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A DESISUCT New Orleans/of fers a (By Ravai TWELVE BLOG1S ARE DESTROYEI A Conflagration Believed to Have Ori ginated From an lnsufficientlyy Oile Car Journal Sweeps a Long Sectioi of tne River Front Covered Witi Modern and Costly Wharves, th Great Terminals of the Illinois Cer tral and Two Grain Elevators. New Orleans, Special.-Fire involvini millions of dollars loss in physica property and that strikes a serious, i. temporary, blow at the immense expor trade of New Orleans, swept the rive front Sunday night and wiped out th vast freight terminals of the Illino'. Central Railroad, known as the Stuy vesant docks. Nearly a dozen squares o modern wharves and frieght sheds. tw< magnificent grain elevators, hundred; of loaded cars and vast quantities o freight, including 20,000 bales of cotton were destroyed, together with a largi number of small residences. The fir was still raging furiously at midnight at which time it had almost reached th< upper end of the Illinois Central prop erty. It has not been destermine< whether there has been any loss o life. The ocean-going shipping seems t* have escaped serious damage. A num ber of firemen and employes of thi docks were injured. Actual estimates o the losses are impossible, though the: may exceed $5,000,000. TWELVE SQUARES SWEPT. The Stuyvesant docks extend fron Louisiana avenue almost to Napoleox avenue, a distance of twelve squares The wharves between those two point; were covered with miles of trackage and steel and iron sheds ran the wholh distance. The two grain elevators wer( of the most modern construction, tht upper one having a capacity of a mil lion bushels. Thousands of bushels o: corn, several hundred thousand pack ages of sugar, great quantities of cot ton-seed oil and oil cake, lumber ani every conceivable variety of freight fill ed the warehouses and sheds. Practi cally all the export business handled bi the Illinois Central was put abaorc ships at these docks. The docks and Simprovements have been under con struction for ten years past, elabora. * extensions and immense investment: baying been made. BEGINNING OF THE FIRE. The fire was discovered shortly afte1 7 o'clock. I was said to have resultec from a journal that had not been suffi ciently oiled. The whole plant wa equipped with gigantic water tanks an fire-extinguishing apparatus, but thl blaze, small at the beginning, almos Instantly got beyond control, communi cating through the conveyers to th4 lower elevator and some of the sheds The respense of the fire department was prompt, but because of the fact tha the terminals were inaccessible, owini to tracks, the engines found difficult: in reaching the flames. In half an hou1 the fire covered two squares and th4 lower elevator was practically con sumed, the fire sweeping up and dowr the river. As soon as it became know! that the scene of the fire was the Stuy vesant docks, harbor tugs hastenec to the wharves, and vessels that wer4 moored there were pulled out into thi river. Increase Capital. Suffolk, Special.-An amendment ti the charter of the United Spring Moto: Corporation was received here increas ing the capital stock from a maximun of $30,000 to $500,000. The corporatO] which patented a sewing machine de vice, already has sold several foreigi rights at a high figure. Twelve Years For Forger. Newport News, Special.-Paul C Jo'mison, the negro forger, was sent cnced to 12 years in the penitentlar: in the Corporation Court. He wa: given a jury trial on two indictment af three counts and found guilty 0 all allegations. He was sentenced t 'tw years each for the six offenses Johnson has already served two year in the peniitentiary, having been sent enced from Petersburg. Under th 'law five years will be added to hi term for this reason. Johnson feigne insazity, but it did not serve to mit: ate the sentence. North Sea Decision Read. Paris. By Cable.-The decision 0 the international commission of in quiry into the North Sea incident wa publicly announced at the closing ses sion of the commission. The decis ion lengthly sets forth the circumstan ces and incidents and gives the opin on of the admirals on the various im porta.nt points involved. The decis ion says the delay of the Rusian trans port Kamschatka, following the breat down of her machinery, was perhap the cause of the incident. To Build Ships at Home. Tokio, By Cable.-The statemen that Japan has ordered four battle ships in England is incorrect. Iti probable. unless circumstances dic tate otherwise, that Japan in futur will construct all her vessels at home Shea has equipped extensive yard shops and gun and armor foundries and there is a strong, growing sent ment in the navy and in the peopl generally in favor of home constru< tion exclusively. The yards are a ready engaged in an extensive built ig programme, which includes tw are armored vessels. f E WHARF FIRE Five Million Dollar Loss ring Flames At the same time switch engines were rushed to the wharves and hundreds of box cars loaded with freight were - drawn to points above the upper end of the terminals before the fire reach ed them. Many hundreds more, how ever, were consumed. BIG GRAIN ELEVATOR BURNS. The wind was blowing down the river and the blaze spread with great speed in that direction. By 9 o'clock the lower elevator and sheds and wharves from Amelia street to Louis ana avenue, a distance of six squares, had fallen in. Fortunately, Louisiana avenue is a very broad thoroughfare, and the further spread of the fire be yond that point into a residence sec tion was checked. Between those points, however, the flames swept to complete destruction many cottages of y the poorer classes, the occupants in a great many instances losing all they possessed. With the wind. in a favor ,able direction, the river boats. the able direction, the river boats, the em ployes of the road and the fire depart ment concentrated all their energies in an effort to save the upper elevator between Austerlitz and Constantinople streets and to check the fire at that point. The fire, however, gradually worked past the point occupied by the . elevator. Heroically, the forces 'kept at work, but ultimately they were beaten, and the big steel structure, covered with corrugated iron sudtlenly burst into flames at 10:30 and in a half hour was a complete wreck. BLAZE OF TERRIFIC FURY. At midnight more than nine squares of the terminals had been completely destroyed, and it seemed unlikely that the fire would be- checked until it reached Napoleon avenue, which also is a very broad street. During the fire a heavy wind blew, and the blaze was of indescribable fury, carrying brands to great dist.inces, driving back the crowds of sight-seers. Immense pieces of corrugated iron, torn from the sides of the upper elevator were carried through the air as if they were feathers, and, dropping in every direction, con stantly endangered the lives of fire men and spectators. The 'weather was bright and warm, 50,000 people visited the scene during the 1;rogress of the fire. Aside from the tremendous loss involved in the destruction of property, the fire is a calamity to New Orleans in the tem porary abatement of the immense ex~ port business of the Illinois Central, partly in the matter of grain ship. -ments. SDestructive Fire at Hot Springs. Hot Springs, Ark., Special.-Fire Iswept the southern portion of thiu 'city early Saturday, doing immens4 damage and causing the known deati of three persons. The losses are var iously estimated at from $1,000,000 tc $2,000,000. Sunday was a da.y 01 gloom in Hot Springs. The first esti -mates of the damage done by the greal conflagration were not exaggerated More than forty blocks were eatez away by the flames, and the most con servative estimates place the loss at million and a half dollars, and severa: insurance men state that the figures will reach two million. The three un known bodies recovered are the only known fataliJies. Live Items of News. Fifty bodies have been recovered from the Virginia mine in Alabama, where 160 men were imprisoned by ax explosion. A special Federal grand jury ye nire was drawn in Chicago and sub poenas for 185 employes of the so called "Beef 'Trust" were issued, .pend ing an investigation as to whether ithe supposed combine has been violat ing Tudge Grosscup's injunction. Two additional indictments, making ten in all, were found in Cleveland against Mrs. Chadwick. - President Truesdale, of the Dela ware, Lackawana and Western Rail. road, says the proposed bil to regu. late railroad rates would be in effect confiscation of railroad property. The striking New York, New Havez and Hartford Railroad firemen pro posed a method of arbitration which the company rejected, on the ground that it was objectionable to the engi neers. The Equitable Life Assurance So'i ety has won a suit in which it was * ntended to compel the company tc divide $8.000,000 among the policy. holders in Wisconsin. Gov. A. J. Montague was one of the speakers at the Washington banquet in Alexandria. A train was wrecked on the James River division of the Chesapeake anc Ohio railroad by a falling bowider. -The widow of Jefferson Davis has -published a statement declaring thal -she has no recollection of writing -letter to General Miles thanking hitr -for his humane treatment of her hus - band, and she calls on the general tC Smake public a photographic reproduc tion of the letter. Eight Democrats in the Delaware legislature voted for James H. Hughes t for Senator. -Fire destroyed two of the larges1 s Hoosac tunnel piers in Boston anc damaged the steamship Philadelphia causing the loss of $1L000.000. In the trial of Charles Kratz, one o: the former St. Louis aldermen charge< with boodling, an order was issue< to compel the production of the $30, 000 bribery fund in court. -: New York capitalists propose to built Sa railroad from Richmond to Urbanna DETAILS OF TdE MINE HORROR Thirty-Nine Bodies Have Been Take From the Virginia Mine and N Hope is Held Out That Any of th 119 Men Remaining Are Alive. Birmingham, Ala., Special.-As a re sult of the most horrible mine disaste I:n the history of Alabama, 39 blacken ?d, bruised and twisted human bodie aave been recovered from the Virgini mines at a late hour and laid out fo identification by heart-broken mothers wives, sisters, and sweethearts. It i aow stated positively that 160 mei were in the mine at the time of th, :lust explosion and not the slightes hope is held out to sorrowing lovei :nes that a man of them will live ti tell of the horrible disaster. With the first ominous rumble of th, !oming catastrophe, by common im pulse, every one in the village rushei to the mouth of the main slope. fea struggling against hope for the safet: of loved ones. The scenes at the mine this afternoon were the mcst gruesom and harro\ving that have ever beel witnessed in the mining section of Ala bama. Corpses were frightfully man ;led and disfigured and identificatiol is almost impossible. Many of th bodies are so bruised, twisted and dis -olored that negroes cannot be tol from white men. All day long at the mouth of th mine were waiting and moaning wome1 and children whose relatives wer among the unfortunates. One hundre families and 300 children are left des titute and without means of support b: the calamity. As the bodies of the vic tims, which in many cases have beei gathered together a piece at a time, ar brought to the surface they are placei in rows on a rough improvised plat form. Late Tuesday ambulances begai the removal of those so far recovere to Bessemer. Since the list of dead will probabl: go to 160, the local undertakers hav wired to adjoining cities for coffins as it was found there were not enoug suitable coffins in the district to bur: the victims. Out of the 50 bodies re covered one was found about 4 o'cloc1 this afternoon, which was barely alive The body was carefully taken from th mine and heroic methods resorted t, to bring the man to consciousness. H is still alive, but scant hope is held ou for his recovery. President Flynn, of the Alabam; United Mine Workers, said to the As sociated Press: "I shall be surprised i a single person escapes alive from tha mine. Ventilation is very difficult ani if the men were not killed by the ex plosion they have certainly been suffo cated by the gases. The bodies so fa reached were in the main slope and I will be several days before we can ge to the rooms which branch off frorm th main slope." President Flynn worked all Tues day night with a pick and shovel at th mine and other mine officials wer among the leaders In the rescue worls Conspicuous among these was W. F Farley, member-of the national execu tive board of the United Mine Worker from Alaska. To Prevent Pool Selling. Jefferson City, Mo., Special.-Th lower house of the Legislature passe a bill releasing the "old breeder: law." Pool selling on horse races certain enclosures was legalized b the breeders' law, but the Dill whic passed the House today not only ri peals the old law, but prohibits th selling in any part of Missouri of pool on horse races, whether the races ar run with or without the boundarie of the State. The bill will now go t the Senate where it is expected a di termined fight will be made by pel sons interested in tihe several rac tracks of the State. Died at Age of 101. Trimbelle, Wis., Special.-Anthonl Huddleson, aged 101, the first whit settler in Pierce county, is dead at th home of his grandson, near her' Mr. Huddleson was born in Virgini: and was a direct descendant of th family of which Daniel Boone was member. His youngest child is 5 years old, and his oldest 80. Inquiries to Be Made. Chicago, Special.-United States ofi cials commenced one of the most e: haustive inquiries ever started unde the Sherman anti-trust act by issuin subpoenas for 185 witnesses, callin for a Federal grand jury to sit Marc 20 and making full arrangements fc froducing the operations of the pacd ers in Chicago and other packing cel Blew H is Head Off. Raleigh, N. C., Special.-Late Tue! day afternoon, Edward Yarboroug] aged about 45, committed suicide his home here. He placed a shot-gu in a rocking chair.. with its muzz at his throat, holding it .there with h: left hand, while with his right h~ pressed a stick agains. the trigge while he was lying on the bed. Dent was instantanecus, and his head wi partially blown awaf. He was a mer er of a prominent county family. H grandfather built ar.d owyned the Ya borough House. A relative of ti same name committed suicide in hotel here 12 years ago by taking poi on. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $1,000,000 Dock Fire. Boston, Special.-A loss estimat( at $.000.000 was caused by a fire the Hoosac Tunnell docks at Charle town, early Tuesday. Two of the la gest pieces were burned, the Wilso Leyland-Furness .line steamer Phil delphian ivas seriously damaged, as a large quantity of merchandise, bo on the docks and in the hold of tI Philadelphian was runiec or destroye Five persons sustained injuries. Lee to See Cannon. Norfolk, Special.-GeneCral Fitzhug Lee, president of the Jamestown E position Company, left here for Was ington with the hope of being ab to induce Speaker Cannon, of tl IHouse of -Representatives, to chant Ihis attitude toward the bill makir an appropriation for the Jamestou Exposition on Hampton Roads in 190 which bill has been approved and re Iommended by the House committee< idstri arts and expositions. HONOR OF BIRIIDAD Natal Day of George Washington Wa Fittingly Observed GOOD SPEECd BY THE PRESIDEN Represrntatives of Three World Pov ers Participate in the Exercises a the University of Pennsylvania, ani President Roosevelt, the Germai Emperor and the British Ambassa dor Were Among Those Honore< With the Doctorate of Laws. Philadelphia, Special-Commeratioi of Washington's birthday b: the University of Pennsylvania wa - made notable by the fact that represen tatives of three world powers partici pated in the exercises, as follows: Th United States, represented by the Chief Executive of the nation, Presi dent Roosevelt; Germany, representec by Baron Von Speek Sternberg, am bassador to this country, who acted a: the personal representative of Emper or William, and Sir Henry Mortimei - Durand, the British ambassador. Th occasion was marked by one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations eve witnessed in the Academy of Music where the exercises were held. Presi. I dent Roosevelt was the orator of th< day, his theme being "Some Maxim: of Washington." The degree of doctor of laws wa! conferred upon the President, the Ger man Emperor, the British ambassador Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, Unite< _ States navy; United States Senatol Philander C. Knox, and David T. Wat. son, a distinguished lawyer of Pitts burg. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the 1 poet and author, received the degree of letters, and upon Robert 'Simpsoi Woodward, president of the Carnegic Institute, was conferred the degree a doctor of science. Baron Von Specl 1 Sternberg received the degree for Em l peror William. When the President appeared on the stage the band played "Hail to tE Chief," and the entire assemblagc arose and cheered for nearly five min 1 utes. It was a splendid ovation anc r the President smiled his appreciation bowing his acknowledgement at it, conclusion. As each candidate was presented b3 Dr. S. Weir Mitchell for the degree, h< was greeted by the students with lust3 "hoorays" and college cries. Durini t his address, the President was repeat edly cheered, and his reference to the t navy, which -he. addressed directly t< - Admiral Clark, who sat on his left f aroused great enthusiasm The Pres t ident spoke in part as follows: I THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. - As a nation we have had our ful - share of great men, but the two met r of pre-eminent greatness who, as the t centuries go on, will surely loom abovc t all others, are Washington and Lin 9 coln; and it is particularly fitting tha their birthdays should be celebrate( -every year and the meaning of thei) lives brought home close to us. SNo other city In the country Is s< closely identified with Washington't career as Philadelphia. He served here -In 1775 in the Continental Congress 'He was here as commander of the arm: at the time of the battle of Brandy wine and Germantown; and it was neal here that with that army he faced the desolate winter at Valley Forge, the ewinter which marked the turning poin of the Revolutionary war. Here hi came again as president of the con vention which framed the constitutio1 and then as President of the Unite< States, and finally as lieutenant genera of the army, after he had retired fros th presidency. eOne hundred and eight years agt just before he left the presidency, hi issued his farewell address, and in I he laid down certain principles, whici he believed should guide the citizen of this republic for all time to coine his own words being. "which appea to me all-Important to the permanenc; of your felicity as a people." Washington, though in some ways at even greater man than Lincoln, did no have Lincoln's wonderful gift of ex pression-that gift which makes cer tain speeches of the rail-splitter fron .illinois read like the Inspired utter ances of the great Hebrew seers an< prophets. But he had all of Lincoln' sound common sense, far-sightedness and devotion to a lofty ideal. Lik Lincoln, he sought after them by thor oughly practical methods. These tw greatest Americans can fairly be calle the best among the great men of th ~world, and greatest among the goot - men of the world. Each showed il actual practice his capacity to securi ,under our system the priceless unlo1 ' of individual liberty with governmenta strength. Each was as free from the vices of the tyrant as from the vice , of the demagogue. To each the empt: .futility of the mere doctrinaire was a: . alien as the baseness of the merel: self-seeking politician. Each was in capable alike of the wickedness whic1 seeks by force of arms to wrong other and of the no less criminal weaknes which fails to provide effectivel: - against being wronged by others. t Among Washington's maxims whic1 3 he bequeathed to his countrymen wer the two following: "Observe good fait] and justice toward all nations," ani "To be prepared for war is the mos *effective means to promote peace. These two principles taken togethe 5should form the basis of our whole for e eign policy. Neither Is sufficient take by itself. It is not merely an id] "- dram, but a most mischievous drean E to believe that mere refraining froi wrongdoing will insure us agaInst b,eln wronged. Yet, on the other hand, nation preparedi for war is a menacet mankind unless the pational purpos ,~is to treat other nations with goc faith and justice. FROM DR. HOHENZOLLERN. "Dr. Charles C. Harrison, provost< the University of Philadelphia, Phi 1 adelphia: . "I am truly glad that the UJniverslt -has tendered me at the same time wit c resident Roosevelt the academ:c hon< hthat once clothed George Washingtoi E5 1 beg you to accept with my than] .my best wishes for the continue growth and prosperity of the Unmve Want Lower Raw Cotton. . Fall River, Mass., Spe'cial.-TI Le sales in the print clot'1 market th week will reach a total of about 15( 00 pieces. Th2 general market f< e printing clotbs witbot'- special fe K tui e. The tona is quiet and .iteat n and prices for both wide and narrc standar, are unchanged on a bas of 2 5-8 for regulars. Little cotton being purchased, as manvfacture n generally believe in a lower mark r the raw material. Late experience in the British nav; finas suggested that loathsome diseas may be spread by tattooing, and thos - who must decorate in this way ar warned that the needles sha . b sterilized. t rheumatism seems to lie praeticn:l nnknown in Japan. A French of server attributes this to the sobriet of the people, their vegetarian diet an their great use of water. They nc only drink large quantities of pure w: ter, but take two or three baths dail throughout the year. The appearance of a nark diseas among the Para rubber tress in ce tain districts In Ceylon during 190 created some alarm among rubbi - planters, but prompt measures for it treatment were carried, out under th advice of the Government mycologis Mr. .T. B. Carruthers, the officer i cluestion, states that the disease W:t due to a canker fungus: further d tails regarding its structure and trea ment will form the subject of a latt paper. Phosphate rock is of organic or:gi largely derived from guano and (tera ing animu.l matter which contailn phosphoric acid. In rainless region such as the Peruvian coast and som of the Pac ific islands. the guano ma accumulate to great thickness withor loss of soluble matter. In moist di: tricts, however, the phosphoric CO! stituents rre dissolved out by per(< lating waters. and the solutions con ing in contact with limestone may cot -vert the latter into lime phosphati The phospaate deposits of Florida at thought to have formed in this mat ner. Principles of construction that arch tects have slowly worked out, Lor Avebury suggests, were adopted h plants millions of years ago. Son: plant stems are round, others are Itr angular, others quadrangular. and s on, and it seems possible to give a mi chanical explanation of the dife ences. Builders have adopted ti girder as the most economical inetho of resisting a strain in one directioi Plants seem to have built on a lil plan, tree trunks being round to r sist strain from all direetions. whl plants with opposite leaves and strai in two 'directions have two girder: giving a quadrangular stem. and tr angular and pentagonal stems may I; accounted for as strengthening againu like obvious strains. AN INGENIOUS CX0TAIN.' Skipper Mattson Used a Novel Method < Stopping a Leak in His Boat. Many have read in Mr. Hopkinso Smith's story of "Cap'n Bob" wli stopped up a hole in his ferry-bot with his own arm, and thus save 3many lives. The London Daily E: press describes a method of stoppin a leak no less novel and ingenious tua "Cap'n Bob's," and not so trying1 physical well-being as that adopte by the he'olc pilot. The Norwegia bark Flora. bound for Cape Town, e: perienced in the Bay of Biscay suc terrific weather that she was oblige to lie to for six days. SIn the buffeting that the vessel r, celved she sprang a leak, and bega to take in water at the rate of si inches an hour. All bands were kej at the pumps day and night withol intermission. As the gale abated tU bark drove before it into calmer sea Captain Mattson found the leak w; getting worse and set his brainsi work. He constructed a great wate proof canvas bag. sixteen feet lcn; six feet in circumference and twc fel in diameter. This he k:ept distendt by the means of hoops. A windcw< glass was let into the side, five fe' from the bottom. The captain steppc into the bag, and by means of tack was drawn under water so that 1 could see the leak. The other end < the bag being open and above wate he had plenty of air and could con municate with his men. Two sleev< had been made in the bag, and we) tied tightly abont his wrists, so th: h le could work freely.. 1In this way, looking at the len through the inserted window, the ca; tain worked steadily while the shj was hove to. The vessel rolled in heavy swell, and sometimes Capta. Mattson found himself from seven ten feet below the surface. At one tin the chafing of his feet against the ye sl's side wore a hole in the bag. a1: - the water entered and covered him. t But he was drawn up in good tim the bag was repaired, the work co: Stinued and the leak stopped. The Simple Life Expensive. And, r'eally, the simple life is frigh fully expensive. At a recent entertai: ment in this city a great luxury in tI serving of the second supper was 11 introduction of country sausage ai buckwheat cakes with maple syru But the sausage came from the far: of the host and represented a sma fortune. as the pigs from which tI piece de resistance was made we: bl)ooed anjimals with pedigrees. TI bucwheal was grown in special filh which cost ever so much a foot. at 0 the malpie syrup was taken from tre< in the most expensive Adirondack pr dserve. And thus can thousands dollars he spent on the simple lif whiie truMes. p)ate, terrap)in and su< other rarebits of a former generatic are left for tile tales0 of the midd classes w:th moderate means.-Ton yy and C'ount-y. The Laugh Cure For Dyspepsia. r Dyspeps:a is now systematicnl 's enred by laughter. It is stated that d doctor, in return for a large fee,. a - mits patients into his private instit tion. where the mirth treatment is a ministredl. The method sounds sil pe enough. A few dyspeptics around a room and begin to smile each othei. The smile Lust never e6 allowed to fade away. .On the co is trary, it must he developed by w ,. power into a grin and the grin mu r become a guffaw. Then!youm have a- go on laughing until yout- sides acd yy lywhen you will ailreadv feel mu ' letter. A course of a wee's or two s the treatment ait the rate of a cou11 sof hours "igling a (lay cures \the woi cases of dyspenI'a-LOndOn Te rnh WISE SERVANTS. That the Gardeners of Darwin and Huj ley Thought of Their Masters. There is no personage more deeply and deferentially aware of his own mportance than the English butler; iext to him in privileges. and ahead )f him in sturdy frankness, must stand :he Scotch gardener. It vas Darwin's gardene. who. when e friend of the family inquired after :he health of the famous naturalist, >vho had been somewhat ailing, replied onfidentially that he did not doubt his naster would be better "if only le t }ould find something to do." The pa- t t :ient and minute research in which he c aw Darwin engaged struck his mind c is merely a foolish and fussy form of t rifling, not worthy to be considered I in occupation. If, instead of bother- 1 e ng about the digestive capacity of worthless insectivorous plants. the a ;reat man had grown cabbages or s raised roses. the gardener's opinion of i him would doubtless have been higher. s The gardener of Professor Huxley, with equal unconsciousness of doing < 1o, also cast a slur upon his renowned semployer. Mrs. Huxley. fearful that he might a be overworked, had inquired if he did i r not need sonic assistance. t "No." came the reply: "the place is c not very large, and Mr. Huxley is al- c ., most a, good as another man." E . Better than either of these true tales L s is that of the butler in a fine old Eng- i lish family, whose long service had i e caused him to feel a personal and pro- z prietary interest in the sons and daugh ,t ters of the house. He could not acquit himself of a sense of responsibility t for their manners and conduct, and I . when at a large dinner-party he noticed j one of them, a young girl who had but recently entered society, devote an I amount of attention to her agreeable e neighbor on the right obviously in ex- i ,- cess of that accorded to the less fas- - cinating gentleman on her other side. i his perturbation increased till it could - no longer be borne in silence. d Under pretense of passing her a dish, i y he managed cleverly to whisper in her e ear: "A little more conversation to the I o left, miss."-Youth's Companion, E WORDS OF WISDOM. ci Man proves his liberty by his loyalty to law. e He 'Who makes friends makes the . best fortune. e Evil has a good servant in the man i who is proud of his doubts. It takes more than taste for fried - chicken to make a good pastor. Opportunity makes the great differ ence between the greedy and the grafter. Men who pride themselves upon be , ing hardheaded, are often mere tools in the hands of other men. I Children have moral measles some , times. Only let them alone and they t will get well of themselves. There is da wise herb in the gardens, and it is .called Thyme.-S. Weir Mitchell. ;Real character is not outward con xi duct, but quality of thinking. The o teaching of the Great Exemplar on i this point was positive, but the world ai has ignored its scientific exactness. - Henry Wood. h Just to be good, to keep life pure d from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to -those who are touched by it, to keep a one's spirit always sweet, and avoid1 Iall manner of petty anger and irrita t bility-that is an idea as noble as it is t difficult.--Edward Howard Griggs. N. o Evolution For Cat. s It is proposed to devote cultural o0 and protective activities to the base - as well as the apex of the cat pyramid .-to struggle to advance the welfare of t the democratic many rather than the aristocratic few. , Although respect mf must be felt for the worthiness of the t motive inspiring those promoting this l reform, experience has bred cynicism Sconcerning its success. Evolution C works in all things except in the cat C species. Puss was in ancient Egypt; , she is now. As the witty Frenchman - said, "She is a creature, whether of s the parlor or the ridgepole, which seems by delicate design to devote her t days to civilization and her nights to barbarism."' The cat aristocratic and k the cat democratic, even more than the - colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady, are p "sisters under their skin." The one a is not as far above the other, or the 1 other as far below the other as Madi 0 son Square's cat exhibit would suggest. The wild native music, the pibroch of 5- the race, comes as quickly from one d as the other. Through all the ages she has been unchangeable, and as culture . at the top has not modified. so culture - at the bottom would not.-Newv York G lobe. Popurarity of Barefoot Sandal. tContrary to all expectations, the barefoot sandal is here to stay, and thousands of pairs are daily being C made up for next seas'on. It was the d general opinion last season, when so -many of them were worn, that the sale " must have reached its climax, but more I than twice as many have been already e sold thani were produced all last sea eson. The barefoot sandal is here to e stay. Not only are they being made sfor the little ones, b)ut many ..dults id are b)uying them for house slippers, be scause of their wearing qualities. SA salesman, just returned from his fWestern trip, says out West there is -as much demand for sandals as East 'li and South. While the barefoot sandal nwas originally intended to be worn at le the seashore and summer resorts, this " salesman remarked that there were hundireds of children out West who never saw the seashore that wore y barefoot sandals. bcing to them the a ideal comfort and health shoe.-Shoe i. Retailer. d- rrumanity in Firemen. 1-After rescuing the human inmates of some premises in Westminster Bridge it road, which caught fire early last t onth. some firemen again entered the >eburning building in the hope of saving la little retriever pup which was mak t ing frantic efforts to escape. They suc stceeded in bringing out the dog, but it to died soon afterwards. The National e, Canine Defensc League have now -hshown their appreciationi of the gallant of onduct of the tiremen br presenting leach with a handsome address, in st which (details of the galbuic act are The Great Highway. An:o.ng the principal addresses at the few York and Chicago Road Associa ion's recent convention at Erie, Pa., was one by Frank Z. Wilcox, of Syra use, in which the need for and justice f government aid in constructing in erstate highways on modern line was >lainly and forcibly set forth. Mr. Vicxsi npr:"It has been said that good roads re the nation's salvation. If that is o, then in proportion as its roads are mproved, in just that proportion will alvation come to the nation, and sat ation is not of much avail unless it be .; ontinuous and constant.. "N\o chain or bond is stronger than ts weakest link, and no highway can ttain its greatest usefulness unless t is Improved its entire length. If here be road improvement in places >r localities, and then a liquid morass >f mud in other sections.. the money ,xpended on the improved portions as been practicaly thrown away. The nethods we have been pursuing in -oad improvement have amounted to t hit or miss. system, which equals no ystem at all, and if any project in the-; ride world should be thoroughly sys- 1 :ematized road improvement should )e that system, as it involves an ex )enditure of the people's money.. Peter -,artwright on one occasion was asked >y his bishop if he was growing in race. He replied that he was growing n spots. So far we have simply here mnd there improved our roads in spots, tnd unless we make these improvedA ;pots continuous all our road work or road improvement has been, and rill be, inevain-a prodigal waste of :Ime, energy and money. Our fore athers in this country, contrary to he experience of centuries, inaugurat d the present townships method for he construction, care and maintenance >f the public highways. This system vve have followed for more than a hun ired years, and results have shown hat it is vicious, with scarcely a re ieeming feature. Experience has demonstrated that no eneral road Improvement worthy the tame can ever be accomplished with >ut State or national aid. It is un necessary for us here to speak of the >ld Roman roads or the continuous lines of national highway now existent in Europe, as these are all matters of r-ecord. One small community or town-. ship can never plan or act for other ommunities or townships in the con struction of interstate roads any more than In other matters aff'ecting the gnenral good.l. 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