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THK IXXKA'POLIS 1 II I AU i Editorial Section. Tin' JfTL 0 CONDUCTED BY DR. P. M. HALL is of a quality to hope of t-tu'dbiy.

In the Spanish American countries nllTieted with chronic revolutions the blame is laid to tho poverty and ignorance of the hybrid peon class. In Brazil they appear to have evolved a better type. Is this due to the more liberal admixture of negro as well as white blood V. J. MURPHY.

Hun- Wtr. ing mill employes, stea-n railway employes, street railway tele-tfruph and telephone woo! choppers. Cuucer came first in three occupations, ail female. iu gci.eii have a high death ru.3 lion, tn-n BlFSt'WI'i'iOS HAllit. Crrt(jr lu (he i My.

L. b. Mall, icpt In Can. .4:1 Morntnf affwvtr.a; n1 na aud Sun.laj...J ja and r. Piling M'TllluK cause, 8.1 per cent, :iimo.t ail ol Homing and M.1J which will be prevented wnen the people learn the earlv symptoms of can- hnl corpor.it ions nnd compel them to buy Ir.m off.

The obvious remedy, for the bos, then, is for each citizen to acquire the political intelligence of the boss. Let the citizen make it his business to study the community's needs, his neigbhors' opinions and modes of thought to guage their motives, and strive to influence them to vote Tight. Every voter owes it to his own high dignity as a unit in popular government to make a study of citizenship. When this is done by the majority of voters the corrupt boss will find his occupation gone. He will fiud himself surrounded and curbed by a number of bosses as acute as himself, each boss of his own actions and just as capable of advising a practical program of political action.

The business and professional men who, absorbed in their own affairs, neglect politics, are the ones who are most responsible for bad political conditions. In a representative republic politics is, or should be, every man's business, and his most important business. cer aud seek nroiiiut. suri'li-n I ir.li..i TELEI'HOXES Norti.wtfrn Main 1. Trl-Sut.

Centw press i.kn, as she had no children, but of mil' of late emperor's secondary wives, oT whom he had 12. He married tiie Princess Sa.J.xko in lyort, and his md' and heir, Princ llirohito, was born in the following year, 'the present emperor believes in monogamy, among other modern notions, and his harem is as bare as Mother Hubbard's famous cupboard. The emperor is surrounded by advisers as modern as himself, but the elder statesmen, still a power in the land, are apparently growing more anil more antagonistic. Mutsuhito was a very prince of diplomats in pursuing modern methods whilo seeming to cherish everything ancient. Yoshihito's training was strictly along present (lav lines, and he seems to lack the tact that enabled his father to placate the elder statesmen.

A few months ago it was necessary to call out the troops to assist the civil authorities in guarding the imperial family. Another significant fact is that people and the newspapers now seldom refer to the emperor as "Tenno," the title almost universally applied to all his predecessors "Tenno" means "Heaven's highest," and implies nothing less than a claim to godhood of a superior kind, with the right to bestow a lesser kind of god-hood on his subjects. The emperor has no surname, for his ancestry is older than surnames. Yoshihito claims descent from the emperor Jimmu, who reigned over Japan over 25 centuries ago. 51 agents.

54 artists and teachers. 915 nurses and iindwr.es. Called Senile Dit.oase3. "Ihe next three eauscs or death-heart disease, liright's disease and apoplexy are cuciitiiii'v Occupational Writing in a current number of the Monthly liuJletiu, Ohio State Hoard ot Health, l)r. K.

K. Hayhui'st discusses tho mortality aiuon-g occupied persons due to preventable causes. He presents statistics ot the tenth United census, showing the relationship between 140 occupations and their causes of death. The t'reat frequency of tuberculosis as the chief ot ad factors is shown, while that accidents and injuries are the leaders in certain other callings is also shown. "Those facts," says Dr.

Hayhurst, "have prompted us to classify these 140 occupations according to the chief death cause in each aud from ihis to draw certain definite conclusions as to the prevalence of preventable causes. Tuberculosis Heads iiis'j. "Of the 14U occupations employing 210,507 males, five were discarded because the total deaths reported in same were under 25. Of the remaining 135, the chief cause claimed the following; 1. Tuberculosis ....90 Occupations 2.

Accidents 17 Occupations 3. Heart disease ..25 Occupations 4. Bright 's disease 3 Occupations Wishmstfn Bank RuUlln. bt. l'ul Off 2m PlbyatcU Building.

ses or death, and hjnee not A Boy's Hero. A boy of thirteen years lay ill in Washington, D. and the family doctory hardly expected the lad to recover. In his delirium the patient talked of his idol the "speed king" among the pitchers of the American league. Once the mind was free, you see, it spoke freely what it had been wont to keep to itself.

Washington's ball team came homo when the fever had run for several weeks. A member of this little boy's family sought out the "speed king" himself little moro than a boy and told him of the youngster's worship, his eager calls for his idol, and the doctor's grave fear for the outcome. The pitcher would have gone immediately to the child's bedside. But the physician feared the excitement would be Instead, young Johnson wrote a letter to his admirer, saying: "My Dear Warren- as preventable. It is interesting to noto the classes of oc-upic I persons who succumb principally to tin so causes: "J4).

Heart disease polled a plurality III tho followiiu- Fnrrrw.r i.Ui.tors Tfeers Airg Mora Trilbies SoH Ever? within the corporate limits of the city of Minneapolis than both the other local English daily publications combined. overseers, gardeners, tiorn.t,, nan-TV men, stock raisers, herdsmen, drovers, clergymen, dentists, lawyers, pnyii-cians and surgeons (M. and liter-ary aud scu-ntilie persons, officials (government), other professional services foremen and overseers (manufacturers), watchmen, firemen raid policemen, agents, merchants (not wholesale) (M. aud inor- fhltntu ,11.1 .1 i i Pedagogy as a Science. This week Tuesday something less than 50,000 Minneapolis children will begin a new school year.

Only about half of those shown "Or the 36 occupations employing 28,068 females, the chief causes claimed tho following: 1. Tuberculosis ...27 Occupations Scrap Book for Today. z. cancer A Occupations 3. Heart disease 5 Occupations SPANI AEErSHONOR 9 N- ON CENTENABY OF HIS HISTORY 4.

Apoplexv 1 Occupation i wuoiesuio), manu facturers aud officials, officials ot banks and companies, housekoepora and stewardesses (female), boarding and lodging house keepers ivory stable keej.ers, blacksmiths, boot and shoo makers and rcpairern (male), cabinet makers, carpenters a-mf joiners, glove makers, harness, saddlo makers aud repairers, millers. "(5) Bright disease proved the "A scrutiny of the type of occupations coining under each causj is instructive: "1. Tuberculosis 'The captain of death' among occupied persons, up a plurality in the following classified Pursuits: "(a) Agricultural Laborers (Male and female). "(b) Professional Actors, professional showmen, architects, designers, draftsmen, artists and teachers or art, electricians, engineers, journalists, musicians and teachers (male and female) teachers and professors in colleges (male ai.t female.) Tradesmen Included In TolL "(c) Domestic and personal service Barbers and hairdressers (M. and bartenders, boarding and lodging house keepers, housekeepers aud stewards, janitors and sextons (not specified) (At.

and laborers uot specified) (M. aud laund-jvrs and laundresses, nurses, restaurant keepers, servants and waiters (M. and F.J, soldiers, sailors, and manner, U. other domestic and personal service, saloonkeepers. "(d) Trade and transportation Bookkeepers and accountants (M.

and clerKs and copyists (M. and commercial travelers, draymen, hack- "I take pleasure in sending you herewith one of the baseballs used on our western trip and hope you will soon have the opportunity of using it with your friends." "What all the resources of the hospital had failed to do, this message accomplished. The, "feel" of that ball as the little fellow turned it over and over on the counterpane, the kindliness of that letter, the realization that he and his great example were in touch, wrought a very remarkable change. The patient is now about to leave the hospital. No grown-up boy will ask for any explanation of all this.

If he is worth his salt he can look back into his own life and find a score of Bucrh idols, leading insensibly but irresistibly to her with whom he linked his life and who was the best idol of all. And if he has the sympathy he ought to have with a fever stricken little hero-worshiper, looking wistfully toward a clean, live young ball player, he will find a lesson in this. It is this: That he must be mighty careful of his own example. Some of ns do not realize it; but there is hardly one of us in the world who is not a hero to some boy, if he only knew. cnier cause of ded'li in three calling (all male): Bankers ami brokos, hotel keepers, wheelwrights.

"(fl) Apoplexy in one small femalo group: Literary and scientific persons. Fifty Per Cent Preventable. From a study of the figures presented, Dr. Hayhurst arrives at the follow-ing conclusions: "1. "Of the male group of 135 occupations discussed, tuberculosis was thH leading cause of death iu IKj, and accidents were the leading cause of deata in 17 more.

"2. Of the female group of 36 occupations discussed, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in while can cer proved the chief cause in 3. In callings where accidents proved the chief cuse of death, tuberculosis invariably ran second, or was the chief cause of death due to disease. "4. While the general "death rat One hundred years ago, Aug.

31, 1813, the Spanish city of San Sebastian fell before the onslaughts of the English, Spanish and Portuguese-allies under Wellington. The centenary will be celebrated on Sunday in the little seaport city, which occupies a narrow isthmus on the Bay of Biscay, 400 miles north of Madrid, not far distant from the French frontier. Wellington, at the head of the allies, had commended Jus Spanish campaign by taking Ciudad Kodrigo. In April he stormed Badajoz, aud in July he defeated Narmont at Salamanca, A little later in 1812 he occupied Madrid, and in June of 1S13 he totally defeated the French at Yittoria. Late in July he was victorious over Soult in the Pyrenees.

In August Soult collected his troops in a position, the right of which rested on tho sea, with the Bidassoa river in front, while the center and left extended across several ridges of hills toward St. Jean da Luz. San Sebastian, besieged by Wellington, was hard pressed, and Soult concentrated his attention on raising the siege. Soult 's plan was that ltoille should take San Marcial, but Wellington was informed of the French intentions, and dispatched Freyre's Spaniards to occupy the ridges of San Marcial, with a British division standing as a reserve. On the morning of Aug.

31, Reillo's troops forded the Bidassoa, and carried the first ridge of San Marcial with a rush, but later broke in disorder, and were driven back to the river by the Spaniards. A second attempt resulted in another repulse, and Soult drew Reillo's force back across the river. Immediately after the failure of Soult 's attempt at relief, the allies took San Sebastian bv storm, and occupied the city, although the citadel held out for several days longer. In October Wellington entered France. San Sebastian, in celebrating the centenary of its deliverance from the Napoleonic yoke, will honor Wellington as its savior.

And well it may. To quote Napier: "The English merging from the chaos of the peninsular by the school enumeration, now being taken, to be of school age, which is estimated to bo 80,000, will be enrolled in the public schools; the parochial schools and the business colleges accounting for several thousand of the others, while high Bcbool graduates and those who do not attend school at all will make up the balance. No other department of the city government requires as much money as the schools, and the taxpayers contribute to no other department with less complaint. And there is no other public matter in which all the people are more interested, or in which more families are directly concerned. The United Ststcs from tho beginning has been committed to public education.

It has been the boast of stump speakers for a century that pvery American child was entitled to and could have an education free. That was literally true, and the idea has been; carried so far that the child must be educated to a specified extent or the parents or guardians must answer to the law, There is practically no illiteracy in America; every man and woman has at least the rudiments of education. Tho extent of varies with location and opportunity, but it can be said truthfully that the Pierian spring is never dry, and that anyone's thirst for knowledge may be slaked. Yet with America's proud pre-eminence as a land of free education, no less an authority than Professor Radosavljevich of New York university says that "the science of pedagogy in this twentieth century has developed no farther than physics or astronomy in the time of Galileo, and that despite the fact that pedagogy is 2,000 years old." Indeed, according to this teacher, -there is scarcely a branch of human knowledge that has not received greater attention, more painstaking research, than the science of teaching children', Children are grouped according to age first; afterward, imperfectly, Recording to attainment. In general they are advanced year by year, class by class, with little attempt to separate the good from the bad, the bright from the.

stupid, the quick from the plodders. Learning is given much as one would irrigate a No Gateway Park Library. The park board is probably justified in its decision against a branch library or reading room in the now Gateway Park building. But ihe decision compels anew a consideration of bur city's wholly inadequate library provision. Business men who have occasion to use the must now go or send three-quarters of a inile.

In the main library, when they get there, they must do their investigating in either of 'two of the noisiest rooms in Minneapolis. Street cars are bad enough; but their noise is a soothing hum compared with tho racket in "the automobile shop across the street. The Student seats himself at a table and then shares his table with from one to six others, each with a separate pile of books. If, in desperation, he retreats to the fastnesses of tho book stacks, Jie finds himself just inside the window from that happy corner for the automobilist Tenth itreet and' Harmon Place. The business patron is not expected to pick "the ideal site for the main library building in Minneapolis.

Of two things, nevertheless, he may be confident: 1. That the corner of Tenth street and avenue is not the ideal Bite. I 2. That whatever happens to the main building, there should be a large, splendidly "equipped and centrally located business branch. In some respects Minneapolis surpasses any 'other city in the United States in intelligent use of its library facilities.

Yet it is probably 'true that no other city in the United State ba so poorly provided for her library. among occupied leuiales irom cancer was 8.1 per cent, among 915 nurses and midwifes, it was 1J.2 per cent. "5. Considering the preventable causes of death to be onlv tuberculosis. accidental poisonings, typhoid fever.

pneumonia, occupational poisoning and suicides, we find that in the case of male, over 60 per cent died before 45 years of age, and in the case of females, over 75 per cent died before 43 of age. The Hope of the Future. The male sex is to blame for the inefficiency of mothers. Man's wayward taste has evolved out of the void and chaos a helpless, pretty creature of the female sex for his own admiration. By admiring the most shallow characteristics Of anil ilisconrnoinur Tiluln ii'ity.

the 6. ibe preventable causes of death operate almost twice as frequently among those in the underling occupa men, teamsters, hostlers, hucksters and peddlers, packers and shippers, porters and helpers (in stores, salesmen and saleswomen, stenographers (M. and telegraph aud telephone operators (M. and undertakers, other pursuits in trade and transportation. "(e) Manufacturing and mechanical pursuits Bakers, bleaching and dyeing worners, bookbinders (M.

and boot and shoe makers ami repairers (females), bottlers and soda water makers, box makers (paper), brass workers, brewers and maltsters, broom and brush makers, butchers, butter and cheese makers, carpet factory operatives, clock and watch makers and re-pairers of jewelry, coutectioners, coopers, cotton null operatives (AL. and distillers and rectifiers, dressmakers (female), engineers and firemen (not locomotive), engravers, glass workers, gold and silver workers, hat and cap makers, iron and steel workers, leather curriers and tanners, machinists, manufacturing and mechanical pursuits (not specified) (female), marble and stone cutters, masons (brick and stone), mechanics (not specified), milliners (female), nioil-l and pattern makers, other food preparers, other men of our species have set a premium on tions, as among those in the proprietory and professional classes. (The ratio being about 24 to 43 in the case of males). "7. Conservatively put, over 50 per cent of all deaths among occupied persons are preventable.

Ihis amounts to about a quarter of a million lives in a year in the United State. "8. Among those classes of occupied persons who usually reach old age, the chief causes of death prove to be heart disease, Bright disease, apoplexy, other eireuUtory diseases and cancer." In an editorial in the same number of the bulletin, Dr. E. F.

MeCampbeil comments as follows on the subject. "Progress in Curtailing Sickness and ru gg le, stood on the summit of the Pyrenees, a recognized conqueror. From these lofty pinnacles the clangor of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendor of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to the warring nations. The second solar eclipse of the year will take place on Sunday, but the phenomenon will be observed only in the extreme northeastern part of the continent. The partial eclipse of the sun will be visible in Newfoundland, Labrador, the evtreme eastern Tiortinns of Guehpc.

New futility. The demand for women fools has created the supply. In some such language "A Father," writing in the English He view, declares that mothers in general ate "astonishingly and shamefully ignorant" of their duties. This father must have been embittered by an experience all too common when we consider the number of children who are abominably brought up. But let him cheer up.

There is encouragement and hope in the serious attitude so many women are taking with respect to Getting Together. The extent to which many employers are 'uow-a-days endeavoring to examine industrial field, not ns he would water a flower garden. Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and in Greenland A German scientist, Professor Ernst Men-" mann, has come nearest to reducing pedagogy learning, business and politics. Is not the mif -i'rage agitation itself an earnest of future mothers who will be as wise in motherhood as to a science, it is said, and he has done so only after- years of patient research aud experiment. What he has accomplished is, perhaps, too tech metal workers, other textile niijl operatives, other textile workers, other wood workers, other miscellaneous industries, painters, glazier and varnish-ers, paperhanifers, photographers, plasterers, plumbers, gaB and steam fitters, potters, printers, lithographers and pressmen (M.

and roofers and slaters, rubber factory operatives, seamstresses, shirt, collar aud cuff makers t.M. aud silk mill operatives and steam boiler makers, stove, furnaces and grate makers, tailors and tailoresses, tin plate and tinware makers, tobacco and cigar factory operatives (M. and tool ami cutlery makers, trunks and leather case makers, upholsterers, wire workers, woolen Hygiene Instruction Necessary. "The knowledge of close association between unfavorable environment and disease is not possessed by the people in general to a sufficient degree. Tha instruction of workers iu what constitutes good and bad hygiene is important.

Hygienists have been struck parteularlv of late with the fact that where measures are taken to prevent tuberculosis, for instance, the ijauiJ measures t.nd to reduce circulation, the new woman has shown herself to be so many walks of life! and At St. Johnson's, Newfoundland, the eclipse will begin at 5:33.2 p. m. and end at 0:09. This eclipse is dying out, and this will be its final appearance to the people of a civilized country.

It will play a return engagement for the benefit of the Eskimos and polar bears in September, 11)31, hut it will be mnch smaller and confined to the North Pole region. Its series began at the South pole and will close at tho North pole. On the last clay of next month a brand new eclipse will begin at the South pole, and, during the next thousand years, will gradually work, its wav northward. With the advent of tho new woman and her compelling ways, the taste of the male homo, in the aggregate, may be expe'-ted to change so that he will seek in marriage the sober-minded, practical woman rather than the woman of the doll type. It must be conceded that to the majority of men beauty in women has had more harm than efficiency hence it is little wonder Detroit's First Newspaper.

that so many women have turned tlieir talent to ornamentation and the lighter graces rather null operatives (M. and Accident Wins These. "Tuberculosis ran second in the following Atents (M. and blacksmiths, boatmen and sailors, boot an i shoe makers and repairers, brick and tile makers, carpenters and joiners, gardeners, florists, nursery men, hosiery and knitting mill operatives, messengers, errand boys, miners and quarrymen. officials of banks and companies, oil well and oil works employes, paper and pulp mill operatives, saw and planing mill em-idoves.

steam railway employes, street than to the prosaic accomplishments that would fit them to shine in the nursery aud the house wifely offices. But the new woman cult shows that the two The first newspaper printed in Detroit was the Michigan Essay or Impartial Observer, which issued its initial number 104 years ago today, Aug. -31, lMJi). The oldest of present-da Detroit papers is the Free Press, which was founded in 151, and has been published continuously ever since. Western journalism began in 1797 with the publication of the Kentucky Gazette at Lexington, Ky.

The first Ohio newspaper was commenced in Cincinnati in 1793. Indiana's nical for even brief analysis, but his basic principle is one that can be grasped aud understood by all. He would have teaching done from the child's standpoint. A world of wonders opens to one. who looks through a child's eyes.

Whether a teacher could forget that she was a teacher, whether she could command the patience to become a child with her children, and walk with them up the hill of knowledge, pointing out beauties the tired eyes would miss, prompting dull ears to catch music that might otherwise be lost, and guiding the lagging feet arouud the rough places, is not so certain. But theoretically that would be the ideal teacher, instead of she who, from the standpoint of the adult, which to a child seems an unattainable height, directs her pupils to climb to her. Public education may be on a more scientific basis some day. Some day teachers may not be overworked and underpaid; they may not adopt teaching as a potboiler until something better comes along; there may be buildings enough and ample equipment; there may even be popular insistence that the health and physical development of the child be safeguarded, instead of churly tolerance or outright opposition as now. We hope thatthoae who insist that the days of the "Three K's" were better than these will be forced to admit that education is urinary and omer ins.

nsi-, hum cumulative action results in as much uood in other directions as the improvement in the prevalence ot th original disease. At present over one-third of the states of the Union have taken up the question of the relation between work and diseases, and have required the reporting of diseases due to occupation, while beginning with 1910, legislative action in America has been more and more directed toward the correction of conditions producing the "Occupational disease surveys of cities and states are being created, as in Ohio, to father statistics. The, unbiased investigation of causes aril the spread of scientific knowledge the solution of the problem of preventable deaths in industries. lo make progress uniform and equitable, it is manifestly urgent that not only individuals but the community, the state and ythe nation should take steps to curtail these preventable causes of death which are now tagging 50 per cent, of the working peoples grave's every year." lines of accomplishment are not incomatible. The future may hold a solution in the increasing attractions of the new was from the point of view of their a9 well as their own, is shown in a recent statement of the head of one of Boston's largest department stores.

He says: "We employers need to realize that our employes outnumber us by fifty to one, or even one hundred to one, aud that tho prevailing industrial nnrest is the outcome of their "sense of wrong endured in the unfair division lot profits and unjust industrial relations. He 'advocates organization on the part of both em-' "ployeTs and employes, and the appointment of a ederal commission to consider the whole question of industrial relations, with a view to uniform legislation in the regulation of employment, hours and conditions of labor, housing 'and "living conditions, industrial training and guidance. Several prominent captains of industry, dur-Aing the last presidential campaign, advocated the regulation of industry through a federal commission. There seems to bo a growing sense the desirability of uniform legislation, something very difficult to secure from the legislatures of forty-eight states. Meantime, whilo -the question of the extent of desirable federal regulation is under debate, all of the states are 'trying to work out the industrial problems to tbe best of their ability.

The emphasis plaeerf by the Boston employer upon the fact of the grent numerical superiority )tf the employes calls into bold relief the thought that if the industrial democracy should organize itself on political lines and vote sub-stantially as a unit for certain reforms, or alleged reforms, its power would be irresistible. This makes it highly important that the relations between those who furnish the capital and the organization, and those who furnish the i labor, should be Improved to the utmost extent Working together, they can advance their mutual interests, whereas working separately srale might be made so uneven at some points as to precipitate a flash. Most employes hcpe some day to become The future of all will bo best served in the Jong run by an absolutely fair adjustment. when the "bluestocking" was pictured as a first paper was founded at Mncennes in 1808. frump and destitute of graces.

But this style of portrayal doesn't go any longer. The literary railway employes, telegraph and telephone linemen, cabinet makers. "2. Accidents won out in the following occupations (all male); Boatmen and sailors, brick and makers, charcoal, coke and limo burners, dairymen, fishermen and oyster men, hosiery 8ud knitting mill operatives, lumbermen and raftsmen, messenger, errand and office boys, miners aud ouarrvmen. oil well and oil works em and the St.

Louis Republic, Missouri's pioneer journal, was established in the samo year. Illinois journalism began in 1814, when the Illin women, the business women, the professional women, the suffragist women are demonstrating every day that they know how to dress aud to entertain. ois jntejiigencer was published at Kankakee. Wisconsin's first paper was started at Oreen Bay in and the same vear marked the beginning of journalism in Kansas and With their brightness and vivacity added, ployes, otner cnemicai vomers, paper and pulp mill employes, saw and plan- they are more charming than their shallow and they may he expected to capture the most desirable of the men, to the great uplift of the human race in toto! niTh Jdk From Here a Pleased Number One. A certain head gardener, whose work thousands of visitors The Human Procession By O.

TERENCE. Broad street station the other day with a face like a thunder cloud. Anyone could see in that scowling countenance tho smoldering fire that might break forth at any minute. Stump-, ing excitedly on the platform, sho gnashed her teeth in a struggle to keep back hor tears. Finally she buttonholed the first per JAPANESE EMPEROR PASSES 34TH MILE every summer, is as outspoken as he is capable.

Not long ago he was summoned before the directors of the establishment where he is engaged to explain why ho bad made certain alterations without consulting the board. STONE SUNDAY. Yoshihito, emperor of Japan, will be the re Good Luck lu Pose. "lu literature," said a publisher, "popular success frequently comes by accident. A remarkable case was that of J.

H. Shorthouse. This man, a poor chemist, spent some years writing a book called 'John Inglesant. But the publishers would havo none of 'John Inglesant', and finally Mr. Shorthouse printed 100 copies at his own expense.

"Ouly forty of these copies sold, one purchaser being a photographer. The photographer took Mr. Gladstone's picture some weeks later, and the old man chose a studious pose, sitting with a volume in his hand. He bent in absorption over the work, which happened aeci-dentally to be 'John and in the thousands of the copies of the photograph that were sold the book's name was plainly to be made out. "Mr.

Gladstone was regarded as a great critic, and the people thought he desired to' recommend 'John What was the result! Writhin the year 300,000 copies of 'John Inglesant' had been sold, and Shorthouse was a made man." "Well, gentlemen," ne jem- 'the alteration is a success, and that son that would liston to her tale of: woe. "What's all this here talk of educating young men to be civil engi cipient of birthday congratulations on Sunday. The youthful nikado who rules over the destinies of old Nippon will pass his 34th milestone, satisfies me." itlj.it l.iit isn't, the DOIIII. saiu neers? she screeched indignantly. "What we need in this country is having been born at Kioto on Aug.

31, more civil conductors and less sassy brakemenl One of the first official acts of his reign, which began just a year and a month ago, was to an nounce to the representatives of the foreign Every Voter His Own Boss. Haste Unnecessary. up that order!" said a trav powerg that the imperial birthday had been eler in a railroad eating house down South. "I'm afraid I'll miss my changed to the third of November, Mutsuhito 'a natal dav. to the last day of August.

chairman. "Why didn't you consult me in the matter!" "Because, sir, I'm satisfied with my place at present, and intcud to keep it "I don't think you are going the right way about it," said the chair-nan. "Well, I do, an' that's where we differ, said the gardener boldly. "Before I came you VI four gardeners in 12 months. Whyf Because the first tried to please the chairman, and failed.

The second tried to please the manager, and didn't Btop a month. The third tried to please the secretary, and the directors sacked him. The train." The new mikado does not appear to have Yass, sali, Boss," the waiter an-. swered as he hurried off. been entirely successful in wiuning the same place in the affections of his subjects as was by his father.

Musuhito's reign will be forever memorable as marking the change from the old There Are Names and Names. WThat's in a name? Sometimes almost the entire alphabet, according to the long-distance operator at the Plankintou hotel. "The other day a man wanted to call up a friend in Chicago, and I asked him to Hive me to the new Japan. Progressive as lio was, how After what seemed an almost interminable wait to tho reveler, he returned with tho food. As he set it down he asked: "Is you do gentleman what feared he'd miss do train "Yes," was the reply.

"Well, you needn't be fear ob dat, An Ethnological Study. Ethnologists find a study of special interest in the inter-racial mixture going on in Brazil. Cyril Campbell, in an exhaustive article on Brazil, in Blackwood's Magazine, says the general laxity towards racial differences there is stupendous. As a rule, the principles of Egalite and Frateruite are carried to extreme. The observer cannot help being struck by the incredible proportion of people showing traces of black blood.

The intermixture of whites and aloriginea is as much in evidence. The Portugese will not admit that intermixtflre necessarily implies degeneracy. They assert that the Blow, sombre nature of the Portugese needs a touch of African vigor and vivacity to enable them to resist the slow wear of the tropics. And then again the mysticism of the native, grafted on to the half feminine sensitiveness of the Latin, tends to produce a temperament which has led various "mestizos" to win renown in the academies of art, literature and music. To the Anglo-Saxon this miagling of races is naturally repellant, and he questions whother it will produce a citizenship that will permanently maintain free institutions.

Nevertheless the present prosperity of Brazil is pictured in glowing colors. Its material, political and intellectual progress hag been marked since the establishment of the republic. In the past few years, huge fortunes have been made in Brazil, Argon-tine and Chili. It is predicted that just as the laft century marked tho vast development of the United Stateg, the present century will mark a proportional development in South America. Brazil is singularly blessed by nature with ama.ing fertility and mineral wealth, and the government has successfully fostered their development.

Tk. general political administration ever, tho late emperor adhered to most of the old customs, and did not wuntonlv shock the fourth tried to please tue wnoie ooard. sensibilities of the elder statesmen aud the con sah, no mo'." "irood! is it latof" the traveler the name and 1 would try to locate him by long (iistuiice. This is what he wrote down, on the slip of paper: Peter Constavbipauloupolous, Chicago. It took me 15 minutes to translate the name to the Chicago operator." And still we wonder why the wires sometimes are crossed and telephone operators are always willing to consider an offer of marriage.

Dr. Cleveland, in his book, "Organized gives an unusual definition of the political boss. "A boss," he says, "is commonly one of the most intelligent and efficient that we have. His guiding motive may ot be the public welfare, but he litis a clearer "concept of the essential features of democracy "than the reformer who dreams of high statesmanship in terms of abstract morality, but who packs the touch aud balance of facts about the everyday life of the people." The boss makes it his business to know what necessary to nupply tho community's noeds, end is usually tho only one who has a comprehensive citizen program. He makes citizenship his business, while with the reformer it is only an emotion.

There is considerable truth in this diagnosis. 'The boss has pained his opportunities for plunder through the neglect of thoir political duties by the average citizen. By making citi-, unship and politics his business he has gained 8 knowledge of the springs of human action and ways and means of controlling majorities. He is thus often able to put bis own creatures "in power to get his hand into the public treas- viy, and bis fingers upon the throat of persons Milwaukee Wisconsin, servatives. Yobhihito has not been so diplomatic.

He is thoroughly occidental, and unwilling to make any concession to old-fashioned notions. He smokes cigarcts in public, prefors French and English to his native tongue, wears the very latest in European clothes, and scorns the religion of his ancestors. Soon after he ascended the throne he told parliament that he proposed to be a "perfectly modern ruler," and be has been all of that. The mystery, tho reserve and tae divinity that have hedged all formor Japanese rulers, and made -their subjects consider them as more than human, have been dismissed as vain mbterfuges- by young Yoshihito, and in the white light beats upon a throne he stands forth a man, and nothing more. In the old days, when the mikado was little short of the stature of a god in the estimation of his subjects, men were not willing bnt eager to die for him; but will they the elder statesmen are asking each other be and so ran toul or me manager anu secretary.

The fifth, that's me, pleases hisself, and keeps his job." And the gardener is still "pleasing himself" at the same place. Tit Bits. One-Sided Gratitude. Bobbie was in the habit of running errands for an old gentleman next door who never paid him except in effusive thanks. He had just returned troni the third errand one morning and the old gentleman, patting him on the head, said: "Robbie, I am very much obliged to you.

You're a fine little fellow. Thank you, my boy, thank you." Robbie looked up in his face wistfully and apologetically replied: "Mr. Jones, you don't know how I wish I could thank you for something." Mad All Through. An Irate old lady, the wife of a prosperous farmer oh the outskirts of Philadelphia, stepped oS a train La "No. sah, it's done gone!" was the waiter's affablo and reassuring response.

"Ologles. Most of these scientific researches are designated by some word that ends in 'ology." "I've noticed that," replied Growchor. "Which do you think most important of all 'ologiest" Phraseology 'Washington Star. Label P.oora Insufficient, "I ought to have taken a bigger trunk on my trip abroad." "Wouldn't your trunk hold enouuh clothes!" "Yes; but it wouldn't aceornmodat-) half the labels I miuht hnve gotten." Have Analyzed Gases. By the use of a new German instrument, which takes the index of refraction of mixed gases, llaber and Lowe are able to find the amount of carbon dioxide and methane contained in mine gases.

The method is also use-fnl in many other cases, such as for benzol vapors in the gns distilled by gas or coke plants, also sulphurous anhydride in the gases coming from pyrites roasting, as well as percentages of ozone in the air. They are also able to cheek the purity of hydrogen made by the elec human trolytic process, observe the gases in an eagor to die for a man? F.mperor Yoshihito is not the S'di of the Em- breath and carry out other very useful testa. asnington lieruid. I.