7 4- WONDERS OF COAL " "Buried Suns'iine" Hat Beeom Plaything of Science. Has It ever occurred to you that the vaulllit with which tunny a favorite dish of yours la flavored Is made from coal? Will you bellev that most of the dyes which have stained the fab rics of your clothes, that the uaphtha and benzine which your tailor uses In removing stains and that even tua . sweetest perfumes are all of them de rivatives of coal. It was once said by a scientist, clev erer and more Imaginative than mt of his kind, that coal Is "burled sun shine." Something of the enormous xtent of ancient coal forming Jungles may be conceived when It Is said that our present forests would produce only two or three Inches of coal If they, too, were subjected to a carbonizing process. The magicians who have wrought wonders with coal are the gasmaker and tlie chemist. If coal Is burned In the open air, heat Is produced and nothing left but a little ash. Burn It In a closed vessel, however, and the marvelous change occui'H. In the first plnce, coal gas Is produced and, chem ically treated, Is supplied to every city home. Furthermore, ammonia is ob tained, Important In modern agricul ture because by Its means plants can be artificially supplied with the nitro gen they need. - Then, again, asphalt Is produced, much used In roadmaklug, although the retort Is not the chief source of Its supply. Lastly, a black, noisome ooze Is collected which goes by the name of "coal tar." It Is this which at the touch of the modern chemist's wand Is transformed Into the most widely different substances Im aginable. The wonders of coal tar do not cease here. It Is a palette of gorgeous col ors, a medicine chest of potent drugs, a whole arsenal of terrible explosives, a vial of delicious flavors and a garden of perfumes the most protean, varie gated substance In the world. London Tall Mall Magazine. THE HAT HABIT. A Custom That It Neither Becoming Nor Health Giving, Why do both men and women persist in wearing hats? asks Tearson's Maga zine. There are three reasons why we should wear clothes. We may wear them for the sake of decency, for the sake of warmth and for the sake of dis play. None of these reasons applies to the wearing of bats. Of course there are head coverings that are warm, such as the Icelander's sealskin hood and the fisherman's toque; but, as a rule, there Is no realwnrmth In the hat of either sex. When a woman pins a slight structure of straw and artificial flowers on the top of her hair she nev er for an Instant imagines that the thing will keep her from taking cold. The masculine top hat Is certainly warm on a hot day, but It Is very far from warm In cold weather. Neither are hats worn for the pur- - pose of display. Doubtless there are times when women make the hat the occasion of displaying their fondness for dead birds, muslin flowers and oth er beautiful objects, but this Is only when fashion has decreed that big hats sliAll be worn. At other times the fe male bat fs so microscopically small that It could not be successfully used for displaying anything. As for men's hats, they never display anything ex cept the atrocious taste which makes them fashionable. Why, then, in the name of all that Is sensible, do men and women wear hats? As a rule, every man and every wo man looks better without a hat than with one. This is why we all take off ' ur hats at the opera or at an evening party, and yet we cling to a custom that has not a word to be said In Its be half. We persist In wearing the ugly, useless and injurious bat. Why do we do It? I should like to And a good Irish echo that would answer the question at length and In a satisfactory way. Just Breaking In, Up to the age of sixteen Dick had re fined the proper scorn for things , feminine; then he went to dancing school and fell smitten -by the charms of several youthful Eves. Accordingly Dick approached his father and re quested theater tickets for two. ' Father complied and merely asked as '. he turned over the seats. "Which girl is itr . "I'm going to take Mabel," responded Dick. "Then she's the one you like best?" father continued. Dick turned a superior and pitying eye upon bis parent "Oh, no; I don't i like her best! You don't understand I the situation, father. It isn't the girl I care about It's the experience I want" New York Times. Poor William! ! "William, my son," said an econom-! tnftl M nf h aw I. V, US , I uiuuici iv ucl wjt ivi were sake, don't keep on tramping op and -down the floor in that manner. You'll wear out your new boots." (He sits down.) "There yon go sitting down I "Now you'll wear out your new trou sers. I declare, I never saw such a boy!" London Tlt-Blta. His Bright Idas. Not many years ago a well known dealer was visited by a would be teller 'who had in his hand an envelope con taining seventeen signatures of Sam uel Pepys, which, he said, he had Just -cut off the original letters to save trou ble! By so doing he had diminished the value of his property by nearly, 200. London Opinion. It is hard to get women to admire a 1 man for his genius If he neglects to help his wife on with her wrap. Chi. j ago Record-Herald. ' VALUE OF PUBLICITY. Steve Brodie, the Bridge Jumper, as Self Advertiser, Curiously enough, the man who. In my opinion, had the keenest Intuition of the value of publicity and used II to the greatest personal advantage, when we couslder his humble begin nings and the limited sphere of his en deavor, never really knew how to read and write. I knew him first as a young street urchin, making his living bj selling newspapers, blacking boots, run ning errands and doing such odd Jobs as fell In his way, and It was chiefly through selling newspapers, whose headlines alone ho wns barely able tc decipher, that he-gained that knowl edge of what Park row calls "news values," which one finds In every trnln ed and elllclent city editor. It was on the strength of this kuowl edge that tills bootblack went one daj to a well knowu wholesale liquor deal er on the east side and proposed that he should establish 111 1 1 In a saloon on lower Itowery. The liquor dealer win aghast at his presumption until ho learned hi scheme; then he capitulated at once, and within a few days the pa pers hud been signed and twenty-four hours' opt'ou secured on rickety and. from nearly every Imaginable point of view, undesirable premises near Canal street and directly under the noisiest nud dustiest and oiliest part of the ele vated railroad. This done, the boot black made his way to the very center of the lirooklyn bridge, climbed hastily to the top of the parapet and, heedless of the warning shouts of the horrified onlookers and the swift rush of a pant ing cop, dropped Into the seething wa ters below. It was an unknown youth with an earning capacity of a few dollars a week who disappeared beneath the sur face of the Kast river, but It wns an enterprising young man, an east side celebrity. In fact, all ready for the di vine oil of publicity and with an as sured Income and possible fortune In his grasp, whose nose reappeared very shortly above the muddy surface of the water and who was helped by will ing and officious hands Into a rowboat, whore dry clothing awaited him, to gether with hearty congratulations on the fact that he alone, of all those who had attempted to Jump the bridge, had escaped with his life. The next day the name of Steve Brodie was flashed from one end of the country to the oth er, and within a very few hours after his discharge from custody he was arrested on the charge of trying to take his own life he was standing be hind his own bar, serving drinks to the crowds who came to gape at Steve Brodie, the bridge Jumper, nnd to pour their money Into his coffers. James L. Ford In Success Magazine. UNFINISHED BOOKS. Authors Who Died Leaving Stories Partly Written. Many writers, Including the famous Oulda, have died leaving behind them unfinished books. One of the best known Is, of course, Dickens' "Tho Mystery of Edwin Drood," a re markably clever story, and one show lug no signs of diminishing vitality, although ho was actually at work upon It up to within a few hours of his death. Dickens' great rival, Thackeray, again, left behind him not one only, but two unfinished stories. One of these, "Denis Duval," promised to rank with his best work. Unfortunate ly, however, he had completed only seven chapters when he was stricken down. Scott, too, left a tale Unendcd "Tho Siege of Malta" written while he was on his last futile Journey in search of health. This work has never been published, although more than two thirds of It was completed at the time of his death. Then there was "St Ives," loft un finished by K. L. Stevenson, as was "Zeph," -by Helen Jackson, and "Blind Love," by WUklo Collins. Buc klo never completed his "History of Civilization," although he tolled at it for twenty yen re. Among famous poems that were never completed mention may be made of Byron's "Don Juan," Keats' "Hy perion," Coleridge's "Chrlstabcl" and Gray's "Agrlpplua." Spenser's "Faerie Quecne," too, Is no more than a frag ment, although a colossal one. Lastly, there ought to be Included Ben Jonson's beautiful unfinished pas toral, "The Sad Shepherd," found by his literary executors among his pa pivs after his death and published In its incompleteness. Pearson's Weekly. No Ute For It. Uncle Zebulon was on a visit to his ucphew In the big city, and the two had gone to a restaurant for dinner. They had given their order and were waiting for it to be filled when the younger man, who had been glancing at a paper that lay on the table, said: "By the way, uncle, did you ever have cerebrospinal meningitis?" "No," replied Uncle Zebulon after a few moments' mental struggle with the question, "and I don't want any. I'd rather have fried liver and bacon any day." A Big 8 crew Driver. -l saw a screw driver the other day that weighed 2,000 pounds." "Nonsense." "But I did, though." Where was itr "In the engine room of an ocean l!ner."-London Tit-Bits. Th Hustler. "Do you believe that all things come to him who waits?" "They may start for him, but usu ally some man who hustles overtakes them before they get to the man who waits." Houston Post CURES FOR LOVE. fagei and Writer With Widely Dif fering Prescription. Absence Is one of tho means of curing love. Two thousand years ago Ovid advised his readers who wished to cure themselves of an unlucky attach ment to flee the capital, to travel, hunt or till the soil. "Love," said Coleridge, "Is a local anguish. I am fifty miles away and nut half so miserable." But other men have found that ab sence lucreancs love. La llochefoucaiild probably bit upon the truth when he said that "absence destroys weak pas sions, but Increases strong ones, aB the wind extinguishes a caudle, but blows up a fire." If the love is all fancy and has little strength It may be cured by personal contact with the object. But the safer plan perhaps Is to keep out of tho way; hence travel Is a good ex pedient. Business perhaps Is a better one. Ovid said, "If you desire to end your love employ yourself and you will conquer, for love flees business." Still another expedient Is reflection upon the uiihapplness of married life. A man In search of tills view can find it everywhere. Addison said that "beauty soon grows familiar to the i lover, fades in his eyo and palls upon , the sense," ami llazlltt that, "though I familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration." j Goethe said, "With most marriage It : does not take long for things to assume a very piteous look." But none of these men married happily. Goldsmith said, "Many of the English marry In order to have one happy month In their lives," and Colley Cibber, "Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!" But undoubtedly the best way to get rid of one love Is to have another. "All love may be expelled by love as polsonB are by other poisons," says Dryden. Heine says: "The most effec tive antidote to woman Is woman. In such a case the medicine Is often more noxious than tho malady, but It Is at any rate a change, and in a disconso late love affair a change In the Inamo rata Is unquestionably the best policy." CAPPING THE WIGS. Official Visit of London's Lord Mayor to the Law Courts. A curious survival of mediaeval cus tom Is witnessed In London on every lord mayor's day. This Is an official visit of the lord mayor to the law courts. In old times the sovereign himself awaited at Westminster the coming of the lord mayor In a chariot of state with sword bearer, mace bold er, chaplain and gorgeously liveried coachmen and footmen. The forms have been changed, and the visit Is now paid to the high court, but the spirit of tho act remains, for the lord mayor opens his term In the Mansion House with a ceremonial luvolving rec ognition of the supreme authority of the crown. The Instrument used for expressing this traditional idea Is an old fash ioned cocked hat When the lord may or In his splendid robes of ofUce en ters the high court with his retinue In costumo he solemnly lifts his cocked bat three times from his head and sa lutes tho lord chief justice und tho justices. The Judges always wear robes and wigs when In court. For lord mayor's day they have also a flat black cap, which can be slipped over the top of the wig. The lord chief justice and his associates return the lord mayor's sa lute gravely, but do not take off their ; black caps. If they were to do this, they would place tho crown on a level of equality with the municipality. The lord mayor, with his retinue, then visits the judges In other courts to invite them to the Guildhall ban quet When the rustling noise of the procession Is heard each Judge fumbles in a drawer, pulls out a little square of black cloth and crowns his wig with It The lord mayor takes oft bis three cornered hat three times, and the Justice on the bench bows, but remains covered. New York Tribune. Mora Oratory Wanted. The remark made on a prolix Scotch counsel when some one observed that he was "surely wasting a great deal of time" is among the wittiest of bar an ecdotes: "Time! He has long exhaust ed time and has encroached upon eter nity!" It Is seldom, to do the Judges justice, that they encourage this falling In counsel. But in Cockburn's memoirs we are told how a dull and common place advocate was almost frightened out of his wits by an observation of Lord Meadowbank, who thought his style undignified: "Declaim, .sir. Why don't you declaim? Speak to me as if I were a popular assembly," St James' Gazette. Why the Band Left First Actor I hear that the orches tra In your theater was sacked in a body the other night What was the matter? - Second Actor Why, they spoiled the best situation in the play. Yon know the court scene, where the hero Is sen tenced to death? "Yes." "Well, they were told to play some thing appropriate, and the Jndge had no sooner pnt on the black cap than the idiots struck np "Where Did Yon Get That Hat?' "London Scraps. A 8harp Thrust. "You're trying very hard to be a man, it seems," said the disgusted hus band the other day to his wife. "Well," she replied coldly, "don't yon think we need one in the family?" New York Tribune. A pound of care will not pay aa onnce of debt Danish Proverb. Tim Reminders Unpopular, ! A west side woman wln wished to eulnrfaln a great deal one day won dered why her guests always seemed so uncomfortable 'it Is been urn of your clocks," said a candid friend. "There nro three within healing distance of your draw- : lug room that strike. I don't know j of anything Hint makes company feel quite bo uncomfortable as to hear a , clock strike. Somehow It U bound to j give the Impression that we have out- stayed our we'eome and the hostess! Is anxious to get lid of us. Of course ' that Is purely 'a matter of fancy, yet ' somehow n striking clock nlways seems to say, 'You'd belter be going.' Tho wlso hostess knows that, nnil If slie wants her callers to bo thoroughly comfortable she slums n clock that strikes." New York Times. Transmitted 8nake Bite. An extrimrillnary ensu of snake pol- : soiling is reported from a couutiy bos- pllni In Victoria. An old man was : brought In In' a comatose stato and showing all tho symptoms of having j been bitten by a venomous snake. But i on Invest Igal Ion It was found ho had been bitten by a dog, which died al most Immediately afterward from snake bite. Medical treatment was successful, and the man gradually re covered from tho snnke poison which the reptile had indirectly transmitted to him. 1'all Mall Gazette. The Heiress Abroad. "On your trip abroad, did you see any wonderful old ruins?" he asked. "Yes," she replied archly, "and guess what?" "Well?" "One of them wanted to marry me." Harper's Weekly. J Golf and Brains. Tho radical type of golf enthusiast Is exemplified In the retort of a St An drew's caddie to tho university pro fessor, "anybody can teach n wheen loons Latin nnd Greek, but gowf, ye see, gowf requires n held." Pale, Sickly Girls HAVE ANAEMIA. Your mirror will tell you if you are anaemic, (or the unnatural pallor o( ihe gums and inside ol the lipl end eyelid's indicate thin, watery blood. You may also have indigestion, diiiy, tainting spells, severe headaches, end feel ings ol irritability and extreme lassitude. 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In 1702 Jorerln spent an evening with his brother ut Hurra way's coffee house, Lectin, nud writes: "I wns sur prised to ecu Ills sickly child of three years old fill lis pipe of tolmcco uud smoke It as ituilfariindly as n man of threescore. After flint a second aud third pipe without tho leant concern, as It Is mild to have done nbove a year ngo." Women Smoker In Ireland. The coinptirlflou bet with women smoking In KiirIhihI nnd In Ireland, snys a correspondent, Is hardly on alt fours. In Ireland tunny of the older women wliuse lives lire spent in hard toll smoke In tho country illHtrlctn, but tliey would utterly disdain a cigarette. Tlioy smoke n short "cutty" pipe and the very slroiiKest nnd most pungent tobacco IJmerlek roll. It Is no un common thing for n man to linnd his lighted "cutty" pipe, black with long seasoned smoking, over to a woman for a "draw," as It Is cnllod. In Ireland the pipe lias long been the solace of the poor, aged, hardworking woman, and the habit has lis origin in the use of tobacco fur allaying the pangs of hunger In fnmiiio days. London Chron icle. HI Spasm of Economy. "Hpenklng of misdirected economy," sold the lecturer, "reminds me of an old man who lived In my town. The old man hud lost four wives and de sired lo erect for eoch a hendstono with an Inscription commemorative of her wifely virtues. Hut Inscriptions, he found, were very expensive. Ho economized In this way: lie had the Christian name of each wife cut on a small stone above her grave 'Emma,' 'Maty,' 'Hester,' 'Edith.' Under each nnme a hand pointed to a largo stone In the center of the lot, and under each hand were the words: " 'For Epitaph See Large Stone.' " Novelty In Cement Wall. There Is a wall of cement In Los An geles which shores up one sldo of a building lot that has nn artistic value never Intended by the builder. He had moved his bags of cement on to the ground to ho ready for work and was then called away on some other Job for a day or two. In the mean time one of the very infrequent rains came on, and each sack turned into stono under the action of the water, and tho fabric of the sacks themselves was absorbed Into the cement so that it was Impossible to remove It Conse quently each sack was wrought into tho wall as If it had been a bowlder on tho lino of nn old stone wall. They were then chinked and bound together with worked cement, and after a time the weather disposed of the gunny sacking, but left the blocks marked with the Impress of the weave. The result Is a highly ornamental cement wall, resembling at a little distance a wall of some woven material. A Human Failing. 'To, what Is tho meaning of incon sistency?" nsked Freddy. "Inconsistency, my son," explained pa, "means a man who growls all day and then goes home and kicks the dog for barking at night" Harper's Weekly. 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