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THE BEGGIN | A condition of the times, a situation which has become very trying, iboth to manufacturers and advertisers, is the solicitation by members of different organizations for advertisements in their programs, score cards, dance orders, and for purchase of tickets for these affairs. We have several times before referred to this subject at length in these columns, but it is a matter of: puch importance and the practice I mentioned is so burdensome to those affected that we think it well to bring ap the subject again. First, the manufacturer is approached by a very smiling policeoaan, with the request to buy one or two tickets to the policeman's ball, which is to take place shortly, the proceeds of which go to the policg! taen. Next, the fireman appears with -utr same icqucsi.. lunumug mm Jomes the letter carrier, whose organization is also about to hold a ball, i find is getting out a very handsome fcouvenir, and they not only want you to purchase tickets but also to spend certain amount of money for advertising in the program. Then the United order of mail clerks is holding Its first or second annual ball, tickets for which you are expected to purchase. Following them probably comes the city laborers' association jwith tickets, only $1.50 apiece, for the benefit of the laboring man who has been out of employment or who Is working only half time. To make this case all the more heart rending, the man out of work may have been the innocent victim of spasmodic retrenchment in the city government. flThen comes the benevolent order of railway clerks connected with the P. D. Q. Railroad, who have a delegation of two or three of their members .waiting upon manufacturers with the request that they buy tickets for the annual ball, the proceeds of which are to be used for the benefit of their members. Then come the freight handlers of a railroad whose name includes that of the largest city in New York and several of those in Connecticut, requesting that the solicited ones purchase tickets for the annual ball. Following these probably comes a procession of delegates ifrnm corrfft nrrfpr? innnmprablp. with requests for donations, either to fairs that they are to hold or for advertisements in the program for their field day sports. Another organization appears representing that it is to hold a fine convention and is preparing a very handsome souvenir or book with the pictures of all the xeigning members in the same, and a page for advertising in this book or Souvenir can be purchased at the absurdly low price of $25 or more, as the case may be, which means that they are usually willing to take what they can get, and it certainly behooves the friends of labor to take a page in the beautiful forthcoming triumph of the art of letterpress printing. It is useless to go on with the catalogue of organizations that constantly importune manufacturers whose goods are sold in the retail stores, but, of course, we must not forget BEAUTIES AND M A Famous Mine Which Halls?Is 22 Miles Lon The most interesting salt mines in the world are said to be those at I wienczKa, la uaucia, wuitu iuiuu ?u I underground collection of streets, j houses, churches and monuments, j ' Their history can be traced back a ! thousand years and they are still fceing worked. Tourists are fitted out with miners' shirts and hoods and are conducted by guides, one to each three visitors. The first stop is at St. 'Anthony's chapel, hewn two hundred years ago by some unknown miner from a single piece of rock salt. The altar has twisted columns and there are statues at each side, praying monks kneeling on the steps, and over the altar the crucifixion and a statue of the Virgin. Smaller altars at the sides and the pulpit are carved from pure salt spar. This chapel was formerly used for religious services, but they are now conducted in the more modern chapel of St. Cunegund. Next comes a great dancing hall, hung with chandeliers carved from crystal salt in 1814, in honor of the visit of the czar to the mine. There are statues of salt here, too, a handsome door and a long gallery. Visitors often dance here to the music of an orchestra. Next they go to the .chapel of Cunegund, opened in 1806. It is reached by a descent of forty-six steDs cut in solid salt. The chapel itself is 150 feet long, forty-five feet broad and thirty feet high. It contains statues, a beautiful pulpit, altars and chandeliers, all of salt. The Michalowice hall is eighty-four feet long, fifty-four feet wide and 108 feet high, with a colossal chandelier seven feet in diameter containing 200 candles. Passing through other beautiful halls one reaches the Crown Prince Rudolph grotto, where the lights and white carvings are reflected in the water of an underground lake. From the centre of the water rises a statue ? of salt, of course?surrounded by fir trees and stalactites. The mines form an oval twentytwo miles in length and half a mile in central width. The aggregate length of the galleries at present accessible is upward of sicty-five miles, and that of mining railways twenty-two miles. Enormous cavities amounting to 106, 000,000 cubic feet have been produced during the last century below the town of Wieliczka by working the rock salt, and as these cavities?kept lip artificially by timbering?are continually increasing, the inhabitants of [Wieliczka some time ago were fearful lest their own town be exposed to the risk of collapsing, and the local building activity was therefore temporarily confined to the erection of . wooden structures. Present regulations, according to which these cavities have to be filled in, in due course gradually removed that apprehension. The mines are employing upward of 1000 permanent and a number of temporary warknaea. The working h G NUISANCE! j j the clerks whc come around and ask us to take a page and also buy tickets for their picnic. Every department store in tho country has connected with it a benefit organization for its employes and i the officers of these organizations ob- I tain from the manager of the store a ' jc list of manufacturers from whom they i t] purchase their supplies, and as the u manager of one of our best known j and most prominent manufacturing house writes us, without any compunction of conscience whatever these clerks enclose to every manufacturer a half dozen tickets costing from fifty cents to one dollar, with what they consider to be a very nicely written letter, stating that they are j very friendly to this particular manu- i facturer's goods, and they would like to have the said manufacturer buy these tickets for the benefit of the aforesaid employes. Besides the above, which is really only a small list, almost every church j organization, either the laidies' aid, j or the prudential committee, intend I to run a fair to furnish funds to fix the steeple, paint the church, or help I out the minister's stipend; therefore, j they are going to run this fair and if the manufacturer will be kind enough to donate some of his goods, and sometimes they ask for the cash, they will see that the manufacturer receives advertising in return. We know of one case where the provender committee of a church j wrote to a person who did not even attend that church, requesting a turkey, stipulating that it must be cooked. Instances that we might 1 enumerate are almost without number. It is "the same old story in the tc same old way." The only relief we c< can see is for the manufacturers to w combine and agree not to patronize la all of these various begging schemes, _ +>>/-? /loQlorQ in PVArv mm. auu iui tug iwut w ... ~ munity to take concerted action and courteously but firmly cause it to be understood that they have taken thia position because it is burdensome, a drain upon their resources, a robber of their profits, something which they cannot stand and continue business. Unquestionably the practice of promiscuous solicitation is an abuse and the good people themselves who carry it on, usually well meaning people in their community, if the matter were presented to them would admit that | the thing is wrong and would co- i operae in suppressing it. There are a great many people in every community who jealously guard their reputation for honesty and rectitude, who would be horrified at the mprp aue-eestion that they were com mltting blackmail, yet there are vari- | ous ways of blackmailing people. Some of these methods were not for a moment intended to operate in that sense, but to a person approached for contributions it appears that he must do it because he thinks that it will be for his interest to do so. This, while the perpetrator is not conscious of it, is really blackmail because the contribution is not made voluntarily and because the givet feels that he must.?New England Grocer. [ARVELS IN SALT Contains Chapels and g and Half Mile Wide. time is fixed at eight hours in the mines and twelve hours above ground a day.?New York Sun. A FT? I I VP W/mVCTR WHICH PL AY S PIANO. Pet Owned by Girl in Indiana Takes Delight in Producing | Music From Keys. I Little Gladys Schultz, 01 aoonvliTe, Ind., has a pet cat of which she is very fond, and which is always at her feet or near her. Miss Gladys ie about ten years old, and is very assiduous in practicing her music lessons on the piano when she is not iD school, says the St. Louis Post-Dis- ; patch. While this is going on the pet cat. ] Cottie, is either at her side or pur- ^ ring around at her feet. It seems to : r( like the idea of music, and will of- a; tentimes sit with undivided atten- ; tion on a chair by the girl's side n watching the movement of the girl's I e; fingers along the keyboard. ; ai After leaving the room a few days j tl ago with the cat sitting on a chair. ! Jt Gladys came back shortly to find Cot- j tl tie sitting on the piano stool trying g, lO liuuaie uei fAauipjc auu yin* uu | & the instrument. The cat would ' strike the keys with her paws and b seemed delighted at the effect of the i t( tones produced, repeating it severai s< times, to the delight of Mrs. Schult2 : p and Gladys, who were looking on. j si Since that time it has become a fre- . a quent occurrence for Cottie to climt j tl on the piano stool and give vent to : tl her feelings in music. 1 a: j g] One of Those Foolish Questions. o A certain man, of rather a wag gish disposition, contends that his J wife has no imagination. A writei j h in the Philadelphia Public Ledgei | *1 tells why he thinks so. At dinnei I e' one night he chanced to mention 3 | tragic circumstance which he had j b read in the evening paper on the way i ei home. It seemed that a passenger on a i transatlantic steamer had fallen overboard in mid-ocean, and had nevei been seen again. I "Was he drowned?" asked his wife ! J1 "Oh, no," answered the husband J j "but he sprained his ankle, I be- | lieve." An Admission. There is scnethiug in America be- 0 sides money and politics. America ^ realizes the importance or eaucauot | and the respect due to those who are i c< entrusted with the great work of pre- ' . par.%ig men for their part in life.? London National Review. Tax rates are so graded in Hoiland that the heaviest burdens fali upon those who have the most prop- Q. erty or income. 1 New York City.?The pointed yoke j 5 always a pretty one. It allows of F) reatment of various sorts, and its and nes are very generally becoming. asse| 'his one is made of strips of the ma irial embroidered with French knots one smbined with simple Irish insertion, puzz hile the blouse is made of linen woul twn, but Cluny laces are being much stitc' Jf I orn. Valenciennes is always cor-j St jet, embroidered bandings are many costi nd plain net trimmed with bands of fore^ et embroidered in Oriental /jolors show lakes one of the novelties of the irly spring, while this model is flapted to each and every material of le sort that the season has to offer. ; can be used with equal success for le odd waist and for the entire own, and it can be worn either with high waisted skirt or with a belt. The blouse is made with front and <5 acks, which are tucked and joined ) the shaped yoke. The collar is jamed to the neck edge and the S, retty, gracefully shaped one-piece Nfc leeves are tucked on indicated lines nd cut in points over the hands, ^ leir special feature being found in /f le fact that the seam is so' arranged s to be quite invisible, while the eeves conform perfectly to the shape f the arms. The quantity of material required )r the medium size is four and a alf yards twenty-one or twenty-four, iree yards thirty-two or two and an ighth yards forty-four inches wide ith eleven and a quarter yards of anding and one and a half yards of I Iging. Bordered Effects Attractive. . j. Bordered effects, that most trying used P fipsi??ns arp cpon In almnst nil thfi tiol ew fabrics. They are so charming, by a jo, that they will be sure to attract fecti' le average woman. shadi Fashionable Colors. Copenhagen blue and all the range So f Saxe blue shades are worn, and ever, eranium hues, which suit blondes, new ray and turquoise are generally be- light jming to light-haired beauties. Re- for t lember that where the complexion are e i sallow, blue next the face will only zags uhance the sallowness. Mandarin Styles. Tt The fad for mandarin styles is seen mad< a gowns, coats, capes and matinees. resp( 'he mandarin shoulder is popular, effec / Foulards in Style. Dulards are always good style, a foulard frock is a most useful t in the wardrobe. Lingerie Trimming. )Oting makes attractive trimming lingeries, and it is durable, too. plain, as well as the point ?rit, four inches wide, makes ty ruffles for drawers. Finish edge of the drawers with seam :ing and to this overhand the ng ruffle that has been gathered ;s own thread. Embroidery Galore. mbroidery is being used on all newest gowns, and is losing na of its popularity. In embroidorlginal and personal touches be put on the simple frock that give it distinction and, as hand roidery is never cheap and canbe copied by the masses, there is reason for its hold on the modwoman's fancy. Odd Yoke For Gown. novel yoke that might be copied ome, if one has plenty of time patience, was made of small js of the material or tne gown haphazard fashion, and then ;d together with fancy feather fagotting stitches. It reminded of an attempt to put a jigsaw le together, and where the pieces Id not exactly fit In the fancy hes were employed. 4 ted water pongee is used in thia ime. It is spot-proof, and a joy rer. The unexpected summer rer has no terrors for the wearer =^ja^g[ lis sltk. Dark blue is the color here. The skirt shows the parrat it r n nf the lHIt hut modified deep yoke. The trimming is efyely done in a wide soutache, a e lighter than the silk. Egyptian Soutaching. utache braid is used as much as but it is arranged on fabrics in designs. Every one is quite deed over the Egyptian patterns, hey give character to a frock and iasy to do. They are merely zigthat look like hieroglyphics. The Loose Coat. le popularity of the loose coat i with an extremely bias back is jnsible for the many unsightly ts such backs often present. r Experiments with ostrich farmln, !n Australia, the eggs being hatchei by artificial Incubation, are success ful. ? Up to a certain point exposure t radium rays stimulates the germina tion of seeds, but if that point b passed the growth is stopped. In a recent issue of a zoologies periodical L. Plate describes the cur) ous habit of a new species of fls! from the Bahamas. This fish spend parts of its time in the shell of large species of strombus. Probabl it finds the shell a convenient shelte and place of retreat from its enemies Its presence does not appear to b of any advantage to the mollusk. Attention is seldom called to a re markable and curious characterise of the olive tree. After many year of growth the different large branche of the trees separate gradually froii the trunk until they are quite divide^ from one ^another down to the rool These then slowly move apart and ii some instances six or seven distinc trees stand in the area which befor onrrrmnrlert the main tree, and the will sometimes be as much as twen ty feet apart. Dr. Schllck's apparatus for pre venting ships from rolling at sea ha lately given fresh proof of its abilitj One of his gyroscopes has been fittei on board the mall steamer Lochiel While the vessel was rolling slxtee; and a half degrees on each side through a total angle of thlrty-thre degrees, the gyroscope was started and immediately decreased the tota angle of roll to three degrees. Th apparatus Is driven electrically an requires little attention. Tests are being made at the Spring Held armory of an invention whicl ai crV? fa nf O TM fl P 51 inumiuaico i>u? di5ui>o v* ? <*mw ? night. Even though the light em ployed did not shine directly into th Boldier's eyes, it might interfere wit! his aim by producing a glare tha would make the target invisible. I no such result follows, the devic ought to be extremely serviceable. Ernest DeKoven Leffingwell lef Pasadena, Cal., recently for Seattle where he will begin preparations fo his tour of two years into the Alas kan territory in the interest of th University of Chicago and the hydro graphic office of the United State Government. He will outfit hi steamer, the Argo, and with four as sistants start up the coast May 1 t Bering Straits, thence to Point Bar row and Flaxman Island, the head quarters for his prospective trips o exploration into the wilds of th northern country. Reflections of Uncle Ezra. By ROY K. MOULTON. It is seldom that a man dies at oni hundred and ten years that we don' hear he has chawed and smoked to backer and drank forty-rod whisk: all his life. There was a swap social at th Hard Shell meetin' house the othe night, and every woman was sup posed to take something she didn' need. Mrs. Hod Peters took Hod. Owin' to the passenger rate war, i is said to be cheaper to go to Europi than to stay hum, but there are a fe? American heiresses who will hardl; agree with this. William Tibbitts has refused to pa: his taxes because an astrologer sai< the world is comin* to an end Janu ary first, and Wiiliam wants to savi the money. When William shaves he lathers his face with the end o his whiskers to save buyin' a brush Hank Tumms wouldn't b^ no han< to work in a powder magazine be cause he has got inflammatory rheu matiz.?From Judge. Unanswerable. "Vicious circle" is a term ofter used in the medical world. An ex ample of its psychological use appliec to argument may be found in Josepl A. Scoville's book, "Old Merchant! of New York City." Tom, the son of a wealthy man was a great favorite with all whc knew him, but he heartily detestec business. A merchant of New YorP had hired him as a bookkeeper at ? high salary. Nevertheless, Tom gol into the habit of reaching the office later and later, until finally he gol there about two in the afternoon When this state of affairs had gon( on for a week, the merchant remonstrated. "But my dear sir," returned Tom "how can I come any earlier? I don'1 get my breakfast until one." "But get your breakfast earlier." "How can I? I don't get up til] twelve." "Then get up earlier." "How can I," pleaded Tom, "when I don't go to bed until daylight?" In the face of such convincing argument there was nothing to be said The Origin of the Check. London fogs have world-wide reputation. It is but fair, therefore, tc credit them with any circumstances to their advantage. At the beginning of last century, owing to the peaBoup atmosphere which even then obtained, the robberies of messengers with cash became so frequent that business men in self-defense had tc devise a remedy. J. 1IUJ II1V gilLCU tu? n u?wu away with the necessity of carrying sums of money on the person, and thus put a stop to the perquisites ol snatch-thieves. Warmth and Illumination Needed. A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life and being ol knowledge and faith. The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illumine, may be assured that the fault lies in themselves, not ih knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien from philosophy, the latter an alien from faith.?Heeel. I i -' ' I I COBRA WINS BATTLE, | THEN EATS LOSERS. I 1 J Three-Cornered Fight in Cage Fatal For Water Snake and f I Giant Lizard. a i i- j The king cobra at the Bronx Zoc , is eleven feet long, and the whole : eleven feet were fighting yesterday, o His opponent was a water snake and i- ; an iguana, or giant lizard. e i All three reptiles had been living i in peace together all winter in theii ! glass compartment, and it was supil I posed they were real good friends, i- j but a dispute arose yesterday beb | tween the cobra and the iguana, and s j in a sudden fit of foolish rage the a iguana went for the cobra and bil y him. r Instantly the cobra spread his hood i. and gave battle, but the iguana tooh e an unfair advantage of him then and there by disjointing himself and coming apart. The big lizard gave himself a shake, and lo! there were twe c | of him?the iguana proper and the s ! iguana's tail, both very much alive 3 | and active. q I Then the water snake took a hand j j and went for the cobra, too, but the . i cobra gave him just one bite and the q j snake went into a corner, curled uj t I and died. i e [ The tailless iguana kept right a1 y j the cobra, but the latter didn't seem to care much. He had espied .the tail j cavorting around the cage, and it in! terested him so much that he made j. j a leap for it, caught it and calmls 3 i swallowed it. r< I That gave bim a taste for iguana ?-nonf on V\ a novt noilcrV*f f {(rnona rj ; iiicai, ou lit ucau ^au(3u'b iguauo I and swallowed him after his tall, q Then the water snake was taken foi , dessert, and that ended the fight, g Now the cobra is living alone.?New I York World. l? I .1 e On Baldness. It has been discovered recently thai there are no bald-headed men in oui insane asylums. Other interesting facts about bald people are the folII lowing: You never see a bald-headed man l" wearing his own hair. No one ever saw a red-headed bald k man. , t Most halrt men keen their hair in 1 j their wife's name. e No bald-headed woman has evei been known to admit. Bald-headed men never appear is 1 public with their hair marcelled. If everybody was bald from birti r the hair-cutting industry would be " paralyzed. e If a man loses his hair no amounl " of advertising will restore it to him! No woman was ever drawn to s 8 bald-headed man by capillary attrack tion. 3 Baldness cannot be cured by having your hair pulled, as you can cure " toothache .by having a tooth pulled. The bear has more hair to the e j square inch than any known animal, i and yet there is nothing in the world that is barer than a bald-head. There are other interesting facts j about baldness, no doubt, but none ol j them occur to us at this moment, so a | we will content ourselves with saying t i in conclusion that the head of a bald - man in the front row of the modern 7 theatre shines like a good deed in a naughty world.?Harper's Weekly. 9 What the Railroads Spend. t The men on railroad engines in the United States when times are busy t draw in" wages $53,000,000 a year. a Last year the sum was cut to $45,r 000,000. The business of the couny try lost $8,000,000 in this one item, says the Los Angeles Times. Y Every mile of new railroad built in j the country costs first and last $25,000, and if the building is 3000 miles 3 it puts into circulation $75,000,000. If the building is 6000 miles there j 1 goes into circulation $150,000,000. The coal used on an engine in a j ! year costs on the average of $2500. Last summer there were 150,000 idle cars in the United States. Counting thirty-nine to a train, this would be 5000 trains. One engine to the train would curtain the coal used by a value of $12,500,000. That coal 1 means almost all wages. So does the * building of new roads. I If the conditions should last for a 1 year, these three items would make 3 a total of nearly $100,000,000 lost to wage-earners, assuming that only ? j half as much road is built as would > i have been if times had been good. I i c i t Why Streams Are Disappearing. t | Any one wno nas reacnea tne age ; I of seventy-flve has noticed the disapt ! pearance of the small brooks where . I he played in his district school days, ? j while larger ones have shrunk to . j summer threads, and rivers that filled their banks all the year are I hardly more than rivulets in summer, t j says the Independent. Commissioner j Whipple, of New York State, tells us i that the upper Hudson, in August, [ 1907, had no more than two inches of water where it used to roll a heavy volume. There is substantial agreei ment that this change has been due to the denudation of our hills and . valleys of the water-holding trees. It takes a century to grow such forests; it has taken half a century to destroy them. , A Job For the Armies. [ j Camille Flammarion has revived ; I ms oia scneuie ui uiggms a I mic well 200 metres in diameter to ascertain the internal constitution ot i the earth. The imaginative Flam: marion proposes to find an economic i and almost inexhaustible source ot heat, to verify the rate of caloric increase, to find out if the materials ; constituting the terrestial globe are [ in a state of fusion?in a word, to 60 ! rationally and directly what has been done slightly and a little by chance up to the present time in mines. To j carry out the work the standing armj ies of the world are to be called into ' requisition.?Scientific American. t Eighteen men were tied to the 1 whipping post in one day recently at 1 Wilmington. Del., and given a total ' of 255 lashes. This beats all pre1 vious records. ,? 1 More than one-quarter of the to1 j bacco consumed by the Spanish nation I comes from the United States. I . I S Experimental Hesearch?the -8 S Greatest of Life-Savers. S ? ' In Harper's, Dr. W. W. Keen, one . ' of the most famous of American sur? geons, presents in his article on "Re- *" , cent Surgical Progress," a striking , comparison of the accomplishment I of the friends and foes of experimental research: * ; What the Friends of Experimental Research Have Done. ; m (1) They have discovered antisep' tic surgery, and so made possible the wonderful results of modern surgery. \ To complete his beneficent work, 1 Lord Lister was compelled to go to France by reason of the stringency of the English anti-vivisection laws. | (2) They have made possible practically all modern abdominal surgery, including operations on the stomach, intestines, liver, gall, bladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, etc. (3) They have made possible all the modern surgery of the brain. (4) They have demonstrated how lockjaw spreads from the wound; ' how sometimes it can be arrested and ' cured; and, still better, how It can 1 be prevented, so that practically tet' anus has been banished from surgical operations. x '.?] (5) They have reduced the death ' rate in compound fractures from six' ty-flve per cent, to less than one per cent. , (6) They have reduced the mortality of ovariotomy from two out of three to two or three out of one hun! dred. . t ::xm (7) They have abolished yellow ; fever. (8) They have made possible the cure of nearly all cases of hydfcopho- i; bia. (9) They have cut down the mor- ' ' v tality of diphtheria in New York City alone from 158 per 100,000 In 1894 . to 38 per 100,000 in 1905, and prac- , fically the same story is told all over the world. (10) By the use of the serum re cently discovered by Flexner at the , Rockefeller Institute they have changed the mortality in cerebro- ' v I spinal meningitis from seventy-flve per cent, and even ninety per cent, to , . thirty per cent, or less. V (11) They have shown the cause , of acute tetany after operation for goiter, so that it now can be pre! vented. (12) They have almost completely t abolished the dangers of maternity, , reducing its death rate from ten or more mothers out of every hundred to less than one in every hundred, i (13) They have shown the cause [ and the method of propagation and , of prevention of the deadly malaria which devastates whole regions and armies. Its extinction is only a mattar of time. I ? - (14) They have reduced the mor, tallty of tuberculosis by from thirty td fifty per cent., for Koch's discovery of the tubercule bacillus is the foundation stone of all modern pro, gress in the treatment of tuberculo. sis. x | (15) They have enormously bene, flted animals by discovering the ' I causes and the dangers of tuberculo* ' sis, Texas fever, anthrax, glanders, hog cholera, and other Infectious diseases of animals, thus enabling us to >'V combat the'.u more successfully or ' even to prevent them. What the Foes of Research Have : i. i*""- , ' Nothing but to stand in the way of progress. Not a single human life has been saved by their efforts; not a single household made happy. Not a single disease had had its ravages abated or abolished. ? !' The victims of their sincere 'but i misguided zeal are men, women and ; | little children. Even the lower ani- / mals may well cry, Save us irom our friends. . Origin of the Potato. In consequence of the outbreak of j the potato disease in the nineteenth : century, botanists have for years been seeking the original wild species ! of this most useful plant, In order . that by crossing it with the cultivated forms fresh vigor might be infused into the latter. The search has extended over Chile, Peru and other j parts of America, but until recently I no success has been promised. Mr. Sutton, of Reading, England, the m , I well known seedsman, In whose ex| perimental gardens a great variety of 1 these plants has been tried, has now j fixed upon a wild species, the Solanum etuberosum, which has been growing in his gardens for twenty _ ? years, as being the original wild species, from which much may be hoped. j. The Solanum etuuerosum ior twenty . years has entirely defied the potato I diseaso, and Its offspring Is Identical with the commercial potato.? Youth's Companion. '/ ' '.' Pioneer Days in Missouri. In 1851 there was in Huntsville a man who pulled teeth for twenty-five cents, and a photographer who made j daguerreotypes at $1.50 each. The I first was called "doctor" and the secI ond "professor." They moved in the highest circles, as being the representatives of the sciences and arts. With deer, birds and all manner of game in the woods and fine- fish in * the streams, so cheap that the poorest larders were stocked with it, the grocers did a big business in mackerel, herring and sardines. The latter were real dainties, because the better food was so plentiful the pioneers got tir*<L of it.?Macon Republican. The Eternal Masculine. A study of the trouser legs as seen In the photographs of our most noted I men brings the smile of contempt i ovon tiio mnst ilisintprested. and one wonders if anything could be uglier than the concertina folds of the clumsy, elephantine outlines that are there to be seen. Breeches, knickers and kilts are all far more artistic and healthy.?Tailor and Cutter. Torturing Thought. Did you ever stop to think that almost every minute in the day somo ono somewhere is having teeth pulled? This proves that there is always some one worse off than you are.?Atchison Globe. ???ifriaia