i Heavy Loss From j Diseased stock ?Catt!e and Hogs Worth More Than a Million Dollar Are condemned Annually i Dairy Losses Are Enor mousInteresting Maus lics Gathered by the Com mittee Fdr the Prevention of Tuberculosis. " .' The committee on the prevention of tuberculosis has Issued an Inter esting report ol the losses sustained as a result of condemnation of stock Infected by tuberculosis. According bo this report, there are approximate ly 11,000 carcasses of beef and 65,000 carcasses of hogs condemned each year by the federal meat Inspectors on account of tuberculosis. It would not be far from to estimate the loss un these carcasses at present prices as $40 each on the beef and $12 each on the pork,' according to the United States Department of Agrlcul . hire. This is a net annual loss from the condemnation of carcasses of $440,000 for beet and $780,000 for pork, or a total of $1,220,000. Thl" statement, however, does not Includr the 647 parts of beef carcasses and the 142,105 parts of hog carcasses which It was necessary last year to condemn for the same cause, and the approximate value of which cannot be ascertained. In addition to the carcasses con demned by federal inspectors, there are a considerable number condemned by State and municipal inspectors. These are mostly carcasses of dairy cattle killed in the work of suppress ing tuberculosis, or of cows no longer profitable In the dairy which are sent for slaughter to the smaller abattoirs. The aggregate number of these , has not been ascertained, but in some years It has amounted to several thousand carcasses. The losses to the dairy industry from tuberculosis have been enorm ous from decrease In milk and depre ciation and death of animals. ' The ialry herds have been affected to a greater extent than any others, and the infection as 'a rule spread through the cows of a herd until 50 to 80 per cent., of the animals were affected. tn the early stages of the disease the product of the cows is not visibly lessened, but as the tubercular pro fess develops the animals often be come feverish, their milk is diminish ed in quantity, and they lose flesh and are no longer profitable. The losses from shrinkage of the milk and from the destruction of so many tows must be tremendous, but it has ever been definitely determined. An extremely serious phase of this subject Is the effect of the disease In . destroying valuable families of cat tle and blood lines which can never be renewed. In most of the breeds . there are certain families or strains of blood which have been developed by long and skilful selection, and which represent the one marked suc tess in a breeder's life. The repre sentative animals of such a strain are generally few in number, and may be in one herd. Under such clrcum- stances the Introduction of tubercu losis has often meant the annihilation . cf the strain and the blotting out of ihe achievements of a lifetime of toll and study. Such losses can scarcely be measured In dollars and cents, hut they are no less real- anl no less serious as an obstacle to the development of the cattle industry. The influence upon export trade of regulations relative to tuberculosis will probably become more and more r unfavorable. Breeding and dairy cat- ' tie for Canada and Argentina must now bo tested and found free from the disease before they will be ad mitted. The tendency everywhere i3 to make more stringent regulations, and any considerable increase in tho prevalence of the dlseaso would have an unfavorable effect upon the sale-of live animals, meats, and dairy pro ducts, even if burdensome regula- tlons were not imposed. To meet successfully the increasing compe tition in the markets of the world it ' Is important to have products which it can be shown are produced from healthy animals and which do not carry danger of any kind to the hfalth of the consumer. ' PUBLIC HALL ACOUSTICS. Needed Suggestion for Improving Them for All Audiences. Frequently occasion arises for tem porary acoustic improvements, and tho following suggestions are made, says Talent. In a large, narrow room, with an arched ceiling, bang curtains crosswise of the room from the cell' Ing down to the arch or. spring line. The distance between the curtains ahould not be greater than one-halt the width of the room. Tho greater the surface of the curtains the less will be the sound disturbances. In auditoriums that have domes in the celling,- the best plan is to hang a curtain horizontally directly under er across tho mouth or bottom -ot th dome. - If the dome is used as a source from which UghUJs supplied to the room, then the ' next best remedy for sound disturbances is to e-over the mouth of the dome with thin veiling stretched across It. . When there is a cove in the -building behind the rostrum, hang heavy portiere curtains about one foot back from the edge. Do not, if It can possibly be avoid ed, station a singer, orator or musi cal Instrument In front of or near any circular cavity. The corner of the room Is better but against a flat wall is better still. A thick carpet or rug on the floor beneath the orator, singer or piano will subdue the resonance. All empty adjacent rooms that have connecting doors with the auditorium should have their doors closed dur ing sound utterance as all rooni3 are primary resonance pockets, and there fore, if connected with the auditorium through an open door, they will great ly augment any sound disturbances possessed by the auditorium. As a child fears and avoids Are so it would also be wisdom on tho part of those who build to avoid in every sense each and every one of the following faults as applied to con structive acoustics: Don't plaster solid on trick or terra cotta walls. Don't build spherical or conical domes in the ceilings. Don't build circular angles or cor- pers In the room. Don't supply hot air In large quan tities In center of room. Don't locate lighting In center of room. Distribute It. Don't construct large ventilating haft in center of room. Don't supply heat in'bu'.k through celling. Don't supply cold air through floor; it is a failure. Don't stretch wires across the cell ing to kill echoes. It will do no good.. Don't varnish the wainscoting 'or wax the floors. Brooklyn Eagle. Pharaoh the Oppressor. Like a cloud, a great golden cloud, a glory Impending that will not, can not, be dissolved Into the other, he (Rameses) looked over the Egypt that is dead, he looms over the-Egypt of today. Everywhere fou meet his. traces, everywhere you hear his name. You say to a tall young Egyptian, "How big you are growing, Hassan!" He answers, "Come back next year, my gentleman, and I shall be like Rameses the Great." Or you ask of the boatman who rows you, "How can you pull all day against the current of the Nile?" And be smiles, and, lifting his brown arm, he says to you. "Look," I am as strong as Rameses the Great." This familiar fame comes down through some 3,220 years. Carved up on limestone and granite, now It seeniB engraven also on every Egyp tian heart that beats not only with the movement of shadoof, or Is not buried In the black boII fertilized by Hapl. Thus can Inordinate vanity prolong the true triumph of geniu9, and impress its own view of Itself upon the minds of millions. This Rameses is believed to be the Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Is rael. Century. Johnson, Boswell, Orange Peel. Lady' Diana Beauclerk, the second Duke of Marlborough's eldest daugh ter, who died August 1 a century ago, was famous for many things in her time. Horace Walpolo extravagant ly praises her artiBtlc genius. She was the heroine of two notorious un happy marriages, the second of which was to Johnson's friend Topham Beauclerk. But she Is remembered now most of all, probably, because It was she who dared Boswell (stimulat ing him with a small bet) to ask Johnson what he did with tho orange peels that he used to pocket at the club after consuming the juice. Bos well saw him scrape them and John son admitted that he then dried them. But "I have a great love for them," was all he would say to their use, which Boswell never learnt. An earlier letter of Johnson's to a lady, however, recommending dried and powdered orange peel in hot port wine for Indigestion -seems to give the key. London Chronicle. A Much-Discussed Question. Why are the trousers that sailors wear to wide at the bottom? That question has been asked over and over again, and, strange as it may teem, no one not a sailor knows ex actly how to answer It. The editor Is unable to give the origin of the fashion authoritatively, but he heard a man who Is pretty well informed In questions of that kind say it grew out of the old-time custom of cutting out sailors' trousers on chipboard, when the cutter would simply run the shears straight down the cloth, without making any attempt to give the leg shape. This was due partly to haste, partly to Indifference to style. Another plausible explanation Is the following:- Sailors frequently have to row ashore and barefooted step Into the water and pull their boats up on the beach. The width of their trousers at tho bottom allows them to roll their trousers high to keep them dry. Chicago News. Asked to Stay In. In Changsha the other day all the foreigners received a communication from the Taotal requesting thim to remain -within their own dcors for a period of four days, as a religious festival was In progress, and the Taotal could not hold himself respon sible for the eufety of foreigners who would venture aiming the crowds. Hongkong Daily I'res3. Horso bct3 in the United Kingdom are said to amount to over 5 12,090, 000 annually. THE SAVING MAN, Who Wants to Convert Every One to Parsiinoniousness That friend of yours who, after years of unimaginable grubbing and scrimping has saved up a couple of thousand dollars isn't he the nuis ance though? Oh, you know him all right. Know htm, because, noUcontent with saving himself, he wants you to save. He pleads and expostulates with you to save. He demands you to save. He bullyrags and bulldozes you to save. You don't envy him his hard wrung couple of thousand at all. You're glad he has got it. You don't,' how ever, feel that a couple of thousand saved up with such a bitter effort would do you, yourself, any good. You don't want savings wrenched out of the ordinary comforts of life in that way. And it you had the couple of thousand a still, small voice tells you that you'd be pretty liable to blow it within a month or so anyhow. Therefore you are content that he shall go on havjng his Baved up two thousand and some odd bones, it he'll only keep still about it, if he'll only take away that noise he makes about why you ought to get on your saving clothes. But he won't. Nor, Blr, he will not. He refuses to. He's going to keep right at you about saving. He's going to force you to see the advantages, the benignities, of saving. He's going to put it square before you. He's going to make you save. He has a thousand ways of tackling you. He s with you, for example, when you buy a couple of cigars for two bits. "Rotten extravagance," he says to you as he sinks his teeth into one of the two for a quarter smokes. "Per fectly rotten. Where d'ye expect you;il pull up it you keep right on hurling your dust away like that? I know, but I won't say. I'd hate to say. Doggone it all, I will say it you'll pull up on the poor farm, that's where you'll pull up. Idea of chuck ing in twenty-five cents for two pitting smokes. You must be crazy! Look at me. I smoke stogies. Get a hun dred of 'em for a hundred cents. And they're every blamed bit as good as these two for a quarter things. Fel low gets used to 'em. I'd rather smoke stogies now, in fact, than .these fool things. Think what you could do worth while with that two bits. Why, it's the interest for a year on a five dollar note at five per cent. You're bughouse, that's all. You'll never have anything. You'll die a bum. You hear me a-talkln'." You tell him mildly that It's all right that it you're destined to die a bum, as he says, why, you'll be able to cast back and reflect upon the fun you've had. But he snorts at that. He snorts, in fact, at virtually every reason you give as to why you desire to blow in- your own coin after your own ideas of coin blowing. He's one of the busiest little snorters we have, as a simple matter of fact. Or maybe he'll get at you with ref erence to the clothes you wear. "How much did that fool Willie off the pickle boat suit of clothes that you're sporting set you back?" be asks you. You mutter something about sixty five bucks. "Sixty-five iron men for that mess of togs that makes you look like somebody trying to make a hit with himself, hey?" chops that friend of yours who has tucked away some sav ings. "Well, I'd like to have a peek at the Inside of your head under the violet rays, that's all I've got to Bay. Sixty-five bones for that suit, eh? Well, it is to laugh. It's to laugh to think that there's a man on earth so pinheaded. Say, you see this suit that I'm wearing now, don't you?" You do. You don't .tell him what you think it looks like because you don't want to hurt his feelings. "Well," he goes on, "d'ye know how many summers I've got out of this suit? This is the fourth sum. mer! Got it in tho summer of 1905, and I've been banging around in it every bummer since. And what d'ye think I paid for it? Hey? I paid $11.99 for this suit of clothes, and I'll get still one more summer out of it. And if it fpesn't look every bit as good as that sixty-five buck suit you've got on I'll eat my linoleum lid. that's what I'll do." . That's the way the saving friend keeps right on barking at you. He bears somewhere or other that last night you dropped eighteen slmoleons playing poker. He holds you up the minute he meets up with you. "So you're tossing your kale at the snowbirds again, hey?" he says at you. "Thought you were going to flag that poker stuff, heyf Didn't you tell me you were going to stick all of tbe poker money henceforth into that building and loan association I was telling you about?" You tell him yes, you had Intended to get into that building and loan as sociation, but that you met up with a bunch of fellers that had a little poker fiesta on hand and that you only sloughed off a few dollars, any how, and .that you had a lot of fun at it and therefore you're not kicking, and so on. But that doesn't take him off of you. - Sometimes he takes another tack. "Say, how old are you getting to be nowadays, young fellow?" he In quires of you. You tell him. "Uh, huh," says lp. "Well, you're not exactly thekldlet that you used to be, are you? Nut tho infant prod igy that you were ten or fifteen years ago, huh? I can see the grsy boys beginning to peek out of your hair at the sides and there's a crowsfoot or two beginning to show up at the cor ners of your eyes. And I understand that you're living right up to every cent you make. That's showing a fine set of brains for you, isn't it? Are you aware of the fact that in these days of competition a man has got td get together at least the foundation of his little pile before he's forty-five or so or stand a hundred to one chance ot never getting anything at all after he's reached that age? Hey? Don't you know very well that a man gradually becomes less productive, sort ot loses out, after he reaches the age of forty? That the demand now. adayB in all lines ot endeavor is for the younger fellows? Well, then!" You tell him that you're not feel ing decrepit at the age ot thirty- seven; that you expect to be swing ing right along at the old game for quite a spell yet, and bo on. But ntz. He won't have it. "I say," be declares oracularly, that it you're ever going to have a place to lay your head by the time you're forty-five, you've got to begin right now to tuck a hunk ot your earnings away. You ought, as a mat ter of fact, to've begun long ago. And you can't save by indulging your self in every . blamed caprice and whim that you happen to think of. You have got to make sacrifices if you expect to save. You've got to grind. You've got to put your nose down to It. You've got to be able to say No, no! You've got to be able to stand by and see tbe other plnheads blow ing In their money without experi encing any temptation to go and do likewise yourself. You're listening to me, aren't you?" Of course you are. You wouldn't dare not to listen to him. But you tell him that, really, you don't feel as if you'd be any happier if you. did manage to accumulate a few thou sands ot dollars. You try to pass it off by being a bit humorous. "What 'ud be the good," you in quire of him, "of my scrimping and saving to get hold of a few thousand dollars, and then to have a milk wagon zephyr along and hit me on the wishbone and send me over to Oak Hill, and all like that what' ud be the good of my saving if that kind of thing were to come off?" "This makes him positively furious. He Bays that that observation, proves that you are an utter fathead. He has all the Insurance figures on a man's chances to live doped out and at his finger's ends, and he tells you that at your age, thirty-seven, why, you've got such and such a number ot chances out of such and such a number to go right on living until you bury the last member ot this year's baby crop. He jumps upon you for trying to fetch in that milk wagon and tells you that the grave defect ot your character Is frivolous- ness. The very fact that you'de be gin to talk about milk wagons and wishbones and Oak Hills and things when he was trying to lead you tc your duty your duty to your family as well as to yourself why, that very fact shows that the grave defect ol your character is frlvolousness. II sure is. " He'i sorry to see It, too. He's noticed It for years, but he never wanted to say anything about It to you. Bad nuisance, this saving friend ol yours. Sad, really. Because you can't come right out and tell him tc take that noise away. He's always a good, solid, well meaning sort ol a chap, you see, and you know very well that he sincerely has your in terest at heart. If you tell him tc forget that stuff and talk baseball, he'll be offended. There's really nothing that you can tell him that'l! stick, anyhow. The only thing you can do is to keep right on apologizing to him, year after year, dozens of times each year, for spending youi own hard earned money the way you feci like spending it. It sure is orful, Mildred, how many otherwise good people there are in this world who suffer from atrophy ot the imagination and things. Washington Star. The Hold of "Gospel Hymns." Human nature being what it Is. and the liking for pathos being sc widespread and ineradicable, the "Gospel Hymns" as a whole will prob ably remain popular, and even in crease in popularity for a long time to come. Tho people who sing them with such zest would not appreciate the delicacy and refinement, in thought and expression, of the ton great hymns. For these honest folks tbe trfvallty of the music, the cheap ness of style, the shallowness of con ception and the cloying sentimental ity are exactly what lend charm tc the "Gospel Hymns." New York Post. Animal Sympnthy. ' Immediately in front of my house Is a small paddock, in which there have been feeding a pony and foui cows. In a tiny clump of grass and buttercups thero IS a willow wren's nest filled with young. Though al' the grass artSTfnd is closely cropped, this little clump remains absolutely untouched. Am I wrong in believing that birds have some system of com municating thuir whereabout"), and that the larger animals Bhow consid eration and caro for the weak r.nd helpless we, too often, dpspiae, and set at naught. Country Llfe.- The ' diamond cutters of Amster dam are la distress for lack of work. AN ATHLETE STILL AI 75. tVesldcnt Dlas of Mexico Climbs a Pole. Hand Over Hand. Diaz is the commanding personal ity of Mexico, the founder and pre server ot what Is called the republic, writes Dr. W. W. Boyd, in the Na tional Home Journal. Republic, how ever, is a misnomer, Judged by our Ideas of a republican government. There Is a show 6f voting, a form of a representative assembly; but the Congress Is created somewhat after the way In which the Czar elected the last Duma. I was told by a leading diplomat that when a Governor was .to be elected by a State the name was se lected in the City of Mexico, and the day after the election that name was sent to the State with the polite offi cial announcement: "On yesterday the people chose as Governor of your State Mr. So and So," the man se lected at headquarters. Nevertheless, let it be Bald that out of a heterogeneous mass ot discordant and belligerent States, where con spiracy and revolution were rife, and human life and property were unsafe, there now emerges a strong, intelli gent government, liberal and just to all. And in the accomplishment of this stupendous .task to Diaz more than to all others is due the credit. Not only Intellectually, but physic ally, the President is a remarkable man. He was addressing the young cadets ot the military Bchool and em phasizing the importance ot caring tor the body by temperance, chastity and self-control it one would make the moat and best of himself, when he ran to a tall pole in the arena of the gymnasium and climbed it, hand over hand, to the top. Then grace fully sliding down, he said: "Young gentlemen, if you live as abstemious a life as I have led, when you are seventy-five years old, as I now am, you can do the -same feat." What Kansans Call Their Towns. The prevalence of names ot Kansas towns ending in "a" has doubtless Im pressed the travelers who have had occasion to Journey through that State. To hear these towns men tioned in the Kansas vernacular, bow ever, affords the logical conclusion that they were named with the Idea of giving unlimited liberty for the substitution of a "y" for the final "a." "Empory! Change cars for Eureky!" has become quite official under the rule that "custom is the law of lan guage," and the Santa Fe brakeman's pronunciation has been accepted as standard authority. It is "Empory" and "Eureky," Just as it Is "Almy" on the Rock Island, and "Sallny" on the Union Pacific. The substitution in these names has become as State wide as "Topeky" in the vernacular of the politicians. "Watheny" and "Hlawathy" at one time, also, an swered with becoming pride to the tuphonic names of Watbena and Hla iratha. The single exception in Kan las appears to be Ottawa. That clas tic city has escaped the "tag" of "Ot tawy," but it escaped merely to be known everywhere in Kansas at "Ot taway." So far as can be recalled the only town that Is given credit for a final "a" is Olathe which can be accounted for upon the ground, per haps, that its name really ends in "e." Kansas City Times. Fashions in Finger Nails. Fashions change, even In finger nails, and the pointed nails of a few years ago are looked upon as almost barbaric at present. It also seems that women are becoming sensible in another digital detail. High polish ing is no longer the rule, as, of course, it never was practiced by women of fine taste. The pointed nail and the high polish have passed out, and the chances are historians in future days will look back and rank them with crinoline as evidence of a crude and undlscrlminatlng age. In caring for their finger nails women are now try ing to follow nature instead of op posing or distorting it. The natural contour of the nail is preserved as far as possible, and the manicure is not permitted to pursue any of her some times costly hobbies. Kansas City Journal. Jewels as Bnil. "Although most women will go to extreme lengths to get their chauf feurs out of pawn, they balk at put ting up an engagement ring," said the police lieutenant. "Over a third of the automobile drivers arrested for speeding are balled out by means of jewelry that their employers hap pen to be wearing. I have seen fines paid with some valuable rings, brace lets, brooches and watches, but never In all that collection of Jewels have I seen an engagement ring. Wedding rings a-plenty are thrown in to make up the required amount. There doesn't seem to be so much sentiment attached to them. Somehow, after a woman gets married she doesn't mind using her wedding ring for utilitarian purposes, but before the ceremony the engagement ring Is considered too sacred an emblem to be trifled with.'1 New York Press. The Aims of Athleticism. Physical training is by no means the main end of athleticism. It is possible (and eminent men have sup ported this view in more emphatic terms) that the finest moral, social tnd commercial training in the world Is to be gained on the cricket crease nd the football field. Men's Wear. The New Insanity I'len. The reciprocal Insanity plea U cal culated to befuddle the jury. The law yer who can offer It without laughing in the face of the Judge is a solemn party who doesn't know how ti laugh. St. Louis Fost-Disffttch. . i Our Latest 5 S Products. S Once upon a time there was a man who, having gambled in the Street, played the races, gone up in a balloon, traveled to the Yukon, and done other adventurous things, decided that he would raise a family. "I wish," he Bald, "to hear the pat. ter of little feet on the Btalrway, ti tell fairy stories in the gloaming, id have chubby hands in mine, and all the other accessories. Before doing so, however, I will examine a speci men American family, which, I be lieve, Is the latest and best example of the art of civilization." So he' called on a friend who had one. "The latest Idea," said the father, proudly, "Is to bring up your children on an equality. We conceal nothing from them, and give them the benefit of all the latest Information. This il Bessie, my fourteen-year-old." "Have you read. this article on sex?" asked Bessie, languidly, after shaking bands. "Really, it is very crude. I could write a better one my self. Its pathology Is lamentable." "This is Bobble, my ten-year-old." volunteered the happy father, bring ing forward number two. "Bobble shake bands." "The old gentleman there," -ha said, "insists on introducing me to every one. Sorry I can't stay and give' you my views on the conduct of the administration, but I have afdate with a vaudeville queen. Get to bed early," he Bald, warnlngly, to his fa ther as he went off. "When you alt up late you're irritable at breakfast, and your manners are simply unbear able. At your time of life there ought to be nothing doing at all." "This," said the father once mora, "Is my little four-year-old, the apple of my eye. Here, Mildred, dear." "Go 'way," said Mildred, shaking her curls. "You're a bounder any man with a waistcoat like that is. Now, papa," she added, "don't scold, 'cause I have a right to say Just what you and mamma say isn't It taught now In my primary?" But the man waited to hear no more. Two hours later he was seen by our private detective in a real estate office, signing a ten-year lease for a bachelor apartment. Harper's Weekly. Ilonsoir, Melssonnier! Statues also have their destinies. The statue of Melssonnier Is soon to be removed from the place it occu pies before the Louvre. The superintendent ot Beaux-Arts has so decided and we can but give 9ur approval. The statue is insupportably preten tious. One may wonder what the Idea was passing through the brain ot the sculptor Mercle that led him to represent a miniaturist, a maker of plcturettes the Bize. of a thumb nail, gigantic and in the attitude of a Ti tan. This Melssonnier by effrontery made bis way in the world. Truly the talent ot this artist merited no glorification. His minute art was al ways photographic and Icy. One can not comprehend how he came to such colossal renown during his life. It Is to be acknowledged that it soon passed away. Not twenty years has he been dead, and who speaks of him now? His statue wltf be relegated to some cenetery or to a public place In the provinces. Bon voyage, Monsieur Melsson nier! Le Cri de Paris. Anachronisms in Art. "The queerest thing about the new statue ot General Banks will be the creased trousers, barely known when the General was living, certainly not common with veterans," says the Bos ton Record. Any casual student of wartime photographs understands that even the best dressed America of the sixties wore no creases in thTnr trousers. Indeed, long after the war, a man with such creases would have" been hailed as a patron of the ready made clothing shops, because In these shops the trousers are customarily laid in crease-compelling piles. Bui If General Banks is forced in meta! or stone to affect creased trouserd it will be no more of an anachronism than that perpetrated bysome of the latter-day artists who Illustrato our American novels. No matter if the' heroine Is supposed to have lived for ty or fifty years ago, she wears het hair in twentieth century fashion and her gowns are in the latest mode.' Providence Journal. Tarpon Fishing From n Pier. The tarpon at Eguiont Key hare been crowding around the wharves tho last few weeks in great numbers, striking minnows and churning up' he water furiously. There has been much fishing for them from the piers. The result is a tremendous struggle when the tarpon strikes the bait and then strikes out . on a beellne for Honduras to see Tf the sportsman can stay on the plei and keep his tackle and fish until as assistant can itke hint off in a boat. In the great majority of cases he can't, and, the Tun of witnessing the effort is Immense. Everybody gets strikes, sometimes several at once, and the slaughter of tackle is great St. Petersburg Times. Not This One; It Blew Up. ' An Indiana steer is reported to hav3 swallowed two sticks of dyna mite recently. We remember quite well when tliis steer started that an nual performance; it was ninny ycarc dso, in his frolicsome calf 7Vi. I WasblDgtou Herald. 0 1 V
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