Show cnNTEMrn1RY r THUBHT b 1 I Evolution of Woman The wonderful success which In tho course of the pant fifty years has boon achieved by those who havo been e kin k-in to Improve the status of women In the community s Imprccslvcly shown by MBS Susan B Anthony In an article entitled Womans HalfCentury of Evolution written fo commeinonye the services of the late Mrs Elizabeth Cadv Stanton the pioneer In the move mem and published In the December number of the North American Review Miss Anthony recalls the hostility nnd ridicule with which the pulpit tho press and the general public treated the first woman rights convention fin occasion uiich at would be a veritable veri-table commonplace today She recites some ot the provlslonc of the English common law which determined the legal le-gal position and relatlonn of women when that convention was hold and by contraHt with the principles everywhere every-where recognized at the present moment mo-ment they read like the provisions of a barbaric and prehistoric age The ntory told by Mies Anthon I the story 0 a revoluMonwhlch has effected Itself In almost every detail except the universal realisation of woman suffrage suf-frage She thus summarize the sen oral result of the movement and thfc ground of her belief hat woman will eventually enjoy the privileges of the franchise The crfcct upon women them clvefi of those enlarged opportunities In every direction has been a development which Is almost a regeneration The capability capabil-ity they have shown In the realm of highereducation their achievements In the bu6nesK world their capacity for organization their executive power have been a revelation To set women back Into the limited sphere o fifty years ago would be to arrest the progress prog-ress of the whole race Their evolution evolu-tion Has been accomplished by a corresponding corre-sponding development In the moral nature na-ture of man his Ideas of temperance and chastity his sense of justice his relations to society Tn no department I of thq worlds activities are the higher qualities 5 painfully lacking as In politick and this istho only 7 one from ihlch women are wholly excluded Is it not perfectly logical to assume that their influence would be as benellclal here as It has been everywhere else I Does not logic also JU9t the opinion that ns they have Men ndmlucd Into every rotter channel the political gateway gate-way rrtrist IneVltably be opened T A Needed Institution Sho will go to the slake a martyr And a wordy will L w war wi waG Will right forsooth for right and truth Then 110 about her age She will face a coming army A Hood or burning house Without n quiver op cry or shiver And faint at sight of 1 mouse She will laugh In tho eyes of dancer Like the finest heroine And lie awake her heart to break Ocr Momclhlne worth n pin She will meet misfortune grandly Death Flckncssand all ofthat And then will lie aU day and cry Like a child ocr a lulncci hat Ncy York Press I Japans Rapid Growth Japan has astonished the world by her marvelous fUrldes to an acknowledged acknowl-edged position among the first powers of the earth Her development during the lain halfcentury Is In some respects re-spects more remarkable than that of the United States Fifty years ago when Commodore Perry rapped somewhat some-what roughly at her gatcp she was In material progress governmental ad mlnJBtratjqn and ecucn tonal development develop-ment little beyond whero she stood n thousand years before Now her snug little realm is I traversed with railways and spotted with i manifold Industries her political system compares favorably with the monarchies of Europe and her colleges and schools are graduating graduat-ing hosts of young men fitted for every position oC responsibility Her foreign commerce hon expanded in thirty years from 50000000 to 300000000 per annum I an-num This is an Increase of 1000 percent per-cent per annum n record unrivaled by any other country in the same time or under similar conditions Starling with no merchant marine she now has her cargo and passenger steamer running to all parts of the globe In successful competition with the Heels of the older and richer Natlonn With no modern war vessels twenty years ago she now has n navy ranking next to our own rilkln In effectiveness Wllh an army a few decades past that was barbaric in equipment shr possesses today a trained armed force that In comparison compari-son to her J1c andpprjulatlopj Is second sec-ond to noneRelew of Reviews Types of tho NewVest Geographically th new West coin cdes with the 1d1e Is met at the Mississippi supposing the observant Initiated travelercblhbsfrom l lfc ast He will sure enough catch glimpses o Jt through Southern Indiana arid across Illinois where flit fsirKeiytb be a Joosenlqg of talk ih the Pullman and C kind o f ltk nforKrantcdyouarea gpntlcrrihn ollow bID that IK alien to the New York and Buffalo trnlnlQnds But the bouillon station at SL Louis qcat tern the I s Easertr travelers Into t Isolated l groups and breaks down their reserve From St Louis west the observant traveler may study his types without first breakingtediously through the ha bitual barrier of polite rnubblng nubhlnS For the man of this new empire Is busy he It r open to now Influences I what the casual stranger has to say as he dropi Into tmceat betide him Ij may affect him and hla business H j I Is courteous but there ID I no s ne In spending half att hour talking about I the discomfortsof trayel and the ot varieties va-rieties of landscape when there Is I in f formation tohe gained of the process o manufacturing shoos or the study of Latin In the Eastern colleges or the fertilization of thin soil John M r t Oaklaon In Leslies Weekly 11 II i Prince Cling to Student I The London Timed lately published a I dispatch from Ua Toklb correspondent j which gave a summary of the speech made by Prince Chlng who was recently re-cently In thin country to the Chinese students In J pan The dispatch reads In part 1An interesting Incident o thin trou ble was a visit paid to the students and a speech delivered by Prince Ching who passed through Japan on his return journey from his visit to England for the coronation After congratulating the young men on the patriotic fortitude which had Induced them to go abroad In search of educa tion the Prince said that according to his observation of European men and things the spirit of Western learning might be nummarlscd In elrrht Idco graphs which translated Into Eng lish signify Know thyself know others oth-ers work hard and conquer There was nothing new In such a canon he observed Confucianism Buddhism I udchl and Christianity all had a common bu sic principle Know thyself The Chinese Chi-nese sage had said Grieve not to be unknown to others grieve only not to know others The fountain of all sue coas was In a Jan own heurt Self culture never failed of Itfl fruits The thing to be eschewed above everything was drifting with the time A mans silm must be to lead hls em not to bo led by It to bear constantly In mind the dictum of I Mcnclus Value your r pwn purpose than which no better rule of practical life could be enunciated enun-ciated The Prlnco concluded an admirable ad-mirable speech by promising to report to the throne tlf earnemnM of the tudent application and the patriotism patriot-ism of th < lr purpose uA Chance Acquaintance Justice Alfred I Siecklor fiayx that n domestic employed In his family recently re-cently announced her Intention of leaving leav-ing Im going to be married tomorrow tomor-row she said Cant you postpone it for 1 week so that I may have f dpportunlty to Ida Id-a substitute lnnuired Irs Stckie rId r-Id like l to onlJRp you sold the rook but I dont1 knowtha mint well enough to ask such ji L1Inb W York Times Fatal Tflmperature Fllnl p r e i At what point dOc life begin So far as regards spaed of time the question ques-tion Is I unanswerable Only a few years ago It would have been oold that In regard to Ihat seemingly essentlhl rendition o liCe temperature We did not know pretty nearly a superior and Inferior limit Little of life Is there below the lcclnl point or above the boiling point of water and far I above 01 below thcst critical points we should expect even germ life to he destroyed When our grcMletft physicist In 1S71 suggested that scotia of plant might have been horn Into his t world In afar a-far distant age the hypothesis seemed Incredible because the temperature of space being at leapt l as low ns minus 10 degrees centigrade would be fatal to life In any form This E not o Recently at the Jenner I Institute bacteria bacte-ria have been frozen in liquid air and oven In liquid l Jiydrogen and on the application of hen arid placed in proper media have germinated The process of life was artesled I hut the nascent life energy was nott1cntti oyed at 200 degrees de-grees centigrade say SCO degress Fahrenheit Fah-renheit of frost Experiments are now being made to find whether long con llnuance for months or years in such I cold takes away the vitalism of those lowest forms of life London Telegraph Tele-graph What the Educators Are Saying There has been this fall a remarkable succession of orations on education The installations of college presidents have given occasion for some of them and on one occasion or another the heads of most of our great universities have defined de-fined their attitude to the various educational edu-cational questions about which the doctors doc-tors disagree Tho detail which has been most discussed Is the length of the college course President Butler o Columbia who had already dIn d-in favor of giving the A B degree af leI two years study In collcce went over the subject again on November Hlh In an address at Swarthmorc college l col-lege He reasons that half tho work that used to be done in college Is now done In school and that the AB degree de-gree If granted at the end of the second sec-ond college year will still represent four years work as truly as It did In those earlier times when it was a good dell more respected than now He thinks the traditional American college IR fast disappearing and will sink out of sight In another generation or two unless the disintegrating Influences arc cheeked What we Ihall have left bethinks be-thinks will be an agreeable lluishlng school or country club for the eons of the welltodo To his mind the most active and dangerous foes of the American college today are those who regard a secondary school training aa an adequate preparation for professional profession-al and technical study In n university and those who Insist that the course of collegiate study must be four years or nothing Dr Butlers plan for Having the college Is I to recast and remodel the college course entirely on a two year or threeyear basis Harpers Weekly To Revise Indian Names Mr Hamlln Garland the novelist has i unique and interesting aohemc for securing uniform and pronounceable names for the Indians He explained It lo the Secretary of the Interior and to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and found It met with general favor The Indian Is usually named for some personal characteristic or because of some Incident which befell the child or the mother A father may be named Red Oak I and the son Black Wolf and with every generation tne names usu nib change there being no family or distinguishing name Mr Garland proposes that the Indian names of each of the members of all the tribes In the United States be carefully care-fully collated and spelled phonetically and recast so that they can be readily pronounced He suggests that family names be given and the Indians be taught to preserve their narnca from ono generation to another Mr Garlandwill be named one of a committee Ol tnree to take up me worK Another member of the committee will probably be an expert in the bureau 0 ethnology and a third member is J an educated Indian now In tho employ of the Government who has n knowledge of nearly l the tribal tongues and traditions Kansas City Journal They Shun iIssIng Some American ladies and t gentlemen have conceived so strong a distaele for kissing that they have banded themselves them-selves Into au association with th6 Cleaning title of the AntiOsculation society so-ciety The members are pledged not to Ids anybody The lady members they tire mostly ladles must not kiss each other or even their nearest rein ter People who are or have been much given to kissing are preferred as members so that they can be reformed One of the members middleaged man claims that he has never In all his life given or received n kiss He In naturally society natu-rally the pride and glory of the strange It is worthy of note that the lady members are not taking precautions against nonexistent dangers that Is to say come of them are both young and charming It IB Indeed a question whether the fact of their being pledged against kissing would not offer t new and Irresistible temptation to uji rerupulous young men One IR reminded of the story of the old toper who donned the blue ribbon In order that he might be tempted with offers of drInk Certainly Cer-tainly u cynic might suggest that some Idea of this sort IB at the root of tIe anllkieslng movement 5 far us girls are concerned Cas elM Journal 1 Clement Griscom and King Leopold Not many years ago King Leopold of Belgium was one day holding court In Brussels Among thOse waking to be presented were Clement Acton Grlscom and Mrs Griscom and the United States Minister to Belgium Mrs Grlucom had never met the Queen The Minister recently re-cently appointed hud Just arrived in Brussels and stood directly In front of the Grlscoms When he was presented the King greeted him In hl Jc hearty way welcomed him to Belgium and then suddenly breaking oil said By the I way have you ever met Grla com Clement A Grl com so Well you should ho IH a rare good fellow nnd a great friend of mine and Limo King went on with us sincere and honest I eulogy as ever mun uttered He Jmd I not noticed Mr Grlccom AU at once he caught sight of him Why hello Grlecom he cried hlfl face beaming with pleasure what are you doing here And he hook his hand an act quite beyond the pale ot court etiquette Lawrence Perry In the Worlds Work Just Like C Woman Oh sir what In 1 thl place so strange Filled full of trlnk < no fine Thil Is the Chrlatmaj Gift Exchange A clovrr plan of mine i Your misfit presents imOre may bo Exchanged for other that you see I fred my head and laughed aloud Tn use the aer I hurrying crowd Carolyne V elljr In Harpers I Basar The Single Thought and Two Souls Smoking on the carl exclaimed the disgusted woman as Dennis Flaherty lth hln shortsiemmcd pipe took the fciat beside her JcIi am rejoined Dennis between j Mng arid determined pulls And nv yb dont lolkeut l go wan T froont t These seaLs Is resalrved for smokhers Mt you were myhubmnd Id give you polroo Would ye now 1 Puftpufi 01 think av ye wor mo wolfe puff pmmffOiU take utEdwaid Noclon in Llpplncotts t Magazine r tho World1 Arena The census takers of 1500 Informed us whfcn their task was tone that they could nolooger find any frontier upon this ponllnfmt ihnf ttitmlIqt Irntv their maps aL1 If the jnighty process of settlement thnt had gone on ceaseless dranmtK the cfentury through were now ended and complete the nation made from sea to sea Wo had not pondered their report a nlnglc decode bpfore wemadenew frontiers for our Hvtp beyond the ceas accounting the 7000 mlleB o ocean that He between UB and the Philippine Islands no more than the 000 which once lay between us and the cOasts tof the Pacific No doubt there Is here a great revolution In our JIel No war ever transformed us quite as the war with Spain transformed trans-formed us No previous years over ran with S swift a change as the years flncc 1SDS Wo have witnessed a revolution revo-lution We have seen the transformation transforma-tion ot America completed That little group of Staler which 125 years ago cast the sovereignty Britain off Is now grown Into a mighty power That little confederation has now massed rind organized Its energies A confederacy Is transformed Into a nation The battle bat-tle o Trenton was not more significant signifi-cant than the battle of Manila The nation that was J22 years in the making mak-ing has now stepped forth Into the open arena of the world President Woodrow Wood-row Wilson in Atlantic A Hint to tho Wealthy The wealthy woman who died in Now York recently and left a will bequeathing bequeath-ing generous sums of money to her cook her butler and several other working people who had served her long and faithfully set an example In the disposal of riches worthy of general emulation by other poPsessorn of fortunes for-tunes The leaving o little mementos and many good wishes In such cases have been common enough but substantial sub-stantial sums of money ore far better I especially when they fall Into hands of persons who have become aged or perhaps Incapacitated for earning t I JClnoou cisewnere oy reason or previous long and hard service for the testators I js enough In every case to say that such persons have received generous wages and good treatment during the period a service That may be true but there arc sonic kinds of services which are not fully compensated compen-sated In this way and a recognition of this fact In a bequest or In some other form Is an act which should always be In order among men who wish to deal Kindly as well as just with their fel lows Leslies Weekly Sees for Sightless Eyes The person who Is blind loses much of the beautiful In 1e through the affliction afflic-tion There la a woman however hose home Is In this city and who having means finds a way to satisfy her taste for a knowledge of 1 that Is going on This she accomplishes with the help of a companion of the same sex but much younger the woman is herself 77 years old who takes her from place to place explain eXTlaln ing everything Thus an afternoon at an art exhibition exhibi-tion results in both coming away with an excellent Idea of the most Datable canvasses The architecture of tle various new buildings Is described at length the bindings and Illustrations of late books arc laid before the mind of the aflllctcd one with much circumstance circum-stance Even the new operatic and dramatic events arc attended with great regu BI resu larity and the costumes forms and faces of the performers are described In the fullest detail the scenery and properties arc the subject of comment and the people In the audience furnish material for discussion between acts In traveling the companion In the same faithful painter of pictures for the sightless eyes of her employer and every feature that goes to give that variety which seems n necessary spice 10 living Is brought out with the utmost ut-most particularly New York Mall and Express Accident to the Bust Last Christmas day Clarissa showed me with il i grimace a present from an old family friend I was n small plaster bust of the worthy man i fa person with side whiskers He had had his bust modeled and a large number of them cast for Christmas presents lo his friends And mother says we must keep that object on our drawingroom mantel or good Mr Worthys feelings will be hurt observed my young lady disdainfully dis-dainfully The next time I called the bust had vanished and I Inquired about It Hush said Clarissa glancing around Has mother gone upstairs Well then I gave Illlma a quarter to break It accidentally when she dusted That Is i one way of getting rid of things The Pilgrim Dodging Women A curious story of a wealthy old recluse re-cluse is told by 1 a correspondent In Household Words Not 0 hundred mIles from London and about five miles from a railway station he sayp stands a large house In beautiful grounds Two rooms only In this house are occupiedone by the owner and the other by his servant Tho staircase IB used and nee u et communication com-munication between the two rooms is by 0 hole In the tOOl and a rope ladder lad-der The owners meals when cooked arc passed up through this hole The chief peculiarity however of tIlls eccentric being Is that twice a week late at night he comes down hlrf rope ladder dressed as n tramp He then walks the five miles to the station referred to where he has a private room Here he changes bin clothes emerges in Cull evening drcsa and goes by tho last train up to London UT don J has been ascertained that he then takes 0 cab to one of the big clubs In the neighborhood of Pall lal blS WhU ho does at the club Is not known but he returns by I the first newspaper l train In the morning I when he repairs to his room at the station puts on the tramps clothes again and returns to his house whore he resumes his peculiar pe-culiar mode of life He his never been known to speak to any one in time lose and no ole can give a reason for his quaint be hovlor but local gossip has It that he was Jilted as a young man and vowed that he would never again speak lon lo-n woman nor so far as he could avoid It look at end again Tht editor of Household Words vouchee for he veracity of his correspondent corre-spondent London Mal Guarding 1amily Secrets Talk about your Helens Babies and Heavenly Twins said a Wei Philadelphia Phila-delphia man In the Philadelphia Record Rec-ord Ive got ono at home and If I had two time things I would do to em would be chough Mine Is Q little girl and she Is now nearly G t years old and u terrible chatterbox The worst of It Is that when t have guests at the house she Is continually making breaks of the worst aort breaks that tend to rattle Hit dry hones of the family skeleton In the closet Recently when had cOB Rcenl n we company com-pany at dinner she allowed her tongue to run away with her as usual the result re-sult o which was that she very much embarrassed both her father and mother moth-er although the guests r am free to pay seemed delighted I had a very serious se-rious talk with her nnd Impressed upon her I or tried to that she mutt not tail any family secret The next time we had company she was permitted to come to the table only by promising that nhi wouldnt Utter n word She behaved beautifully and had nothing to cay until the dessert was about to betaken be-taken away Then her lips began to quiver and finally she burst Into tears Why whats the matter darling her mother asked II want ome more Ice cream If that Isnt n family secret she wailed between sobs China Doesnt vi ant Changes I In true that China needs many other oth-er things besides Christianity She would be greatly better off If she had railroads and clean hotels and f knowledge knowl-edge o geography and poslofllces and fur lories but the lack 0 these in due not to the Inability o the Chinese to provide them but to their failmc to see and appreciate heir I need of them No mention o them Is made in the chart by which they are steering l China has succeeded in existing almost from the beginning of tho world without them therefore they arc useless The Chinese nature Is patient and the Chinese brain Is resourceful The stories oft told In Tlentsln of how native engineers with very crude tools and comparatively little lit-tle experience repaired locomotives that the Boxers had wrecked Is proof that the Chinese are capable with very little Instruction of building and operating railroads The Chinese do not build railroads because they do not want them Just as they do not want anything any-thing that would necessitate a change in their methods or customs They lack Incentive not ability and the spiritual element of Christianity Is the only Incentive In-centive that will ever make them appreciate appre-ciate that n chart no matter how perfectly per-fectly made can never Include all of the expanding scope of human life and endeavor en-deavor Francis H Nichols In Atlantic The American Invasion of Paris We have heard of the American invasion in-vasion of London It seems that there is an American Invasion of Paris also an Invasion by American dressmakers I Is discussed in the Ladles Field of London by a writer who seems qualified to speak 1 am not an American she says and we believe her for she quotes an American lady as saying of Paris dressmakers They cant new for nuts For shucks please madam not nuts She has read at great length why American dressmakers may not hope to succeed In Paris but Is1 unconvinced She says they can succeed suc-ceed She has never been to America and knows nothing about Its dressmakers dress-makers but she says she docs know a great deal about American women and has seen them over nnd over again iji clothes made I l their qwn country which fitted and suited them and were fur smarter tItan anylhlng qjie sees here In Purls Harpers Weekly Electric Power for Railroads Cornelius Vanderbilt contributes an able paper to the December number of the North American RevIew In which he discusses the feasibility of employing employ-ing Electricity sis a Motive Power on Trunk Lines When a change If made In methods of operation on railroads the men In charge of the roads have but one object In Icwthe production of an Increased net revenue Mr Vanderbilt goes Into a careful and detailed de-tailed comparison of the costs of equipment equip-ment md maintenance of the present motivcpr > ser system and the system of electric traction of repairs to the machinery ma-chinery and the roadbed and he arrives ar-rives at the conclusion that while It I Js J possible from the engineering point of view to use electricity as the power on trunk lines under present conditions IL Is I Impossible from the financial point of view With metropolitan and suburban su-burban roads the case Is different for reasons explained by Mr Vanderbilt < We know from experience that in passenger service Increased convenience conveni-ence and facilities in many cases more than compensate or Increased cost of transportation This convenience con-venience as we may term It for want of a better word includes general convenience con-venience lo passengers speed number and frequency o trains and is the alllmportunt point In passenger ratTle Combining this with the fact that after fL certain density of traffic is realised the fuel cost may be reduced v e have the reason for the success of the trolley system and the adoption of electricity as motive power on certain metropolitan nnd suburban roads In passenger traffic the posl ton of iho rOd should determIne In the main whether electricity is to be adopted due consideration being given to the possibility of Increasing the density ort or-t by Increasing the convenience and n final Judgment being rendered In Us favor when It Is seen that the density Induced by this convenience will warrant the greater first cost and produce a larger net return after deducting de-ducting Interest and cot of operation of the additional machinery than Avlll be produced if I yteam power Is used This net return may be procured either by n decreased fuel cost if the density if mule is sufficient or by Increased rates should the convenience be so increased in-creased that the t passengers are willing to pay for It A Patient Husband While in England Marshall P Wilder came upon a curious case of husbandly devotion He had heard that the wife of a certain laborer was not nil she should be and that the daily wages her husband earnedby the sweat of his brow were spent by her for liquor rather than household necessaries Moved with pity for the poor fellow who complained of his never wrongs Wilder put n few odd Jobs In his way which paid the man well and also livened up his dull hours with manyfi funny yarn One day they happened to talk of domestic quarrels and then the poor fellow spoke of his own troubles for the first lime Mr Wilder he said some say as how my wife doesnt do exactly right but I knows of only Ole fault that she has She swears when shes drunk New York Tlme Love in New Yorks Poorhouse Few who visit the amshojsc appreciate appre-ciate the affection that is blooming In that sterile soil among the old couples There ire only ten of them In the great horde of Inmates But sometimes one can see a pair strolling down one of the lout parndlngplnccs walking slowly for both of them are very feeble The old mnn has a crutch or n heavy cane his wife Is na withered as a leaf but as onotaeps i them loverlike side by n I side one known that In spite of their rags and wrinkles there Is blWNn I them yet that which IK I ever frcph and sweet and young One mny se sometimes I some-times an old coupli on tho steps of the rhnpel l returning from morning 1 prayer Three denominations the I Episcopal the Roman Catholic nnd the I Lutheran have places of worship at the nlmshouse and therf mire many of the poor who arc deeply devout One sees the old father and mother sometimes In the little grocery where they go to share the few nickels that they may earn or that may be sent to them by relatlvcp and one feels again the presence pres-ence of that which Is beautiful and i tender Leslies Weekly I Uses of Salt The press cablet report that Dr Koulapye of St Petersburg removed the heart rom a child who had died twentyfour hours before nnd by the use of n certain salt solution made It beat with normal regularity for onb hour The statement If confirmed Is of great Interest Tho use of massage mas-sage needle puncture or stimulation by electricity or alcohol have started hearts that had ceased to beat and prolonged life for some hours and oven carried the patients beyond the crisis l to safety but this new achievement achieve-ment IB 1 I step In advance Salt seems to be concerned In some very vital processes pro-cesses says the American Medical Journal I has been urged that Its overuse causes cancer and evidence appears to favor the contention Not long l since It wis reported that by means of n saIL solution In which chlorld of sodium figured prominently ova could be developed without the necesslly of nny male elomont entering Into the process In view of the trend of events It Is certainly a matter for congratulation that the distribution distribu-tion of salt on the earth IB not such na to lend Itself kindly to the grasp of a monopoly so that when salt becomes be-comes the most potent of earths forces It atlll may be had by all people peo-ple Perhaps In the future we may appreciate why threefourths of the cartha surface Is occupied by saltwater salt-water Poverty The pcoplo call him rich lila lando Stretch very far and very wide They call him rJchbnt there he stands Illclad and bent and holloweyed Tho people call him rich his gold Is pled In many a yellow heap But he Is all nlono nnd old And when ho dies no one will weep o They call him rich but where he dwells Tho floors are hare the walls arc bleak They cull him rich he buys nnd sells But no fond fingers stroke his Check f They call him rich ho docs not know Tim happiness o standing where Sweet wlndn aCross tIme meadows blow And toss the verdant blllowo there S E Klscr In harpers As to Open Graves The superstitions surrounding the burial arc many and one of these prevails pre-vails In Illinois and the West to < marked degrce I Is practically Impossible Im-possible In the smaller towns to Induce any one to permit a grave to be dug the night before the funeral The grave under no circumstances must be allowed 1 crcumstance lowed to stand open over night In the smaller cemeteries the grave dlgglng Is often done by friends of the family of the deceased and to ask them to dig the grave the night before the burial would be looked upon as nothing short of a personal offense 1 would mean sure death for the digger within the year and 1 would mean thut the dead would not rest In the grave so dug contrary to all tradition Among many the idea prevails that It means bad luck to tho family of the dead person and would be no Jess an offense than to leave the dead body exposed ex-posed In the Dame way all night Chicago I Tribune cago T1bunc Italian Dromios An astonishing case of mistaken identity has just been discovered by the police of Bologna Three years ago a man named Manclnl was sentenced Ito I-to four years imprisonment After atC a-tC months Incarceration he succeeded I succeed-ed in escaping and was not heard of I until several months later IAn I-An Individual calling himself Mlottl I was then caught and was declared by the police and the prison authorities to be the escaped criminal Mancinl Mlot t I protested that he was not the man they wanted hu tIm Description tallied KO exactly with that of Manclnl that he was not believed and was put back In prison Within the last few days however another man has been arrested at Naples Na-ples who appears to be the real Man clnl The resemblance of the two men Is really most remarkable extending as It does to a deformity in one hand which both men have In common The most curious part of the story Is I that Mlottl having been so frequently assured that he was Manclnl at last came to believe it and there is now a conflict between the authorities the witnesses and the friends of the original origi-nal criminal as to which man really Is iMancInl and which Is not London Mall Dally 1al Quick Change of Opinion A diminutive 1 clad in a blue flannel flan-nel shirt corduroy breeches and a sombrero som-brero and riding a timmy calico pony which loped along at n furious pace of perhaps three miles an hour came clattering down F street today and as he entered the principal shopping dis trlct encountered a stout handsomely dressed elderly woman who appeared utterly Incapable of making up her mind whether to proceed or retreat t with considerable difficulty the small boy avoided 0 collision and rode on but the flushed and Irate I woman rushed to the policeman on the corner exclaiming See that horrid little brat He almost al-most rode me down Ho ought to be arrested and I insist that you lock him up at once Madam said the ofllccr that Is the Presidents son Archie and I couldnt arrest him He wasnt riding half as fast as the law allows Was that Archie Roosevelt Why the Hltle dear Im KO glad to have Seen him so like his father too was the reply which astonished the guardian guar-dian of the law Washington Letter to New York Tribune Growth of Ears The systematic examination of more than 40000 pairs of Human ears In England Eng-land and France has resulted In some interesting conclusions For one thing It Is ascertained that the car continues to grow In the later decades of life In fact It appears never to stop growing until death T one will take the trouble to look around In an assemblage of people peo-ple as at church he will discover that the old folks have oars considerably larger than those of the middleaged A woman who has small sheltHkc ears ut 20 years of age will be very apt to possess medlumHlzed ears at 10 years and large cars at 60 te tSc Why ears should go on growing 1 ones life any more than noses is a mystery mys-tery There are a god many points about them that arc Instructive their shapes being markedly persistent through heredity Any car will bo handed down EO to speak from father to son for Generation after generation Some authorlllcs on criminology assert Ihat criminals are very apt to possess L peculiar kind of ear which Is I recognized recog-nized by an expert lnHuch matters There Is probably nobody In the world who has a pair of ears perfectly matched In most people the two differ oerceptibly not on > Ju s apebut lt4 J In size Frequently they are not placed precisely alike on the head The age of n person ralLY he Judged with great nc curacy by the ears which after youth Is past assume an Increasing hirshnes of contour A prnity woman WK > PO tlrct youth has departed may not show the fact in other ways but these tflltrilo features will surely tell the story of the flight of time Then there In I the lltllo wrinkle that cornea Just In front of each ear during the sn fatal and Ineradicable Inerad-icable sign Philadelphia Ledger Work of Firebugs Why said a lady reproachfully to her husband you know when L say Denmark I mean Holland Perhaps the city girl In the following story told by the Philadelphia Telegraph allowed herself a similar attitude of expression expres-sion sionShe was sitting on the porch lazily rocking to and fro and watching the Mreflles flitting about her companions nnd said In ft musing tone I wonder If I It Is true that fireflies do get Into the haymows sometimes and net them afire Everybody laughed at what was apparently I ap-parently a pleasantry but the young lady looked surprised Why sId she It was only yesterday yester-day that I saw In the paper an article headed Work of Firebugs1 It said they had set a barn on Ure Really A Toitile Novelty A new Industry has been started In Germany which offers considerable prospects and possibilities that is the wood pulp cellulose tissues made by the Palcntsplnnerel Actlengcsellschaft at Altdamm near Stettin The spinning of wood pulp or cellulose In I the patented patent-ed Invention of Gustav Turk manager of the cellulose works at Walsun on the Rhine and the wellknown Inventor Dr Karl Kellnerr of Vienna 1C It Is taken Into consideration that the process Itself Is considerably cheaper cheap-er than the usual method of making yarn that oven the shortest animal or vegetable fiber can thereby be easily spun Into yarn and that the price of the best qnullly of wood pulp Is only about onethird of that or ordinary cotton cot-ton tho advantages and possibilities of this process urc evident Doubtless yarn made according to thIs process will In the future replace to a considerable extent ex-tent woolen linen cotton and especially jute yarns especially In the cheaper grades o tissues and for such tissues where pliability and handsome color lire of main Importance Scientific American Amer-ican i His Distinction Near An an Instance of clever repartee this which we find In the Boston Pilot is i hard to beat A distinguished lawyer and politician was traveling on a train when an Irishwoman came into the car with a basket bundle etc She paid her fare but the conductor passed by the lawyer without collecting anything The good woman thereupon said to the lawyer law-yer An faith an why Is It that the conductor takes the money of a poor woman an dont ask ye who seem to be a rich man for anything The lawyer law-yer who has a pass replied My dear madam Im traveling on my beauty The woman looked at him for a moment and then quickly answered An if 1 that r Then ye must be very near yer Journeys end o Christmas Ever Eve-r we stay up thus till after midnight tormented by all the little devils that delight In a bustle our fingers all thumbs and our memories goaded to an unnatural clearness telling us all sorts of things we ought to have thought of sooner but didnt and dont want to think of now 1C at last wo drop exhausted Into bed afraid to look at the l clock ft Is hard to put on a holiday face a few hours Inter and shout Merry Christmas In tjic dawn lle cawn The beloved youngsters for whom we have performed most of this labor hop Into our bed spill popcorn rind nutshells nut-shells down our backs and Insist upon our eating candy before breakfast Sticky happy wriggly all talking at once at the top of their voices they are not the most satisfactory bedfel lows In the world The baby gets excited ex-cited and cries the pup rushes wildly about and barks and has to be cuffed for eating up the gingerbread animals the father Inquires If any one suppose that this IR fun and the mother tries to quiet the baby out out the pup mate the stockings fasten buttons and do her own hair In a fashion fit for church without losing the good cheer the occasion demandsHarpers Ba zar A Now Cure for Melancholia The exEmpress EugenIc has found n new cure for melancholia I Is very simple and consists of studying Amer lean girls who have married titles and are living in Europe The exEmpres has been recently entertaining the American DuchessdeBassano formerl Miss Symcs at her country home Eu genie linn developed a real fondness for these titled American ladles TIme keep me she says from Indulging In melancholy Introspection And well they may It Is difficult to think of anything that can he more amusing or diverting than Amcrlcni glrly who have bought themselves tilled I ti-lled husbands left their native lam and gone lo live In an aristocratic atmosphere at-mosphere where they arc generally tho subject of gosslp and as a rule conceded little of the society of their nobly horn lords and masters who Inmost In-most cases lavish their ntlentlons and their American dollars elsewhere We may readily Imagine how delight tub the exEmpress must llnd it to study those ladles to try to look Into the depths of their natures and to en deavor lo rtgurc out how they are get ting the worth of their money It should he a comfort to them to know that they In their new and exalted positions po-sitions may serve so useful a purpose Chicago RecordHerald Tried on Dress in Court Herman Moscowlts a Fifth avenue dressmaker brought suit before Justice Jus-tice Herman Joseph in New York city against Edith M Sothern who liven at 151 West Fiftyfourth street for 5150 the balance of his bill for a gem nlum red street gown He said that Miss Sothern saw a model gown named Agnes In his eotabllHhmcnt in January Jan-uary 1001 and when he told lien it had been sold to a woman In the South she ordered one made just like It and left 20 on deposit The price was 5170 When the garment was completed after three tilting she refused to take It or pay the balance Thu defendant took the witness stnnd and said she liked the Agne gown but the one that was made for her was not like It The plaintiff asked Miss Sothern 1C she would put on the garment so that the Justice might sec for himself how well II fitted She said she would and went Into an anteroom and made the change When ahe got the red gown ori she stood before the Justice swished about the skirt swung her arms and looked at him He looked at her got red In the face and said Didnt you forget something madam mad-am 7Vhat What Didnt you forget to button your waist Oh that is the slashing the dressmaker dress-maker spoke so much about That doesnt button But J seu your your corsets I told you It was too tight for IIIQ I feel as though I would faint Besides Be-sides time skirt is too short and you < un sec I have lowheeled shoes the i and showed the edge of a blue alll petticoat Never mind madam T believe you 1 aid the Justice mind he blushed an IIP s nv the lawyorn looking nt him Justice Joseph decided that the gown lid not tit nnd gave Judgment to UK hfendant for the 0 she hud paid on 4 deposit Chicago Tribune Ho Got It Reduced Time people of a certain Yorkshire town are blamed OH a rule for looking at both sides of u penny before parting part-ing with It Quito n laughable ex ampleoccurred the other day A man slightly deaf went to the doctor with a bruised finger The doctor washed and bandaged It and when tho man naked the charge said Oh it Is Just a trifle and wont cent anything No no sir you will need to make It less than that Tho doctor catching on saldi Very well we will say two and sixpence six-pence which Lime mnn promptly paid thinking he had knocked somthing off Spare Moments A Quandary Is It correct to eny that Gen Blixcn received a reception Ernowell It doesnt sound Just right but Well the citizens gave him one didnt they Yes And he received It didnt he Well he didnt refuse U anyhow but nee here He was received by the cItIzens wasnt he Yes How could he receive and be received re-ceived it the same time Yes but when they gave him th rcccpllon ho received them all and shook hands with them didnt hme2 To he sure nnd they received him with a grccepllon nt which he received thorn and accepted their congratulations with a cordial reception oh hang this language anyhow Washington Times Consistent Father hear my boy that you have lately told your mother several falsehoods This grieves me to the heart Always tell the truth even though It may bring suffering upon you Will you promise me Boy Yes father Father Very well Now go and soc who la knocking nt the door If its the rate collector say Im not at home London Tld Bits |