell the ranks until the standing of the legal fraternity in Indiana, as compared with other states, will be far from what it ought to be. Get lid of the "shyster" every time one raises his head and then get down to the bottom of things and prevent this class of fellows from becoming lawyers.

WITH THE EDITORS National Waterway System. That a nation's waterways should bo conserved and utilized as far as possible for transportation needs no urgent argument. Moreover. this should bo done as systematically as a state plans or should plan its highways. Both should he improved with tho view to connecting the sources of natural supply with the market centers. National waterways, as the tariff, may by force become a "local issue," but that would be a political abuse of distinctly national issue. Tho Great L.iked, the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers do not belong alone to the states which they border. They are the property of the union and should be utilized under a national plan that would include within its scope every important water highway. The channels of tho rivers should be deepened uniformly in relation to connecting streums. Canals should be dug whore they would best promote existing traffic. The first work should be to relieve congested conditions and to open the way more freely to the great distributing centers for the nation's commodities, which are the basis of all slow freights. The system, while necessarily it would bo executed piecemeal, should be planned as a whole, with a view primarily, as said, to the central markets and to materially lessening the cost of transportation in reaching them. It should Include waters local to one etate, only where essential to the greater system. Moreover, the first work should be in the interior, wherever It been dmontutui

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A117 Other Newspaper in Northern FOOD IS CLEAN. "SHYSTER." that the railroads upon which that section has had to depend have proven Inadequate, and it is shown that the waterway could afford the needed relief. r.ut these expenditures, while at first apparently in a sense local, should be made to conform to the plan as ii w noie, i:iai mere mignt He no such folly as a canal from Chicago to t. Louis meeting a shallower channel in tho Misissippj. Under this plan, wherever the lm provement would facilitate the devel opment of natural resources, where it .i essential to meet the needs of pres ent development, where It will materi any cheapen the cost of production through distribution, and where it will act as a checkmate to our International rivals in the world's commerce, there the work should be done now, regardless of politics or any rival local appetite for federal "pie." Duluth NewsTribune. The Unwritten Law. Southern newspaper comment upon the Loving trial shows that in no part of the country does public opinion fail to appreciate the menace of the "un written law" to the hard-won fruit of law and order In eivlllzatic n. The Columbia State says that the un written law is a "terrible ataln upon civilisation" and that "where the courts practically give warrant ta procedure that makes it easy for a weak or vicious woman to have one man sacrificed to save another, then it be comes a monstrous evil." In Judge Loving'a own state the Richmond Newi.eauer snyu that lira Is unsafe, the law against murder is almost nullified and the state is in the Ignominious po sltlon of being unable to protect ner own citizens." These ara considerations not for

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j STANDING OFTHE CLUES. j NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. Pet. I hieneo 5- 17 .7i Pittsburg 41 26 .612 New York 40 26 .606 , Philadelphia 37 So .552 Bo.vt.'ji S'J S3 .433 Cincinnati 30 41 .423 Brooklyn 2a 4:J .408 St. Louis 17 57 .230 AMERICAN' LEAGUE. , W. L. Pet. ChienKO 44 ill .M7 1 Cleveland 44 27 .620 I 1 etroit 3s 25i .576 i Philadelphia 3S 21 ..',31 (New York 32 o4 .4-5 i St. Louis 2'J 43 .403 i Boston 25 4:; .36S Washington 22 42 .34 1 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. AV. L. Pet. Tob-d. 46 2:) .613 Columbus 44 2S .611 Minneapolis 42 3S .560 Kfinsas City 37 3S .4!3 Milwaukee 36 41 .46S Louisville. 34 40 .45'J St. Paul 31 45 .408 Indianapolis 32 4s .400 THREE EYE LEAGUE. W. L. Pet. Ppringfbdd 3y 20 .661 Book Island 39 23 .629 Decatur 37 22 .627 B'-oria 33 26 .559 Cedar Bapins 33 2S .541 Clinton 26 36 .41 9 Bloomington 24 34 .414 Dubuque 9 51 .150 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. Pet. Denver 34 32 .51 5 Des Moines 40 2S .5S$ Lincoln 39 32 .549 Omaha 42 34 .533 Pueblo 27 43 .36 Sioux City 29 42 .408 CENTRAL LEAGUE. W. L. Pet Springfield 37 25 .597 Wheeling 35 2S .556 Canton 29 27 .51 $ Evansville 35 33 .515 Dayton 33 32 .50X Terre Haute 34 34 .500 Grand Itapid 26 37 .413 South Bend 26 39 .400

GAMES TODAY. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at Philadelphia. St. Louis at New York. Cincinnati at Boston. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia at Chicago. Washington at St. Louis. Boston at Detroit. New York at Cleveland. YESTERDAY'S RESUITS. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Philadelphia, 5; Chicago, 2. New York, 5; Cleveland, 4. St. Louis, 3; Washington, 2. Detroit, C; Boston, 5 (fourteen in nings). NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago, 5; Brooklyn, 0. Pittsburg, 3; Philadelphia, 0. St. Louis, 2; New York, 0. Boston, 2; Cincinnati, 0 (first game). Cincinnati, 4; Boston, 0 (second game). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Kansas City, 4; St. Paul, 3. Milwaukee, 9; Minneapolis, 1. No other games scheduled. THREE EYE LEAGUE. Cedar Bapids, 1; Clinton, 0. Rock Island, 11; Dubuque, 0. Peoria, 12; Decatur, 3. Springfield, 12; Bloomington, 4. WESTEKX LEAGUE. Denver, 10; Des Moines. 0. Lincoln, 4; Pueblo, 2. Sioux City, 8; Omaha, 5. CENTRAL LEAGUE. Terre Haute, 4; Evansville, 3. Our old friend Chance of the Cubs was as guilty of as flagrant a piece of rowdyism and loss of temper as ever could bo charged to a baseball player of either league, since baseball became the American sport. It occurred in the last half of the ninth inning when Husk, who had been made the target of an excited bleaeherlte with a bottle as a weapon, immediately picked up th said bottle as soon as he could reach it and hurled it with all his force back into the crowd. The bleacherites immediately retaliated with a shower of bottles but Chance, thoroughly aroused, refused to retreat, and threw the bottles back as fast as he could grab them. The rest of the players ran to the manager and brought him back to the bench while the crowd was only kept at bay by twenty policemen. Chance narrowly escaped a mobbing at the hands of the excited fans. The game itself was a small matter besides the fight. Miner Brown had things all his own way and the game was won by the Cubs by a score of 5 to 0. The Athletics broke loose yesterday section but for a nation. New York may not plume herself over Virginia so long as Harry Thaw's case remains undecided. The trouble with the unwritten law Is that It is unwritten. It proves too much. There are no limits set to its vagaries. In the Loving case it justified the father In shooting a man who gave a drink of whiskey to his daughter, the jury having assured Judge Loving that no assault was committed. In the lhaw case unwritten law is cited to justify Thaw in shooting the alleged seducer of his wife, who had also been his mistress, although the offense was committed years before the marriage and was known to Thaw at that time. In the Strothers case it sets free a man who killed his sister's hus band for the suspected intention to de sert her after the marriage. In the Birdsong case it was Invoked to free a woman who shot a man because she d esreci to have him shot a demand so notorious that 200 southern women of the vicinity conquered their repug nance to such publicity to ask that fcha be not released. The southern newspapers which the "World has Quoted are right. There la no law but the written law. The un written law 13 anarchy. New York World.

fr-. . A . and made up for the trimming they received Sunday at the hands of Ed Walsh. Thirteen Uts with a total of five runs made the Sox look like selling platers to the Monday afternoon crowd. Bender, who was pitching fur the Athletics, aftr a bad start, pulled himself together and thereafter H was in the one, two, three order. Frank Owen, who started the game for the Sox, was sent to the bench for repairs after the fifth inning mark had been reached and Smith took his place. Smith did very well indeed in the last half but the damage had been done and the Sox could not come back. Tiie game ended score 3-2. Packey McFarland and Fighting Dick Ireland failed to agree on terms for match w he-n they met for that purpose yesterday; the trouble came over the weight question as to whether they weigh in at three o'clock or at ringside. George Memsic was up against the same trouble when he tried to match up against McFarland and it looks like Gilmore was getting into the Nolan class as a manager. II. J. Handy, the champion long distance swimmer has been appointed chairman of the bath committee of the new Illinois Athletic club. The jump came as a surprise to all followers of aquatic sports as Handy was closely identified with the Chicago Athletic association team. Tho appointment means that he is elected a life member of the club. The Bay Ridge handicap at Sheepshead Bay yesterday brought to light a horse who was in the Jim Key class, this horse is Gallivant who shows remarkable knowledge about racing affairs. When there is money on this pony he trims off the field of good ones in a canter but when he is unbacked he rambles along like a fat donkey. It may bear investigation. The Cleveland team struck a snag with the New Yorks yesterday in the shape of young Doyle and although they pounded out thirteen ' hits against eight for New York, the latter kept them scattered throughout, in that way the Sox still held their lead. Jack Blackburn won front Jimmy Barry at the Washington Sporting club at Philadelphia last night. The fight went the limit and It was a case of slam and bang all the way through with the honors In favor of the dingo. The National league furnished a record in the shape of shut outs. There were five games played and the losing teams ail had their scores graced with goose eggs. WHEN NEPTUNE MARS MEET Army and Navy Pagent at Jamestown Still a Great Feature of the Fair. Norfolk, Va., July 9. Soldiers and sailors, the ships and the sea, martial music and the roar of the battleship's broadsides. Palaces of peace filled with things of pure delight; sylvan solitudes and merry mazes of festivity. Shore-line; azure dome of a Virginian sky above all; that Is the picture of the Jamestown exposition. To offer one of the most unique mil itary spectacles and one of the great est naval spectacles of all time is the distinctive and splendid privilege of the Jamestown exposition. The latter made manifest in the immense gathering of formidable war ships of all nations that are dropping their anchors before the sea gates of this transcendent celebration. Judging from the im mense interest displayed in the Imitation battleship at the Chicago world's fair, this vast assemblage of the fleets of the nations will be the crowning at traction for the millions of visitors, especially those from the Interior. The great fleet has assembled, and the mag nificent array of American battleships now lined on Hampton Itoads is by far the greatest yet gathered beneath the American flag. Of the freign fleets that of Great Britain is the most imposing, and when the great ship "Dreadnaught" arrives, this, the world's greatest fighting craft, will make an exposition by itself No other American harbor, and very few in the world could afford anchor age to the stupendous aggregation that is now in Hampton Roads and that will shortly be augmented. Unequalled in the history of Ameri can naval displays, it will yield pre cedence only to the great gathering off the Isle of Wight at the time of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. No other exposition in all history ever had such an asset. Peace at the Hague. They've got a big menagerie Assembled at The Hague, And what's a-coming out of it. Is very, very vague. The Russian Bear is stalking 'round, A-walklng like a man, And everj- wary eye's on him, To catch him if they can. The British Lion, too, is there; Of course, he'll roar a bit To show the minor animals He's very sure he's "II" Our own proud Eagle's got to scream To prove he's in the ring. While other fierce beasts flock about As pert as anything. The Dove of Peace is fluttering O'er this menagerie, And she is just a trifle scared. But that's 'twtxt you and in a. She has a most uneasy doubt If they exalt her high, Or If they end the matter with A feast of pigeon pie. Baltimore American-

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0 A Urcach of Confi dencc. Original Why her father and mother didn't rive her the name of Mephistophelia instead of Jaqueline I can't imagine. They certainly -would have done po had they known how she was to turn out As it is, notdy ever calls her anything but Jack, and in speaking of her to those who have never seen or known her one necessarily conveys the idea that she is a boy not only a boy. but a ty of the worst kind. The way she Las treated me and her sister certainly deserves a hundred lasbes, and I would like to Ik? the fellow to lay them on. I have always ieen taught to consider one who would betray a confidence as worse than a thief. Jack betrayed our confidence in the most unblushing manner. It all happened only yesterday, and perhaps I'm not in a condition to look upon her net with charity. I hope I'll never come into a frame of mind to excuse her abominable treachery. It was tills wav: Mr Merrvmm wanted his daughter his eldest daughter, Harrict-to marry some b!g gun. He had no objection to me other than that I was neither president, member of the cabinet nor one of the justices of the United States supreme court. -Harriet had tried to get his consent to marry me, but he always put Iter off by saying, "What do you want to marry a man for who couldn't even set a email rivulet afire, let alone a river?" Then Harriet would expatiate on ray good sense, good heart and a good many other things that big guus don't generally possess, esiecially the good heart, for they are usually diabolically selfish. But her father only laughed at her. How we ever came to take Jack into our confidence when we came to an agreement to elope I don't know. Harriet thought she couldn't make her preparations without Jack's knowing of them, but I rather put it down to the fact that she must tell some one. (At any rate, she told her. Jack clapped her hands, and her eyes glistened with glee. An elopement! How romantic! Just too lovely, for anything! She'd help us all she could, and, as for keeping the secret, it would be buried away down In her guileless heart. We didn't need anj-thing especially elaborate no ropo ladder, fast team, end all that. We concluded just to board a train, go up the road some thirty miles to where a former family dominie, Mr. Strickland, lived and get him to marry us. We would go in the morning, tidie the afternoon train back and be forgiven in time for dinner. Of course I engaged the parson for specified day and hour. Jack was i tensely interested in it all and made us give her every detail, promising to prepare her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merryman, for what was to come, so that It wouldn't bo so much of a Bhock. Harriet met mo In the open square near tho station. She was trembling all over, but I reassured her. To avoid observation we went to where the foremost car would stand on the track when the train came in. We got away on time and had the satisfaction to be in a car that was nearly empty. The train stopped at the next station on the road a mile beyond. There the door opened, and I heard a familiar girl's voice say: "Come in here. There's lots of room in this car." I turned with a rubadub heart to see whom do you suppose? Jack beckoning to her father and mother, who were mounting to the car platform. There they all three bustled into the car we were in, Jack exclaiming: "Goodness gracious, if there isn't Hat! And, I declare, I3en too! Where In the world are you two going?" The astonishment of the father and mother wa3 very much overdone. It didn't deceive either of us. I glanced at Jack and avoided meeting the eyes of the parents. Mr. Merryman seemed overjoyed that our parties 6honld have met on what he called an Improvised excursion. lie asked me where we were going, and it was no use to lie, for my ticket would give me away. So I told him, and he was delighted that we were all going to the same place. Of the two halves of the party one was jubilant, the other mod and mortified. We were obliged to spend an hour and a half In this way before reaching our destination. There we all got out, and Jack proposed a stroll. She walked with her father, while her mother walked with U3. The little villain led the way to the parsonage, stopped before the door and proposed a call on the parson. Without waiting for consent, she rang the bell, and we all went In. The parson was expecting us, but since I had told him we would be alone he was a trifl e surprised. "This would be a good time for you and Hat to get spliced," said Jack to me. The dominie got his hook and waited for us to take position. What could we do? I didn't know what Mr. Mer rman was going to do, but since he made no move I took Harriet before the clergyman, and we were married Mr. and Mrs. Merryman carne up, gave me a hand and embraced their daugh ter. Harriet didn't know whether to burst Into tears at having had her confidence so abused or to rejoice that she did not have to go back and ask her parents forgiveness. When Mr. Merryman put a check for $10,000 In her hand. Joy triumphed. Wo took the afternoon train back, reaching home 1n t'.rne for a hasty meal, after which our most intimate friends came ponring in for a wedding reception. They had been invited previously. CHAUCEY W ADD WELL.

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Alleged Remarks of the Jap Admiral Sakamato Declared Misquotation. BR0WKS0N IS VERY SKEPTICAL Attaches of the Mikado's Embassy Declare the Stcry Absurd. London F.ditorial Seer Sh-s l'orten tous Signs Hovering Over the Paelic Jap Editorial Temper Calm. Washington, July 0. Hear- Admiral r.rownson, chief of the bureau of navigation of the navy dep.irtr.H'-.it. said lie was satisfied that the Japace.-e admiral, Sakamoto, who Is repoiteJ in the Hochi, a Japanese iinti-gvern-ment paper, to have questioned the patriotism of United States naval rews and the ability of the United States naval ellieer, has been mis quoted. At the Japanese embassy Mr. Masauo llauihara, the second secre tary, expressed his stromr belief that the admiral had not given voice to any such utterances as those printed. or anything like them, and that if he 5poke about the matter at all he has been badly misquoted. Such alleged sentiments by the admiral he declared were absurd and nonsensical. Jap Naval llxport'd Views. Tokio, July 0. Asahl publishes an nterview with an influential Japanese naval expert, who says: "It would be improper to infer a demonstration in the transfer of the American tleet to the Pacific. This movement is part of a prearranged nlan and is a result of the constant growth of the American navy and the increasing impor. tance of l'acifie interests from the strategical point of view. No signifi cance need be attached until at least thirty ships have been transferred to tho raeifie." Eminent Editors Keep Calm. Almost nil the newspapers treat the matter with calmness, finding It Is natural for the United States to redistribute its naval forces as a result of its imperial policy. They generally express regret that it will be impossible for Japan to extend hospitality t the United States officers In return for that shown the Japanese officers at Jamestown. Up-to-Date Editor Portentous. London, July 9. The Daily Mail in an editorial on tho Japanese-United States situation says: "Around the Immense area of the Pacific ocean the embattled nations of the world are gathering as the nations gathered around the Mediterranean two thousand years ago. Careful observers universally will agree that the great events of the twentieth century prob ably will be occupied with the rim of tills vast saucer. War between Japan and America is almost unthinkable. We believe the intentions of the statesmen of both countries to be profoundly pacific, and that the Incidents at San Francisco are not responsible for the movement of the American ileet." QUITE A BUNCH INDICTED Grafters of a Town in Kentucky Called Down by a Grand Jury Iteport. Owenton. Ky., July 9. The grand jury of Owen county for the June term has just made a report to Circuit Judge I. F. Menefee. Th report is the culmination of investigations Into the fiscal affairs of the county which have been in progress for several months. The indictments include malfeasance In office, obtaining money under false pretenses, and false swearing. County Judge W. P. Yancey Is indicted twice for malfeasance in office, T. P. Prather, magistrate and member of tha fiscal court, is indicted three times for like offenses. Magistrate J. C. Jones is called upon to answer one Indictment of malfeasance, one lor false swearing and one for obtaining money under false pretpnses. Jacob T.all and W. E. King, of the fiscal body; County Clerk It. J. Wallter, exCounty Superintendent of Schools M. II. Bourse, and ex-County Clerk W. P. Swope are among the others Indicted. Will Try to Hatch Ostrich Egg. New York, July 9. A keeper In the Bronx zoo found a huge egg in the ostrich cage. Chief Curator Beebe, In charge of tho bird department, says It is a rhea egg. A rhea Is a South American ostrich. The egg is about six Inches in diameter and weighs three pounds. It is of a golden color. A big Incubator was rigged up and th zoo attendants will attempt to hatch an ostrich. Beebe says the hatching of the egg is a $1,000 propos:;'. jn, an ostrich chick being worth that sum. Weather Vanes. The best weather vanes are made with the greatest nicety and precision, so that they balance perfectly and turn with the least possible wear. The j vane Is, of course, longer on one side j of thp. socket than on tne cmer. or it i would not turn with the wind, but Its rihf u th snme on both sides. If It is a narrow vane, lor instance, u;e weight of the solid head 13 easily made equal to that of the longer, projecting, but thinner feather end, and all vanes, whatever they may be. are balanced ca to weight and bo adjusted that they turn easily and with the least possible friction.

Th Wily Arab of Tripoli. Down the-street the fuhit intermit tent tinkling of a bell was beard. Tturr-ro!" ("Get out!") In warning rasped the high pitched voice of a camel driver. I dodged quickly into the shop of a silversmith and watched four lumbering camels squdge softly by. To prevent those behind the driver from being stolen the halter rope of each is UJ to the tail of the one ahead, and on the tail of the last camel as he Hips and liaps it from side to sidtj tinkles a boll. A wily one of tho faithful, not Wing rich In ihU world's goods, turned covetous eyes on a nomadic brother who passed through the town leading n string of six camels. "Allah'. Allah ursel el Allah! Could not the brother sp;:re one of his JLuial?" (camelsi. So, dusting the files from his eyes and hooding hliuelf with his barracan, he stealthily followed. He was swar that near the Newgate the street narrowed f.ud made a double turn. No sooner had the driver and head camel rounded the first corner than the v!!y one sei?ud the bell attached to the hindmost camel. With a stroke of Ids knife he severed it from the tail of the animal, and, keeping it tinkling, be quickly fastened it to tb tail of the next, cut kose the last beast and "Allah wilh;" made off with his Iool-C. W. Furlong In Harper's. A Mysterious Bocming. A strange phenomenon is that of tha so called "guns of P.urrisaul," in India, liurrisaul is a station in the Suuderbunds, the marshy delta of tho Ganges, a region covered with a vast and luxuriant jungle of tropic vegetation. Here in the rainy season there is occasionally beard a loud, lKoming

noise like the discharge of distant artillery. It fcooms to come from tha couth, but I? one follows the nouud in that direction its apparent distanco does not diminish. Travelers havo suggested that It may le produced by the heavy surf of the monsoon season thundering on th chores of the bay of llengal or on an island, but the place of its origin has never Ix-en identified, nor has It been explained why tho roar of the waves should be heard bo much farther inland here than on other coasts. When "Girl" was "Gell." Concerning the pronunciation ot "girl," it Is to be feared that only very careful English people fail to rhyme It with "pearl" nowadays. The bong of Borne years back "My dear little girllo girlie, with hair bo nice and curly, and every morning early" shows the custom of the great public In our time, though In tho "Vilikins and bla Dinah" period "girl" was rhymed with "dwell." "Gell" was no doubt tho nearest the average man could get to the Bound lmporfectiy represented by "gairl" and at any rate was better than the vulgar "gal." But in these days few authors would go to the trouble of writing "gurl" to show that a character was peculiar la thus pronouncing the word as Thackeray did la the case of Mrs. Dungay. So Bays a London correspondent. Pretty Bashful. At a village church a wedding was fixed for a certain date. The happy morn arrived, and in due course a youthful swain and falro ladyo presented themselves at the chancel steps, '"ho service proceeded smoothly as far as the question, "Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?" Whereupon the supposed bridegroom stammered blushlngly: "Flease, sir, I'm not the right man." "Not the right man," exclaimed the clergyman, aghast "Then where is the right man?" "He's down at the bottom of th church, sir. He's asheearn! to como up." Church Family Newspaper. A Russian Pastime. If the human jaws need some occupation la the Intervals of meals and gossip, says Health Culture, masticators could learn a lesson from the peasants of southern Russia, who exercise their teeth on the liard seeds of the Caspian sunflower. There Is not a suspicion of a stimulant about It, no chewing gum dyspeisda or navy plug nuisance. It is a pastime and Incidentally an excellent dentifrice. In Astrakhan a pint of the requisite seeds can be bought for a quarter of a penny. A Plausible Inference. "Miriam," said her mother, "have you ever given young Mr. Stapleford any reason to believe you cared for him enough to marry him?" "He seems to think bo," answered the daughter, "because I told him the other evening that he was fending me too many costly flowers and ought to begin to save his money." Chicago Tribune. Merely a Suggestion. Wright I've tried everything, and my novels don't seem to sell. Penman Excuse me, but you have net tried everything. You know, it Is said that Dickens' novels Bell four times better than during his life. Yonkers Statesnan. Retribution. Minister (meeting a small boy oa Sunday afternoon carrying a string cf &sh) Johnny, Johnny, do these belong to you? Johnny Y-e-s, eir. You see, that's what they got for chasing worms on a Sunday. Philadelphia Inquirer. Not Her Business. Husband Another new Cress! Where do you suppose I shall get the i taoney rrom to pay ior n Wlfe-You must excuse ma. I didn't marry you to give you financial advke. Mohammedan meals begin with salt and end with vinegar. The fait defends , the believer from seventy diseases; the vinegar assures h'.m Increased pros:u 1 !t7

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