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Show 1 I V Y .4 h 4 i fsgBEST (Special Correspondence ) is eighty icars now since a pres- leys just beyond Keene, where lie ident if Yale In writing of a town Westmoreland. Walpole and Surry, through this pait of the country, towns whose history has been close-lbound up with that of Keene. spoke of .Keene as "the prettiest vilFrom these lage in New England It is thirty years since the town be'beginnings it lias not teased to giow came a ( ity and elected as its first in grace, and tluoiigh all these yeais, mayor a eitien, Horatio Col with the development of industries, ony Lastleading the town celebrated year in with factories situated the xery Its 13nth annlversm v, and It found heart of the city, it has pot lost its itself to have developed into a civic beauty. New buildings have been of of which its citizens surh style as to increase rather than orgauiation might well feel proud, for it is a well to lessen its atti actions, and seveial governed city. handsome blocks and numerous beau Recent tendencies of Keene are totiful churches are the pi ide of the ward extensive use of its splendid city. Its Keene is rather nioie lihe towns of possibilities for outdoor life. Massachusetts than those of New country' club has 230 members, who Hampshire in the reputation wuicli it has a!was held as an Intellectual center. The Keene Book society was organized in its early days as a town, and later there was the Koiensie soThen- - came the ciety and Lyceum Athenaeum, wlheh was established In 1839, and merged into the free public brary in 1874. The building in ihich this is located was formerly one of the finest residences In the with its 'town, and as It stands t beautiful lawns, Is one of the libraries In New England. Its upper floors are at preseut, used for a natural history museum, and so are the balls of the high school, so wide lias been the interest fostered here by the Natural History society. It Velvet Is Imperative. Velvets, velvets, and still more v vets, Is what the leading (outline say when asked the question as to what will lead in the early winter styles. And, furthermore, they add that when the gown is of cloth--ar- .d some of the new cloths are sheer and fine as chiffon it simply must be trimmed with velvet. It must show the imperative touch of velvet somewhere or other else it cannot hope to pass muster with t lie seasons styles among modish dressers. Never was there a woman to whom velvet would or could prove unbecom Ing. She has only to study her style, her type, her complexion, decide upon her most complimentary colors for sheet and house wear, and select those in velvet, and presto! her if not as a beauty, at least as a and very girl, is assured. Flora. There le hardly a place In New England which affords a- - better opportunity to study botany than Keene, which is far famed because of Its llora. The birds here also are quite as varied, but it seems at' evening as if all the song birds of the eastern states had gathered for a love feast Near the river, where sueh revels are usually held, they find plenty of ins sects for their suppers, and from the town go there to watch them. But with ail its opportunities for studying life outdoors, it is still the literary clubs whirh flourish best bird-lover- -- 'ESF at the center front, the waist invis- ibly at the left side on a line with the scarf The quantity of material required for the medium sie is 4 Vi jards 21 wide, 314 yards 27 inches wide 2 yards 44 inches wide, with lace for yoke and yard of collar and yard of silk fnr scarf and plaited portions of cuffs. r 1 renu-tatio- good-lookin- g electro-chemica- hand-(sonies- Far-Fame- d MARRIED MEN LIVE LONGER. Tea rt boat-shape- Home of Mrs. R. S. Perkins.. Formerly Capt. Wyman's Inn enjoy golf tennis and boating In tbs attractive vicinity of their clubhouse. Fine opportunities for sport are bound to appear in the near future, and the superb surrounding country may be enjoyed to better advantage, and by more persons, as the trolley line which is now hardly Insituted extends into the surrounding country. - gray-gree- n Take a Chestnut Instead. net. There should he less drunkenness The plush ooat, put away years ago, in Keene. a this reason of the year than at any is to make its reappearance this w'n-teAmong the organizations for women other time, said a specialist in nervare the Colonial club, the Fortnightly, ous disorders who has a private saniTourist. Current Events, an art club tarium for the treatment Aigrettes are to be much worn and of wealthy are of-- spangled and jetted tul!e for directed by Miss Bertha Jones; the to the Philadelphia Rec- turbans. Fioebel club, which includes both djpsomaniacs ord. Jt is not generally known in mothers and Froebel enthusiasts, nnd fact, I claim the honor of the discovHow to Fit a Sleeve. a chapter of the D. A. R. The latter ery that roasted chestnuts, are. a The long shoulders of the moment organization, with its soft Indian good antidote for liquor. averThe Bometimes give a lot of trouble to the name, after the Ashtrelot river, is the age man who drinks high nervamateur dressmaker. The correct way largest society of daughters in the ous pressure, not for qnder the sake of so- to fit them Is to put the finder state, and it has formed a fertile field part in but because the alcohol stimfirst. Tack the full portion of the in this city of historical associations ciability, greater effort, is the sleeves into small plaits and make and elegant colonial homes. Not only ulates him to nervous system is most them perfectly fit the size of the armare many of the houses fine speci- one whose He may never hole. , mens of colonial architecture, but the quickly undermined. If the plaits The effect Is interiors also preseut numerous sug- get drunk, but there is the constant demand for overstimulation that are loosened afterprettier bolero is fitted, the gestions and relics of those earner works damage In the end. No sooner but if desired they can be left stitched days, while the people In this peaceful valley retain respect of their an- does the effect of one drink wear off for a few inches from the armhole. than there Is the craving for another. There are many devices for obtaining cestry. Now. If that .than would eat a few the long shoulder effect without acJoasted chestnuts. fhstead of taking Some Old Houses. tually cutting the long seam, which Is so difficult. For example, embroidery One such a place in Keene is the anotljfer drink when the feeling comes on him, he would find that the suband lace can be arranged so as to have oli Barstow bouse, for years the stance of abthe nuts, having quickly of the Rev. Dr. Z. 8.- Barstow, the points running down over the top sorbed the liquor already in his sysof the arm, and this will be found very who, as pastor of the Congregational churofa for more than half a century, tem, had appreciably decreased his effective. was famous for his good citizenship longing for more alcoholic stimulant. Frozen Tapioca Custard. and strict orthodoxy, especially the It Isn't theory. I know It to be true. "Table Talk gives this recipe for letter, t On the other side of the deWild Flowers in Pot. delicious dessert: Cook one cupful o nominational fence there has always It may not he generally known that fine tarloca in one a contingent of , been as strenuous of milk unt'I of our choicest native wild It looks clear and quart thick. Stir Unitarians, so that In days gone by several quite Keene has always found a tonic for Sowers may be as easily grown In often for the first ten minutes to nt Its otherwise tranquil existence. pots and brought Into flower in the lumpirg. Beat together the as are Edward writes dwelling tulips, Democrat and Republican' have alwhites of two and the yolks of three Canning in Good Housekeeping. until light, add one cupful of ways striven for innings In their po- -' J. eggs The yellow and pink lady slipper, orlltical wrangles, which - must have, and beat again. Turn this into sugar hepaticas, blood roots. Jack in the cooked tapioca and stir constantly given test to that old forensic union. chids, But tbs old Barstow house, now the pulpits, squirrel corn, trill.'ums, until it thickens like custard, then the home of Mrs. R. S. Perkins, has columbine and marsh marigolds are take from the fire and set away, covassociations still farther back. In rev- among those most easily grown. ered. until cold. Add two tea j oo Roots of ary of these can be purchasof vanilla, turn into the prev.oudy olutionary days, when it housed a ed quite cheaply from dealers. Flant packed freezer and freeze until qu te ures on a white memorable contingent of the contiground, the collar aid P0-any tme September or thick. nental forces, and a stone near by them Add the remaining white, culls being ot plain white. The robe tfce ot October ear,y and Part stand marks , the site of the ancient road iri: ed with one cupful of thick cream is simplicity itself and is shaped by over which the colonists from this the pots outside, exposed to all kinds nnd whipped to a stiff froth. Won means of shoulder and under-arof about the urst week this in thoroughly, finish the' freer ,e seams. The sleeves are in two territory marched with their musket's in weather until November, or when severe freezing to Lexington. .There are also abund re, ack and set aside for two lours or rieces each in regulation style and are r finished .ant romances of warfare with the In- aweather sets In, then remove them to more before serving. with cuffs that cool, light cellar, keepirg them mate., the collar. The quantity o moist till about February 1, when material required for the medium size Fancy Blouse Waist. they may be brought upstairs and Fancy waists always are in demand is 6l4 yards 27, 3 yards 44 or 34 placed in a sunny window. In a very both for the entire costume and for yard 52 incites wide, with yard short time growth commences and the separate bodice, which Is far too 27 or yard 44 inches wide for collar they will flower just as freely, or even usrfii and to be al'oted to and cuffs. more so, than in their native naunts. fall Into disuse. This one iiciu' ei a World's Largest Wireless Station. novel scarf and has the merit of closWhat is claimed will be the largest Quail Dying From appendicitis. ing to the left of the front.whci is a strt'on for wireless telegraphy In the Quail in I ander county are dying feature specially worthy of note. As wrrld is nearing completion at Pisa, pythe hundred, and the cause of their Illustrated the materia' erton Itlv. It will be ready by the end of death is due to a disease which a phybrown chiffon veilfi g, with yoke of the y ar. Through this station direct sician on the witness stand yesterday cream colored lace, toarf ar.1 pla ted connect on wl be afforded with all swore is appendicitis. portions of cuffs of brown chiffon taf countries of Furope. as well as the This strange testimony was brought and Canada, and with United Ft-tfeta and banding of taffeta out at a trial of a rancher who was in a slig' tly darker sha-'- e Inof all veorels on the Mediterranean, acused of poisoning the quail. For tne dian and Atlantic oceans. Various combinations heavy silk. past two months sportsmen have noticed the birds dying, and every indiFor Those Inclined to Stoutness. 0 cation was that they had been 11 The girl whose waist measure "ex' There are a number of vinecoed 3 twenty four inches will find that yards in this county and it was sura girdle that is boned under the arms mised that the owrers were poisoning and droops to a decided point back c the birds in orer to prevent them and front decidedly decreases the apfrom destroying the crapes. So strong parent size of her waist. The long was this that rrest8 folLibrary Building. s'oplrg line will afford grace and slenderness and the addition of a iians. One tale relates how an Im- lowed. Yesterday it developed that the quail died from the effects of tho short sash In the back will prove wonportant citizen whom the Indians giape seeds, which lodged in a small Into was Canada held becoming. . derfully captive intestine closely resembling the vermithere several years, and yet the ex form appendix of a human being. InPlants In Windows. perlence did not hinder him from flammation followed and death wns Tbe position of plants In a house jkeeping upi. the family reputation 'for the result. Austin Correspondence of depends altogether on whether you longevity, for he lived to the age of Sacramento Bee. wish a symmetrically developed plant 'l04. which will look well on all sides and Immense Tibetan Bible. Reminder of Old Day. yield pleasure from all points of view, or Tibetan Bible, The Kah-gyuor whether you wish your window to It was as a protection against the look most attractive from the outside. redmen8 forays that the upper Ashue-lot- , consists of 108 volumes of 1,000 pages In the first case you will turn your as the early town was named, each, containing 1,083 separate books. constructed its. ambuscade. Such a Each of the volumes weighs ten plants occasionally. In the last you will leave them In the same position fortress is supposed to have existed pounds and forms a package twenty-siInches long, eight Inches broad all the time. once where the home of Mr. and Mrs. ' Lemuel One ardent lover of flowers has long now stands, and add eight inches deep. This Bible re--4 Hayward windows In her parlor, almost to the from time to time ammunition la quires a dozen yaks for its transport, be can, however, and made the trim- floor. She gives them up found in the garden. It is not of a and the carved wooden blocks from entirely to be any fancy braid or ap- her In each window Is a plant .sort that would be of much use In which It Is printed need rows of ming can plarts. modern warfare, but it serves as a houses, like a city, for their storage. plique which may be liked. Tne scarf stand filled with various choice specisubstantial memento of the anxieties In addition to the Bible there are 225 gives peculiar grace to the wtole and mens of different kinds. The plants under which the early settlers strug- volumes of commentaries, which are serves to conceal the closing. get no direct sunshine. buffViey have The waist is made with a fitted pood light and the suns rays fall on gled In establishing these New Hamp- necessary for Its understanding. There foundation on which the tucked , them is also a large collection of alleged shire homes. diagonally a part of the day. and back are arranged and can The It Is a graceful service that the revelations which supplement the Bi- fronts grow vigorously, but they plants be made to blouse at both back and are never turned. women pay, as their daughters, in ble. Of course they grow at or the front front, he and only, toward the light and they soon form a keeping alive these memoirs, and more down diawn at the bask, beautiful wall of leaves and blossoms, snugly here In Keene the men also have reinvestigate California Agriculture. as may be preferred. The yoke Is for in growing spected colonial associations by namaccommodate Tbe California State Board of Trade luted by means of shoulder seams and themselves to eachthey other. The plants ing their club after Gov. Wentworth. has voted to reqet the Secretary of is over the waist and arranged He It was who gave Keene Its pre- Agriculture of the United States to bloom abundantly and from the outs'ceves, so giving the broad shoulder side, particularly toward the set name, as a compliment to one of appoint a special to as spring, The sleeves are full with novel the window Is a mass of blossoms. tie friends, while others of that circle certain and rorrrt rarding all aerl Of the neck Is finished with a course the greatest were honored by having their names cultural prr'-c- 't Is from the be raised la stir--. The lining Is closed outside, but enotieh beauty eattered through tb p'ctu--.oval- can be seen from ..... ! regi-deac- e pn-ve- Mortality among bachelors from the e is 27 per age of thirty to forty-fivmen of married About Muffs. while among cent., Muffs are a very important Item in the same age It is 18 per cent. ' the fashionable girls winter outfit; bachelors who attain For forty-onand the new ones are just as quaint the age of forty years there are sevand tid timey as are the smart effects enty eight married men who attain they accompany. There are the same age. the , miliar flat the round r The difference is still more striking low, bigger than ever; and nowadays in persons of advanced age. At sixty they term the Victorian what used to of age there remains but twenty years be called the granny muff. married t two bachelors for A very fascinating novelty combmes eleven bachelors for men. At seventy, a handbag and muff; the bag is seven married men; and at mounted invisibly In the top of the twenty three bachelors for nine marmuff, just a jeweled clasp peeping out eighty men. ried Chicago Journal. to indicate its whereabouts. Others in the same stvle show merely a purse, HEALTH HINTS RUN RIOT. but either form is in the height of fashion. A vast amount of literature these days concerns health. Both professionals and laymen are helping the cause along. The victims do not ads know which way to turn. vice is to eat everything In sight; tomorrows is to starve. One expert says never touch starchy foods. Another says eat no meats. A third commands that adults shall Tough meat may be made tender by never touch milk, sweet or sour. A sprinkling with vinegar. we drop everything Lamb chops are delicious if dipped fourth insists that except the cereals. A fifth tells us in lemon juice just before broiling. of filtered waKerosene oil and a soft cloth will to drink four gallons that we advises A sixth a ter day. keep mahogany furniture in fine contea and with ourselves are killing dition. . writer on , on Discolorations china baking coffee. It looks as if every of health dishes and custard cups can be re- the subject is in the pay food cranks. New York Press. moved with whiting. Hold a hot flatiron a few moments above a white spot on furniture. It LIVE AND LET LIVE. e ' pil-o- pouch-shape- ' forty-eigh- de-ira- es ilI) pois-ore- will soon disappear. Soak lamp wicks in vinegar, then Many men are Inclined to complain dry them thoroughly, to keep the lamp that the world doesnt treat them from smoking. right, and that they dont get much When lighting a gas stove it will aut of life, is a Vest Pocket News. Stop! in the often give a slight explosion and lignt wrong, thus causing no heat. Turn Turn the problem tother end to. Ask the gas off very quickly and on again. rourself how you are treating the It will then light properly without world; how much you are doing for The average man gets out any further trouble. af life all he deserves all he puts in, Pimola and Cheese Salad, with good interest added. Life Is a ihis salad is new and pretty. Break game of give and get, of live and let He who does nothing for the up two square cream cheeses and mix live. with two dozen olives aud six pimen- world deserves nothing from it and tos, both chopped rather fine, or, in- generally gets it. There are excepstead, with two dozen pimolas, which tions to all rules; the game of desare olives stuffed with pimentos; erts is not always Just and impartial, press this into a pan and put on ice, but the rule holds good nevertheless, and when you wish to use it cut in and ninety and nine times out of strips and serve on lettuce with every hundred the man who uses fate French dressing. The contrasting col- as a target should take a few shots ors of the green olives, the scarlet at himself. pimentos and the white cheese give a most attractive effect SLY STAB AT BULL FIGHTS. confi-lenc- Four-Trac- Season of Furs. This Is to be a season of furs. There are endless neckpieces that are rea.iy more ornamental than useful. Velvet and fur will be a favorite combination. Parisians have long followed tho fashion set by the Russians, of wearing their exquisite furs at all seasons, and it is not an uncommon thing to see tbe leaders of the fashion in the most dashing little victorias in summer frocks of exquisite crepe de chine and the like and plumed velvet hats, with a beautiful pelerine or ictorine In furs thrawn carelessly over the shoulders. Those Pots and Kettles. Housekeepers do not usually object to washing their china and silver, but when it comes to the pots and pans they just'hate to begin on them. A careful housekeeper of many years says that if the objectionable articles are washed when they are first through being used, while they are yet warm and the food which has been cooked in them not dried on, it is a very easy task, and quickly done. Then when the dishes are finished the bugbear of Ironware has vanished. Hats. Some rough felt hats have brims of black, while the wide punched-ior created crown Is pf some other color; for instance, grass green, deep crimson, or creamy white. These are generally trimmed with black ribbon gathered around the crown, bows of the same and cocks tail plumage or cauteaux to match the crown. n Seven Gored Skirt. Plain flared skirts never lose their vogue no matter what other styles may appear. This one Is peculiarly well adapted to cloth and all heavier fabrics and allows choice of a band flounce at the lower edge or any other As trimming that may be preferred. illustrated It Is made of copper colored cheviot, stitched with corticelli ne .f e k Wfcac on earth would our greatgrandfathers have said i( someone had told them the county fair weuij be the holy stow it ? is When horse racing and high diving were accounted regulation features of these gatherings it was natural that the homely things which were the cornerstones of the exhibitions should be lost to sight. But if even twenty-fiv- e years ago some hold farmer had dared suggest that ths day would come when automobiles venicles not dependent upon live stock for their means of locomotion would constitute the chief attraction at the countys rallying place he wo .Id have beeii declared a traitor to his calling. Still that is just what has come to pass in Connecticut, where an automobile parade has proved the piece de resistance at one of these fall fairs. Boston Transcript. MATRIMONY AND LONGEVITY. The ancient minstrel joke as to married men live longer than bachelors, and the reply that it only seems longer, was conceived in a spirit of fun; but it is now scientifically asserted that matrimony Is conducive to longevity. A certain learned professor has calculated that the mortality among bachelors from the age of 30 to 45 years is 27 per cent, while among married men of the same age it is 18 per cent. For forty-onbachelors who attain the age of 40 years there are seventy-eigh- t manned men who reach the same age. The difference is still more striking in persons why e of advanced remain but At 60 years there bachelors ftr forty-eigh- t married men. At 70. eleven bachelors for twenty-sevemarried men, and at 80, three bachelors for nine married men. Kansas City age. twenty-tw- o n Journal. g TREATMENT OF HABITUAL CRIMINALS. The test of the habitual criminal is the lack of response to reformative Influences. The beginner In crime, whatever his temperament or his apparent hardness of heart, is entitled to at least one opportunity to show whether he Is thus amenable to reformatory influences or not If not and he persists In criminal action, the Interest of society would seem to demand the Indeterminate sentence, and he must be made to understand that, having forfeited his chance to shape his own career, he belongs to the state, and that whether his imprisonment lasts for a shorter or longer period depends upon himself. New ATHLETICS silk and trimmed with graduated bands of taffeta held by ornamental buttons, hut all materials in vogue for suits and for skirts that are heavy enough to be available for the style are equally correct. The skirt Is made In seven gores, which are cut to fit with perfect smoothness at the npper portion and to flare freely at the lower. At the back are flat Inverted plaits and beneath them the closing is made. The quantity of, material required for the medium size is 11 yards 27 Inches wide, 7 yards 4 inches wide, or 6 yarda 52 inches wide, with tbe flounce; S yards 27 Inches wide, 5 yards 44 Inches wide, or 4 yards 6J laches, without flounce. . VALUE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. It is obvious that the Sunday school, with its definite moral purpose and Us grip upon practically the entire juvenile population Is a mighty factor in the building of the national character and so worthy of the serious attention of all thoughtful persons. Within itf walls are fixed Ideals, which later are wrought out in the events of commerce, politics, science, and the fine arts. Therefore the development of the Sunday school is a matter which concerns not merely the thousands who are actively engaged A dispatch from Spain says that a in its service, but also the wide public deathblow has been struck at bull- of informed men and women who are fighting in that country by the action interested in all that makes for huof the Institute of Social Reform in man progress. Philadelphia Press. ratifying an absolute prohibition of the fights on Sunday. That Spain NO CAUSE FOR PESSIMISM. would soon abandon this anachronisevident tic form of barbarity has been It is a matter of common observafor some time, but that the reform should be effected on the ground that tion that at the passing of the great the contests are a desecration of Sun- men of each generation there is a that day is certainly surprising, that fea- pessimistic feeling prevalent ture of the situation being the one there were giants in those days. But which Spaniards, despite their piety the feeling has never had any warrant seemed little likely to note and still in the actual deficiencies of the onless likely to hold Important. One can coming generations. Orators have see however, that the prohibition of come and gone and statesmen have come and and sometimes their Sunday fights was shrewdly devised immediate gone, successors have not been since It involves no criticism of discernible. But in time the men itself. New York Times. have emerged who have taken their places and who have Improved uion WHY MEN HUNT AND FISH. the patterns they left Des Moines It has been said that every man has Register. within him something of the savage, BOOKS. indicated by longings to return at times to primal conditions of life. CerOf the things that make for happitainly to many there comes irresistible yearnings for the haunts of na- ness the love of books comes first. A book, unlike any other ture, for the searching of forest and Btream for the daily food depending friend, will wait, not only upon the It asks on ones prowess for his dinner. In hour, but upon the mood. the gratification of this desire there is nothing and gives much, when one a zest which makes of a vacation a comes in the right way. Is your world a small one, made unrejuvenation. If the appetite for this sort of thing be lacking or dormant, endurable by a thousand petty cares? it should be cultivated or aroused. Are the heart and soul of you cast Senator William P. Frye in the Inde- down disappointment? by bitter pendent. Would you leave It all, If only for an heur, and come hack with a new York Times. r, - THINGS AT COUNTY FAIRS, rout-self- car-Tie- d -- new To-day- roll-ove- . u I great deal ol Making Artificial Cotton. Artificial cotton is now being made In France from tbe cellulose of the hr tree, fited from bark and knots. Ill1', c ied fibers are placed a in large cylinder and steamed lor ten hours, after which bfaulphate of soda is added and I ho whole heated for thirty six In mis. when it becomes white. It is then washpd and given an l by bleaching means of chloride of lime After being rolled the cellulose is mixed with flULB THS a solution of chloride of zinc, hydro&&&K3 chloric and nitro acids and a little each of castor oil, casein and gelaa very consistent tin, which The front panel is quite the newest paste. Thisgives paste is drawn into In skirts. thing and after being passed over Most of the small hats are tricornes athieads, cloth, they are immersed gummed or turbans. In a weak solution of carbonate and The crown is quite distinct from the dried. To give solidity the thread is brim in the new turbans. treated to an ammoniated bath and Tulle is one of the latest trimming rinsed in cold water. Cotton hag also ideas and is used in great quantities. been made from the wood. Coq de roc he is most effective as a relief note with and brown. Of Turkish Toweling. Not for years has the separate wrap Bath robes that can be readily launbeen such an important feature of dered possess certain advantages over dress. all others that are readily recognized. two tibbon of contrasting shades Is This one is shapely, comfortable and very smart for trimming tailor hats. altogether satisfactory and Is made lots of fire brown and spinach green of Turkish toweling showing blue flg- will be exploited In panne velvet and 1 , WORLD'S WRITERS' ilVlTtl THE Eastern Garden Spot AND WORK. Athletics are nothing but a spurious substitute for the manual and bodily labor which our athletic amateurs are forbidden to perform by the laziness, greed, snobbery and rapacity of their class, says George Bernard Shaw In London News. I could keep myself in perfectly good condition and temper If I might do a couple of hours work every day as a navvy without "doing a poor man out ot his job. As It is, I have to weary myself and waste my energy in bicycling and walking to places where I have no business, over roads which I have tramped till I am tired of them. I have to drudge through exercises to keep myself from becoming a human pig. I have even pulled at India robber ropes, until I could not bear the revolting absurdity of it, even without an audience to laugh at me. Tbe whole business Is too sickening for public discussion. Half the population lives miserably and breaks down prematurely from excess of bodily toil; the other half does ths same because there Is no bodily work left for It to do. That la what la sailed civilization point of view? Then open the covers of a book. From the Masters Violin. WORK FOR THE CHURCH. Universal peace, as it stands matter of expediency. Sentiment cuts a sorry figure beyond inspiring conventions and resolutions of protest against continued warfare. But if the forces allied with the Christian church were to array themselves against the present practices and direct their efforts toward converting the pleasing theory of universal peace into a reality, even though complete success should not crown their endeavorR, there is no question as to the beneficial results that would follow. Detroit Free Press. is purely a WAR SLAUGHTER OF A CENTURY. due to wars during The death-rol- l the last century, Prof. C. RIchet of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris sums up a gratfd total of 14,000,000. He divides this as follows: Napoleonic wars, 8,000,000; Crimean wars, 300, 000; Italian wars, 300,000; American civil war, 500,000; FranceGerman war, war, 800,000; civil wars In South America, various colonial expeditions 600,000 Russo-Turkls- h In India, Mexico, Tonquln, Africa, etc., 3.000,000. 400,-00- South EYES AS A SIGN OF INTELLECT. Generally the special point f difference between unimportant and re markable people lies in their ejes, in the clear, steady, piercing gaze which is able to subdue or terrify the beholder, writes Lady Violet Grevllle in the Graphic. Sir Richard Burtons look could never be forgotten; neither, I Imagine, could Napoleons or Victor Hugos, or that of any other great man. The eye la the window of the brain and through It shines the . |