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Show af Behest Ufa of over 300,000 paid af ayes aad careful tabulation of ths results to the Boston public schools show tost nearly all children enter the eyes, la primary schools with normal h of ths the higher grades pupBs are sayeyie, aad la universities thto increases until from Id to TO pet omI a ths stidents are myopic, to km other words, aesrslghtedneae ereases steadily from the lowes to the higher grades, and In exact pro. portion to the length of time devoted ' to the syes train of school Ufa. r YOUNG GIRt RESCUED FROM LIFE OF BONDAGE ON A SOUTH DAKOTA FARM Eyestrain oas-fourt- t breakhg; KQ( X 41 8? 7 Dovioe Ingenious AS S) wr v- 14 Si 5 - W t Uf nr T 'jflflw- c r t;;l w 1 vvi. GOT FARES. Doootved Thst Quests of Banqust It waa nearly midnight, and tba group of cabmon standing outside the. banuqtlng hall were deeposdent The sight waa to warm and flno that the guosts at ths banquet would be sure to walk homo Instead of riding. At length one csbpsn hit on a brilliant Ifiea. lie brought a bucket of watei from the horse trough, and poured M well ever the steps of the hall and tho pavement in front of the so that It looked as though there had been heavy rain. Then h took an umbrella and dipped it In the water trough, and, as the beadle threw open tho door for the departing guests the Ingenious cabman stood In ths doorway with hit dripping "A fearful night! Raining cats and dogs!" said ons of ths guests Cabs were In such great demand that there waa not one of them want away without a fare. Spare Momenta. WORLDS GREAT FUR MARKET S' 4 fatHn CABBIES HOW am-broil- W. yf7 f ! cax TO cacmztt fiAXTTST I I TTV73 SwT A Hues, fify The social just of Bar Harbor, Me, th I i- - i j 1 , 2 t- 4 2 I f mowm - to walk. - Flftaan Years Ago, Old Paralysed ' Lady Finds fitrsngth Again. Mrs. Margaret Bean, aged 84, residing at Webster, Mata., has regained the ate of her limbs as suddenly as their power waa taken sway Tram her about fifteen years ago. At that time she wee struck by lightning and ever since has been a helpless Invalid. Upon waking the other morning she felt a great deal more refreshed than oa previous mornings. It seemed to her that she waa much stronger. Her hitherto feeble, shaking hands had suddenly, become strong ' and firm. Then she got oat of bed and stood rod for the first tlms In flftesn years. ,Her Joyful cries brought her daughter .la haste to the room. ' Id the afternoon Mrs. Bean went out .for a carriage ride with her daughter, the first ride she had enjoyad la yearn 'What Interested her most was the whitting electric care, which she had never seen before. Bo great waa her curiosity to examine the cart that she took a ride to Perryville. i 1 m o & imrmmr 4 k - t n kota. v A Louise Haby, the gifi who at last has found freedom, wit clad In the rough garments of a fars laborer and bowed the simplicity 4 a Georgia cracker" when she artved la Chicago. A single ganr ctof one piece oovered her entire body.On her head was a snw hat and on her feet were the heuy brogans of J a laborer. . John Mayer, an unck of the girl, living In Chicago, is thionq who accomplished her delivcrxice. His wlfs Is s sister to the girl's ther. Two months ago the girl herd of the existence of the two reklves In Chibroad-brimme- jazrpjzm to naval regulations, but said he was ready for a fist fight Another version is that Wiltsee waa present at ths time of the call. It Is reported the conversation that ensued waa fiot brilliant and Mrs. Tevls clearly did not enjoy the call. Finally, it is said, the officers took offense st a remark of Wiltsees, which they thought reflected upon the training of naval officers In general, and the officers terminated their call in a miff. cago. noaa agent of the General Teamsters Union of Boston, and Is cow serving his second term as president of the Teamsters Joint Union of Burton During Mr. Shea's term. In .office the Boston-teamst- err hav6jiT,Td the eight-hou- r workday, an Increase In wages of 3 a week and weekly pay days. He waa one of the leaders in The movement to amalgamate the two factions, taking a prominent part in the preliminary which meetings brought unity to the ranks t the teamsters of the country. He Is said to be a man of broad and liberal Ideas and a conscientious and safe leader. ' TO KILL. Murder ef Wife Prompted by Hie Parent's Hatred. A sordid tragedy of family life has been unfolded before the criminal TWENTY-ON- E MURDER8L CHURHIl work. My first doty waa to bring in the cattle, which every night, etrayed three or four miles across the prairie from the ranch. Morning and evening for years I hsvs milked eight of the cows. Every day there was the churning and the preparing of the butter for market It was my duty to wash up the cane after the milking before starting to assist with the regular work on the ranch. I worked with the men in the fields and rode with the boy across tile prairies. I can pitch hay with the beet of them or break a horse for riding or driving. MUST USE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Albany Judge 8ets Precedent In Rul Ing In Naturalization Case. Judge Clifford D. Gregory, in the county court at Albany, N. Y, in rejecting sixty applicants for naturalization papers established a precedent by making the following declaration: "I will not naturalize any person who comes before me and Is unable to speak the English language sufficiently to make himself understood. I will compel them to answer questions regarding their age, place of nativity, when they arrived in the United States, and any other questions, which I deem essential to good citizenship, and if they fall to make satisfactory answers I will refuse to grant them the necessary papers. "When a man has been in this country five years and la unable to talk our language. In my opinion, he la not On Tour of Stats Capitals. fit to be admitted to citizenship, and Jean A. Crone, a newspaper man of I will act accordingly." Augusta, Me., who la to visit every etate capital in th United States, SENATOR PLATT IS SARCASTIC. covering a distance of over 81.000 miles inside of three- years and six Nsw York Statesman Alra His Opinion Rathar Freely. months, has already covered 8.194 Negro Hangxd at Birmingham Jokes Over Bloody Record. Will Jones sad Will Hudson, negroes, were hanged la the Jail yard at Birmingham, Ala, lut week for highway robbery. Hudson went upon the gallows smoking a cigar. He made a state meat on the gallows acknowledging that some months since he shot a policeman's helmet off la Birmingham ' trylcr to TiiH hST Helaughed And joked on the gaBowp. Just before leaving his cell he stated that he was born In Mexico. Mu, and that he had killed twenty-onDen In his life. He said he had traveled all over the United, States, mostly in the North. On the gallows, when asked to tell of his murders, he repllNi that he would tell that to his Master. r e . mllcg gince April-- 1 B,jtaya--b- l A young peasant, Muro Berardino, making the Journey on a Wager of 15,000 and Is walking the entire dishad lived happily with hU wife, woman of hardly 19 years, when, for tance, pushing a wheelharrow-ahape- d , eourtofAvemno, Italy... troly-ettesome unknown reason, bis mother. contrivance which he calls a which his clothing, contains Bugllone Francesca, conceived a daj-lhatred for her daughter-in-law- , and sleeping tent, food, etc- began to work upon the Jealousy of Whistler' tda of Dress.' Muro by telling him that his wife An It Is told of Whtetler that upon a gelina was iinfaltflful. She suggested certain occasion he appeared at a dinthat he should murder his wife. He ner with no tie on. A friend party acceded, and, during a religious fetek of hla remonstrated. "Foe- - heaven's Muro drowned his innocent wire fn a ake, Wbiftler, you've forgotten your shallow pond.- -j tier -- Sot at aiyhe returned, not While he was committing the tuui at ail! ' Why wear a tie! My white der his mother was on her knees re collar rises from my white shirt, which 1 fastened t a citing s 'litany to favor tae nect-sg014 stud. Everything M the'doed. simple, eiceiVrit. Why P another Muro has been sentenced to penal white on top of thatf I'm much beservitude for Thirty years, his mother tter dressed Than you. Harped for Ufa.' s ml I r Russian Traders Gather AnnuUy at Irhlt In Siberia. The great fur market of ths world ts held annually In Irbit In 8Iberia. It lies 1,000 miles east of Moscow add the Russian traders have to crosd the Ural mountains to get to it Every year the fur merchants havt adventures enough in trying to reach Irhlt la time to fill a whole library ot romantic stories If they would only tell them. But It has been their busk ness all thNr lives, so they thlnl nothing of it, and they hsvs no time to spin yarns, for as soon as they have bought their furs la Irbit they must hasten back to Russia again to prepare them for further sale and then they usually hurry to Lelpsle la Germany, which, In addition to being center of Em the great rope, la also the biggest fur market of tko world west of Russia. book-sellin- g HARD TO FIND AT HOME. - V American Historical society, He belonged to the Metro politan. City, Century, f Downtown, - Riding, Reform, Presbyterian, Country and Comtnon-jweali- h clubs and tha Navr .England ' , society, -- Surreptitiously sherrote a letter ADMITS Italian rfzuzr IM fwo-ySar-o-ld MOTHER URGES BON af Sciences, the Linnean society, the TOOTJf TtflBV d and contrived to slip It tto ths hands of a neighboring ranchian going toward the pox to (Bee. She had been bou( to a family which owned a ranch! sar Highmore. 8. D, for fifteen year She. had new PEcaioENr op teamsters. known no oO$r pedk (.othqy life except whar the kleaml from stray Cornelius P. 8ha at the Head of the papers, st her father sd sold her and disappeared whei ;he was two Organization. Cornelius P. Sheawhowa elected years ol. He Is now! lieved to be In South btf ifter be represident of the International Broth- ceived,' 25,America, the price f r which hie erhood of Teamsters and Helpers at daughter ts sold. - ho Niagara Falla, la 85 years old and a further attentk to hla child. paidno naUva of Boston. He la general busi- The Chicago relati of the ' girl were astounded to he r of her existence. The money t her deliverance waa quickly xe red End forward ed to a neighbor of the ranchers. For a distance of fen mllee from the ranch whera ths girl lived men came to assist la her escape. Considering her prtitions, the girl Is unusually intelllgesJ "All except two yfrx of my life have been years otsruel treatment and hard work," laid the girl "From the time I was larp! enough I waa made to do the work sf a man. Every morning at 5 oclock I was called to DEATH OP WILLIAM E, DODGE. New York Millionaire end Phltanthro-- , v plot Dies at Bummer Heme. William E. Dodge, the New fork millionaire and philanthropist, died last week at Stanwood, his summer home, at Bar, Harbor, Ms. Mr. Dodge was years of age end bad been in poor health for several months. Jk widow andThree daughters survive him. " The organisations to which he and which afford an Index to kls character and tastes were the Art, the SherMetropolitan Museum man Statute committee, the Hewitt Memorial committee, the Union League club, (h New Tork Academy ar- A rived In twentieth century underground rail way helped the child ikve to eecape from a life of boadagt In South Da- U' anxiously awaiting the result of court martial ordered for Lieut die of the nary, who la charged with insulting Mrs.Hugh Tevls, a pretty ' California widow, ... . Thf episode has caused considerable etlr here The story which la told Is that Lieut Edie was taken to call on Mrs. Tevls and her sister, Miss . Baiter at Maly era by Lieut Courtney. , After being Introduced LJeut Edie, It ' la said, aat on the arm of Miss Baxter chain Thd next day Mr. Petera, a friend of the two sisters, went out to the battleship Indians and related the occurrence to Capt Emory, and the latter investigated the case. Afterward Ueut Edie attended a dinner and a dance at the Kebo Valley club and there met Mr. WUtaee. The two snea got Into a quarrel, and a duel was talked of. Ueut Edie, however, r fused to fight a duel, as It Is contrary whits liars girl Chicago lut week. Senator Plxtt was lu Tatber a sptte-fu- l mood the othe day a frame of mind quite unusual with the New Tork statesman. During a conversation with a reporter he fell to talking of at certain politician- - who has rather a To land good opinion of himself. him. bate your hook with flattery," He Is an egotist said the senator. His wont enemy, by praising the cut of hla coat the architecture of his house, his skill at steering a boat or making a speech, his grace In lifting hla bat to a woman his worst enemy by praising him of Anything that conoems him can . twjst him around his finger. Tea," the senator concluded, "he la an egotist; a man who would be glad to die for the pleasure of looking up from hla grave and reading the stonecutter's puff on his . tombstone." Why Kansan Met Nens ef New York's Four Hundred. Editor C. P. Towneloy, whs to visiting Now Tork, writes to his paper la Kansas aa follows: Ws had the pleasure of celling on Mr. .Vanderbilt a few THE LSCHFt days ago, but regretted to find him out ef tewa, so the distinguished looking gentlemen st the gate informed ue. 1 thought he was a fresh duke Just ar"This summer I dug a twenty-foo- t well and no one else touched pick or rived, bat on asking him his name ha shovel to 1L Every evening In the said it was James Thompson, the man winter I pumped enough water for six- who was In charge ot the promisee Mr. Vanderbilts absence. 1 ty cows during the following day. At during Impossible to catch that time I wore felt boots and a mans find It Is almost reefer and cap to protect me from the aay of tho 400 st home at this season. are either at some summer rebiting wind which swept over the They sort or in Europe The next time I prairie. In all these years my only rest was oome to New Tork I shell try ths winso ss to find people st horns." daring a few hours on Sunday after- ter, ' noons. Then I waa able to read or Great Bend Tribune. amuse myself as I pleased if I, was Curious Little Anlmatu successful in eluding the other memA naturalist st Hsaovsr, Cape OoV bers of the family. It waa In this ony, describee many remarkable small way that I picked up what little knowl- animals which abound there. Among edge I have of the world. It has al- thorn is a gecko, called by the Dutch ways been my fondest dream to escape farmers "getje," whose tall comes from the ranch, but until two months off with a alight touch, and remains ago, when I learned of my relatives, Jumping about oa the ground, attractI never imagined that It would be ful- ing the attention ot an enemy, while filled." the animal Itself sllnka away sad eventually growl a nsw tall GEN. MILES' FAREWELL ADDRE88. ABOUT COMPLEXIONS. Last Ordsr Issued by the Retiring Commander. Lieut Gen. Nelson A. Miles, general commanding the army, who retired from active service Aug. 8, having reached the age limit of 64 years. Issued a general order bidding farewell to the army. Lieut Gen. Miles farewell order praises the principles of discipline and patriotism which make the army the protector and defender, and never the menace, of the nation and its liberties. He reminds the soldiers that their activity must exist tire limits of patriotism, nn tarnished honor, sterling Integrity, impartial justice, obedience to rightful warfare authority and Incessant against armed enemies." well-define- d Resent Success of Americana , Set warfare la being made In London against continued leadership of ths hahdful of American women who reached such prominence In the season duchess of Portland, Just dosed.-T- hs a powerful woman of fashion. Is leading the onslaught showing even mnr nnlmoslty toward the English aristocrats who accept American money tor social favors conferred than toward the recipients of auch guidance. The duchess goes so far as to declare that presentations st court hare been se-- , . cured for pay, , . Chamberlain and Balfour. The London Chronicle thus - compares the colonial secretary and the premier: "Mr. Chamberlain has the advantage of being' a politician, and nothing olse a man with a single aim whereas Mr. Balfour la as much In philosophy, music, motoring, golf and French novels as In polities, if not more t so. He detests house of commons drudgery and detail and he spends as little of hla time upon the treasury bench ss he decently can. - Food Makee Them Good or Bad. Saturate tho human body with strong coffee and it will In time show in tho complexion of tho coffee drinker. This la caused' by tho action ef, coffee on the liver, thus throwing part of tho bile Into the blood. Coffee complexions are sallow aad muddy and will stay that way until coffee to given up entirely. The sure way to recover rosy cheeks and red lips ts to quit coffse and drink Poetum Food Coffee which makes red - ' hlrwvl NT v Aa sy terrible-complexion Grape-Nuts ' 4 M , w years an inveterate ooffee drinker and It is absolutely true that 1 had so complstely saturated myself with this drug that my oomplexlon toward ths last became perfectly yellow and every nerve and fibre In me was affected by the drugs in coffee. For days st a tlms I had bee compelled to keep to my bed on aa. oount of nervous headache and stoxm ache trouble; and medicines did nod give me any relief. I htd never oo suited a physician la regard to mg headaches tad and I only found out tho canto ofi them after I commenced the nee cd Postnm which became knows to mq We all liked the through food Grape-Nutaid it helped us sq we thought Postum must certainly have merit and n concluded to try It We foun It ao delicious that wq continued the use altogether although I naver expected It to help my health "After a few month? my haadachaq wert all son and my complexion, had qleared wonderfully then I knew i tty troubles had been caused by ooffee and had been cored when 1 left off coffee and drank Postum la lta place." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich. Poetum win change the blood of any coffee drinker shd rosy cheeks and health take the place of a yellow akin and disease, |
