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Show s - I X5h INDEPENDENT. SPRINQVILLE, UTAH MR. MORGAN'S HUGE FEES. How They Compare With These of Some Forty Years Ago. Jaj Cooke, one of the greatest of American financiers, negotiated nearly near-ly all of the Immense loans Issued by tn United States government during the civil war. The banking firm of which he was the head handled over 12,000,000,000 for the government, and Its profits, It Is said, did not exceed 1200,000. What would have been J. P. Morgan's profits if that astute finan-sler finan-sler had been engaged by the government govern-ment to float a series of loans amounting amount-ing to $2,000,000,000? It has been stated that Mr. Morgan received about $100,000,000 for financing the United States Steel Corporation with a capital of about $1,400,000,000. In another transaction tran-saction his profit on a $200,000,000 transaction was estimated at $10,000,-000. $10,000,-000. Either Mr. Morgan has causw to be astounded at Mr. Cooke's moderation modera-tion or Mr. Cooke would be justified In expressing astonishment at the very high value which Mr. Morgan places upon his services. If Mr. Morgan had financed the steel company at th same rates at which Mr. Cooke han died the government's loans during th civil war he would have received only $140,000 for his share in the transaction. transac-tion. On the other hand, if the government gov-ernment had paid Mr. Cooke as handsomely hand-somely for hl3 services as Mr. Morgan Is reported to have been paid by the steel company, Mr. Cooke would have netted nearly $150,000,000. THE CATACOMBS OF ROME. Important Historical Discoveries Being Be-ing Made There. Discoveries of the first Importance to the students if the evidences oi Christianity and to arch iaeo legists are confidently looked for from the continued con-tinued exploration of the Catacombs of Rome. Of the forty-five cemeteries known to have existed, only five have been made accessible to visitors. The principal catacombs, those on the Ap pla, Nomentana. Salarla and Ardea-tlna, Ardea-tlna, although open, are not yet thoroughly thor-oughly explored. The soil being of volcanic vol-canic origin, is too soft to be utilized for building purposes, but it Is of sufficient suf-ficient consistency to enable excavations excava-tions to be prosecuted without the aid of supports. Until the ninth century the catacombs were places of pilgrimage, pilgrim-age, but from then until the nineteenth nine-teenth they were neglected. The entrances en-trances became blocked and, almost all the sites were lost sight of. It i3 computed that fully 6,000,000 of bodies 'lie buried in the Roman catacombs, or more than double the number that are Interred In the catacombs of Paris. The most ancient of all known catacombs cata-combs are those of the Theban kings, which are over 4,000 year's old. 150,000 Screws to the Pound. The minuteness of some of the crews made in a watch factory may be measured by the statement that it takes nearly 150,000 of a certain kind to weigh a pound. Under the microscope micro-scope they appear in their true character charac-ter perfectly finished bolts. The pivot of the balance wheel is only one two-hundredth s of an Inch in diameter, and the gauge with which pivots are classified measures to the ten- thousandth part of an Inch. Each Jewel hole into which a pivot fits is about one five-thousandth of an Inch larger than the pivot to permit sufficient suffi-cient play. The finest screw for a small-sized watch has a thread of 260 to the Inch and weighs one one-hun-dred and thirty thousandths of a pound. Jewel slabs of sapphire, ruby or garnet are first sawed into slabs one-fiftieth of an inch thick, and are shellacked to plates so that they may be surfaced. Then the individual Jewels are sawn or broken off, drilled through the center, and a depression made In the convex side for an oil cap. A pallet jewel weighs one one-hundredth one-hundredth and fifty-thousandths of a pound; a roller jewel a little more than one two-hundred and fifty-six thousandths. The largest round hairspring hair-spring stud is four-hundredths of an Inch In diameter and about nine-hun-dredths of an Inch in length. Love's Debt. Ood help us! for the flesh is weak; Time's shadow's dim the sight. And we forpet That tasks are set We needs must do aright. God help us! for we laugh and weep And drift on easy tide, And scaree'y know The hours thut go Are meant for aught beside. Ood help us; for the wealth of days. The ffolden string of hours. Is treasure loaned. Christ's blood atoned ITor sins we know as ours. But, shall we ransomed stand, unstained. If heedless of our trust. The days go by As breaths that die. Life's srold be turned to dust? Ood help us! life is given for work-Naught work-Naught else the needs suffice; For noble zeal To bind and heal; For service, sacrifice; For weaving while the day is ours, For smoothing life's rough way! If we forget To pay love's debt Who will our ransom pay? By Way of Proof. When Peter J Hughes was a police magistrate in this city, according to a story told by himself, he faced, the morning of July 5. half a dozen prisoners pris-oners who had been hauled up the night before on the "drunk-and-disor-4erly charge. He began his routine Qnet.Crtrg with: "What's your came?" "Patrick answered the first. "And yours?" "Michael , , Baid the second. The prisoners, up to the fifth, gave names unmistakably Milesian. As Hughes turned to question the sixth he smilingly commented: "This Is more like the morning of March 18 than July 5!" "But it "aint, your Honor!" came quickly from the unquestioned sixth. "If It was you'd be down here instead of up there, yourself !" Philadelphia Ledger. Objected to White Shirt. When first made Bishop of Stepney, Dr. Ingram was anything but popular, and Indeed had occasionally to seek police protection. Greatly worried, the bishop tried, to trace the cause and found one old lady who was able to enlighten him. "Its your white shirt, sir," she said; "we don't want no wnite-shlrted gentry here. Try a grey hlrt and a dickey, like our chaps wear on Sunday." The advice tendered ten-dered was promptly acted upon, and thus the present bishop of London made the first advances towards friendship with his people. Worthlngton Cheever, the president of the Banco del Prado of Bogota, was sitting in his private office slicing open his private mail. Most of it was from New York, for Mr. Cheever was an old Broadway beau, and many a pink and pale blue envelope, exhaling dainty perfumes, had found him In his strange environments in South America. "Senor James Trefny of New York would wish that he may speak with you, senor," said the soft-voiced office boy in dulcet Spanish accents. "Thank you, Emilio. Show the gentleman in," said President Cheever. The young man who came in was perfectly attired in well fitting flannels. In the pale buff stock about his neck was a fine gold scarf pin set with diamonds. Upon his finger a splendid solitaire sparkled in a heavy gold band. His hat was in his hand and Mr. Cheever noticed the singularly calm, unconscious un-conscious beajty of his manly head and face. He was dark with the tan of the sea, but his thick, fine hair was carefully arranged, and his whole manner man-ner betokened the patrician man of education, travel, gentleness and courage. Cheever liked his looks and showed his welcome in a frank smile and a hearty handshake. But he had reasons to quickly change this first favorable Impression, for Mr. Trefny of New York, sitting calmly beside him and speaking in measured, clear tones in which there was not a suggestion of a tremor, said: "Mr. Cheever, this walking stick is filled with nuro-cotton; if you move 111 explode it. There, quite still, that will do. Nitro-cotton is, as you probably know, the most terrible medium of destruction ever perfected. It is ignited by a fuse of mercury. See, here in the handle of my cane is the fnlminating cap. Don't look round. If anyone comes in, say you will be busy for half an hour. Thank you. "As I was saying, all I have to do is touch this disk with my finger and you and I, this bank and building and everyone and everything in it will be torn instantly to atoms. In such an event there would be not enough of us left for identification or burial. There are, as I understand it, about two hundred hun-dred and seventeen thousand dollars in your vaults. It would be scattered to 'he four winds." There was a knock at the door. Cheever looked an inquiry at Trefny. "Say what I told you or not, as you please," said the latter, quietly. "Not in for thirty minutes," said Cheever. "Now, to resume. I have here," taking from his inside pocket a check, "an ordinary check on the Plaza Bank, your rival, you know. It' is made payable pay-able to me, James Trefny. It is signed let's see oh, yes, it is signed 'Homer O. Dunlevy," and rails for $50,000. You see." turning over the slip of paper, "I have indorsed it in form. Now, my business with you Is this: you must call a clerk, tell him to fetch fifty one-thousand dollar bills, get them and hand them over to me. I need hardly tell you that my name, 'James Trefny,' is wholly mythical. This cane, loaded with instant death for all of us, is the only argument argu-ment I have. See, my finger is just above the disk. The first sign, word or motion you make to betray me down it comes. Now' get the money." "Ramon, Ramon," called the banker, without moving. And to the suave clerk who came in lie said: "Bring $50,000 at once for this check, and " "I want all the large bills, a thousand each if possible," interrupted "Trefny," smiling blandly. The clerk disappeared bowing, came back with the money, laid it before t teever and departed. Trefny reached across the table, picked up the money, . 1 plPi "MR. CHE EVER, THIS WALKING-STICK IS FILLED WITH NITRO-COTTON." counted it, placed it in. his inside pocket, waved his terrible cane as in a salute and said: "Thank you. I want but ten minutes to catch my train. If you pursue me within that time, I'll come back and wreck the bank as a mere matter of protest. pro-test. Adios, senor." And he was gone. Of course Cheever had sent a messenger to the police inside of two minutes. min-utes. They searched the town and about an hour later, found the robber, slippered and at ease over his cigarette and high ball in his sumptuous room at the Hotel del Orinoco. As none of his captors could speak English, and only Cheever was there to complete his identification, a messenger was dispatched for the magistrate, who presently arrived to begin an inquiry. When the court was thus installed, and the prisoner put under oath, this odd criminal explained matters thus: "In the first place, ger.tlemen, especially you, Mr. Cheever, put yourselves at ease about that cane. It's quite harmless even in my hands. It's a sword cane. Now, my name is Homer O. Dunlevy of New York, and I robbed the Banco del Prado don't laugh, gentlemen just to test my personal courage." Cheever sneered and the magistrate put his tongue in his cheek. "You had better quit this foolishness and if you are telling the truth, return re-turn the $50,000 you stole." "I didn't steal it, I should say. Stealing implies skulking, sneaking 'stealth,' so to speak. Bosides, I really needed the money and intend to keep it." "Put on the manacles,'' ordered the magistrate, gathering courage after a hesitating glance at the wr.lking stick. "But, I protest!" cried Trefny, looking quite pained as he saw the fierce glances of Cheever. "I pretest, Mr. Cheever. Don't you understand?" "Understand! The devil! Of course I don't understand anything but that yon forced me to pay you $30,000 on a worthless " "Check?" Interrupted Trefny, or Dunlevy, as he claimed. "Wi y, my dear cir, that check is as good as gold. Have you tried to cash it? Of course you haven't. I might l ave known you were too excited to think of tl at. But, before be-fore I explain any further, would you, Mr. Cheever, and you. set or," to the wondering magistrate, "w uld you mind taking my check over to the Plaza Bank? It will be paid quite readily, cn my word. All yen have to do is endorse It. My deposit and letters of credit are more ti an enough to cover it. I'll wait here with these pleast-.nt but over-zealous warriors of the police." Cheever and the magistrate went away together. When they returned in ten minutes they were smiling audibly. The check was s'lcd! Jo'.in H. Raftery la Chicago Record-Herald. A Noted Enniisl Lebor Leader Thomas Burt, one cf the most familiar figures in the British house of commons, is a labor merit ?r of that body. His tongue has the hemely north country "burr" cf the Northumbrian, but this peculiarity rather a Ids to than detracts from the force of liis oratory. Mr. Burt is a fine example of the self-educated self-educated but modest man. In the early years of hi3 manhood be was still earning his living as a coal miner, but for forty years has been prominent in labor movements. Since 1SC5 he has been secretary of the Nort'iumberlan 1 Miners' Mutual Confident association. Is Yourvs-Looking Grandmother Frank Jay Gould's mother-in-law, Mrs. Edward Kelly, is called "the youngest looking grandmother in America." She does not look a day over 30 and with her perfect figure, heavy dark hair and pink and whi.e complexion is the envy of all her female friends. This Is her own explanation: "I never worry- I never fret. I -never argue. I never talk scandal. I never go without nine hours' sleep. I take care of my complexion. ' My hair is hrusaed for ten minutes a day. I don't flit from tea to reception and from appointments with dressmakers to tiresome dinners with the rush and bustle of a Wall street man." Fines Mede Meat Costly A Wisconsin sawmill owner, having a number cf mi!! hands to board, thought to economize cn his meat bill and shot three deer, whir- he served at meals. He fell into the clutches of the same wardetf ar.C v;j fined- his Mil with costs, foo:ng up to $240.05. . - Once Popular Stone Is in Favor Aain One of the greatest sensations of the year among jewelers and precious stone dealers in the United States has been caused by the discovry of valuable valu-able chrysoprase mines in Tulare county, coun-ty, California. This stone has been practically lost to the world for centuries. cen-turies. The remarkable history of its rise and fall in popularity is an oldT"prase-laden rock extends is not large, world legend. From occupying an honored place among the precious stones imbedded in the foundation of the wall around old Jerusalem, it came down during the past century to the humble function func-tion of forming a head for the hatpins hat-pins of charwomen. Following Its popularity in Egypt and Jerusalem it sank, for some reason or other, into oblivion, until the time of Frederick the Great, who himself mined it and encouraged search for It in Lower Silesia. The impetus given to the popularity of the stone at that time was not long-lived, lasting little more than a century, and its use in costly articles of jewelry . was soon almost unknown. Its sudden jump again thfs season at the jewelry bedecked world as a rival of the emerald has therefore caused a sensation in the precious stone trade, and that it will become a rival of the emerald in this green-mad season is undoubtedly true. ,The craze for green this year has Snakes Will Live Without "The man who tries to starve a snake to death is in a bad way," said the man who has hao some experience in dealing with reptiles, "and 1 happen to know what I am talking about be-catise be-catise of a little thing that happened to me a number of years ago. There is really no telling how long a snake can go without food. It is estimated that horse can live twenty-five days without solid food. A horse will live on water for that length of time. Bears can live six months without ood. They generally live through the winter months by sucking their paws. Of course, they have some food on hand, and they slip out to get what they can, but the main sustenance of the bear is the accumulated flesh of the summer. But I am inclined to believe be-lieve that the snake can hold the record rec-ord when it comes to doing without food. I had an experience a few years ago which convinced me of this fact. I caught a rattlesnake in my henhouse in the southeastern part of Arkansas, and happened to catch him so that he First Strike on Was Put The terrible plague of 1348, which continued during eight years, and of which such grewsome stories may be read in history and romance, destroyed, de-stroyed, it is believed, nearly two-tuirds two-tuirds of the human race then existing. exist-ing. In London 50,000 bodies wore burled in one graveyard ; in Lubeck, 90,000; in Spain over half the population popu-lation was destroyed; and in the countries of the east 20,000,000 perished per-ished in one year. One result of this protracted "dance of death" was a scarcity of labor so great that it was feared it would not be possible to provide for the living. Such a state of affairs naturally encouraged t'ae skilled craftsmen of the time to increase in-crease the price they asked for their services. Their terms became so '.x- PRESENTED BY AN ELEPHANT. I How Small Brown Baby Was fntro-duced fntro-duced to Lady Curzon. The speech made recently by Lord Curzon shows that his training in the English House of Commons was not lost. He is still master of apt phraf.es which win him distinction. Lady Curzon, Cur-zon, too, has one distinction thai, is unique. She is the possessor of mure elephants than any other Anglo-Savon or European in the world, for more than one of her dusky admirers bas sent her ladyship an elephant, sometimes some-times two. One of these is an Immense Im-mense creature with the kind of wonderful won-derful sagacity about which we fcll read in school readers in the days our youth. Its unwieldy form, w'.h Lady Curzon in a white and gold how-dah how-dah on its back, is often to be sen in the native bazaars, and when the beast sees anything for which It bay a fancy that article is promptly handed hand-ed up to its mistress. One day last year he made her a very queer present, pres-ent, nothing less than a small brown baby of 2 or 3 years old. It was the son of the great beast's keeper, and no sooner did the elephant see it trotting trot-ting along with its mother than he seized it gently and lifted it In the air. The next moment Lady Curzon was gazing in astonishment upon a smail brown baby clothed in a string cf beads. Needless to say, it descended a richer and happier baby. Houso hold Words. GOT EVEN WITH LECTURER Women Resented Strictures of CooV, ing-School Expert. The wife of a minstrel in Philadel phla is fond of telling about her ex perience in "getting even" with Mrs Sarah Rorer. the cooking school lec turer. At a food show Mrs. Rorer reproved re-proved with some acerbity two or three women who were interrupting her lecture, on the hygienic prepars tion of food by thumbing over books in which were pasted written .ecipes that had come down as 'family heirlooms. heir-looms. ' . "Destroy those things," exclaime I Mrs. Rorer, "and you will be healthier ' women with happier hemes." "I consider that an insult to my dead mother," retorted one woman, as she left the lecture hall. She was the wife of a member of a stock minstrel company in Philadelphia Philadel-phia in which is tolerated a latitude in its -local "skits" that would put Weber and Fields at a standstill. That was why it happened that within a few days "Hughey" Dougherty and his associates as-sociates did a minstrel burlesque of the cooking lecture' in which Mrs. Rorer gave Mr. Rorer one of her "cream foam" biscuits and he promptly prompt-ly dropped dead. Must Have Red Ink. Henry Sienkiewicz, the author of 'Quo Vadis," has a somewhat peculiar nabit. He invariably uses red ink when writing his manuscripts and can not b induced to use irk of any other color created a demand for almost every- thing from jewelry to lead pencils In this shade, and this demand must be satisfied. It is not on the clamor for green alone that this stone bases Its merits, but upon the quality of the gems found in California. The portion of territory over which this chryso- but the quality of the stone found there is the finest known in the world to-day. The stone itself is of a beautiful apple green color. It combines effectively effec-tively with gold and silver, and the high polish which the hardness of the stone makes possible greatly enhances "its beauty and value. It can be set with wonderful effect in a circlet of diamonds and pearls.. Besides the apple ap-ple green color there are other shades of green, varying sometimes almost to a blue. Specimens of chrysoprase are also found spotted with yellow and Jarown, and when these are hard, ad mitting of a high polish, they are extremely ex-tremely beautiful. The finest specimens speci-mens of chrysoprase are used in rings, brooches and sleeve buttons, while less l.erfect ones are largely used In lorgnette lorg-nette chains and sets of sterling silver sil-ver novelties. To err may be human, but to forgive ris not. Long Food' or Water could not get out. There was a good sized rathole in the place, and he darted into this as a last resort. I stopped the hole so the snake could .not get out and for the purpose of starving the reptile to death. I never thought any more- about the snake until about eighteen months after that, vhen I had occasion to make some repairs re-pairs about the place. It was necessary neces-sary to do some excavating. I was simply startled to find, a short distance dis-tance below the surface, the snake I had sought to starve to death. He was a little lank and was not very active, ac-tive, but he was still alive. I felt sorry for the reptilian, and would not kill bim, allowing him to crawl away. Since that time I have been convinced that a snake could do without food for a considerable length of time, and the claim that t'.iy can go twenty-one months does not startle me at all, for the Rtflfe in this instance I am sure never had a bite to eat during the time he was in the rathole." New Orleans Or-leans Times-Democrat. Record Down by Force 8- orbitant teat it was impossible, in the impoverished condition in which the ravages of plague had left all the great cities of the world, to meet theii demands, as it was equally impossible to do without their services. It was the first recorded "strike" in the history his-tory of mankind. Governments hurriedly hur-riedly enacted "labor laws," and policed their cities with whatever casamed force they could muster. It was an attempt to take an unfair advantage ad-vantage of disaster and death, and it failed; but it proved how absolutely necessary to mankind were certain forms of labor, and sounded the keynote key-note of the call for all subsequent strikes down to the present day, and did much for the amelioration of labor la-bor the world over. NOT WHAT WAS EXPECTED Bishop Randolph's Gift Might Have Been More Appropriate. Bishop A. M. Randolph of the diocese dio-cese of Southern Virginia, a ripe scholar and . eloquent preacher, is the gentlest of men and the most ab-sentminded. ab-sentminded. A struggling country rector who may be called Smith had a very needy parish, and a very manly little boy who was fond of dogs. Now, the bishop has a fund for the aid of needy parishes, and the country rector had been trying try-ing a long time to get some of this fund for his poor people. At a convocation convo-cation in Norfolk the bishop called to the rector: "Come to see me to-night, Smith. 1 want to talk to you." Smith went with high hopes, sure that he had landed a slice of that fund. The bishop greeted him cordially, and after some desultory talk it came out that Mr. Pierpont Morgan han just made the bishop a present of a fine collie. The gift embarrassed the good man. "I cannot keep him here in town," said he. "Mrs. Randolph won't have him. Couldn't I get Everard to take him to the country and keep him for me? Everard was the rector's boy. The shepherd of the poor flock concealed con-cealed bis disappointment as much as possible, and agreed that Everard should take the dog. Then, just as he was going away the bishop called after him in his mildest tones: "I hope the dog won't give you any trouble, Smith.- He makes night hideous. It takes two people to take care of him." That was the bishop's last word. THE RISE OF MODERN ROME. Now Takes Rank With Any Other of the European Capitals. Visitors who have not been in Rome for the last twenty years, writes the Britis'i consul there, cau scarcely rec-cgnize rec-cgnize it. "Suburbs have risen over the vine-jards vine-jards outside the city walls, old quarters quar-ters have been superseded by large and eommodior.s buildings; the Tiber is permanently imbedded all along its urban" course between two gigantic embarkments on which fine houses, overlooking the river, have been constructed, con-structed, solid granite bridges, meant to defy the ravages of time and the impetus of the once dangerous Tiber, have been thrown across the two embankments; em-bankments; new and wide thorough-fares thorough-fares ha-'e been opened; in one word, the city has been completely modernized modern-ized and rendered in all respects quite sanitary, as shown by the returns ot mortality. "A few years ago the Italian capital capi-tal was entirely dependent upon other districts for almost all her supplies, but with an increasing population, which has now reached about half a million, and with the reviving general economic conditions of Italy the old cfty was bound to take rank with cthdi Eunpeaa capitals." The Cost of Matrimony Chicago Paper Has Figured Up What Young Man Must Spend In Incidental Ex' penses Before He Secures the Prize. If you are simply an "average man" and know a young woman whom you would like to make your wife, you may figure that from the introduction at first meetirg to the beginning of "Keeping house"' you will be out S3S4.50. That is the Chicago rate, cash, with no discounts. For the 16,300 marriages a year which Chicago sanctions through the lionise office, the parties to the courtships court-ships acrl marriage 'ceremonies pay arand aggregate of $5,452,350. This is on a basis of $334.50 for the average av-erage ceremony, and the courtship leading up to it; for it must be remembered re-membered that not even funerals, as an occasion of extravagance, equal the ease with which a young man and young woman in love may part with the ever ready dollar. No man ever before or ever after in his life "blows" himself with the abandon that prompts him in the short year of his engagement Dollars have been compared with doughnuts in wagers; to the young man in love, the dollar has less significance than even the hole in that bit of pastry. It is more evanescent that a dream; but he puts it where it will do the most good; he never wants it back; be plants it where it doesn't draw interest in-terest that can be computed, but where it is a source of never ending retrospect. It should be set down In philosophy that a hundred dollar bill "blown" by a sober lover upon a smiling, pretty sweetheart beats real gold bricks at anthracite rates, f. o. b. But allowing all of this as self-evident, it may strike the reader .that nearly $5,501 1, 000 a year spent upon the one item of marriage for Chicago is pretly large. Yet it will be remembered remem-bered that the poorest of the engaged ones spend, money on such occasions as they never spend it on any other; and no matter what race or religion, the wedding ceremony is one of the occasions of a lifetime. In the following estimate of these expenditures the individual items and the total may seem out of proportion when it is considered that De Koven street is a street of weddings and children rather than the Lake Shore drive. But, whereas, the average of $334 for each coutrshlp and wedding is a hundred times more than is spent in some cases, it is not the thousandth part of the cost of money of the society ventures into matrimony. In just one item, however, the rich and the poor fare alike under the law this is the item of a marriage license li-cense and in this millionaire and day laborer approach the window of the marriage license clerk and pay $1.50 for tho permit to take up the responsibilities responsi-bilities of married life. The state exacts ex-acts tbe uniform $1.50; the man who performs the ceremony may get the $2 prescribed as the justice fee, or he may get a. check for a hundred dollars, drawn by some groom whose Bradstreet rating puts him beyond the remotest possibility of needing to have the chock certified. If an engagement ring be regarded necessary, as more and more it has come to be, the regulation diamond of the smallest size and mediocre brilliancy bril-liancy scarcely can be purchased under un-der $2,"; again, this ring easily may cost $500. Thus before the young uian has made a single formal step toward the altar he is out of pocket to the, extent of a week's salary, taking tak-ing the ordinary young man of the better class as the example. Previous to this purchase he has had the preliminary wooings, some of which, figured into the head of Incidental?, Inci-dental?, may be looked back upon as some of the best spent money of a courtship. The young man who can get to the "sticking point" of a wooing woo-ing may find himself lucky if he parts with only $10 or $15 in these prelim- Crooms Trseyst "fe tJ T)rul inariss. Before he is married and "at home" in house or flat the average aver-age young citizen has spent the full $50 on the unexpected things that come up. Oi e may make out the list of wedding wed-ding preliminaries, from the first introduction in-troduction to the time when the young people have settled down, as follows: Pre-engagement incidentals... .$ 50.00 Carriages and outings 10.00 Confections. 10.00 I'ngegement ring 25.00 Brido's trousseau , . . . . 50.00 Groom's dress 25.00 Cards and postage 5.00 Groom's "squaring" with bache- " lor friends ., 25.00 Marriage license 1.50 Wedding ring . 8.00 To the minister 5.00 Wedding breakfast 10.00 Groom's presents to the bride 25.00 Friends' wedding presents... 50.00 T-Ved,iing trip lt V) 10.00 Total $334.50 Looking over these items and these figures the ft n lent of sociology will find them under, rather than over, the Sgures as they run in Chicago. Tins re arc thousands cf opportunities for a young man in a great city to peud money on the girl of his choice, regardless re-gardless of the coming expenses that are due in any household without even the customary days of grace. But if the idea of extravagance should strike ""a lover, his love would prompt him to that old mind-easing assurance that after the wedding both of them will begin to save: that a young man may live cheaper when married than he could hope to do while single. And this is one of the chief reasons for the average Chicago wife costing $334 to her husband. If she isn't worth it O, well thafs another story. Chicago Chi-cago Tribune. Crane and the Sophomore. Stephen Crane was a student at Lafayette La-fayette college for one year in the early 90s, where he left a record for non-attendance at classes, and as the only man who, up to that time had thoroughly whipped a sophomore for indignities heaped upon him. One day a sophomore, the steward of Crane's fraternity club, was going to sharpen the carving knives. He came into the library, which was crowded, and said: "I want a freshie to turn grindstone. grind-stone. Here, come along. Crane." "No, by the gods; I never have and rever will turn a grindstone," retorted retort-ed Crane. With that the sophomore made a go at Crane, with the result that the assailant received two such black eyes that he was not able to attend classes for a week. Crane became the heo of his class. Protecting Indian Birds. At last the government of India has decided that no more bird skins and plumage shall be exported to be offered offer-ed up at the Londfth feather market the principal one in the world on the altar of fashion. Among the visitors v"ho have passed through the acres of dock warehouses off Houndsditch on the days preceding the sales, held once every two months, none could have failed to be profoundly touched by the awful tributes exacted from India. The green parrots alone have been seen piled by the hundreds of thousands green hillocks, flecked with crimson. Ihe chagrin of the Indian In-dian trader can result only in yet greater prosperity to the ostrich farmers farm-ers of South Afiica. Queer Funeral Procession. The funeral of Senor Larca. who died in Aragon, Spain, a lew months ago, was eccentric. The Senor was a noted misanthrope, who for many years had lived without a human com panion, surrounded by his pet animals. When he was buried the funeral cortege cor-tege consisted of a small cart, which served the purpose of a hearse, drawn by a favorite donkey; half-a-dozen dogs of different hreeds and of sizes ranging from a gigantic mastiff to a tiny toy terrier, a superannuated horse, and an old goat, brought up the rear of as strar.go a procession as ever accompanied a man on bis last journey. How the Twelve Apostles Died. According to the traditions of the church, Andrew suffered martrydom, on a cross of the form known as St. Andrew's cross; Bartholomew was crucified; James, the elder, was lie-headed; lie-headed; James, the brother of our Lord, was probably stoned to death; Matthew died a natural death; Philip died a violent deat'i. out by what mode is uncertain; St.. Peter was crucified; Jude probably suffered martyrdom mar-tyrdom in Persia; John, the beloved, lived to be about 100 years old; Simon Zelotes was crucified at 123 years old; Thomas was put to death in India, and Judas hung himself. Dangers of a Great City. Rather a grewsome report has recently re-cently been issued by one of the New York city departments. It concerns the unknown dead and the many reported re-ported missing. The number of unidentified un-identified dead taken to the city's morgues will average a little more than one a day, and less than half of them are identified. The number of people reported as missing to New-York's New-York's officials, and whose reappearance reappear-ance is never reported, averages very nearly GOO each year. May Marry American Heiress. It is said that a brother of the kuedive of Egypt has fallen in love with an American heiress, who returns re-turns his affection, and that Abbas II, the khedive, looks . with favoring eyes on the match. The brothers spent their boyhood together at school In Vienna, where they imbibed freely of liberal ideas, learning among other things that women are intended to be something more than mere caged nonentities, according to the prevailing prevail-ing oriental idea. Sympathy Among Poles. A Polish nobleman and his wife, being be-ing brought up for some political offense, of-fense, arrived at the spa of Zapport, having their heads shaved, according to the Russian custom in some trials. Next day all the Poles at the place, both men and women, had the same operation performed on their own heads as mark of sympathy. Obligations after the wedding. THE PINKHAM CURES ATTMCTUG GREAT ITTEJTIOJ 130X3 THHIHG W0IE5. B llj wMiWkm Mrs. Frances Stafford, of 243 E. 114th St., N.Y. City, adds her testimony tes-timony to the hundreds of thousands thou-sands on Mrs. Pinkham's files. When Lydia E. Pinkham's Remedies Reme-dies were first introduced skeptics all over the country frowned upon their curative claims, but as year after year has rolled by and the little group of women who had been cured by the new discovery has since grown into a vast army of hundreds of thousands, doubts and skepticisms have been swept away as by a mighty flood, until to-day the great good that Ljtlia 1. PinkhamW Vegetable Compound and her other medicines are doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading scientists, physicians and thinking people. Merit alone could win such fame; wise, therefore, is the woman who for a cure relies upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Veget able Com pound. The Russian Editor. A perusal of the czar's instructions to Russian editors respecting the publication pub-lication of incendiary matter Indicates that the Muscovite journalist is mighty lucky if he car. get to press with the real estate .transfers and the railroad time tables as his "scare head" feat,--- SlOO Reward S1O0. The readers of this paper will be pleased t Jearn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Kail s t'atarrh Cure is the onlv positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh beint' :i constitutional constitu-tional disease, requires a constitutional tre-it-tnent. Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the h.H.l and mucous surfaces sur-faces of the "svstem. thereby destroyin? tha foundation of thedisease.and jriviinrtne patient strenpth bv buildinsr up the const itut .on ana assisting nature in doirnj its work. The proprietors pro-prietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars fo any case that it "fails to cure. Send for list C Testimonials. , . Address '. J. CHEN'EY & CO., Toledo. CX Sold bv druErcr'sts T.ic. Hall s Family fills are the best. New Word for Legal Profession. In the future the New York lawyers will be able to make then. oTvrs understood when they say a rase is being Lamberted instead of using the old word expedited. Washington Post. "I suffered for months from erre throat. Eclectric Oil cured ine in twenty-four bours." M. S. Gist, llawesville, Ky. He Explained. "Brother, what kind of a thing is a maggot?" "By goodess, Dolly, what an ignorantness! Why, that's how papa made 'all his money by being a coal maggot!" Brooklyn Life. Ten thousand demons gnawing away at one's vitals couldn't be much worse than the tortures of itching piles. Yet there's a cure. Doan's Ointment never fails. FAMILIES OF "BAD" MEN. Remarkable Attachment to Home Ties Shown by Crooks. One of the peculiar phases of life in seen in the love tnat'bad" men have for their wives and children. By "bad" men we generally mean those lawbreakers who thrive in communities communi-ties by the purchase of protection from law upholders. If you please, let Tom Gould be mentioned as a type, or "The" Allen, though I do not know anything about their families. Men of that stamp, with their hands ever against their fellow men, living only to "do" them, usually have happy homes. The family ties are sacred. The gambler's daughter Is the light of his soul, and his only holy ambition ambi-tion is to shield her from Knowledge of his moral obliquity. I could name a dozen such men in this city whose names are as well known as District. Attorney Jerome's. No matter how black the record against them on the outside, within the threshold of their homes they become loyal husbands and indulgent fathers. New Yo Times. WILD IDEAS OF SCHOOLBOYS. Remarkable Answers Found in Examination Exami-nation Papers. At a school in Germany an examination examina-tion was recently held, and here are some of the answers given by the pupils: "Veres plundered . the temples of Sicily and then took them home with him; nevertheless, he won his lawsuit, for he bribed his opponent." "Napoleon I. was born on August 18, 1768, and this day was destined to be the most remarkable In his entire life, since he ascended the throne of France on December 2, 1804." "In the time cf the ancient Romans priests wore a fillet, which went over the head and neck and into the shoulder shoul-der blade. THE BLOOD. The blood is life. We derive from the blood life, power, beauty and reason, rea-son, as the doctors have been saying from time immemorial. A healthy body, a fresh appes ranee, and generally gener-ally all the abilities we possess depend de-pend on that source of life. It is therefore the duty of every sensibl man to keep the blood as pure and normal as possible. Nature, in its Infinite wisdom, has given us a thermometer ther-mometer indicating the state of the blood, which appeals to our reason by giving notice of its impurity. Small eruptions of the skin, to which we scarcely pay any attention, headache, ringing noises In the ears, lassitude, sleeplessness, are generally a sign that the blood is not in its normal state, but is filled with noxious substances. sub-stances. These symptoms deserve our full attention. If more attention were paid to those symptoms, and steps taken to remove them, then many illnesses from which we suffer would become unknown and the human hu-man body would become stronger and healthier. Attention therefore should be paid to those warning signs, and the blood can be purified and poisonous poison-ous substances removed from it by the use of Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Drops, discovered more tVan 60 yean ago. |