Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 July 1895 — Page 7

ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

"lilihd Tips" is the name tlie saloonkeepers of Charleston, Intl., have given drug stores. The ladies of La port e have formed a cycling club, to be known as the Crown Cycling club. They propose to stick by their home wheels. The Crown Kagle works, of j4aporte. the company in which M. 1. Smalley is interested, has been incorptratetl, with a capital stock of jjo.O(H. o:irbon is honored by a hypnotic wonder. An extended article appeared in this week's issue of the IJourboii papers w ritten by lr. Matchette, regarding the affair. ii has been said by those who have given the matter a very close study, that vhen a man's wife is not afraid of a mouse, it is conclu.-ive evidence that she rules the roost. Sol Stockman, of near In wood, thrashed IJt.CJ bushels of wheat from twenty-seven acres of ground. Although the average was small the grain was of good quality. The Studebaker llros.,of South lend, have organized a syndicate for the purpose of underselling all competitors in the bicycle trade. The class of wheels to be made are to be of the best material. Look out for the slick swindler who is going around selling a box of soap for a dollar. He will also offer you a rubber door mat, with your initials upon it, as a premium with the soap. He is a fraud. The Valparaiso Messenger is our authority for the following: A new Texas paper is called "The Kmpty liottle.' Now let us all wonder whether the editor in his salutatory, said he came to 'Mill a long-felt want." Never judge a person by outside appearance. A shabby old coat, may enwrap a newspaper publisher, while a man wearing a high-toned plug hat and sporting a gold-headed cane may be a delinquent subscriler. Lx. The postollice robbery, which occurred at Nappanee Tuesday night of last week, has been cleared up, and a Hiyear old boy by the name ot ISrownhas been apprehended. Over $"." of the money was found on his person. Excitement runs high at Hammond over the sudden disappearance of Crissie Heath, an 1 year old girl who is the prosecuting witness in a case against her step-father. It is thought by some that she has drowned herself. Facts from within the walls of a penitentiary are not apt to justify the theories advanced from without. Therefore, theoretical reformers and philanthropists on prison management are often wide of the mark in their suggestions. Every person thinks he can do certain things better than any other person. Among these things are the following: Editing a newspaper, poking a lire, looking up the time a train leaves and telling a story some one else has commenced. (Jeorge Neff and John Hansen went out fishing this morning about 1 o'clock and returned with a string of line bass and pike. We are anxious to learn where they caught them, as we contemplate arising some of these bright mornings and trying our luck. While harvesting at his farm, near Lake-of the-Woods. Mr. Henry Stein shot and killed a very large rattlesnake. It was about three and one-half inches in thickness and four and one-half feet in length, with eighteen rattles. Dr. Uaker now has the monster in his possession. While the weather is dry, and rain badly needed, yet our farmer friends can be truly grateful for the Indian summer weather that is with us at the present time. If the usual hot sultry weather, that is generally comes at this time of year, predominated, the en tire corn crop would surely be burned up. Two of the leading Methodist churches in Ft. Wayne, are contemplating the consolidation of the two churches. It is reported that the movement is likely to be inaugurated. If accomplished the present structures which occupy prominent locations will be sold and a new edifice erected. J. F. Firestone while enroute for Lake Maxenkuckee, spent a short time in our city Thursday. He transacted business for a few days in Danville, III., and gives quite an account of the beauties of that city. The first thing that attracted his attention, he says, was the neatly paved streets. The reputation of Daneville, is world wide. W. J. Uankin, treasurer-elect, will move to 1'lymoutli next week, and take up his residence in Mrs. McDullie's house on Center stieet, preparatory to entering upon Ids olllcial duties August 10th. He will be assisted m the work of the office by Mrs. Uankin. Mr. Uankin and family have been residents of Argos for about twelve years, and they will be sorely missed from the business, church, and social circles of our community. They are nut unknown to our county seat neighbors, and we trust they may meet with a warm welcome, and find a congenial home in Plymouth throughout his entire official career. Argos Reflector.

A heifer, bought by llothehbei'ger iv Uodocker yesterday, has made some very sweet, juicy beef for their patrons to day, notwithstandir-g that the ownership of that particular heifer seems to be in question. Rothenberger A: Hotlocker bought the critter in good faith, and paid tor her in gol and lawful money of the I'nited Slates. Iut it has 1-een alleged by a farmer that the seller had no right to sell, because the ownership of the 'tnimar was not lawfully vested m him. The seller and the aforesaid tanner are now trying to adjust accounts between them. Numerous circumstances have arisen at times which have a touch of the ludicrous. Put the method used by a gang of tramps at Tiskihva, 111., to secure good head gear, was surely unique. Several of them got up nearthe railroad track and started a sham light just as a passenger train was pulling slowly by. The passengers naturally crowded their heads out of the open windows to watch the fun, and one of the tramps who was lying beside the track with a fish pole knocked off half a dozen hats from the heads of the passengers. After the train hatl passed they proceeded to pick up the spoils and draw cuts for choice. It was necessary for the large brick chimney at the Novelty Works to be removed in. onler to place in a new boiler of greater power. The chimney was removed by cutting it loose at the bottom and fastening to it a chain, to w hich w as attached a team of horses. When the team was started the chimney fell with a crash, however, very few of the bricks were broken. Charles Vmk, the present county treasurer, has accepted a position in the clothing department of Cline A: Co's store, at Uourbon. lie assumes charge the first of September. While our county treasurer, owing to the ways of political elections, gives way to one who was more fortunate, yet he has made a host of friends while occupying the office of county treasurer, and their well wishes will follow him and his family to their home in Uourboii. Undoubtedly Long Lake is infested by some specie of a sea serpent or lnge cat fish, for yesterday the monster of tho deep with an immense head, anil tail at least 8 feet in length, again made its appearance and nearly scared some of our citizens, who happened to be on the lake engaged in fish ing, out of their wits. There were two boats with fishermen Messrs. Charles (logan, Charles Fernekes, John Mills andAl.Shade -and the animal appeared in the water between the water crafts. The party was so thoroughly frightened that fishing was given up for the day. The monster was also seen by several other parties. Yalpo Star. A new form of the insanity defense was sent up in Pittsburg court the other day, the attorney for a man charged with murder claiming that his client's mind was unbalanced through taking the gold cure. In support of his claim he introduced expert testimony, including that of Samuel L () Cotter, late assitant surgeon in the army, but now in charge of a Home for Inebriates, who says that he had over a hundred Keeley patients under his care, and that three fourths of them wero insane, the result of the powerful drugs administered. It is only fair to call attetion to the fact that these men were such as had relapsed after taking the cure. People who stay cured do not appear to be effected that way, and the question arises whether the relapse is the cause of the insanity or insanity the cause of relapse Late Literary News. 'O, will lie paint ine the way 1 want. As Imiuiiy as a girlie, Or will lie paint me an iijjly tyke. Am! Ie tt 1 to .Mr. Ner.li l'.ut still and on and which ever it is. lie Is a canty Kerlie, The l,orl protect the hack ami neck Of honest Mr. Ncrll." This, one of the last verses ever Witten by Uobert Louis Stevenson, is in reference to the portrait of himself, which is given to the public with his verso for the first time in the July Cosmopolitan. The lines might have come from the pen of Hums, and are inimitable in their way. The portrait was de clared by Stevenson himself to be tho best ever painted of him. In this same number of the Cosmopolitan Uudyard Kipling tells an Indian story, to which Uemington adtls charmingillustrations; Mrs. liurton Harrison makes a serious study of New York society in "The Myth of the Four Hundred, and Kate Douglas Wiggin contributes a story of one of the most delightful of Welsh retreats. The Cosmopolitan was, with this number, reduced to ten cents per copy, and as a consequence, notwith standing its large edition, it was-out of print" on the third day of publication. Will Have to Be Enlarged. At the start the architectural plans of Culver Military academy, at Marmont, were so arranged that between two and three hundred cadets could be accommodated. lut, owing to the vast number of applications that are pouring in from all over the country for admission to the school, Mr. Culver has concluded to make the vast structure three stories high instead of two, as first planned. There are great prospects for the future success of the school, and it is predicted that, 'ere two years roll around under the supervision of Major Trebbett, there will be Ai) cadets in attendance. Advertising rates of the Daily Indkpkndknt will be quoted on applica tion at the ollice.

EDIDLli UOGG.

Bright-tied Canine Which Ar a Delicacy in Clilna. The Chinese "chouchou." or edible log, resembles greatly the Pomeranian breetl. Its forehead Is broad ami its muzzle quite pointed, though less s-j than the Pomeranian. Tin ear is short, erect and iointed forward, a little rounded at the tip. The eyes are small and black, the body short and thick. The "chouchou" has rough, thick hair and a curled tail. There are two varieties; one has long hair, which is the higher esteemed the dish of the rich! the other has short, thick hair. There ire three different colors, one entirely a bright red; this is the aristocratic variety. The others are of different shades of a dark tawny, with a black muzzle, and of a light tawny color with a clear muzzle. This last is the commonest kind. A general characteristic of this race is that the tongue is bluish black. This color is not natural, however; the puppies have red tongues, which begin to grow dark at the end of a fortnight or three weeks. It is rare that one ot them s born with a black tongue. The "chouchous" are rare in Europe. In France M. Waldeck Rousseau, the statesman and lawyer, is about the only person who owns one. M. Rousseau, by the way, is said to possess the only Siamese cats in Europe. In England the Prince of Wales has three pairs of "chouchous" in his magnificent kennels in Sandringham. One of these dogs. Joss, is now quite old, being about sixteen years of age. After hav'ng been a favorite of the Princess of Wales he is now relegated to a corner on account of his lnWrmities. Plumpie, who is another of ..he same race, ' as replaced him in the Princess' a Sections and accompanies her on all :.er journeys. The otWer two dogs of this species owned by the Prince of Wales are Box and Fox, a pair entirely a brownish red. with black muzzles, and Buzz and Fuzz, who are of the tawny breed, with lighter muzzles. It is generally believed that the comestible dogs of the Chinese is the common variety with purple skin entirely devoid of hair except a little about the head, but these blue dogs of China incorrectly so called, since they are encountered elsewhere in Asia and Turkey are only a species which suffer from a hereditary skin disease. The manner of preparing these dogs for the table is the same as in vogue in the case of suckling pigs, and in China there is no formal dinner or grand banquet without a "chouchou" as tho piece de resistance, decked out in the same way as pigs are on European tables or American free-lunch counters. NO ELOPEMENT. The Girl's Mother Nipped Their Plans. The plan to elope had already been laid and everything was ready but the crossing to Jefferson and having the ceremony performed, says a Louisville special. The young couple who .had planned the elopement was destinM t meet with an Insurpassable obstae' the day that the wedding w J? lake place. The young man '?' case is only 18 years of age, whil the girl is only 16. Miss Mamie Wagner, a prettylittle girl from Harrodsburg, has for some time bec visiting the family of Mr. James Van' Arsdale, 320 Twentyninth street, and a short while ago she became acquainted with August Hermes, a young man living in this city. They formed a great attachment for one another. After a short courtShip the young man proposed to the girl, and, although her mother was in Harrodsburg and knew nothing of the affair, she accepted the proposal and Sunday was set for the wedding day. Hermes family and several friends were making the necessary preparations and everything was smooth sailing for a time. Mr. Van Arsdale, however, began thinking over the matter and decided that it would not be right for him to allow the girl to marry while In his keeping, so he telegraphed to her mother. Mrs. Wagner arrived and in a few words she expressed her views on the question. They were not altogether favorable to the plans of the young couple. The mother thought that the matter was settled, but she was badly mistaken. While the family were at the breakfast table tlie girl thought she would make one more attempt to marry Hermes, and, slipping out of the house, she proceeded to the home of the young man. In a short time the mother noticed that her "daughter was missing. She started toward the Hermes residence and on the way met Patrolman Tuley, to whom she told her story. The policeman accompanied the woman to the house of the Hermes. The girl still declared that she would marry the boy, and it was decided that the best thing that could be done was to take her to the police station. While there the policeman told her that if she would not go with her mother the law would have to take its course. Miss Wagner evidently did not like the looks of the station and she finally said she would go with her mother rather than be locked up. No More Crinolines. We had hoped better things of FashIon, but nothing seems able to stop her on the road of extravagance down which she is slipping. Skirts and sleeves are pyramidal, and a large-sized pillow would hold within the folds of a balloon sleeve. One thing, however, saves modern fashions from being utterly ungrateful stiffness Is banished, skirts hang in soft folds, and sleeves are loosely draped without a soupeon of crinoline or buckram. In fact, In this consists the novelty of the season's toilets. They repudiate all stiff linings, and the triumph of n good modiste is to accumulate hollow plaits and drooping folds without the aid of any artificial support. Of course, there must be underskirts, and we shall certainly see a return to flounced starched petticoats, but the dress itself stands on the strength of its own material. The only linings used are thin silk or satinette. Ex. Identification. Bank Cashier "You'll have to be identified before I can cash this check." Pat Grogan "Begob, that's aisy enough. Here's me photygraph as I had tuck lasht week. Ye'd know me annywhere by It." Cnrlous Customs. The people of Honolulu still eat raw fish and use their lingers In carrying It to their mouths, but they use more telephones in proportion to the population than New Yorl? does.

:S at Home Inside A Cow, Nicholas Gradner, a well-known and prosperous farmer of near Portersville. Butler county. Pa., was in the city and told the following remarkable story, which is vouched for by reliable people. He said that seven days ago a valuable cow belonging to the family was missing, and that yesterday the animal was found dead, lying among the cranberry bushes in the swamp. A veterinary surgeon named Porter happened along by that time and said he had a curiosity to know the cause of the animal's death. He proceeded to hel l a postmortem on the body. While he was at work a four-foot black snake crawled from the mouth of the dead cow and succeeded in escaping in the underbrush. The doctor was considerably startled, but he proceeded with his work, and when he had reached the stomach he was horrified to find that It was fairly alive with little black snakes from six to eight inches In length. Thirty-two of the reptiles were slaughtered and a few escaped. It Is now supposed that the mother snake In some manner crawled into the nostrils of the cow while she was eating and that the little snakes, which are known to find refuge in the interior of the old one, followed. .Ilm lias the 1'roof. Last Thursday Jim Good, the butcher, killed a snake between Irwin and Harrison City that measured eight feet eleven inches, says the Snake City Enterprise. It was of a variety unknown in this section: the oldest inhabitants say they never saw one like it before. From the head about one-third of the length it was black, and from there for about another third it was mottled black and red, and from there to the end of the tail it was a bright steel blue. The most curious thing about it was the tail, which was divided for about six inches; in fact, it had a completo double tail. Anyone doubting this can call on Jim; and he'll show them the very club be killed it with. Murdered Her Stepdaughter. Mrs. Zoe Larh, wife of a prominent and wealthy farmer at Stillwater, O. T., shot and killed her stepdaughter, Mrs. MacHenry. Tho two women quarreled and the daughter left the house. When she returned she was met at the door by Mrs. Larh, who told her that if she camo in she would kill her. Mrs. MacHenry turned around to leave, but Mrs. Larh mistook her motion and thought she was entering the door. She shot her just above the heart. Mrs. Larh gave herself up. There Is some talk of mob law. MUNICIPAL FOLLY. Nw York Has Cilven Away Many of Its Most Valuable Franchise. The time has come to call a halt upon the granting of public franchises in this way. If New York city cannot Itself

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roads, and if it is not practicable, or if it is deemed unwise that it should supply gas and electricity, certainly it cannot be urged that it should give away these valuable franchises without adequate return; and adequate return can be secured only by granting these privileges to private companies for a limited time, and requiring that at the end of a stated period not exceeding, say,, twenty-ono years there shall be a revision of the compensation to be paid to the city. The net earnings of .any Btreet railroad or gas company, or even now of any electric light company, are bo well assured that there is no doubt capital would enter into them even under severe restrictions. This is also true of the telephone business. This is not a new principle, but only the application to theso privileges of the practice that has always prevailed in regard to the city's docks, piers, markets, and ferries. The city of New York has wisely retained the ultimate control of its own vater front, and by a readjustment every year of rentals for its docks and piers, and at longer intervals of its ferry privilege?. It is deriving the benefit of municipal growth and expansion from those sources. The result Is gratifying, even though millions may have been lo3t by official negligence or corruption. The utmost advantage can at any time be obtained by the city by greater economy and watchfulness on the part of its public oflicials. These figures of increased levenue will carry conviction of the value of public franchises in New York city. The dock department was organized in 1S70, and since then its gross annual revenues have shown an Increase from $315,521 In 1S71 to $1,S39,G5S for the year 1S04, and Its net yearly revenues, which in 1S71 amounted to 5143.000, had Increased twenty-three years later to $1.500,000. The ferry rents, which In the year 1S79 were only $04,411, have been Increased to $354,280. We need only record the earnings of the Brooklyn bridge to realize what has been gained to present and future generations by retaining in public hands the control and ownership of this great highway. The gross earnings have steadily increased from $022,680.31 in 18S5 to $1,32G.59S.S5 In 1894. The profits from public enterprises are so well assured that the public should be continually on guard. Only a few years ago practically an exclusive contract for underground subways was authorized by the legislature, without substantial consideration to the city, which will make it almost Impossible ever to intejrefere with the monopoly of th.-i Metropolitan Telephone, the Western Union, and the Edison Illuminating companies, the virtual owners of t.';is new corporation controlling the subways. Had Distinguished Prisoners. Samuel Staples, who lately died in Concord, Mass., numbered Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and Bull, the Inventor of the Concord grape, among his friends. He was at one time the town Jailer, and he once had Alcott and Thoreau for prisoners, the former for a few hours, the latter for a night. Alcott's offense was the non-payment of a small tax debt, which he refused on principle. "I never heerd a man talk honester," said Mr. Staples. Where Manners Are Soreljr Tested. "No, women are not the mannerless sex," said Hobbles, sagely. "Just look at the way men rush to get out of an elevator." "Humph!" said his friend, who was a misogynist and therefore unreliable, anyway. "I guess you never saw a group of women when they boarded a cable car with only one vacant seat, dll yeu?"

WEALTH OF THREE NATIONS.

United States, France and England the Greatest Competitors. The reported valuation of all property in the United States by the census of 1S90 was $05,037,091,197, or $1.030 per capita for the entire population. This enumeration, however, dealt with property located in the United States, and did not go into the question where it was owned. If the estimate of Mr. Robert Giffen is correct, that $3.000,000,000 in foreign capital was invested In this country in 1SS0, probably an even larger amount is so invested at the present time. Deduction should also be made for the high value put upon waste public lands in the census, with the net result that the per capita valuation of the United States would be reduced to about $950. or $4.700 for a family of five. Estimates made by careful economists, who come pretty near agreement among themselves, put the valuation of Great Britain about nine years ago at $50.000,000.000, and that of France at $40,000.000.000. This would afford a per capita valuation of $1.338 for Great Britain and $1.0Sl for France, making the valuation for a family of five $6.690 in Great Britain, and $3,403 in France. The figures of France arc placed somewhat higher by some authors, and the total in both countries Include careful estimates of the large holdings of foreign securities, some of them covering property located in the United States. The great holdings of foreign securities, estimated to amount in Great Britain to about $S,000.000.000, explain to a large extent the adverse balance of foreign trade constantly shown by the British statistics. Great Britain would long ago have been denuded of her gold and become bankrupt If the excess of Imports over exports shown by her trade statistics were a true measure of her financial condition. The fact that over $4)0.000,000 Is due her annually in interest charges upon British capital abroad explains how she can afford to import several hundred million pounds sterling of foreign merchandise which she exports. France is estimated to hold $4,000,000,000 of foreign securities, largely Italian and Spanish, and she also has been abte to show a large balance of imports during the last two decades, while piling up in the vaults of the Bank of France and distributing through her monetary circulation a larger mass of coin than any other commercial country. SIX KINDS OF A HOC. Railroad Nuisances Which Come with tho Warm Weather. "The car hog is more and more in evidence every day," said a car conductor the other day to a New York World man. "The warm weather developes traits that have been dormant with the winter. I have counted six different varieties of the breed in a week. I used to be a raiser of stock in more prosperous days and I'm a good judge. The most common sort is that of the fellow who occupies more room than he needs; never sees that he could make room for anybody and is evidently the same when he is at home. I'll bet he's the man who gets the morning paper first, reads it to himself, gives no one else a chance and carries it down town in his pocket. Then there's the fellow who crosses his legs and when any one seeks to pass simply turns his foot edgeways, so that twice as much dirt is rubbed off on a woman's dress and he gets half a shine for nothing. If a bigger man stands still and glares at him he will unfold his legs, but only then. This is the same animal who likes to stretch out in cross seats on the "L" and clean his boots on the edge of the seat. The third of the species is less bold than his brothers. He Is the chap who, when some one gets up, leaving a seat vacant, although there's a tired woman maybe next to him, plumps into the vacant spot, for she has had her back turned and the opportunity was and always is in fact, never neglected by him. The fourth sort Is the rooster who reads another man's paper over his shoulder. I saw one the other day who was so interested in one article that he didn't see that the man who held the paper was furtively and amusedly regarding him. The fact was brought to his attention, however, by the paper being pushed in front. of his face and then withdrawn, and when he looked up a dozen smiling faces made his turn fairly sallow. The fifth is really only a pig. He's not grown, but thinks he is. His nose that's not the word but It will do is retrousse, and the little bristles under it are carefully cared for. He likes to crowd close to a pretty girl and stare at her with a yearning look. If he sits opposite her his eyes rarely wander from hers. I saw one young woman stare at the feet of one of that sort for five minutes. He pulled them back and fidgeted them about, finally resting upon his tres. She kept right on staring and he became very uncomfortable. I'm told that's a sure remedy. He finally got out on the platform. The last of the railroad hogs I know, although there may be others. Is the one who opens his newspaper so as to shut out the view of those on either side of him. If he'd fold it down the center of the page but, pshaw, he won't." Why II Changed Ills Mind. "Some persons," said a well-known detective, "say it is wrong to arrest a man we know to be a criminal simply because he is apt to break tho law. I had a friend who was very strongly opposed to this custom and who used to talk a great deal about liberty, the pursuit of happiness and constitutional rights. He was having his shoes blackened at a corner stand one day, when a young fellow ran from the saloon on the corner, grabbed my friend's watch and ran away with It. He learned that the fellow was well-known in the neighborhood as a thief and that he had been in prison several times. When my friend came to me to have me try to ratch the thief and recover his watch I told him I would do my best and asked him if he did not think it would not have been better had this wellknown thief been locked up, so that he could not be placed In temptation's way. He just looked at me and smiled, but I know he has changed his mind, and that he now believes that any man who ever stole a shoestring should be Imprisoned for life." Ex.

HIGri TEMPPOCi

The dirt Queen of Holland Has Outbursts of Anger. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is byno manner of means the "docile, submissive, and sweet-tempered girl" that she has been represented to be by the English press during her recent visit to London. On the contrary, she is exceedingly hot-tempered and passionate, and is preserved from being downright intolerable only by her warm heart, which causes her quickly to regret any pain she may have inflicted in a moment of anger. Docility and submissiveness are about the last qualifications that could be accorded to her. The members of the royal household at The Hague tell very amusing stories of the battles royal that take place between the young queen and her fat and. in the main, good-humored mother, who experiences the greatest dilficulty in preventing her daughter from giving way to all those extravagant and often preposterous impulses to which young girls of 13 and 16 are so prone. Indeed, Queen Wilhelmina has been known to threaten her mother with all sorts of royal reprisals when she ascends the throne, and those who imagine that she will permit herself to be swayed by the lady who administers the regency with so much sagacity and common sense will find themselves very much mistaken. She gives every promise of ultimately treating her mother in the same way as Queen Victoria did the Duchess of Kent. Queen Victoria was scarcely IS years of age when she ascended the British throne and was fully as hightempered and warm-hearted as young Queen Wilhelmina. Yet as soon as she became queen she coolly relegated her mothr to the background and declined to be influenced or led by her in any way whatsoever, seeking counsel of comparative strangers and showing a considerable amount of animosity to persons such as Sir John Conroy and others of her mother's entourage, who in accordance with the instructions of the duchess had made a point of treating the royal girl with a good deal of strictness, not to say severity. CONDITIONS REVERSED. Journalists Writing to the rictures of Artists Nowadays. "The Tyranny of the Pictorial" Is a theme that moves with well-grounded indignation a writer of the June LIpiencott's. He is greatly annoyed by the present craze for pictures that is converting our literary magazines into picture magazines, and he gives the following striking Illustration of ihU degenerate tendency: "At least one of the magazines published in New York is almost wholly produced, as to its text, by thrc - or four of Its office men, who work over pennames now more or less familiar from repetition on the title-page, and who 'write around' the pictures; that is, they supply the reading matter for somebody's photographs. Very few r .ie readers of this magazine are clever enough to detect this little trick in magazine-making; they fancy that whatever is published in a magazine, on calendered paper with an illuminated cover and with half-tones judiciously sprinkled in to make the best showing, is necessarily high-class reading matter. And. while we may deplore this cheap-John literature masquerading in disguise of the best and highest, we cannot but admire the business intuition of those publishers who recognize the selling value of mere pictures. Of course this subordination of what is literary to what is pictorial is particularlj' hard on the man dependent on his pen, now more numerous than ever before; but he is rapidly learning to take his medicine uncomplainingly, and he either has a camera or is facile enough with pen or pencil to produce a rough sketch which some professional sketch-artist can make over Into a genuine masterpiece and afllx his own name to with fitting artistic indistinctness." NEW WOMAN IDEA SPREADS. Experience of a Suburbanite in Search of a Cook. "You can't tell where you will find the new woman next," said the suburbanite as he reached his ollice and began preparing for his day of work. "What's the matter now?" asked the cashier. "Advertised for a cook," explained the suburbanite. "You wouldn't exieet a cook to be a new woman, would you?" "Well, hardly." "Of course not. Well, the night after I had advertised the door bell rang and I went to the door myself. There stood a rather neatly dressed woman and " "Did fhe want to know your politics?" "No, nothing of that sort." "Did she demand the right to attend all suffrage conventions?" "Certainly not." "Well, then, what was there remarkable about her?" "That's what I'm tryin" to tell you. She wanted to know if we'd advertised for a cook and I told her we had. 'Well. she said, I was out taking a little exercise on my wheel, so I thought I'd take a run out here and apply for the position.' " "Did she wear bloomers?" asked the cashier. "Look here!" demanded the suburbanite. "Do you think I'd have an imitation Turk in my kitchen?" "Not now," admitted the cashier, "but I guess we'll have to come to it. Think of a cook or waitress in bloomers!" Ex. (as I'sed for Cooking. Gas is very largely used for cooking purposes, not only in London, but in country towns. At Maidstone, for instance, at least 2S per cent of those who use gas have discarded coal for cooking purposes. The gas ent out during the daytime for cooking purposes is 4i per cent during the summer and just over 50 per cent during the winter of the total quantity of gas made at the works. She Would If She Were Not. Dick Singleton Is your wife a good cook? Benny DIctus I guess she must be. Dick Singleton What makes you think so? Benny Dictus She never goes into the kitchen. New York World.