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tv J' VOL. XO. 267. lite Part Seven. Part Seven, FREEZING UP A TRUST "ffoyel Form of Opposition to.

the Southern Salt Monopoly. FROST IS A FACTOR Quicksands Stop Working of tht Deposits in Louisiana. By Frees! the" Shafts, the Greatest Salt Beds la -the World May-Be Opeae'd. Fpaclat Correspondence of The Inter Ocean, NEW ORLEANS. Dec 11.

There is likely to be a salt war In Louisiana this win ter. The National Salt company, or trust, as It is called, has put up the price of salt very considerably, after having secured control of all the salt-producing plants In the North and West, and has notified the salt-mining; concerns of Louisiana that they must either come into the trust or do battle with it It is reported thst the oldest, largest, and most productive of the Louisiana mines, that al -Avery's, or Petit Anse. island, has already Joined the trust, while this rumor is de-. nled by the company it is a fact that one of its directors is also a director in the Na tional Salt company: In the meantime, the price of salt has been advanced in Louisiana as It has been in the rest of the country. The National Salt company Is supposed to represent the evaporated salt Interests, while the Louisiana concerns produce rock salt.

There are three salt mines In Louisiana, all in. the peculiar, so-called islands which are found on the gulf which, as a matter of fact, are not really islands, but merely hills or prominences rising out of the gulf marsh. 1 There are four of these islands: Orange, better known as Jefferson's island, being owned by Joe Jefferson, the actor; Petit Anse, or Avery's, island; Grace Cotean, now known as Week's island, and Belle lale, the only one which has preserved its original name. They rise from 160 to 180 feet above the sea and the neighboring marsh, and are from 2.000 to 3,000 acres In area. There is a top soil from eighteen to eighty feet thick, beneath which is a practically solid mass of rock salt.

This is the most remarkable min eral deposit in the world, for excavations have so far not reached the bottom. Here and there the pure salt leaps out of the surface of the ground, and all the country around is filled with licks, at which deer and tattle were wont of old to congregate. Will Freeae the Shafts. It was not until the civil war that mining was carried on at Avery's island. The South' ro CnnfedArmr-v twin e.ut off from the aea.

was left without salt- Avery's Island sup-. piled its need, and practically all the salt used In the Confederacy was mined here, be Ing carried in immense wagon trains across the Mississippi to the armies in Virginia and Tennessee. Today salt mining is carried on at three of these Islands Avery's, where large mining operations are under way, with an output of 300 tons a day. consumed mainly in the Sonth; Belle Isle, and Week's island. The Myles company on Week's irland Is a local concern, which for many years operated the Avery mine.

It is now sinking a shaft and has not yet begun to produce salt. The Belle Isle mine is operated by a Chicago company known as the Gulf Salt company. It has been somewhat unfortunate In its operations. In sinking a shaft a quicksand was struck, with the result that the mine was flooded. This Is' not so serious a matter as the flooding of a mine usually proves to be.

The water. Is being pumped ont and evap-'--' oratedy and yields a handsome quality of salt by evaporation, but the evaporation process is not so chesp as simple mining, and the company is anxious to get rid of the troublesome water and return- to mining. It pur--' poses to do so by a refrigerating process which will be put In operstloa during the next Jew weeks. The ground will be frosea to a depth of 234 feet if necessary, and the shaft sunk through it. This is absolutely necessary to get through the wet sand, which is so lack- Ing in-substance that It Is impossible to sink a shaft through It.

The freeslng process la rery simple. Twenty-four four-Inch pipe are sunk In a circle, some twenty feet in diameter, and through each a saturated solution of chloride of calcium Is forced at a temperature far below sero. The pipes will freeze the earth, sand, and water for several feet around them, and through the frosen ground the shaft will be sunk and properly protected and walled in. The plan has worked well in "Pennsylvania and Michigan, but has never been tried in. Louisiana before.

Eaterprlae Great Isnportaaee. If It is a success, it means far more than the successful operation of one salt mine. It mar mean complete revolution in the salt business, and defeat the efforts of the National Salt company to control the salt, mines as well as the production of evaporated salt. While the rock salt has been mined only In the Islands, this has been because the salt can be. better reached there; but It is well known that this wonderful 'salt deposit Is not confined to the Islands, but extends along the entire gulf coast of Louisiana and perhaps Into Texas.

Inatesd of there being a few thousand acres of rock salt, the deposit covers from 3.000 to 6,000 square miles, underlying all the Louisiana sea mapch and being many hundreds, perhapsthoucands. of feet In Whatever the origin of this salt bed, there the salt lay until the great alluvial deposit brought down by the glacial movement from the north, and still later by the Mississippi, carried it. with a deposl; of earth from eighteen to twenty feet deep. is through this deposit that the shafts must be sunk to reach the rock salt. In the marshes the salt lies much nearer the surface than In the islands, but it has never been mined there because the marshy character of the soil renders the sinking of a shaft Impossible.

But it the Chicago com- pany and the New York engineer succeed In their project of freezing the soil Into suf- Sclent consistency to allow the sinking of a shaft the same process will permit a hun-- dred other shafts to -be sunk In the surrounding country. Indeed, there will be noplace on the Louisiana gulf coast, from the Atch- afalaya to the where one cannot strike a salt mine. If the soil can be sufficiently hardened from its porridge-like condition to stand a shaft. And if in the meantime the National Salt company, either by securing control of the Louisiana mines or Inducing the owners to co-operate with it, advance the price of salt to $30 a ton, or anywhere near it, the temptation to sink the mines will be very great. Profits la Halt InlBB.

Salt- is more easily mined than coal and costs no more; so that the profit will be immense. The difficulty In the way has been the character of the soil overlying the salt j.Sfr- W. i Glee and Mandolin club of North- Leslie R. Larsen and' Hal Bangs, have an-western university will this year make-a Bounced a long list of concerts. begin more extended trip than any of the former, Jan.

1. Walter G. Logan of the school of organizations have made. The deposits. If that obstacle can be overcome by a simple refrigerating process then all the mlUlons of acres of rock salt In Louisiana can be brought to the surface as easily and as cheaply as coal is mined.

The Louisiana mlnee are worked in drifts or tunnels like coal mines, or the famous salt mines of Austrian Poland. Pillars of salt are left In place to support the roof, and the salt Is so hard that no timbering is necessary, as in thS coal mines, to prevent caving. The great enemy Is, of course, water, for the slightest stream of water which finds its way Into the mine honeycombs and dissolves the rock salt. In both the Week's Island and Avery mines borings have been made to- a depth of 1,600 feet, to make sure of the deposit of salt, and at that depth the purest salt was still found, with not the slightest evidence that the bottom had been reached. -Local borings at Week's island have shown that not less than two cubic miles of salt underlies, that island, or something like a billion tons.

This Is aot by any means all there is at that point. The deposit may be a hundred or a thousand times as great, but boring 1,600 feet dowa and two miles In each direction has shows no limit or diminution to the' deposit of rock salt, literally free from all Impurities. IS A RECORD Fa-atball Seasoa Left av Grevraesae Trail la Killed aad Womaded. The football season of 1900 left such a trail of dead and wounded1 men that for rough play and casualties It stands alone In the annals of football history, says an exchanged Four men were Injured so seriously that they, may die, and 113 others were taken from the field and nursed back to health In hospitals. As Is usual la.

the case of casualties -n the gridiron or in the prise ring, those men who were killed or seriously Injured were unfit, either on account of sixe or some physical weakness, for the work they tried to do. Of the thousands who played football on teams that employed coaches and trainers not one was seriously hurt. Sprained ankles, brekea noses, and muscle bruises were the limit for players who understood the game, for the simple reason that, until they were able to withstand hard knocks, they were not allowed by the coaches and trainers to receive any." It was In the smaller towns and little colleges that the rough element of football found Its victims in players who had either not been taught to fall properly or whose bodies had not been hardened for strenuous exertion. Of the large "number that recovered lA hospitals from slight injuries, the big East ern universities furnished hardly a man on" any varsity team went through the season without an Injury r-t some 1 The dead, crippled, and maimed make a grewsome list as follows, a the cost of two months of athletic fun: J. L.

Pearson, Lake Forest university; dlei Sept. 28, 1900. B. H. Townsend, Saeo, died Oct.

14. 1900. L. C. Stanford uni versity.

California; died Nov. 17, 1900. Charles Hanarby, Andover, died In October, 1900. A. Scott, Ogdenaburg, N.

injured Nov. R- Atkinson, Newburyport, Injured Oct 10. C. Schmidt, Nazareth school: Injured Nov. J.

Williams, Hartford City, Injured Nov. 14. Oae of Ma ay. Office Seeker I think my campaign work should entitle me to an office. Leader I never heard of you.

What did you do? Office Seekei- Well, I "also spoke" cn twenty-one different Philadelphia rro9S.Y.v-' Verr Doabtfot. "The Sultan is "going to have warship built in cn of our big shipyards." "Say. I wonder if he'll send ever one of the girls from the harem to christen it?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. CHICAGO, yf rf 1 7' NORTHWESTERN it. Ecjward Arnol4, 4 Twenpr xJ Years, Now'a Millionaire.

RETURNS TOO LATE Woman He Lores Is Married to Poor Choctaw "Indian. -X: M. Faraaer Claelaaati Baatcer, Aeeaaf Harder by at frle'ad. Tells gtartllasr 8pclat Ccrresponduiee bf Th Inter Dec" 12. Edward'Ar-nold, -a -white-haired man with deeply furrowed face and bent came to Tus cogee this week in search of nisi wife and daughter that he had not seen for twenty years.

In hla eagerness to reach the lost women he leaped oyer guard rail of the coach before the south-bound train had come to a standstill', and. rushing out on the. asked first man he met haw to get to a point on the Verdigris river seven miles southwest "of Claremore, which a towd in the. Cherohee nation. He was told that he would have to take the southbound 'Frisco train to Claremore.

and "here hire a wagon, and he lost no time In con-, tlnulng his Journey. In the day the drlTer employed by him returned aloae to Claremore. Arnold had directed the: xuan to a dilapl. dated log cabin, the location of which he had marked on a map. There was no one at the cabin except a hunter, who knew the two women that bad called the place their home.

The elder of the two, he said, had gone to Vlnita to appear in a divorce suit she had brought against her last Choctaw husband. Her daughter had gone to some point on the' Grand river near Fort Gibson-with some fisher folk. Tho old man seemed dased at first. Then he bought a canoe and went In search of his only, child-' This trip' was futile, and he returned to Tuscogee to wait for the girl's return. The story of Arnold's life Is so tragic and so sensational that It seems hardly credible.

He belonged to a- prominent and wealthy family of Cincinnati. He was married in 8t. Luke's church on Thanksgiving dajr, 1880, to Evelyn Paget, a beautiful girl, the daughter of a banker. -One" Of the groomsmen at the fashionable wedding was Charles Meade, man' who-cherished In his heart a. grudge against the bridegroom, -y r--- 1 their wedding tour.

and Mrs. Ar nold made a trip around the world, spending much time In Egypt and the Holy Land. On their return they established themselves In a handsome- where a little daughter was born In November, 1881. The night that the child was born Arnold, who was cashier in a bank, was summoned across the river to Covington, Ky, to tho bedside of the dying -president" of the Institution. It was a stormy night and tho tram cars had stopped on account of the heavy snow.

Arnold was compelled to walk, and on his way he met Charles Meade; the groomsman at the wedding of the year before. Meade Invited hU mend to take a drink of hot Scotch to warm him for the unpleasant tramp through the snow. From "the moment the liquor parsed his lips Arnold remembered "nothing until he awoke, stiff and soreIn a cell of the Covington prison. He had been' found holding a revolver over the-prostrate form of a policeman." Testified Avalaat His Frlead. At the preliminary examination Meade, with apparent reluctance, testified that Ar Irr- i i -r OUESr FOR LOST WIFE SUNDAY, DECEMBER UNIVERSITY: GLEE CLUB'S ORCHESTRA.

music is leader of the Mandolin club;" WVA. the first student ever chosen to this position. Stacey la, vocal soloist, and Paul W. Schlortf" musical edncatlon, to a is' leader, of the Glee club." Vr. Sclilorlf Is llrllllant gc.

a director cf rcare nold, after drinking, eeemed to lose all ieaae ef time, place, or his1 own identity, and that without cause he drew7 Revolver from his pocket and eVMberateiy jered1 the poUeeW man. Other evidence corroborated the testimony given by Meade." an.l Arnold's statement that he had never en the revolver wear for paugbt. Ha war bound over and friends set to work to cave Mm from a hang man noose. The wealth of his father And his stui devoted wife was ot spared In preparing for his defense, NoiaitbctanCtag all that a as done. Arnold was Jndicted upon a charge of murder.

Although Arnold reiterated theassertloaof his innocence, there appeared te be no hope for bin. Arnold was a mcdei prisoner and was consequently panted seme liberties sot accorded to others. A week before the trial he managed t. make hi escape, and the reward of offered by the Covington police. In addition to the 1,000 offered by the county, still stood untir the 8th day of the present month.

1 What followed after th eaeape can best be told in Arnold's own worde 'After returning from his fruitless trip to theieaMn, he talked quite freely of -Ms-experteacea. He said: "After eluding the vigilance of my guard my first thought- was to visit my home and see. say wife and. daughter. I realued.

that they search forme the re, however, I hurried, to the bank. It was night.7 The watchman me let me In." 1 knew theoombinatlons and took a part of th4 money I had on deposit, leaving a note In structing that the balance to given my wife; I. was soon -back Into the darkness of the night, a fugitive from justice, hunted by men and fearful thai eery was a VAa reached ISai "Jraadsco aad shipped aboard a whaling vessel. We were In. the -arctic two years, and, when we returned my share of the catch amounted to a good sum.

Saving only money enough for necessary expenses I ent my earnings to my wife, with only a line Pift your trust in After the first, cruise I was most unlucky until ten years later, when. In 1895. again. sent a sum of money with the words 'Put your trust in tlidapring of 189t the captain and crew of the sTSeam whaler of which I was first mate decVded to go to Alaska; from the Interior qf which stories of fabulous wealth reached the Recast. We did so, and our party gradually separated.

I was phenomenally successful, anj am nowrate1 a millionaire. r- "In the rush In the spring of 1898 came Charles Meade. I recognized him the mo-, ment our which coming out, res--cued the members of his party from a snow avalanchat Two of Meade's' companions were dead when we took them out of the drift, and Meade was fatally crushed la the presence of my friends he confessed that he had had a grudgo of long standing against the officer, and conceived the plan of dragging my liquor, killing the policeman, putting the revolver in my hanoVand shifting the blame on me, thus wrecking the happiness of my wife and myself. Telgrahl (he Goad "fews. v.

"My trust in God. had not been without reward. I continued my Journey and at Seattle I hastened to the telegraph office and sent meesagee to my but they were not delivered. Later I learned ttat in a bank failure In the panle of 1893 my father and father-in-law had both become bankrupt and bad since died. My-wife, dependent upon her brother, had gone with him.

to some place in the West. a Seattle attorney, ex -Congressman Lewis, I went East and presented the evidence of Meade's death and bis confession to the authorities, and the Indictment against me was dismissed the day before the recent election. Then began the search for my Last Monday, while was in Kaneas City. I learned- that my wifa. and daughter were living in a small cabin cn the Verdigris river.

I sent a telegram to the postmaster at Claremore to spare no expanse In having a message I sent delivered at ir? little cabin on the Verdigris, but It seem I as too late. 16, 1900. OTIEiaELJGJOO Two Apostles pf Doctrine cf llanl- COME FROM PERSIA Bena U'llah; Founder of the Norel in 1892. S. I His Dlielfle Alat to Carry Oat tho TesebUss mt CfcrlstWlll Preach" Here.

Two teachers of the Doctrine of tho Maal-festatlon. a religious faith which alma to carry out literally the teachings, of the Christian "religion, are In the city spreading their gospel among tho citlxens ef Chicago. The helievera of the new doctrine pin their faith-upon Beha C'llah. the founder of the religion, who ia believed by -his followers to have been a "'manifestation of the everlasting father." Beha U'llah died la 1892. leaving behind him some 600 volumes, which constitute U)e.

new testament 'of his followers. Hie. mantle fell upon his Abdul -Beha Abbas, the "comforter." who Is now to Acre, Syria, and who Is the head of the new rellgiea. The two teachers, who arrlyed here Tbanksgiviug Vday." are staying. at No 14 LoomisY street.

names are Hajl Mlrxa- Hassan Mlrxa Assad U'llah. There are said to be about 600 believers In the new doctrine in Chicago, and the two 'teachers have been holding meetings at various places in the city; With them Is an Interpreter, Mlrza Husslen Rouhy. meetings, it is said, have been largely attended. The two teachers are Persians, One- of them, Hassan, being a lineal descendant of Mahomet, and the other, Assad a brother-In-law of Abbas Abdul-Be ha. Hassan is a merchant In Cairo.

The twe teachers. It Is said, are paying their own expenses, and their sole object is to gain converts te the new The title of the followers ef the new religion is Behais, and In Asia they claim to number about 18.000,000. tenets of the faith are simple, and.do not conflict with any of the beliefs, of the Christian churches: The believers accept the Old and New Testaments as- their eld' testament, and accept the writings of Beha U'llah as their new testament. His writings, it is said, cod lain predictions covering the next 100,000 years! and are sufficiently comprehensive to satisfy the most critical converts. Beha U'llah, the second manifestations as he called, came upon earth In 1817.

He spent years fitting himself for his life work. He commenced teaching In 1844, and speedily thousands were attracted by his wisdom and the. broadness of, his views. He had been preceded by a prophet who corresponded to John the Baptist, and who was known as The Gab. The Bab prepared the way for the master, and Beha U'llah's life was one round of teaching.

His followers are firm In their conviction that he was the "manifestation of the everlasting father." They explain the fact that he left a son by saying that Christ did not condemn marriage, and had he lived longer "might have been married himself. -The Behais believe that the several prophets, such as Confucius, -Mohammed; Zoroaster, and others, were inspired to visit the different races of people. The Behais do not condemn the teachings of those prophets. The believers have no church, and do not believe In church organization. They claim to have returned to the first principles of Christianity.

The two teachers who are In Chicago bring with them a message from ordinary ability. la addition the regular features the organlsatioa will carry banjo elnh af lnstrnmenta. tbdul Beha which' has toeea translated Into English: It concludes as follows: Blessed ye are-." Elees ed -are, owing to MyMOKcessrvo Love towards you. I have sent some seals ef My beloved wbomr sincere and faithful in the Cause ef God. to those regions te visit you that their breasts may be dilate atth'Jey la -conversing with you about the Love of Cod.

"1 ask God-; that their presence will be praised and create pleasure and Joy. that the Sign of Light wliraboHeh darkness and KI Beha Is upon you. --r ABBAS." A meeting of the followers tn Chicago will be held Sunday afternoon at in room No. 404. Chicago Opera-House -r i CHILDREN TO AID A CHARITY: Horth Side Boys aad Glrla Will Aoposir la Catriataaata Eztravaaramaa.

One hundred North Side children will appear in a fairy extravazanxa next Friday evening at Unity church. Dearborn and Walton for tho benefit of the American Home Finding association. The Christmas drama of "The Sleeping Beauty. written by Miss Keating, has been arranged by Mlaa Ida Luclen Woods, under whose direction It will be' given. The boys and girls will appear as kings and queeno, princes and princesses, lords and ladles, good fairies and bad fairies.

Their costumes will rich and picturesque and the stage settings will be elaborate. Miss Woods, who has a wide reputation as a dramatic Instructor, ha selected children of unusual talent and beau'y, end tho. entertainment will be of much Interest! The tableaux will bo a special feature and fine music will be provided. -The cast Is as follows: Queen Waseabellew Marguerite Gouldlng; "Queen of Pumpkin Land. Merclllie Mclntyre; Prlnceaa Amoret-ta, Olive Doyle; El ma Doyle; Grace "Enibleton; -Queen of Rosea, Violet Barry; Fairy 'Avorita.

Josephine Detail; Fairy Amabel la. Nellie Fix; Lady Flir-tllla. Sue McMillea; Duchess of DuftnallUe. Frances Degan; King What Wesee, Boynt-a Rogers; King of Pumpkin Land. Donald Meany; Prince Bellemore, Willie Williams; Lord Longtymeage, Harry Wild Le4sher.

Between the acta of the extravaganza several good specialties will be Interpolated an an exhibition drill will be given at the close of the The officers of the Home Finding association are: Prof eta or Charles Waldo Foreman, A. Swin Linderoth, first Vice president; George K. Hoover, D. general superintendent; the Rev. James W.

Lee, A. secretary; McKenzie Cleland. A. LL. counselor.

The laeffeetoal Past. Virtue had triumphed, for It was now Wretch!" cried the heroine, fronting the "Learn that It takes something besides a past with a from age de Brie bouquet to make person the whole cheese!" Salvos- of applause greeted this Just and witty rebuke, the curtain fell, and the people retired to their homes full of th thnn.ht that It had been good to be there. Detroit Post. The'TooasT Diplomat. Mother No, -Johnny, you have had pie encugh.

Jchnny Mother, it is impossible to have enough of your pie I He gets another, piece. Boston Transcript. TCr to the Reqalrtateali. Employer See here, young man, you've been In this office only a week, and you've broken three chairs. New Boy Well, you advertised for a strong boy, didn't-you? Indianapolis Jour-aL Power of Oratory; "You call him a powerful orator? -Why, when he spoke of the abyss that confronts our nation, the "Certainly.

He made the people actually see the abyss yawn, and you know how infectious yawning la." Detroit Journal. PAGES 67 TO 74. FOOTBALL IS SCORED High. School. Principal Denounces Game as Inhuman.

SAYS IT DEMORALIZES He Declares Players Lose Interest in Their Studies. LoasT Coaaaaaaloatloa la Pwal talked Is a Edacatleaal Ora-aa PwpUs ire IadisTaaat. High-school boys In Chicago are la a state of nervous apprehension and anger. A fight has been started against football In the high schools, and a storm of Indignant criticism has resulted. Oliver S.

Westcott, principal of the North Division High school, has started the anti- football agitation. The North Division school's team won tho championship of tho mgn-Bcnooi league ton year. air. weat- cott has put his objections to football Into circulation throush the School Weekly, a local educational paper. Some of the com ments which he makce are aa follows: "It is assumed that whoever opposes the inhuman and Inhumane game of football la opposed to athletics.

It has really come to pass that when a person speaks of athletics he means footralL For this very reason, tt for not various others more cogent, it would aecm that football should be dropped until this enforced synonomy dies a natural death. "Why should a conference of alleged edu cators stand almost aolldly for the retention-bf a game which promotes brutality. unntudioua habits, and general school aad personal demoralization? No arraignment can be possibly too strong for so vicious aa Influence. The football players are not as a rule boys to be taken as patterns. If.

whea selected, they are somewhat studious, their associations soon destroy their studious inclinations and their time Is spent in every- -thing hut mental Improve me Says Gaae Ii Worse than BoxlasT. The football field is more brutal than the ring for the prize fight. Ia the latter the contestants have bora especially trained for what they are to face. Neither expects a blow below the belt aad each has been taught the art of self-defense. But the contestants tn football are kicked, wrenched, pounded without any opportunity of defense, even in their most helpless positions.

"The argument which la occasionally ad vanced that, being on the football team pro-noted scholarship, Is almost too puerile te be noticed. It Is said that the regulations of the board of control ef the eouaty high schools Induce some players, otherwise inferior students, to work more arduously so as to mala. -lain their place with the team. Admitting Ihf to be. true, one cannot help that the ability of the student Is thus con- ceded, and the further reflection caaoat be -resisted that the student might well be guided to loftier heights of scholarship and intellectual attainment with worthier mo- Uvea put before him motives which would rouse his ambition, cultivate his self-respect.

and preserve him from the fearful loss of time and vital force necessitated 4y the football method. The fact that an occasional toot- ball player takes a commendable rank In his studies is only the exception, which proves the rule of Inferiority, and a careful oh- server will soon note that such a student almoet Invariably tires of his companionship and withdraws from the team. "The demoralisation occasioned by football la not confined te the players themselves. Pupil are perfectly willing to slight school work only la order to look on and see tho representatives of another school belabored and worsted. Not only are the players them- selves so steeped la this Intoxicant that during their waking hour football interests ab sorb them utterly, but -the lookers-on are tnoculcted with the virus aad seem te have.

no conscience whatever In neglecting their most Prefer Taleatlaei aa Jake. "One principal says that each boy must have the written consent of his parents and-a physician's certificate before he bo allowed to play. This very statement Is sufficient to Indicate that in. his heart of hearts he regards the game as- dangerous, and the conference adopted a resolution to that effect. "He admits, furthermore, that the football field does not promote athletics la the sense of Improving bodily powers, but says he fa- vors the fine because It furnishes a convenient outlet for tho ebullition of youthful viva- city which otherwise would find vent Ira mis chief on the school grounds, perpetrating Jokes on teacher.

I am free to say that val- entlnes and April-tool Jckes are, In my Judgment, not to be clasoed wlUi football as men. aclng dangers. Even if athletics included a well-digested course at a gymnasium and were not confined to football, it la at least a mooted question whether boys thus dealt with will bo always more eerviceable la any emer- fence. The men who moat easily withstood tho hardships and privations of the Spanish war are said by the. officers not to have been' the hardy sons of toll, whoee life had bea out of.

doors, but rather the clerks and In door men of the elty, whoce will always con trolled their muscles. "Many a long century ago did the poet Euripides discover, the same period, wit- -tiss: Of all the thousand Ills that prey on Hellas Not one la greater than the tribe of athletes. Trustee Brennan called upon Superintend-ent Cooiey yesterday and labored hard to convince him that the playing of the game by the pupils of the public schools should be for- bidden; superintendent emphasised the lemarks he made at a meeting of the school management some time ago, and said that the game should be placed proper super- -vision. "Mj experience with the game, said Pa- -perintendent Cooiey. "has never led me to believe It harmful.

Tho game will be played, no matter what aUon we as a board may take, and in my opinion the proper thing is -to put it under the immediate rupervlsloacf -the department. In this way many of the disagreeable features of some of the games can. be obvlatedw "practice Makes (to whom Edgar has been proposing) Tell me, Edgar, did yoa ever say anything like this to any woman before? Edgar (In a burst of honesty) My dear girl, do yen thick that It could be done like that the first time? Harper's Bazaar. Sarapael aad Shell. V.Tien shrapnel bursts the bullets go forward: In common shell the fragments fly la all directions..