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somewhere In the Datum There's a boy to-day Perhaps he's at his lessons, Maybe at work or play But whate'er he's doth --There his mind is bent, And that earnest laddie is Our future President. CURED BY NO-CLOTHES. Delicate Boy Now Able to Walk Barefooted in Snow. Gustave Nagal was a very delicate child and grew to manhood almost a chronic Invalid. His parents- had spent fortunes on medical attention for him and he had consumed barrels of medicine, but air to no effect Some years ago he conceived the idea that modern man lived too far fiom the state In which nature intended that he should, and he resolved to return to the habits of his primeval forefathers and become strong or die In the attempt He discarded all clothes, except what the law required, ate only raw foods and on meat and bathed only in water of a natural temperature.

At first of course he suffered severely in a few years he was able to walk barefooted in the snow with as little discomfort as the ordinary mortal suffers going shoeless on a sandy beach in summer. When he bathes he never dried himself he sleeps he prefers the cold, bare ground; he never has his hair cut short, deeming it a protection from the weather given man, by nature; his food is of vegetables, bread and nuts. GRIZZLY BEARS AftD PANTH RS- Afraid of Man, Says Wyoming Hunter Dangerous Only Whtn Attacked. "In the mountains af Wyoming, where I hare hunted for years, you can find most any kind of savage animal that you get In America except alligators. Grizzlies, black bears and mountain lions are commonly killed tnere," says Hugh Snlverly of Sheridan: vyo.

"Some of the men that came out thcr to hunt, think that if they stir one hundred yards away from camp they must be armed to the teeth for fear of being attacked by a bear or painter' and killed. There's a heap more danger of getting killed on account of leaving your gun at home when you go down Market street Some one might shot you on the street ina big city, but it is dead sure that a or a mountain lion will never attack you unless you drive him to it "I've hunted through the best district for big game in this country, and I've seen a good many grizzlies, but I've never seen one of them go after i man unless he was cornered or wounded. If you run into a grizzly bear in a lonely place you'll hear a grunt, something like that of a mammoth hog, and then there will be a mighty crashing of underbrush as he makes off in the opposite direction as fast as he can go. BUILDING OR BEING BUILT. A Modern instance of English as She Is Spoke.

An amusing illustration of "English as she is spoke." was furnished the other day a well known builder and a Bryn Mawr girl who entertained a notion she could peak correct English. Both were on the Pennsylvania train en raute to Bryn Mawr. "Are there any houses building in the vicinity of the college?" asked the builder, seeking an excuse for a conversation. "No, sir; there is a new house do-ing built for Mr. Smithers, but it is the carpenters who are bufiding," was tha answer.

This staggered the builder for a moment, but he quickly recovered. "I Bit corrected," he said, wishiug to be gallant. "To be building is certainly a different thing from being built How long has Mr. Smithers' house been being built?" For a moment the young woman was noc plussed. After some thought she replied: "Nearly a year." "How much longer do you think it will be being built?" was the next query.

"I don't know," blurted out the girl, conscious that the builder was getting the best of the argument. "1 should think," observed the builder maliciously, "that' Mr. Smithars would be annoyed by its being so long being built, for the house he now occupies is old, he must leave 'it, and the new one being only being built, in stead of being built, as he expected, he" But the young woman had fled to thfc forward coach. Philadelphia FEW PRESIDENTS HAD BEARDS. First Four Were Clean Shaven Only Two Wore Mustaches.

When Roosevelt was inauge rated on March 4, 1905, he was the second president with a mustache. Cleveland was the first. Whatever the presidency of this country has done for the incumbents, it 'has not been productive of beards. The first four chief executives were as clean shaven as Benedictine friars. J.

Q. Adams was the first to break the rule, but he was not" a full bearded president. His facial growth of hair hardly came up to what are usuilly termed side whiskers, but they wsre a trifle more expansive than the Scotch Presbyterian type. When he retired, the beardless president came in again with Jackson, but his successor, Van Buren, brought to the White House almost an exact pattern of the whiskers grown by J. Q.

Adams. William Henry Harrison again net the beardless face. The sen who came after him were clean shaven. When Mr. Lincoln was elected thera was not a hair on this face, but before he finished his first term he wore a sparse beard, with clean shaven upper i.p.

One of the authenticated stories is that he did this to please a child. Grant was the first president with a full short beard. His immediate successor, Hayes, was the first to wf-ar full, long whiskers, covering his shirt front. Garfield also wore a full beard, but it was less luxuriant th'jn that of Hayes. Arthur, who was the most perfect dresser of all the presidents, was the first in the list to grow the Burnside type of whiskers.

Benjamin Harrison's beard was full, with a slight tendency to curl at the end and was tinged with gray. After Cleveland the clean shaven face returned with McKinley. The mustache came in for the second time when Roosevelt succeeded. Most of the presidents were bountifully supplied with hair on top of their heads, The two Adamses were the first to show a slight tendency to baldness. Van Buren was bald on the forehead Garfield was eimilarily marked.

Polk was the first and only president who wore his hair in the antebellum Southern style. It was long, and reached back from the front over his ears. Bushanan was the first and only one, so far, to wear the top roach. Cleveland in returning to his second administration showed a tendency to baldness. McKinley was not noticeably blessed with a heavy growth.

But no baldheaded man, as the term is understood, has yet been president of the United States Pitsburg Press. AT THB POOR. I thought 'myself Indeed secure So fast the door, so firm the lock; But lo! he toddling; came to lure My parent ear with timorous knock My heart was stone it could withstanl The sweetness of bv baby's plea That timorous, baby knocking, and. "Please let me in; it's omy me." I threw aside the unfinished boote Regardless of its tempting charms! And opened wide the door, I took -My laughing darling my arms. Who knows but in eternity like the truant child, shall wait The glories of a life to be.

Beyond the Heavenly Father's gate? And will that Heavenly Father heed The truant's supplicating cry. As at the outer door I plead. "'Tis I. Father! only Eugene Field. Health Notes for Spring.

A spring note worth while is that put out by the Chicago Health depart-bent. It consists in repeating substantially a department document entitled "Regimen for Spring." published first in 1873. A quarter cf a century has remonstrated the wisdom of its admonitions, and today the department does no more than repeat them. They are simple enough a3 all things worth while are. They explain the run down condition, the craving for "green food," which recognizes the wise hygienic principle in Lent its meager diet and its abstinence from excitement.

What we need at this time of the year is re3t physical, mental and spiritual; we need to train down and to get rid of mental worry and excitement. Especially do we in America need this, for, eay what we will, we do lead a strenuous life. So there is for us on every hand an appeal that we should second nature at this time of year by the simple life literally and physically. The amount of work done In the hu-nan body during the winter, the health article goes on to say, merely in maintaining the normal temperature of 98 to 99 degrees, is enormous and sufficient to overload the system with waste tissue by this time of year. When to this we add the special nerve waste caused by the wear and tear on tho brain and nerve centers that the excitement and mental activity of a life in a city during winter months mean, it is a logical condition that we reach in the spring when nature txies out for relief by manifesting humors and "breakdowns." The special remedy or regimen is one not hard to take beyond the summoning of a little will power; it is, for the first six weeks, abundance of exercise in the open air, free bathing and spare diet The illustration used is the well-known one of the furnace.

For months the body, the furnace, has been kept up steadily a high degree of keat which has meant a constant stoking with rich foods and somewhat in pro-pcrtion a "failure throughout to combust all and to get rid of the waste tha ashes. So now what is needed is to reduce the heat and the quantity of fuel and clean out the flues and pipes. The reduction of heat comes from the reduction of fuel, or food, and this, it is pointed out can be accomplished by changing the food from flesh to fish another wise Lenten regulationand by eating largely of vegetables and fruits. At the same time tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and the like should be reduced to a minimum. Those that lead this sort of "simple life" physically, can dispense with the spring remedies used so much to purify the blood- It will be nature's way of getting the same results; a little slower, but much surer, without reaction, and so avoiding possible injury to health.

ROPES AND HAWSERS. Points about Measuring Them Lands men Don't Understand. "Pipes," said a dealer in ship supplies, "are measured by their diameter. Thus when we speak of a six-inch pipe we mean a pipe six inch03 In diameter. "But hawsers are measured by their circumference; and so when we speak of a six-inch hawser we do not me.n a hawser six Inches in diameter tui one six inches around, or two inoaes in diameter.

All nautical men so understand hawser measurements, and never think of them in any otVr way. "An eight-inch hawser is, nevertheless, a big and powerful bawser. A Manila hawser of this will stand a strain of 50,000 pounds and a -'oil of 200 fathoms of Manila rope will weigh 2,300 pounds, or consider ably more than a "Rope used to be made in coils cf a thousand fit in length, but now a standard -coil is 200 fathoms, or l.oU feet. Lengths cf 100 fathoms or less are, however, commonly used in towing. "By cordage men and nautical men all ropes down to and including ropea measuring an inch and a quarter round are measured in the same manner.

Ropes of less than an inch and a quarter in circumierence are described end ordered by threads. "A rope is made up of a number of siiands, each strand comprising a number of threads, which are cf the fiber The number threads in a rope carries according to its size. "The rope next smaller than that fcnown as inch and a quart or is a rope of 15 threads and having a circumference of a shade more than an inch and an eighth and a diameter of three-eiphts of an inch. A coil of 200 fathoms of 15-thread Manila rope we'ghs 50 poi'ads and such rope when new will bear a strain of 1,600 poiTnds. "Six-thread rope has a diameter of one-quarter of an inch; 200 fathoms of Manila six-thread weighs 22 pounds ana new six-thread Manila will stand a strain of 620 pounds.

'It takes 60 foot of six-thread Manila to make a pound; three and three-quarters inches in length of a 10-inch Matila hawser ill weigh as much. "The hawser most commonly used for ordinary towing is a six-inch, having a diameter of two inches. Two hundred fathoms, of six-inch hawser weighs about 1,200 pounds and a new Manila rope of this size will stand a strain of 30,000 pounds. Sea going tngs, handling heavy vessels or tows outside, carry seven and eight inch and it may be, ten-inch hawsers; though eight-inch would be about as heavy as would be carried by most Bea-going tugs. "A 10-inch hawser has a diameter of three and a quarter inches, and a coil of 200 fathoms will weigh 3,500 pounds, and a new Manila hawser, of this kind will stand a strain of 75,000 pounds.

Such a hawser might be used for towing a string of heavy coal barges at sea, and for such towing a 12-inch hawser might be used, but an 12-inch hawser, which have some times bean made, would be more likely to be put to some special uses, as flor wrecking punposesVJ New York Sun. Little Helps. Borax and water will brighten oilcloth. Beeswax and salt will make rusty fiat irons clean and smooth. A little soda added to boiling vegetables will hasten their cooking and add to their tenderness.

When you wish to beat eggs quickly add a pinch of salt. A good cleaner for gold or silver jewelry is a teacupful of ammonia in a cupful of water. By ad dinar a few drops of vinegar to the water poaching eggs will set more quickly and perfectly. A little salad oil gradually added When mixing mustard for the table is a great improvement. A cloth dipped In the white of an egg will brighten leather chairs and bit dings.

A small piece of charcoal in a pot of boiling cabbage absorbs the odor. A strong solution of nitric acid Is ah ounce of soft water will whiten piano keys. National Magazine. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. Love in a cottage is net all cottage pudding.

The man who doesnt listen to reason Is equally blind to his own Any fool can give advice, but it takes a wise man to demonstrate its value. Slllicus The Russians have much t3 answer for. Cynlcus Yea; I believe they are now trying to foist a new brand of Russian cigarette on the market. Philadelphia Record. Bliklns Who's that jolly old chap who is doing a break down as if he did not have a care In the world? Wilkins.

That's Stuff em the millionaire broker. Bilklns And! who is that solemn ycung chap who looks as if the re-sppnsibilltles of the nation rested on hla, shoulders? -yiikins That's Ms- son who is -jest out of college. Council Bluffs Nonpareil. You can always keep a cook when she isn't any good. A woman Is always fatter than she looks unless she is thinner than she' xonaer boy will move the worla As an orator: Thither goes the lad who'll win The rank of senator: And that dreamy youth will a An artist of renown, While the one beside him wean The poet's laurel crown.

Lawyer or astronomer. Diplomatist wise, Minister or admiral. Joan or "oiocies" We are sure to meet one Where so'er we go, Though of course we'll find thtm Yet In embryo. Would you like to know him? Find the lad who works Ne'er a duty shirks Whose coal is pure and lofty. Whose heart is brave and true-He's a coming great man.

Can this be said or yout Golden Days. How Farmers Built a Railroad. In a recent number of World's Work appeared an Interesting article giving an account of how the farmers of Ram- eey county, North Dacota, built a rail- road without the aid of outside or bor-rowd capitaL These farmers hauled their grain often a distance of twenty-five miles to Devil's Lake, the county seat, through which the Great Northern railway passed. It kept the farmers hauling vk grain all winter. They asked James J.

Hill, president of the Great Northern railway, to build a branch line from, Devil's Lake up through their section. Mr. Hill said he could not build. Six of the largest farmers met at a sdhoool house. One of them was Joseph who owned 900 acres of land, and who (hauled his wheat fifteen miles to Dev- Lake.

Mr. Kelly said. "If the Great Nbrthern won't build, we will And the farmers built a railroad twenty-five miles long. They asked every farmer who hauled -grain to Devil's Lake to subscribe. Some subscribed 25; others fSOO.

They raiser 150,000. They sent a farmer to Duluth to buy ties, another to Ct Da i 1 Knit m11 A laeit nrn utlriaui uuj viu iwiPi ismv eye moter was building a small branch line out ox uevii jLAke to cne souin, ana rKav vt him aimrav ha AftA' nuf Tint thpv needed mnrfl monv. TheT bought land along tne line ana laia out inree towns, soia we iou ana usea -the money to buy en old engine, a day coaoh; and four box oars from the; Aft aBArfl Tfr wilt cfrn otiv formAF at unv Til AY A year, the road made its expenses; ft (hauled 60.000 bushehvof wheat. This wtrn T.ita rai rnan ar nnnn ins farmers nlanted more wheat and the road will haul 2,000,000 bushels. Great Strength of the Birds.

Birds can eat and digest from ten io imny umes as muca iouq in urv II1BI1 I 1 1 1 1 1 CHI. ia Hill II 111 UKUUUI UUU to his size as a sparrow is able to consume he would eat a whole sheep dinner a mnnlft nf rinren rhirkena for oreagiasi ana six lurKeys ior ms eve ning meal. A tree sparrow has been known to eat 700 grass seeds In a day. nciaii iv iuq uuub silc, uicbo ncnw were as bie as an ordinary lunch bass et would be to a full crown man. ing.

A white tailed eagle weignins; tin aIva wrnvt9a vtrtf win aremsAei jw i ew vms civ faor ha a Vtaan VnAwn tri nrtiiTi.A en a mcr vroicrniTicr rnnTrwn nrmnnsi raiia it to a height of 100 feet and fly away with it. me Dira naa coverea a ais- innrn it nair n. mi nprnni inn msra owner succeeded in shooting the Birds can and do work far harder than human beings. A pair of house martins wnen nesting wiu ieea meir ycung ones in twenty seconds that is. aanVi Mrd ma 1a end femftle mikM ninety journeys to ana iru an svur or aooux a loousana a it, must the bird has the added work of catch- ing the worm.

Even so tiny a bird as the wren tat, been counted to make 110 trips to ami from its nest within 430 minutes and. the prey It carried home consisted of farmer, heavier and harder to And in- santa than waa ftonartit tho anATV rows. Among them were twenty good sized caterpillars and grasshoppers, seven spiders, eleven worms and more than one fat chrysalis When Jules Verne Worked. Jules Verne found the noise and stir of the city too exciting for him, ao4 so he went to Amiens to lire. He li -J 1L.

.1.. til its surrounding ponds and marshes a -m .1 a ana some 01 ui uuuuies wuwa TrnAntoA In on fit thA faSli I 4 -it the ponds, watching a duck dire, came the inception of hla great story "Vingt Mille Lleues Sous les He worked In an old tower, where fc bad only pi ten pine lurnuure save few old fashioned chairs, and an cd settee, a family heritage that he ts4 ittcnea itubj neutves. Kium -sea hung on the whitewashed wtx He said that the luxurious homes ci literary men In Paris jarred on him- that the rechehche of t.he"modern ha itation presented one from' recites within the chamber of the lmaginaUca and giving oneself up to thoughts. In France they hare discover a burglary trust, Here In America trusts dont have to be ejuite as direct in thelf bulsness methods as that. Jit lacta Constitution.

7 cln-ls crrrtr t-ti All you can generally see of a mountain lion is a tawny streak as he makes off at incredible speed. If the has any intention of going after you, it must his Intention to go 'around the world and catch you in the rear, for if you are standing to the east of him he is sure to go due west "Mountain lions in the winter time will follow sleighs at a distance, wailing as they go, but there is nothing in that to inspire terror, for I don't think they have ever been known to close in on anybody. Their terror of human beings is the thing whicth makes them hard to hunt In all the time that 1 have been in the mountains I have never heard of any one being attacked by a wild animal that had oeen left strictly alone. But I've known men to be killed even by deer when the brute was driven to desperation. "Grizzlies are the best game in tho world.

When you once get their dander up they are savage fighters, and hunter's life is in danger every minute unless he is a good shot and has a steady nerve. If you ever get within range of the grizzly's paw you are a dead one. These stories of men klllins them with knives in hand-to-hand fights are about as reasonable as it would be to talk of stopping a locemo-tive by getting in the way of the train. If the big fellow gets the chance to deliver one blow it is all over. Tnere was a grizzly up our way that the cowboys called Big Ben who killed about 150 steers before he was finally shot.

He would break a steer's neck with ono blow, and then he would lift him up and carry him off to a secluded place. Grizzlies look awkward, but they are mighty light on their feet, and they can beat any man in a footrace. Louisville Herald. Nogi His Remarkable Spirit Consider Nogi's career. He was commissioned by the Mikado to tetake Fort Arthur, the "impregnable" fortress which he had taken by storm from the Chinese ten years before, says the New York Tribune- He went thither to work and to fight, largely unobserved by the world, for the limelight of publicity was turned upon the fleets upon Kurokl and Kuropat-kin in their desperate duel at the north rather than upon him and his sappers and miners and forlorn hopes.

He went into the campaign with his two the world who could inherit his name son 3 and his nephew the only men in and title. One son was killed at Nan- shan. The other died at High Hill. Ir. a third conflict the nephew was killed.

They say Nogi smiled when he heard the news, and instead of lamenting his own loss congratulated his soldiers upon the victories they lad won. "God took my sons," he said to a ft'fnd one day, "in order that I might bo better able to sympathize with my countrymen who are likewise bereft, t-nd so that I may the better answer to the souls of the many brave men whom I am sending to their graves." But now and then, when he supposed himself entirely unobserved, the white-haired veteran would bow his head and sob as if from a broken heart The Emperor meant to pay him the beautiful compliment of making him the guardian of the Prince Imperial's three little sons. But first there was other work to do. So with his warworn veterans Nogi was hurried from Port Arthur up to Mukden, where we are told he hurled himself like a thunderbolt upon the Russians. The time necessary to convert living trees into newspapers was recently tested in Elsentball, Australia.

At 7. in the morning three spruce trees were sawed down; at 9:34 the wood, having been stripped of bark, cut up and con verted into pulp, became paper,) and passed from the factory to the press, whence the first printed and folded copy was issued at 10 o'clock. So tnat In 145 minutes the trees had become newspapers. Farren Hasn't our trouble with Venezuela something to do with an asphalt company Kooler Certainly, it's a "get pitch quick" scheme that's at the bottom of It Chicago Tribune. I "What is said to be the largest pearl la the world was found In the Can Saba river.

It is almost as tars xs a hen's Nagal is about to be married, but I am not able to say whether the lady of his choice is a new woman or has primeval tendencies like his ownt Lor-don Tatler. Be Proud of Your Work. The editor of the Earth wants farm ers to hold up their heads in pride of their calling. He says: "Dont regret that you are a farmer, and be proud of the land that you own, no matter what size it may be. Make up your minds to raise that mortgage from the farm, to pay all the debts, and if you don't own a farm make jp your mind to go to some region where you can have a piece of ground.

There Is nothing like farming, with the chance of your living like a gentleman and your wife like a lady. You do not know the hardships and suffering! of people that live in the city. Clerks are losing their health poring over books, and are not getting anywhere near as much salary as you can make on the farm, even if you do sometimes want to go out and work by the day for the want of ready money. Do not be too much wedded to old ideas and localities, nor value against your own inter ests the ties of kindred and what you ihave always thought of generally as 'home." A farmer's real home is never a rented one." Sobriety and Success. The announcement of Indiana's new governor to office Jseekers that "no drinking man need apply" is the latest example of the disrepute into which tippling has fallen- For several years several of the great railways have insisted that their employes shall be4so-ber men, and other large corporations have followed their lead, with the result that drinking is no longer consid ered "respectable." To be sura, every now and then we hear the pess-in 1 3 tic wail that intemperance is on the increase, but the facts show nothing of the kind, says Robert Webster Jones in the May Housekeeper.

Half a century ago our representatives in congress thought it no cjigrace to be carried helplessly intoxicated from the dining table. Today the sale of liquor is prohibited in the national capitol, and many of our senators and congressmen have interested them-selvi actively in temperance legislation. At banquets of chambers of commerce in our large cities it is not uncommon to omit wine from the menu and where wine is served it is untasted bj a large number of the diners. The employer no longer demands ability in the bibulous line from Hi traveling men. Business Is not got by the corkscrew nowadays.

We read sensational stories in the yellow journals occ asionally concern-the tippling among so-called "society wemen." Some of them, no doubt, are true, but we should remember what an extremely limited coterie "society" often is, both as regards numbers and influence. In the twentieth century scheme of civilization there is no place for drones or drunkar3. It has taken our race a good many years to reach this point where it is just beginning to learn to live. Housekeeper for De Reszke's Coon Song. Jean de Reszke has no plans for returning to America and it is doubtful if he will ever be heard here again, he has not lost his interest in one phase of American musical affairs.

He receives monthly from one of the music publishers the freshest batch of coon songs. The tenor takes the greatest interest In them and is deepfy disappointed If the supply is small or not up to the average. He expressed deep regret In a letter sent recently that there was less Interest than there used to be In these characteristic compositions. New York Sun. Senator Proctor complains of maple syrup that dosn't taste as it did when he was a boy.

And perhaps the sen ator might find that even green apple haven't that delicious flavor they used to Milwaukee SentineL Truthfulness Is the cornerstone of character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation. Reputation is what men and think cf us character is what God krows cf irs. Age and Creative Genius. As a supplement to topics being just now discussed these items may be cf interest Johann Kepler was 59 years old when he gave to the world his discovery of the law ol the distance of the planeu from the sun. Francis Bacon was 59 years old when (he published his "Novum Orgauum." Pierre Gassendi was 59 years old when he published his atomic theory.

Otto von Guericke was 49 years old when he invented the air pump. Johann Rudolph von Glauber was 55 years old when (he discovered 3odu.n sulphate (Glauber salt). Sir Isaac Newton was 44 years old when he published the law of gravitation. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was 54 years old when he was commissioned to establish the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Antonius van Leeuwenhock was 88 years old when he discovered blood corpuscles, infusoria, spermatozoa, etc.

Rene Reaumur was 47 years old when he brought out his thermometer. Benjamin Franklin was 46 years o)c when he invented the lightning rod. Joseph Priestley was 41 years old when he discovered oxygen. Jan Ingen Housz was 49 years old when he discovered the respiration of plants. Henry Cavendish was 53 years old wfoeiv.

he discovered (hydrogen. Christian Huygens.was 61 years o)d when, he published his theory of the undulation of lighL Count Berthollet, Klaproth, John Dal ton Gay- Lessac, Count Rumferd (Benjamin Thompson), Woehler, Lie-big, Alexander von Humboldt, and, in fact, the majority of the eminent chemists and physicists did their most important work in advanced years. A Large. Company. "I heard a story the other day about an advance agent," said Maclyn Ar buckle of Henry W.

Savage's "The Ccunty Chairman" company, "which proves the audacity of some of these gentlemen. This agent was operating in a small town in the interior of a western state, and the following dialogue took place style of piece is your questioned the local manager. "Farce replied the publicity promoter. "'How many people do you "Seventy "The manager was astonished the report was circulated all around the village, coming in the course of time to the ears of the hotel keeper. When the advance agent went to make arrangements for his people he found the tavern In a chaotic state.

Lumber was being pulled out of rooms thai had long been unused, and the landlord was running distractedly up and down stairs. "I hear you carry seventy paid he. 'By puttin' som4 in the kitchen and movin' the melodeon out of the settin' room I can take care of forty. The rest of 'em we can put away over the drug store and down at Mis' Rickeftts. Seventy people! That's whole lot, of show folks.

"Doa worry, my said the agent We do carry seventy people but fifty of them are painted on the back drop. Harper's Weekly. "But, my dev. remonstrated Mr. Meekun "There's a good deal to be laid on both sides." "No, there Isn't," answered his spouse.

"I've told you what I think about it and that's all that is going to be said." Chicago Tribune, "No," said Mrs. Housekeep, "My husband Is not at home. He's out hunting, as usual." Why, this is the close season" --V "He's hunting a The season Is always cjsa." Philadelphia "Ledger; A Shortage of Jurors. Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, former justice of the supreme court, tells that early in his career he took a case for a Southern client.

The amount iuvolv-ed being less than one hundred dollars the trial came off in a justice's court. The Jury disagreed, so a new one was called with the same result. This went on until seven juries had disagreed. Then, just before the eighth trial, Mr. Atkinson received the following note from the justice of the peace; "I write this to let you knew the case of Beckham agin Lyles can not be tried no more in this court.

You have used up all the juries in the district, and it won't be possible to get no more juries until some grows up, or some new folks moves in. I have wrote the same notice to the other side." As no more notices Lave yet been received that a new jury has grown up the case is still unsettled. Hadn't Any Costumes, A good story is told concerning Emperor William's visit to Corfu. A party of English midshipmen were returning to their ships, after an excursion on foot to Achilleon, the Empress of Australia's palace. On arriving at the ferry, they found that tho boat wa3 too small to carry the whole party and three or four of the midshipmen stripped and swam over, passing as they did so the nunnery on Ulysses Island, which is situated half way across.

Emperor William, on hearing of the incident, signaled to Admiral Sir Compton Domvile: "I hear your midshipmen have been shocking the cood nuns b7 their costumes," to which the admiral replied also by signal; "Have heard; may mention your majesty is misinformed in one particular; the young gentlemen hadn't any costumes." An Italian Criticism. In Italy, whenever a famous criminal trial Is on, the newspapers take sides violently, search for evidence, and assume all prerogatives of the court That they are even more sensational than the American press in this regard is Indicated by the fact tfcat Italians reading accounts of great cases in the American papers are always struck with the moderation of tc ne shown, and wonder how.it is that Americans take so little interest in what interests the whole world. The Americans are a great people," say the Italians, "but cold; they don't even warm to their own criminals!" "Really, I think your son is a "Oh. don't say that! have been hoping all along that he would grew up to be a good, sensible man and finally succeed his father in business." Chteago Record-Herald. Towne You don't appear to consider my opinions very valuable.

BrowneWell you don't seen to think so either. Towne Why? Browne If you did you woudn'r. give then 3 freely. Chicago Journal. Food Fads Come and Go.

The 'no-breakfastf fad has lived about as long as the average health fad, and while it is not dead yet, it be said to be passing. Arguments tlhat those who never adopted the notion used are circulated by those who adopted, but the tiring of it, chief ot which is that the system required pome nourishment after the long all-night fast But the "doing-without" habit seems to be firmly fixed upon those who give much thought to the effect of diet, and so luncheon is getting to be the thing of the past with them. By slow degrees this camo about, the meal usually being cut to its smallest proportion before being neglected altogether. Probably this wrinkle will endure for a time and then the going without dinner cult will arise, after Which perhaps, these seekers after health will come back into the ranks with the great majority and live by the "three square" rule upon which our ancesters flourished. Boston Transcript Merit is never so conspicuous as when it springs from an obscure source.

City Folks in the Country. -It is a tact that when the city mau and boy take a vacation from their toil, and the city woman and girl from their home duties, they generally want take what Dr. Adler calls an ethical vacation, too. The country people know and feel this, and some of their most conscientious people resent it They object that city people, let loose in the country, do things which they would not do at home. Hatless and coatl ess, city girls who are careful of their conduct at home, sit saucily on the counter of the mountain grocery store and thump their heels agains; its boards.

What an exemple to ih9 rising generation of Mountainville; New York MaiL Elsie (aged fire) I do hope some Dutchman will marry me when I grow up Aunt Mary Why, jdear? -Elsie 'Cause I want to be a duch- ess-.