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Pi-inceß* M aldemar nn Artist.
The most interesting member or
the Danish court is the Princess
Waldemar. She is an artist, Her spe
cial line being scenes from animal
life, and judges declare that if she had
been stimulated by necessity she
might have rivaled Rosa Boulieur.
She is to be found in her studio every
morning, brush in hand and clad in a
long painter's blouse, at 7 o'clock,
absorbed in her favorite occupation.
The Ufi-to-Date Bnby.
It isn't correct any more to have
4 things daintily pretty for the new
born baby just in order to have them
idaintily pretty. It is no longer the
thing to swathe the little body
in yards and yard 3 of muslin and lace
and put him to bed in billows of down
and silk perfumed with rose or violet.
Up-to-date mothers no longer vie with
each other on the point of delicato
elaboration, they do not vie at all
any more. Their one object Is to
make everything as sanitary and com
fortable as possible for the ncw-com
ar. Sometimes they give a sigh for
the pretty bow or frill of lace, but
after all, everything in the new fash
ion looks so clean and sensible and
wholesome they come to see the other
was only a perverted taste, and take
no pleasure in it. Things have ad
vanced in the last few years. The
iniisery is one of them.—Marsha
Houk, in Woman's Home Companion.
Stylos In Collars and Stocks.
k The general preference at present
"seems to be in favor of high, close
-stocks for outdoor wear, and fiat, easy
■collars for the house gowns and silk
v mists. At the neckwear departments
of the big drygoods houses they sell
examples of this latter model out of
heavy yellow Irish, Dutch or Italian
lace, In combination with velvet or
Jilrror velveteen; and from France
they are sending over delicate lawn
and linen flat collars, with white em
broidery around the edges and on the
points. These are fastened with big
old-fashioned cameo or seed pearl
brooches.
Should a woman prefer something
quite as airy though less severe than
a perfectly flat collar she can do no
better than wear one of the new
tucked silk muslin collars, the pat
tern of which only came into being
short time ago. The band of mus-
that clasps the neck Is tucked to
give it stiffness and body, and the tie
ends are tucked almost to their tips,
where they aro finished with rows of
hemstitching or a broad hem, briar
stitched down. In some cases a single
thickness of colored liberty silk Is
tacked on the inside of the neckband,
and often enough of cafe au ladt mus
lin is employed instead of thg ivory
white.
Instead of French knots, once so
popular in the decoration of fancy
neckties, the humor now is for pret
tily beaded or pearl sprinkled stocks,
and for some of the fashionable new
spring tailor dresses the most won
derful adjustable jewelled collars of
leather have been introduced. A
beautifully dressed suede or glace kid
is used for this purpose. The collar
is cut from one strip of delicate skin,
trimmed with flat cabochon, turquoise,
krearls or steel beads, lined with a soft
"atin, and is hooked on with any gown
with which it will harmonize.
' Women faithful (o the Btllf linen
•collar wear starched Roman bands,
such as the clergy use, and with this
a broad folded bunting tie of the rich
est, softest bird's-eye Bilk. This is,
however, rarely seen, save in the
make-up of a smart automobiling cos
tume. when the tie Is red or mat new
shade of haberdashery blue known as
Irish eyes.—New York Sun.
Pavlnir tlio Children.
One of the most interesting and
valuable forms of "child saving" work
is that done by the Illinois State
Training School for Girls. It is in
Geneva, 111., one hour's ride from Chi
cago, and was established to take
young girls from vicious lives and
reform them.
The school is divided into B!X "fam
tlies," each of which has a dormitory,
;ssembly room, kitchen, dining room
and laundry. The head of each family
is called the mother, and is selected
for her tact and kindliness as much
as for her ability to train the girls in
the duties required. Each girl is
drilled in baking, cooking, washing,
ironing and sewing. They also milk
cows and make their own butter.
It is proposed to establish a dress
making and cutting department in the
institution, for many of the girls have
a liking for sewing, although they did
not know how to take a stitch when
they came into the home.
In addition to this training the girls
receive a common school education in
the branches of reading, writing and
arithmetic.
. A It is not all work at the school,
1 yiowever. The grounds are ample and
beautiful, and the girls go out every
•day, while for rainy days they have
two large playrooms. Part of their
work, even, is regarded as play by
them, as they thoroughly enjoy the
gardening, sewing and cooking. Un
der the training of a skilled gardener
they grow most of the vegetables used
in the school, and have the finest
flower garden in the locality. The
vegetables and fruits not needed for
summer consumption they can and
preserve for winter.
Ten and eighteen years of age are
the limits of commitment, and a girl
committed to the school remains in
its custody until she is twenty-one.
After a year's residence she may be
placed with a private family, from
which she reports from time to time.
Her earnings are sent to the institu
tion. and the money is banked and
held in trust for her, necessary ex
penses being deducted. Every child
of the school receives a bankbook for
this purpose. From such earnings one
of the girls now has $129 to her creoit,
and the aggregate runs into hundreds
of dollars.
In almost every ease absolute re
form is effected, and many of the girls
are respectably and happily married.
Mlgmnted IVwrU Worn.
There is no doubt about feminine
enthusiasm over the earring. Pro
digious pearl buttons are, with the
exception of a few novel shapes, the
kind to wear, and their vogue is very
largely due to the fact that a pair
of truly magnificent "orty-dollar pearl
ear studs could really not be identi
fied from a pair worth four or forty
thousand unless a jewel expert is
called in to pass upon the compara
tive merits. This was illustrated the
other day when the custom house offi
cers seized a brace of splendid pink
beads that had not been declared,
and thd jeweler who examined them
at first pronounced them genuine, so
admirable was their make. Until very
recently the fashion in ear studs de
manded that the pair of pearls should
first of all be of unusual size, then as
nearly as possible perfect spheres, and
finallly exact mates in color.
It fell to the lot of a doting young
husband to change this mode. His
wife's birthday was due about Thanks
giving time, and on discreetly inquir
ing her preferences as to a suitable
gift he was told that nothing short
of a pair of pearl ear studs bigger
than any her friends had would just
fill the aching void in her jewel box.
He wrote and telegraphed and tele
phoned, and cabled, in away doting
American husbands have, and his or
der was for a pair of the biggest
pearls in the market. A New York
dealer got one in Paris and one in
London, and both were guaranteed to
be as big as ordinary gooseberries.
There proved, however, to have been
a little hitch in the instructions, that
nevertheless had been interpreted lit
erally as to size, for one pearl was as
black as London soot and the other
as white as snow.' There was no
doubt about their size, though, and
the wife, rather than hurt the feel
ings of her faithful knight, put the
mismatched pearls in her little pink
ears and went to a dinner of excep
tional splendor.
The next morning she woke up and
found herself as a leader of fashion,
and since that dinner party the women
with "mated pearls," as they are
called, have been negotiating ex
changes at their Jeweler's or among
themselves. Mated pearls are not "in
it" with mismatched pairs, and though
a black and white bead are at the top
of the list, a green and a pink, a white
and a yellow, are acceptable seconds
in style.—Chicago Record-Herald.
Lace mitts are still good form, an!
they can be found in black and white
and in different lengths.
A hat made of strings of pearls In
terwoven with bands of lace is one
of the striking creations for the
spring.
A handsome parasol is of white sillc,
covered with black chiffon, put on
(lain, and then in the centre of each
gore there is a medallion of blacit
lace. A narrow border of heavy white
iace further carries out the scheme of
black and white.
A charming evening gown for a
young girl is of rich miroir satin,
veiled with either white, gold or col
ored net, showing a delicate design,
of lace or ribbon applique in a floral
design alternating with roses or cam
ellias sewn on in a studied careless
ness.
Modish separate skirts are effec
tively trimmed with folds of moire
extending from the waist line to the
head of the flounce. One Idea is to
set a fold on either side of the seams
an laid very flat. Then the flounce is
finished with bands of the same mate
rial, running horizontally and widen
ing toward the back.
Lace still continues fashlonuble, and
for street and evening wear is held
in highest favor. Tambour lace, relic
of several decades ago, occupies an
Important place on the list, although
it is not truly lace—that is, needle
made lacc —as it is worked with a sort
of crochet hook, with the net
stretched on the frame. The pat
terns, however, are very effective.
Some of the new little frocks vhich
are made up for small girls open the
full length of the front and a little to
one side. The waist is made with the
little straight stock and dicky effect
with trimmings of Hamburg and
broad lapels turning back at tne front,
the one at the right being carried
over a little and the end forming the
beginning of the opening. The skirt
is simply made, gored in the front,
and without a gather, the fullness of
the back being given by two rather
broad box plaits which begin under
the collar, wnicn is sailorlike in the
back and are carried the full length
of the skirt.
FEW BANK CROOKS LEFT
THE BURGLAR'S INCENUITY DROVE
HIM OUT OF BUSINESS.
Blecliaufcal Devices Outwit Skill Com
pelled Now to Go Hack to and Follow
I'etty Thieving—The Modern Safes Will
Desist Dynamite—The Electrical Alarm.
The modern burglar alarm not only
renders it utterly impossible for one
to disturb a vault protected with it
without detection, but it also gives a
signal at the first attempt to raise a
window, file a bar or enter a door.
So thoroughly does it protect the de
positories of great wealth that it has
defied all of the wonderful skill of
the cracksman, until today the few
living experts of that class of crooks
are found either In abject poverty or
devoting the genius which brought
them millions twenty years ago to
the practice of crime of the most petty
character. One can scarcely fail to
notice the utter absence of great bank
robberies during the past live or ten
years. A few have been successfully
performed in that time, but with one
single exception the money was ob
tained during banking hours from the
cashier as he glanced down the bar
rel of a six-shooter. The exception
was when a stranger engaged a bank
cashier in conversation while he
hooked out a roll of bills with the aid
of a piece of wire from under the offi
cial's nose.
The electrical burglar alarm of to
day, the great modern safes, which
will even resist dynamite, are the re
sult of a series of bank robberies ex
tending over a period of twenty or
thirty years, which were conceived
and successfully carried out by a band
of criminals, many of whom are alive
today. Strange as it may seem, these
men have driven themselves out of
business. The almost fabulous wealth
which they stole made the invention
of mechanical devices which would
outwit their skill necessary, and they
came in the course of time, until today
a robbery like that of the Manhattan
bank or one like that of the Ocean
bank in New York city, where over
a million dollars in money and securi
ties were carried away, is wholly im
possible without collusion with the
custodians of the vaults.
Twenty years ago bank officials
were not one whit less vigilant
than they are now, but the brain
of the crook had gone ahead of the
brain of the honest man, a condition
hard to understand today, when the
very reverse is the fact.
One of the best living illus
trations of the old school of crooks
Is Maximilian Schoenbein, better
known to the police of the world as
"Count" Max Shlnburn. After defy
ing the vault and safe makers of the
world and looting banks in this coun
try and abroad for an aggregate gain
of $5,000,000, this great criminal
fell a victim to modern science. He
was released not long ago from the
Clinton, N. Y., prison, after a five
years' term for robbing the Middle
burg bank, penniless, gray with age,
broken in health and spirit. The sto
ry of the man's life is like a romance,
and is full of chapters which one finds
it hard to believe. In his prime he
was truly the greatest criminal in the
world. Ruloff, the butcher, who
fought his way to freedom scores of
times over the bodies of his own vic
tims, excelled him in daring perhaps,
but no criminal that ever lived had
his mechanical genius.
Shlnburn is a German, was taught
the trade of a machinist and lock
smith by his father, came to this
country before he was seventeen years
old, and had launched on a career of
crime before he was eighteen. He
had wonderful skill as a locksmith
and was taken up by two noted crimi
nals, George Bliss and "Fairy" Mc-
Gulre, whom he met in a New York
gambling house. They used him in
robbing a New Jersey bank, and the
success of the venture was due pri
marily to his skill. He progressed
rapidly, and as his ability became
known in the "crook" world his ser
vices were in constant demand. He
probably engaged in twenty robberies
before his name became known to the
authorities. He had scarcely attained
his majority when he was planning
out big robberies for himself. At that
time the only safe in general use in
banks and business houses in this
country was that made by the Lilly
company. Shlnburn figured that a
man who could mnster the secret of
the Lilly combination lock could loot
every Lilly safe in the country.
He decided to go and work for the
Lilly company. Bliss and McGuire
agreed to keep him in funds while he
studied. Such an expert machinist as
Shlnburn had no difficulty in getting
the job he wanted. It took him over
a year to obtain all the knowledge he
needed for the successful consumma
tion of the series of robberies he had
planned, but he kept at work with pa
tience. The most important discovery
he made at the time was that a per
son with acute hearing could, by put
ting his ear near the lock of a Lilly
safe and turning the dial, discover
at what numbers the tumblers
dropped Into place. He made a care
ful study of difficult combinations,
and is credited with a discovery that
is alleged to have driven the Lilly
safe out of the market. He removed
the combination from a safe and then
placed an impressionable piece of pa
per under it. Then he turned the dial
slowly and found that whenever a
combination number was reached the
impression on the paper became more
distinct. By using a mlscrctscope
ShinbuYn was able to tell what the
combination were. With this
mass of valuable information Shin
burn and his associates pluniered
Lilly safes all over the country, finally
driving the Lilly company out of busi
ness. Time and again the man was
arrested, and 'several convictions are
on record against him, but no prison
was ever strong enough to hold him
for long. With the police of the coun
try after him, Shinburn went to New
York city and invested a large sum
of money in the stock market. He
was warned to fly, as the authorities
were closing in on him, but he calmly
waited to see how his investment
would turn out. A sudden rise in the
market brought him a fortune, and
with over a million dollars of stolen
money he 'sailed for Belgium, with
which country the United States had
no extradition treaty at that time. He
purchased the title and estate of a
decrepit nobleman and blossomed
forth as Count Shinburn. He spent
thousands of dollars on entertain
ments, the magnitude of his opera
tions on the bourse staggered the na
tive speculators, and his enormous
winings and losings were commented
on all over Europe. For fifteen years
he kept up this gait; then came a
series of misfortunes, and the great
bank burglar was penniless once
more.
He went to Paris, met some fugitive
American crooks there and planned
the robbery of the Provincial bank at
Vivleres, Belgium. The merest acci
dent in the world resulted in the ar
rest of Shinburn and his pals; he was
sent to jail for live yeare, but escaped
In a month. Some of the big jobs
that Shinburn engaged in were the
robbery of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal company's office at White
haven, Pa., of $70,000 in cash by tun
neling his way to the vault from an
adjoining building; tlje robbery of the
Walpole, N. H., bank of $50,000; the
robbery of the St. Albans, Vt., bank
of $20,000; the robbery of the Ocean
bank on Greenwich street, New York,
of $1,000,000 in money and securities;
the robbery of the West Maryland
bank of $25,000, and a score of others.
Shinburn has shot a dozen men, been
shot several times himself, and has
broken jail fully a dozen times. It
was over five years ago that Shinburn,
an old man then, ran up against mod
ern science. It was at the Middle
burg, N. Y., bank. He and his asso
ciates fought their way to the doors
of the vault and had blown away ev
evry obstacle with nitro-glycerine be
fore they realized that they had set
off a burglar alarm. Shinburn escaped
on a handcar, but was arrested later
in New York city.
Chauncey Johnson, a man who stole
over $2,000,000 in his time, died pen
niless not long ago while serving a
term in prison 'for stealing a pocket
book from a woman in a New York
city book store. He took the pocket
book because he was in genuine need.
In his time he was one of the most
skilful and successful thieves in the
country, but the field for his peculiar
talents had lisappeared. He stole
SIOO,OOO from the Hatter's bank at
Bethel, Conn., and $400,000 from the
Marine National bank. In 1863 he
walked into a Philadelphia bank and
with a long steel wire hauled $14,000
out through the paying teller's win
dow right under the official's nose.
He took It in three packages and
wasn't detected until he had the third
package almost out. In 1867 he
walked Into August Belmont's office at
Wall and William streets, New York,
sauntered past clerks and office boys,
reached Mr. Belmont's desk, took $25,-
000 worth of government bonds from
it, put them in his pocket and walked
out again. A month after this he
walked into the office of the Adams
Express company in New York just
as the cashier was leaving his cage
to go to luncheon. He slid in the cage
as the cashier went out, put on the
latter's office hat and duster, and
while protending to work over some
books, rifled the cash drawer and safe
of SIO,OOO. He walked into a New
York bank one morning and notified
the bookkeeper that he had been dis
charged and that he (Johnson) had
been employecf in his place. While
the indignant bookkeeper went to see
the president about the matter John
son vamoosed with $25,000. By a
similar exhibition of nerve Johnson
robbed a number of hotel safes while
the clerks were on duty but. a few
feet away. But his face became
known, and it finally became a police
custom to arrest him every time he
appeared on the street. Prison life
had robbed him of his wonderful
nerve, and he descended to the petty
crimes of the street, pocket picking,
etc. An almost similar case is that
of Edward Rice, better known as Big
Ed Rice. He was last arrested for
stealing a pockethook from a woman
in a 23d street car in New York city.
Once or twice before that he had been
accused of picking pockets, but the
primes could not be fastened on him.
When convicted of the street car rob
bery Rice broke down and confessed
that he had turned pickpocket be
cause there was nothing else for him
to do. The only money ho had for
over a year was whaf he could raise
by pawning the scarfpins, watches
and articles of jewelry" ho had stolen
from men and women in street
crowds. This confession from a man
who, with his associates, had stolen
millions in his time was interesting.
Next to Shinburn he was regarded as
the most dangerous bank robber in
the country.
Around the country today there are
probably a score of other crooks who
thrived and made fortunes by their
nerve and skill in the palmy days
of the cracksman. But their day has
passed, and every year two or three
of them are picked up for some triflng
crime that fifteen or twenty years ago
they would have scdrned to think of
committing. Electricity and the mod
ern safe have driven them to the wall.
Gradually they are dying off.—Wash
ington Star.
SQUAWS UNDER THE HAMMER.
Venture* ot the Annual Sale of ISrltles fct
tlin Comanche Indian*.
The annual distribution of Coman
che Indian brides has just occurred at
the Saddle Mountain mission, in south
ern Oklahoma. Fifty of the prettiest
women of the tribe were sold at pub
lic auction as the wives of tribesmen
who bid them in. This barbaric cus
tom was to have been discontinued by
the Comanches last year, but it went
on more boldly than ever this season,
being conducted under the very eyes
of the white settlers.
The festival of the Comanche "pony
smoke," as this ceremony is called, i 3
of more than passing interest. Sel
dom are so many young squaws auc
tioned off as was done this year, but
the surplus was great and needed thin
ning out, according to the head men
of the tribe. Their parents, refusing
to keep them any longer, the girls
naturally needed homes somewhere,
and it was deemed best by the medi
cine men to auction them off as wives,
the highest bidders to take their
choice. Big Bow, a monstrous fat and
ugly redskin, acted as the auctioneer,
He was assisted by a number of medi
cine men, who performed the marriage
ceremonies after the sales had been
made.
Five hundred Indians gathered at
the Saddle Mountain mission last week.
This mission is located 30 miles direct
ly south of Mountain View, and on the
range of the Wichita mountains. The
girls who were sold had been confined
in a lodge for three weeks prior to
this meeting, and were well fed and
extremely well groomed. They were
all clad in gay colors, and their hair
arranged in perfect Indian fashion. It
was plain to see that their parents had
prepared them to bring fancy prices.
The girls were in various moods;
some hysterical, others calm, and not
a few delighted with the experience.
Among others was a daughter of the
famous Quahnah Parker, tne noted Co
manche Indian chief. This daughter,
whose name is Amy, had displeased
him by attempting to run away and
marry a white man, and a cowboy at
that, so Parker decided that the best
to do would be to sell her at auction.
This is the first time Parker, who is
counted by his white neighbors a high
ly cultivated red man, has ever al
lowed any of his relatives to be sacri
ficed at the auction block. But the
wrath of an Indian parent knows no
bounds.
Sad and silent, Amy Parker was led
to the block for sale. The first btl was
11 ponies. Jack Wild Horse, a well
known scout of the tribe, was the bid
der. He was immediately raised by a
rival, likewise a scout. This latter
claimant bid 15. Otners then cut in,
and Miss Parker was run up to 50 po
nies. Her face grew pale when she
saw that Wild Horse was determined
to get her, as he is known as the most
desperate savage on the reservation
when drunk and angered. It is said
that he has killed three wives when
drunk. Wild Horse, however, won the
young squaw for 63 ponies. The stock
was turned over to Parker, and a med
icine man married Wild Horse and the
squaw according to the Comanche
rites. The couple then went to El
Reno, where a regular marriage license
was issued to them and the ceremony
performed by a paleface minister. Al
though the marriage took place only
three days ago, a dispatch from Law
ton says that she attempted to commit
suicide after failing in an attempt to
kill her new husband.
Other young women objected quite
as strongly as Miss Parker did to be
ing auctioned off, but it did them no
good whatever. Big Bow went ahead
with the sale until every one of them
was sold. The lowest bid made for any
of them was 20 ponies. This was the
price paid for a half breed woman who
had been married to a white man, but
the latter having died, she reverted
back to her parents again.
In all, over 1500 ponies changed
hands in the three days of the big
bridal auction. Not for many years
have the squaws commanded such spir
ited bidding and big prices as in this
latest event of its kind among t.ia
Comanches. —Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tlin Savins Soime of Humor.
To have a keen sense of the ludicrous
lu not necessarily to be shallow. Some
of the world's greatest humorists unite
with that sprightly gift a deep tender
ness and broad sympathy. Their lips
smile at a spectacle of the absurd at
the same Instant that their eyes over
flow in recognizing the pathos that is
its so frequent accompaniment. It is
this quick perception of a situation as
a whole, this power to see all its as
pects at once, that gives us just judg
ments tempered by mercy; severity
lined with leniency, that acts as a sav
ing grace to culprits.
The world would be better and hap
pier if every one in it who is invested
with authority over his fellows had
this peculiar sympathy with wit, which
makes it impossible for one to be a
bigot and a tyrant. Humor and cruel
ty do not go together, although there
ie a kind of counterfeit humor, some
times mistaken for the real thing,
which is essentially oppressive, be
cause it finds enjoyment in looking
upon that which is at the same time
grotesque and horrible. But this is
far removed from the gentle humor
which mellow their judgments and hu
manizes actions. —Florence Hull Win
terburn, in tne Woman's Home Com
panion.
No Prcjtttlicn.
"You say your government shows re
partiality in its appointments?"
"Absolutely none!" said the official
proudly. "l ook at our poet laureate
We didn't allow the fact that he can I
write poetry stand in the way of bia
appointment."—Washington Star
WITH THE "CAR CHASERS."
Hallway Emplnyeg Who Keep Track of
the Company's Holling: Stock.
Among the most important employes
of the great trunk lines of railroads
are the "car chasers." The title exact
ly describes their business. On some
railroads they are called traveling car
agents. The department head who em
ploys them is also called variously the
car agent, the car accountant or the su
perintendent of rolling stock. These
officials have as many as 20 assistants
on some of the great roads, nine or ten
being clerks at S3O or S4O a month,
and the rest being "chasers," who
travel all over the country on free
passes hunting up missing and
who receive $l2O or SIOO a month and
expenses.
Great railroads have immense num
bers of cars. The Central railroad of
New Jersey has about 50,000 of all
sorts, the Pennsylvania in the neigh
borhood of 100,000. These cars are at
the present moment in every state in
the Union. They go wherever the
freight with which they are loaded is
billed, and thus are scattered from
Winnipeg to Mexico and from Los An
geles to Bangor. A most minute and
thorough system obtaining on all rail
roads except the very smallest records
every movement of every car.
These notifications are made by pos
tal card. In each general office car
accountant books are kept, and the
movements of the company's own cars
are recorded from day to day. When
ever a loaded car is emptied on a for
eign road that road uses it to carry
back a load of freight in the direction
of the road to which the car belongs.
It pays at the rate of seven-eighths
cent a mile for this use of its neigh
bor's property in this way, and if it
should happen that there was no
freight to he snipped in that direction
in a reasonable time the empty car is
sent along and the mileage is paid on
it as though it were laden.
It is when cars are lost that a travel
ing agent is sent out. Sometimes it
happens that the ears are on a little
branch road, idle and overlooked;
sometimes they have happened to get
into the hands, of a company that is
short of cars and full of business and
is using every foreign ear that it can
get. If it is in use by a company short
of cars that company pays mileage on
it until it sometimes happens that a
car is worn out and paid for before
it is returned, or else it is never re
turned at all. If a "car chaser" de
mands the return of his company's
cars they are sent home, but often
others are seized and used when his
hack is turned and ne is traveling else
where. If a car is smashed up in a
railroad accident it is either rebuilt, a
new one is made or the price of the ear
is paid to the owners by the company
on whose track the "smash-up" oc
curred.
Diminutive War Heroes.
Military experts generally of late
have been recognizing as important
the fact that some of the greatest mili
tary achievements in history have
been made by men of small stature,
notable among these diminutive heroes
being Alexander and Napoleon, while
in our own history Generals Sheridan,
Wheeler and Funston have been less
remarkable for their inches than for
their pluck. It Is doubtful whether
some of the most famous men In army
history could have got into the ser
vice if the height now demanded of
enlisted men had been a test for them
to pass. The world-conquering sol
diers who followed Napoleon to Jena,
Wagram and Moscow were little fel
lows; not one in ten of whom would
have had a chance of enlistment in
an American or British regiment; but
they knew their business, and the
more stalwart warriors of Austria and
Prussia could not stand before them.
No restrictions being placed on officers
as to height, the little men have had
to look for their vindication to the
men who wear swords. The time may
come when the rifle carriers also will
be able to prove the truth of the old
saying that "you can't tell by the
length of his legs how far a frog can
jump." In fact, new regulations low
ering the limitations as to the height
of recruits have already been favor
ably considered by the army leadei-3
of several nations.—Chicago News.
Kutlipr Mixed
A duet in a noisy street ear.
"Yes, she came yesterday morning."
Rattle, bump, bang!
"How nice! I knew you were expect
ing her. How long do you think she'll
stay?"
Bang, rattle, bump!
"Why, I hope she'll stay right along
indefinitely."
"She must be a dear. They are often
so different, you know. I must call on
her.",
"Call on her? You wouldn't try to
coax her away from me, would you?"
Bangity, rattlety, bumpity!
"Take her away from you! Why,
I've got one myself."
"Eh! I thought you had two."
"Two! How could I have two?"
"The idea! Of course you could have
two."
"Two! Aren't you talking about
your husband's mother?"
"No; I'm talking about my new
hired girl!"
Rattle, bump, bang.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Ono Definition.
"What is the difference between a
statesman and politician?" asked the
little boy who wanted to grow up to
be wise.
"A statesman," said the man of
great practical force, "is the man who
is studying what the constitution of
! ...o United orates means, while the
other people are hustling to get
votes."—Washington Star.