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Russia's undef ffl A PRINTING SH 1 SPIES CAN'l For Five Years It Has 1 || Voice" Monthly ?? if! ^ - Magazine Used t B Seizure of th REVOLUTIONARY Jewish magazine of from ?;; 1\ ? O twenty-four to thirty ')$ pages is published in Rus *SfOW sia every month, and for the last five years the spies and defectives of the police have been searching in vain for the place of its publiE;-catiom From the same press come pnany proclamations, handbills and booklets of a revolutionary character, twhich are spread broadcast throughut the Czar's dominions. The members of the Genera! Jewish Forkingmen's League of Russia and jPoland, who engage in the publication knd the distribution of revolutionary jmatter, are constantly smuggling revolutionary pamphlets across the fronjtier. The adventures which this business in contraband literature leads to iand the many escapes the smugglers ibave would furnish a great fund of material for romantic novelists, but for the greater part these stories will regain untold. A few striking incidents of this underground journalism may be related here. /;To begin with there is the secret press oif the Bund, the Jewish Workingaen's pLeague referred to. As has been said, jthe printing of the twenty-four page monthly journal of the league, which is called the Worker's Voice, has been kept up for Ave years. \ This is the second press of the Bund. jlhe first one-having been discoverea fcy the police and destroyed five years Wgo. The bondists who were working ton the paper at that time were all arrested, but ten flays later the ^Worker's Voice, better printed than before and full of new life, came out 'again. ! The menx who were arrested were all Sent for varying terms to Siberia, but jthe Bund soon filled their places. To ehow the enterprise of the Bund, it jmay. be said that the press on which tfhe new issue of the" magazine was printed was a new one, the printing I 'material was all new, and all had ^foeen obtained within ten days after the confiscation of the first press. The Voice as produced by the first ^>ress was a very crude rffair, the copies being proof slips taken from ,<tue ganeys. ouc ue copies oi me new dssue that found their way into the Jfaands of the Government officials were aieatly printed. Since then the Bund bas set up other presses. | Where are these presses located? How is the bulky material handled? How is it that no sounds are heard by peonle living near the printing shops? JWhere does the paper come from? How is it brought into the country? .Such are the questions which for the past five years have puzzled the Government officials. i Light will be thrown upon these matters by an account of how the Voice iwas got out by the men in charge of the first press. The printing place was In the city of Babroisk. In the Jewish quatter there was a married carpenter. In the same house was another Uewish family. i The carpenter had little outside cus torn, and tba neighbors had the impression that he worked at home for a furniture factory. Often they saw packages carried out, and believing ithem to be articles of furniture the matter caused no comment. The real ^business carried on in the house was described to the writer by a member of re|Bund. "Once when I visited the house I brought a package of lead type. The package was quite large and heavy, but no embarrassing attention was fcaused. I "I entered the shop with the carpenter, whom I met at the station. ,The first room was to outward apIpearunee an ordinary carpenter's ahcfo. ]' "The second room was well furTn f ni\nfra tito c? o fJno fo'o .UIOUCU. xu U1V WUWV ?* M ?v WW 'table covered with a big cloth, 011 iwhich stood a lamp. l'"jn a corner of the room was a icloset. Of a printing shop there was (not! the least Indication, yet the most important part of the plant was in ithip room. / "The carpenter took the lamp and /the cloth off the table, took hold of one jedge of the table, and the pretty [painted board moved. Underneath jthere was disclosed a large, shallow jbox, and In this box were a number of smaller boxes filled with type. Here lthe type was set up. [i "When any sound caused suspicion jtlie board was slid into place, the (cover put on, the lamp placed back <>n the table and all was as before. i "The sreat difficulty to me was {where the printer kept the mass of paper necessary. He took me to the jcloset. and touched springs here, setting in motion hidden machinery. (Various compartments were disclosed, fn which there was ample room to nohAt- anil /O-hCir '-fMncrc in fche printing of the Voice. C "The third room was dark. In this proom there was a flat stone, upon [which the type was laid and the forms Rocked and printed, proofs being all |that the Voice consisted of at that jtime. All was very crude, but effective. ( ."Five hundred papers in an hour jBiave been printed by hand, as the printers were very expert and had deivised an arrangement of rollers to run jthe papers more rapidly over the face Wf the type. When a number of the |?p.rs had been p-inted members of kbe Bund w^uid come and carry them Bfway. i* -. t "There was never-a printed paper allowed to stay in the house. If the police should happen to raid the house, ?he'- bundists tigered oUt, it would not jHo to lose Che current issue of the 'paper. ^"The carpenter was a natural megu..;-.; mmmKmauatm IGROUND PRESS OP THE POLSCE ' DISCOVER. Published the "Worker's lethods by Which the 0 Be Got Out -? e First Press. J chanic and was constantly improvini 1 the plant. Even in those days, before the discovery of the hand press, thi Bund was engaged with the problen of making a press that should worl without noise. It was at last made but was not installed in Babroisk, bu in another city, the secret of whicl remains with the Bund." Where the new issue of the Voice i: published cannot be told. The las number was a handsomely printet magazine of twenty-six pages. Amonj the articles was one dealing with thi late Luba Isantad, a woman leader o the Bund, who lived in New York. Thi paper is of good quality, and then are many articles of general interes besides those devoted to the work o the revolutionary propaganda.?Sun. CARNEGIE AND THE CHEMIST The Little German Made the Crane Work and Earned a Fortune. When electricity was first being pu to commercial uses, the Carnegie Stee Company invested in electric travel ing cranes to the extent of $250,000 After the cranes had been deliveret and paid for, the discovery was mad< that they wouldn't work. As a resul the men who had talked Mr. Carnegi* into giving his approval to the pur chWse of the cranes sat up nights try ing to find a way to make them travel and incidentally wondering wha would happen to then if they did no discover the way. While these lieutenants were thui occupied, a little, unostentatious chem lot 1U LUt? JCjUgUl -L iiUlliotlll WULikS, in had recently come over from Germany spent his spare time in making a se of plans for some sort of mechanica construction. When he had finished he rolled up his work, placed it undei his arm, went to Mr. Carnegie's Pitts burg office and sought admission. Ii the course of time he got to his em ployer. "Mr. Carnegie," he said, after he hat introduced himself. "I can make th< electric cranes go." Mr. Carnegie, looked at his visitoi in astonishment. "You make them go!" he said, in credulously. "Do you know that th< best electrical experts in America can'i make them go?" "I do," was the reply, "but I car make them go just the same." "Tell me how," said Mr. Carnegie Impressed by his employe's earnest ness. With that the little chemist, who hac not been given credit for knowing any thiner bevond the ranee of his mortal and rubes, unfolded bis blue prini plans and started to explain his scheme. Before he got fairly wel started it was evident to Mr. Carnegie poor mechanic that he is, that the Ger man l;ad hit npon the one idea thai would make the cranes go. He turned to his desk, and while the man at hij elbow kept up his struggle with the English language, he wrote out the or der: "Mr. is to have any material anc any men that he deems proper at hl? disposal until further notice." "Take that," he said, as he handed the paper to the German, and broke off the interview, "and if you make the cranes go, I ?hall be much pleased." A month later the chemist again ob tained an audience with Mr. Carnegie "They are all working," he said. To-day the man is living in Germany where he is running a vineyard. He bought it with part of the $250,000the cost of the cranes?that Mr; Car negie allotted him of the stock of the Carnegie Steel Company.?New: York Times. Tell-Tale Envelopes. An envelope has been designed thai mail thieves cannot tamper with un detected. There are two ways ir which ordinary envelopes x may be opeueu?one uy lurcuig me uup opexj with a thin metal blade and the oth er by steaming t?e envelope until the mucilage no longer holds the flap. Id either case.it is difficult for even the person to whom the letter is addressed to ascertain whether the envelope has been opened unless something has been extracted. The improved envelope differs from the ordinary kind only in having a sheet of tissue paper at ?tached to the flap and extending down inside the- pocket. This sheet attaches itself to the surface of the envelope with the sealing of the letter, and it is obvious that any attempt to force the flap would tear the letter, and, in spite of the utmost caution, the torn tissue would be plainly seen when the envelope was opened in the proper way. To detect any subjection to the steaming process the tissue is secured to the flap by a colored mucilage, which liquifies instantly when brought into the presence of hot steam, daubing: the inner and outer surface of the letter until it plainly indicates the use of improper methods to ascertain the contents. ' \ X>?ng Tluue. Budd Doble, the veteran reinsman, used to attend frequently a queer little church on the outskirts of Phila delphia. His friends would hear from him a great many facts about this church. One Monday he said: "At last the meaning of eternity has been made clear to me. The parson explained eternity yesterday in such a way that everybody could understand. " 'Eternity/ said the parson, 'is forever, ark? five or six everlastings oc top of that. Why, brothers and sisters, after millions and billions ol centuries had rolled away in eternitj it would still be a hundred thousand years to breakfast time.' Ne.w, York Tribune. CONDENSED ORCHARDS Where the Trees Are Kep# Dimrfbd ?n?I Oreftt Crop# Prodaced. A certain boy with a famous appetite for fruit discovered early in his career that the trees with the be?t fruit were to be found in what was called the "hospital" of his grandfather's fruit nursery, a piece of ground devoted to refuse trees, which were too small for customers, and which were often taken up and replanted. Many a fine feast the boy enjoyed in the hospital, says a writer in Pearson's Maga&ine, but it was not until he came to a thinking age that he realized why these particular trees bore fine crops, although they never made a strong growth. The reason was simply that they were often moved, and that the ground , round about them was often dug over. * Understanding this he began to introduce a new system of fruit cultivation, j that of making the trees fruitful and . healthy by keeping their roots near the , surface, pruning the trees frequently. ^ and moving the trees if necessary once j in about two years. In this way the trees are kept dwarfed, and great crops g are produced. t la old-fashioned orchards trees are I allowed to grow to wnatever size uuu. T in whatever shape they will, and the I grass is allowed to grow beneath, for f food, it may be, for cattle. But now a the orchards are orchards in miniature, 5 condensed orchards, with trees only a t few feet in height, and generally either ? pyramidal in shape or like little bushes and the ground beneath them is carefully cultivated. An apple orchard of one acre planted with dwarf trees will contain more s than 500 trees shaped either as broad little bushes or as regular pyramids, and there will be space for some 700 1 smaller bush fruits between t&e trees. - The effect on the fruit trade that has ' been wrought by such revolutionizing 1 ideas cannot be calculated. The little * bush or pyramidal trees make very fine t ornaments for lawns or gardens. - Still more interesting is the-method - of growing fruit trees in pots as orna ments for conservatories. The trees, , with their beautiful foliage and fruit, t are as decorative as any exotic flower, t and would be well worth growing for their beauty alone, even if their fruit i were uneatable. In the gardens at Sawbridgeworth, in England, small or> chards are grown in pots under glass? , orchards of peaches, nectarines, chert ries and plums, while pears are grown I r in nnfa In cimnTp nrnh&rd houses, with , out artificial heat.?Youth's Companion. r WORDS OF WISDOM, l Spirituality means honesty, truthfulness, purity and reverence. I You cannot prove that you are good ) by proving \\hat somebody else is bad. He alone ?s an acute observer who r can observe minutely without being observed. Men satisfy their consciences by feeli ing their wrong-doing will not come to t plague them. However vast may appear the world 1 in which we move, we all of us live in a limited circle. ' It is a great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well or not enougn j judgment to keep silent. The cause of irritation is always . within. That which is external can t never be more than an occasion which 5 enables the cause to become operative. I Eradicate the cause if you would gain tranquillity. The habit of blaming others when t things go wrong is an insidious and I dangerous one. Far more is it the > purpose to inquire within whether the ! t fault or much of it may not lie'at . home. ^ Use For Tree Stamps. j Professor Frankforter, of Minnesota University, has been studying the mat^ ter of utilizing the immense number k of stumps of the great Douglas fir [ forest which cover thousands of square miles of the Pacific Northwest Lumbermen leave high stumps in cutting these trees because the amount of ' resinous pitch in the tree near the ground makes them difficult to cut ' Professor Frankforter says: * "It has long been known that the pitch in the abandoned stumps had a commercial value, but means of exI tracting it had not been at hand. It k was to provide these means that I spent months experimenting. "To give tersely the results, I will y say that each stump contains forty " per cent of its bulk in pitch. It conk tains five or six cords of wood. Of the t pitch in the stump twenty per cent can t be easily resolved .into turpentine, thirty per cent, into tar and oil, and , fifty per cent into common tar. ' "All the products of the fir stumps k can be removed by what is technically [ known as 'destructive distillation.' One of the most marvelous features is that during the distillation process the fir gives out a gas of strong heating and ' illuminating powers, sufficient to maintain the process and furnish the means of extracting the products desired for b commercial purposes. The distillation pays for itself and leaves the products ' of the pitch practically clear profit." Soluble Tea. This is a new preparation which has made an appearance in Ceylon. It is | described as "a pure soluble tea, possessing alJ the best properties of tea, | with a minimum amount of tannin." A one ounce bottle holds enough of the tea powder to make fifty cups. Already a supply has been sent for use in Somalifand; it is likely to mnke its | way into Egypt, and it has met with Lord Kitchener's appreciation. Child's Point of View. A large and stout woman called on , a friend, and while waiting for her was stared at so intently by the friend's little children that she asked ^ one of them: [ "What are you staring at, little girl?" i "Why, you see, mamma said you L were so narrow in your views, and I i was wondering what view she got."? . Philadelphia Ledger. Climate of West Indies. ***' T1 Ton/1 nAT>_ L 'A'nrOUfJUUUl lue vr trot iuuico auu insula of Florida the prevailing winds are fuom due east, which makes the ! easteca coasts very healthy, while on I the west coasts, where these trade . winds.-are not so constant, the climate is less salubrious. Of the 077.203 deaths in Prussia in 1902 there were only thirteeu eases of siuallpor. Finger prints for the identification of children have been used in Chinese foundling asylums since the eleventh century. A steel-like grass from the volcanic slopes of Orau. Algeria, is so elastic that it can be used instead of spriugs ia the manufacture of furniture. An official investigation at Liverpool, ;Englaud, showed that a widely sold ar"tide of '"extract of beef" contained half its weight in yeast extract. Only one-third of the world's popu lation use bread, as a aauy arucie ui food. Nearly one-half of the people of the world subsist chiefly on rice. It is usually imagined that the iH' candescent electric light gives out very Httle heat. As a matter of fact only six per cent, of its energy goes to make light, while ninety-four goes into heat. A leper was exhibited at a lecture to an audience of Chicago University students the other day. Dr. James Ne vine Hyde, the lecturer, said that he does not believe that any drug capable of curing leprosy will ever be discovered. Cleanliness and good food, he asserts, are the surest and best reme dies. . USES OF REINDEER WOOL Blankets and Clothes Made of It Are Ex ?*it. T>_A?nA?]An A o-q Jnaf IVTniatnrA. Thousands of years ago the reindeer roamed far into the temperate zone ol the European ?*id American continents To-day they are found only in the Fai North. Whoever visits the more re mote regions of Norway soon learns ol the great importance of the reindeei to the nomadic Laplanders. America has a specially stronglj built species, not yet domesticated called caribou. It is found in all parti of Canada, and also in Greenland where it is made use of. In Northerr Europe and Northern Asia, besides th( Laplanders, the Samojedes ant1 Tungese keep large herds of these ani mals; in fact, they are their most valu able and almost their only property The meac serves as food, the hide fur nishes good leather for tents and clotn ing, and the female reindeer yields nourishing milk. From time immemorial the Laplanders have known how to manufacture coarse but warm blankets from the woolly hair of the reindeer. These art an excellen*? protection against mois ture and frost. The inhabitants of Sweden and Norway were the first to observe how well the reindeer swims across large bodies of water, This led to the thought that there must be something in the animal's hair suitable to the making of useful textiles. This, in turn, then led to the manufacture of fabrics which are used mainly for protecting the body when the wearer goes out on the sea in .Winter. A close examination of the hair ot the reindeer furnishes an explanation of its peculiar value. The hair does not have a hollow inside space for its whole length, but is div.'ded or partitioned off into exceedingly numerous cells like water-tight compartments. These are filled with condensed air and their walls are so elastic and at the same time of such strong resistance that they are not broken up either during the process of manufacture of by swelling when wet The cells expand in water, and thus it happens that a man clad completely in garments made of reindeer wool does not sink when in water, because he is buoyed up by means of the air contained in the hundreds of thousands of hair cells. In the markets and stores of Norway, Sweden and Russia garments and blanket9 of reindeer wool are to be had at lower prices than other fabrics. In Vienna there is a factory which manufactures garments of reindeer wool, especially bathing costumes. For persons unable to swim the possession of such garments is of great value. It Is possible that they may be utilized in learning how to swim. Recently successful trials have been made in Paris in this line. In England attention has been directed to this peculiar property of reindeer wool, and it is proposed to take up its manufacture and possibly to improve it. Iu Old Times. Once kings did all the work of government. Thus, we hear of King Solomon acting as judge and jury. Kings went to war and led their armies on to victory or defeat. Later certain nobles thought they should have something to do with the government, and finally their claims were granted. Still later certain landed gentlemen deemei It only right that they should have a voice in government, since they had large interests that were affected, and this claim was granted. Later on all men claimed the right t# have some voice in government, and this was granted. During all this time women were entirely overlooked. Now the women think they should have a voice in government, a vote, since they have as large interests at stake as men, and this seems to be a reasonable conclusion. The Billionaire's Progress. When he had nothing, he had a thousand friends. By dint of industry and some little scheming, he managed to get together $10,000, and at the same time lost five hundred of his friends. 'By the time he had 5100,000, he had dropped one hundred friends. When the $100,000 grew to $1,000,000, his list of friends had decreased to fiftv. When he could count $100,000,000, he had only two friends left The $500,000,000 mark he celebrated by observing that a man's only friend was himself. When he achieved his billion, he was so sore on himself tnat he was unhappy ever after.?'W. D. Nesbitt la LiXa - , ""V NO LIMIT TO NEW LAWS FsoKih Ueasiirtu Tbat Have Occupied Legislators' Atteatton. In the year 1890 there were enacted In the United States by the legislatures of the several States the enormous total of 14.150 brand-new laws. Two years later a similar amount of new legislation was added to the statute books. This is exclusive of Congressional and municipal legislation. Things have come to such a pass that while "ignorance of the law excused uo one." it is absolutely impossible for any humrn being to keep track of the laws which affect him personally. It is probably a fair statement that every man, woman and child ignorantly breaks at least one law, national, State or municipal, every day of his life. One cause of the prevailing lawlessness, then, is the fact that we have too many laws, and that these laws are increased in number with every | year. Especially are the State legislatures prone to unnecessarily aaa to tae size of the statute books. New State Senators and members of the Legislature " seem to feel that their reputation depends on the number of laws they succeed in forcing to passage. This - feeling often leads to the introduction of most absurd and ridiculous bills, and tends to make all the State legis> latures and their members appear ridi culous in the eyes of the public. And . the public is not likely to greatly re> spect the proceedings of legislators . whom it looks at with contempt and . laughter. ? Two years ago, for instance, the . Legislature of Michigan gravely discussed and spent much time and public money in the consideration of a bill to prohibit the printing of hotel menus in any language other than English; the statesmen of Kansas debated a bill to make the wearing of ; corsets or bloomers an offense against ' the commonwealth; the Legislature of ' Indiana has before it a bill to establish a new mathematical truth?the squar' ing of the circle; up in Minnesota 'it ; was proposed that a red light should be kept burning before every saloon, with the word "Danger!" emblazoned upon it; Pennsylvania proposed to ' force every man to pay for his own * drinks, and it was actually proposed ' in the Senate of anether State that every druggist offering medicines for ' sale should have posted in his store an affidavit setting forth that he had personally taken at least one bottle of each remedy fo offered for sale and | that he had experienced no deleterious effects therefrom. But the most amusing case of all is that which comes from the Legislature of a far Western State. It is particu* ' larly amusing because or the ingenih ous confession of a member of tht lower house, who was responsbible for ; it. [ "I Svas anxiou3 to show my industry by introducing some bi'Is,'* he said, ' "but everything I could think of had already ben covered by somebody else. Two or three times other members ( just beat me 'a introducing bills cover' ing certain points, and I was feeling pretty discouraged. I couldn't find anything to make a law about. One day I was walking along the street 1 when I saw a stuffed !amb in the win. dow of a furrier. Now, it struck me i that it might have a bad influence on the young to see stuffed animals in show windows, so I hurried back to 1 my boarding house and prepared a 1 bill prohibiting under penalty of a large fine, the use of stuffed animals ! tr\y Q/ltrorficinof nmnftSOS T tpll VOll 8 fellow can't bear down too hard oa the morals of the young/' : Some laws ..ardly less larcical have ' been actually passed and spread upon ' tiie statute .books.?Chicago Tribune. Stopping a Cough. Apropos of public coughing: I always , carry something to hand to habitual i coughers, .which is about the limit of i my philanthropy. One night I saved a performance of "Lady Windermere's i Fan" by means of a tablet triturate whir>h n woman in the centre of the auditorium was prevailed upon to let [ dissolve in her mouth. Her hacking , expiration had set the whole house on pin3 and needles, spears and pitchforks. and dozens of disgusted folk were about to quit the theatre. Even the actors were in distress. She subsided instantly, but nobody sent me a vote of thanks engrossed on embossed vellum. A person with a cough ought to have too much sense, or delicacy, or self-abnegation to go to a theatre. There is such a place as home. Another coughing woman, plastering ns all over with her symptomati< germs, attracted my attention in an elevated car, and with a profound obeisance I produced a tablet, with a polite suggestion that it would afford immediate relief. You should have seen that look! Daggers were not in it, but forked lightning. "How dara you!" she hissed, shrugging away. "You may be a poisoner. I do not know you." She was on ihe safe side. "I am not 'jack the Poisoner,' " I said. "See! I am not afraid to take my own medicine." With that, I broke the tablet in two and ate half. She thanked me, took the other half and stopped coughing.?Victor Smith, in the New York Press. ILucky Stage Fright. One of the most striking anecdotes told in Hermann Klein's "Thirty Years of Musical Life in London," relates to Anton Seidl's first interview with Wagner, in the library at Wahnfried. Seidl found the room dark; and, imagining nobody was there, he pulled out his letter of introduction and began silently rehearsing the speech he had prepared. Suddenly, from out of a gloomy corner, Wagner appeared, and Seidl was so nervous that he could not bring out a sentence of his speech. This proved to be his salvation, for Wagner, declaring, "If you can work as well as you can hold your tongue, you will do," engaged him on the spot. Success of Electrocution. Attorney General Cunnen, of New York, lias received a communication from a man in Michigan, who inquires whether electrocution is an effective punishment for the ?rime of murder. The attorney general in reply stated that so far as he is aware no man who has suffered that punishment ever again committed muvder or any otter crime. I - V . ' -.-v. Our Budget J i of Humor.. 1 IIWHII The Hara-Bnf. The Hum-Bug has its hab-i-tafc 'Most everywhere be-neath the sun; ( In fact, 't is very like-ly that You know the where-a-bouts of one, ?Puck. Easily Kemembered. "John, do you remember the first time mamma paid us a visit?" "You bet I do. She wasn't ia the house three hours till the cook left."? Indianapolis Sun. TTps and Downs. "Oh, well, everybody has his ups and downs." "That's right Just at present I'm down pretty low because I'm hard up." -Philadelphia Press. One of Chicago's Finest. UCi T 1r a Stranger? >aay, wuat vjai u.u j. ui&q for my hotel?" Officer?"If I catch you taking any car for a hotel I'll make trouble for you."?Chicago News. Getting It Down to ? Tea. Clarence?'"Do you love me, really?" Florence?"Yes, dear.'*1 "That's said in the same tone that you might say, Til take a cup of tea.'n "But I don't take tea. dearest" ^ F7" " A 8ort of a Twister. * Colfax?"And so you think she wa8 glad to see you?" Dumley?"Oh, yes; almost the first thing she said, was that she wished she had known I was coming."?Boston Transcript. Beyond Belief. "If you had ?1,000,<)00 what would you do?" "I don't know that I'd do anything," answered Mr. Ardluc. "I'd probably wake up and find It wasn't so."?Washington Star. . .-> * f Not Businesa. ' "So you object to your colleague's quoting Shakespeare?" "Certainly," answered Senatop Sor*" ghum. "Why should lie advertise Shakespeare gratis? It ain't business."?Washington Star. Sartorlally speaking:. Naggsby?"This thing of washing one's dirty linen in public if frowned upon by the genuine aristocracy." Waggsby?"Yes, but few of them take any pains to conceal the family breaches."?Baltimore American. The Next Best Thing;. * "Have you an isolation hospital in this town?" atfked the stranger. "No, but we've got a . Carnegie library. If you want to be alone with yourself for an hour or two, go up there."?Chicago Record-Herald. w An Open Countenance. "What are you laughing at, Hippo?" "I'm not laugfcing; I'm smiling. .When I laugh you can't see me at all." ?New York American. w>* Motor Mania. The Post (deprecating^)?'"They say she sives more attention to her motor MODERN ARMY OF JAPAN ? Fore? et 200,000 Men May JEaally Be F?t v > . (J^poo the Mainland. Only thirty years old, the Japanese I army has passed through successfully; the only real test of military efficiency,; an actual campaign, while a select but representative portion gained ? -M laurels for itself and the commenda- - ;?? tion of the army men of othi>r nation- ^Ji alities in thejnareh of the international troops to Pekin three years ago. From the forty-seven millions of h?s population Japan has an enrolled body; of soldiers of 640,000 men. Conscrip- * }l tion was introduced in 1873, when military feudalism was abolished, and the Japanese army was organized on &' European model. At first under the prestige gained by the Germans from: the Franco-German War, German in- * '. && 8tructors were employed, but for some* years the Japanese army has been independent, and there are few lesson* in regard to drill, equipment, subsidiary services or the higher strategy; planned by the general staff which that * Japanese now need to learn front others. - I sjaj service ia ODiigaiory irom tne age of seventeen to forty. In the upper classes on educational grounds, as i? Germany, the term of service is modi-( ' ?? fied from three years to one year, butt for the mass of the army sixty thousand men are drawn by lot every yean, :.'j for seven and one-third years' service.* Another body of one hundred ana ? thirty-one thousand men are drafted* into the two sections of supernumer* aries, for a shorter period of training before joining the territorial army.; :>JS The ordinary conscript passes threei years in the permanent, or regular army; four years and four months ia JSg the first regular reserves, five years lit ~-J the second reserves, or landwehr; an<! then after depot service passes the re- . maining years of service up to the aget - Jjn of forty. . The regular army, or permanent force, on mobilization for service beyond the seas, would consist of the? H following: Officers, 8000; rank and' file. 224.990: euns. 798: horses. G7.152. ? In the China - Japanese War of > 1894-5 Japan easily kept an army of 100,000 men in the field, transporting: them to Korea and keeping them well .;$? supplied with necessaries. Since theni . ^ she has relaxed none of her efforts to maintain the greatest military effi" ciency on a larger scale,. and would! :J probably be able to move and support! on the Asiatic Continent near hec $jj shores an army of 200,000 without 'M mimli mi.. ?- ? iUUWU 5iCaLCl, Ullll^ailjr. J. lit? IHJUViUn drawn up after the war with China! :|| aims at the provision of a war force || home and foreign, of half a million men, with 100,000 horses, but In the ordinary course of things this aug- " mentation will not be complete until next year. ! /, - The great weakness of the Japanese army is in its cavalry. A critic at a' recent review of the pick of the army; gjg before the Mikado characterized the cavalry as mounted on ponies, which' compared but poorly with Cossack; troops which Russia could draw upon! '? ' without stint or with the horses drawn from America and elsewhere for mouhted infantry in the Boer war* ^ The Russian military writers for this -j reason believe that a Japanese armjj operating in Korea or Manchuria! would be much handicapped as a mobile force. On the other hand, th^ '-M Japanese, while admitting the weakness of their cavalry, assert that the' lightness of their race in the saddle makes heavy horses unnecessary, an? point to the excellence ol their transport and commissariat arrangements in their recent campaigns. < As-a fighting man the Japanese soldier has a wonderful power of endurance considering the simplicity and moderation of his. physical requirements. His staple food is hoshu, a1 preparation of rice, so cooked that he can carry enough in his own bag for a three days' march, and he is more * ' f, than content with this if it is accompanied by clrled seaweed, salted fish, or pickled plums. He is extremely agile and possesses fighting instincts inbred as a* national characteristic. He is looked upon as the smallest of soldiers in personaF stature, but according to the latest statistics, the average height has beeir gradually rising throughout the army* The officers are z.s a body well trained^ active and zealous in their profession* and actuated by a high code of honor* ?New York Herald. * PoUoos in the- Body. -j The body, is a factory of poisons. If ' these poisons, which are constantly; being produced in large quantities in the body, are imperfectly removed, or are produced in too great quantity, as the result of overfeeding, the fluids which surround the brain cells and all the living tissues are contanimated with poisonous substances which asphyxiate and paralyze the cells, and so interfere with their activity. This fact explains, in part, at least, the % stupidity which is a common after~ dinner experience with many persons. ! When food is retained in the stoin-? ach beyond the normal time, either because of its iudigestibility, the talcing of loo large a quantity of it, or a* . C|| crippled state of the stomach, these changes are certain to take place. Thia fact explains a very large share of the* myriad symptoms which afflict thei chronic dyspeptic. The giddiness, thef tangling sensations, the confusion of thought, and even partial insensibility. which are not infrequently observed a few hours after meaJs in chronic dyspeptics, are due to this cause. Hera is the explanation of the irascibility^ the despondency, the pessimism, the indecision and various other forms oC mental perversity, and even moral depravity, which are not infrequently; ?,ssociated with certain forms of gasro-intestinal disturbances. ? Family Boctor. Loadon. To Cement Gifts* and Iron. Common alum melted in aa iron spoon over the fire forms a good cement for joining glass and iron together. It is useful for holding the glass reservoir of a lamp to its metab base and for stopping cracks about the base. Its great merit for this purpose is that paraffin will not pene4. 4^ 4 + Uiiier u. To Prevent Door* Banging. A cork neatly covered with some dart: material and nailed to the floor' about three inches out from the wall will prevent the door banging backi and spoiling the wall. l * * ... .... - ~^ cars than to her children." The Butterfly?"Of course. How absurd you are! Motor cars require Riore attention than children."?Punch. No Disguise. Sharpe?"Every one on the car knew they were on their wedding trip/' Whealton?"Plenty of rice thrown, I suppose?" Sharpe?"Yes; and, not satisfied with that, they called for rice pudding in the dining car."?Chicago News. Mary and Ann. "Ann," raved the lunatic, "is as old as Mary was when Mary was as old as Ann is now, although " Here the knightly chivalry which had been habitual with him for an in[ stant asserted itself. i "She doesn't look it."?Puck. The Name That Wins. i "He's making money out of his cigars now." "Oh, yes; he sells the 'Delicious Smoke,' doesn't he?" "No, he couldn't sell that He calls it 'Fuma Deliciosa' now, and it's a winner."?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Those Dear Girls. Milldred?"Jack Shortleigh proposed to me week before last." Amelia?"Why, he proposed to me last week." Mildred?"Fm not at all surprised to hear it. When I refused him he threatened to do something desperate." ?New York World. No Use. "Do you intend to give your sou a college education?" "No, what's the use wasting money? He never sticks at anything. Why, I'd bet he wouldn't be on the football team two weeks before he'd be tired' * of it, and want them to put a. substitute In his place.'"?Chicago Record Herald. 'i Debt and'Happinea*. Blodgett?"I should think it would be awful to be itj debt the way you are." T. Tilding?"Oh, fi don't 'bnowf I've know lots of peo$e who otted money and I've known some who had money owed to them; and the latter always seemed to be the ?ore uaiiappy.."? Bos ten Transcript. irWiiiifc I i > i fc, : , ' . -