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Knitting a Mfldlclna.
Knitting is declared by specialists In
vthe treatment of rheumatism to be a
most helpful exercise for hands liable
to become stiff from the complaint, and
it is being prescribed by physicians be
cause of its efficacy in Umbering up the
Lands of such sufferers, says Woman's
Life. For persons liable to cramp,
paralysis, or any other affection of
the fingers of that character, knitting
is regarded as a most beneficial exer
cise. Besides, the simple work is said
to be an excellent diversion for the
r.erves, and is recommended to women
suffering from insomnia and depres
sion. In certain sanitariums patients
are encouraged to make use of the
bright steels, and the work Is so pleas
ant that it is much enjoyed by them.
Teachem' Lot in Knclnnd.
An English writer, speaking of the
L opportunities for educated women In
the professions in that country, says
that most of the women graduates of
the universities go into secretaryships
or teaching. For the former they need
to know German, French, Italian, sten
orgraphy and typewriting and SSOO a
year is the average salary. But, he
says, the girl who secures a post as
secretary Is as a rule to be envied, com
pared to the fate that awaits her as a
teacher. The work is trying, the pay
poor and the narrowmindedness that
surrounds it pitiable. In proof, he
instances the fact that a teacher In a
high school was asked to resign, be
cause a play of hers had been acted,
and in consequence her picture had
been published in several of the pa
pers.
Ail to Approprltite
L To wear gowns trimmed with lace
2 and embroidery in cars and on steam
boats, skirts made so long that they
trail in the dust, anu when held up
show petticoats covered with lace, does
not constitute a good style of dress,
and never will, no matter how many
dollars are expended. For travelling,
for walking, for shopping, and for go
ifg about in the morning, the smartest
fown for early autumn is the light
weight woollen.
Of course ail the walking gowns
must be made short, short enough to
clear the ground and at the same
time to hide the feet —a perfectly pos
sible combination, as was discovered
by the leading Frencn dressmakers
last winter. The trimming on the
short skirt 3 should be all in long up
and-down lines. —Harper's Bazar.
Milk a noßlltlfler.
i "I seem to be growing so plain,"
W walled a young woman. "No, you're
* only growing thin," her vis-a-vis re
sponded, reassuringly. "That is what
ails more women than you could shake
a stick ait They work too hard and
eat the wrong things, r nose little lines
crossing and recros3icg are caused by
the shrinkage of the soft padding be
neath the skin; those little linos that
begin to run from the nose to the
mouth and qge a woman more than
any other one thing—if you had kept
lip your flesh, they would not be there.
Women will no anything but rest and
eat. They will lead the strenuous life,
and then insist on wondering why
they lose their good looks. A glas3
of hot milk every night before retiring
would do more to keep away the crows
fcet than half the cosmetics they are
so eager to spend their pin money
on."—New York Tribune.
Daring Panties of Color,
"Hie combination of blue and green,
the most daring of the season, is an
other cause of controversy. Daring as
it may seem, the mixture of blue with
bright green has been exceedingly suc
cessful, but its opponents claiffi that it
Is an eccentric, inartistic combination
and maintain that the vivid shade of
green is only harmoniously possible
with white, black, or a pale tobacco
brown which has just come into vogue.
The tendency toward freakish bright
colors which marked the beglnalng of
the season is giving way before the
subdued tones which are now being in
troduced. Undecided changaeble
shades are securing the preferences,
according to the Chicago Tribune. The
latter effects are secured by placing
one color over another. Of the most
effective of the changeable combina
tions are blue and mauve, and green
and gray. The latter in particular is
t > altogether charming. Ecru and rose is
another effective melange and white
and pale blue give a nondescript tone
which is decidedly attractive.
lowa Woman rhyilclana.
In The Woman's Medical Journal is
a sketch of the lowa State society of
Medical Women, the oldest, if not the
only, state medical society of women.
Dr. Jennie McComen, of Davenport, the
writer, speaking of the status of the
women of the profession in lowa, has
the following to say:
r "The medical profession of lowa is
noted for its justice, courtesy and liber
ality toward women practitioners. Not
only are they freely admitted to all
medical societies, but are acceptably
occupying official -positions of all
4 kinds; are sent as delegates from local
to state, and from state to national
1 societies. In 1893 lowa was represent
ed in the Pan-American congress by a
woman. The state hospitals for in
sane include a woman on the medical
staff, the first, appointment of this kind
having been made in 1873, 29 years
ago. The majority of the general hos
pitals have or.e or more women on
the active or consulting staff.^
"The lowa Stats medical reporter aa
early as 1895 had a women on the edi
torial staff in charge of a department
devoted to medico-legal questions and
neurology. In 1895 The lowa Medical
Journal added to its staff a woman col
laborator in obstetrics.
"The medical, pharmaceutical and
dental schools are coeducational, and
ithere is no part of the state, so far as
we know, where educated and capable
women are not received by their broth
ers in the healing art on terms of
perfect professional equality."
About Gloves.
In buying gloves there are more im
portant considerations than their color
and the number of buttons. Black
gloves are generally less elastic than
white or colored ones, and cheap grades
are dear at any price, says Woman's
Life.
Dressed kid usually retains its fresh
ness longer, and is more durable than
suede. The best and most serviceable
kid is soft, yielding and elastic.
A glove so small that it cramps the
hands and prevents grace of motion
gives poor service. Short-fingered
gloves are ugly, and certain to break
soon between the fingers, if not at
their tips.
The way In which a glove is first
drawn on and shaped to the hand has
much to do with both its beauty and
durability. Unless you have ample
time, do not have them fitted at the
shop, but at leisure draw them on as
here recommended, and, if possible,
wear them half an hour without clos
ing the fingers.
When the hands are at all moist,
they should be powdered. Insert all
the fingers, and work them on evenly,
leaving the thumb loose until the fin
gers are fully in place. Then insert
the thumb, and work the glove down
smoothly over the hand, keeping the
seems in their proper position.
In buttoning a glove the greatest
strain comes upon the first button, so
before attempting to fasten this, but
ton the others, commencing with the
second one, then the ethers, lastly the
first
Do not begin at the tips of the fin
gers to pull them off. Turn back the
wrists and draw them off inside out,
but on no consideration leave them
in this shape, or roll them. Turn
them right side out, smooth lengthwise,
and put away by themselves with a
strip of flannel under and between
them.
A glove mender of wood, celuloid or
silver, in the shape of a finger, should
be in every sewing basket, as well as
glove thread in a variety of colors and
shades. The seams of gloves should
be rostitched as soon as a stitch
breaks, using fine cotton, never silk.
To mend a tear, buttonhole stitch
closely around the edges once or
twice, as the size of the rent may
require, and then join the edges to
gether.
Save the buttons from discarded
gloves to replace lost ones. They often
match perfectly.
A Kride'4 Troniioan.
I will offer some suggestions for the
trousseau of a bride of fairly good cir
cumstances, who expects to enter into
social life, and from this list may
bo selected what may suit individual
needs or preferences. The wedding
gown may be of silk, satin or crepe de
Chine, these materials being appro
priate at this season, it should be high
in the neck, and if made with a yoke
of lace which may be detached it can
be altered afterward for evening enter
tainments. One or two evening dresses
might be desired, and if one is of
black net or lace it will be very useful.
An evening wrap would be necessary.
A plain, tailor-made cloth gown for
traveling, shopping and street wear;
another gown of handsome cloth for
visiting, luncheons and receptions. A
pretty dress for days at home may be
of pale-gray cloth, or crepe de Chine
or cashmere, high In the neck. Two
house dresses would seem essential.
Several waists of silk and of flannel
should be chosen. Dressing jackets of
Bilk or flannel, and a lounging gown of
cashmere or silk, trimmed with fur,
may he added, these to be worn in one's
bedroom, be it understood and not else
where.
It is not the fashion now to buy doz
ens of undergarments and put them
away, as they are apt to turn yellow
if net used. Eight of each kind of un
dergarments would be a very moderate
supply, and this would include eight
each of night dresses, drawers,
chemises, corset-covers, skirts, short
white and flannel skirts and under
skirts of silk or wool. Shoes, slippers,
corsets, gloves, hats, nd an umbrella
should be in the list, aud as many doz
en handkerchiefs and stockings as can
be afforded. Two silk underskirts
would be found useful.
The household linen should also be
supplied by a bride's parents. If
there cannot be a very large outlay
there should be at least a certain
amount expended for this purpose. Six
sheets, six pillow and bolster cases,
two pairs of pillow shams and four
spreads should be allowed for each
bed. An ornamental coverlet of col
ored silk or embroidered linen is a
charming possession. Four dozen tow
els would be a moderate supply. Six
table cloths and four or six dozen nap
kins, large and small, would be needed,
and one handsome table cloth, with
napkins to match, for dinner parties.
A few embroidered center-pieces and
a dozen or two dainty doilies are at
tractive additions.
The bride whose parents can give
the small silver and some furniture,
china and glass is well provided for
starting housekeeping. —The Delinea
tor.
The eggs of silkworms can withstand
without injury a temperature of thir
ty-eight degrees below zero.
TELEPATHY'S NEW TESTS
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS MADE
BY A FRENCH PROFESSOR.
Ffln*Atlona of Ttmte and Sight Conveyed
from the Operator to the Ilypnotil'd
tubjeet through the Medlnin of a
third I'arty lleal Source Shown.
French science has not shown itself
kindly toward experiments in the
transmission of thought, or telepathy,
writes the Paris correspondent of the
Boston Transcript. At last, however,
a professor in the Elcoe do Psycholo
gic—a private but reputable school of
Paris —has published certain positive
results obtained by him in March of
the present year. His experiments
are noteworthy for two reasons:
1. The experimenter, Dr. BinebSan
gle, is a competent and responsible
man of science. It is difficult to sup
pose illusion or deception on his part,
or from his few chosen assistants.
2. The results, while modest, are
positive, easily understood as to facts,
and making possible a scientific hy
pothesis, without excluding further re
sults and corresponding speculation.
This is all that can be demanded of
science worthy of the name.
The experiments were carried on at
Angers, where Dr. Binct-Sangle had
two subjects of the proper nervous
susceptibility. It was his habit to
make one hypnotize the other. The
first three experiments were made the
same day. The receiving subject,
Mme. M., is a woman of 55, easily hyp
notized. She was put to sleep by the
transmitting subject, M. 0., who was
not himself hypnotized. TIJo foom
was large and the doctor stood beside
M. 0., at a distance from Mme. M. of
16 feet. The eyes of Mme. M. were
carefully covered with a cloth, al
though the possibility of seeing would
have scarcely aided her to guess what
was wanted.
Oil this day it was the experiment
er's aim to transmit sensations from
one subject to the other. Dr. Binet-
Sangle began with the sense of taste.
He placed on the tongue of M. O. a
paper soaked in postasslc bioxalafo.
Mme. M., at the other end of the room,
made a movement of the mouth and
exclaimed: "It bites —It's bad!" The
same result was obtained with bro
mide of ammonium; she spat out, say
ing, "It's salty!" The doctor put soap
on the tongue of M. 0., Mme. M. an
swered instantly, "It's insipid—-like
starch."
Next came the transmission of vis
ual sensations. Mme. M., still in the
hypnotic sleep, was seated at a table,
and the doctor and M. O. took the
same relative positions and distance
as before. One of tho assistants stuck
a paper knife at random into a book
and opened it at a page, on which he
chose the word "vulture." The word
was not pronounced, nor was it shown
to tho transmitting subject, M. 0., but
only to Dr. Blnet-Sangle. The latter
then drew on a piece of paper the head
and neck only of a vulture, showed it
to O. and asked him to transmit the
sensation of what he saw to Mmo. M.
After a few seconds "Mme. M. said:
"It's a bird —it's fin odd bird; it has no
wings;" and then, "It's a vulture."
Another experiment was made with
tne word "snail." It was the kind
called "limace" in French, and only
the drawing was shown to O. Mmo.
M. said, "It's a 'limande' " (the namo
of a bsh like a sole), and then, catch
ing herself up, described it. "It creeps,
it's slimy—oh, it's a snail!"
Here the hypnotized subject had ev
idently received two sensations —one,
imperfect, of the word "limace,"
which some one (probably tho doctor)
was articulating mentally; the other
of the drawing, which it was intended
to transmit through M, O. A third ex
periment, equally perplexing, yet pos
itive in its result, was made with the
word "cross." Dr. Binet-Sangle drew
a cross on a piece of paper, which he
showed to M. O. Madame M., blind
folded and 1C feet away, immediately
drew two crosses, neither of which
had the form drawn by the doctor.
Now came the more difficult experi
ments with words mentally articu
lated by M. O. A book was opened
as before and a line of poetry by
Tlieophlle Gauthier was shown to O ,
with the request that he would read
it mentally. Madame M. made only
hesitating attempts to repeat it. O.
asked the doctor to read mentally at
the same time with himself. The line
was:
"Souffle, bise. Tombe a flots, pluie."
(Blow, north wind. Fall in torrent 3,
rain.)
At last Madame M. managed to say
"souffle" and then "bise;" but she
could get no further. Another trial
was made with the line:
"he Dieu ne viendra pas. L'eglise est
renversee."
(God will not come. The church is
overthrown.)
Mme. M. pronounced the two words
"In Dieu" and then, all together, "Le
Dieu ne viendra pas"—but could go no
further.
In all these experiments it is diffi
cult not to conclude that the thought
of the experimenter, Dr. Sinot-Binet-
Sangle, was transmitted along with
that of M. O.
Another series of experiments con
cerned the transmitting of thought
proper at a long distance. The re
sults were still more complicated and
significant. One of the assistants. M.
■T., had written beforehand to a friend
in Bordeaux (about 200 miles from An
gers in a straight line) to do. some
thing—whatever he chose—at 10.00
of a fixed evening; and afterward to
write just what he had done. At the
hour of the evening which had been
fixed, M. J. expressed to o. his desire
to know what a fiiend of his was do-
Ins at that tfcne in Bordeaux; he gave
neither the riame of his friend nor the
address. O. ordered Mme. M., who
was hypnotized, to transport herself
to Bordeaux and tell what she saw.
Mme. M., without hesitation, began
by saying that she saw in a cafe a
brown-haired gentleman with another
who was blond. Then she saw them
go together to a newspaper office,
where the brown-haired man left the
other to go to the theatre. She could
see no more.
M. J., who knows Bordeaux well,
asked if there was not a barber's shop
just opposite the newspaper office.
Mme. M. answered that she saw a
shop closed, with antiquities inside it
(there is an old curiosity shop beside
the barber's). Mme. M. was asked to
look again, and saw the brown-haired
man once more in the newspaper of
fice. When M. J. received the letter
telling what had really been done at
Bordeaux, his friend simply said that
he had not left his room all that even
ing!
Now all that Mme. M. had said of
the look and profession of the friend
and the description of the places were
exact; and the acts she attributed to
him were what he was in the habit of
doing at that time of the evening. And
all this M. J. knew very well. It was
then his own thought which had been
transmitted at short distance across
the room to Mme. M., while there had
been no long distance transmission
from Bordeaux to Angers.
Dr. Binet-Sangle next tried Mme. M.
with one of his own friends living in
Paris. He gave the namo and address
to 0., who ordered the hypnotized
Mme. M. to see what was going on at
the address. Mme. M. said that she
passed under a great porte-cochere,
saw a gentleman with a lady—but
here the experimenter himself inter
rupted her, to say that she was on the
wrong track. She stopped and then
broke out: 'How pretty it is here!
Leather furniture, pictures—but the
gentleman, what bad temper he has,
he s not easy to get on with! But
he's very fond of painting and he goes
a great deal with artists!"
"What is he doing at present?"
asked Dr. Binet-Sangle.
' He is lying in his room, reading
a yellow-covered book."
Now all this was scrupulously exact
in regard to the friend of the doctor
in general; he was a young painter
of great talent, but a hypochondriac.
In particular, however, it was false;
for the painter was not at home that
evening and did not read in bed that
night. But he had the habit of read
ing there and the yellow-covered books
of the Bibliotheque Charpentier wore
on his chimney-piece ready to his
hand. Also Dr. Binet-Sangle was well
acquainted with all this and was think
ing of it at the time.
ICE ON THE MOON,
An Interetinc Lnnnr Observation lte
eenllv Made.
Any one who happened to turn a
telescope upon the moon early on the
evening of Aug. 12 cannot have failed
to observe a very rare lunar phenom
enon and one which is of especial in
terest from its bearing upon Professor
W. H. Pickering's recently published
views as to the existence of snow and
ice on the moon's surface. The moon
was a few hours past the llrst quarter,
and the "terminator," which forum
what is popularly known as the
moon's "ragged edge" was slightly
convex. Just outside this line, which
separates the moon's illuminated from
its unilluminatcd half, appeared, as
usual, a number of detached islets,
caused by the illumination of the sum
mits of mountains while their base 3
are still involved in darkness. The
phenomenon referred to was the re
markable appearance of one of these
"Islets." Instead of the usual white
spot was to be seen a star —just such a
star as Is produced by the reflection
of the sun from a glass ball or other
polished convex surface. The highest
power of the telestcope used by a local
observer failed to make out of this ob
ject anything bub a star, which was
estimated to be of about the third
magnitude. The appearance cannot
have been produced by diffused light
coming from any object however
white, even a snow-covered mountain
peak illuminated by the sun would
have appeared simply as a very bright
spot, not as a star-like point. A star
can have been produced under the
circumstances only by the reflection
of the sun's rays from a polished sur
face.
The lunar star was flrsit observe at
about 7.30 P. M. In the course of a
couple of hours its starlike appearance
became less and less marked, and, as
the terminator moved outward It re
solved itself into a very brilliant spot
Subsequently it was found that the
light which produced this appearance
tame from the side of one of the
typical lunar "craters."
GlfalTaa Are foully.
"Our last giraffe," said Manager Car
son of the Zoo, died in 1835,
rfter a life here of ten
years. Since then our collection
has been wanting in this animal. Gi
raffes now cost 85,000 apiece. In 1874
we bought six, and they lived with us,
respectively, five, eleven, nine, three
and two years, while one died ten days
after its arrival of congestion of the
lungs. Of the others, one was carried
oft by heart disease, another by a spin
al trouble, and the remaining three by
ailments of ar. unknown kind. We
have here now, despite our vacancy in
giraffes,a collection that is in numbers:
as well as in rarity the best we have I
ever had. It is perhaps on that ac- i
count partly, and partly too, on ac-!
count of the band of music that plays
three afternoons of the week, that this
season has been so far out best sinca
ISS6.— Philadelphia Record.
SOUTH AFRICA UNATTRACTIVE.
Hot Many British Workmen Likely to
fan There.
The workingman does not willingly
go to a country where a colored and
depeendent race do the work, unless
he is called to a position to supervise
and direct them. There Is thus next
to no scope for agricultural laborers in
South Africa, and even mine workers
go there as captains and leaders, and
not as mere laborers.
The progress of Natal Is a most strik
ing illustration of the unattractiveness
of South Africa, since it mffers from
the inner table lands in naturally ad
mitting a more varied agriculture and,
being mainly a British colony, pre
sents none of the difficulties which
confront a British emigrant on enter
ing among the Dutch-speaking people,
with Dutch habits and Dutch customs.
Yet Natal draws few immigrants
from the United Kingdom, the total
white population numbering only about
65,000, being less than the immigrants
from British India who have come as
traders as well as farm laborers, and
again less than a twelfth part of the
Zulu population, which has Increased
under our rule to an extent provoking
some anxiety respecting the future.
It may he remembered in passing
that the Natal whites themselves are
jealous of the Indian immigrants. They
have taken effective steps to prevent
any further addition to their numbers.
All this goes to show that, except so
far as immigrants are drawn to the
mining centers of the Rand, we must
not expect any movement changing the
character of the white population of
South Africa. —North American Re
view.
Six Mile, of Fi.ti.
Yearly, as the ducks and geese hur
ry South, leaving freshly frozen rivers
and lakes In their wake, we read of
the farmer who goes early to the
slough on his farm to break the ice
that the cattle may drink. How
that farmer notices the lake dotted
with clumps of feathers, which on
closer investigation turn out to be
mallards and canvasbaclts, frozen sol-
Id In the Ice. And when he has chop
ped them all free his two-hoirse wag
on load is all the team can haul.
But down near New Orleans eman
ates the following with all the ear
marks of truth:
The high tides filled the sloughs
with salt water and drove the buffalo
fish into the freshwater canal. ad
there been a few of them only things
would have gone well, but as it was,
the canal was literally choked with
them and the breathing room in the
water giving out myriads of them
turned belly up.
j.ne pilot of the steamboat travers
ing the canal plaughed his way
through the dead and living flsh alike
choking his paddle wheels and finally
running aground upon a solid mass of
dead and alive flsh.
The suffocating flsh died. Darkies
were hired to pitchfork them out upon
the hank as they would throw hay,
and lime was sprinkled on them. But
this was slow and unsatisfactory, be
cause they were six solid miles of flsh
in that canal. Something had to he
done, and it was proposed to cut
100 feet of levee and let In sufficient
water to sweep the flsh Into the Gulf.
Another proposition was to station a
number of large tugs in the river near
the looks and flush the canal by pump
ing. I understand this latter plan was
followed. —Forest and Stream.
Nnw York Minneri Surprise I.oncloner.
The ordinary Londoner who has not
had the good fortune to cross the At
lantic is wont to picture his American
cousin wearing a goatee and a victim
to the constant chewing of tobacco
and liberal expectoration. On arriv
ing in New York he is amazed to dis
cover that the goatee is conspicuous
by its absence, tobacco chewing un
noticeable and expectoration practical
ly unknown. In this respect he finds
the New Yorker far more cleanly in
his habits than the Londoner, more
especially on public cars and in pub
lic places. The unrestrained indul
gence of spitting on and off the tops
of 'buses and in railway trains, and
the random chewing and smoking of
tobacco in and around London are
simply odious, and make traveling in
tolerable and ofttimes disgusting even
to a smoker. Here the stringent pro
hibition against spitting in public
places and the sensible regulation as
to smoking are so thoroughly observed
that traveling becomes a pleasure. If
London would only copy the most ad
mirable example existing in New York
in this respect the English metropolis
would soon be rid of a most unwarrant
able and filthy habit.
Paradise Cor II enters.
To one who knows what tHo vast
solitudes of northern Canada really
means the dread of game extermina
tion seems rather unfounded. The
last census of Labrador gives it a
population of one man to every 35
square miles. This can hardly beoailed
an ineonvenientcrowdlng. There are al
most as many persons in a strange
East Side New York block as there
are in the whole of Labrador. Why
should game become extinct In tills
region? I must confess I can see no
reason why the caribou and the beax
and the other animals should not live
out their lives Just as they have al
ways done. The numbers killed by
man must surely be quite Insignifi
cant.
The seme conditions obtain In
northern Ontario, the greater part of
the Northwest territories, and a very
large part of British Columbia, The
date is far distant when there will not
he sufficient game and to spare for the
sportsman who is content to take the
.i,,iter with the sweet and to leave be
hind the luxttriotisness of the fashion
ablo resort. —Grand Rapids Herald,
THE SAUERKRAUT PEDDLER.
A Character Common to the German See*
tlon of New York City.
The regular and popular visitor to
the German inns and taverns of the
East Side is the sauerkraut man. He
brings his calling with him from the
old country', and finds a more profit
able field in New York than in Berlin
or Hamburg. His equipment is quite
curious. He wears a blue or white
apron running from his neck nearly
to the ankles, and from his shoulders
is suspended a circular metal box
which goes hald around his waist. It
has three large compartments, two of
which goes half around his waist. It
In one are well-cooked Frankfurter
sausages, and in the other thoroughly
boiled sauerkraut. In the third com
partment is potato salad. He carries
in his hand a basket in which are
small plates and steel forks. One sau
sage and a generous spoonful of sauer
kraut and potatto salad cost five cents.
All three articles are of good quality,
well cooked and seasoned. He finds
his best customers in the bowling al
leys, where the exertion demanded
by the game produces large appetites.
Next to these are the taverns which,
do not supply food with their drink.
Last of all are the halls and meeting
rooms where different societies as
semble. His nightly stock consists of
50 sausages, seven pounds of souer
kraut, and as much more of salad. On
bad evenings he takes only half as
much stock as on fair ones. Some of
the more fortunate peddlers have ar
rangements with clubs which pay
them a very fair profit upon their
goods. Others are free-lances who
visit every place where they think
they can effect a sale. The metal
boxes are very ingenious and are made
in Germany. The metal is some va
riety of pewter, and the fitting of the
compartments and of the entire affair
to the body is very accurate. The cov
ers are so well hinged and snug at
the edges that when the owner falls
down he is not liable to spill any of
the contents. The contrivance costs
some $3 in Germany, and about $5 in
New York. A few of tho peddlers ap
peal to educated palates and carry
with them Cervelat, Bock, Reh, Leber
wurst and Vienna, as well as Frank
furters. These fancy sausages usu
ally bring ten cents instead of the
regulation five.
The forks are washed after the cus
tomer has finished his little meal, and
from repeated cleansing and use are
as bright as silver. The plates, on the
other hand, are so banked and bruised
that they might be asily mistaken for
crackle ware. —New York Evening
Post.
An Incident in tho I.lfe of fnnfticiu*.
It is told of Confucius, the founder
of Chinese philosophy, who was born
551 B. C., and whoso Latinized name
is made up from his family name
"Kong" and hi 3 title "Hu Chu," which
means "The Master," that once, while
on a journey, he was waylaid by a po
litical enemy who would not release
him until he had promised that" he
would not proceed to his destination.
In spite of this promise, when Con
fucius was released, he continued on
his journey. When asked why he had
broken his word, he replied: "It was a
forced oath; the spirits do not hear
such."
Today, 25 centuries later, mendacity
is universal among the many millions
of Chinese who show no shame to be
ing found out in a lie, for they say that
their great teacher believed that lie
which does no known evil is not
wrong.
Had Confucius known how many cen
turies this remark of his would live,
and how many generations of his
countrymen would be harmed by it,
he probably would have relinquished
his journey and kept his promise, no
matter at how great cost. The influ
ence of this one precept has vitiated
the strength of many of his exhorta
tions to truthfulness, and has also
menaced the system of Chinese ethlcs ;
—Success.
Where Strontium Is l'oiinn.
In "Mineral Resources of the United
States," just published by the Geolog
ical Survey, Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt,
of that bureau, says considerable in
terest has been awakened in the occur
rence of strontium minerals in this
country, and a number of inquiries
have been received regarding the lo
calities where these minerals can be
found.
Dr. Pratt says that in the employ
ment of this matter it is not the met
al strontium which is used commer
cially, but the salts therefrom. The
salts are used in pyrotechnics for red
fire, and also in very small quantities
in medicine. Strontium oxide and
strontium hydroxide are also used in
the manufacture of beet sugar and mo
lasses.
If. appears that an occurrence of
this mineral has been discovered in
the state of West Virginia. It is lo
cated near Cedar Cliff, Mineral coun
ty. It is rare in this country, how
ever, and only the slates of New
York, Texas, Mich fan, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Colorado and West Virginia
produce it, and even then in very small
quantity. Nearly all the strontium
salts used in the United States are im
ported from Germany.
What Adv.rtl.lnß la.
Here is the opinion of a man who
has been for many years directly in
terested in advertising: "Advertising
is as important in the world's work
as is iron or electricity. It is the very
life blood and the nervous system of
all business. It Is as much a part
of tho production of a useful article
as are the machinery and the labor
which go into the making of it from
llic raw material." —Philadelphia He
cord.