Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 October 1905 — Page 6

The Privations , of Wealth. By Cardinal Gibbons.

HE possession of wealth Is an

me that the only really happy days of his life was when he was earning money bj the sweat of his brow, when his weekly income only amounted to dollars and not to thousands. ureai. wealth brings its privations and its sufferings, Tho retribution that trails in the wake of money madness is the poverty of riches. I can think of nothing more lonesome than a man

with an immense fortune. You may remember a little poem that Defoe wrote about Alexander Selkirk, who was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandez, beginning I am monarch of all I surrey; but after a week's residence in the island the tone of the poem changes and the unfortunate castaway bemoans the fact that while he is lord of the land and the beast and the fowl he is desolate. The man with a great fortune is much like him. What is his wealth, his power, his position unless he has the human hand of friendship and fellowship? Good fortune cannot be enjoyed without companionship. Great wealth is an idle thing if it debars the honest grasp of the right hand of the fellow being. There Is no man so poor in human companionship as he who is burdened with riches. H.e pays the penalty of his success. He lives the life of abnegation. With the increase of a rich man's fortune comes the increase of false friendships and the leechlike attachment of sycophants and human bloodsuck-

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They are sure to gather in the muddy pools made by financial corruption,

and then when the explosion comes, when corruption shows forth, these hangers on

poor victim to his own devices. While the spending of a great fortune may be a great task it is the only safety valve to happiness for the man who is encumbered with wealth.

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The Meat Habit.

Too Free Indulgence Mary

AM asked what to do with a small child who wants to eat meat all the time. I certainly would forbid the little daughter meat for a while and later allow her but a small portion once a day only. If you allow a child meat its appetite for the foods best suited to a growing child becomes less, and it may soon turn away from mflk. cereah, vegetables, etc. If a mother realized that the stimulating effect of meat produced in the child a distaste for all less

satisfying food she would soon understand that her child was fonnering a dangerous habit. Dr. Joseph E. Winter tells us that meat by its stimulating effect produces a habit as surely as does alcohol, tea or coffee. He further tells us thai the foods which the meat eating child eschews contains in large proportions certain mineral constituents which are essential to bodily nutrition and health and without which the processes oi fresh growth and developmenl are stunted. Dr. Winter declares there is more so called nervousness, anaemia, rheumatism, valvular diseases of the heart and chorea at the present time in children from an excess of meat and its preparation in the diet than from all other causes combined. The nervous system of a child is a most delicate one, and to its over stimulation (through this free indulgence in the meat habit) are due many future ills. Would we have a stronger race? Do we wish to spare our little ones many unnecessary aches and pains? Then let us look to their eating and daily habits while they are young. The little boy of ten or twelve whose lunch consists of a few pieces of beefsteak and a cup of strong coffee is not to be envied. Mow a Priest Killed

By George W. Alger.

STORY which the writer heard some years ago, and which has an obvious point in connection with what the writer is trying to say here, was told by one of the lobbyists who had been engaged in pushing a "grab" bill through the New York Legislature. The bill failed to pass, and the reform organization and newspapers of New York city, which had denounced it and its Sponsors in unmeasured terms, regarded its failure as one of

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those rare triumphs of aroused public sentiment to which the corrupt legislators had bent and bowed. The lobbyist had a curiously different version of the matter. He said the bill was killed by a little parish priest in one of the sluni districts of New York, who somehow had got interested in the measure, and had come up to Albany and apparently with amazing innocence had asked the ringleader of Strike Legislation, who was one of the active promoters of this particular bill, to use his influence against it. The little priest knew nothing about politics, and read the papers but little; but he had known for a lifetime this particular politician, and knew intimately a side of him not familiar to newspaper readers. He believed in him implicitely, and in absolutely good faith asked him to use his influence against the bill, and succeeded. According to the lobbyist, who presumably knew what he was talking about, the little priest had been more powerful in his influence against the legislation which he opposed than all the newspapers and reform bodies in New York together. He was more powerful, because he was better armed. He knew the good side of the bad man, and how to appeal to It. Atlantic.

The Aim qf Good Teaching' By Arthur Oilman.

IT is vain for a teacher to attempt to work up an appearance when

the reality is not there; girls and boys readily see through all such thin disguises. No word is needed; the feeling of the teacher u known at once, and the pupil takes a sympathetic attitude, believing that the teacher is right, and that following her cannot lead him far astray. The same holds- good in regard to the moral and religious character of the teacher. No spoken words are

needed to put the pupil in accord with

structor of character goes about among her pupils shedding upon them the light of her beneficient example, leading them to appreciate and enjoy what is grand and true instinctively. In fact, it Is better that the ordinary teacher should not endeavor to give too much direct religious instruction, for religion can no more be taught than any other virtue can. Virtues are lived, and the strong imitative faculty of the child leads to the cultivation of traits that are admired. The true teacher alms to train the pupil to be strong enough to live her individual life without the help that some teachers think necessary to give their pupils. " Pupil and teacher are Inevitably destined to part at som time, and the teacher who encourages her charge to be dependent upon her trains her to weakness and to sure failure when the parting time comes. Atlantic

Life - in the Universe. By Professor Simon Newcomb.

kHE fact that, bo far as we have

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small proportion of the visible worlds scattered through space are fitted to be the abode of life does not preclude the probablity that among hundreds of millions of such worlds a vast number are so fitted. Such being the case, all the analogies of nature lead us to believe that, whatever the process which led to life upon this earth whether a special act of creative power or a gradual course

of development through that same process does life begin in every part of the universe fitted to sustain it. The course of development involves a gradual improvement in living forms, which by irregular steps rise higher and higher in the scale of being. We have every reason to believe that this is the case wherever life exists. It is, therefore, perfectly reasonable to suppose that Demgs, not only animated, but endowed with reason, inhabit countless worlds in space. It would, indeed, be very inspiring could we learn by actual observation what forms of society exist throughout space, and see the members of such societies enjoying themselves by their warm fireside. But this is, so far as we cn now see, entirely beyond the possible reach of our race, so long as it is confined to a single world. Harper's Magazine.

Th- Detective in the Woods. What is trailing? The fox hunter has some idea when he sees a superb pack follow a faint scent through a hundred perplexing places, discerning just which way the fox went and when. The detective does anothsr kind of trailing when he follows some trailing clue through the world of thought, tracing the secret of an unknown man along an invisible path and running it to earth at last in the very heart that It belongs to. The trailing of the Indian Is these two combined; to a great extent his eyes do the work of the hound's nose, but the nose Is not Idle. When the trail disappears he must do the human detective work. From a hunter perfectly equipped and who knows the secrets of the trail, a deer can not escape. The trail may seem to end, but the trailer knows . that It does not, except at the victim. It may elude him for a few hours or even a day. It may puzzle him by side tracks and doubles, and may distance him by sheer speed, but the tracker will run it down. Earnest Thompson Cetoa, in Country. Life in America. zzrz. .

Isolation. Andrew Carnegie once toia

the searchlight is turned on and tho and the scuttle away and leave thi Causes Physical Ills. W. Butler. A Grab Eill her in this higher domain. The in yet been able to learn, only a Tery Rico, a native Missourian, who married Miss Harrison, of Audrain, tells this incident, which occurred in his native village, Barry: "In thö local debating society Judge Alex Waller, then a young man just beginning the study of law, was pitted against the village shoemaker, a clever German of the name of Swartz, but locally known as 'Carl Schurz I do not remember the subject of the debate, but Judge Waller then, as now, was capable of quite brilliant flights of oratory and impressed his hearers to such an v extent that when 'Carl Schurz' arose to reply he wa3 somewhat under the spell. His German wit, however, did not entirely desert him and he proceeded as follows: Mr. President, und fellow citizens, mine honorable opponent reminds me of that great American bird, the turkey buzzard; whei he gets up and Eoars he is all ri;ht, but Mr. President, und fellow citizens, venever he lights he always lights on something dedt. The judges decided in favcr of the negative." Moberly (Mo.) cnitcr. A i::zt":i7 T7cziin cl tiirty-thrc:) fcr.3 j-it niTTizl for t3 tirth tir.

RUNDOWN LAND. We have many times published the methods of energeticand Intelligent fanners, In restoring fertility to rundown lands. Many instances have been cited where such lands were bought very cheaply and in a few years of intelligent application have been made very productive and profitable. Most of this class of lands in the Central States have good clay STibsoil, which affords a fine opportunity for resuscitation. Tile drainage and deep plowing are the first steps to be taken in bringing up such lands. Deep plowing reaches down to elements of fertility not much drawn upon, and tile drainage both areates and draws off excessive and stagnant water. Then barnyard manure is used with good effect In making clover or other legume crops catch. Once this is accomplished tbe owner of such lands has a sure promise of future fertility. Occasionally commercial fertilizers are necessary when manure is- not plentiful. With the growth of the legumes there is promise of good Ihre steck conditions, and' with live stock to consume the crops comes more abundant manure, and thU may be followed with grain and other crops in the rotation which rapidly increases both the feriility and productive character of such lands. In nearly every Instance mentioned of restored fertility to worn-out lands, farmers of very moderate means but full of in telligent energy, have accomplished this work. They have usually ob talned such lands In the older states convenient to good markets and counlted on such factors as worth much to them for Their outlay of pa tience and energy, and have so sue ceeded in raising cheap lands to dou ble the amount paid for them. While red clover has been the favorite leg ume in this restoration, In parts of Southern Illinois cow peas which also deposit nitrogen in the soil, and humus, too. when plowed under, hav become a favorite plant in the work or restoring fertility. The live stock Industry when such soils have been restored is a sure guarantee of con tinued fertility. This has proven the case in almost every iustance we have cited, and when convenient to good markets the dairy Industry has led the rest. Indiana Farmer. A BALANCEO-UP HORSE. The breeding of horses is sure to become a profitable business, in Florida, within a' few years. The following, from Wallace's Far mer, contains information that will be useful to such breeders, therefore it would be well to cut out the article and preserve it for future reference: The boys may say: "What's next? What do you mean by a balanced-up horse?" We mean, of course, a horse of proper proportions; and we want you to set to work to find out whether your horses are properly' balanced. We don't suggest that you balance them up a3 you can their rations, but will give the boys something to do. Professor Crabb of the Ohio University, recently made careful measurements of forty-six typical three-year-old draft coirs. He found the average length of the head to be 26.71 inches, and assuming this as the unit of comparison we have the following relative measurements: Head, 1,00; withers, height, 2.47; crupper ("croup") height ,2.48; shoulder to quarter, 2.61; chest to ground, 1.32; circumference of arm. 0.83; of cannon at middle, 0.33; of foot at coronet, 0.70; width of forehead, 0.30; of chest, 0.78; across hips, 0.95; point of hock (hough) to ground, 0.92; circumference of thigh, 0.80; of shank, 0.44; of body, 3.23; length of "croup." 0.91; dorsal angle of scapula to hip, 1.15; length of shoulder. 1.02." Now let the boys who want to know something about horses- go out and measure all these dimensions on each three-year-old colt or mature horse with a tare line, and then figure out how far each "one Is out of plumb, or not properly balanced. Then when they come to buy breeding stock of their own and reach out after some of the good money there will be In the draft horse business for the next ten years they will know how to select both slro and dam. It is a long time ahead, boys, but you can have come education and have it now, and it may be worth a good deal to you after awhile. A CHEAP PAINT. A recipe given by the Scientific American for a cheap and durable paint for the various purposes of the farm buildings is as follows: Stir Into one gallon of milk about three pounds of Portland cement, and add sufficient Venetian red, powder, or any other colored paint powder to impart a good color. The milk will hold the paint in solution, but the cement, being very heavy, will sink to the bottom, so that it becomes necessary to keep the mixture well stirred with a paddle while applying It. This feature of the need of stirring Is the only drawback to the paint; as Its efficiency depends upon administering a good coating of cement, It is sot safe to leave its application to untrustworthy help. Six hours after applying, this paint wlii be aa immovable and unaffected by water a3 a month-old oil-paint. The party who giea thi3 recipe claims that he . has heard of bnildings twenty years old painted In this manner, in which the wood 13 well preserved. The effect cf such a coating seems to be to petrify the surface of the wood. Whole ralEz 13 better than buttermilk ct 3t!rzn:3, zjs ft contain ir-ro CA, czl diz la the ccrttitu-t vhlch ecu

stead of milk, the wash rubs off and soaks off readily. This cement-milk paint flows on smoothly and easily, almost equal to genuine oil-paint; is cheap, easily procurable everywhere and recommended. Farm and Fireside. PREVENTING WBEDS IN POTATOES. Eight or ten days after planting potatoes I go over the rows lengthwise with a weeder that kills .all weeds before they start, and just as soon as the potato sprouts show through the ground I then put a small handful of fertilizer between each plant, being very careful not to let any of the fertilizer touch the plants because it would kill them if it came in contact with them. One man drops the fertilizer and another works It in the ground lightly. After I am through with that operation I then run the cultivator through each row as often as once a week until the tops are large enough to horse hoe. I horse hoe twice and do but very little hand hoeing for the very reason that I use no cow manure and my ground not being weedy and no weed seed In the fertilizer I am not troubled with weeds. A. T. G riffln, In the Massachusetts Ploughman. PREPAIUXG POULTRY FOR MARKET. " " A little extra care and skill in preparing poultry for market will often make a large increase in the selling price. A casual glance at the dressed poultry offered for sale in most markets will reveal the fact that much of it which is of Inferior grade might have sold for top prices if it had been properly picked and packed. People judge poultry by appearance. A choice young fowl, with skin dried and torn, often looks less attractive to a purchaser than an elder and poorer fowl that has been neatly picked, plumped and packed for market. The expense of killing, picking and packing poultry is small in comparison with the first cost of raising It. It is a pity to 6ee good poultry, that has been properly fattered, sell among the inferior grades because of careless handling. KILLING POTATO BEETLES. To destroy potato beetles many prefer to use one pound of Paris green thoroughly mixed in two hundred pounds land plaster for the first application. We have only used a tablespoon level full of green in twelve quarts of water, applying it with the hand sprinkler, knapsack automatic sprayer and horae sprayer. There may, perhaps, be more danger of this destroying the foliage than with plaster, but it has been suggested that one pound of fresh, common lime used with every pound of Paris green in water will counteract the injury that Paris green might do on the plants. Tho New YJork Station saj-s, to test the purity of Pari green, put a small quantity in a little ammonia, or commonly called hartshorn, and pure Paris g.een will all dissolve. II. M. Culbertson, Medina, Wis. MARKETING. In localities where collectors make frequent trips and are willing to pay reasonable prices it will undoubtedly prove best for the poultryman to sell his capons alive, thus escaping the .responsiblitles of dressing and shipping. It is not always possible to sell alive, however, as when one desires to sell to pri vate or retail trade. Dry picking is the favored method for capon3 and In picking the feathers are left on the head and neck, on the wings from the "elbow" out and half way up the legs, the large stiff feathers of the tail are also left. This style of ricking is considered characteristic of a capon. Inland Poultry Journal. A HANDY SEED DROPPER, For tEbse who have small seeds to sow In the kitchen garden, the following is a handy device that will save much stooping. Take a piece of small tin gutter pipe about three and one-half feet long. Put a funnel in one end and flatten the other end so that a grain of corn or a bean will just go through and It will fit into the seed trench. Seeds may be dropped in at fee top, and by holding the lower end close to the ground in the trench it will matter not how the wind blows. If a pipe Is not handy any tinner will makw one for a small amount, or it can be made of nar row strips of thin boards C. H. Hum phreys in The Epitomist How to Know Bugs. At the seventeenth annual meeting of the Association of Economic En tomologists', held recently In Philadelphia, the society recommended the general" adoption of a uniform nomen clature for certain insects, these names being the ones Internationally current among scientists. These in sects, among scientists. There inforth be known as follows: American cockroach, Perlplaneta ameTicana L; bedbug, Klinophilos lectularia L; boll-weevil, Anthronomus grandIiBoh; carpet moth, Tri-rnnhae-a taretzella L; gypsy-moth, Porthetria dispar L; house-fly, Mueca domestica L; San Jose scale, As pidiotus perniciosus Comst; silkworm. Bombyx mori L; tomato-worm, Phlegethontius Eexta Joh. With these names in mind, it Is claimed that any bug on the scientists' list may be readily recognized. Harper's Weekly. pjj gun practice at sea cftea :2xzzi lobsters, in cheer fright, to

Setting Sail. Tomorrow I have wastes of sea to ride, Long wastes, beneath the blue and boundless dome. And wild the wind, and white the breakers comb, But yet I fear not shoal or swelling tide, 1 Home lies the other side! Some other morrow I sharll sail a tide Vaster and darker. But In farther ek! es Through breaking mists what shining heights may rise And in great quietness I shall abide, With home the other side! Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Harper's Magazine.

Ä TIMELY JOKE. By Charles B. Howard. I had spend four lonely days in Hongkong, awaiting the arrival of the steamer for Manila; and Hongkong in August is a charming place to be away from. Every foreigner who could manage it had fled to the hills or to Japan, and I had sweltered on, the veranda of the deserted English Club or wandered disconsolately about the streets, until I was almost, dizzy with the indescribable, peculiarly Chinese atmosphere. I had been advised not to go outside the limits of British jurisdiction, as the Chinese exclusion act had just been rigidly enforced In the United States, and Americans were not popular in the Celestial Empire for the time being. Consequently, although I was the only saloon passenger, I was glad enough to find myself ensconced in a bamboo chair on the deck of the British mail steamer Turquoise as she steamed out from under the shadows of the grim, frowning mountains which border the passage into Hongkong Bay. She was to call at Amoy, a tea port on Formosa Strait, before heading south for Manila. The captain's dog, Pat, a small yellow animal of no particular breed, but of a sociable disposition, came and sat beside me, and together we watched the noisy crowd of Chinamen, Malays and Filipinos in the steerage. We dropped anchor la the pretty little harbor of Amoy soon after sunrise one morning, and the American vice-consul, a stout and jovial gentleman, most beautifully arrayed in creamy silk, came off in his eightoared cutter and joined the captain and me at early coffee. He remarked that he had not seen a follow countryman for six weeks, atd Insisted on my going ashore with him for tifnn and a look at the town. So we were rowed ashore by the consular crew of Japanese, rigged out la white sailor suits, accompanied by Pat, whom the captain asked me to take for a run on land. "He'll follow at your heels all right," said the skipper, as he held the kicking Pat over the rail by the scruff of his neck and nonchalantly dropped him Into the boat. "And if you should lose him I'll try to bear up. Remember, we sail at six sharp, and when you hear two whistles you want to come aboard chop-chop." The various consulates and dwellings of the few foreign residents stood in a picturesque group across the hfrbor from the town itself, for hygienic and other obvious reasons; and after a stroll among the ancient temples and joss-houses scattered here and there and a call at the club, we sat down to tiffin in the cool, vinecovered bungalow which served as the United States vice-consulate. We were served by Japanese house boys, and fanned by a huge, noiselessly swaying punka. Alter a short siesta my host proposed a visit to the city proper. "It's your best chance to see a typically Chines town," said he. "There's not a white man in it, and only one who speaks a word of English old Tan Quin See, the comprador." The cutter soon landed us at a flight of worn, moss-grown steps in the harbor sea-wall, and we began to wend a tortuous way through streets narrower than Boston back alleys, and not nearly go straight or well paved. They were crowded with the lowest olass of Chinese, half -naked and grimy, who made way, for us with sullen ugly scowls, gabbling and muttering among themselves at the intrusion of the "foreign devils." Pat, the captain had predicted, was close at my heels-, adroitly dodging among a . myriad of bare feet. In a few minutes the vice-consul stopped at a doorway. "Aexe's Tan Quin See's shop," he said. "He's a valuable friend of mine, and he'd be greatly hurt if we didn't stop for a cup of tea." He entered a dark little hole, which seemed to be a combination of grocery, wine-shop and museum, and led the way into a room in the rear. Here we were most effusively greeted by a drled-up little old man, who shook hands in European fashion and pattied at me in pidgin-English. The old comprador seated us In wonderfully carved ebony chairs at a wonderfully carved and inlaid table, and proceeded to make tea in true Chinese fashion pouring boiling water on a pinch of leaves in each handleless cup, and serving it without milk or sugar. After our fifth cup the vice-consul and he fell to talking business, for which the former apologized to me, saying that they would be through directly. ;- Leaving them to their chat, I strolled out to tbe front door and stood watching the passg throng. A moment later my attention was attracted by a crowd suddenly gathering, apparently in great excitement, at a ctreet corner some - twenty yards cyay. Curiosity getting the bstter of Cltcretion, I left the doorway and walked up to see what was going on, TTith tho cYcr-fthfd Pt h ttt:sd-

I found what looked like a toy tem -

pie, which two men had set down on the ground, and which the crowd was examining closely, with much gesticulation and yelling. Wnat it was all about I do not know to this day, lor just then I heard a loud yelp from Pat, followed by a series of furious barks, and turned to find him savagely shaking a rag which served as the only article of apparel worn by an urchin about ten years old, who, I suspect, had been up to some prank with Pat's caudal appendage. The little imp was unhurt as to body and limbs, but ho promptly set up a rear of fright which drowned every other sound, and was the most natural noise I had heard for weeks. Pat 'loosened bis hold &a I seized him, while the youngster was swung aloft out of harm's way, by a tall Chinaman, whose face, as he turned to me, was the very incarnation of fury. Holding the yelling brat on- one arm, he shook the other fist in my face, stamping and shrieking with rage. The crowd closed in. and I was Instantly surrounded by angry yellow men, chattering and screaming like a cageful of apes, and clawing the air with skinny arms and long-nailed hands. Pretty thoroughly scared, I Instinctively dug into a pocket, and offered a handful of loose change to the tall man. He snatched it as a wild beast snatches meat, but it had not the slightest effect on his temper, and he seemed on the point of striking at my face with his claw-like hand. I was totally unarmed, save for an ordinary walking-stick, which I raised to ward off the Impending blow. Then I stepped quickly backward. The crowd behind made way with the cowardly instinct of an unorganized mob, but closed in front just out of reach of my stick, screaming and gesticulating as before. I continued backing until I was fairly clear, and then turned and ran, as I thought, toward Tan Quin See's shop. Unfortunately, in . my bewilderment I started down the wrong street, not discovering the mistake until I had sprinted some distance, with the howling swarm close behind. The miserable Pat scudded ahead, his unlucky tail bstween his logs, adding his terrified yaps to the general uproar. A stone whizzed close to my head, followed by another, and feeling that I was now in real danger, I dodged down the first side street which seemed to me to lead in the direction of the shop and unexpectedly found myself in a a blind alley. ending in a brick wall about seven feet high, with a sort of ledge or shelf running along its foot. 4 Jumping up on this, I backed up against the wall and raised my hands aloft in token of surrerder. The crowd closed round as before, their combined voices now sounding like one continuous, steady shriek, without cadence or rise or fall. Every hand that I could see gripped a stone or fragment of brick the Chinese rowdy's weapon of offense. I could see over the pigtailed heads which filled the narrow alley, and still holding my hand3 aloft a gesture which seemed to puzz'e them, for the stone-throwing had temporarily ceased I noticed in the street outside a jinrikisha occupied by a portly old merchant, well-dressed in clean blue silks, with a red button on u ..6, - rank of mandarin. He was gazing placidly at the crowd, his hand3 com fortably folded on his rotund stomach, and my frantic efforts to attract his attention elicited no response whatever. He probably had no sympathy to waste on unlucky foreigners. Imagining that he could not see me through the forest of waving arms, I turned and grasped the edge of the wall, with the idea of climbing up. Then the shriek of the mob turned to a snarling roar, and I felt the stinging blows of half a dozen stones, while countless others broke against the wall or sailed over. I made a wild leap in hope of finding a temporary haven of refuge on the other side and crash came my helmet against something hard, which smashed It down over by face like an extinguisher. I made a frantic grab at the air to stive myself from tumbling backward, and clutched a roll of sinewy shoulder muscle. At the same tirpe somebody grasped my coat collar, and here I hung for a moment with dangling legs, in the uncongenial embrace of an athletic Chinaman, who had evidently tried to leap on the wall from the farther side, to see the fun, with disastrous results to my helmet and hi3 head. Simultaneously we each managed to get a leg atop and to scramble up, where we sat astride, face to face, while I extricated my head from the remains of my helmet, and he rubbed his shaven poll with one hand and his damaged shoulder with the other, uttering a series of Indignant gutturals. Expecting another shower of stones, I turned to look at the crowd and continued to look for some time In bewildered amazement. For instead of ehrieking with anger as- before, they were now yelling with laughter, staggering about, and doubling up in & very ecstasy of glee, like so many Georgia darkles at a "hoe-down," their expression- of malignant hate turned to that of the jolllest, happiest fun. Even the tall man with the child, who towered head and shoulders above the rest, was grinning from ear to ear, while the fat old party In the jinrikisha was- shaking like a jelly-bag;' and Pat, on hte hind legs, wa3 madly clawing at the wall. I had just about concluded that the whole thing was one awful nightmare when the vice-consul came pushing into the alley, and elbowed his way to the wall, followed bj Tan Quin See. "Thank Heaven!" he exclaimed. "I thought you were done for. How did you know enough to do it? But come along cut of this and explain on- the way. The Turquc!r3 h3 wtls.tled.' We n:is our xrzy tfircuch tho now cc-ial croxrd Trithcut ccItlcn.

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lowed down to the sea-wall by a hilarious procession of my late enemies. There we bade farewell to Tan Quin See, and on the way to the s.eamer I related the whole story. "Well, well," said the vice-consul, as he wiped his ruddy face, "that Jump of yours, and getting your helmet bashed over your face, has probably saved me the trouble of cabling Uncle Sam for a gunboat You were within an ace of being stoned to death, but you discovered by accident the secret of controlling a Chinese mob, which Is at once the most dangerous In the world and the most childish. If you ever get into a scrape like that again remember this: Do something, no matter what, to make 'em laugh, and you're safe till next time." Youth's Companion. DO ATHLETES DIE YOUNG? Some Pertinent Statistics That go to Refute a Widely Popular Fallacy. According to Dr. William G. Anderson, in his article on Making a Yale Athlete, in Everybody's Magazine, college athletics teud to prolong rather than to shorten life. "The hostile criticism," says Dr. Anderson, "that athletes 'die young has been so often made without definite refutation1 that it passes for truth among those who mistake rumor for fact. An investigation of the health and longevity of college athletes must be exhaustive to lurnish trustworthy data. Realizing the importance of such statistics. Professor Franklin B. Dexter, the Librarian of Yale, has recently completed the task of collecting the records of 7C1 athletes who competed In intercollegiate events and won their 'Y's' on the eleven, the nine, the crew, and the track team between 1855 and 1004. This, material was gathered for a prominent lifeinsurance company, and later given to the director of the gymnasium. The main deductions are as fjllo'ws: "Of these 7G1 athletes, 51 have died since graduation. The causes were: Consumption, 12; pneumonia, 4; drowning, C; heart disease, 2; suicide, 2; war and accident. 3; died from unknown causes, or disappeared, 10; from various diseases (fevers, appendicitis, cancer, diphtheria, paresis, dissipation, etc.), 12. ' "Of these 51 men, 18 rowed, 1C played football, 11 were track athletes, and 6 played baseball. The ages' of those who have died show these extremes and averages: Sport. Extremes of Average age age. at death. Crew 20 to CS years 41.7 years. Football 22 to 37 years C0.3 years. Baseball 20 to S3 years 2S.3 years. Track 21 to C3 years 25.4 years. "Turning to the 710 living athletes: Tho?e who have passed 40 may be thus grouped: 113 men are between 40 and 49 years of age. SC men are between 40 and 59 year3 of age. 22 men or between CO and C9 years of age. "Of the Yale athletes in their latter years, T4' are between CO and C3 years, one is C3, three are C6, one is C7, "two are C8, and one is C9 In brief, barring violent deaths, only 40 of these 7G1 Yale athletes, in a period of nearly fifty years, have been lost from the ranks of the living. "I have been assured by a life in?urance expert tfiat coiiege athletes, . . . w barring the track men. show a bet ter average expectation of life than their non-athletic classmates, and much better than the general average of insured "lives." ADVANCED SCHOOL FOR LIARS. MontcJair's Peculiar Educational In

stitution Making Progress. At Montclalr, X. J., ono of the most " interesting experiments In education

al endeavor has been started by the Board of "Education, In the establishment of a school for the exclusive mental upbuilding of half "developed Intelligences, and their corrollarles of vlclousness, sullenness, lack of perception and mendacity. It is in charge of Professor Frank P. Gray, a veteran teacher and a close student of psychology, and already he has made remarkable progress in awakening the dullard brains of a score of pupils, who heretofore have been regarded as incorrigible and beyond improvement. On of the peculiar cases was that of a boy who had no conception of distances. He could not distinguish between one inch and two inches, when the marks wero plainly before him on paper. In other respects he was fairly bright. Another boy was unable to understand the four cardinal points of the compass. North, south, east and west meant the same thing to him but he could read well and write legibly. This was a particularly 'interesting case. Professor Gray discovered that the pupil waa .acklng completely In the power of ' concentration- His thoughts could not be fixed for more th.Tt' a few sec- " onds at a time on any one subject, and as a consequence he had no sense of place or location. He was drilled constantly until this abnormal condition was corrected, and now he can box the compas like an old mariner. Lying, with no purpose, was- the most extensive fault with which Professor Gray had .o deal. It took a long time to arouie the latent moral

eense in the pupil's who had this habit, but patlfnce and perseverance prevailed, and today the class Is fairly V,'

truthful and reliable. All the effort of the teacher Is directed toward bringing tfie normal out r;f the abnormal before there Is any attempt to go Into the rudiments of "book learning." New York Press. The Danube flows through countries in which fifty-two languages and dialects are spoken. Hcucewlve3 la ncrlda scrub their Coors with cranjes.

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