CLUH LIFE ECONOMIES IPOOR MEN IN THE SWELL ORGANI ZATIONS OF NEW YORK. A Ileinnprnrr Whirr All. Hi-Kiirdlr . of Inromr, Are Nuiinl llciiilieranlp j In a Flrnt Utile (lull llviinrileil na Profitable Invmli it. A good ninny country visitors are disappointed when they lenrn the sober truth that New York has no clubs com posed exclusively if inlillniinlres. It la harder still to make country folk believe Unit hundreds of men Join the so called swell eltihs In huge pint from motives of economy. There lire scarcely three elnlis in the city that do not Include n considerable number of poor men In thefr member ship. The average lucim f the whole membership of the. ten best known, clubs In the city Is probably nearer $10,1100 u year than .foi'.i'i it n year, und almost every one of these clubs In cludes some scores or men with Incomes well below $10,000 and a wood many Willi Incomes well below $.",ooo. There Is a real democracy of New York club life. 'Youths In their early twenties anil Just beginning their ca reers on very moderate salaries fre quent truly palatial clubhouses, break fust In rooms such ns few princes ever use and lounge before fireplaces that are to be matched only In the most splendid buildings of Kurnpe. The poor man's credit at the club Is 88 good as the rich man's, anil both are Impartially posted when they neglect to pay their bills In good season. There are n good many Instances also In which the monthly bills of the poor ninn are higher than those of his rich fellow member, for the freipienters of clubs are apt to be the poorer rather than the richer members. Many a man of small melius regards Ills membership In a first rate club In the light of u profitable Investment. Btieh a ninn, If a ronllrmed bachelor, lias probably lived for twenty years iwlthlu half a block of the club, paying e few hundreds n year for u small bedroom and finding all his luxuries iu the apartments of the clubhouse. Without being In the least mean ho makes of the club n money saving In stitution for himself. Its comfortable lounging rooms save him annually from $;!00 to $1,000 a year In rent, ac cording to the location In which he has bis modest lodgings. After that he nves a fair percentage on everything bo cats nud drinks nt the club. His simple breakfast costs him per baps 10 per cent less than It would cost nt any restaurant he would be likely to frequent, and the same Is true of Ills dinners. If he takes three-fourths of bis meals nt the club he saves annually about $100 In tips. If be drinks wine nt dinner he saves from 10 to 215 per cent upon every bot tle. If ho permits himself the luxury of n cnb lie saves a handsome per centage by ordering It through the club and avoids all possibility 'of a row with the cnbby over the amount of the fare. Many n man writes nil his let ters of a social character and some of a business character at the club, and thus saves from $15 to $10 a year In stationery. He need buy no books, nor need he subscribe to a library, for there Is the club library free for his use. He never need buy a periodical or even a news paper save when he travels, for all that he reads, are freely supplied by the club. And the enjoyment of nil these things Imposes upon him no con siderable expenditure for extravagant luxuries. He is sure, especially In the college clubs, to find plenty of men with like modest Incomes and slmplo tastes ns himself, and he may sit for hours with cronies over the cafe table without spending money that ho can not nfford and without giving otTense to the servants of the house committee. Most club members probably do not keep a debit and credit account with the club, but the man of modest means and moderate habits would find the ex amination of such an account a matter of great satisfaction. Such a mnu, paying $'.230 us tin entrance fee and $75 a year In dues, Is likely to find himself nt the end bf twenty years a long wny ahead of the game. The club In twen ty years has cost him rather less than ' $2,000 for entrance fees, dues and con tributions to the Christmas box, and his Barings by reason of the club have been from $10,000 to- $10,000. New York Sun. i A Slater's Lore. A Boston clergyman whose work takes him nniong the poor of thnt town tells a pretty story of Bisterly love ex isting anion.? the humble and unfortu nate. .One day a pale nud ragged girl of about ten years was seen going along the street carrying on her back ljer crippled brother, nearly as old as the. A stranger stopped her by Baying that she was overexerting herself. "He Is too heavy for you to carry," he said. The child of the ghetto looked up at him reproachfully, saying: "He ain't heavy. He is my brother." Capalclne. The active principle of capsicum, or red pepper, Is a volntlle oil known as rnpsicine. It is so exceedingly acrid that a quarter of a grain exposed to ,ie nir In a room will diffuse itself hroughout the apartment and cause 11 present to cough and sneeze as jough the pepper had been tnken Into tie month or nostrils. The riolitlit of Fame. Superlative fame is whore a man briR not only forced his name Into everybody's mouth, but has kept It there until the first class newspapers are spelling It the same wny every time they mention it. Puck. . Don't refuse to tell or show the ap ' prentice what to do. for you once bad to learn all that you know. FIXING THE SEASONS; Rome I'euplm SI III Follow the An cient Kiryitlltin 5ltliiiila. Tho Inhabitants of Uorneo make use of the sumo means for fixing the times of tlinlr agricultural seasons ns were used by the eaj'ly ltrltons and In Kgypt between 1000 nud ".0(H) It. ('., says tho Jotiriiiil of tho Asiatic (society. They rely, Unit Is to say, on the tlmo of ris ing of certain constellations Just be fore the sun, known to astronomers ns their heliacal rising. Many an cient temples lire found to lie oriented to the point of the horizon, which marks the heliacal rising of tho Plei ades bu n May morning. The natives of Horneo are using the rising of tho same constellation ns a guide to the proper time to prepare their ground to grow their food sup ply. When the dry season Is perceiv ed to be approaching two men are sent out Into the Jungle to observe. Thorn they watch, perhaps u few nights, per haps a mouth, until the Pleiades arc seen on the horizon Just before tho In creasing sunlight causes the stars to fade. Then they return to the village and announce the fact. The Inhabit ants now know that work on the for est must be commenced. If by any means thev have missed the heliacal rising of tin' Pleiades ami have delay ed opera I Ions (III Orion's belt Is seen rising Just before the sun, they know that they must work double shift. Tho ground being cleared, they then wait till the Plelmlcs are at the zenith ut sunrise before they set lire to tho rub bish. The above Is the method adopted by the Iiynks. Oilier neighboring tribes, the Konyiihs und Ka.vans. make use of the length of the shadow cast by a stick at noon to determine their soa roiis. Hit unted as lliey are between the tropics, the shadow Is cast on the north or south of the stick, according to the time of year. , The length of the shadow also varies as the sun passes from Cancer to Capricorn and back. . h i .:. t .: l.i nica.nToil by means of a notchel :'.(!;. The notches repre sent the lenglhtf of sliail which ex perience h is shown to correspond with favorable times for their various agri cultural !!.'fi-tit ;.in i. Tho Sa .'.iiMns, on the other bund, fix their senso: -s by the appearance of a curious murine worm, which they call the pnlolo. The vai palolo. or time of the palolo. Is the name of one of their seasons, as spring is one of ours. This strange worm lives in the interstices of tho coral reef.i and at certain sea sons makes its appearance iu tho open sen in immense numbers. It is eagerly gathered and eaten by tho natives. If the swarm n; p.virs. My, nt 3 o'clock In tli;- monil'ig. It has totally disappeared by !) o'clock. Iioth mnlo nud female worms break up Into In numerable fragments, anil the eggs are fertilized In the water. Tho coming of the palolo Is regulated by tho moon, and yet, strange to say. In the long run It keeps solar time. If tho dates of Its appearances were separated by twelve lunar months, then, reckoning by the day of the mouth. It would be eleven days earlier each year. On the other hand, If It came every thirteen months It would be eighteen days Inter each year. This Is rectified by having In every cycle of three years one Interval of thirteen and two of twelve months. Finally by tho addition of nil extra in terval of thirteen months In a cycle of twenty-nine years the error is less than one day In a century. Triiturrnphlcnl Slips. Mistakes In punctuation have often led to ridiculous blunders. Some time ago In un article telllu-r of the opening of ti new hospital In New York the writer wns made to state that "an ex tensive view Is presented from tho fourth story of the Hudson river." Tho omission of n comma in n paper announcing the death of u famous man made the sentence re.id, "Ills remains were committed to that bourne whence uo traveler returns attended by his friends." , The reputation of Pr. Tond, nu eml uent theologian, was nearly ruined buck lu.the fifties of the last century by n typographical error. A paper camo out with an account telling how tho divine had given a series of lec tures Iu Bangor, Me., to the-effect thnt theology waa no scicuce nud thnt there was no truth '.a It whatever. The world rose lu anus, nud the unfortu nate Poudj wa.f heaped with nbuse as being a gross Infidel. In time the pa per Iu which the fii'ot nceount nppenred printed ft paragraph acknowledging tli at the excitement wns all caused by a typographical mistake, the typesetter having ustd the word theology instead of phrenology. How Animal Bear Pain. Take horses, for instance, In battle. After the first shock of wound they make no sound. They bear the pain with a mute, wondering endurance, and If .at night you hear a wild groan from the battlefield It comes from their loneliness, their loss of thnt hu man companionship which seems abso lutely Indispensable to the comfort of domesticated animals. The dog will carry a broken leg for days wistfully, but uncomplainingly. The cat, injured by a stone, bears In silence pain which wo could not en dure. Sheep nnd other cuttle moot tho thrust of the butcher's knlfo without a sound, and even common poultry en dure Intense ngony without complaint. Tho pigeon, fatally wounded, flies to sbnio furoff bough nnd dies In silence. Tho wounded deer speeds to some thick brake nnd In pitiful submission waits for death. Tho eagle, struck In midair, ights to the Inst against the fatal summons. There Is no moan or sound of pain, and tho defiant look never fades from Its eyes until the lids closo over them ftever to uncover again r-Tmdon Mall, THE CIRCUS. It la the Fnllirr of Contemporary Amrrlean Drama. No problem is more fascinating to tho student of Kllzabelhan dramn tluin tho attempt to trace its spl lid achievement to Its earliest sources. Tho quest lends one back to primitive folk plays, to secular Improvisations nnd mediaeval renderings of sacred story, nnd nil study of perfected typos fihows clearly here and there the de terminate hilluenco of llieso first at tempts. It is odd that no one has undertaken n similar Investigation of' our Ameri can drama, a species of art so dis tinctive from drama proper that we nro not only Justified In seeking, but are compelled to seek n pnrllnlly dif ferent origin. Tim material drawn from American life, developed by American talent and appealing to American audiences has ullar char acteristics pointing Irresistibly In con ception, development and execution to our first artistic aclilevei il, tho American circus, nnd Inquiry ns to origins takes us back to our own shall I say mediaeval? days, when P. T. Itanium was perfecting (lie enter tainment Unit was to burst upon the eyes of an astonished world. Though we can hardly bo said to have evolved new species, wo have given Hindi marked coloring to existing types of comedy that wo may fairly claim the credit of creating new va rieties. The local color play, the so ciety play, the melodrama, the comic opera, flourish as strictly national pro ductions upon our soil, differentia be ing perhaps more firmly established in the case of tho first two than of the others. In nil, motif, plot, characteriza tion, setting, show unmistakably the In llueiice of (be great prototype already suggested. Circles and circles of unrelated no tion, swift galloping from one to an other lest the audience should have time to think, the ruling out of cause nnd effect Iu order that something, no matter what, may happen every inln-ute-do not our plots betray their ori gin in the planning of n circus day? I venture to nlllrm that In no other country can legs wriggle so swiftly, can the swinging and leaping of the trapeze performer go so alertly nnd firmly on. I would pit our ( tortlon- ists nnd our hoop Jumpers against those of all other lands. With equal firmness I nssort that In no other drama does notion follow so swiftly, so uncoiinectedly, ns In our own. Rerlb ner's. Wnr of Scotch Justice. One often hears comments passed up on the administration of the law by local magistrates, but while it may sometimes leave a little to bo desired it Is not so glaringly crude ns It often was hi earlier times. It is on record tliut the Montrose bullle, after hearing the evidence In a breach of tho peace case, fined both tho accused nnd all the witnesses "hnlf a croon." The witnesses naturally resented this decision, but the bnllle, with his mind made up, refused to budge from the po sition he had taken up and defended It with the remark: "It dlsmi mutter; he had line business there. Half a croon npalce." Tho same bnllle wns trying another case Iu which a tllfiTenlty arose regard ing the nonappearance of n witness. The court was informed that the wit ness was defunct. The magistrate, who wns a self made and highly suc cessful business mini and who had gained elevation to the bench solely on account of his command of "siller," had never heard that particular form applied to death und, thinking It was a legal- phrase, called out In command ing tones, "Bring forward tho de funct!" which brought down the house. Dundee Advertiser. Vamp Horns. "This is a vamp horn," said tho an tiquary. "The price is $40." The horn, very old and weather beat en, was over six feet long long and straight, like n coaching horn. "What wns It used for?" the reporter asked. "It was used to call the people to church on Sunday mornings," said the antiquary. "Iu the olden times church bells weren't ns common ns they nre to day. They were so expensive thnt only the richest churches could afford theui. Tho poorer churches used vnmp horns lustend. "Every Sunday morning the sexton of tho average poor church 200 years ago stood on the church porch with a six foot vamp horn at his lips summon ing the people to worship with hoarse blares. "There are about two dozen vamp horns floating about the country. Their ecclesiastical connection makes them valuable to antiquaries." A Worm That Chews Iron. Some years ago the engineers em ployed on the railway at Ilagan, In Germany, were puzzled by necidents which always occurred ut tho same place. The government sent n com mission fb the spot. It wns not, how ever, until six mouths hnd elapsed that the surfnee of the rails appeared to be corroded as If by acid to the extent of over a hundred yards. Tho rail was tnken up and broken, .when It was found to be literally honeycombed by a thin, threadlike gray worm. The worm wns about two centimeters In length nnd about the size of a small knitting needle. On tho head nro two llttlo sacs, or glnnds, filled with a most powerful coiToslve secretion, which Is ejected every ten minutes when the in sect is lying undisturbed. This liquid when squirted upon Iron renders thnt metal soft and spongy and of the color of rust, when It Is ensily and greedily enten by tho little Insect London Engineering. THE REAL VALUE. II n it All Ulrrnlnre la Conlnlnrrl In a Fen llrrnt Hunk. Young people must every now nnd then hear it said or see It written that all the real value lu llteratiiro can lie put upon u small shelf that Is to say, the really Important part of all that is written Is contained lu a very few good books, all the rest being cither unimportant or different ways of say ing tho same things that have been snli I before. The statement, of course, Is not (rue ir It lie taken literally. There are certainly many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books that con tain original thoughts or experiences that are truly valuable; but, generally speaking, tho best part or nil that has been written Is to bo found in n few volumes. To understand how this Is possible wo must remember that near ly nil rules are the same as other nnd simpler rules. In arllhuictle, for ex ample, the whole science consists of only four simple ways of treating nui:i tiers. Wo can add. subtract, imill ll nnd divide, nnd that Is all wo can do to numbers. The rest of the book Is only the working out of llieso four rules; thus all of the urilh tie could easily be pill lulo a little page that one could carry In the vest pocket. All behavior, all right llvlii'.'. Is also set forth in a few simple laws. These Illustrations will show what Is meant by saying that all literature Is contain ed In M few great books. The liilile and the works of n f 'W favm'is poets nud essayists contain nil human wis dom, and these are wl l l i the reach of every purse. SI. Nicholas. THE WARLIKE MOROS. Thrjr l'rlxe Their Wen nnna mill Wonlil ll.llhlT I'lxht Tlmn Flit. All Inoiillnate inllit in"' conceit Is a iloiiiluaiit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 V of the Moro. To lilm there Is but one measure of defeat to j wit, annihilation. If hoaleii, he e poets nothing less; If he ets e-.-s, be has saved the day, perhaps won a vic tory. They are all of one profession ariiis. As children their lir -t toys are wooden arms, their first Instruction the play of the sword and the spear. What ever else as men they may be priest, farmer, robber, .pirate.- merchant, lawyer-they are always, first, soldiers. Kor n young man to lose his creese menus to lose his right to marry, and It Is the desire of nil to die creese hi hand. In fear of los-t they sleep on these precious arms or with them lie I to the body. . I'or the same reason their cannon nro kept lashed to timbers in their houses. I'lrenrins, Indeed, are their main dan ger Willi civilized people. If thoy ;; the opportunity thereby to secure suc'i nrms, Mores can never resist the temp tation to rob and murder. To get thum they will risk all. lose all and never whimper. To them without the best arms death were preferable. Major K. L. Ballard ill Metropolitan. The Inns of Olil 1 :nicli: ml, Efforts were continually bci:i- made in England to keep down the numli-'S' pf liinr.. In the reign oi' Kdwnrd 1. there were only three in the whole of Loudon. liven l:i V"'2 no more lh.i:i forty were legally pc-::i!!led lu the m tropolls. now spre.i.ii;i ; out in Sou.;.: nrles on every slile. Vo: :; i .1 !:t !:.;.c eight. Norwich, Exeter ii.i ' amliii.l four. Bristol n'.:: and Oxford three. These rc'tr.htlor.s must li t .- ' been ce: nt naught In a very who! .;;! m.::i;: -r. for half a ( :! nry I I'.'r f:.-v ' ' '".v ! ' "houses of call" in that jrr t of 1. 1 i : ; known as the City and n i v:-r t . : i twenty-four cbistcr:l l-. . . . Cov v: Harden. In mediaeval orfovd It va ruled that no "vlctiuiler" was olig:V.c for the office of mayor, end t!;:s t.:;.. Included nn Innkreper. Tliiickornj- null l)!"li-n. This is the way ;ei)i'." i:iv:-y I.e:rei once characterl'ied Thackeray and Dickens In the way of service to it friend: Dickens, ho said, would no'. give yiu a farthing of mow y. 1 ut !:" wo.dd take no end of trouble for you. Ho would spend a whole Jay, fjr In stance. In looking for the r.-.ost f;v.:ta'.:. lod ,-ings for you and would spare him self ucither time nor fa'.'uc. TVr.el-.r-ray woiild take two hour-V grumbling Indecision nnd hesitation in wri'.iag n two line testimonial, but ho wo.:'..'. p'.:t his hand Into his pocket nr. 1 ."0-i " handful of g:ld nnd bnv.'s notes i; ya .: wanted them. E--.T!ti-T. Bowling Is one of our' games thai originnted In th" middle ago:!. T!:p act date of Its lntr.iJu--,Mm Is obscur.v but It has been clearly traced to the thirteenth century. The rV lTr!'n greens wore made in Engiai.d. lu Ui.l weather these could not be used to ad vantage, nnd this led to the construc tion of covered bowling n'.loys. Hard I. nek. Cnller I hnvo here several bills wliid are long overdue. Hnrduppe (desper ately) I am sorry to say thnt our cash ier Is out today. Cnller-Oh, well, il doesn't make much difference. I'll ca'J nnd pay them at some future date. Good day, sir. LAWRENCE 1 stands for 25 years success- LfulDaint makina. Full meas- lure highest quality. Only paint j guaranteed by the maker. Sold by Keystone Hardware Company. HOW WEASELS HUNT. Vha Orarrfnl Pose of the Animal When on the Trail. Tho lltho grace of the weasel may lo observed whenever It Is on the trail. At on even speed, with nose to the ground, Its reddish brown back seems literally to glide along through the rank herbage by tho bank. It may be Ihe scent of u rat, and the trail may take It In and out of the hank a good many times before It tonics up wllli Us victim. It may even hnvo to swim n stream before Its per sistence Is rewarded. It is wonderful how small n hole that long, arched body can glide Into nnd emerge from without the slightest difficulty. When It has caught nnd killed Its prey Its movements nro equally grace ful ns It carries the spoil home to Its hole. Crossing n Kentish field I saw n weasel coming along under tho hedge row red toothed from the chaso. There was the sumo sinuous motion of the back, but tho llttlo beast's head was held as high ns possible nnd from its mould hung the limp carcass of n young rat, freshly killed. Tho weasel held It by the neck and so high, for all the shortness of Its legs, that only tho end of the rat's tail drugged through the grass. A family of weasels will often hunt In company, and this is naturally n most, interesting sight to witness. The nbillty of the weasel to enter exceed ingly small holes Is owing entirely to the structure of Its body Its flat head, long neck and short limbs and tall. In u cornrlck It can pursue mice with ease along Ihelr burrows. London Mull. GAME DOGS AND GAME. A tlrmnrknlilit Innlfiiirr of the Inflo rnrr of llcri-illlr. The setter ate the mutton chop greed ily, but. ho would have none of the par tridge bones. "A good giuno dog," said his master, "can't cat game. Its taste Is repug nant to til in. This is a remarkable In stance of the influence of heredity. "(iiuno dogs have been trained for many generations not to eat the game tho birds ami rabbits and what not which they bring back to their masters In their mouths. They have been train ed to consider that the eating of such game would bo n disgrace and an un pardonable sin, the same as bank clerks have been tral.ied to consider that the pocketing of u few dollars from the millions they annually han dle would be a disgrace and a sin. "And the result lu the game dogs' case lias been that tills moral abhor renco of game, suggested to them by their masters, has boon transmitted lu Its passage down from one generation to another. Into an nctual physical ab horrence. In the matter of game, thanks to heredity, game dogs now are never tempted. They can't sin. "It would be n good tiling for pMloy holder.) If, In the same way. man's moral disinclination to steal had been changed by heredity to an actual phys ical aversion of other people's money." Ancient Trlokn. The arts of J-:-c!!ns were, ns has been proved by learned writers, of high antiquity. The Hirplnl, who lived near Home, Jumped through burning coals; women In enrly times were ac customed to wnlk over burning coals in Cnppadocia, and the exhibition of bulls and cups is often mentioned In the works of the ancients. It was ns far back as the third century that one I'ermus, or Flrmlus, who endeavored to mako him self emperor In Egypt, suffered a smith to forgo Iron on an anvil placed on his breast, and rope dancers with bnlnnc hig poles nro mentioned by Petronlus nnd others, while the various feats of horsemanship exhibited In our circuses passed, In the thirteenth century, from Egypt to the Hyziintino court ami thence over all Europe. A Proud Mini, "Did you see that proud man going out Just now?" nsked the cashier. "Proud ns I.uclfer. Know what lie did? Found thnt I had made a mis take in his favor and handed me back ! the change. Now, I wonder why it is that people are so proud when they hnvo discovered thnt they are honest. I could rake In a lot of extra coin if I availed myself of the mistakes that ! are made here every hour of the day. but I don't on general principles, be cause I am naturally honest. It's noth ing to be proud of." New York Sun. Where Tain Are Unknown. Orsa, In Sweden, has In the course of a generation sold $3,730,000 worth of trees nnd by means of Judicious re planting has provided for n similar In come every thirty or forty years. In consequence of the development of this commercial wealth there are no taxes Railways and telephones are free and to are the scboolhouses, teaching and many other things. Worth Knowing-. "Sensible looking girl across the aisle." "Yes. Like to know her?" "No, thank you. n.mdsome hnt she's wen ring." "Yes. She made it herself." "EL! Introduce me, please." Cleve land Tlain Dealer. Oild. Hicks What do you think of that university making Dumlcy a doctor of laws? Wicks Oh, well, tho universi ties do very crazy things sometimes, nicks Yes, nnd yet they nre always supposed to be In possession of their faculties. Catholic Standard and Times. rnferllnn-. Mother (angrily) Tho brute! Ho has dared to scold you? Newly Married Daughter (sobbing) Not so bad as nil thnt, mamma. I scolded him from the houso five minutes ago, and the unfeel ing brnto hssn'r enma hank vott TWISTED our or SHAPE Whr Mimilil rnn allow four lliiilm I" rfimaln ID the cruel Kranpof rbeu maUMn whoa KEYSTONE LIQUID SULPHUR will pnnltlvilyftiimr'si ? It hnsriirM IhmiHauiU if aiiflrnnUr tioprliotN ciiihm. A ttlmplo preparation sulphur In lliil(l loriu- allilieweniloriul cur ative iiuallllea nitirenlriilfil- all tho Impurltlei leu out. We are no aura of HH merit tliat w-r f iiiiraulwe It. lion't let die ir vial rout or a bottle atand hetreen you aul relief, fl'a anlil by all ilrui-viau. Tn oalzea COo nnd l do. Keyilone Sulphur Co., Pittsburg, Pa. ZSSS322EE2Z. fitoke St Kfilchl liruu Co . OInm i union. The dealer who dosen't have DUEBE.R-HAMPDEN WATCHES may ten you they ar not the best. He wants to sell what he has h's human nature. Before buying, ask the dealer who has them. A. Gooder J-.-wuler ' Covers STItlES MORE" SURFACE DRIES IN !0 MINUTES If your dealer lhiwn't It. Bins-Strike Co. has. u s o Oi h u X h g o u c m a c o CQ O VI AMADE AT THE GReAT WATCH WORKS AT CANTON,OHIO VS1 Uil CLI X7
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