| Nathan Straus, | Pure Milk Crusader Merchant Prince and Philanthropist Who Heads the National Democratic Business Men's Bureau Founder of Pasteurized Milk Depots and Saver of Many Lives. By JAMES A. EDGERTON. THERE Is a soul satisfying sound about the word philanthropist— lover of man. It is the term universally applied to Nathan Straus, the New York merchant who has crowned a life of charity by es tablishing pasteurized milk depots throughout America and Europe. If there were a word that meant lover of children, It would be still more ap propriate to Mr. Straus, as he has saved the lives of thousands of little ones by his pure milk crusade. Tills should entitle hint to a fame as much above that of the conquerors as it Is greater to give life or preserve It than It is to take it away. Mr. Straus Is the head of oue of New York city's Immense department I stores, llis brother, Oscar S. Straus, Is a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet and was formerly minister to | Turkey under President Cleveland. Nathan Straus, however, is a Demo crat and was recently appointed chair man of the committee to organize the business men of the country In behalf of the Bryan liokot. Despite Ills work as a busiii . r.an and philanthropist Mr. Stra;: !i is always found time to devote t : >!'.<• ::IT;.i . «. lie has lit en l jjjl nrt nr\ NATHAN STRAUS AND ONE Of IIIS TYPICAL MILK DEPOTS. park commissioner and president of i tbe health board lu New York city and 1 has served ou the forestry commission j in the state. In 1894 Tammany nomi- j nated him for mayor, and the uomina- I tion was equivalent to an elee;lon. After considering the matter for two j ■lays Mr. Straus declined, lie has pre- j «*rred his personal Independence in liolilics and lias refused to submit to i party dictation. Only Nominal Prices Charged. In Ills philanthropic work Straus nas always avoided the appc:i:vn< • j giving charity, believing that : Is! do gra<lo3 :>.nd pauperizes tbo r< ii >nt. | ITe 1I:I«I insisted .»:» th i> he h • ay- j lng something If possible. This iin.cint ; has always been less than the cost of i the article to Mr. Straus and has been • insisted on simply to preserve the self } respect of the recipient. Thus during | the panic of 18113, when so many men j were out of work in New York city and j so much suffering prevailed among the ! poor, Nathan Straus established coal I supply stations, grocery stores and j sleeping houses throughout the city. lie ! saw that the people were being robbed by the small coal dealers who sold in twenty five or fifty pound lots. By es tablishing several coal offices and inly ing In Immense quantities he was en abled to sell the coal to the poor at about half what they had been paying. This represented a loss to Mr. Straus. . but relieved the suffering. The same was true of his groceries. In which j work he was helped by J. IMerpont Morgan and others. The prices charged j were little more than nominal, but the | people still felt that they were paying j for what they got. lu the sleeping j houses the men only gave "> cents a night, or prices ns ridiculously sma'l. but they did not have the sense <>f re ceiving without gii lug an equivalent, and so the great psychological law recompense, which is so necessary to a j feeling of independence, was not vio lated. I.ater ou, when Mr. Straus <3- J tablished the pasteurized milk depois , In the parks and on the public piers, lie worked on the same principle. The milk was sold at n small amount per bottle or per glass, not nearly enough to repay the cost, but still enough to re move the sting of a patronizing chari ty from those helped. Even then the price was not Insisted on in all cases. If a mother applied for milk for her Infant and said she was not able to pay, the milk was given gladly. Not only was pasteurized milk furnished at these booths, but a physician was In attendance to advise mothers as to their little ones. This service was free of charge. Through such means the lives of thousands of babies were saved annually. The work was not confined to New York, but was opened !n other American cities and then In Europe. The name of Nathan Straus Is now almost as familiar across the water as at home. Milk Booths Erected In Parks. The pasteurized milk crusade Is a Btory in itself that some day will be read by the world with thrilling inter est. The pathetic and Inspiring tale can only be touched here. It has been over a dozen years since Mr. Straus became alive to the fact that lmDure uina causes more deatns man aiuiom any other one cause; that it spreads typhoid, diphtheria and other like dis eases; that It sweeps off thousands of children through summer complaint and that It is a great avenue for the carrying of consumption. Scarcely any taw milk is free from disease germs of some sort, though in much of it they are not in sufficient quan tities to affect adults or children of vigorous constitutions. Many diph theria, scarlet fever and other similar scourges have been traced to this source. In one experiment made by Mr. Straus, where the infant mortality had been over I'i.i y i.i a hundred, ha reduced it to tv.emy. In New York the year before he began his work the iat'aut inor, lity .liu i the live hot weeks of July and early August had been l.v. 1 p.-r ! '. The next year, after ha l o-.au <: retributing pas teurized milk, it tell toll T.i). During ten > • he kept up the dls- j triliuUou. and the I'eath rate among I child.ell \> as still i'ni ther decreased to | 72.1. II" I i t givlvg the milk free to |h;>: the board of health an. l . d in charita- j ble work. . !. started erecting boot' •i. • • ' a this he was j opposeu oy many omciais ami ar 111 >1 j had little encouragement from ilij ' source. lie persevered, however, c.:- | tending the work to Philadelphia. «'hi- I cago and other cities, and the p:v - j began to comment favorably 011 Ids j efforts. It was the writer's fortune to j be 1111 editorial writer ou one of tin ; New York dailies during J,.-. f'tr.r:. crusade and to assist in 11 small way j by writing many editorials in his be j half. 1 remember that at tin* begin | uing of one summer Mr. Straus had j five pasteurized milk depot ivad.v to open 111 various parks of the city. lie i offered to supply any number of mldi ! tioiial booths that the city would erect 1 with pasteurized milk free of 1 ex cept the nociinal charges to patrons, j The appropriation required was only the trilling sum of and yet the olllcials were so slow that even thi 1 niggardly amount was not forthcoming. Mr. Straus then erected twelve moiv j booths himself, making seventeen in all. lie had a similar experience lu some ] European cities, of one of these he said In an interview: "1 had a desire to establish my milk system in the town of Lille, France, j where the infant mortality was -oh, j I've forgotten the figures, but it was | something frightful! I made the offer . and endeavored to arrange for the J acceptance of the gift, but It seer ed j there were too many difficulties lu the [ way official difficulties, precedents, | red tape and all the rest of it." Honored by Nevertheless he did succeed In Lu j rope, and row his 1 Ik <!.*■ are to be found in many «i o ly >j but at a recent International p. re uiilk congress M:. Straus w is given an ova Hon. He has been received a".! h :• ored by royalty for his work :• n-n 1 and through his efforts l'rati.e. lev- I many, England and i-iiior fun ' on tlons have been awakened tot: • 1 1 pure milk ;<erll almost as tnuc'i ■■: 1 Ills own lat.d. Recently Mr. s 1 h ppen I urteen months abroad for tha purpose of preaching his crusade for the preservation of life aud in that 1 time made great progress. In Sand-1 bauson, a .small village near Heidel berg, the establishment of a pasteuriza tion plant caused au immediate fall in the death rate of children, in Karls ruhe the dowager Grand Duchess Luise of Bavaria gave her cordial sup port to Mr. Straus In the establishment of a pasteurization plant, as did the Countess of Aberdeen, vice reine of Ireland, in Dublin; the Princess Ar nulf of Itavarla, In Munich, and Dr. E. W. Hope, officer of health, in Liv erpool. Baron von Beinerth, minister j of the Interior of Austria, promised Mr. Straus to Introduce the pasteuriza tion of milk throughout that country, and the demonstrations given by Mr. Straus in Frankfort, Berlin and Vienna were attended by physicians, men of science, philanthropists and govern ment and health officials. Mr. Straus' platform In this work may be judged by this vigorous sum ming up: "Neither war nor pestilence nor famine claims as many victims as Impure mUk. It is the most terrible foe of humanity, all the more because It elves no outward sUrn of the dan- Kt-r. us pßsreurize our muK ntrp ply. Let us have for otir motto, "Medi cines and hospitals are possible cures, whtle pasteurization Is positive pre vention." " Supported by the Government. In America even greater success has attended his crusade. A year or more ago the government came to his sup port. The agricultural department, aft er thorough tests, gave out a report that agreed with all of Mr. Straus' con tentions and urged the pasteurization or boiling of milk In all cities, villages and homes of the land. The warning awakened the medical profession, the health boards and the public generally to the peril of Impure milk. Since then the work has l>een going forward more rapidly. It takes a long time to get tho great Inert mass of humanity to mov ing—it has taken Mr. Straus fifteen years, and much yet remains to bo done but, once started, It goes with Its own momentum. This movement will proceed with all the greater force be l cause it will have behind it the love of children. Once let mothers and fathers thoroughly understand that impure milk means the possible murder of their little ones, and pasteurization will he swiftly established from ocean to ocean. At the time the government gave out Its report on the subject it also Impart ed a formula for home pasteurization. This I do not remember in detail, but It will be supplied any one writing to the agricultural department at Wash ington and asking for the bulletin. As I recall tlie formula it is to bring the milk slowly and gently to the boil and then let it as gradually cool. It should be kept above a certain temperature— not the boiling point, however—for some time, as that is necessary to kiil '.he germs. If allowed to boil too vio lently or too long, the life giving prop erties in the milk are killed. Better than home pasteurization, however, is the establishment of pasteurization plants In all cities and villages of the country. Nathan Straus, the 111:111 who is chief ly responsible for bringing this peril to the attention of mankind, ami not only *O, but who lias doue more than any other dozen men to remove the dan ger, was liorn in Khenlsh Bavaria in IHis. Ills father was Lazarus Straus, who came to this country before the war, going into business at Talbotton. Ga. Mr. Straus was a pronounced X T iii<hi man. however, aud secession sentiment was so strong about him that he was compelled to move to Co lambus, (ia. In ISO.", he again re moved. this time to New York, where he went into the crockery business un der the name of L. Straus & Sons. Nathan up to this time had been in Lavaut college, but now at the age of seventeen went on the road for the Brin. In IS7-J he took charge of the crockery department of Ills present business house, a few years later was made a member of the firm, and now, with his brothers, controls a majority of the stock. Authors and Speakers of Ability. Of these brothers there are two lion. Oscar S. Straus, already men tioned. and Isidor Straus, almost as well known, since he lias been a mem ber of congress and prominent In his opposition to a protective tariff and free silver. There is no family in New York more thoroughly respected than the three Straus brothers. They belong to that high type of philan thropic Jews of which the world con tains many noble examples. They are unostentatious, cultured, public spir ited, intellectual and given to good works. All are authors and speakers of ability, a.' have held high public place, all are capable business men, and all are objects of public esteem. Of the three, Nathan Straus excels In works of philanthropy. lie Is rath er slight in build, of nervous, intellec tual face, which Is covered by a full beard running to two points. Mr. Straus has a home of quiet elegance, loves a fast horse aud tells a good story on occasion. One tale of bis re lates to a stableman. One morning Mr. Straus found this man rubbing the leg of one of his trotters with a spike nail dipped in liniment When asked what he was doing the man replied that the directions said to ap ply the medicine "with a nail or tooth brush," and as he had no toothbrush ho thought If he had to use 11 nail he had better take a spike. The stahle uian was evidently not acquainted with nailbrushes. Mr. Straus has a sad face, seeming to feel the suffering of all the unfortu nate. Y'et if the saving of many lives can give Joy, he should be the happi est man in the world. Strange Race of Ancient Britons. Among the races of humankind which away back of history's records passed like clouds over various parts of the earth one of the most puzzling to ethnologists is that of the early bronze age men who dwelt In Aber deenshire, Scotland, and are supposed to have constructed the special forms of stone circles whose remains are now found there. These men differed sig nificantly, says J. Gray, from all the prehistoric racial types previously de termined in Britain. They were re markably broad headed, and their av erage stature was only five feet three inches, as shown by skeletons. The British neolithic race was markedly long headed, and the bronze age race, which built the round tumuli, was also long headed and tall. Man and Woman. Father Vaughan of London, preach ing on marriage, remarked that a wo man said to him: "When you have seen one man you have seen them all in their moods and tenses. They are all alike." Ills reply was:"lt may be so, but woman is like an irregular French verb, and unless a man studies her in all her peculiar moods and tenses he will misconstrue and misin terpret her. much to his disadvan tage." An Overdressed Drama. It is only In the last fifty years that the true purpose of the theater, the decent interpretation of the drama, has been utterly obscured. Today carpenters, costumers and wlgmakers throw the humble playwright into the shade.—National Review. Reprieve "What, divorced already? Why. my dear fellow. I supposed you were up against It for life." "No; I got time allowance for bad behavior."—Puck. _________ FIERCE FOREST FIRES, Enormous Loss Caused In Spring and Summer of 1908. MANY TOWNS DESTROYED. Timber Burned Equal In Value to Good Sized Navy of Battleship*—Continu ous Experience In Fighting Flames. Historic Forest Fire Incidents. The forest tires which have recently laid waste whole countries iu Minnesota and Michigan and extended into Wis consin, destroying many towns and making thousands of persons homeless, have focused the attention of both government and state forest officers >u the enormous losses of forest weall'i which will be checked up to the year 1008. Iu the whole northern half of the United States, throughout the territory extending from coast to const, the re ported destruction by forest tires has been terrilie, and it is likely that the year will go down as one of the worst iu the last quarter century, says a for est service bulletin. It seems that no part of the country lias escaped the work of the devastating flames. 'I'll:' i ' latest disasters in Minnesota, Michigan : | and Wisconsin are tHe worst of the S | many that have visited the lake states | this year. Other sections have also i ! suffered from forest tires during the | spring and summer months, and the people of the Pacific coast, the Rocky i mountain and the New Kugland stati s ! and Canada have had a thorough ami iu some cases a continuous experience j in tire lighting. Officers in the United States forest service at Washington say that it is doubtful if this year's actual losses from forest tires in all parts of the United States will ever be known, but it is certain that they will run up so high in the millions that the country will lie startled when a compilation of statistics at the end of the season makes it possible to give even the most conservative figures. Suffice it t i say, were all the timber burned up t llls year in all parts of the country con verted into cash it could provide for a j good sized navy of first class battle ships. | Tiie tires have done good in one way. They have called the people's atten tion to ilie seriousness of the forest tire problem, practical foresters say, I and have started a widespread mo'v ment in many states to check them by adopting rational systems of fire pro tectlon. Among thinking people there has been awakened an intense Inter est in throwing a better protection around the forests, which grow more Important as a natural resource as tli>* : tlmbAr supply dwindles. The terrible work of the flames i which have burned over and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of tint her and property to the value of mil I ll'ons in the lake states recalls to mem i ory other great forest tires which have I attained historic importance. One of the earliest of these was the great Mlramichi tire in 1525. It began | its greatest destruction about 1 o'clock ! in the afternoon of Oct. 7 of that year I at a place about sixty miles above the j town of Newcastle, on the Miramichl ! river, in New Brunswick. Before 10 o'clock at night it was twenty miles J below Newcastle. In nine hours It , hud destroyed a belt of forest eighty miles long and twenty-five miles wide. Over more than 2.r>00,000 acres almost every living tiling was killed. Even the tisli were afterward found dead in heaps on the river banks, l'lve hun dred and ninety buildings wet a burned, and a number of towns. Including New castle, Chatham and Douglastowu, were destroyed. One hundred and six ty persons perished and nearly a thou sand bead of stock. The loss from the Miramlchl lire is estimated at $300,000, not Including the value of the timber. In the majority of such forest fires as this the destruction of the timber Is a more serious loss by far than that of the cattle and buildings, for it carries with it tlie impoverishment of a whole region tor tens or even hundreds of years afterward. The loss of the stmnpage value of the timber at the time of tli<? tire Is but a small part of the damage to the neighborhood. The wages that would have been earned in lumbering, added to the value of the produce that would have been pur chased to supply the lumber camps and the taxes that would have been devoted to roads and other public im provements. furnish a much truer measure of how much, sooner or later. It costs a region when its forests are destroyed by tire. Tin l Peshtigo tire of October, 187 i. was stlil more severe than the Mini miehi. It covered an area of more than 2,000 square miles In Wisconsin and Involved a loss in timber and other property of many millions of dollars. Between 1.200 nnd l,. r >oo persons per Ished. The most destructive lire of more re cent years was that which started near Hinckley. Minn.. Sept. 1. 1804. While the area burned over was less than in some other great tires, the loss <>t life and property was very heavy Hinckley and six other towns were de stroyed, about 500 lives were lost, more thau 2,000 persons were left des tltute, and the estimated loss in prop erty of various kinds was $25,000.00: i Except for heroic conduct of locomo tive engineers nnd other railroad men the loss of life would have been much greater. This fire was nil the more de plorable because It was wholly un necessary. For many days before the high wind came and drove It Into un controllable fury It was burning slow ly close to the town of ninckley nnd could have been put out. Climatic Changes. There is plenty of evidence of the very best sort which goes to prove that not only Europe and North America, but the lands situated within the arc tic circle, must have enjoyed a tropics I climate. The numerous fossil remains found In those regions are those of plants and animals which, according to the present state of our knowledge, must have lived under conditions now found only in the equatorial belt Not h ing is clearer than the fact that the polar cold is steadily gaining on the temperate and tropical zones and that eventually the land will be all ice fields. PROVED A POET A Youthful Experience of John Green leaf Whittier. John Greenleaf Whittier used to de clare that at a very early age he knew himself to be a real poet and would often relate, writes Mrs. AbbyJ. Wood man in her "Reminiscences of Wlilt lier's Life at Oak Knoll," an amusing experience when he was a student at the Haverhill academy. Mrs. Wood man gives it In Mr. Whittier's own words: There Is but little doubt that at the ago of twenty I felt myself to be a real poet, somewhat unknown to fame, but sufficiently acknowledged as such by the committee directing the dedica tion of the new academy for them to invite me to read an original" J {>oem on that occasion. Robert Dinsmore, an old Scotch farmer in Windham and a writer of rhyme and doggerel verse, was also in vited to do the same. The honor of leading the procession which marched through the streets of Haverhill to the new academy was given to the two poet s. I often laugh when I recall the scene to memory. The hale old Scotchman, , short and plethoric, his uncertain step I and bearing slightly exhilarated by a j generous draft of old Scotch whisky before we started, was somewhat ot a contrast to me, a rather tall and slen der Quaker lad in Quaker hat and coat and half frightened out of my wits by the honor heaped upon me. However, we delivered our poems all right, and I am thinking that must have been the time when I was dubbed "the Quaker poet." AN AMUSING CUSTOM. Spaniards Trick Themselves Into Wanting a Glass of Water. Writing of experiences with Spanish hospitality, Ellen Maury Slaydeu lu the Century says: The cafes were always crowded to suffocation, and yet we lingered past the small hours, the men smoking doz ens of cigarettes and the women dip ping bits of wafer Into chocolate as leisurely as if they had the night in stead of the day before them. A fa vorite drink was a thin almond milk which looked like sollicking for the complexion and which, atier tasting, 1 would have much preferred applying externally. There was a refreshing ab sence of the highball and cocktail ele ment, and no one ever seemed to take too much to drink. It is always amusing to see these most temperate people tricking them selves Into wanting a glass of water. They recommend certain dishes and enjoy their eternal chocolate chiefly because "It makes one so thirsty." Visiting a country house once, we were invited into the dining room and I hoped for tea. The table was elabo rately spread. We were seated and each helped to a delicious conserved peach and tenderly urged to eat it to make us want some water. When we had eaten the peach and drunk the water the ceremony was complete. SENIORITY IN CONGRESS. Experience Carries influence Old Members Relied on For Work. A man's standing In congress is gained by seniority. His influence there comes from length of service, provided, of course, that It is the right kind of service. New men, no matter how ambitious and zealous, have very little influence. They do not and cannot begin their work where their predecessors left of!'. Speechmaklng does not bring them In fluence. Work brings It—committee work. Members rank in their committees by seniority. Besides, new members do not get and cannot get In the usual course of things appointments to the ' more Important committees. These 1 appointments goto the tried men, who by length of service coupled with abil ity are chosen in the house for the va cant places. | Some constituencies know this and ■ act accordingly. Some constituencies ; Ignore the fact and gain nothing by I ignoring it. In fact, they lose weight | In the eoui t lis of congress by fre j quently changing their representatives ! simply to gratify the ambitions of lo cal politicians.—Boston Herald. A Story About Rodin. The Crl de Paris tolls a most amus ing story If true about Rodin and some unnamed rich American woman who had selected him to make a statue of herself, full length and so far as pos sible a portrait. She had posed ten times in antique costume when Rodin told ~ >or that he did not need her any more auu that he would finish the work at his leisure. When the Ameri can came again she found to her amazement that the head of the statue bore no resemblance whatever to her. She complained bitterly that no one would even recognize her. "It is true." said the great sculptor dreamily. "Tour head did not inspire me at all. At first I thought I would not put any head on the statue, as I have been accustomed to do of late, but after I had thought it over carefully in order not to offend you I putin place of your face that of Mme. de It. She had ordered hers of me. but never paid for it. At any rate, you will gain much by this change!" Not a Bit Conccltcil. Wife—You are positively the most conceited man I ever n«'t. Hub--1 con ceited! Woman, there s not a conceit ed bone in my body. Why, another man with the same abilities would be absolutely carried away with pride.— Exchange. A Crushing Come Back. "I started to tell my wife about a woman who made her own gowns." "Well?" "She capped my story with one about a man who made a million dollars." - Louisville Courier-Journal. Poisonous Nettles of the Tropics. In tropical regions there are nettles far more powerful than that of our own country. The one called Urtiea stimuians, which is found in Java, and that called Laportea creuulata, found In Hindu stan, when bruised emit an effluvium which polsonously affects the eyes and mouth and if handled produce convul sions and serious swelling and pain in the arms, which may last for three or four weeks and In some esses cause death.—London Telegraph ESCAPE PROOF PRISON Nashville's Bastile Will Defy Most Skillful Jail Breaker. FILE PROOF STEEL FOR CELLS Model Jail Also Home of Criminal Court—Prisoners Can Be Tried, Con victed and Executed All In the One Building. Work upon the new criminal court and county jail building in Nashville. Tenn., is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible, and, despite the many delays which have retarded the undertaking, it is more than probable that the edifice will be ready for oc cupancy by Dec. 1. This was practically the answer of Superintendent of Construction Charles M. Little In response to a reporter's question. The exterior work is all tinlshed, with the exception of a small awning which will be erected over the central archway entrance to the main court and building. It is probable that no city in the south and very few anywhere in the United States will possess a more per fectly appointed and secure bastile than will Nashville, and the prisoner who escapes therefrom when once the jailer has turned the key upon him will need all the cunning of a Jack Sheppard, and then It is likely that he would fall to gain freedom. There is a system of locks and counterlocks, cages within cages and steel barred corridors that is enough to baffle the most skilled jail breaker in the world. A more compact and complete an raugement for tho handling of crimi nals would be hard to imagine, as the criminal court will also sit in this building, and It will be possible to try, convict and execute a prisoner with out his ever leaving the building. There are provided kitchen, scullery, laundry, toilets and baths for prison ers and others who remain in the building all the time, and everything has been provided that could possibly be needed In connection with the sev eral departments. In tlie basement are the boiler anil engine rooms, heating boiler and ven tilator fan rooms, laundry and ironing rooms, all finished In concrete and well! aired and lighted. The main entrance to the building is; through the grand archway, to the right ond left of which are the jailer's i office, road commissioner's office, board of charities and board of health. In addition to these there are a guard room, locker room and closets for the use of colored and white people. The light well or central court is at the center of the building, and when the prisoners are brought In the big mob gates may be closed before they are taken into the utility corridor, which is entered from the light well and i which traverses the main building for its entire width. The cells open off this corridor and are arranged in five 1 tiers, there being a hundred of tliem ! in all, arranged in tiers of twenty, j Each cell Is fitted with four bunks, and there are four cells in a row. with i a bath cell with a porcelain tub at the end of each tier of four. There is a prisoners' corridor outside of the four cell groups and a jailers' corridor out side of this. A large steel barred cell is arranged at the center of the cell court, and here visitors will be al : lowed to see the prisoners. In order to i keep them from passing articles such 1 as tiles, etc., to those confined the vis itors' cell is screened with a fine mesh ; ed wire steel screen or net. The cells are controlled from a lock ' ing box in the outer corridor and may j be locked all together or one at a time, i The condemned cells, which will be | known as "murderers' row," are four | in number and will be located so that i the Interior may IK; seeu by the turn I keys and Jailers at all times. All the j cells ou the upper three tiers are of saw and file proof steel, and the entire | top celling is drill proof. Kventheven tilating shafts are steel lined and bar red. In addition to the regular cells there will be three padded cells for in sane prisoners, one detention cell and three misdemeanor cells. There is a small corridor between the cell rows, and here are the closet pipes, ventilat ing pipes and other fittlugs which it is undesirable to have iu the cells them selves. The floors and ceilings of the cell are of steel, the flooring being re enforced with four Inches of concrete. The second floor of the building is devoted almost exclusively to the crim inal court. The mnin i-ourtroom. which is two stories high and 48 by 51 feet, will have a gallery for negroes and will be perfectly appointed. The offices of the Judge, attorney general and as sistant attorney general, witnesses and jury rooms, grand jury room and jury dining rooms are also on this floor. In the rear. In the utility corridor, a trap opens to the third floor, and, look ing up, one may see a huge iron riug in the ceiling from which condemned prisoners will be hanged. On the third floor will be the operat ing room, female hospital, Jury bed rooms, etc. In the space between the third floor and the roof there is a huge ventilating fan driven by a dynamo that will draw all the foul air from the prison and other parts of the building and force It outside. The roof is of steel and concrete, covered with tarred paper and gravel, guaranteed to be waterproof and durable The main halls of the building will be tiled, as will the lavatories and closets. The entire jail property, which Includes a large concreted yard, will be surround ed by a wall twenty feet high and ab solutely sheer, over which no man could climb unaided. Hot water will be used for heating the building. The Salt In the Sea. A scientist lias calculated, after ex tensive of the density and salt ness of the ocean in all parts of the world, that there Is the equivalent of 3,051,342 cubic geographical miles of common salt in all the known seas. This is more than five times the mass of the mountains in the entire Alpine range. Motorist's Friend—Oh, I say! Good ness gracious, we'll be smashed up In a minute! Motorist—All right, my dear fellow you need not excite yourself. The firtt I bought this motor from has agreed to keep It In repair for a year. • HOW HE SLEPT. Hi* Experience With a Noisy and Par* sistent Cuckoo Clock. Wertz recently was presented with an old fashioned clock. That evening he hung It on his bedroom wall, wound It up and after admiring It awhile went to sleep. lie was drifting into very pleasant dreams when he was startled. "Coo-coo, coo-coo!" Wertz sat up with a start, but in an instant recovered his wits and listened to eight more coo-coos witli a foolish grin. Then lie lay back and went to sleep again. He had got into a fine doze by the time the thing went off again. This time he didn't grin. Wertz is a light sleeper, and, though he tried to get used to the thing, he gave up after the cuckoo had announc ed 2 o'clock and got up and stopped the clock. Next evening Wertz junior, who had not seen the clock, went to look at it. "Why, It's stopped," he said. "What Is wrong?" Wertz senior stroked his chin. "Maybe I didn't wind it this morn ing," ho replied. "Ferd," he continued generously, "if you will promise to wind that clock every morning I'll let you have It for your room." Wertz Junior was delighted, and the transfer was made. At the breakfast table next morn ing the heir of tbe house of Wertz looked tired and somewhat sheepish, but offered no explanation. After con siderable general conversalion his fa ther said: "You look tired. llow did you sleep last night?" Wertz junior yawned. "By the hour," he answered.—Kan sas City Times. SAVED THE GIRL An Old Time Adventure With Solo mon Island Cannibals. One day on a Solomon beach a llttlo girl ran to me and, before I was aware of It, placed my foot on her neck. One knows what this means well enough. In hot war it means that If a chief al lows his foot to rest on the defeated one's neck the man's life is safe, but he Is a slave forever, rescue or no rescue. I was puzzled at the child's action. It was soon explained. Shortly afterward down came a lot of villagers and in sisted on taking the youngster. I told them what she had done. They said they did not care. Her mother was be ing cooked in the town, and the child should go to the ovens with her. "Never!" I said. "What! We, who have eaten l>etel nut together many times, to quarrel for a mere child to whom I have granted life In your own way!" I swore they should kill mo first. They replied: "Oh, that is an easy thing to do." A bold front was the only thing now. Luckily I had my sixteen shooter. ; Springing back and putting a mark on the sand with my foot, I swore I would i shoot the first man who crossed It They knew I could answer for a dozeu : of them or so. and, although clubs were , up and bows bent, they hesitated, as well they might, and I knew I had mastered them. Then one proposed T should buy the child fairly. They j cared not to fight a friend. To this I at once agreed, and a muss was thus avoided, and a mission ax worth ten pence made me a slave owner.— "Among the Man Eaters," by John Caggln. Apt Pupil. Captain .Tones (giving a short lec ture to the recruits of his company on their demeanor in public)—lf a civilian should make offensive remarks in a public house and try to Induce a quar rel the well conducted soldier shouMr drink up his beer and go quietly away." After his address Captain Jones questioned his audience to ascertain If they had comprehended his re marks. "Now, Private Jenkins, what should you do If you wore at an Inn and a civilian wanted to quarrel with you?" "I should drink up his beer, sir, and 'ook it."—London Fiek-Me-Cp. With the Minstrels. Bones—What am de diff'rence 'tween er pastry cook an' er bill sticker? Tarn bo—Ah dunno. What am de diff'rence. Mlstah Bones? Bones-One puffs up de paste an' de othah pastes up do puffs.—Chicago News. The Unmaking. He (boasting!}")—lt takes six genera tions to make a gentleman, you know. She (calmlyi—Yes. and what a pity that It only takes one generation to un make him!— Exchange. Bird Reservation of 70,000 Acres. By an order of President Hoosevelt nbout 70,000 acres of land adjoining the Oregon-California line are to be set aside as a reservation for the propa gation and protection of native birds, says a Bedding (Call dispatch. The order Includes land not suitable for agricultural purposes. The tract is probably the greatest breeding ground In the world for waterfowl. ■i a i A Rella tol© TIN SHOP l"or all kind of Tin Roofing* Spoutlne ind Ceneral Job Work. Stoves, Heaters. Ranee*. Furnaces, eto. PRICRS THE LOWEST! QUALITY TBS BEST! JOHN HIXSON HO. 11» a FBONT ST.
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