“A Joul ‘Un
“He's a cool 'un” is the way the sol-
diers in a certain English regiment de-
scribe one of their officers, a young man
whose self-possession in a time of : 3 er
saved his men from defeat and probably
from death.
The circumstance which gave this offi.
cer his reputation is related by Rudyard
Kipling in the Westminster Magazine.
Heo writes:
“A very young officer, who had gone
almost straight from school to the army
and thence to India, was leading his com-
Juny through a rocky pass, on returning
ron a scouting expedition.
“They were beset by the enemy, who
fired at them from behind the rocks, and
the men were growing very unsteady.
Those in the rear began to grow impa-
tient, and shouted to the men in front:
“ ‘Hurry up! What are you waiting
for there?’
coolly:
“Hold on a minute! I'm lighting my
pipe.’
“And he struck a match and lit it.
There was a roar of laughter, and a sol
dier called out:
“iWoll, since you're so prossin, I
think I'll have a pipe myself.’
“An he. too, struck a match, and
gan to smoke. This bit of fun steadied
the men, and
order.”
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Undesirable Immigration.
menace of immigration is
Again the
talked of. When the country was hav.
ing hard times immigrants did pot come,
but with the improvement the number of
undesirable
They are poor and
swell the army of
do only the most common
kind of labiw. There
enough of the rough labor for the em-
ployment of those who, by virtue of na.
tivity time in the
country, have the first right to it at fair
wages. These people, who have become
accustomed to the more Slis-
tenance of the country, not be
forced to compete in regard to wages
with those who have been brought up to
live upon meager food, and are accus-
tomed to the most scanty surroundings.
A large part of the labor trouble gross
out of this erowding of the ranks of com-
mon labor. The requirement of ability
to read in some language would close the
floodgates. ‘
immigrants is very large.
{ ignorant,
who
sud go to
are i
and coarsest
men
:
IR DOW SCarcey
or long residence
generous
should
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The Aeolian harp was the invention, It is |
believed, of Athanasius Kircher, who lived in |
the seventeenth century. i
The Oldest American City.
The acquisition of Porto Rico by
Uncle Sam takes away from a home city
the title of the oldest city within the bor-
ders of the United States. That honor
must unquestionably be granted to the
settlement of Ponce de Leon at Caparra,
near the site of Pueblo Viejo, across San
Juan bay, which is 60 years older than
any other claimant for the distinction.
The Spanish town of St. Augustine, Fla.,
has heretofore been regarded as our old-
est city, being founded in 1565, but
Caparra’s first building was raised in
1509.
The exact location of the historical Ca-
warra was recently discovered unexpected.
» by Dr. M.-W. Harrington of the San
Juan weather office. While on a stroll
into the country he happened to select
the road to Pueblo Viejo, und when talk-
ing with some native residents learned
in Porto Rico.
The only remains of the original town
ruins of a church, a hos-
pital and a repaired limestone furnace.
Most of the stone in the original struc-
tives and used in building rounds.
Another historical landmark close at
the first Spanish Settlers.
greatly enriched himself, says tradition
&
the Indians in the mines.
tucked by hordes of mosquitoes and tever,
the Spanish adventurer remained at Co-
He then set sail on
Easter Sunday, March 27,
the peninsula of Florida. Some of his
party went with him, but the
number remained behind and only mos ed
from the settlement when compelled to
The
place in 1552.
Dr. Harrington has called the atten
educators in this country to
ancient city in the hope of saving the
ruins from further destruction. duch a
historical settlement. he thinks, ought to
Even
have begun
and fevers, final evacuation
early vandal Americans
as relics sud souvenirs,
rR —
A Hair Magoitied.
To a Washington professor, Dr. Elmer
Gates, belongs the credit of having dis
covered a form of microscope
in advance of the most
powerful microscope hitherto known as it
not only as far
which promises to lay bare the ultimate
secret of life. Some conception of the
value of Doctor Gates’ ‘“micrographo
scope,” as he calls it, may be guthered
from the statement that a line
iuvisibie
Poor old Turkey has been overlooked,
80 she ig thinking about another war,
This 18 an advertizing age, and you
must blow your trumpet from the house
tops every minute if you expect to
make a nuisance of yourself,
The pastor in Columbus, Ohio, who
tacked up notices requesting that the
women members of the congregation
remove thelr hats, and then engaged
maids to assist them, assuredly must
have had a thoughtful adviser at home,
An old man in New Jersey lived for
t geveral weeks before his death on fee
cream. The sammer girl
upon this delicious fact with longing.
Death is almost envied when it comes
from such a diet,
The Sceretary of Agriculture be
| lleves that the United States could and
| ought to produce all the dates that are
required for home consumption. He
{ gome money in building up the indus
try, and that an improved tree, of
which much Is expected
{introduced In New Mexico,
the
University dey
| hours a JX to the study of political
| economy. his amount of time is gow
more than doubled.
| subject has been extended, and now in
i cludes such questions as labor rights,
ney problems,
{ legislation,
i chinery, and so forth.
Ars ago
Thirty
the 1
profes $078
curse social
economic meaning of ma
gas has contributed an Immortal ntter
the Kansas City Star.
! had pressed on to Caloocan, a thousand
| yards ahead of the line. “How long
enn you hold your position?”
of MacArthur. What
could be more splendid than Col. Fun
“Until my iment
| message (se1,
. '
tit ron usr
MIS Tein, eR
td
| mustered ont
Post
o% hive confiscated all
i the crime for the German
{ Office authoriti
pictorial postal «
¥
1s
ais
which
ards with portraits of
il. of
the
the King Ludwig javaria
Some represent him in swan boat
as Lohengrin, others in company
Aus
«1 Wagner, the Empress of
Tough ocea
pa : ’
other persons i
Oil An arusti
Lvl irrent
creating
largest man-of-war.
powerful microscope hitherto in
magnifies to ten tho
Doctor Gates” instrument
sand
multip
fies an object to three million, six
This,
however, only represents actual achieve
dred thousand times its diameter
ment; and the professor confidently ex.
pects to
hundred
reach a magnification to
million diameters
(ae
The process by which this astounding
result has been achieved
§
I hoetes
obtained by
ated for a fu description
Gates’ earliest results wen
first focussing n one-sixth inch objective
mag
on a dintem Lliis gave an .
pified to six hundred diameters, He then
removed from the the
lens, and, taking snother microscope,
placed the frout jens of the :
tive in the real image of
SCODe,
:
IIa
BV PIeCe front
$v this means an
to seventy thousand diameters was ob
tained. By using a one-sixth
jeetive on the secund instrament the dia-
tom was magnified to no less than three
inch ob-
Thiz, however, to
according
diffused over such n
For this reason experiments
conducted ina room from
which all luminous rays were excluded.
“1 took
critical period safely.
female weakness. At times
lencorrheea. 1 tried several
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Mrs. N. E.
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for about twenty years,
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for ten years, and my
bladder was affected, bad
backache a great deal.
I tried a number of
doctors. They would re-
lieve me for a little
while, then I would be
oe than ever. I
Lacey,
then thought I would
try Lydia E. Pinkham's
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Eleven bottles of Come
pound and one box of
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a am now sound
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rE te wr aetna
‘he women vi years who are healthy and happy
are invariably those who have known al help
study of the
Irish
obstacle
of
lang + in Ireland Lins me
] of a number
rs.
ir.
opposition «
prominent Irish ginong
Atkin
Dr
3
wWion
son, Ix
Atkinson
language
igh have been
and literature, amd
| expected to favor the prog
he takes
the 1
renas
i Coniee, Dat
vill
rt Axs
fure, inclading
is too in i
GOO
Persian. with a population of nearly
i ;
Hine
miles
0.000.000, Las only
and ti
length and Iwlongin
Recently,
Minister of Finance,
{ agreement sald
into nine years ago by Russia and the
{ Persian Government,
fdiente of
stract
railway
six
g to a Belgian com
she
it not than
fiiore
however
i pany. the ns=inn
atl ¥ y
acing upon no
to have been entered
authorized a syn
Russian to
a railway from Alesandropol, a
station on the Karst Line, to Chactan
in Persian territory.
{ bility that the line may subsequently
| be extended by way of Tabriz, Teheran
{and Icpaban to the Persian Gulf.
capitaiisis eon
There is a possi
Still another aspirant for north pole
honors is urging his claims to financial
assistance in Cangda. Capt. Bernier of
| Quebec needs $60,000, and asks the Do:
| minfon Government to contribute $25.
0. He proposes to proceed north
through Bering Strait, and his primary
ap
rian Islands. He will leave his ship,
it is said, some 200 miles farther east
than the Fram was left, proceed with
the pole, and return by way of Spite.
bergen, How simple it all ison paper!
The money doesn’t amount to much,
but homan life and human courage of
the north pole sort are worth presery.
ing for more hopeful enterprises,
The Navy Department officials have
Iy made by the navalasupply steamer
Rolace from Norfolk to Manila which
would seem to credit to the Solace the
world's record for a long-distance run,
The data supplied by the naval officials
ghow that the Solace covered a dis
tance of 11,670 knots in forty-three
days, This time included all stops,
anil alee included the slow speed which
fa demanded through the Suez Cansl
Inclusive, of all stops, and including
the less than six knots speed through
the Suez Canal, the Selace averaged
for the 11,670 knots a speed of 111.8
knots per hour. Naval officials express
the opinion that in order to make the
above record the Solace must have
maintained in the open sea a mean
speed of about 104; knots per hour,
While pralses are being bestowed
upon the Amerienn soldiers now on
duty in the Philippines it is in order to
remember the Filipino troops confront
ing them, who bave shown qualities of
soldiery which assuredly deserve at
feast admiration, says the Washington
Star. The defense which they are of
fering Is truly remarkable in view of
the character of the men in me ranks
and of the state of culture in the is
battle. Some philosophers accept as an
accurate standard of progress the mili
tary efficiency of a people. However
this may be it remains true that the ad.
vent of elvilization brings with it wa-
chinery for warfare and a capacity for
orgnnigation and control far superior
to those of savage or barbaric peoples,
Nothing in this particular progression
materially affects the disposition of the
people themselves, They retain in gen-
eral their traditional traits of ferocity
or cowardice despite the advancement
of the so-called arts of war, although
racial tendencies and national tempera-
of educational or political or sociologl-
The contemporaneous apcestor is ex-
only to visit some back settlement, in
a cabin and its farniture,
the inmates amd return
knowledge of things as they are
things as they were, The
with a
C00
ion
A writer In a magazine of the current
month points out that in the mountains
living according to the primitive
of
af
the thirteen colonies at
the War,
we wish to know what our
in many ways we
ourselves, So,
abitants
close tevolutionary
if
were lke
for
student
BOO in-
deed, may the in almost
locality and compares yne social devel
opments of the present with their ar
i remote and sparsely
But
and, indeed, throughout the
contrasts in
in this coun
nort-
settled communitios,
ry,
ern half of
of discovery of this kind are
more than
ordinarily numerous,
By recent decrees the Emperor's local
title as Grand Duke of and disap
and word “Empire”
* is substituted in
MITE, Lie or “Hus
3
he word “Fatl
part Of the
wri they
4 and at
Finland is
tribution The
to pay a great
matter
fore the Senate ten of its Twenty
ers absolutely refused
ten fearing
NO occu iion aoc
by this 7
item
i’
it, nominated
op st
result the
ar. Eas
ing vote in favor of Russia
gre in
Helsingfors
freon ie ges DaIT
Hourning,
Hneaires nre
are closed ye i
in black
articles
Mr. Cocll Riodes expects 10 ocotmnplete
rom ft Town to
Mediterranean long before his
iid 5 8 ictal
organizer Lief
which will
rT
se ih
fs yan
iis 14 grag aie
fine 1
fa
transcontinental railros
tit
1 He
stock holder of the co
i= the
ny
CArry ont and In
this enterprise,
it will mpicted in 1
Like railrogd. the line
will cotinect with other north and south
®OAVS
4 1 "ay
Hy aN se
thie shegraph
ing
{Oo con
nect Cape Town and Alexandr
S000 miles apart.
the line will ulu
in Rhodesia, Tete
Blantyre.
are about
stations along be
the Zambesi,
Tanganyika, Fort George on Lake Al
bert BEdwanl, two stations on Albert
to Alexandria. It will connect
indian Ocean
brings Central
Nyanza and the
this enterprise
the world it will be a great boon to
that continent.
fa the Uneasy Chair of State
It ix good to be ambitious in these
days, but it requires a brave man to
look forward to becoming the French
President. There have been six Presi
A. Casmiv-Perier are dead. Each
President is elected for seven years
and but one, M. Grevy, was able to
complete the time, After a rule of six
and a half years M. Carnot was as
sassinated, while the other five all disd
or resigned the fatal position, M.
Thiers, Marshal MacMahon, Casmir
Perier. and Grevy, during his see
ond term, all resigned, and Carnot and
Faure died while in office,
Quite a small event may be sald to
have turned the late M. Faure to his
destiny. Twenty years ago he was
an unknown tradesman at Havre, and,
knowing M. Coguelin of the Comedie
Frapenise, used to visit the theatre
when he journeyed up to town. Oue
day the actor said to M. Faure: “Come
and see mie between the first and sec.
ond acts, and 1 will introdoce you to
some one who wil be interested to
know you! The future President went
anid got Introduced to M. Gambetta,
the famous politician who helped M.
Faure in his parliamentary career.-
London Answers, .
-
A ‘pew Chicago fad is to eat ice
cream spread over mince pie, This
MANILA'S STRANGE PANICS.
Our Forces There Unable to Learn the |
Mystery of Their Sudden Outbreak.
All of the recent letters from Manila
refer to the panics which seized the in-
habitants of the city at frequent inter
vals during the days just preceding the
recent battle, One of these stampedes |
is thus described by Capt. Elliott of
the Coffeyville company in the Twen-
tieth Kansas: “About 2:20 o'clock the |
natives and Chinese were observed to
be running in every direction. Pres |
every avenue in the direction of the
barracks, They moved but
with remarkable coolness and steady
Corp. Barber, whom 1 had
quickly,
the First Battalion, came to my room,
saluted lke the good soldier that he is,
Chinese are running like rats to thelr
and the stores are belng closed.’
“Like reports came in from all direc.
tions from men who had been in differ-
The call to gquar-
the rolls were called
The same was
true of the other companies of our bat
Two or three officers were
“On the Escolta, at the bridge
that followed was beyond
of description. No one
aware the of t
1 never withessed any
life. The of
Over entire city
The
my
Seen ed
he stampede.
ing like it in
excitement
after
sireet
PpOWeErs
to he
of Cause
my wave
the
CArs
Car-
tlie
SEL
of a cyclone,
other and barricaded the narrow
out:
and
ran
doors and shutters closed
enn and children
and crowded and
their frantic ef
dreadful, direful
were
barred, men, we
and thither
fostied ope another
in
foris to escape some
calamity.
haved with ad
Guards were doubled
“The soldiers alone be
mirable « t
iled
ime
and tre incredibly short
infantry
an
Td
platoons
each approach 10
the great ridge. and po one bint sol
allowed fo
Pass,
the Es
diers
Armed men took possession of
and the avenues leading
10
out of
their persuasive powers
bring order
and
- 4
and judgment
+ BIOTIN and
American oourage
of
yreyailed
American sense
In less
hirlwind' had passed
hour the
1
ana
34]
than an
amd trade
resumed The questi
were
th the soldier was, “What in the
t all about, anyway?’
Sgow Statues at All Times
Paris. France, is a sculptor who
of
» to wait for
what
hex 3
makes spow statues regardless the
hor He does pot lings
he care
:
ouside
wstorn, nor does
tie temperat we
spOow stat
fre Tuan
ges have bevpme very popa-
are often conspicuous
onable drawmg rooms,
world like heaps
into beautiful figures,
aro figures
coating on only
of snow
but red
coversd with a
in copper
KIOW
&oCTed Rome thine ago the
sculptor not od that cert
af ice
iin portions
hines were siways coverml
whenever
fs
white
manufactured.
was cold
through the copper tubes, producing a
wing This
by
je Was
caused gases passing
rapid condensation of the vapor in the
atmosphere surrounding the tubes The
what could
tubing conid
be
be
dechded that
ordinary
sculptor
done with
fle found that carbonic acid
gas was used to produce the extreme
in the tubes, So he made 2a
statue of thin copper and placed a box
of liquefied carbonic acid gas in the
base. The rapid evaporation of the
gas cagsed such extreme cold that the
vapor surrounding the statue was |
frozen at once and clung to the cop
per, giving ita beautiful coat of white,
cold
Exchangieg Money in Switzerland.
The bank system of Switzerland is |
not considered ideal by Americans
traveling abroad, especially if they are |
in their proverbial hurry. On enter i
ing any of the leading banks a man |
wishing to cash a check musi remove :
his hat. which he may hang up on vne
of the hooks provided for that purpose.
Usually he receives speedy attention,
for the teller can wait on at least six
persons at once. His check is taken
and sent upstairs to be certified, which
takes from five to fifteen minutes, dur
tng which time he does weil to take a
gent. When the check comes back it
it entered in a book, the money is tak-
en from the safe and the name of the
customer is loudly called, After sign-
ing a receipt he gets his money. All
paper issued by a Zurich bank must
bear the signatures of at least two re-
sponsible officers of the institution.
Chicago Record.
Roman Lamps.
When the Romane invaded Britain
Lm
filled with oil. Open clay cups with
two hollows were also common, one
hollow being provided for the wick,
the capillary attraction drawing the
oll from the other.
beautiful bronze lamps are dis
these ancient Roman camps,
sufficient to show an elevation in the
ofnamenting of common articles which
the pottery of the present day fs only
ment.” The same historian also ri.
~ords that “a good many terra colin
matchless grace and simplicity, and
Las hence, ever since it existed in Its
The origin of the crolsie has been
found among Roman antiquities, and,
strange to relate, this simple lamp ape
pears to have been adopted wherever
the Roman settled with his conquering
legions—France, Italy, and Northern
Africa producing them, with little va-
Words,
AN ARTISTIC MIX-UP.
Bewildering Results That Followed 2 Pho
tographer's Mistake.
A well-known attache of the Hollen-
den Hotel, Cleveland, had a maid ser-
vant in his household, whose complex-
fon would make Erebus look like early
twilight. ithe ago this dusky
maid determine wotilld have her
number
send to and her
other friends, and she had a personal
desire how her had fm
proved since the last photograph.
Nothing would do but she must pst
Ho one
Some
i she
Khe
picture taken. wanted a
of coples to tastus
to see looks
rouize a leading photograpaer,
day, attired in her Sunday go-to-Cainp-
hes,
ghe visited the studio,
and was assured that
when finished, would
be promptly mailed to her address.
In due of the packege
arrrived and the delighted girl hurried
back to the kitchen to open it
A few moments later one of the other
members of the household heard a dull
thud, accomp «1 by a wild crackling
She hurrried back to the kitchen and
there was the maid sitting flat on the
tumbled from
the coal box, grasping a photograph in
%
smile of
meetin’ clot
looked pleasant,
the photographs,
COT Re time
floor. having evidently
either hand, amd wearing a
ecstatic delight
i cried
evah any
in all yo' bo'n days?
kay 10
"se
“Looky at nissy,” she
"Look Se
thin’
gder what "Rastus "I his
mos’
INIsRY,
They nistakeably the like-
ness of a
» a Fuclid ave-
belle was opening a similar pack.
delightful
as she drew
forth the contents the envelope.
Then she gave a wild shriek and top
pled back in her chair. The face that
smiled up at ber was black!
“It must be the effect of some dread-
ful the
horror-stricken mother,
“Chemical rubbish,” cried the daugh-
.
my pictures
Atl about t
nue
Hor
art
i
¥ % Ti
I here » Of
anticipation on het
chemical change,” Suggs sted
-
The
futtercup
package
it Was
the
wise 0
then
The Abuse of Adverbs
A biz book might be written on the
abuse of langua by the cultured. To
with discrimination and
fine art. to which many
and which many
to ignore totally,
use language
accuracy is a
people never atiain,
others seem
One evening a gentleman came home
with a budget of news, An acquaint-
ance had failed in business. He spoke
of the incident as “deliciously sad.”
He had ridden up-town in a car with a
noted wit. whom he describeu as “hor
ribly entertaining.” and to cap the cli-
max. he spoke of the butter that Lad
been set before him at a country hotel
as “divinely rancid”
The young people stared, and the
oldest daughter said. “Why, papa. 1
should think that you were out of your
bead.”
“Not in the least. my dear.” he said
pleasantly, “1'm merely trying to fol
1 worked out “divine
i mean to keep
hereafter.
And now.” he continued, “let me help
beef,
Adverbs, he says, are not so fashion-
York Advocate.
His Parpose.
“That new reporter is a corker. He
says he was sent out for a write up
down in Texas once and a gang of
cowboys took him for a horse thief.
Did you ever notice what a big nose he
has
“Of course.”
“Well. they got a rope around his
neck and threw the loose end over a
tree, and four of them stood ready to
pull him up at the word. Just as they
started to pull, up galloped a squad
of cavalry to rescue him.”
“Did they 7’
“Well, the rope slipped from his neck
and caught on his nose, and nearly
pulled his head off, but his life yas
saved.” .
“You, 1 guessed as much.”
“What do you suppose he wanted to
tell such a whopper as that for?”
“That's easy. He wanted te eall
your attention to the fact that hé had
a wonderful nose for noose!" Cleve:
land Plain Dealer,