THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURft. PA. A Sentimental Reminder of the Ancient Legend. IfFPT AT TUP fAPITAl rxtri rti me AriiAL In Many Small Ways the Italian Qovernment Foster Patriotic Memories Works of Art a Valu able 8ource of Income Rivalry With Vatican as Relic Collector. A few months ago there appeared In several of the Roman papers a curious .tdvertlsemeut, which ran something UUe this: Wanted To purchase Immediately a gray she-wolf, to replace the wolf of I the Capitol, which has Just died. I'erhayu no one thing In Rome 11 lustrates more eloquently what may be termed the programme of patriot- leux adopted by tho Qulrlual than the wolf of the Capitol. Hidden by tug shrubbery at the top of the broad staircase mounting to the Capitol, It occupies two wlre-tivnted cages, about tea it-et across, where, at tuu expense oi a grateful municipality, it lives a life restricted, but of great social distinction us the modern representa tive of the mother wolf that suckled Hamulus and Remus. Rome is never without Its wolf, If It can help Itself. Imaginative, enjoying whatever ap peals to the sense of mystery and the supol natural, the Romans like to be lieve, the wolf legend authentic and Uitiuiselves the dtscendauu of tli') shudowy Romulus a belief which the goveiumeul, for Its part, Is only too glad to "play up." For, lu truth, the Capltolino wolf is but one of those simple but Immense- ly effective links between the Rome of , Servius Tulliua and the Rome of Hum- j bel t which the Italian Uovernment j never loses an opportunity to forget i when absent and to strengthen when i present. Inslgnlflceut as It may seem, , it Is a factor in the programme of patriotic education which tho gov- case of Enguerrand de Marlgnl, Mln ernmeut has set itself. Tho compre- lter of Finance to Philip the Fair, heusive lines on which this policy has been conceived and the earnestness with which It is being carried out, can hardly escape even the casual vlsl tor to Rome. By means that must appeal to the simplest Imagination, It is stimulating the national spirit and pride of the rising generations of Italian youths, and, as one preeminent ly potent means to this end, it is lending every effort to make Rome -.-e:u what In1 reality it Is the Capi-.-1 of United Italy. Ad far back as 1870, according to rof. Mario Cosenza of the Latin de partment of the College of the City of New York, the municipality adopted a system of nomenclature In the case of new streets with the deliberate pur pose of teaching history and patriot isue at the same time. In that year municipal improvements were begun in the eastern section with the lay ing out of new streets In that part of the old Esqulllne hill where Maecen as once had his gardner and whern the railway station is now. Here the streets are named after the royal house of Savoy Victor Emmanuel, Margherlta, and so on. In the Lud ovlsl quarter, which is rising from the gardens of Sallust, the streets bear the names of the provinces of united Italy Lombard?, Campania, Veneto. Outside the mediaeval walls nar the Janlculum, once the site of Nero's gardenB, the streets are called after the great Romans of ancient times, such as Pompey, Caesar. Finally, those In the district around the old Praetorian, camp memorialize the fam ous battles of the War of Unifica tion Magenta, Castelfldardo. All these latter centre around the Piazza dell' Independenza. "In Its relics and works of art," said Prof. Coeenaa, 'the Qt.lrlnal finds a tremendous aid to its patriotic propaganda. It also finds in them an enormously valuable source of nation al income. They are. In fact, one of the nation's moBt important assets. Rome for example, is a city of about 400,000 population. In the course of a year this is doubled by the tourists who visit it, some of whom come for long periods of study, and practically all of whom are attracted by Its relics and works of art or by Its religious as sociations. Rome Is a city of mem ories. Every landmark, every square inch of painting by a master, every et.itcb of ancient emfbrcldery that leaves It Impoverishes It by so much. The same holds true for the country. The arch enemies of the Italian Government In Its pious desire to have and to hold are the American millionaire, whose ability to pay ten times ovor what the Obvea-nment) with ltB paltry annual appropriation for the purchase of antiquities can afford, sorely taxes the patriotic scru ples of the owners of antiquities, and the Vatican, now as ever a keen and experienced collector. Of the two the Vatican Is the more deadly. Hotel Clerk A room with bath Is $3 per day, colonel. Prominent and Influential Son of the Dark and Bloody Ground Yes ah; but that Is of no Interest to rm, aah. Wha I wish to kn-r i :i, Is the price of a room with drinks u be Daraimoniona with. ' Truth is a thing that It is ruinous , "Into very wilderness God send , some voice." j LWKMIOXS AS llUOMiaiA.Nl.-. Fatality llus Dogged Men Who De signed Instruments of Torture. j The lot of the average Inventor U8uay 19 nt happy n. 1 01 nis irouDies are peculiar 10 me sphere of usefulness which he occu pies. Comparatively few Inventions are perfected before the Inventor has been subjected to a long scries f dSappolntnienU cluont t0 tno unsuccessful experiments, difficulties In raising neceEsury funds, and tho cold shoulder which the world turns to the man who employs all his time In attempts to mnke a seemingly wild dream come true. Hut even after the last experiment has demonstrated the fact that the long days and nights spent lr. tho laboratory have not been spent in vain, the inventor often finds that fame and fortune have no mind to lift tho latch of his door. One man may rob him of his title as Inventor; another may filch from hlra the monetary reward of his labors. Then, too, Death sometimes hns In tervened and the reward has taken ; tne form of empty honorg for tho : dead. j iathB of Inventors as a result of dangerous experiments hnvo been of frPqUent occurrence, but It Is not generally known that a remarkable species of fatality has dogged the steps of men who have devised In struments to be used to torture or kill their fellow men. Following Is a Hat of Inventors who were punltthed by their own Inventions. Rastllo Ungues Aubrlot, Provost of Paris, who rebuilt and Improved the P.astlle, was himself confined therein. The charge against him was heresy. Urnzon Hull Perlllos, who In vented tho Urazen Bull for Phalarls, Tyrant of Agrlgenttim, was the first person baked to death in the horri ble monster. Human, son of Hammedatha, tho Amaleklte, of the raco of Agag, de- vised a gallows fifty cubits high, on which to hang Mordecal, by way of commencing tho extirpation of the Jews; but the favorite of Ahasuerus was himself hanged on his gigantic gallows. In modern history we have a repetition of this incident In the who was hung on the gibbet which he had erected at Montfaucon for the execution of certain felons; and four of his successors In office under went the same fate. Matthew Hopkins, the witch find er, was himself tried by his own tests, and put to death as a wizard. Iron Cage The Bishop of Ver dun, who Invented the Iron Cages, too small to let the person confined In them to stand upright or He at full length, was the first to be shut up In one; and Cardinal La Balue, who recommended them to Louis XI, was himself confined In one for ten years. Iron Shroud Ludovlco Sforza, who Invented the Iron Shroud, was the first to suffer death by this hor rible torture. Maiden The Regent Morton of Scotland, who Invented the maiden, a sort of guillotine, was the first to bo beheaded thereby. This was In the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Otracism Cllsthenes Introduced the custom of ostracism, and was the first to be banished thereby. The Perrlere was an Instrument for throwing stones of three thou sand pounds in weight; and the In ventor fell a victim to his own In vention by the accidental discharge of a Perrlere against a wall. Porta a Faenza Flllppo StrozzI counseled the Duke Alessandro do' Medici to construct the Porta a Faenza to lntlmadate the Floren tines, and here he was himself mur dered. Utroplus Induced tho Emperor Arcadlus to abolUh the benefit of sanctuary; but a few days after ward he committed some offense and fled for Bafety to tho nearest church. St. Chrysostom told him he had fall en into his own net, and he was put to death. Largest Kliip in tho World. MAURITANIA 785 rr. The new Cunard liner Mauritania, a monster of the sea. Stand- ,ng on end u would overtop every structure In the world, except the Elffol Tower. The British battleship Dreadnought, the most powerful fighting ship In the world, Is nearly three hundred feet shorter. rally wjf' fr$ LINKS OF THE j', III GIANT CABLE CSflfc m VrT- i 1 r I PYRAMID I 1 I '451 ft WASHINGTON j MONUMENT j 555 yT. (J I HOW THKY DISPOSE OK IIOIIKS. Ingenious Devices Resorted to Ily Prominent Business Men. One of the most serious problems for busy men and men of promi nence to solve Is how not to see peo ple without giving offence, Also It is quite as vexing a prot lem and quite ns serious a one to find a way to get rid of callers ex peditiously. The average caller who has suc ceeded In getting an audience with some prominent man is very apt to forget how very valuable that prominent man's time Is and to feel no compunction or hesitancy In monopolizing ns much of It as may suit his own sweet will. Of course this does not apply to the stereotyped and well known class of bores after they have been found out to be such. An attendant or a clerk with ordinary discrimination and discernment enslly detects the professional bore and keeps him away from annoying his chief. There are, however, plenty of well mean ing people In business and the pro fessions who are bores without knowing it. They are the amateur kind and would be very much of fended If they were clnssed as busi ness annoyances. It Is against tho persistency of this kind of people that tho busy man has to employ his Ingenuity. The Wall Street magnate, bank president or head of a big mercantile house Is perforce obliged to see many people in the course of tho day. Sometimes the callers run Into the hundreds. It Is therefore Im portant to limit the calls of those who have but little business to transact to as few moments as possi ble and to get rid of them without in any way giving offence or breaking in on the business relations which already exist. Many and varied are the schemes utilized to this end. There is hardly a big office downtown that has not some special method of Its own of accomplishing this end. Perhaps one of the most amusing and at the same time simple methods of all employ ed Is that of one of the magnates of the Standard Oil. He Is a very diffi cult man to see at best unless the caller la personally known to him or has some really Important business that the secretary cannot attend to. Naturally this condition frequently arises, and the magnate's method of making the cull brief is to have the caller shown Into a reception room In which there are no chairs. Of course, the magnate's suite of ofllces contains other reception rooms, in which there are plenty of chairs, but this especial room, re served and set aside for the "quick callers," Is entirely devoid of any place to sit down on. There are elaborate tables with inkstands and pen pads, and also roller top desks. It would be a sacrilege to even lean against any of them. This particular magnate has learned by long experi ence that when once a man sits on a chair ho 1b likely to sit thero very much longer than he is wanted. The caller Is shown into this chairless room. The magnate Is hero waiting for htm with a pleasant mile and a warm handshake. Ho tells his business, naturally as brief as he can, because It Is not the most Comfortable thing In the world to stand up and be verbose. Tho result Is entirely satisfactory to all parties. Tho visitor goes away quickly. Ho has told all he has to say and tho magnate Is saved any embarrassing remarks to tho effect that "You will have to excuse me now," or "I ara very busy," or words to that effect. That Is the method of the Stan dard Oil's quick action with callers they do not to have linger. Process servers do not even got that, amelioration of kindness. Then thsre Is also a theatrical manager who has a method of his -rt ,rr- i '-'v-' . The puslway WdjriaW J5 own of getting rid of people quickly. Ills method Is "the push out handshake." Tho visitor' Is brought In and In troduced. The manager grasps his hand In a warm and fervid embraco and holds on to It. He holds 0:1 to It for tho very best reason In tho world that If he ever let go he would bo lost. He shakes and pushes and he pushes toward tho door. The visitor finds himself unwit tingly saying "good by" before ho has really had a good opportunity to ay "How do you do." Actually beforo he knows It he la pushed out Into the hall and the at tendant lends him away. Tho man with numerous deputies who Impersonate him Is the most common form of getting rid of peo ple that are not wanted. It Is not an Infrequent occurrence that a beardless youth will go to some anteroom to see a caller and Impersonate the personality of a gray whiskered veteran of business or profession. Tho guileless caller, lu a majority of cases, will possibly wonder how tho man he called on hna been able to keep his ago bo well. But he will go away satisfied and pleased that he has had a per sonal Interview with tho man ho ivumo to see. Thero Is also the telephone trick, which many prominent men use, This la the operation. The caller, wno.-io business has been consum mnted nnd who Is simply sitting around with the Idea that he Is mak Ing himself agreeable and solid with the man he came to seo, Is Interrupt ed In possibly a good story by a vig orous ring on tho telephone. The "bis mnn" that he Is calling to see necessarily has to attend to it. No sooner Is he finished with this call and turnu politely to his visitor and says "Yes" than comes another ring on the telephone. The unwelcomo caller is simply rung out, and all simply becauso there Is a wide nwake clerk In tho outer office who understands that a certain bell ring or a certain signal means to call up the central ex change and keep the magnate's tele phono busy until tho unwelcome cal ler has been got rid of. There Is still another way. It is the haughty, sarcastic and con temptuous wny of receiving callers. This can be done and Is done with out even Indulging In any manner isms or unkind words. As, for Instance, a gentleman was very desirous of seeing tho presi dent of a bank. Thero was no es pecial reason why the prosldent of the bank wanted to see him, but there were very good reasons why tho caller wanted to see tho presi dent. He (the caller) was armed with letters of Introduction and with cards from people whose names should have counted for something. He mado two or three fruitless calls, only to be Informed that the presi dent had gone to a directors' meet ing or was at Atlantic City or Palm Beach or at lunch. At the best he hoped for a possibility of catching him In the corridor when he was rushing to keep one of these nu- erous engagements. Finally, after sitting around tho bank president's office for four hours, during which time he was told that the aforesaid president would probably be at leisure In an hour, he was ushered In through a loug suite of exterior offices until, finally, ho reached the personal Banctum of the president. There ho expected to And a man with a wor ried look, a stream of people com ing out after seeing him, and the president sitting In front of a desk with a mass of correspondence which he had not time to attend to. and in fact every other indication of an extremely busy and overworked hu man being. On the contrary, what he saw was a dignified, pleasant man. who leaned back in a very comfortably upholstered chair, shooting coffee beans from his thumb and forefinger at a target on the opposite wall. which was nothing else than the nose of a reproduction of a very celebra ted painting. The caller said: "Are you very busy, Mr. Presi dent?" The president of tho bank replied "Yes, I am very busy, but I can give you a minute. What Is It?" It Is unnecessary to add that tho call was a very brief one. Hundreds of stories could bo told In a like vein. They all amount to the same thing, that the busy man muBt resort to acting to stage de vices to get rid of unwelcome callers and at the same time not offend tho unwelcomo caller. The coach In which the Lord Mayor of London rides on state occa sions has been In use since the year 1707. 1 1 1 1 1 J ' Htipuay day. Mil Avertable PreparalionlbT As similating Ihcroodandllcgiila ting the Stomachs and Dowels of UPTfriTlftTlTTSTt Promotes DigcstionChccrfur ness and Rcst.Contains neither Ojmim.Morplunc norliiieraL Not narcotic. rpt arountSiHUELmcaat Apcrfccl Remedy forConstipa Tion. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness ind Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature cf NEW YORK. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. Q, Church Advertising. 0ns ot the Remedies lor Church Stagnation and Dwindling Sunday Schools. Clergymen of all denominations are pretty well agreed that religion ought to be carried into business, but too few of them realize that the rule may be worked both wavs In- carrying business methods into re ligion. There is a remedy for church stagnation and the dwindling at tendance of Sunday schools that ought to be more generally applied. Newspaper advertising not the cut-and-dried formal kind so famil iar to the public, but original ap peal of the attention compelling sort has brought new life into church and Sunday school work wherever it has been fairly tried. It has been successfully demon strated in several of the larger cities tnat originality in church advertis ing pays and that originality is not all synonomous with sens-itionalism. l'hila. Record. The Rabbit Hunter. The rabbit hunter, now in his glory, jrcts a notice for his thrift and bravery from the Readiner Tel- egram, in these words: "There is a disposition in many quarters to poke fuu at the men who, at this season, lare forth to seek and slav the ferocious rabbit in his lair, and tnough none of the daring hunters have been slain and devoured, it is urged that they are not justifiable in taking such risks But there is another side to the question, men and their families must eat, and meat in the market is dear, so he falls back upon the primal resource. But even if this necessity did not exist, faian is by nature a daring animal, and the very ferocity of the rabbit is a temptation to him to go forth armed and ready to slay or be slain. Neither can we eliminnte the just pride which the slaver feels when he returns with the trophies of his prowess, as evidences of his bravery in vanquishing and his Cunning in circumventing these wily denizens of the wilds." 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