Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 February 1906 — Page 6

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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

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Boston have adopted as their motto the sentiment expressed in the above lines. "If you never do more than you are paid for, you vill never get paid for more than you do," is the way they put It. These girls have, early in their career, discovered

the secret of business success. It is a principle that feis worked itself out in life a thousand times, and always to the advantage and success of the follower of It. It has been the foundation stone of many a notable career. Men right here in Pittsburg have accepted it j their motto and have risen to eminence through it. The streets are crowded with men and. women who Lave failed In life because they were looking for the oft snap and the easy Job. Pull may get a man a position, only hard work and merit lead to his advancement LH more than you are paid for! It is a motto that might well be expanded into a philosophy for life. It stands for fidelity, for honesty and for efficiency. It stands for courage, purpose and zeal. It recognizes the value of sincerity and abhors sham. It is the true pathway of worth and merit leading upward to the aerene heights of fame and business prosperity. Those who do more than they are paid for, will soon have stamped upon them the seal of approval by their employer. When hard times come, as come they sometimes do, the man who gives more than value received vill be kept on the pay roll, while the man who scamps his work and shirks his duty will be released. Look out for the young man who says: 4,I wasn't paid to do this, therefore, I won't do it." Very presently he will not be paid for what he does want to do. Shirkers and Jerkers are not wanted in any department of life and labor. The worker is always sure of a steady and well-paying iosition. He exemplifies in his life the doctrine of the survival of the fittest. The man who gives less than he receives will be left behind In the race of life. Men who expect much and give little are doomed to disappointment. They may accumulate money, but their lives are destitute of the achievements which mean success. The only path to an honest success is found In giving more than value received. The servant. In order to retain the respect and consideration of his employer, must not alone be worthy of his hire, he must be more than worthy. Worth Is the stepping stone to better things. Pittsburg Press.

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ov.ifi.iiui. ovuuui ui Attic, icieuuj liiuticexperiments to determine the hygienic modicum of food suitable for a healthy human being. Taking as subjects three

classes of men, a number of Yale professors, a number of students and a squad of soldiers from the regular army, he put them on a diminishing diet. His experiments lasted from six months to a year. He compelled them to take physical exercises regularly. At the conclusion of the experiments the weight of the subjects was in some cases exactly what it had been before, and In some cases slightly lower, but all the subjects, he reports, gained in strength and bodily vigor during the experiment The daily consumption of food toward the end of the period was only from oue-half to one third as much as that of the average healthy man, although Professor Chittenden endeavored to satisfy the appetite of each subject. And Professor Chitten

THE UNLUCKY CZAR. JLouk l.lt of Mishaps Which Have Attended Ills Career. It has been suggested that Nicholas II-, Czar of all the Russians, is tne unluckiest of living men. One would have no difficulty In showing at least that the Czar has had more mischance than any other monarch on a throne. His first mishap was that which prophetically came to him in Japan. He was touring Europe and Asia In 1S9I with Prince George of Greece. At Uasuri. Japan, although he had had splendid entertainment from the Mikado, there was a feeling antagonistic to Russia, and a Japanese drew a word to kill him, when Prince George thrust it aside. Afterward a Japanese maiden, in atonement, went to a temple, placed a sword hilt down on the ground and fell upon it. You might call the event good or bad luck, since the then Czarewltch was preserved. But what he was preserved for was to turn later the first sod of the Sl- ' ir ...... ijc-y. at'rü.ffä . All CZX2 NICHOLAS. fcerlan Railway at the eastern end ; and for the dignity which he in no measure desired, but shrank from of the crown which came to him soon after by reason of the death of his father, AlexAnder III., at Llvadia. This attack occurred in Maya month eventful to Nicholas II. It was In May that he was born, thirty-seven years ago, and in Slay he was crowned, .leven years ago. lie did not want at 2G to rule the destiny of 130,0C0 people. He had always detested official life and the homage of courtiers. But the duties and responatbillties of autocracy fell npon him. He began badly. On the occasion of Ills coronation thousands of his poorer subjects were crushed to djith on Khudynskol Plam. On that plain came what many regarded as the fatal evidence of the ill luck which pursues and makes his life woeful. Just before his accession he had become betrothed to tte Princess Alix of Hesse. This, too, was outside his reckoning. Gossip had it that he diJa't want to marry a , Mercian princess, and that the Princess t Eslena d'Orleans, daughter of the 09m te de Paris, was very much admixed by him. . However much a liberal at heart, the beat .accounts agree that the Czar took up , his Inherited authority first with distaste, and then with firm purpose of mntlnnin his father's nnliri. TT a kept bis father's counselors, and declared he wonkl uphold the principle of autocracy. 4lHis ill luck Interfered here, too. Po- - MedonotseiT was obliged to retire. Murarleif was taken from him by sud .din death' IL de Plehve, bis baleful . -

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den's judgment is that the average man eats from tw to three times as much as he needs or ought. With all respect to Professor Chittenden, however, a good many people will still insist that the average man does not eat too much. The great majority of people are compelled to live frugally and they cannot afford to eat a great deal more than they need. They consider themselves fortunate to be able to satisfy their appetite, and few of them are inclined to cram food down their throats when appetite proclaims Itself satisfied. Appetite is nature's measure of what Is a sufficiency of food and there are very few of us who would not go about hungry If we lessened our daily consumption of food by one-half or two-thirds. Alimentary troubles come, it Is reasonably &rte to say, from the quality rather than the quantity of food taken. Poor cooking and adulterated food doubtless damage the health of many people. It Is said that hygienic cooking is little known in this country, and there is very little foodstufT that is not "doctored" In one way or another. San Francisco Bulletin.

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men of letters were poor spellers, in many instances. Still, the average has gone down-hill, it appears. Perhaps the memory of tne tingling cheeks, and the ready birch in the teacher's hand, which accompanied a "spell down," makes us children of an older growth think that we learned to spell better than do these youngsters, nowadays. Usually, with the old methods. It did not pay to miss the same word twice. Why is it," the iju stiou used to go, "that all the bad spellers become Mgn painters?" Is it because of the strict union rules, nowadays, that the bad spellers have deserted sign painting and overflowed iuto all the other occupations? Have modern methods of teaching overlooked the desirability of teaching the boys and girls spelliug and the three R's. in order to cram their little heads with ornamental accomplishments? There has been a widespread belief that the restoration of the old fashioned spelling bees, "spell up and spell down," would be a good thing. The Brooklyn Eagle thinks so, to such an extent that it has offered prizes on condition that the public school principals will let their pupils take part in a series of spelling matches. The principals do not take kindly to the notion. The Eagle says: The nub of the matter is just this, the public school children cannot spell. The principals of the high schools know that they cannot spell, as does everybody else who has occasion to receive ietters from them. If a series of competitions were held this most troublesome fact of the school situation to those on the inside might be revealed to the gerat body of parents and taxpayers. Then there might arise such a hue and cry for common sense and the fundamentals of education as would annoy the authorities who now make out our scientific and philosophical course of study, which slights spelling fur general information about everybody from Confucius and Buddha down to Admiral Togo. If the school should once begin to make time enough for fundamentals, of which spelling is easily first, there is no telling how many fads and frills would have to be cut out to lind the time for essentials." Albany Argus.

DAMAGE of the Sheffield linister of the interior, a Muscovite grand vizier, was destroyed by a bomb. His best beloved uncle, the Grand Duke Sergius, was blown to pieces by a bcoib. His governor of finance was struck down. Death has threatened his own person many times. In Italy, in 1003, a man named Goertz was apprehended in time to spoil a plot of assassination. An anarchist obtained admission to a state reception at the palace at TsarskoeSelo Id the uniform of a superior officer of the gendarmerie and was discovered with bombs in his pockets. Just in time. A girl student, Mile. Merezhevsky, was frustrated in an attempt to kill him at the spring review hi 1904. When, last January, with his court the Czar was ending the ceremony of blessing the water of the river Neva, a shrapnel from a battery which was firing a salute exploded near the royal pavil'oii, Lllling one man and wounding others. He completed the Trans-Siberian Hallway, as his father desired. In order to consolidate Russian power In Asia and extend Russian trade, industry and commerce. But this railway was one of the causes that brought about the unlucky war with Japan. A ROTARY FIDDLE BOW. Does Away with Old-Time Scraping and is Bis Improvement. A wonderful advance has Just lately been made In violin playing by the invention of the so-called "rotary fiddle bow," which Invention Is the product of the brain of Tronjhem Qualmqulst, of Lesueur, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It isn't a bow at all, but a wheel about eight Inches in diameter, constructed of rawhide and made of revolve by pedal and flexible shaft in the same manner that a dentist runs his drills and other tooth-boring contrivances. Every one realizes that the great drawback to violin music is the constant seesaw back and forth which the player is compelled to indulge in in order to produce the music. He "fiddles" slowly when he wants a slow tune and saws with lightninglike rapidity when the exigencies of the music make him hurry, and this waving to and fro of his elbow sometimes detiacts In a slight degree from the proper solemnity of the occasion. But with this new contrivance no see-sawlng is necessary. The violin is held in the usual position and the wheel held in the other hand, when brought into contact with the violin strings, produces the musical vibrations by whirling its prlmeter across the chords. The wheel is so geared that It can be made to run ten times as fast as the man can draw a bow and so regulated with a small brake, worked with the fingers, that the speed can be Instantly changed from fast to slow or the other way, as desired. It can be made to touch one string only, or more than one, exactly as a bow is used, and by hold ing it erect or tipping it to one side the full breadth of the edge of the wheel is brought In contact with the string or only the sharp edge of the perimeter. With a bow the same tone can be prolonged for only the length of time that the musician is drawing his hand one full length, but no such restriction is necessary when the wheel Is used and the musician may dwell on one note zs long as he de sires and shade off Into other notes without the stop or jerk necessary when he uses a bow. The Improvement Is marvelous and Is sure to come into general use. It Is not patented, and will not be, for i m Qu&lmqulst sayi that he would M - -

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generation can't spell. True, there was complaint that some of the forefathers of the present generation could not spell. George Washington, Andrew Jackson and other men eminent in our history conducted a spell-as-you-please. Ancient

as scon think of making people pay for the air they breathe as to restrict them in any way regarding musica. enjoyment THE STRANGER'S SHEAF. It la Not Alwaya K 1 11 dent to Koono. mlie Too CloNely. "People grow mean," old Jimmy complained, as he emptied his basket of cinders into the cart drawn by his small grandson. "Time was when I could easy get me winter's coal here on the dump; but sure iverybody sifts their ashes now, and there's nothing frown away but clinkers." Old Jimmy was crippled and almost helpless. His daughter's family would have suffered from cold sometimes had it not been for such poor fuel as the city refuse-carts provided. Old Jimmy himself needed the occupation and the stay to his pride that he found In picking cinders." To one who could appreciate his manful iudeemlence, it seemed almost a crime that the a-sb-heaps should yield so little. "There are well-to-do people who will never give us a garment while they think there's 'one more wear' left in it," said an officer of the Salvation Army's Industrial branch, the department that takes all kinds of cast-off things and tries to make them useful. "I don't decry economy ; we practice it and foster it: but I have queer thoughts sometimes, when we get clothing that would make a self-resiecting rag-bag blush." Some Old World communities perpetuate a beautiful custom that one can trace back to the days of the Hebrew lawgivers. At harvest-time the last sheaf is left standing in the fleht It is the stranger's sheaf, sacred to him or her who has no land, and, good year or bad, it is never withheld from the needy. If one begrudges it, tradition says, ho need look for no blessing on his crop. One can conceive of a man threshing out the wheat for himself and leaving the straw for the stranger. That would be better than nothing. Wheat straw would make a bed, or one might twist it and burn it for warmth. But it Is a finer thing to give the sheaf. To save Is a commendable habit, but small savings are not always commend able. There are times when it is bet ter not to sift the ashes, better not to get "one more wear out of the gar ment that Is to be given away. One may be economizing at the expense of one who is suffering for the coat and liable to freeze If deprived of the cin ders. Youth's Companion. Effects of Canary Bird Seed. A Kansas man's wife left him to run the house and get his own meals for a week or two. He cooked, as. he thought, the breakfast food every morn ing. When the wife returned she noticed that her husband tvlttered and he himself acknowledged an inclination to warble. It was found that he had cooked and eaten a whole package of canary seed. He says he is always re sisting an Inclination to sleep with his head under his arm. Indianapolis Journat Dubious. "1 ree mat our inenu .nas taxen a hand in politics." I am not sure," answered Senator Sorghum, "wnetner ne nas tacen a hand in It or merely put his foot in it" Washington Star. Hltcnea. "Hitch your wagon to a star,' Is advice of wondrous worth; Easier this to follow, far, "Hitch your airship to the earth.

Ednatr Reeommtnili Vivisection for Condcmntd Criminal. Vivisection is the alternative which Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews, of the Nebraska State University, would offer to condemned criminals. He advocates such a course in the interests of medical and surgical science believing that the result would bo for the good of humanity. Should convicts thus submitted to the knife of the experimental surgeon survive the ordeal, they would be given their freedom. The chance of survival, Andrews believes, would induce many condemned men to take their chances rather than go to the gallows. Many of the problems of medical science require the use of live subjects, he points out, and in no way can they be secured under the present system. Even when animals of the lower order are used much protest is heard. No human being could be permitted to volunteer under ordinary circumstances, but a person whose life is claimed by the law, he believes, could be permitted to accept an alternative which might offer him a chance to live. "A body used in that way," says the chancellor, "might easily produce benefit to the race compared with which

CHANCELLOR E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS.

that of a soldier's death In battle would tseem trilling. It is a fact that no further progress In surgical or medical science can be made through the stud of the human cadaver. All advance In anatomy and physiology for the ad vancement of medicine and surgery for the prevention of disease, pain and death, must come from vivisection. One of the most useful services to humanity which a live human body could per form would be to allow its use for pur poses of experimentation, under anesthesia or otherwise. "One would not go so far as to wish hardened murderers under condemna tion forced against their wills to serve science In that way ; but. they might submit in many instances rather than face the certain fate of the noose or the electric chair. The law demands the life of the condemned man and the sole purpose of the executioner Is to take it as expeditiously as possible. The object of the surgical experiment alists would be to attain the great benefits for science, and would not noi-essarily mean the extinction of life. It is probable that the exieriment could best be made of advantage to society in general through observation during the process of experimentation. followed by the application of the methods of surgery and medicine for the preservation of life in the wounded body. "The law could make provision that the convict surrendering himself for the benefit of science should have the advaf.tage of every safeguard for his protection against death consonant with the success cf the experiment. Under such conditions it would seem fair to commute the death sentence of an in corrigible murderer. Society would re ceive the benefit of the additional knowledge thus secured and all the de terrent effect of the death penalty would be secured." WOMEN AS WAGE EARNERS. Latent Census Flg-nres Offer Instruc tive Information. It Is the desire of every woman who looks upon life at all seriously to make herself able to win her own way, says the Delineator. This does not always mean the earning of money. Often, when the circumstances are fortunate, there Is no compelling necessity, but even then the desire exists. It Is the boast of not only one but scores of wealthy families that the daughters could take care of themselves if poverty should come. But employment, while a requisite in right living, is not all. The positive quality of achievement is the strong note In modern womanhood. And so we find women making progress in almost every avenue of action and of enterprise. We have before us a list of things she has done and won in the past few months. They Include practically the whole program from Inventions to medals for heroism and the discovery of a new star. We read of the employments in which she finds welcome and profit several hundreds of them embracing almost all work that Is worth while. How many women are making their way? The figures vary, but four or five millions in America alone draw wages that pay for their support uad besides that put into th sayings banks from fifty to a hundred million dollars every year. The latest census figures offer instructive information. For instance: Women Journalists Increased from 883 In 1800 to 2,195 in 1900; women lawyers Increased from 20.3 in 1SD0" to 1,010 in 1900; women authors and scientists Increased from 2,764 In 1890 to 5,984 In 1900; women musicians and teachers of music increased from 34,'519 in 1890 to 52,359 In 11XX); women physicians and surgeons increased from 4,557 In 1890 to 7,357 In 1900; women teachers and professors increased from 24C,0C(j in 1890 to 327,G14 in 1900; women stenographers and typewriters Increased from 21,270 In 1890 to 8U1S in 1900; women telegraph and telephone operators increased from 8,474 in 1S90 to 22,55(3 in 1900. In ten occupations the women increased more than 1,400,000 in ten years. That was for the period between 1890 and 1900. Who will venture to guess the figures for the decade Into whose second half we are now entering. Not Informed. "That man is always talking about the misfortune of the American Indian," said one college student. "I guess he doesn't read the football news," replied the other. Washington Star. When a man. loses his position, h has as many explanations as a glrj vteQ to engagement Is brokea,

Tear 1S05 Sales. Th total distributive sales for 1905 ixceeded $200,000,000. Thla total is realized from the sale of fresh meats (beef, mutton and pork); provisions, produce (poultry, butter and eggs), soaps, glues, oils, bones, fertilizers, feathers, casings, hides, wools, pelts and other by-products derived from cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry. Margin of Profit. The industry is operated on a margin of less tl an 2 cents to each dollar of sales. Swift & Co. do not sell at retail. Their entire output is sold at wholesale to many thousands of dealers In various parts of the world. There are hundreds of local slaughterers throughout the United States, who buy their live stock in competition with the packer doing an interstate and International business. Likewise the packer must sell In competition with the local slaughterers. There are no secret processes in the industry, no complicated and expensive factories, and as live stock can be purchased in almost every hamlet and city, and the preparation of meala is simple in the extreme, local slaughtering will long remain a factor in the production of fresh meats and provisions. Economic Advantage. The large packing houses will, however, always have these advantages: Locations at the chief live stock centers, with the opportunity to buy the best live stock; manufacturing in large quantities, at the minimum of expense; utilization of all waste material; refrigeration; mechanical appliances; highly efficient business management. These advantages are reflected in the quality of the packer's output, a quality that has reached its highest development in the products bearing the name and brand of -Swift." Purchasing Lire Stock. The principal live stock centers are Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. SEQUOYAH WAS A GENIUS. Was Inventor of Alphabet nml Called "American Catlmus." Se juoyah. for whom It has been suggested that the proposed new State be named, was a genius of his day, and all Indians have agreed that his name should be perpetuated by giving it to the State, if separate statehood is granted, says the Muskogee (I. T.) correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sequoyah was half German, and his German name was George Guess Ghiest. He was born in the old Cherokee Nation, Georgia. He could neither read nor write, yet was the inventor of the Cherokee-American alphabet, and was styled among the Indians as the American "Cadmus." He was born Hbout 1703, and died in 1S44, while in search of a lost band of Cherokee Indians in Mexico. He perfected the alphabet In 1821, and since 1829 books and newspapers have been published in the Cherokee language. In 1822 he moved to the new Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, and lived near where the town of Muldrow now stands, his trading post being Fort Smith, Ark.. 6ome of -the old inhabitants of which till remember him. The Cherokee-American alphabet contains eighty-six characters, and is one of the wonders of the world, considering the fact its originator was an Illiterate Indian. The Indian mind is remarkable for Its association of ideas, and the idea of writing by Sequoyah's method was at once associated with branding cattle, and to this day the words, writing, printing or branding are expressed in the Cbero kee tongue by the same word: "De-gah-la-tah-naah." Sequoyah carved the various characters out of the bark of trees, and to this fact 93 per cent of the Cherokees owe their ability to read and write. The Bible was translated into the Cherokee language anl has been the means of teaching Christianity among these Indians. The Cherokee Advocate, established at Tahlequah in 1844. Is still in existence, and is the only newspaper of the kind in the world. A porcupine's bill is strengthened by ribs iu the same way that the iron masts f modern ships are strengthened. An article published in a newspaper of Hungary recently led to thirteen duels, in all of which members of the editorial force took part. Dane lu Being: Refornier. "A reformer has many difficulties to face." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. As soon as the public discovers a reformer it makes so much of him that his personal vanity is in danger of being developed until it destroys his usefulness." Kansas City Star. Flooring Him. "Thirty dollars for a measly little hat like that! Why, Mrs. Brownson has a hat twice as large, and I'll bet it didn't cost a dollar more!" "Mrs. Brownson's hat! Why, George, that hat of Mrs. Brownson's never cost a cent more than $4!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hovr It "Cot There." "How goes your new book?" "Splendid. First edition exhausted on the day of publication." "You don't say?" "Fact big fire in the publishing house!" Atlanta Constitution. Penalty far Disobedience. The thief had broken through and was stealing. "Serves 'em rlfht," he atid, "for layIn up their treasure so nice an convenient on top of this burau, where I crjx git at 'em." The moth and rust, meanwhile, were at work in other portions of the elegant and costly mansioD. The Cbagi. Mrs. Chagwater Joslah, is there a maple sugar trust? Mr. Chugwater Yes; a sort of one. It's the forestry bureau of the real sugar tnat, i

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Louis, St. Joseph, St Paul and Fort Worth. The same methods of purchasing cattle, sheep and hogs prevail at all cities. At Chicago, which Is the largest market, there are about two hundred and fifty buyers, representing packers, local slaughterers in various cities, and exporters. Of this number, less than a score are employed by Swift & Company. The farmer ships his live stock to Chicago, consigns them to a commission firm at the Union Stock Yards, who sees that they are unloaded and put In pens. Then the buyers Inspect them, make their offers to the commission dealer, who accepts or rejects as his Judgment dictates. All buying must be finished at 3 o'clock each day, and th? eyer must pay spot cash. If the conwwssion man has no satisfactory offers, lie can hold his stock over to the next day. He gets his commission from the farmer, and naturally strives to get the highest possible price for his client. Wholesale Distributing Houses. A wholesale distributing house Is a giant refrigerator, but instead of shelves there are trolley rails, from which are suspended hooks to hang the carcasses. Some of the houses cost as much as a hundred thousand dollars to build and equip. As a rule they are of pressed brick, the insides being lined floor, walls and ceiling with highly polished hardwood. The Coors are covered dally with fresh sawdust and all are kept spotlessly clean. There are over three hundred of these wholesale houses in various cities of the United States, and the public is always welcome to visit them. Packing- Plants. All the Swift & Company plants are located at the great live stock markets, in the heart of the great agricultural sections, where can be purchased tue finest grades of cattle, sheep and hogs. We have seven packing plants, employing at each from two to eight thousand persons. The following gives the locations and sizes of the different plants. VALUE OF A HEN'S EGG. Easily Assimiluted and Highly Nutritious Food for Man. Here are some facts and figures relative to the hen's egg which may not be without interest to the student of poultry possibilities. Its average length is two and twenty-seven hundredths inches, its average diameter at the broad end one and seventy-two hundredths Inches, and it weighs about one-eighth of a pound. The pullets are smaller than those of old hens. The shell constitutes about 11 per cent., the yolk 32 per cent and the white 07 per cent of the total egg. Chemically speaking, an egg consists of two nutrients protein and fat together with some water and a small quantity of mineral matter. Popular belief to the contrary, there Is no difference in the nutritive qualities of eggs with dark shells and those with light. Their flavor is affected by the food of the fowl, for good or for evil. Exhaustive experiments by wellequipped investigators prove that the egg deserves its reputation as an easilv assimilated and highly nutritious food, if eaten raw or lightly cooked. Such experiments also show that eggs at 12 cents per dozen are a cheap source of nutrients; at 1G cents, somewhat expensive, and at 25 cents and over, highly extravagant. The basis of comparison was the market prices of standard flesh foods considered In relation to their nutritive elements. But there is a physiological constituent of eggs which is of great value, yet it defies the search of the scientist or the Inquisition of the statistician, and that is their palatability. Unless a food, however rich in proteins, is relished, it loses imieh of its value, while per contra, a less chemically desirable food that is enjoyed becomes valuable by reason of that fact. Success Magazine. Training the Roy. "I saw you punishing your boy today. What was it all about':" "I caught him In a lie." "Oh, well, you can't expect a boy to teü the truth all the time." "I know; but when he doesn't tell the truth I want him to be bright enough not to be caught at it." Catholic Standard and Times. Count Boui Ue Castellane is reported to be anxious to become President of France Evening It Up. j Wicks Ilear what Snlffklns did when the collection plate came around to him in church last Sunday? j Hicks No. Dropped a button In, 'i suppose. Wicks Not even that. He leaned over and whispered, "I paid the pastor's fare this morning in the car. We'll call it square." Drawback. "Well," said the landlady, as the new boarder was about to begin his second week, ''how do you like our establishment?" "Oh, pretty well," replied the n. b., "except the meals are usually arranged so as to interfere with what I'd like to do." "What would you like to do?" queried the landlady. "Eat," was the significant response. Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. Johnson. A Breezy Section. Stranger (in Oklahoma) Ton don't have any skyscrapers out here, do you? Sagebrush George Don't, eh? Any one o' them shacks Is liable to be a skyscraper during the cyclone season! Verr LlUely. "What's, the old lady doing now?" asked the old stocking In the work basket. "She's getting out her needl and yarn," replied the scissors. "Well, well!" exclaimed the stocking, "I'll be darned." Philadelphia Press. ,

Facklnir Plants. Floor Buildings, Space, Land, Acres. Arrea. Acres. Chicago 44ft 879 47 Kansas City .... 7 SO 19 v. Omaha 6 26 23 St. Louis 7' 19 31 St. Joseph 6Vi 25Vi 19!i St. Paul 5 12 10 Fort Worth 3 13 22 Employe. The total number of persons employed in all the Swift packing plants and branch houses aggregate over 20,000 persons. Conditions for employes in the various manufacturing and operating departments is continually improving with the construction of new buildings and the installation of new and up-to-date equipment. Sanitation and Ilyslene. The housewife makes no greater effort to keep her kitchen clean than we do to keep in sanitary and hygienic condition our abattoirs. They are thoroughly scrubbed at the close of each day' operations, and automatic appliances are used wherever possible In order to eliminate the personal handling of meats. Rigid rules governing these points are strictly enforced; laxity means dismissal. Visitors AlTrays Welcome. No other industry In the world gives such a cordial welcome to visitors as Swift & Co. We keep open house the year around, and maintain a corps of

specially trained guides, with special elevators and rest rooms. In one year we have entertained over a quarter of a million of men and women; in one day Grand Army Day, 1901 we entertained 23,000. Among our visitors have been ambassadors from foreign governments, princes, noblemen and distinguished citizens from all hinds and eminent folks from every State in the Union. We wish to familiarize the public with our methods, :ind the best way to do that is to let the public see for itself. We have no secret processes or methods in any department. Swift's l'remlum Hani and Bacon. Swift's Premium Hams and Paeon are more widely and favorably known than any other brand. Their popular AEOUT ANIMALS' WANDERINGS. Kats the Most Migratory Lemmie lface with lentb. The fable of the country mouse and the town mouse has a foundation in fact. Mice ocasionally migrate r.i large numbers wheh food grows scarce and travel considerable distances to get fresh houses. Fanners in a part of Perthshire, says Loudon Answers. In d a good reason to become aware of tLis fact when, a couple of years ago, vast swarms of mice invaded their cornfields at harvest time. But the mouse only travels when it has to. The rat, on the contrary, seems to take a yearly outing, in very much the same fashion as do human beings. Kats are the most migratory creatures in the world. Whole troops of rats leave the towns at the end of summer and spend a month or two in the country, apparently In order to enjoy the change of food which the country affords at that time of the year in the way of fresh fruit and grain. Before the cold weather sets in they are all back in their old quarters. Reindeer migrate with the same resr ularity as swallows. They move south when winter sets in, but as soon as ever the snow begins to melt they travel steadily north, sometimes for as much as 1,000 miles. To end a holiday by delibarate suicide is so strange a phenomenon that for a long time naturalist3 looked upon the stories of tLe migration of the lemmings as an improbable fiction. Yet the facts are beyond dispute. At irregular intervals these rat-like creatures start out from their homes In the fastnesses of northern Scandinavia in huge droves, numbering tens of thousands, and travel steadily southward. Death pursues them in a hundred forms. Hawks and other birds of prey I hover above them. Foxes, wolves and ! man decimate them. Thousands are drowned in rivers. Yet the rest struggle on until they reach the sea. They do not stop. They plunge- in, swim out and struggle on, until at last their strength fails and tney drown. Not one ever returns from this journey of death. M --r- f (tie I'uji l)o&. It's awfully hard to undetsund pug dogs can like the sort of people that like them. Cleveland Leader. Onto Ulm. "Yes," said the pompous man who prided himself upon his familiarity with the great ones of earth, "President Roosevelt once made a remark to me at dinner that was characteristic of the man. He said " "I think I can guess what he said to you," interrupted Knox. "Yes?" "I suppose he said: You may keep the change, waiter.' "Philadelphia Press. . Where Did He Get Itt Bacon lie made all his money tn Washington. Egbert And is he rich? 'Very." Was he a Congressman or a waiter?" Mut-h In Evidence. Dick How did you like the new play? Tom I thought Miss Sadie Blugore had entirely too much to say. Dick Was she in it? Why, I didn't even know ehe had gone on the stage. Tom She was in one of the boxes with a party the night I was there. Oar Native Scenery. Nordy I'm just back from a trip over j the picturesque P. D. Q. Butts How's the scenery along that line? Nordy Well kept and plentiful. There's a whisky sign every half mile, with plug tobacco, ciar and dofiarwatch signs scattered liberally between. Louisville Journal. Evideace of the Senses. "What was the number of ths automobile that ran over you?" "I don't know. I heard it, smelled it and felt it but I couldn't im lt.H Elieg ende Blaettsr. . -

ity Is due to the uniform quality and flavor of the meat, and to their fiat appearance when received from the dealer. Each piece Is branded on the rind, "Swift's Premium ü. S. Inspected," and wrapped In cheesecloth and white parchment paper. Look for the brand. "Swift's Premium," when buying hams and bacon. Swift's Silver Leaf Lard. Is a strictly pure lard, kettle rendered, and put up in 3, 5, and 10-pound sealed pails. It is America's Standard Lard, and enjoys a high reputation and an enormous sale. Swift's Soap. An Interesting feature of a trip through the Chicago plant is a visit to the soap factory, one of the largest and most complete in this country. There we manufacture numerous toilet and laundry soaps, and washing powders. Among which are: Wool Soap , widely and favorably known; for toilet and bath, and washing fine fabrics. Crown Princess Toilet Soap, highly perfumed. Swift's Fr!de Soap, fur laundry and household u?e. Swift's Pride Washing Powder, unsurpassed for all cleaning purposes. Swift' Specialties. Swift's Premium Ham Swift's Premium liat.'on Swift's Premium SIkvd Bacon Swift's Premium Lard Swift's Winchester Ham Swift's Winchester I'a-oa Brookfield Farm Sauago Swift's Silver Leaf Lard Jewel Lard Compound Swift's Cotosuet Swift's Jersey Putterine Swift's Beef Extract Swift's Beef Fluid Swift's Premium Milk-F-d Chiokent Swift's Soaps. Wool Soap Scented Toilet Soaps Swift's Tride Soap Swift's Pride Washing Powder.

RAILROAD RUNS A LOTTERY. Scheme? Tried In Mvlc to Keep Cnduetnr ilm-fct. Ceorge W. IllbbarJ. who nvoiuly resigned as general passen irirr a'::t of the Duluth, South SUoiv : Atlantic ltailroad to take a similar position with the national !i:is of Mixo, writes of t. novel method adopted by one of the street car companies in the City of Mexico to protect itseif from loss through the dishonesty of its employes, says a dispatch to the Chicjg-j Chronicle. Mr. Ilibbard says that it is estimated the company has been losing $1,WX a day by reason of the failure of the conductors to turn in all the money collected. The plan now to be experimented with to stop the practice is a lottery ticket scheme. The feature which is of greatest Interest to the public is that duplicate numbers of the ticket or cheeks Issuvi by the conductors to passengers are to be placed in a lottery to be drawn under government supervision at the end of each month. The holders of the fortunate numbers are awarded cash prizes which range in value from $2.50 to $100. Tickets in the drawing are given free to passengers, the only stipulation being that they shall preserve them until the end of the month. Notices to this effect have been posted In the cars and in addition the company is distributing a pamphlet printed in Spanish, French and Kuslish, describing tLe operation of the scheme. Mr. Hibbard says that it is quite certain all passengers will insist upon getting from the conductors a ticket representing the amount of the farn paid. Many patrons of the tramways are providing themselves with small card cases in which to preserve their tickets, and it is expected that the business of the company will show a considerable increase as a result of the general desire to secure all the chances possible. The greater part of the patronage ot the cars comes from people of the poorer classes and those of moderate means. It is, therefore, quite probabl that fie larger number of prizes, which are 1X)0 in number, will he distributed each month among people to whom the money will come as a real benefaction. Wrote Tiare 1 1 1: n .1 m Volume. When Henry Ko-.-hefort first pu lished his Lauterne. once a week, his articles were eagoriy read all over Europe. To-day, bis rantiugs are little heeded, even by his followers. One of his admirers has recently done some figuring. For nearly half a century, Rochefort has written nearly every day a newspaper article. These articles. If reprinted in book form, would make a library of at least 300 volumes. At a Disadvantage. "You say Congressmen are at a disadvantage ia dealing with the railways?" asked the indignant citizen. "Yes," answered S.u;Uur Sorghum, "they are at a disadvantage." "For what reason V" "Well, you s?e. Congress can't isut passes that will get you auywhere." Washington Star. Ills Modet Fear. "Do you believe in riücarnation?" asked the woman who is interested ia the occult. "Yes," answered the young man who never contradicts. There Are Others. Harter Grumleigh strikes m as being rather selfish. Ue seems to livs entirely within himself. Carter Oh, well, he isn't tks oalj man in town who lives in a flat. Perfectly Suitable. Clymber (to valet) Now, John, when the guests are here to-night I ghall call you Jean. Valet Very well, sir; and what shall I call you? "Oh, you blockhead ' "Very well, sir; anything yon Bj.m FamllieJournal.