CogentAdvlce. SMART SPRING STATIONERY. MILLIONS SAVD BY KIDS. Thousands of Patents. During the fiscal year ending June FEET AND becoming Adornment for Wl fihoj Remarkable Insect.
According to an entomologist, who has made a great study of insects, the periodical cicada is the most interest StPange. One fUnrlh of the membership of the Denver Woman's ekib has been lost, and Mrs. Miriam Guerln, recently candidate for corresponding secretary Is threatening a damage" against certain club leaders because of a row which attended the recent' election. Mrs. Guerin's candidacy was the -signal for the prtflongation of a series of stories on which the suit will be based.
"The club has been allowing the social element to creep in and ruin the said one member. The club is becomiag a place to show handsome clothes and to repeat gossip what can be expected' but 30. 1905, 52,233 applicants for me. chanical patents were filed in the United Stater Patent Office, and 236 patents were granted. The business of the office was the largest it has ever done in a single year, and the United States easily maintains its rank as the most indntive country a the world.
To DecembeV '31, 1903, a total of 758,532 patents had been Issued the United States, nearly half as manyhad been aued by all other countries and nearly 100. 000 more than had been issued by Great Britain, Germany and France. New Orleans Times-Democrat. One at Lord Denbigh's Expense. This story Is told of Lord visit to Boston with the Honorable Ar.
tillery company of London. One day while passing the Old Granary, burying ground Lord Den bigh turned to Governor Bates anc asked: What is going on over there? I hava. noticed that these churchyards yours seem to be the scene of soma strange "Oh, that's one phase of the minim craze, replied the governor. "What, grubbing for gold -In tha churchyard? That's vandalism!" "Oh, it's not gold these grubbers are after; it's ancestors, was the govern or's reply, with a smile. Boston Her aid.
Unfortunate. A certain merchant In Baltimore who is well known for his philanthrope ic spirit was approached one day bj an Irishman, formerly In his employ, bouse an' everything In it was burned down last week, sor." "I trust, sor, that ye'll find it con. venient to help a poor man whose everything In it was burned down last week, sor." Th merchant although he giVef with a free hand, exercises considera ble caution in his philanthropy, so ha asked: "Have you any papers or certificate! to show that you have lost everythin by fire as you say? The Irishman scratched his head at if bewildered. Finally be replied: 'Tdid have a certificate to that ef feet, spx, signed before a notary, bul who made a touching appeal for flnan with the rest of me effects." Harper's Weekly. Badge of the The following story, as fold by friend, of F.
Hopklnson Smith, hat bees going the" rounds concerning hit earlier days: "Occaslonally he used to come to the restaurant where we ate our carefullj calcluated dinners a figure tall, im maoulately dressed, and with a fine air. We had long admired him froii a distance, wondering who he was and why such a man of such obvir.uf Importance should dine im so modest a place. One day after a weeks' absence be came in and sat down at the table opposite with so grand a manner that our curiosity overcame our courtesy "With a subtle gesture we "callel Sadie, the waitress. "Why, said she, 'his name it "Well we insisted, 'what does do for a "Tm not she replied, 'but think be is a writer fellow. Anyway he never seems to have much New-York Times.
WHY! WHY! "His 3on failed ta pass the civil-sea vice examination in spelling and geography." What's he going to dor' "I guess he'll go back to teaching school." Howell A man is considered bmo cent until he is proven guilty. Powell Single nan, aren't you? Smart Set. Cltlman You don't have many vis ttors out here, do you? Subbubs O. yes; coming and goinf nearly every day. Cltlman Mostly women.
I suppose Pubbubsr-Yes; servant girls. Pb4J delphia Press. Good Old Nurse Mrs. Callabim -r Mlke, Mike! Wekhp; It's toime take insomnia mldicine." Puck, "You think dls ole wor. right?" ollln' "Well, you des keep Trout a dollar a naif In yo pockot, an you ne v.
erneed ter ax dat Question." -tlant Oonstltutloo. "There is no use In myJoinlng your awing circle," said the new resident "I really cant sew at aS. "Oyes, but you can talk! persist" ed the caller, with the- Invitation. De- I Senator Davis of Minnesota told 'this one concerning Bishop Whipple, the venerable "SJohn of the Frontier" wno servea tne people long and weu. In a passenger coach going into Dakota territory the bishop sat reading the mcralag-newspapers, and in the" second seat before him sat an infidel whJ was loudly proclaiming his -antipath) to the Bible and everything believe! by religious people.
He said that 7ould dare to meet any prophet, priest or in discussion loudly pro claimed, "If I could meet old Blshoj Whipple, I'd ask him at least one ques tlon he couldn't answer." "I am old Bishop Whipple," said th venerable apostle to the Indians, as dropped his newspaper, "ask me you! question now." The fellow was starteled, but sooa. recovered, and said. "Well, bishop, ai saving souls is in your line. I'd life! to know if you can tell me the straight road to heaven." "That is very easy, indeed," respond ed the bishop with his saintly smile; "Turn to the right and go straight forward." And there was no further discussion Los Angeles Times. Growth of Western States Kansas is one of the states whlcl take a census every ten years midwa) between the federal census, thus help ing to measure at more frequent inter als the nation's rate of growth.
Thai this rate though fairly steady for ib country at large, is highly variable foi a given state is amply demonstrated bj the results of these 1905 enumerations In Massachusetts, for Instance, then was a decided falling off In the per centage of increase. In New Jersey nt slackening was shown in thgjstatels ro cent exceptionally rapid growth. Thf enumeration in Iowa disclosed an absa L. lute loss In population between 19of and 1905. Now comes Kansas, a neigh bor of Iowa, with a gain which, thougi very moderate, indicates a somewhat faster growth than was recorded fc the decade between 1890 and 1900.
The population of Kansas Is now 1, 543,818. In 1900 the total was 1.4.0, 495 and the five year Increase amoun.f to 73,323. This is a gain of 5 per cent forecasting a gain for the full decade 10 per cent. The Increase in popula tion for tne entire country "betweea 1890 and 1900 was 20.9 per cent so tha Kansas Is now growing about half at fast as the average American state But beeen Jj590 and 1900 Kansai scarcely grew at all. The increase foil that decade was 43,387, or only 3 pel cent.
The 1905 enumeration sham therefoie a. marked improvement though the gross gain is undeniable, small. Like Iowa, Kansas is a typical agri cultural state. Neither common wealtl contains an urban community of greal size. Des Moines, the largest city ia.
Iowa, has about 70,000 inhabitants Kansas City, Kansas, an appendix te Kansas City, has a population 67,612. With bo urban developmerj to depend on to balance losses from tie constantly shifting of rural populaticj to more newly settled communitici further west, these two common, wealths have now practically passe I their first-period of growth. Until trj second of Industrial expansioi more striking for St. Paul, Minneapoli sets in they will make little progress compared with better equipped neign bors and rivals. Missouri, touchicf borders with both Kansas and Iowa, if now.
forging ahead more rapidly thai either, wniie Minnesota, witn to ret flourishing cities and a great commer cial and industrial future already as surejl it Is outstripping all its compel itors beyond the Mississippi. Minne seta's percentage of gain from 1890 tn 1900 was 33.7, against 16.7 for Iowa, It TTor Missouri, 3 for Kansas, and O.i foi Nebraska. Us. relative gain in tb, present decade will probably be evei and Duluth are all gaining popula tict rapidly and the state Is developing ta the full its industrial as well as its agricultural resources. Kansas and Iowi must profit by "Minnesota's example .1 they are to maintain their present re I atlve position 'among the northert trans-MisslssiDDl states.
New i ori Tribune. "Yes," said the beginner at golf, tell Ing his troubles, "the caddy was so sai castle and impertinent I felt like cracl ing him the "Well, why didn't you?" asked hH friend. "I wouldhave done it, but you see, I didn't know which would be the propel club to use for that purpose." Phlla delphia Jteacjs That conductor makes me so tarnation mad. He-persists in gazing into his car regardless of whoops 'and gesticulations of th4 would-be passenger. Street Yes, but be makes amend! when the passenger wants to leavl the car; he then turns about anj gazes at the dashboard.
Bostof Transcript "Publisher The trouble with you II that you don't spend enough time ova your work. "This last ncnel of yourt Beems I Author-r-But you wanted It In a hui Publisher True. But you: mlgif have spent a couple of it Town and Country. Wben a woman drives a drink ho never stopsuntil there, man; t( he gei I Monogrffs and Crests Have Moved ,0 Left Hand Corner. Aside from the actthat mono-( grams on all smart stationery are not, placnd jexclusively in the upper left hand corner and are- growing larger each season, there is tittle change in the spring stationery brother point in regard to lha monograms they are not entwined in an illegible mass as they once were, but rur.
down the page slant-wise totvard the center, in many cases the last letter almost reaching the middle of the sheet. Crests continue to be placed ou stationery and are done in the origin al family many of -tha dyes i 1 being ract elaborate and effective. Onlythe nouveau riche have the entire coat of arms of their (allegc.ll families copies onto their 'stationery; it is an ostentatious mark of pool taste, say the stationers. i Gold and silver lettering seems 19 prevail on white and dull gray tones of paper, and in some instances the letters sure seflipon disks or square of pearl inlaid in the heavy linen. This is probably the newest fancy of the designer of novelties in thi3 line, but it is also a fad quite beyond the purses of the average women.
A pretty little sealing wax stamp is of heavy silver, the handle of which is graceful cut Venus whose shapely feet rest on the round plate which bears the initial or monogram; These stamps also come Inexidized and German silver and bronze. Mpurning stationery is more mournful than ever, ana some imported French styles consist of a whiie envelope heavily bordered in black and lined in black. The monogram appears in heavy black letters md one pattern had the country home address, telephone and railroad station done in the same way. This'ia quite the fashion now among persons who have both a town and country home. Fashionable women -who spend the summer in England or elsewhere abroad are following the custom of having a thin quality of overseas paper stamped with their foreign address.
A pretty little box of paper is shown in one of the stationers' for a young miss not yet "out." It is of tiny size and has her name in full done in pure white embossed letters across the top. Tne stationery itseif is of the white, linen. Many of the new envelopes hav ft lining of a dark shade to "tone in with the' outside. For instance, a pearl gray outside will be lined with a deep slate gray, a pale yellow en velope will have an inside of drk orange. This is to obviate the necessity of covering the letters with aa extra sheet of paper to prevent the writing from being -legible through the thin-envelope.
It is an old foreign custom. Visiting cards are abou the same as they have been for the last year, though the old English lettering has come much into prominence. Follies of the Great. All great people have their follies, which 'is another way of saying that all have their weak points. Dr.
Johnson with all his philosophy, -was not without a superstition. Ht was very careful not to enter a room with his left foot foremost If by any chance he '-did so he would immediately step back and re-enter with his right foot foremost He was terribly afraid cf death, too, and would not suffer it to be mentioned in his presenca Julius Caesar, to whom the shout of thousands of the enemy were but sweet music, was mortally afraid of th3 cound of thunder and always wanted to get underground to escape the dreadful noise. Marshal Saxe, who loved to look c.pon the ranks of opposing armies, fled and screamed in terror at the sight of a cat Peter the Great could scarcely be persuaded to cross a bridge, and whenever he placed his foot on one he would cry out with fear. Like the gireat man he was, he tried to over come his weakness, but he was never able to do so. And Byronwould never help any one to salt at table, nor would he be helped himself, and "Cjuny salt were spilled he would immediately get leavft Detroit News.
To Duplicate "Historic Volume. William E. Merrill 'of State road, this city, whojhas aresidence Kt Exter. lT. where he is spending'alie winter, has succeeded, through the publicity given" the matter, in obtaining a second copy of the" valuable work of George Washington's Personal Memoirs during tire Revolution, which was stotanfrom the Bostonian society "rooms in the old 'statehouse, where Mr.
Merrill had left the book fn custody. MY. Merriirstates that be practically certain of being able to replace the stolen volume! He has received what he considers an authentic offer, and expects Soon to have the book in his hands. Whether he will again give the volume to the custody of the Bostonian society tie has not yet decided. Boston Transcript "How much does your baby That depends.
At 2 a. m. his weight appears to run up to 90 or 100 Cleveland Leader. She Did you see father? He Yes, and regret It. "Why?" "He had aces.
"-Kansas City Tele- word patience has no place ia laxicoa" of true lovei' Money Piled Up In Savings Banks by Thrifty School Children. Miile it is very true that we need postal caving? banks, and should have them, it to remember that we have a valuable form of' thrift teaching, in the chool savings banks system in a umber of our publfc schools, and that this-system, whereby child- ren'a pennies are regularly collected by theteachers in the public school and placed to the scholars credit in banks, is quietly proving itself one of the best forces extant in training t'ie young to thrift, -business methods. happy self-dependence, good habiU uad good citizenship. It is in some schools ItPtwenty-eight of our staiei and our school children have saved DYer two million dolars. Often oldtf people open bank accounts, induced to do sq through their children" having this opportunity, Jn Chester, for instance, tbe officers of the Delaware county savings' fund tell me that perhaps 20 per cent of the parents cf the scholars who had not earlier been bank 'depositors, have themselves opened acounts to which they add regularly.
If we had had postal sav ings banks they need not have waited for "a litiie chil'd to lead them," but would likely have been depositors of savings from tnejr youth up. The Long Island cityscbolars have. stne l8S5. deposited to their credit $190,52.60. A few figures of the chil dren's savings in public schools elsewhere may be of general interest.
Over 1,200 of the scholars in Atlantic City, N. havetheir individual bank books and their deposits average a year. The scholars oF the Nor-nistown public schools nave saved $140X00. During 11)05 their dep.sits were $13,418.42. and for the last monih of the year, December, $691.81.
The scholars of Pottstowu nave saved those of West Chester those ht Chester over $160,000. while Royersford. Spring City, Conhol ocken, Oxford, dales-Tiite. Cheltenham many other near pointspoints are doing proportionately well with the thrift teaching. The system was taken up In the publio schooUNof Pittsburg in 1898, and iho scholars there have deposited over $180,000, while in 1903 and 1901 the thrift teaching was, adopted in Carnegie, West Liberty, Rankin, ShevL dan other places near pittsburg.
I simply cite these facts and figures as proof of how willing people are to save small amounts of money, that are otherwise frittered away, when opportunity is granted them. Mrs. Sarah Oberholzer in Philadelphia Led ger, A Bluebeard Legend. known 10 the folklore of nearly all nations. Originally the tale was told of an Arab chief, who determined to curb the curiosity of women.
So in succession he married wives to whom he gave the key to a chamber in his home. When he found vy marks iu the-dust that they had disobeyed his order never to open the door, he beheaded them. The sixth wife was rescued and Bluebeard was elain. The Bluebeard story was brought into English literature through the French of Charles Petradlt an old seventeenth century chronicler. He gave Bluebeard the name of Chevalier Raoul, and the story on a his-toric haracter named Giles de Laval, Baron de Retz.
who lived from 1404 until 1440. Laval distinguished himself in the wars of Charles VII of Flrence, fought with the Maid of Orleans, became a marshal of France, and at last retired to his castle of Retz. A quarrel with the Duke of Brittany brought on an investigation, which developed the fact that he practiced hideous barbarities in hls castleTlDuring fourteen year he had enticed more than-JOO children to his stronghold and sacrificed them to satan, being a slave to superstitious. For these deeds he was burned alive near Nantes in 1440. A similar character appears in some collections of old Italian stories, and thejale ot the Third Calender in the Arabian lights bears a very close re semblance "1o the Bluebeard legend.
Tiecek, the German has used the material in a dramacailed "Phan-tasus." Getty, a Frenchman, produced arComic opera called "Raoul Barbe- in 1879, which was transplant ed to the English stage by Coleman in 1798. Offenbach produced an opera bouffe called "Barbe-BIeue in 1S6U. The opera "Mr. known to present day theatre-goers. Is a inod- ernization, Over Fifty Other Kind of Flour.
No nutrition is found in' the great number of Chinese flours. The' Chi-nehejjm 'not eat wheat flour, thinking' it tasteless and they do not eat bread. Instead they have -over fifty i other flours, among which are flour of. rice, "peanuts, beans, potatoes, sweet, potatoes, peas, cocoanuts, millet, oats and bananas. Almond 'flour is considered a great dainty, and that of lentils is the most highly prized in the way cf nourishment.
Lentils are considered to be the most nutritious things on and one small lentil is supposed to be 'equal tothe nourishing power of -JL pound: and half of roast beef. Chicago Tribune. Ob, how did grim ereation Ever think up such a As putting dainty ruffles the bosom of the ocean? KansaaCity Droyers Telegram. The girl with red hair usually has a vocabulary as Zzr aa cer locks. vTomen.
One Would think from what has beea written and said about the Panama ditch" that or nothing was being dge to "make the dirt fly that all effort" was beinx concentrated ridding the isthmus of the yellow fever mosquito, getting forces of men, etc. But photographs taken in the latter part of January show that actual ex cavation woik is being done, too." They indicate that a beginning htcsT been made, 'that- American" steam shovel have replaced the antiquated and un- economical French machines and with relentless energy are daily chewing their way urtner and further into the' sides of the Culebra cut The groan of the giant shovel, the sharp tap, tap. tap of the power drill, the rumble of 0- a UVl UUaS) miliar saunas along the canal route Upward of 3,000 men are employed oq the excavation work. At the present time, between Obispo and San Pedro Miguel, which meant shovels are at work. They are taking out 5,000 cubic yards a day.
Last yeaa over a-million cubio yards were removed by eleven machines. It is expected that eventually one hundred ot these shovels will be tearing out the roots of the 1 uncle erowth which hai covered the workings of the French company, and burrowing down Jto the level which is to be the bottom oL the canal. Before the decision was made as ta the kind, of canal to be bulit tbe work of the shovels was confined to the cut-, ting of levels, so that a lrge nfflffbe. of the great diggers could be set at work, and for the tracks moving for rock and earth. This work has to te 1 I.
none careiuiiv. ior CBireieBsneBB in um location of grades, and tracks and shovels would leave a gap for the swallowing up of a few millions of money that might be saved, and the waste ol time as well. Bjr arranging the tracks so that the cars will run down grada when loaded much can be saved. In order to efficiently handle the material, it is necessary to lay tracks along the bottom of the cut for Its entire leneth. for otherwise the time would come when' it would be necessary to elevate the earth from fifty to 500 feet at the sides in order to get It out Three of the seventeen shovels are engaged in the essentia task of maa ing cuts for double tracking the Panama rollv-voH TMa 'wra-lr ta TrffvmrY- for the debris from the cut and the ,1 i.
v. 1 ...1.1,1. n. supplies iuubi uo uiwrou uijwi. mm double track for the rapid movement of trains is as important to the life of the work as blood vessels are to the human body.
Without a good rail' road, the work would have -to cease-as it would be squandering money simply to deposit the earth so near that it might have to be moved again The lack of a double track has greatly hampered the work. As soon as the trackage facilities are sufficient to handle a larger amount of material than at present, many more steam hovels will be set up and put to worlC -New York Tribune. A couple of Washington editors were talking the other day about the various persons who make the life of an editor obnoxious to him by telling him how to run his paper, says the Washington correspondence of the New York Times Col. Charles A. Ed-J wards, of Texas, who' was listening, took off his sombrero and ran his hands through his tangled hair.
"I know all about it aaid he In a reverberant bellow which he intended for a confidential undertone. "I was on editor mvftelf one down In Texas. One day a man come in and saidto me: 4 1 have come in here to complain about this article you have in, your paper today. I don't like it; It's tone is undignified; Its dicUonlpoor; Its' "I pushed a button on my desk, and when the office boy leaped in I let out all the notches in my voice, 'Bring me I thundered, 'an ax, a hammer and a slxshooter. 'Good Lord, said the kicker pale-faced and astounded.
What are' you going to do? 'I'm going, 1 repuea, tan every printer and reporter in the plaee and to smash every blank press and throw it in the rlver What am I run ning a paper for except to please Building Rallsioua Railroad. The Hedjaz railroad, wtdch Is to unite Damascus with Mecca, is being built for the purpose of carrying piV-grini8 to and from the latte, the holy city of Mussulmans. For the larger part of its course of some 1200 miles it will pass through deserts, idle and unfertile persons. Stjll, it will benefit some of the country about the a district whose crosQjhave no market on account of the -want of transportation; and branch lines for commercial and Industrial "uses will be constructed. From Damascus to Moan, about 400 miles, -the road has been doing business for some months.
The Germans superintend the jot. TurklKh soldiers do the and they don get union pay To Mecca by rail, personally conducted. "The world is growing smaller every day Everybody 'a Magazine. The clever girl backs up In thecor-ner where she belongs when tha "cute" one comes along. Ambition is a will-othe-wisp that lores ns a from the oralis to tis Ing and anomalous insect in America.
The vast army of these insects, which since 171b have never failed to appear every seventeen yeajs, reappears the la3t week in May. In the year 1902 there myriads of "insects entered the earth and since then they have not seen the light of day. In June of that year the female industriously planted her hundreds of eggs in the green twigs of trees. A few weeks later the anf.ike cicadas escapedfrom their fchells, fell to the ground, and quickly burowed out of sight, forming little underground cells adjoining the sappy roots of the parent tree in the fresa juices of whose twigs the producing eggs had been deposited for nourishment. At first this cell is not larger than a grain of birdshot.
but it gradually grows to accommodate its occupant. Each cicada has remained here, within two feet of the surface, through winter and summer, buried from" light, air and sun and protected from frost an4 cold. Just before coming to the surface this wingless cicada will often erect odd little mud chimneys, projecting some six or eight inches above the 6-urface. These are made of soft little pellets of mud brought from below and pressed firmly into place. The best place totbserve this, miracle is in an open place under an old tree.
As soon as the sun has set the brown, wingless creatures will come mm thpir nn witn ft rusn ana scramble for the poorest bush, tree, pole, stump or fence. In some localities the ground will be litera.ly covered. Each fastens itself to a leat-or twig, and within an hour after settling each will be, seen to have split its parchment shell down the back. What seems to be a creamy white worm, with pink eyes and heavy black eyebrows, will emerge from this shell. At -either side of the neck will be two fin-like adornments, which might be mistaken for ears.
These will perceptibly swell and expand till, before one can realize what has happened; they spread out into long, transparent wings, with beautiful white veins. In less than twenty minutes after the insect has emerged from its grown shell, these wings will have appeared and attained full size and expansion. After, this they gradually assume during the night the dark brown color which characterizes their aerial stage. Now York Herald. A Rtwl Home.
The truest homes are often fn houses not especially well kept, where the comfort and happiness of the inmates, rather that the preservation of the furniture, is first consulted. The object of home is the center, the point of interest, the pivot on which the family life turns. The first requisite is to make it attractive, that none of its inmates will care to linger outside of its limits. All legitimate means should be employed to this eud, and no effort spared that can contribute to toe purpose. Many, housed, called homes, kept with waxy neat-cess, by painstaking- anxious women, are so oppressive in their nicety as to exclude all home feeling from their spotless precincts, says Woman's Life.
The very name of home is synonymous with personal freedom and relaxation trom care; but neither of these can be felt where sucu a mania for externa! cleanliness pervades the household that everything else is subservient thereto. Machine Wrapped Fruit. At this season of the year, when oranges are coming into the market in large quantities, information concerning a new machine for wrapping oranges is specially interesting. Some of the oranges coming from California are wrapped with labels bearing the stamp: "Machine-wrapped fruit; not handled by hand." The machine is attached to the end of the grader and receives the orange direct. It is simple in operation, compact and perfectly automat- is.
Te receives the -fruit on an endless chain, attached to which are a se ries of cups, felt-lined and Be pa rated by partitions. The wrappers are cut from a' roll, after the manner of a printing press, and after being printed axe cut. the desired size, when they are ready for the orange. A unique device twists the paper perfectly tight about the orange, "which is held In place at the top of a rubber plunger, while the other end rests on a felt-topped rod. So closely is the oragne.
wrapped tha it is believed that It will be practically' impervious to moisture. To prove that the machine- will not mar the skin oftbe fruif, eggs have jjeen run through the machine and wrapped without cracking a shell. The machine has a capacity of wrapping 1 oranges' tninute, or 40iQ00 every ten hours. It would wrap a a carload in a day and a half, "Helen, a little girl of four years, same to her mother with a look of pain In her face and saidt "Mamma; I have two bad headaches. "Two headaches?" said her mother.
Mlmv run that "Well, I have doe above each eye. fUoinetaointao Blinker WTle del gur-nor us de state wuz inspectin us ter-day I ac cidentally trod On his toes. Bill Slick Wot did yer say t' Blinker Pray pardon" me. uv'ner. dissolution?" St raul Pioneer Press.
A Fair. Deat A southern congressman tells a story of an old 'negro in Alabama who In his bargaining, Is always afraid that he may get the "worst of it," it appears, this aged darkey went after a calf that he had p'astured -all summer asked" what he owed for the pasturing. have a bill of 110 against "you." said the farmer who had undertaken the care of the animal, "but If you are willing, take the calf and call it settled." "No, sah!" promptly exclaimed the negro. "I'll do nothing like dat But" he added, after a pause, "I'll tell you what I will do you keep the calf two weks longer and you Iran have Harper's Weekly. Count Tolstoy and Peace.
According to ja, writer a recent Harper's Weekly attitude of Count Tolstoy toward the peace just concluded at Portsmouth Is a matter of interesting speculation. From being a wise and independent commentator on public- Affairs in Rusla, Tolstoy seems Mr. Johnston the author of the article, to have degenerated into a common scold. "He is interesting, he Is impetuous, he is sincere, he means well. But he is more obstinate than a team of Mis.
souri mules; he is narrow self willed; and, with all his talk, of religion, he lacks common charity to-ward those who venture to differ, with him In opinion." Even those' who are Tolstoy's best briends are said to feel that his utterances can no longer be regarded as of serious consequence. John B. Knox Home. John B. Knox of Annlston, who has frequently of late been-spok-en of as a candidate for the United States senatorshlp, was in Birmingham yesterday on his way home from Europe where he has been for two' months.
Mr. Knox is looking well and says he had a most enjoyable trip. On 146 subject of politics, he had nothing to say, or, at least he said nothing. When the subject was mentioned, he looked at his watch and said: "It Is now 3:30 o'clock. The baseball game, at West park begins at 4.
Gentlemen, I'll bid you good afternoon. And with that Mr. Knox left the lobby of the Hillman and made for the ball game. Birmingham Age Herald. The Judge Followed Him.
One of the first cases which the latt Gilman Marstou, of New Hampshire had after being admitted to the bar was a civil suit Involving a somewhat complicated question of Inheritance In no way daunted young. Marstos tackled it looked up authority all the WSy back to Julius Caesar and prepar ed an argument of a few hundrei pages which seemed to him more thai unswerable. His only fear Wasihat he might be beyond the comprehension of the court the time came the young man rose and plunged in boldly. The judgt seemed interested, and toot heart But at the end of an hour and a half, In the midst of the most intrl bate part of his plea, he was pained te see what he thought was a lack of at tention on the part of the court It was just as he had expected, the judge was unable to appreciate the. nice points of his argument.
'He paused, hesitated then said: -s "Youi honor. I beg pardon, but do you follow mens 'SS i "I have so far," answered the judge, hifting jibout in his chair, "but I'll iy frankly that If 1 thought. I could back I'd quit right here. Boston Herald. "YeSTwhen I was younger I was im portuned to go on the tage." "I suppose it was "before-4hey had any street Cleveland Plain Dealer.
I am awfully poor, you know," be- gan the smitten young man. but" "Oh, well," interrupted the frigid- bear ted heiress'Tm willing to help you along In the world. Here's a nickel to pay your car fare home. Chicago News. When you greet misfortune with a imne 11 comes oacx at you with a fiendish grin "Soyou still think that erery man has his price? 1 "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, land a lot of the little fellows manage to do some scandalous Washington Star.
1 Mr. Golrywhat Er did your slstei ay anything after I called yesterday iftenaoon, Ethel? I Ethel No, she's joined the 'Count TeBefore-You-Cpeak-Leasue, but xti.
