Montour American. FRANK C. ANGLE, Proprietor. Danville, Pa., Mar. uT1907. One of the decidedly beneficial acts of the last Cougress was the enactment of a law providing that stamps to the valne of ten cents when attached to a letter or package in excess of the regu lar postage take the place of the speci al delivery stamp. After July 1, next, when this new law goes into effect,all the bother of rnshing around to drug stores, branch postofflces and other places in search of a special delivery stamp will be avoided. When the writ er of a letter (whether local or for out of the city) wants it "special deliv ery" all that is needed is to attach twelve cents' worth of stamps to it, two cents for the regular postage and ten cents to make up the charge for '"special delivery." The words "special delivery" must in all case 9 be written or stamped on the letter or package to which the ex tra ten cents worth of stamps aro affix ed. It is the belief that this new de parture will greatly increase the local as well as the out of town special de livery business, because it obviates hustling around for a special delivery stamp,which is seldom kept in a busi ness office or at a residence and hereto fore had to be specially gone after, in case one was needed. After July 1, next, all this inconvenience will be done away with. What, in the ultimate resort, is a modern newspaper? It is a business organization, used as other business organizations are, for the purpose of promoting the prosperity of its prop rietors. It is not a charitable enter prise any more than the manufactur ing establishment or the department Btore is a charitable enterprise. The men who own it have right to ex pect their subordinates to so manage their property as to produce results, j The manufacturer who has a general manager who proves utterlyiucompet ent, the department store proprietor whose chief man is losing money ev ery month, must get rid of the incom petent and seek a chauge of methods unless he expects togo to the wall. The newspaper whose editor constant ly offends the public sense of justice, needs a new editor. Does a newspaper owe the general public anything? Unquestionably it owes just what the manufacturing plant or the department store owe— faithful and impartial service and honest wares. There is no obligation upon the newspaper that does not also rest upon every other business enter prise. But there has always devolved upon every department of human ac tivity the imperative obligation of common honesty and the "square deal." If patrons of a manufacturing plant find that they are receiving in ferior goods while some neighbor who chances to live in a palatial mansion is being treated better they will go elsewhere. So will the department store patrons. And so will the sub scribers and advertisers of a newspap er if they discover they are not get ting the same treatment meted out to their neighbors. It is not the duty of any ieputable family newspaper to print all the news. Much of the news of the day is not fit to print. Much of it is so in aue and trifling that it would be a shame to burden the columns of a good journal with it. Some of it is of such trivial importance as to make it im material whether it is printed nor not. Some of it being of a personal nature, may be used as suits the com fort, convenience or desire of the per sons immediately affected. The editor must be able to exercise a fair degree of judgment and he must be willing to listen to auy suggestions that friends or interested parties may offer. But the supreme duty which the editor owes to his readers is honesty and impartiality. He has the right to adopt auy course he prefers so long as he makes no unfair or unjust discrim ination But the humblest citizen sliould receive from the honest and truthful newspaper exactly the same treatment, under similar circumst ances, that is accorded the man of mil lions. When au editor refuses to do that ho ought to be discharged. When fie is no longer able to do it he ought to resign. That much the people have a right to expect from a journal which they trust. Can you believe your Senses ? When two of them, taste and smell, having been impaired if not utterly destroyed, by Nasal Catarrh, are fully restored by Ely's Cream Balm,can yon doubt that this remedy deserves all that has been said of it by the thou sands whom it lias cured? It is appli ed directly to the effected air-passages and begins its healing work at once. Why not get it to-day? All druggists or mailed by Ely Bros., 5# Warren Street, New York, on reciept of 50 cents. Will Protect Game, Mt. Carmel hunters assembled in the office of Justice of the Peace Levi Dietriok and passed resolutions to protect the game, which is being kill ed off by illegal hunters The men and that they would arrest any one they booting out of season. TURNED THE JOKE. rhe Way a Bridegroom Got the Laugh on His "Funny" Chum. Under the thin disguise of harmless 'un many an unpardonable rude prauk is played upon newly married couples. It is refreshing to hear of an occaslon il instance in which the "Joke" reacts jn the joker. A young man and his bride, who had just been married in a western town, were starting on their wedding journey. They had managed to reach the train in safety despite the abfwers of rice and old shoes. Just as they had taken their seats in Che car one oi the bridegroom's chums came hastily into bid him goodby. A 9 the young husband extended his hand the friend snapped a handcuff round his wrist. The groom had been suspecting a trick of some kind, and l>efore the practical joker could play a similar trick on the bride he found the other handcuff snapped round his own wrist, lie was chained to the happy bride groom himself. "That's a good one on me, Harry," he said, with a sickly kind of smile, "but I'll have to ask you to come to the door with me and get the key to these things from the fellow outside that's got it. Hold on, conductor, Just a min ute!" But the conductor, whose quick eye had taken in the situation, refused to wait. He gave the order for starting, and the train pulled out. It was a through train and made no stop for the next fifty miles. Before it stopped, however, the brakemau, with the aid of a sharp tile and a hammer, succeed ed in releasing Harry. The practical Joker meanwhile had had to pay full fare for the fifty miles and still had his fare home to pay. FRENCH SENTIMENT. The Way It Classifies the Greatest Men of the Nation. The Petit Parisien in 1900 conducted n very interesting plebiscite, the object of which was to ascertain who, in the opinion of its readers, were the ten greatest Frenchmen of the nineteeuth century. More than 15,000,000 votes were given, and the result was that Pasteur came out at the top of the poll with 1.338.425 votes. The next were Victor Hugo, who received 1,227,103 votes; (tambetta 1,150,072, Napoleon 1,118.034. Thiers 1,039,453, Lazare Car not 950.772. Curie 851,107, A. Dumas pere 850,002, I»r. Itoif\ 003,941 and Parmentler 498,803. Immediately fol lowing were Ampere, the electrician; Brazza, the explorer; Zola, Lamartine and Arago. It will be observed with interest how large is the proportion of scientific men in the number of those who, in the opinion of Frenchmen, occupy the highest places In the records of the country. Napoleon Is only fourth, though Pasteur heads the list, and Curie. Itoux and Parmentler, the chem ist who introduced the culture of the potato into Frauce, are also honored, while Ampere and Brazza are not far behind. Literary men and statesmen dispute with the scientists for the highest distinctions, and the national sentiment of France is evidently ec lectic. THE TONSILS. It Is Not Known What Purpose The## Structures Serve. The tonsils are two collections of glandlike structures at the back part of the mouth, one on each side, be tween the pillars of the palate. It Is not known what purpose they serve. Some have supposed that they arrest the germs of disease which may be in haled or taken in with the food, but they evidently can catch very few of the germs which rapidly pass them In the food or water or in the air which is inhaled, and it is well they cannot, for they are themselves very suscepti ble to disease, as some sufferers know to their sorrow. Others have thought they serve an evil purpose, acting as portals of entry for many disease germs into the body. The tonsils are very liable to become Inflamed. This condition constitutes tonsilitis, or, when an abscess forms, quinsy. Young persons, over fifteen and under thirty, are most subject to inflammation of the tonsils, although children and even those well along In life may suffer. It occurs with special frequency in those whose tonsils ara enlarged and usually in persons who are "run down" In general health or in whom the power of resistance has been lowered as a result of worry or over exertion. The extra study in preparing for a difficult examination In school or col lege and the anxiety concerning the re sult not uncommonly bring on an at tack of quinsy, especially in those of a so called rheumatic tendency. There are various kinds of tonsilitis, but the symptoms of all are quite sim liar In the beginning. The patient feela 111, has chilly sensations, loss of appe tite, more or less headache perhaps, constipation, feverishuess and a feel lng of discomfort or actual pain In the throat. Soon the fever becomes high the throat is dry, swallowing Is pain ful, there is often more or less earache and the patient seems seriously 111. Suppuration may or may not occur The pain and throbbing are most se vere when it does. The attack lasts usually from two oi three days to a week and is apt to ter minate quite suddenly, although if bul one tonsil has been affected recovery may be delayed by an extension of th« inflammation to the other tonsil. Iu that case tha whole tiresome process must be gone through with again. The disease is almost always serious enough to require the physician s care, for the treatment calls for Interna; remedies as well as local applications Whatever else Is done, the bowels should be kept open from the begin nlng of the attack.—Youth's Coropan ion. The Popular Song. The definition of popularity as glvei by a salesman in a large music store if one that may be applied to other thing? b«sides songs. "Is this a popular song?" asked £ younir woman, holding up a sheet oi music brilliantly decorated in red anc green. "Well. no. miss," said U»e sal -smau assuming a j,jd>..tl air, "I «r.« .7 r-ay i Is as yet Gf <. ir lats of p_»o an sin^in.J:. .>n,l < (»•>)» xy ik -> ,t. a; aobady's '.rot t.r >.! en aigii of ii vet foi It to be what you'd call .1 popular soiiir miss." The Contrast. A small ih-k'u boy was putting his head against tii l marble steps of tlit capitol. lie would step buck a feet :"i I ta mi run toward thh steps strikia Hi.- lull force with his head. "What oa earth are you doing tha for. bay'.-" a<\ed a senator who cam* by. "A 1 ■; u u iug to tight a goat?" "Naw. -ii 1:. I'* doin' it cause it feel so good when I don't," Rochestei ( Democrat and Chroulcle STAGESTRUCK. An Incident of the Boyhood Days of William McKinley. Out* does not readily associate our martyred president, William McKinley, with an ambition to become an actor, but In a grouping of eminent person ages who have conceived at one time or another in their lives a passion to tread the boards we fliul the subjoined account: "It was while holding the humble position of clerk at a hat store In On clnnati that Mr. McKinley became stagestruck and once confessed that he did not outgrow his desire to be come au actor for many years after ward. This desire arose through wit nessing the Shakespearean plays as presented by the great tragedian, Ed win Forrest, for whom Mr. McKinley conceived a great admiration. " 'lmagine my feelings.' the presi dent said on one occasion when relat ing his boyish ambitions, 'when For rest walked Into our store one day to make a purchase. 1 rushed to the front in order to serve my Ideal hero of the theater. The sale, however, was made by an older clerk, but T was given the privilege of pressing and stretching the hat. The great actor stood near me, observing my work, and the smile of appreciation which he gave me was one of the events of my youth.' " —Scrap Book. MO SENSE OF HUMOR. - A Scientist's Criticism of a Comlt Book For Children. Charles Monselet, a Frenchman of letters, published a comic "scientific dictionary" for the benefit of children, who found no little amusement In his odd accounts of things In the animal world which were perfectly familiar to them, but which were described In a rather fantastic way in it. Monselet's book. The editor of a certain scientific Jour nal. however, was much surprised and shocked at M. Monselet's Ignorance when he took up the book, and he wrote an article about it In his paper, which ran as follows: "A certain M. Monselet has publish ed a dictionary for the use of children, which contains deflnitious showing ths most extraordinary Ignorance, such as the following: "'Sardine—A little fish without any head which lives In oil.' "As if a fish could live without a head and in oil! "Another definition "'Parrot—A bird somewhat resem bling the pigeon, generally green, when Jt Is not red or yellow or blue. Cocka toos sometimes live to be a hundred years old, except when they are stuff ed, and then there is no limit to the length of their life.' "Now, It happens that the parrot is not a pigeon at all and never has the colors that M. Monselet gives to him, and, in short, this M. knows no more of natural history than he has grains of common sense." HANDLING A TIGER. Hum a Turkoman Subdued a Snarl lnic, Anjrry Man Eater. "In a cage near the room in which 1 lived while in Khiva," says Langdoi Warner in the Century Magazine, "was a tiger from the Oxus swamps He had taken a dislike to me, and every time 1 passed his cage he gol up and paced angrily toward me snarling. "Into the cage of tliis beast, at th« command of the prince, a Turkomar stepped, armed with a short stick ai big round as his wrist. With thii stick he struck the tiger's nose as h< made for him, and then, with palmi out and eyes fixed, he walked slowlj up to the shrinking beast and stroket liis face and flank. "The tiger snarled and took th< man's hand in his open mouth. I helc my breath and looked for the bleed ing stump to fall away; but, keeplni that band perfectly still, witli th< other he tickled the tiger's jowl am scratched his ear till with a yawn am a pleased snarl the big cat rolle< over on his back to have his bell: scratched. "The man then sank to his knees always keeping his hands In motloi over the glossy fur, and with his foo drew toward him a collar attached t< a chain. This he snapped round thi beast's neck and, rising to his feel laid hold of the chain and dragged th tiger out. "This was only the second time tha the cage had been entered. As sooi as tbe tiger was outside he espied th watching party and started for their but came up short on the collar. If h had chosen to use his weight am strength no four of them could hav held his tether, but as it was th Turkoman found little difficulty wit' him and held him, snarling, while camera was snapped." IMITATION PEARLS. They May Be Detected by the Hol« Drilled Through Them. The means of ascertaining the genu Ineness of pearls, which are frequently Imitated with marvelous skill, is es pecially important to the layman, evei ( ihough the Jeweler may quickly detect them, imitations are usually iightei than real pearls and generally are brit tie, although some are made solid ol fish scales and do not break so easily I while the holes, which in the real pear ere dililel very small and have a sharj edge, are in the false larger and have i blunt edge. As a rule, the imitatloi pearls are like hollow spheres of glasi | colored internally with a coating lin! fating the orient of natural pearl. Tin manufacture of these artlclei embr.iees two series <>f operations—th< | production or the sphere and the intro duction of coating. The spheres ar< produced by the glassblowcr, who b; aid of an cnameler's lump solders tht extremity of a tube w'>en the sub stance Is of the right c m-i-tency. li this way are obtained very regular lit tie spheres that serve tor the eoinposl tiou of the ordinary quality of falsi ! pearls. In the more beautiful imitations tin tube employed is slightly opalescent and the glassblower, besides, gives t< the little spheres while they are yo malleable certain slight perceptible in equalities of surface by gently tapplnj them with a small Iron bar. This give them a still greater resemblance t< natural pearls, which are very seldon absolutely regular.—Exchange. Vln/n and Eve. Adam was making bis avowal t five. "No power shall ever lake you froi my side," he declared fervently. "That's a pretty rash promise, lsn' it." inquired Eve, winking, "sinee yo know 1 was taken from your side th first tblug after you arrived here?'' Perceiving that tbe woman was gii Ing him a rib roast. Adam went ol sulking in the apple orchard. El change. AN EARLY CALL Mark Twain's Story About His Ab sontminded Brother. One bitter December night Orion (Mark Twain's brother) sat up reading until 3 o'clock in the morning and then, without lookiug at a clock, sallied forth to call on a young lady. He hammered and hammered at the door; couldn't get any response; didn't understand it. Anybody else would have regarded that as an indication of some kind or other and would have drawn Infer ences and gone home, but Orion didn't draw inferences. lie merely hammered and hammered, and finally the father of the girl appeared at the door In a dressing gown. He had a candle In his hand, and the dressing gown wa9 all the clothing he had on, except an expression of welcome, which was so thick and so large that it extended all down his front to his Instep and nearly obliterated the dressing gown. But Orion didn't notice that this was an unpleasant expression. He merely walked in. The old gentleman took him into the parlor, set the candle on a table and stood. Orion made the usual remarks about the weather and sat down—sat down and talked and talked and went on talking, that old man looking at him vindictively and waiting for his chance, waiting treach erously and malignantly for his chance. Orion had not asked for the young lady. It was not customary. It was understood that a young fellow came to see the ghi of the house, not the founder of it. At last Orion got up and made some remark to the effect that probably the young lady was busy and he would go now and call again That was the old man's chance, and he said with fervency. "Why, good land, aren't you going to stop to break fast V" Mark Twain's Autobiography in North American Review. FOUND A HOLE FOR HIM. txpcrlpni'9 of h Voaug Man In Hl« Start In Rnilneaa. Here is something that should appeal Thlx t.Hi-ment Interferes Willi 11..Hi llenllh hiiil Comfort. Some of the .% liKurilitieN of the Pres ent Masculine Style of Attire. The necessity by which men feel co erced of proving to the world that they wear white shirts lies at the basis of •11 the difficulties of the dress problem. Until the garment becomes extinct it is hopeless to attempt the reform of men's dress on the lines of health and comfort. It will of course ultimately dlsap- ; pear, for it Is I»ut the mark of a stage in the evolution of dress, just as the vermiform appendix Is a useless evolu tionary remnant In the body. But the question Is whether we ought to await the slow course of evolution or to use our common sense and abandon the ancient garment at once. Wliy do we wear white shirts'/ Ages ago it was only the wealthy who could afford to clothe themselves In linen. TUe possession of linen underwear was tl en a mark of social position, and there was an obvious advantage in making public display of it. We may put down three-fourths of die discomfort of the hot summer to the account of the starched shirt. It prevents the very process devised by nature to keep the body cool—the evap oration of sweat. In so far as It hin ders this natural process In summer, the white shirt favors disease. But in winter it Is a fruitful cause of illness. In winter the mere wearing of a white shirt would no doubt leave a man no better and no worse if he were j content to wear it for his own satisfac- ! tion. But the curious law of evolution comes In and compels him to wear It in such a way as to do himself physical injury. Wherever evolution is at work it leaves vestiges—literally, footprints. Probably it Is millions of years sine® the vermiform appendix became a use less organ, but it still survives. All evolutionary survivals appear to be harmful. The appendix is the seat of appendicitis. In the inner corner of the eye there is the remnant of a one* useful third lid, which now only lodges dust and causes irritation. The lord chancellor's wig was once u comfort in ancient drafty legislative chambers and now merely serves to make a sensible man look ridiculous and give him headaches. People who drew up laws were long ago paid according to the number of words, but the multiplicity of words QOW only causes confusion. So the white shirt that was once a badge of wealth and culture, being no longer of value 112 ir that purpose, is only a cause of discomfort and disease. It is necessary to cut a piece out of the ve.-t an 1 the coat, just over the most important organs of the body, In order to prove to our neighbors that we wear white shirts. Consequently in the winter time we expose the lungs and the air passages to the cold wind and.he cold rain. From the point of view of health nothing could be more stupid. Bron chitis is one of the most deadly of all diseases in this country. Bronchitis Is simply inflammation of the bronchial tubes. This inflammation is excited by a chill, a chilling of that part of the body left exposed in order to show that we wear white shirts. The white shirt, in fact, might ap- j pear in the tables of the registrar gen- | eral as the cause of so niauy deaths, ' perhaps 100,000 a year. And does It really improve a man's j appearance? By virtue of the assocla* ! tion of ideas it certainly does. Usual ly men who do not wear white shirts are not given to cleanliness. The man j who wears a white shirt washes his face and hands and brushes his clothes: hence when we see a white front and white cuffs we experience that pleas ant sensation produced by general neatness ot' the person and clothing. But that a few square Inches of white clothing over the chest makes a man look better is an absurd conclusion. The case for the white shirt has not a leg to stand upon. The garment Is uncomfortable, unhealthy and unbe coming. And as it has lost the only useful function it ever possessed—that Is, Its symbolism of exceptional wealth —we ought to discard it altogether. The difficulties of this course are very gre.it no doubt. What we want Is an "antiwlilte shirt society," which would agree to wear, from some prearranged date, a dress designed wholly with re gard for comfort, health and beauty.— T. F. Manning in London Gossip. BEES IN WARFARE. Tito Inituncea In Which the Inaectv Were L'aetl a* Weapon®. History records two Instances in which bees have been used In warfare as weapons against besieging forces. The first is related by Apptan of the siege of Themiscyra, in Pontus, by Lu cullus In his war against Mlthrldates. Turrets were brought up, mounds were built, and huge mines were made by the Romans. The people of Themis cyra dug open these mines from above and through the boles cast down upon the workmen bears and other wild animals and hives or swarms of bees. The second instance Is recorded in an Irish manuscript in the Blbllotheque Royale at Brussels and tells how the Danes and Norwegians attacked ! ter, which was defended by the' Saxons and some Gallic auxiliaries. The Danes 1 were worsted by a stratagem, but the Norwegians, sheltered by hurdles, tried to pierce the walls of the town when "what the Saxous and the Gaeldhll who were among them did was to throw down large rocks, by which they broke down the hurdles over their heads." What the others dkl to check this was to place large posts under the hurdles. What the Saxous did next was to put all the beer and water of the town Into the caldrons of the town and boil them and spill them down upon those who were under the hurdles, so that their skins were peeled off. The remedy which the Lochlaus applied to this was to place hides outside on the hurdles. What the Saxons did next was to throw down all the beehives in the town upon the besiegers, which pre vented them from moving their hands or legs from the number of bees which stnnir ilicni They afterward desisted and left the <•: iy. Forest Air. There i- a general impression that the humidity of the air Is greater lu the woods than In the open fields. This is contradicted, however, by the result of observations made in Ger many. It was found there that the humidity, both relative and absolute, was slightly greater in the open than In the w<> hls, and this was true equal ly In the morning and in the after noon. As to the temperature of the air among the trees, it was a trifle higher than in the open in the morn ing and in a more marked degree in the afternoon. THE LICORICE PLANT. Where It Grows and How Its QlaoW Juice Is Treated. Black licorice is made from the Jules of the licorice plant, mixed with starch to prevent it from melting in hot weather. The licorice plant grows for the most part on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which flow through Immense treeless prairies of uncultivated land. The climate of these great plains Is variable. Half the year It is mild and pleasant, but for three months it is very cold, and for three months in summer hot winds sweep across the country, raising the temperature to 104 degrees for weeks at a time. The licorice plant Is a shrub three feet high and grows without cultiva tion in situations where its roots can reach the water. The usual time of collecting is the winter, but roots are dug all the year around. At first the root Is full of water and must be allowed to dry, a process which takes nearly a year. It Is then cut Into small pieces from six Inches to a foot long. The good and sound pieces are kept, and tlie rotten ones are used for firewood. As the valley of the Euphrates con tained one of the earliest civilizations In the world. It is probable that licorice is about the oldest confection extant and that the taste, which pleases near ly all children today, was familiar to the little brown boys and girls of Babylon and Nineveh 8,000 years ago. THE FIRST ZOO. China, It Seems, Counts That Among Her Many Reoorda. The Chinese had the first zoo. Men ageries are thought to owe their ori gin partly to the cult of sacred ani mals and partly to the ambition of rulers to possess specimens of rare and valuable creatures from foreign lauds or savHfte beasts from their own. In the simplest forms zoological gardens were one of the earliest developments of culture and were familiar to the Chinese, Indians, Greeks, Romans and pre-Spanish Mexicans In ancient times. The oldest recorded menagerie Is Chi nese, dating from llfiO B. C. The den of lions kept by Darius, as described In the book of Daniel, Is an example of one of those primitive menageries, while the cult of sacred white horses by the ancient Greeks and Romans and that of so called white elephants lu Burma and Siani are Instances of a second type. A live giraffe was re ceived at the menagerie of Schonbnmn as early as 1828. The Paris establishment Is regarded as the earliest entitled to the designa tion "zoological gardens" In the mod ern sense of that term, which owes Its origin, however, to the formation of the menagerie in the Regents' park. Of German establishments of this sort the one at Berlin Is the earliest. American zoos, notable among which Is New York and Chicago, are among the completest In the world. Ex change Roman House Heatara. The methods used by the Romans for warming their houses were clever. In Rome Itself artificial warmth may have been brought rarely into use, though the Italian winter requires fires al times, but wheu the Roman took uj his abode abroad as the conqueror h( certainly lived in chilly climates. It the country houses he built In England he had carefully devised heating ar rangements, which are called hypo i causts. These are flues running un der the tessellated floors. Fires wer« lit outside of the house, and the hoi air passed under the floors. To dc this much required a knowledge ol ' the builder's art, with the necessarj precautions against fire. Retanants ol ♦hese hypocausts are found today lr England, built during the Roman oc tupatlon. SCOTCH TERMS. Tha Word "Clan"' and the Relation ci Clansmen and Chief. Everybody knows that the wor< "mac" (pronounced in Gaelic machk] means sou, so that, for example, Mac Donald literally means the sou of Don aid. But It Is not geuerally knowr that wheu a woman is spoken of th< hlgblanders substitute for "mac" th« feminine "nich," which means daugh ter; that the vocative of "mac" Is "vichk" (we spell phonetically), whicl always replaces mac when a persor (s addressed, and that the nomlnatlv< plural ts mlehk (sons) or claun (ehll dreu). Sir Walter Scott's Ignorance ol Gaelic frequently led him Into erroi upon these points, both in his poetrj and In his novels. The meaning of the Gaelic word clan as Ju6t stated, Is children, and the obe dlence which clansmen owed to theli chief was considered by them rathei as the affectionate obedience due bj children to a father than as that dut by subjects to a ruler. They believed themselves to l>e all blood relatione descended from a common ancestor, ol which their chief was the living repre sentatlve. The clansman who hesltat ed to save his chief's life at the ex pense of his own was regarded as e coward who fled from his father's Bld« In the hour of peril. On the othei hand, the chief was expected at al times to acknowledge the meanest ol his clan as his relation aud to shake hands with him wherever they mighi happen to meet. Subordinate to th« chief and geuerally related to him were the chieftains and tacksmen.— London Standard. DIET AND HEALTH. Use Foods That Will Give the System the Oil It Demands. Every person requires a certain amount of oil in his food In order to be healthy. Our ancestors lived to a large extent on olives, filberts, chestnuts and other nuts containing oil. The present generation uses too little oil in its diet. This can l»e taken in the shape of the pure expressed olive oil, as an emulsified salad dressing or by eating nuts, olives, etc. It may be a matter »112 choice how the system gets its oil, but a certain amount Is essen tial to the enjoyment of good health. The good results of the habitual use of the above articles in the diet are soon shown, especially when jtersons are In clined to colicky Indigestion and con stipation. Doctors will do well to in struct their patients to use pure olive oil In moderate doses, also as dressing for salads. Various kinds of nuts have a higli dietetic value l>ecaut»e of the plls which they contain and can be used to advantage. When patients in cline to consumption, pure cod livec oil ranks at the head of oily sub stances, but the lesser oils also can l>e taken in moderation. Nature furnishes many cures for the successful treatment of diseases if we will but study her methods Instead of following fads. The result will be a greater progress in bulldlug up resist ance ami Immunity from disease THE MALE OPERA HAT. I Why It Rises Superior to Any Passing I Fashion Dictates. Men generally protest against the changes of style In hats, and one of the sex has written to the New York Mail this complaint: Why attack as a "collapsible, many named pretender" the opera hat, or chapeau de claque? I have snr-h a hat and also a silk hat, in which ■ poet T think I differ from most Gothamites. Whenever I have an option I wear the opera rather than the oilier. It's more convenient. At the theater or opera you can car ry It better on your between the acts promenades. If there Is no rack for your hat under the seat you can tuck it in your overcoat and put it on the floor nmlt r you without destroying it, as t. ou world do with a silk hat. If you put your hat in the rack un der your seat and then rise and stand close to it to permit a late comer to pass an opera hat suffers no damage. A silk hat would be either ruffled or crushed. The opera hat looks as well at all th::e as t': • silk hat and requires much less care. Indeed, I thiuk it looks better. The glossy surface of a silk huf. ! ;, .:e the glossy bosom of a stiff whiie i-hirt. is an uncomfortable survival ol Hie time when men wore polished helmets and breastplates. There is so much reason In the opera hat that men of discrimination will continue to wear it, the style of the moment regnrdless. FAMOUS GAMBLERS. Ol, nursed in clubs, disdained a vulgar •.rade, K:.nlt* "o trust and blushes to be paia. AffiO'ig the members of this club tvpri' the Prince of Wales, and, of | 10-irse. nis tidus Achates, Sheridan, be rimes the great Charles James Foi, { who here played deeply and whose | name is oft recorded in the wager book, which, however, is of older date aud was kept when the club was held at A 1 muck's. "Lord Northington bets Mr. C Fox, June 4, 1774, that he (Mr. C. F.) is not called to the bar before this day four years." 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