Show I ft tLtT frtIV1J ii r R ia 1 H u H H I I 4 Curious Drsama I A man named Drew vaa OnCe killed i I byn peddler 1 nt an alehouse In Gravoa oml l The fcamu tight the victim wire wlio was living some miles flVLLp had witnessed the a Tlroam In which she wltneled I performance l of the t deed even to them the-m inu t st detail Next morning she received Intel at the gence or her husbands death place and in i the inanmr shown In her livam As soon as she recovered from I the shock she furnished the police with an exact description 0 the murderer oven lo tho cut and color of his coat Vlthln half n dozen miles of the scenr Vlhln co of the crime1 the uilpiil n run to earth He admitted his guilt when the mauler was described to him as enacted In the drenm and lie pnld the usual penalty i l on the scaffold In another case 0 peddler was found mielly fur crct In 1 u country district of Scotland No cluo was forthcnmhiK until Ji uvw snv foiward and said tluit t he hut roamed that the picl hlt dSfcrs pack was burled In a certain placo I There It I t JJ found by J MIL police and the dreamer wan meSlod en sJus plcion of hcinK the author of the crime Up of course pfolcsted hlr Innocence I hut the authorities not believing In di earns < onald < reii i thiiiiiMUK Justified 4 Jn legurdiiiK hlin aj < Ihl murderer Hcore cry Ion however thl actual culprit was discovered rind fully confessed con-fessed his guilt After such Authentic Instances who rin doubt the occult Influences whiCh aie sometimes exerted on the di camei I of dreams Iondoa Household yorQs Tlib Ppturn The houscsWmodi l bullded of honeysuckle fjlematls propped t he porch Trumpet vlnci round the old sjone chimney chim-ney i Lilted a Jcarlcttorch I Rose vines wreathed through the broken windows bAnd b-And crept through the crumbling doors Windblown poal3of i dying roses Huddled about tho floors Aaln 1 entered the raftered chambers Tenanted but by three A bold brown mouse a nesting bird Ant a beautiful memory The brown mouse scurried tho nesting bird bh Whirred out by tho broken pane But the memory of my childhood ran To welcome me home again Fanny 1 Clmble Johnson In Youths Companion Tho Emperor nnd the Little Boy The Emperor Francis Joseph was leaving the Church of SL Antonlus the other Jay after attending the ceremony cere-mony of consecration when a lad dreased as a bakers apprentice pushed his way through tho ciiowd evaded the swarmsof detectives and ran right up to the Emperors carriage which was already In motion 1Ic held up a letter which he wanted to hand to the Bmp Bm-p ror and Francis Joseph had the carriage car-riage ctopped to take the missive I f rsi l as follow1 Dear Mr Emperor My mother has been ill for many years aiid no hospital will admit her because shft is an Incurable I can earn crjDu h fdr myself but I cannot earn enough to give my sick mother the things she needs I bog you dear Mr Emperor to order that rhe be admitted to some hospital Two hour later says the Vienna correspondent of the Morning Jfradcr an ambulance arrived before the lads house and conveyed the mother to a charitable Institution AvhcreHhc can end her days In peace I 1 Expensive Pleasantries Just after Charlie Adler the sometime some-time Assemblyman from De Ate dis I trict returned from a trip a loss the continent he told this story of him uejfOn On my arrival at San Francisco nn a joke I sent to a friend of mine well known for his aversion to spending money n telegram with charges col leht l reading I am perfectly healthy VThis information evidently was gratifying to him fr < about n weak ajler I sending the telegram un express pjxckatfo was delivered at my room on which I paid 150 charges Upon opening open-ing the package I found 101 Jac afe a regulation New Yorl street paving bloclc on which was plh > d a card which read t Thls Is the weight 1 which your recent i re-cent telegram I llfltd from my heart ViNev York Times i t 1 Tho Cr uny Scot r Johnnie McGraw was a bit of a icharactcr In country village in theo nprth the-o Scotland He lived on the churlty o the vlllagero but sometimes some-times found It particularly hard work I rto 1 says Pearsons Magazine One 4 M when the sprlngM oft sympathy of-t J t < t to have dried up Johnnie a is Yy fo the house of the local I d loi t 1 rd said i i ccWe to gel a my teeth taken I I IL L Ht Ilhl the medical man V h > qIr I them I iivvv i f rScnu but Ifvo nat use I I I i lv rp thins to cat < t c Ji ill < iioetbr wbo saw the tj t d r ixIrthLeft I you to get a I 1 3fl Xi1Lain and Humor r ti ixv 153 true that Amer t > ha trjiccd In part to a 1b hal w e mu y call i Ia1um 11 jhlu almost I R rj f ii lau TOCCJJ41 1 a tIerttp he Is I I len I OM r Is In lb I l TO > j v yS of I f 1h irijjtj At I j tri 0 I gravest I i Ilk t 1111 of 4fll4i iyc jMabllt > 1 J I f f Z s fhi k upon i iviKt n ir mhnient I r I J rvrI us often 1 vrI tl Uillcb ot I 1 ItL J2t I I r region nrNl i It often f t T rIl Ineiv an 1 1l 11 inverted r C llIImllrlt L igj 4 i iv be the dryest 1 jf Mlt1 I ucoohc3 In their t da fM nf jn 1hu3lnnm for I d1 1 < otic 1lTort with a very ty n fails impies M one na I jiWfxt and most chrracter I I I rnes I or America In the I i Jt itury Franklin hay kin g wvles upon o lower plane Ho Y l mst a the some moment A care of the and the t Cfl o pence poundu wil take care of themselves and lint I tCl SrfcratcH and JCHUS Ills idealism J lo f ethical rather than philosophic or L I poetic lying 1 In a regaid for conduct but the Idealism is ever quiet absent from the heart of Franklins shrewdness I I shrewd-ness Add to Nuv England vividness of perception s and Nov England Ideality I which the I uMJiUlnvnl of romance to I remotencBs from the mediaeval world gives a certain ibtfulncss I and you gIe I have nn expression for much that lay 111 the genius of IJauthorne The Idealism Ideal-ism 1 of Emcison appoara Eomollmes tot I 1 I be highly attenuated but at Hn best It Is the exact translation of reality into l who I is i yet moie real the ideal ITbe Outlook Tho OMFashloncd Tire To Htoam heat tho cities asplro I Il i4 they I Hhlver and shake In the cold I lint fflvo me the oldfrahloned fire i Tli round rosy backlog of old I fhl warmth and the light or Ha lliinm leaplnjt 1 bright Th diowayhcadsUuidillcd around It at nl hl In tho darkneps the wlutcr wind sighing < 1url the name toicc ruddier glow I Th rtpcrks up the brqndohlrnncy flying I Ikp Tfltch ypi I that Jtrlcamud In tho i unow1 v I Oh the warmth and thft light Of thoso red flumeii uo bright And tM I comfort and Joy or tIO wild win I l nlirht Far Iwttor I that friendly ulrt lire I Than bulldlngu of summering steam With nrvor n itamf to ftdmlrr > An < l nov a hcnullfnl dream I I i Oh i4u roV nhd tlift light Vhero those flames duiicud so bright II And tho oldfaUIonodjoy of the t oldtuah I lonrd tiijrlii I I irank I Stanton Iti the Atlanta Con tIliitIon Beau Worth BtaInng A > lCd of the writers acquaintance liada ipoicd objccljon ollowiirs and Invariably stipulated when ngaglng her servants that no male friends were to be Included among their calle ro But she hao more favorable views now und thes arc cue to a little Iricldcnt vhlch occurred the thc evening The houcc Is on the oulslcuTo of town and one night a ralhci sinletorlooklng = tramp appeared at the kitchen door Thecook answered his knock and when she saw his appearance she held on t the door Is the lady of the house at home he demanded In a gruff Imperious olce No trembled the cook In reply Is the master at home No Are any of the people In 7 he demanded de-manded < I Nnone but mo and she made a frantic effort to shut the door But lie was too quick for her and setting his foot against It he growled Ah never mind Ill come In and have a good feed Let go the door She let go tho door and the tramp marched Into the kitchen where he fell Into lhe arms of a burly policeman He dd not get the anticipated feed end the policeman Is now a I regular caller I cal-ler 1 and Is on Bptaklng terms with the lady of the house Cassells Journal HouseHunting for gay Professional house hunting is the latest occupation to be adopted by a woman Her stock of trade conslsty simply of pleasing manness a good address ad-dress a smart walking costume and cards engraved like fashionable visiting cards except that In the lower left hand corner appear the words Professional Pro-fessional house hunter Her already established trade while not among Bostons most wealthy families Is among a class well enough offto live In private houses or expensive apartments apart-ments and who will gladly pay for comfort and convenience Thhr professional profes-sional house hunter never recommends a place until she has personally visited It She takes notes un she Inspects and wrltcn a full description of every house or apartment noting not onjy the Interior but the outlook both roar and front the neighborhood and the names of the nearest neighbors rloston Post Something of Concoquence A certain woman In Paris gives periodical peri-odical dinners at which assemble most of the beat known wits 1 and literati of Use day Tho rule of the mansion is that while one person discourses no Interruption In-terruption whatever can be permitted I is said that M 1 Rcnan once attended attend-ed one of these dinners and being In excellent t vein talked without a break durIng the whole repast Toward the end of the dinner a guest was heard to commence a sentence but he was Instantly silenced by the hostess After Af-ter they had left the table however she at once Informed the extinguished Individual that aa M Renan hud now finished his conversation she would gladly hear what he the guest had to anyThe hoslcsn The guest insisted modestly declined the I am certain it was something of consequence she said Alas madame he dI was Indeed but it Is now too late I should have liked a little more of that Iced pudding Chicago NewsWomen I Nrws Women Doctors La Paris 1 m How many lady doctors practice in Paris A statistician has gone Into the question Ho finds that while twenty yeari ago only nevcn ladlcnhpcl taken I their mpdical dqgroc lirc In the face morcovor o violent opposition the 3600 physicians now established In Pnris In cjude fiftyseven women The latter all lCller ni hold busy and remunerative practices Two of them hold semiofficial posts Thcs0 ludo arc Mine Bres and Mine Pciree The former is medical attendant attend-ant to thf CJnlclct theater where she looks after the ladies of the company rind the children rld chlrl1 who often appear on the state the home of French extra va guiiza Mniu Pence has the same position po-sition at thi t > state pluyhouoffof the Odcort the second Theater Fran cain She Is i the wife of a comedian who acts at the Palais Royal under the lan c of Raymond Every year tho fiicullks Q mcdiqlnc of Paris and Monljoller grant degrees to many fcminne candidates but French wo net arc In the minority most of the doefi I IPS who pnsr In this country he hug Jitjfllnnu and Roumanians No lady bysklan has yet been rewarded with i ilucroHJ of the Legion of Honor hut ono midwife Mme Gross holds this high and tovetcd order which wat con ferred 1 upOn her for gallant conduct In the Franco Grmna n war Parlw Correspondence Corre-spondence London Tdletrraphi 1 J Tho nuscion Succession I wnu hopufl and expected in Rus ytathat the Czars onlyHitrvIvlng brother the Grand Duke Michael who now boars the title of Caurcvltch would shortly be displaced trdfhtIiInpotltion I 6 by the birth of a male hclrnppariiiit In the diicct line but for the fifth tlnif nlnco his marriage Nicholas I has been disappointed and this time more acutely than before Four daughters daugh-ters have been born to him at pretty v regulpr Intervals since 1895 but now I the Imperial I I COlt phynlclann certify to the premature confinement of tho Emjirebx I The Question of the Russian auccco Ion Is by no means clear According to a decreeof the Emperor Paul ct I 1707 the succession Is by right of prlk mogVmnnrc with preference of maJp over ferhalo heirs but this must be u dIlTorentklnd of law from that of our I own royal house otherwise the CHIS brother would not be his present her apparent in pieference to his eld st daughter SInce the accession of ihp j RomanoiYs Russia has been ruled lit various tiimp by four Empresses out Il Ir not certiiln that failing the pi os ent Cznrevlli h whoce consitutlon Isby 1 no means robust his position as the helrnpparcnt would t not be taken i by the Cars uncje the Grand Duke Vlrid Imlr the handsomest and ablest rcjbm bee of the Imperial ho sea klnI of cross In chaactcr and accomplishments accomplish-ments belwcenj Nicholas I our ailug onlBt of the Crimea and his son Alexander Al-exander II the emancipator of i tho serfs London Chronicle Thought I Was 0 Pacs president Ingalls of the Big Four road wrlteo an execrable hal and a fanner living near Springfield 0 Is glad > of It One day Mr Ingalla 1 was riding over a division of the road and lng ane came twlthln smelling distance of a particularly emphatic hogpenowned by the firmer Noxt day he wrote an autograph letter to the agriculturist complaining of the hogpen Thd farmer I farm-er could not read a word of fit and showed the missive to a Big Four agent The latter could not make anything any-thing out of It cither but said ij looked like tlie passes sometimes issued by Preeidjnl lugalls This was asugges tion to the farmer who dcqlares that ton mexle foveral trips on tie road using the illegible scrawl as a pass before conductors discovered that It was a Droteat Instead f Tho Boys Where are lhcy7thc friends of my childhood child-hood enchanted The clear laughing eyes looking back Inn In-n own And the warm chubby flngejrs my palms have 10 wantd l And when wo raced over Pink pastures of clover And mocked the quails whir and the bumblebees drone I Have the breezes of time blown their bloasomy faces Forever adrift down the years that are flown iAm I never to leo them romp back to their places Where over tho meadow mencow In uunnhlno and shadow Tho meadowlarks trill and tho bumblebees bumble-bees drone Where are they 7 Ah dim In tho dust lies tho clover The whlppoorwllls call has I sorrowful tone And the dovo8 I have wept at It over and over I want the glad luster Of youth and the cluster Of faced drone asleep where thobumblebcca James SSThltcornb Rlloy f i Sex Againat Sex Perturbing ao the thought may be to the soul of the average man who cherishes cher-ishes by hcrldltya bcUef that horln one of the lords oL creation and an object of especial regard In the eyes of women wom-en the unhappy fact seems to be that his lordship is agood deal of n ole these days antI that the gentler sex wants him to keep a respectful distance dis-tance away The most recent development emphasizing empha-sizing this ominous truth comes In the form of n news story i i from New York announcing that the v women1 of that city have begun a moveirient to compel street car companies to provide cars for women only They are dreadfully frank about It too declaring that they seek to be released from contact with mun whom they describe us falling over them sitting on their Iap and blowing tobaccoladen breaths In their faces Yotl can almosfsee even In reading the news Item the disgust which men Inspire In the bosoms of these women The Derll ot such a situation cannot I be safely Ignored I Is evident that woman hits the bit in her teeth and is I running away not with but from man She Is In politics has the right to vote here and there In various States Is Indulging In-dulging In club life has invaded the business world claims and enjoys nearly all the prerogatives whiCh were once exclusively mans All this did not seem sinister so long umu woman was disposed to be a good partner friendly l likable Just a little uependont sis was the sweet woman of olden times giving man her companionship compan-ionship and It may be her love But now If i she 11 to take advantage of hfcr strengthened position to turn her back absolutely on the once dominant sex icfubing ccn to associate with man the time has come for masculine action in selfdefense Washington Times Elephants Gallantry to a Girl i Beesie Brennan of Thirtysecond street and Haverford avenue la l tho first person to whom savage old Bolivar the large Zoo elephant has over shown gallantry gal-lantry Miss Brennan was admiring Bolivars huge body yesterday and feeding him peanuts She leaned too far over the rail and her new winter hat dropped off JJollvar picked It up and lifted It high in the air while Miss Brennan and her girl friends screamed at the thought of Bolivar swallowing tho stylish headgear Bolivar I how everlowered 1 his trunk and Miss Bren nan resolutely reached for her hat Give It here she demanded and Bolivar to the astonishment of every body gave It Nobody was more deeply Impressed than Harrison Bolt vars keeper who never saw him obey anybody I tell you said Harrison the American girl gets what she wants ger every lime Philadelphia Public Led Should Soldiers MarryP The spectacle of a venerable Senator traveling from New England to Washington Wash-ington to intercede for 0 change of detail for a young married army officer offi-cer who had boon ordered to t the Philippines ippines hha stirred f Washington correspondent cor-respondent to a moving discourse upon the Inexpediency of marriage for the younger army officers I is the matter mat-ter upon which Gen Corbin poke with so much feeling In his annual report HIs 1 opinions about It were generally attributed to Imprcsilons received abroad but hl own experience amid observation undoubtedly give I ample warrant for his views He Is right In considering that a lieutenant with no Income except his pay Is not In a good position to marry 0 wife and raise a family l the young officer serves ten years uo n single until It Is not unduly long Tho lawyer or the doctor who can marry nowadays before he la CO must have better than average luck In his profession Gen Corbln nays that a youngof fleer may reasonably hope to be a major nt 32 With a salary equivalent to 3122 1 that Is true hope deferred need not make the heart Incurably sick but this reason ble hope of being a major at 32 Is a new thing that has como with the cnlargvment of tho army In day past an officer who wan L major at 1C was lucky The correspondent quoted above says there is far lens trouble about premature and Inconsiderate marriages In the nay than In the army There Is less new raw material in tho navy than In the army that doubtless makes a difference For another an-other thing tho naval officers course of duty Is more explicitly pre > crlbed than his army brothers and he knows better what to expect All seaservice takes him away from hIs family and when he marries he expects and counts upon long periods separation The army officer expects as a rule to have his wife with him and when he Is ordered or-dered to the Philippines or somewhere where the cannot go It disturbs his calculations and makes trouble In the family Then comes the appeal for a change of orders and the Adjutant Generals office makes 11 new note about the Inexpediency of marriage for lieutenants Harpers Weekly Prosperity Attracts Spaniards The Spaniards begin to realize the advantage of living In a country over which the Unltcfl States Hag floats and hundrcdo of them who went home to Spain from Porto Rico when that Island Isl-and became the property of the Unlutl Staten ate now returning In the last fiscal year 541 returned and the number num-ber has been Increasing since June They see that Porto Rico la I prosperous nnd that they aie better protected there than when at home In Spain Many have also returned to Cuba being satisfied that under the Platt amendment to the Cuban Constitution the United States will not permit that country to become a home for revolutions revolu-tions such as characterized so many of the former Spanish colonies this on continent con-tinent With stable government and no excessive taxation such as Spain Imposed both Porto Rico ant Cuba are certain to be prosperous Porto Rico is already In that condition l and Cuba under a fair reciprocity treaty with the United States uould be equally certain of prosperity If provided with i good government Philadelphia Press Silverware Combine In view of the decline of silver bullion and the continued high price of silverware silver-ware the Engineering and Mining Journal suggests to the producers of silver that It would pay them to go Into the manufacture of silverware By doing this they would nearly realize their old price of 129 per ouncethe price per ounce when the dollar of our dads was at Its best At present prices of the metal says the Journal what Is known as solid sllverwaie should sell at figures very little If any above the bet grades of plated ware We find however that the reduction In sllvdrwarc hUB not been at all In core cpOrjdence with that In the metal In fact that the selling prices now are very nearly the same as they were when silver was quoted at double Its present price This Is said to be the result of the combination Of silverware manu facturcrs which has maintained Its prices at the old level With corresponding correspond-ing profits It seems to us that it would pay producers or slyer to look Into this mattoV Baltimore Sun Railroads as Civilizers Railroad Building as a Mode of Warfare War-fare is the subject of an article contributed con-tributed to the December number of the North American Review by Capt J M Palmer U S A Caesar Capt Palmer points Qut conquered Gaul by building roads Only through the great highways which he continually constructed con-structed In his rear Was he able to turn to permanent account the decisive victories vic-tories he won on the field Caesars strategy has been followed by all conquerors con-querors and pacifiers who have left a lasting Impress upon history and perhaps per-haps the most remarkable example of Its efficiency Is the celerity with which the wildcat and most remote regions 01 the American continent were ubdued once it was crossed and threaded by railroads Capt Palmer urges that the I same process applied to our distant Island Is-land possessions would facilitate and hasten their pacification and he produces pro-duces figures to Bhow that In that way the work could be done more economically econom-ically Besides civilization advances with the railwayMen railway-Men cannot remain In n a savage state In the vicinity of a rallrpad savaSe are compelled by Irresistible Influence either to accept civilization or to with draw The railroad brings the lumberman lumber-man the prospector and the trader and these are closely followed by the planter When the soldier has prepared the highway of commerce his work Is all but done The soldier of commerce soon relieves him in the work of reconnaissance reconnais-sance and exploitation I does not follow fol-low that the pioneer commerce must be an European wnctncr the trader be an American or a Chinese Mestizo the effect Is the same Ho brings with him the l ea oJ property the magic charm of ommerco before which savagery sav-agery and disorder must disappear The Deficiency of Our Navy There are now Including midshipmen who have left the academy but have not yet obtained their commissions 1023 officers on the navy list The number absolutely required for officering existing ex-isting ships Is 1600 so that there la already al-ready a deficiency of 577 When the I ships now building are completed and are In commission the number of offi I corn that will actually be required for them will be 193 Allowing for the usual percentage of officers In transit sick on leave and on shore duty 62a more officers slll be required after the new ships are finished During tho next four years 160 officers will retire 80 that at the end of that period the total deficiency of officers will be 13GO This Is I 0 larger number It will be seen than the total list of today From this deficiency however there must bu deducted 3C5 graduates of the academy and possibly six promotions from enlisted en-listed men each year This will bring the deficiency below 1000 Mr Moody has made the most of his personnel Ho has ao greatly reduced the number of officers on shore duty In order to man his ships that he has called forth direful predictions from old bureau officers of-ficers His answer hIS always been that sea duty Is of the first importance import-ance in the navy and certainly If weal we-al to have 0 navy we must keep Its ohlps fully officered The opposite policy pol-icy would be entirely consistent woul entloly with the theory that we need no navy nt all Mr Moody snys that graduates of the academy make the beat officers and that we must not be content with less than tho beat because the best Is obtainable He asks Congress to increase In-crease the number of cadets at Annapolis and his recommendation ought tobo followed We havo the h fihlps wo are to have others nnd We must have the men Besides more officers 01 ficers too more enlisted men ar1 needed for the ships now afloat Harpers Har-pers Weekly eld1ec Heed aa a Talker William len White of Emporiu took luncheon with Thomas B Reed at the Century club New York the day President Pres-ident McKInley died Aftera simple meal had been put away Mr White relates Reed pushed back his chair and began to talk For three long hours he discoursed most beautifully upon life its uncertainty Its real rewards re-wards and Its checks and balances upon death and Immortality and God and all his ways and works I was a kind oc funeral privilege to hear At the end of It all the bjg man threw back his head nnd looked up at the great oak rafters of the room for along a-long while and then let his handa fall heavily on the short arms of the chair as he sighed Hi ho What does It nil mCan where is it going who are we7 what Is thin unfathomed mystery we qall life God knows I dont Kansas Kan-sas City Star They Were Strangers A certain German professor of music to bo met with In English drawing rooms Is an entertaining old gentleman I gentle-man I To him recently a lady said when one of his compositions had Just been rendered by one of the guests How did you like the rendering of your song professor Vat dot my song replied the professor pro-fessor I dont know him ShoIacked Discretion Mr Younghuoband Is learning to use discretion in the pretty speeches he Iy I teaching his baby Gladys The other day the Younghusbands father mother and their llttlo daughter daugh-ter who is Just beginning to talk were on an Eric ferryboat when the child exclaimed Papa kiss mamma Kiss pretty mamma The couple blushed and tried to quiet the child who grew more Insistent Not now Gladys said the young father wait till we get home Finally the child subsided Into puzzled puz-zled silence and presently climbed down and toddling across the cabin made friends with 1 young woman But the respite of the Younghus bands was brief chief Papa papa called the young mis chiefVoIP replied the father Papa kiss pretty lady pleaded tho child stroking tho young womans very red cheek New York Times Whero People Arc Content In his book The Soul of a People Mr H Fielding Hall gives an Interesting Inter-esting and sympathetic account of the quiet life and philosophy of the Burmese Bur-mese Among other thinGs he says And so all the people arc on the same level Richer and poorer there are of course but there are no very rich there Is none so poor that he cannot can-not get plenty to eat and drink All eat much the same food all dress much alike The amusements of all are the same for entertainments me always free So the Burman does not care to be rich 1 Is not In his nature na-ture to desire wealth It Is not in his nature to care to keep It when It comes to him Beyond a sufficiency for bin dally needs money has not much value He does not care to add field to field or coin to coin the mere fact that he has money causes him no pleasure Money is worth to him what It will buy With us when we have made a little money we keep It to be a nest egg to make more from Not so a Burman he will spend It And after his own little wants are satisfied after he has bought hlhisclf a new silk after he has given his wife I gold bangle after he has called all the village together to-gether and entertained them with 0 dramatic entertainment sometimes even before all thishe will spend the rest on charity A Moltke Anecdote A German magazine haD Just published pub-lished the subjoined anecdote about Moltke Did you Your Excellency play whist when you were In France asked Herr von Bennlgsen of the great battle thinker one evening over a rubber Every day when it was possible replied Moltke UVe played halffar thing pointy so that at worst the players could not lose more than a shllllncr One day Count Bethuay was his parnter Why my dear count did you play spades said Moltke in a sharp and serious toner tone-r had an Idea Your Excellency that you wanted spades But my dear count one does not play whist according to Ideas but accordIng ac-cording to rule replied the Field Marshal Mar-shal shaking his head Detroit Free Press Sho Knew What Sho Had Eaten A kindergarten teacher is very proud of the little ones In her charge and loses no opportunity to Impress upon their youthful minds facts that may be of value to them In after life Before closing her school one day recently she thought It would be a good time to give the children a little lecture on tho care of the body She did this she explained ex-plained In order that the little tots might know how to take good care or themselves during the vacation Tne class was quite a large one and In its membership were 1 number of bright little folk among them Dorothy > the 1yearold daughter of an uptown druggist drug-gist The teacher had the little folk name over the different parts ot the body the heart lungs and trunk but it was with some difficulty that she could got any of the children to name the stomach stom-ach The little folk understood what the trunk was and then the teacher wanted to know what the trunk contained con-tained as it was Important to the lecture lec-ture that one give points regarding the care of the stomach Persistent inquirIes In-quiries failed to arrive nt the naming of tho Important organ and It looked like a lecture failure when the teacher again anxiously Inquired What la In tho trunk Up went little Dorothys hand and snapping her thumb and finger she called out dr know teacher I know Well what iai It 7 Oatmeal aald Dorothy and the lecture went oerChlcago Chronicle Mad Mullahs 2klirnclc A good story Is told of how the Som all Mullah worked one of those miracles mir-acles which drew many waverers to his banner An English manofwar was enl to demonstrate off tho coast and at night threw a searchlight on to the unSle covered mountains Abdullah was In hiding ther6 and knowing from his hlinS to Aden what It vus that his followers hilled as a new star told them that the light was xeultlng him When tho electric rays actually flooded his encampment lie cried In triumph Will you deny now that 1 uuV under the eye of God The Somiili fell on their knees beat nil earth with their foreheads and replied Thou art truly the elect the chosen the Mullah the master Our goods our existence our soulsbelong to throe We place ourselves entirely at the disposition of thy will A few weeks later dune the news of the rising of some 000 of these Somali London Express New York nnd Its Smoke JTuisance New York manuiacturcm having had a taste of the cconom of soft cod New York citizens are now having a taste of the smoke nuisance and the New York newspapers are awakening to tho danger that leniency toward a temporary expedient may result In a chronic condition The Now York Tribune Trib-une thcreforo voices the general demand de-mand when It I calls for a lgorous enforcement en-forcement of the law that would practically prac-tically restore the city to the cleanliness cleanli-ness of air clothing and homes which was enjoyed six or eight months ago There as hero the crusade is not against any particular kind of fuel but against smoke Already they havo reached the cofTclntlon that the key t the whole situation Is In the proper training of the firemen and an agitation agi-tation has been begun to require firemen fire-men of stationarysteam plants to takeout take-out licenses The Tribune also voices a demand as urgent here as In New York that If employers blind to their own Interests l and unaWare of the economy which ic suIts from a more perfect consumption of coal will not voluntarily take measures mea-sures to have their furnaces efficiently fed they should be Compelled to do so or else to use fuel that emits no smoke Chicago will watch with keenest Interest wI terest what succcflS attends the 1 strug glc to restore New York to the atmba pherlc cleanliness it enjoyed before the anthracite coal strike taught Its manufacturers man-ufacturers that soft coal was an economical eco-nomical fuel Chicago RecordHerald How Postage Stamps With the Issuance of the new set of I United States stamps In n few weeks I the public will have the privilege of using a postage stamp which for the first time since 1SG9 bears the flag oc the Republic The stamp which will prominently display the Stars and Stripes will be the 2cent denomination denomina-tion Washingtons portrait will again appear on the common letter postage stamp as has always been the case with the exception of one series The present portrait of Washington which was drawn from Jean Antoine Iou dons profile case Is to be replaced by a photo direct from Gilbert Stuarts famous painting the original of which Is now In the national Capitol Of course the likeness of Washington Is the most Importantfeature of the design de-sign of the new stamp but there will appear In addition two American flags Stamp experts say that the design for the new Issue of twos Is the finest ever offered for such a purpose A picture of Martha Washington will appear on the new Scent denomination1 the per tralt that las been selected t being the familiar front view which nqarly everyone every-one has seen At varloufc times In the past the pictures of women have adorned special issues of United States stamps but Martha Washingtons niceness nice-ness will be the first of any regular issue is-sue of postage stamps Issued by our Government Detroit Free Press Shah at the Phone Often the Shah of Persia had heard of the telephone but he had never seen one until recently at Contrexe vllle and he vas enchanted wthIt wlh that he at once expressed adcslrc to converse with some one by means of 1UHe He was asked to select the person with whom he desired to talk and he l named a wealthy resident of Mire court Then the following conversation conversa-tion took place Hell hello said the Shah In his most courteous tone Hello what Is ItT answered a rough coarse voice What kind of weather have you at Mlrecourt today asked the Shah Is the sun shining Youre an Impudent fellow to disturb dis-turb me In this way said the rough coarse voice Sir cried the potentate much annoyed an-noyed I am the Shah of Persia Oh youic the Shah ch answered nnswerec the other Well If youre bent on fooling away your time ring up someone some-one else for Im through with you So long It Is said that since this incident occurred oc-curred the Shahs interest In the telephone tee phone has greatly decreased RealLife Humor When I laugh at any mortal thing Wrote Byron In his Don Juan poesy tis that I may not weep But Byron By-ron was too son for the moderndailj paper and his pessimism had been tempered < l by none of those occasions when gayety Is I promoted In the news says the New York World When such occasions arise the professional fun maker goes to the rear Reallife humor hu-mor surpasses the manufactured arti cle even as truth Is stranger than fiction fic-tion Perhaps one shouldnt begin n summary of a days laughable incidents with tho Item about a Utica nran who has made lils own coffin But as he paints the casket red white and blue and labels it Made by no trust Isnt n smile justified Less grewsomelj humoroua but still suggestive of trouble trou-ble behind the fun Is the account of the patienceexhausted Indian woman who gets a divorce because her husband has mOod thirty times Inten years and wont give up the nomadic habit In Ilobokcn Miss Knapp marries Mr Wlmbs primarily from affection based on his excellent cooking one of mad Cupids paradoxes In Bridgetown N J a vlllgunce committee Is formed to correct young lovers who extent their courting blond 1 p mlhe first public attempt to Introduce union hours fO sparking He who runs may read In I those days of galloping presses Ant he who reads may laugh Patti and tho Wasp Madame Patti mind Mr John Santle visited Brecon and sang In a concert In the evening giving their services in aid of the CouiUy and Borough Infirmary In-firmary At the commencement of the proceedings a little girl presented the diva with a bouquet I was explained that the child had mei with n street accident at the coronation festivities and had Just recovered from n broken arm Madame Patti tenderly embraced the little one and the Incident was Bomewhat affecting says the London Chronicle The concert was well patronized and the eminent artists had arl < a hearty recall re-call on rendering the duct La c 4 darem from Don Giovanni The Z i J UII returned and commenced tho oponjiir passages of the piece when It va I noticed that the singers appeared to i 1 be in some unusual difficulty jlSfj l some dlCcul ir Crt Santley at length ceased slnfdnjj l il Madame Patti continued for a bnr or n two mind then both conMilsed with tl laughter left the utage Sonic of tn6 t audience In the front seats who had 1 noticed the cause of the discomfiture Joined In the outburst ant then In response I t re-sponse to continued plaudits the at I f lists returned Madame Patti er f plained that a wasp had been paying her ant Mr Santley ouch perslatonti attention that they had found It difficult diffi-cult to with the encore proceed encoreThe unwelcome intruder had tried to e Ui her mouth and at last they ha cjcr beat a retreat co 1 1 Hygibno of Open Grates Discussing the theory of 0 corroj I spondent that leaving open the reF Inters of grates hay much to do with I common colds it In J extraordinary to what a violence of opinion purely hy glenic questions of this nature are able I to give rise The particular view of our corrcypondeait IK briefly this reg intern should never be left open when no fire Is burning because It will sometimes some-times happen that the air outulde la i cooler than that In the room and then Instead of being ventilating shafts the chimney with an open register will act In Just the opposite way It will bo he mnlnlolnu a shaft down which cold 1 air v111 enter He would have all reg isters closed except when a fire la burning and ventilation carried out by means of doorii und windows only We believe In fact that there fc f a good deal of reason In his contention but that he underestimates the disadvantages disadvant-ages of a closed register and exaggerates exagger-ates the culpability of an open one London Lancet Talking and Eating T do not know how It Is among cannibals can-nibals but In civilized communities so called great talkers are great caters Lung exercise produces abnormal appetites ap-petites The hermit speaking not at all lives on a crust The sewing society so-ciety woman gossiping PO fast and furiously fur-iously as to change her breath every mlnuteand a half Is a gourmand Two Newport belles meet Chirps one So glad ao awfully glad to see you Whats the news Twitters the other And I am SO glawd to see yeoy Lets alt down somewhere arnd talk a little scandal After two hours and a half of Innocent chatter they can cat as much asa horse Singers are enormous enor-mous eaters their lung acrobatics ex hausting1 the carbon In the blood appreciably ap-preciably expelling It as carbon df oxld leaving an aching void Besides this singers have less residual air than other folks owing to its violent expulsion ex-pulsion In the vocal exfrolse This superinduces hunger Ncv York Press Grace in Walking If you want to walk gracefully dont look at your feet but hold your head well up in the air Dont shuiflc A little thoughtfulncss and practice In highstepping will soon break you of this ugly habit Dont bend back nt the waist under the Impression that you are thereby walking erectly It throws the stomach forward and Is almost as Inimical to grace at round shoulders Finally dont allow yourself your-self to walk pigeontoed that Is with the toes turned In or straight You can never be graceful la movement while you do It always hard to tell what to do1 with the hands The natural wax to have them hanging at the sides or loosely clasped In front la not beautiful beauti-ful And to have them glued to the sides as far as the waist line and then bent In at the elbow Is not only awkward awk-ward In Itself but elevates the shoulders In a quite unlovely way Therefore most women try to obviate the difficulty by carrying something such as a portemonnalc or a parasol Those who carry parcels and babies are usually actuated by other motives New York News |