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Show sks to gSX; J5S "ft at th it ii i,e- - mt, rvst fis aea. and We - ,or th rtensioa. west, wrtanc, ;ngrea leJ lrrl. the f en haj wPH We for. rapiaj. W land fr tg. nt thi, 'atlosaj Public th 9 live - In d law d the fr watead 9m the "acted Show Flow of Arctic heavy coating of black waterproofing was applied to the casks to guard against corrosion and decay Instructions for the finder of the casks, printed on linoleum four languages by an indelible paper la were placed In each cask. process these casks were provided forFifty ex-of the periment. thu far bee received eP0Sl1,.aT; distribution of thirty-flvcasks. Twenty-tw- o of them have been successfully launched on the great Ice pack north and northeast of Herald island, which lies off the northeastern point of Asia. Nine casks have also been set adrift on the floe ice off Banks Land steam whalers. Banks Land is a by of the Arctic archipelago north of part this continent. These casks have been set adrift there with a view to testing tbe probable existence, of a northeastern or north American drift through the Parry archipelago and along the route followed by McClure fifty years ago in accomplishing the northwest I ef e s, A spoiled child is to be pitied cause of Its fool parents. material. Monster large other equent roover, be- of the Ocean; Part Fish; Part Snake pub. dl. t Being which Slat. velop. n the uch ef been hone, id, we In the orrea. e only al. t PU. hone, arable ree of or a toted 'lentj, from dry nS at tie to f great been title s Taw most remarkable monster of a caught a few days ago In fish dagger, as liver and bacon are spitted Bay with a stick. It Is presumed that the monster was keeping them there unAdim, an Inlet of the gulf on the lower til he became hungry enough to eat jaast, writes the New Orleans Natives of the vicinity call them, for he really did not bite on the He monster a nevM fish, but this is line, hut was hooked by accident In the top of the head. mly because no ether name more ap Finally, the proprlate cou'd he conceived on short tongue of this most extraordinary notice. creature was found to be three Inches It Is necessary to he singularly plain long and as hard as flint' It fitted ind modest in describing this wonderfagainst a similar hard substance In ul creature in order that the scientific the upper part of the mouth. With world may have a clear-cu- t idea of it this he ground fish or oysters into fine Shells and bones could By actual weight the monster weighed fragments. ISO pounds. Its head was like that of not stand against the grinding motion. It Is said by fishermen that the noise startle, except that Its under lip protruded In a pronounced pout, like the made by the meeting of the upper Jaw Its body and tongue causes such terror to little lip of an angry rhinoceros. was black something l.ke the body fish that they are deprived of motion of a bat Pendent to this bodv and .. and easily captured. ised by the monster for flight when it Men who have studied fish deeply Is pursued by sharks were black batty are at a loss how to properly classify the new monster. When cut to pieces, wings, show lng faint polka dots of bluit, sh hue. The tail of the fish, or the flesh of the monster was found to was something like that of a be very fresh and savory, and pleasant to the palate of man or beast Its stlngaree. When caught a number of small fish meat resembled beefsteak and tasted were found spitted to this sting or something like lambchops. A ns Times-Democra- t. I Places of Interest in the Territory of the Czar Beautiful Buildings Erected in Atv dent City of Moscow. The casks were made of heavy oak itaves, one and a quarter Inches thick, with iron hoops, two inches wlda, A O Bryant, formerly president SffLograpblcal Society of Phlla-- d the explorer of the Grand most Labrador, announces that i the society by prepared oak of the Arctic u .at adrift on the ice already been distributed "have f be a long time the Ice. It may anything is heard of them, but i n hoped that the experiment may to our knowl-o- f trlbUte something Arctic currents. was first suggested by Ad- Ths idea who expressed the luirtl Melville, la 1897 that valuable data recurrents might nne to clrcum polar setting adrift In the b, obtained by north of Behring strait special-- I constructed casks containing the Lislte records. of these A certain percentage messengers might fairly be exited to survive the perils of the fjetic pack and be found eventually adjacent to Franz Josef m waters or Greenland. und, Spltzbergen Society of PhiladGeographical The to test this method of elphia decided currents without ftndylng the Arctic As the casks endangering human life. afloat on floe Ice would likely be objected to pressure and other special attention was given In firing them to the shape and strength vlcis-dtude- Through Holy Russia Cur-rent-u (Special Correspondence.) HE Grand Duke Con- he was a Prince, not appreciating how stantine, chief of the little that means in Russia she sent fleet of Russian Black word to him that she would like to Sea merchant and pas- meet him. replied that senger ships, makes he would not meet her unless she was during the four days prepared to marry him at once; to Odessa and which she actually agreed, and they four stoos only were married. lalta, Sebastopol, Novorissisk Is the last stopping Kertch and Novoris-sisk- . before Batoum. Here, as soon place All of them we thought rather as our gangplank was put out, tha uninteresting places, except lalta, as usual rush of porters began. They althe country is flat or wih low d have the right of way, and they ways hills and no vegetation. were certainly remarkable-lookin- g porSome one has naid that the East clad In indescribable costumes. ters, meant to him a Babel of voices, all talking at once and In the loudest of tones, and we felt that on the tender we must Indeed be in the EasL It Is funny to watch them, more so than to listen; P)r they never seem to feel it necessary Uj come near enough to save their voices, but scream to each other fi nm the Housetops or yell from a distant beat or shout from the end of a street until one wonders whtt thetr throats can be made of. Oft doos not Wonder, however, that they shr ut when in a crowd, for with everybody in the crowd talking as fast II he can only the loudest voices cat be heard. I had always imagined Russian to be a harsh language, n ore like German, am was surprised Slo find it very musical and much like Italian In sound. The women hfve not very Cathedral r f the Archangel. agreeable voices, high and nasal and (Moscow.) thin; but those we met and saw were principally rags, hut always with a all pretty, with slim figures and fair hood or rag of some kind to answer as skins. such thrown over their heads. They , All the Russians we met spoke were of many races Turks, Caucas-answarmly and affectionately of the Czar, Jews, Armenians, Russians, and but the poor Czarina seems to he uni- Persians. All chattered at the top versally disliked. She is considered of their voices in Russian, making a English, and the hatred of the Eng- tremendous noise, and all carried lish is never disguised. She is called heavy loads, which rested on straw haughty and proud, and is supposed cushions on their backs, which were to be trying to break down and root bent nearly double. out all the old Russian customs and When we 'ame on deck the next to introduce English ones in their morning we were overjoyed to see the place. Poor young thing, her life is mountains the Caucasus, magnificent anything but an enviable one. We that point seemed almost equally imwere told that none of the Princesses posing. The scenery was wonderfully of Hesse had sons, and that of course fine as we approached Batoum, for she would never have one. When I the coast range, the Adn Ba-tu- sun-drie- well-woode- d By BYRON WILLIAM M8 The warden had told some stories of "good prisoners when Billy, the trusty, who was down on the hooks as No. 311, got back to a discours about Frank Lamly, briber, former banker and model convict, whose body had that day been shipped home to his people. Its all very fine to say that Frank Lamly got what was coming to him, said Billy, but did he? Theres one way of looking at such matters that isrt popular and wont go la the newspapers, and Its my way. Of course Im a convict. I was sent up for selling my vote In the city council. You all know the story. I was a boodler. Lamly was sent up for was guilty. He was a millionaire, and bribery, and, according to law, he to us and paid for our votes. Thats came he needed legislation when he can deny It. bribery all right, and nobody he said. I got what I took Lamlys money and voted whatever way was coming to me all right, and I have no kick coming. of view, I dont say that Lamly didnt do wrong from the popular point a lot of big But what else could he do? He was financing and managing to pass a hill for sure, to pass It enterprises. He knew that the only way 8 was measure that going to hurt blm quick, or to stop a body Have you considered the future state of your !lay be shall what Have planned you aoul? U do.; fled off this mortal coll and MsiS I0 W1U 7 deterioration? heri w7 approaching the fP ated where burial ground body to the UM gnaw your toes? Will your a orow and your ashes preserved In bodies of certain Indians, will you he hung to . , ? 1 bett J , la may caw at you and the buzzards pick at you ua t e 1T The scientific members of the crematory aodeUes of eopla health ; person Incinerated, more conducive to the geneiitf deal rabl' a behind, and vastly more certain of one very get th After mistake. no and J treated Is dead, clear dead rising of . . t with the body there Is no Imminent danger juried of " v coffin and asking for a drink. People who have a horror ol)Jection to The only wllla. their in will do well to order cremation rn eremation Is that It Is fearfully hard on the gophers.of being urn beU.flref ;V Naturally the mind Is appalled at the thought hints so mu crematory. Fire is a painful thing, and cremation a ,, . guttering. and Its punishment that one hesitates before confining aterT " what Is life when the gone, But vaWW the process. ut0nian , light, v no pain, no realization, no nothing. AJ1 Is a dark and P la oalyvw8t77h, nonentity, a nihility, a nullity. The .body hMh ond the being Is gone. Why then not do away with the ' away . r grad . the shell? Is It not Infinitely bettor than to atore the body w It, -- even the where vermin may eat it, where rodents may destroy the 8aacr'n f hlg dry It, and unhappy thought where thieves may break adolee-last narrow house ard steal it? Is there one who would ofPr amp-class bwkUtlful by a spectacled professor before a rich by manipulating big commercial and .fl.nanclal deal8Taadab He wanted his hills passed, and he wanted em reasoned to him about It since he came here and he told me that the way he was like this: The people elected these councilmen to make the laws and regulate the town. The council is out for the coin. Its UPP AT ness with the aldermen elected by the people, OR DO NO BUSINESS ALL! I did business. business Now thats what Lamly said. He wasnt a politician. He was a man. He took it for granted that the people had elected the kind of a council couldn t that they wanted. He hadnt time to reform It, if he could, andwashe for sale. wanted that he what rich He buying by got if he had time. Our votes were for sale and he bought them. Well, he got rich. The reform element came into prominence and went to him, as a representative rich was a good cause and man, to help the good cause along. He knew that it new he wanted to do his share to push It along. He said This town needs a was willing to help it readjust he and town his loved He government Uself, clean up, purge Its council, put a new, fearless, irreproachable mayor in the chair. And he did It a at will auch Hungry lOUld in imlt itnas ! to ores heir and sal. 1ST hits ten tha bs wal to har oa - and hazel and the biscuit shades are also prominent. A coffee-coloredinner gown had sleeves of cream mousseline in souffle style. Prune color promises to have a great run. this: Apricot, orange and banana are the "Terrapin green with garnitures of newest shades of yellow. Almond-whitlemon white lace and champagne-colore- d galloon appears on a broadcloth gown, and movelvet constituted the lovely tifs of plstache velvet were Introduced gown on our cover page. Brown bread is a fashionable color for contrast. Crushed strawberry has In crepe, and harmonizes well with given way to the grape shades and ! lace. , mulberry to bonbon pink. A gown of tomato-reTobacco is one of the most becomwas delightfveling shades of brown. ully contrasted with lettuce-greevet and oyster-whit- e His fellow printers noticed that he applique. "Vegetable silk braid Is one of the acted strangely and groaned at times, sew trimmings. but before they became aware of the "A charming breakfast gown is seriousness of the case be fell to the shown In beet-rfloor and expired. The coroners Jury 1 casnmere. rendered a verdict of "Acute dyspepare Egg blue and melon-greenew tints. sia, superinduced by overeating. Claret silk makes a charming New York Sun. a tramp compositor down on had not had a square a fortnight. In desperation he applied for work on a fashion magazine and was taken on as a sub. The copy with which be was furnished read something like 3TS wine-colore- d batter-colore- d d walet All shades of brown are popular. Ineluding chocolate, butternut, chestnut tP la t Things that make make a man swear. a woman cry urn on th mantleplece whore his widow; . in times of domestic Infelicity? .oended I mummified or Will you be buried, burned, ringing -- - u tree like dried fruit? There is no use in evading the question. gurrfve to t It leave You soust make a choice or wd your door-bell- ! is easily you. Perhaps It is as well to procrastinate, as a corpse not given to philosophy or argument! Now that the season for asking How would you Uks to be ujto'be a How would y Is off, a more modern problem Is propounded: r inves- turtle farmer? If you are undecided, you which ato Being a Dissertation tigate by reading Texas papers,a turtle fam. a man near Orange who has -creat m tlonbyThe Snipping Turtle, the sides of his purs begin to end namrubbing together, he gets out his drag nt in a few hundred pounds of turtles. Th big snappers are aplacea rs 7 and fed until they are fat aad ready for market. He finds c his product in New Orleans, where the fastidious are fond ol twl with aristocratic name. Every American youth has caught turtles..o some degree of enthusiasm, strenuous battles with the u have r-- w turtle. Many a fish pole and the soft-shesnapping-turtl- e manvAC an the way of debris through a battle royal with a whopper, reD beady-ea with awful bite has dwindled to a sanguinary affray the deep. Thus, the American who is reminiscent will No boy gro tion of Ilk and dislike for the turtle raising business. 15 to manhood who ever got his finger or his big to in th hIch with turtle will look favorably upon the scheme. The tenacity to a leg, Is nothing when oompar holds to a root or a bull-doP mud-turtl- e when his passions are aroused and he grips any then even and If off his head hejs apt jo anatomy. He never lets go until etubborn mien Hs take his head In his mouth and slide into the water with odds again tw fighter from the Bad Lands and quits only when the must 1 have completely annihilated his chances. A turtle farmer on the oiw hold a If ever a snapper gets of chances feeding his stock. thirty the like look to made are harvest of a turtle Partial leg the Joy. a catch . cents. In raising pigeons one can go into the loft, toe head pe stroke their pretty heads, but the turtle farmer who goes into hlmseir. ine to r a crow-baand disengage lever business will need a one gets mh satisracUoa hut In the is business, money there big say papers we dont une turn from a peaceful life bereft of riches these days. As for us soup, anyhow Some pessimlstical statistician ut and take full and regular Inhalations through your nostrils; hold tbe breath about one second; take all the time Orest Physician Believed Priest Unyou can to exhale it; keep this up understood the Situation. 2. A young physician, a graduate of til you are weary or fall asleep. the Berlin University of Medicine, and When you wake In the morning, rewho was a student there during the peat the exercise at least for five time that the late Prof. Virchow helJ minutes; longer, If time permits. 3. a chair of the faculty, tells this story During the day, take as many full of the great pathologist: respirations as possible, exercising While takProf. Virchow had accepted the Invi- care with the exhalations. tation of the surgeons of a Leipsic ing these exercises, one should bear in mind the thought that he is Inhalhospital to be' present a a very and difficult operation. All was ing new life and power. Success. ready In the operating room. The surQUEEN MOTHER WITH SEN3E. geons, Instruments In hand, were awaiting the arrival of the patient In Democratic Tendencies of Wife of the operating room, when a nurse Informed them that the patient was beKing of Portugal. Two of the handsomest of the boy ing shriven by the hospital priest and would not be ready for several princes are the sons of the king and minutes. Upon receipt of this mes-ag- e quee t of Portugal. The Crown Prince the doctors used Impatient lan- Luiz the heir to the throne, le a very guage and apologized profusely to the bright hoy of 14, and his brother. professor for the delay. One of them Prince Manuel, is some two years even went so far as to say that he younger. A story is told that years would wait no longer, but should de- ago the crown prince was rather vain especially of hi mand the patient at once, shriven or of his appearance This was accompanied beautiful flaxen curls which was exonshrlven. cusable frem the fact that both he and .with Irreverent humor. The great pathologist, who, though his brother received an ammense not a religionist, always respected the amour t of admiration, being so strikreligious beliefs of his patients, said: ing in appearance. Queen Amelie, who coupled wisdom Gentlemen, be patient; put down your Instruments; the priest knows you all with her motherly love, was not at all better than I, and has undoubtedly dis- inclined to encourage any vanities In covered the fact that the longer he her children. One day a barber, who was clipping Prince Luiz hair, asked prays the longer the patient lives. the queen's permission to take away the cuttings. Queen Amelie replied. h0W TO BREATHE PROPERLY. Indifferently: Yes, by all means, take the hair. Elmple Rules That Will Aid in Preset. Surely, it 13 of no more value when It vation of Health. If ones health Is impaired, or If he comes from the head of a prince than wants to preserve It and increase his when It is cut from the back of a little Power tc resist disease, he must, first dog. f all, give attention to his breathing. A New Discovery In Chicago. Even food and drink are second in importance to this, for one can live Chicago women have Just discovered for days without nutrition, save the that dew baths are good for the comMr breathed, but If deprived of that, plexion. ven for a few minutes, life ceases. Here are some of the first rules for Have Female Leader. North American reindeer usually acquiring a correct method of breathing. as given by a specialist who has select an old doe for their leader. an exhaustive stujjy of the sub-w. L After retiring at night, An inccme tax is the price of adand mind from all tension, mission to a theater, VIRCHOW WILLING TO WAIT. or y ha tor I- T- , ; un-niu- t: y I at the haS-'rrlve- that pumpkins are growing scarcer year by year, ifjiis that by the time the city folks get A vtuion s, hurry Into the pastoral country, the pumph.es be all gone. Some time ago the great pkm J ' Shall we open th mints to the freeeioag silver, etc. Later the question of How tbe hatl Now we are up tpinst th;, though married, agitated the commonwealth. real thing, If we may be allowed the slang of common Perish the thought! How we bift leveled ' pumpkin pie to become obsolete? slice It recalls the halcyon days, the day of aspire-tioIn the luscious pumpkin few things and faith, before the rude hand of experience The reform administration wss elected largely through the help of men on the page of life. Up to the present time, we have been permitted to recall like Lamly. They went at things with that Puritanical sense of Justice that this Joyous period by occasional communion with pumpkin pie. Now we are I never could appreciate. But Its a boodler, myself, so my opinion doesnt to he forever cut off the pumpkin Is growing smaller and smaller, fewer and rj figure. Well, they Indicted all of us. A few of the gang squealed, turned fewer each season, and will soon be a mere curiosity for the sideboard. Time states evidence, got remorse, and the first thing we knew they were after was when at cattle shows pumpkins were fed the bovine beauties to keop their Lamly. They got him. It never mattered much to me that I got ten years. hair sleek, and the man who raised the biggest pumpkin carried off th finest Im no gentleman. I never did much for anybody else. I had no children. prize. Alas, one by one the things of youth are being swept away and the But Frank Lamly was the kindest, most generous, faithful friend a man could pumpkin rolls Into the dim beyond along with other beloved things, a mourned KREMLIN AT MOSCOW. have. He had young children. He was Just beginning to measure things luxury of the days. Somehow these statisticians are depressing. suggested that the Princess Henry range that It Is with the highest peak up right, because he was just rich enough to take time to think about every- They shatter maty a happy memory and create hobgoblins as children build had a son I was answered with a (Elbrous) 18,526 feet, snowcapped and thing. If theyd let him alone "he'd have done the town more good than he Yale the pumpkin pie! But we still have plenty of material shrug, Oh, yes; and she Is the only swathed half way up in a garment of had ever done harm. tor left Perhaps we should he thankful for that can the exceed mist. beauty Nothing one of the sisters!" The very men he helped to elect, the reformers, the real good officials, Some very mteresting Russians, a of the Caucasus as one sees them from sent him to the penitentiary. They never figured that he was a good tettev' pArisoc-njCii- -, 1 ; n . I blue-pencile- d mud-house- professor in some big school and his came aboard at Kertch. The younger man was a physician who had broken down from overwork and was taking r holiday. He had 900 cases of cholera In his district in the interior during the last two months, and said it was almost impossible to keep the disease down. When asked the cause of it he shrugged his shoulA little thin cabbage ders and said: once a day is bread stale and soup not a nourishing diet; but this is a hard world to live in! A Russian doctor and German merchant agreed perfectly In regard to the Jew in Russia, who is looked upon with great dislike and aversion; but they both declared that the Armenian was far worse than the Jew, and that it was a pity that all the Armenians had not been killed during It the Turkish slaughter of them. takes two Jews to make an Armenian, said the German merchant, and the other agreed with him. They said that the Armenian was so mean a creature that he did not hesitate to pay the servants of a hotel to read private letters in which he was interested, and tell him th'r contents. We heard a funny story concerning the Jews. I seems tnat the last governor of Odessa a despotic being apparently made a law that the Jews who came from the Interior and wore one oily curl hanging over each ear should cut oft their curls before enJew is altering the city. As no twenty-four lowed to stop longer than his own, town except hours In any the to style changing all objected they of their hair for that short time, men asked his reason the governor said that it looked dirty, and he did not like it. So much for being the governor of Odessa! Every one seems to agree that the Caucasans are a very fine race of men; tall and well built, and with that at Tlflis good features. They saywhffch sounds they are all Princes,were told a funny rather unusual. We tale of an English widow, very rich, who went to Tiflis and was much attracted by the appearance of th walt-m- t at her table. Whrn she fmw that son-in-la- the ship, peak rising beyond peak, masses piled up against each other. Unlike other high mountains, they are green, covered with deep grass to their very tops. Beyond and anead of us rose the mountains of Asia Minor, which at Jares, closes in around the bay and Justice. They never do. They always go In for absolute and Right? Of course theyre right. But they never see more than one side to a question. Its the law side, the pure side, the perfect side, but oh, hell I dont know how to figure it out. Only Im sure it wasnt right to send Lamly to the pen. God dont send a man to hell If he repents and does good work to atone, does he? But the law does. The reformer does. Well, what are you going to do about it, Billy? laughed the warden, Frank Lamiy Is dead, and glad of it, I guess. looking at his watch. Yes, dead, and better off. His wife brought their little girl up to see him one day not long ago, and when they were gone and Lamly was sitting out there lu the bullpen all alone, I went up and saw that he was crying. Cheer up, Mr. Lamly, says I, abat ails you? And then he told me that Ills wife had taken the girl away from school because the other kids called her boodler. I think thats what killed Lamly. He never could stand to see any one else suffer. It must have scorched his heart to see his girl suffering for his mistakes. But he was a briber. Just tbg same," said the warden; whos fault was s that, Billy? Well, I cant figure It all out, as I told you," seplied the trusty, but It seems to me that the people that sleeted us fellows to the board of aldermen ought have been sent to the pen. I never had any license to he an alderman. Fete Delaney, the ward boss, put me up to running. I ran, and every sucker In the party voted for me. I dllat know how bad I was myself till I was John H. Rafferty, ready to vote on franchises. I never was a in Chicago Record-Herald- . 1 I 1 1 -- i , " ' ' iron-hande- d The ubiquitous typographical error has long been the object of adjectives passionately expressed. The humorist, who seesTuo seismic disturbances, quotes with glee each startling and unexpected utterance made when the types get twisted. After a time the victim smiles, too at the thing which so Incensed him. Not long ago th letter j e on our typewriter became enamored of the letter Tls said man and woman, living together, get the same facial expressic to a greater or lesser extent. It was even so with the e which, when clc'f with love and lint, made an Impression as round as a silver dollar, w!thVl a tongue ih the middle or a break In the circle. The result was alarnl . i It reminds us now of the editor who lost all his letter is all our es wer os. At tbe time we were angry, fearing lest our constituency would res proof on us and set us down as a rude, unfinished fellow who had never her to spelling school. The result, however, has not been heralded to us and are comforted with the thought that perhaps nobody read the artlclea af all! Anyhow, ours isnt as bad as the experience of the editor Ana wroi & fashionable society lady of questionable age, and over It placed thi. Has Gone to Whhash." " When the absent-mindeproofreader passed on the line it reart- i . Hag Gone to Wabash. The editor is still In the innermost recesses of the wood wait society lady to relent There is always Joy in comparison with oth ' w d mind-reade- ODD CALL Routed Out FOR DOCTOR. of Bed to Take Supper With Patient we doctors have all sorts of said a South Twelfth queer calls, street physician to a Philadelphia Record reporter, and we get sort of schooled to take everything as a matter of course. Sometimes, though, its hard. For instance, one night last week, after I had been In bed and asleep for about three hours, my night bell rang, and there was a message from a rich patient of mine who wanted to see me at once. It was then 2 oclock In the morning. When I reached his apartments In the fashionable hotel where he lives, I found him sitting in his dressing gown, smoking a cigar. "Whats the mat-tr- ? I asked. Are you sick? No, u all right he said. Im just lone-1- . . iat8 all. Well, that made me - --u. What the deuce do you mean by getting me out of bed at this hour? I demanded. Dont you know my charge for a night call Is 310? Tut! Tut! he said, dont talk about that- - I just got back from New York Yes Priests Houses. Batoum, a' d makes it one of the prettiest ports Imaginable. Took It Literaily. Once upon a time a very nervous man called on his physician and asked him for medical advice. Take a tonic and dismiss from your mind all that tends to worry you, said the doctor. Several months afterward the patient received a bill from the physician asking him to remit SIS, and answered it thus: Dear doctor, I have taken a tonic and your advice. Your bill tends 10 worry me, and so I dismiss It from my mind." Moral Advice sometimes defeats Its giver. Population of Japan. From the latest returns the total population of Japan is 46,444,624. ' ' mud-pie- uit as rn ... d n jns tiifl Achftfl stand IB second husband may rtf m and he e nal ia g He was Mi luck, meal for n im- 1 Pfer Printer Dies an Agonizing Death e ribs Ids- f y Ind ylng whs 5 rn aim i In. nany hat rog. that ' o ll - hat-beas- , but i the Philosophical Observations at midnight, and Im hungry. I dont want to eat alone, and I sent for you to take supper with me. I want some one to talk to and I just happened to think of you. Theres the menu. Order up a good, square meal Im hungry. I looked at him to make sure that he was In his sober senses. He didnt seem like a man who had been drinking. There was nothing for me to do but order the supper which I did. I ate my share too but V P' , I . Knows When It Hat Enough, Outside Stornoway, In the island of Lewis, Is a farmer who brings his horse and cart Into the town of Stornoway on market days. Whenever he leaches the inn a quart of beer in pewter is placed before his steed, who drinks It leisurely without ever spill- ing a single drop, and no amount 0f persuasion will ever Induce Mr. Hors to have another. The Worlds Yachts. In the whole world there about 8,000 yachts, of which the United Kingdom owns half. of pleasure, Men become slaves to the ignis-fatuu- s death; living tense lives, shadowing & mirage, an lmagln4r, l ) excessive pleasure men have cononv All Pleasure tered, bled and died, forgetting 7 the devil. At the last reasonIngt,.',,ti Yonor Will Ruin Jack. they have been following a phanto they reK ductive of satisfaction than Mahom3 more P dlse of sensual delights and wondrous beauty. "a Neither power nor gold brings happiness. Rlenzl, son Of a washerwoman, seized the helm of state In Rome. He s0,,a"keetJ torSettlng' Ws lmPclty. ln dressing gorgeously. In livln, according to the curriculum of extravagant pleasure. Lo! u? tn her promises like the peony its petals. Rlenzl became a "WneS--ioutcast to die by the sword. Excess weakened him even and i l Wtll west . others who are intemperate ln their pleasures. Life is a sprig of bitter sweet The man who disregard hitter thrusting it by to enjoy only the distracting things, will fall serioua a business to be disregarded ln Its sterner realities LTl8 t I Unhappy the man er woman who has no Christmas dinner to the heart and yet, even this Individual must feel the t i tRo hour. Happiness la reflected from !5lcUom aw Aunt Polly oience, The one who makes others and happy. It was thus with Da-riHanTPy 8 Her Goodness. who did for others Just to r6ev b quaint, motherly Aunt Polly t! World mind ah many auch along about Christmas time to make the supre' (oi homeless ones 4 1 |