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I KINGDOM OF KILLING II
RULED BY ARMOUR ia
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NINE MILLION CARCASSES "
A YEAR. *
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Mostly Animals Meet Death Stupidly jt]
and Without Resistance- -What i []
Becomes of Their Lives ? ! n
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The soldiers of the modem king j n
are standing armies of workingmen, j
not armies of fighting idlers. Rocke- j
feller's millions and Armour's mil-1 ;
lions are millions invested and rein-! ^
vested in labor, in building, in adding'
to the actual visible wealth of this j ?
country. That wealth belongs to the j 0
country and to the people of the j?
country. It is subject to this dispo-! '
sition by taxation or otherwise. It is j J*
Irortunate for the people that these j
kings, unlike the old kings, do not | _
waste human labor with courts, i*'
retinues o? servants and organized ' ?
dissipation, do not waste human life j
in wars, but use their energies simply }
along the lines of organizing industry i ne
and increasing tangible wealth. It j c
might be worse with a people as i?(:'
supine as our own. n
It is a fact, of course, that Armour , '
does not really own this gr?at world-! *.1
wide butcher business. The stock-!
yards own him. He was born with i '
the big load upon his back. He tells {
you quite simply: "I inherited this !
business; I did not create it. I have!
tried to do as well as I could with it. I
It just happened that I had a smart Ka
father and a rich father."
In so vast an industry, bigger than j ,
all the men that manage it, sugges-'
tions seem rather foolish coming from j5?
outside. But there are some things, j
It would seem, that Armour and the j ?
other big packers could do easily, at i
I once, and without unreasonable sacri- [
flee. They might make the prices of i
beef to consumers uniform and rea-! 1101
sonable. j ^0E
No women or children should, un- J its
der any conditions, be permitted to j at
witness the killing of the animals, j tJle
It is a dreadful thing to see long | str'
lines of little boys and women and j ^0::
little girls walking through the1 ^
slaughter houses, watching the stick-' on
ing of pigs, the stuiinrng of steers, j for
and all the horror of blood. The ef- i 1)re
feet is brutalizing on the children, itr0(
and for the mother of an unborn i
child to witness so horrible a spec- j "re
tacle Is a shameful crime. I wer
Some legislator in Illinois should i out
I start the movement to prevent this. I ^
The packers themselves would do it, j ?re(
but they say: *'If we close up our ! ^e
slaughter houses, or keep any part j ot^1<
of the public out, we shall be accused ! the
of having things to hide." i
It is a great kingdom of death over i Sati
which Armour rules. There are huge eat(
buildings for killing, surrounded with
pens in which the sheep, hogs and j w^a
cattle are confined, waiting for the . sote
fatal hour. -In one place hogs in thousands
are driven into pens. Below, tlon
hidden under a platform, there is a j ati0
cracking of whips mingled with j wo?
squealing and grunting. You look | sons
dt>wn and see a man, black from head j was
to foot with mud, rushing about [ Prac
among the half-crazed swine. He i The
has a huge blacksnake whip in his i he r
hand, with which he drives them to ' betv
the narrow entrance that leads to tere'
their death. In the last pen there is wori
a great revolving wheel. Each hog shou
Is seized and hooked by one hind leg. that
The turning wheel lifts him in the ' and
air; he is passed on to a wheel that J m0^
slides along a rail, and then comes Call,
one knife thrust and death.
The killing of the sheep, fortunate-;
ly, is hidden; it is too pathetic for the jn
sight even of modern civilization. Geor
The killing of the cattle is less noisy cojn'
and shocking than that of the swine. mou
The big, heavy, fattened steers walk t^e
slowly into pens. Heavy hammers ; PasiC
stun them, and as a rule, they bleed 1 anii
te death without regaining conscious- the
U6SS. j
! The Blood Could Be Heard. j meri
But there is certainly room for im- test
provement in the killing. And if the , vey
improvement can be made it should i chefs
be made?if necessary, under compul- j the i
sion. Out of every ten steers slaugh-) jolly
tered one or more invariably require j ation
more than one blow for the killing. I Harv
This means suffering, and it is un-'his i
r( necessary. The spending of a very j covk<
ij little extra money, two or three cents : dres:
a carcass perhaps, and probably less. I ters.
I would pay for the fitting on each head | turn,
of an apparatus that would make the 1 ered
<ieath blow absolutely certain. j that
Study of the animals as they go to ; the
their death would disturb the calm } ever
belief of the individual who thinks I Harv
that an animal has no soul, no realj }n(
life, no thought. It is true that a caus?
great majority of the animals die stupidly
and without resistance. Among t]iat
the swine, whose shrill squealings vev's
answer the cracking whip and the j
upward turn of the fatal wheel, there j knew
; appears to be, fortunately, little or no ! <
conception of what death and danger J
I mean. It is not always so. One day
the harmony of the "killing bed" was t
vastly disturbed by one small, black J In
pig. Huge creatures, double the black ^le r
pig's size, were walking through the ,)erec
door, resisting only feebly as the i M?dc
chains were put around their hind ricilU
legs and they were jerked up to
death. This little black pig had forn'
I other ideas, another character. Xo ,:>race
hero in human life ever fought more i acres
desperately for his life than did that | _ Til
small creature. As soon as he en- j |10Da
tered the fatal pen he dashed at the j is co
man in charge, flew at his legs, drove j acres
him out of .the nen finnllv r-limherl nn i water
over the backs of the otlic-r swine, j
jumped out of the pen himself, and j mat?1
dashed at the man with the long, usua*
knife, who was "sticking" the pigs as j voIve
they came toward him hanging head j usua*
downward. Half a dozen men com- porl'(
bined succeeded in killing this re- 's
bellious, anarchistic disturber of the nav*S
packing house peace, and they killed l>e
him In not at all a scientific manner. bec*s
If a human being had made so plucky farms
a fight for his life against such odds ment
he would be talked of with admira- ^a?a;
tion.
The stockyard butchers, men that Th<
should know, are firmly convinced terior
that the different animals that come that tl
up to them for killing are as different steads
In character as human beings are. 17,82
Fortunately, however, they are all 104,S
agreed that npt one animal in ten 117,3
L
housand has any idea of his com
ate. Death is a surprise to them
nd therefore practically painless.
Amid all this lowing, squealing c
truggling there arises constantly
bought: What becomes of the :
i those animals? What becomes
hat consciousness which has a
lated them, protected them and
ected them? In what way is it r
?rent from the consciousness witl
le two-legged animal that stai
lere covered with blood from he
) foot, stabbing relentlessly en
ving creature as it comes beft
Im?
We know what becomes of the a
ials' bodies. The tenderloin goes
le rich man's house, the shinbone
13 poor man, the head to the imr
pant from certain foreign lands; t
mgue, prepared with spices, is s
'ten far away to India. The hi
made into boots, chauffeurs' coa
irness. The bones are cut up in
lttons that fasten the workmei
lirts, or are changed into the fooli
tie things upon which babies ch<
t>en their teeth are coming. A pa
the body makes pepsin for tho
at lack digestion, and the indiges
e parts go to those that later <
ed the pepsin.
In all directions the bodies a
attered. but what becomes of tl
ne millions of lives , the nine m
?ns of seperate consciousnesses th
mour scatters into space eve
ar, as he feeds the millions
inking, meat-eating animals??A
ur Brisbane, in The Cosmopolitai
WORK OF TEREDOES.
pidity With Which They Deniolis
n.*/v
i? vuucii xricns uuu ^uissuus,
That the teredoes in the vicinity <
rt Mason are the hungriest an
siest and equipped with the moi
;cth*e augers of any of their kin
be found in the bay has been den
.trated by the contracting concer
it is building the new army trans
t wharves at Blackpoint. Th
apany has paid a fancy price fo
knowledge, and incidentally an
its own expense has demonstrate
wisdom of the all concrete coc
action advocated by the presen
ird of Harbor Commissioners,
rhe new army wharves aro to res
concrete piers and the plans cal
the construction of a concret
akwater to provide shelter for ih
3p ships that may be tied up at th<
irves. In the construction of thi
akwater great wooden caisson
p built and sunk, to be pumpe<
later and filled with concrete,
t temporary wharf was built o
en piles and on this were erecte<
concrete mixing machinery am
sr gear essential to carrying 01
work. A few weeks ago thii
irf tumbled down and an investi
ion showed that the teredoes hac
?n the green piles as easily as i;
i had been young onions. The
irf is now being rebuilt with creo'
d piles.
i anticipation of the early restoraof
the temporary pier an examinn
was made yesterday of the
d yesterday of the wooden caisI,
and to the contractor's grief it
discovered that they had been
tically consumed by the teredoes.
chewed up caissons will have to
eplaced and then it will be a race
.*een the concrete mixers and the
does, with the betting on the
us, if in the meantime they
ild eat through the creosoted piles
support temporary wharf No. 2
cause another delay in filling the
Is with concrete.?San Francisco
Mystery in Salad Dressing.
Washington the recent death of
ge W. Harvey, known since Lins
day for the rare food of his fas
"oyster house," has recalled
following anecdote: "On one oc>n
Mr. Harvey visited New York
his praises were sung by some of
prominent men who were his
ds. A dispute ensued as to the
ts of certain dishes, and a conwas
arranged between Mr. Harand
several famous New York
>. The competition centred upon
nixing of a salad dressing. Tha
, fat judges watched the prepari
carefully and observed that Mr.
ev as a finishing touch took from
>ocket a tiny vial, carefully unid
it, poured a few drops into the
ling and set it before the arbiThey
tasted each dressing in
smacked their lips and puckfhpir
hrnws Thpn fh^v Horlnrorl
all the dressings were very fine,
most delectable that they had
put to palate, but that about Mr.
ey's dressing there was 'an?ah
iefinable something' which
;d them to award it the prize.
George, what was it you put in
dressing?' asked one of Mr. Harfriends
later.
Only water,* he replied. *1
a little mystery would catch
"?Chicago Post.
The Klamath Project,
the land of "Burnt Out Fires"?
egion which will long be remera1
as the last stronghold of the
ic Indians?is a remarkable ag:ural
district known as the KlaBasin,
which lies partly in Calia
and partly in Oregon and em'S
several hundred thousand
e first unit of the important na1
irrigation work at this point
mpleted and several thousand
of fertile land are now receiving
from the Government canals,
all the Federal works the Klaproject
is perhaps the most unby
reason of the fact that it in3
irrigation and drainage in uncombination.
A considerable
)ii of the lands to be irrigated
day covered with the waters oil
able lakes. These waters are to
awn off and the exposed laku
are then to be sub-divided into
i and irrigated by the Governcanals.?National
Geographic
zine.
; Canadian Minister of the Inhas
submitted figures showing,
bere are still available for home-!
5 In the Province of Manitoba;
5,000 acres; in Saskatchewan,!
7 8,000 acres, and in Alberta,:
09,000 acres.
alL IN THE pi
?<- i CTgjsyfcV* v-yigyBfrTH ; iffWUl
tie mIB
ilat
ry IffiffiS
of,
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THE REV. J. WESLEY HI!
The promontories in the career of
ih the Rev. John Wesley Hill may be
briefly pointed out. He was born at
Kalida, Ohio, May 8, 1863. His
jf father, the Rev. John Wesley Hill,
d D. D., is a Methodist preacher of the
st heroic type, having been in the active
d ministry for half a century. The pasl
tor of the Metropolitan Temple obn
I tained his similar prinrnHnn at tha
3- Dhio Northern University, and studied
e theology in Boston Theological Semr
Inary. While a student in Boston he
d was pastor of Eggleston Square
d Church, which it soon became neces!
sary to enlarge in order to accommot
! date the growing congregation. Prior
to this his trial experience in the ;
t Itinerancy occurred at Sprague, then i
II Washington Territory. In 1888 he
e was appointed to the First Church at :
e Ogden, Utah. He soon inaugurated a
e relentless warfare upon the Mormon 1
s Hierarchy, and during his five years' i
s pastorate at Ogden the city was res- i
1 cued from the political control of the ^
I I run UftJtli AUAiA!)! AIKSHIFS. I
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! Novel Gun Placed at the Disposal of c
the German War Office. r
Like every other weapon of offense, s
I the airship has soon been followed i
t with a weapon of defense against its t
) attacks. The German War Office has 1
- tad placed at its disposal a gun manufactured
and designed at the Krupp
. works at Essen especially for use
THE KRUPP AIRSH:
It Will Be Noticed That the Wheels O;
Work the Gun t
! Gun Carriage May Be Swung in Complete
| against airships, and it is understood i t\
i that the British War Office is also con- j tc
! sidering certain inventions devised N
| for a similar purpose.
It has been argued that naval gun
! ners could easily disable a Zeppelin
: airship. The target presented broadI
side on is large, but stem on the ZepI
pelin offers only a forty foot circle.
If the height of the airship is one
thousand feet present naval guns
could not be trained upon it at less
I than a distance of about a mile and a
half, and at that distance a forty foot
mark is not a certain target, even on
the level, to a moving ship. At the
elevation required it would not only
be exceedingly difficult to estimate
the range, but even if the range were
j known the allowance for curvature of
" trajectory would be so great as to
| render a hit the merest fluke.
j The new type of gun manufactured
j by Messrs. Krupp, it is asserted, will j
i destroy a dirigible airship. The shell j
! which it fires has a diameter of sixty- j
five millimeters, weighs nine pounds'
1
Handy Spoonholder. ier
Among the numerous minor inven- by
' tions that seem trifling in themselves as
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I vvi'
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wh
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Fits on Any Glass.
bar
but add so much to tlie comfort of 00(
humanity is the open holder devised ere
little device, but Is of great conyea- has
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I. jHH MKBW8BMlW(iBjySB
JL, D. D., OF NEW YORK.
Mormon Church, the first Gentile victory
in Utah. He also erected at
Ogden the finest church edifice between
Denver and San Francisco.
Thence he went to Helena, Montana,
and in 1893 to Minneapolis, where he
founded and built the Fowler Memorial
Church at a cost of $150,000. In
1896 he was appointed to the pastorate
of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church at Fostoria, Ohio. In
1899 he went to Grace Church, Harrisburg,
Pa., where he remained six
years. Here he also served as Chaplain
of the State Senate. From Harrisburg
he was assigned to Janes
Church, Brooklyn. Within three
years he added 600 members to the
qhurch roll and then was called to his
present great work at the Metropolitan
Temple, in New York City.
When he took charge it was practically
without membership; to-day there
ire on its muster 'rolls over 700
lames and a debt of $40,000 has been
?viped out.
ind is discharged with an initial ve
ocity of 1841 feet.
The gun is raised to an angle .of
;ixty degrees and the projectile can
each a height of 18,150 feet. The
hells are filled with a highly inflamnable
gas, which will cause the gas
tag of an airship to explode when it
tits it.
Swinburne.
Down at Harper's a group of literry
men were discussing the death of
winburne. "His wit was of the sublest
kind," said Colonel Harvey, who
ad met the poet on various occasions
1 London. "I attended a dinner once
t which Swinburne was present,
eated next to him was a titled Briton
f the type we are so fond of carlcalring?a
drawling, fat-headed noole.
With an air of great condescenon
he turned to Swinburne and said:
aw, lur. owmuurue, i passed your
3use the other day.'
" 'Did you, indeed?' replied the
>et, with just the suspicion of a
IP DESTROYER.
pen Out, so That the Men May
Jnhindered.
Circle Around Pin at End of Tail.
/
tinkle in his eye. 'I am delighted 1
i hear it. Thank you, so much!' "?
ew York Times. *
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SMKPW !
MRS. JAMES S. SHERMAN. C
Wife of the YLe-Prtsident.
g;
ice for use on tall glasses, such w
a New York man. It is a simple tl
those used for iced tea, etc. The
vice consists of a piece of metal s:
at at the top to form two arms, t<
th the opening between them just j
de enough to admit the handle of I e!
J ~i J ~ A Itu I
jpyuu, inatri icu aiucvvise, <iiiu wiiu
i wide part just narrow enough to ?j
ep the handle of the spoon from m
pplng through. The lower part of _
; holder consists of a flat strip,
ilch runs, down inside the glass,
a a spring clip on the back, which
?s outside the glass and clamps the
ole firmly on. The spoon, when j\
t in use, is hung on the holder, and
;s not fall into the bottom of the a,
ss. While the device fits on the
je of the receptacle it is chiefly
ployed where the receptacle is 1)1
per than the spoou is long.?Phil- a
ilphia Record. Gt
ai
rhe stock of gold in European w
iks is greater by nearly $300,000,- w
) than it was a year ago. The in- th
ase in the Bank of France alone Ci
i been about $140,000,000. de
History in Tabloid.
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
V
During the Revolutionary War
Roger Morris, of Putnam County,
New York, made the mistake of siding
with the Tories.
A mob collected, and Morris and
his family escaped, taking ship to
England.
Before leaving Morris declared his
intention of coming back as soon as
"the insurrection was quelled."
The British troops, we are reliably
informed, failed to quell the insurrection;
and Roger Morris never
came back.
Roger Morris is known to history
as the man who married Mary Philipse.
And this lady lives in history
because she had the felicity of having
been proposed to by George
Washington. It is George himself
who tells of this in his journal, and
George, you remember, could not tell
a lie.
George was twenty-five. He was
on his way to Boston, and was en- |
tertained at the Philipse house, the
Plaza not having then been built.
Mary was twenty, pink and lis- 1
some. She played the harplschord. !
Immediately after supper, George, j
finding himself alone in the parlor j
with the girl, proposed.
He was an opportunist.
The lady pleaded for time, which 1
the Father of his Country declined to J
give. He was a soldier, and demand- j
ed immediate surrender. A small :
quarrel followed, and George saddled ;
his horse and rode on his way to ;
fame and fortune.
Mary thought he would come back, |
but George never proposed to the
same lady twice. Yet he thought i
kindly of Mary, and excused her |
conduct by recording: "I think ye j
ladye was not in ye moode."
It was Washington who formally
confiscated the property and turned !
it over to the State of New York as !
contraband of war.
The Morris estate of about fifty |
thousand acres Vas parcelled out and 1
sold by the S*ate of New York to [
settlers.
It seems, however, that Roger1
I Morris had only a life interest in'the !
estate, and this was a legal point so !
fine that It was entirely overlooked |
in the Joy of confiscation. !
Washington was a great soldier, but j
an indifferent lawyer. .
John Jacob Astor accidentally es- !
certained the facts. He was con- I
vlnced that the heirs could not be ! <
robbed of their rights through the ! .
acts of a leaseholder, which, legally, j i
was the status of Roger Morris. I i
Astor was a good real estate lawyer j (
himself, but he referred the point tc j j
the best counsel he could find. They , j
agreed with him. He next hunted up | ^
the heirs, and bought their quitclaims
for $100,000.
He then notified the parties whc ;
had purchased the land, and they, in ! j
turn, made claim upon the State for |
protection.
After much legal parleying, the ;
case was tried according to stipula- I a
tion, with the State of New York directly
as defendant and Astor and the I 0
occupants as plaintiffs. Daniel Web- ; y
ster and Martin Van Buren appeared
for the State, and an array of lesser j *
legal lights for Astor.
The case was narrowed down tc
the plain and simple point that Roger a
Morris was not the legal owner of the A
estate, and that the rightful heirs Is
could not be made to suffer from the *
"treason, contumacy and contraven- j '
tion" of another. j 0
Astor won, and as a compromise ' *
the State issued him twenty-yeai j
bonds, bearing sii per cent, interest, j
for the neat sum of $500,000?not i
that Astor needed the money, but I ^
finance was to him a game.?New j ?;
York American. , ,
I gi
! hi
In Defense of Critics. tj
It is the business of the dramatist tfc
and producer to provide plays that y(
the public is willing to pay money tc te
see. There is no difference of opinion m
as to that. The business of the critic ! (n
is to inform the public whether or j
not, in his judgment, it is worth while
to pay good money to find out if it
likes the play. The managerial and ha
playwriting Intelligence doesn't sub- m
scribe to this definition of the critic's te
function at all. It is convinced that ou
the crCc should write only favorable gc<
reviews, closing his mind to all the na
weaknesses and defects, bending his of
jfforts to persuading the public to Hi
?ay good money at the box office so sic
;hat it may judge for itself. ; de
Probably the only critic thoroughly ' an
iatisfactory to theatrical interests i
vould be one who could be persuaded 1 tio
,o accept the views of the press de- j tei
>artment. There are such, I believe, ?-a
:ertain newspapers being controlled j
Afofi'rtnn rtf r? r?0 rr? a O r
)j tuuoiuciai.iv/iio v/i ?- - ., a.i
ising and of exclusive theatrical news ha;
tories. But the Public That Pays ,
eels this when it doesn't know it, and the
he reviews thus directed have but
ittle weight.?Hartley Davis, in jU(
Jverybody's.
ths
Song Bird and Critic. j '
Mary Garden, at a dinner in Phila- 'gi1
tflphia last month, took a musical , Wa
ritic very cleverly to task.
"You write long criticisms," she j
aid, "and you employ long, technical !
ords; but really, you know, you miss tat
he whole spirit of the music. !ie
"You're like the Darby widow." 'ty
aid Miss Garden. "Her lawyer said ',;ail
3 her, consolingly: ' ^
" 'You'll get your third out of the
state, madam.' ; 5tal
" 'Oh, Mr. Breaf!' the widow cried. : 1
low can you say such a thing, with v'i01
ly second hardly cold in his grave?" " jlow
am Qfnr | dCrl
M U.l.iUi0lUU "
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Lord Roberts a Collector. j 50.1
The fact is not generally known ; 'av'
lat Lord Roberts, who celebrated : "101
is golden wedding the other day. is j Lo11
great collector of curios. His j
larming house. Englemere, Ascot, is j
terally crammed with odds and ends 1
eked up from time to time, nearly ^in
1 of which have some interesting ^?'
ory attached to them. i 3stOne
of the most curious of these Is {;. n
1 irregularly shaped piece of dirty j Llt-V
hite rag which greatly puzzles all ,
ho behold It for the first time. It is |
e flag of truce which General tlle
ronje sent In toannounce his surven*
:r at Paarcleberg.?11011
j Man is the only animal whose nos1
trils open downward. Even in the
[ highest apes the nostrils open to the
| front.
, The sensitiveness of growing plants
I to the influence of light is well illus:
j trated by the results of recent re*
j search on heliotropism?the bending
I of stems toward light.
Beetles possess an enormous
amount of strength. The common
i beetle can draw 500 times its own
j weight, and a stag beetle has been
1 known to escape from underneath a
| box on which a weight had been
! placed 1700 times greater than the
insect's body.
One of the most remarkable applications
of wireless telegraphy is
an ingenious arrangement by which
the message received works the keyboard
of a typewriter. This invention
has further been applied to the typesetting
machine, so that wireless messages
can now be made to print themselves
by means of the linotype machine.
An improved form of the quartz
mercury vapor lamp is about.to be introduced
in England as a substitute
for carbon arc lights. It is claimed
that the new lamps will give the same
Illuminating power as the carbon arcs
at about half the cost. One great ad- j
vantage is said to be the avoidance of
the necessity for frequent trimming.
The quartz mercury vapor lamps will
run about 1000 hours without attention.
Some progress has been made
in reducing the disagreeable color of
the light, but it has not yet been
eliminated.
!
In the big desert of Chile there is 9 :
considerable amount of brackish wat- j
er, but no water that either human
beings or stock can drink. Science,
however, says the Los Angeles Times,
hoo rtAmfl ?-v + V\ J * ? 1-1
uuo v.viuc iu me d.iu ul tuis ramiesa :
Bection of the country in the form of !
an ingenious desert water works, con- i
sisting of a series of frames contain- j
Ing 20,000 square feet of glass. The !
panes of glass are arranged in the |
shape of a V, and under each pane is
a. shallow pan containing brackish
water. The heat of the sun evaporates
the water, which condenses upon
k.he sloping glass, and, made pure by j
:his operation, It runs down into little !
channels at the bottom of the V and (
s carried away into the main canal, i
Nearly a thousand gallons of fresh |
vater is collected daily by this means, j
SO TIPS IN FINLAND.
ifai<Ts Surprise Upon Receiving i 1
3Ioney From Her Mistress' Guests.
A country where there are no tips
,nd where small services are renlered
to the straneer wfthnnf hnno '
>f reward would seem hard to find? |
et such a country Is Finland. j <
So far the tourist has not appeared j
n any great numbers, and conse- I
uently the commercial spirit which |
is advent always marks has been j
bsent. As an example of this Mme.
.lno Malmberg, a Finnish lady who '
i paying a visit to this country, tells a
n amusing story. Two English j
riends whom she had met while 1
ver here had been staying with her j
t her house in Helsingfors, and on v
saving gave the maid a tip.
She was very niuch astonished and a
id not know what It meant. Seeing a
[me. Malmberg's son coming down- '
airs, she ran to him and said, !
They gave me money. Did they .
ive you any?" Hearing that they
id not done so, 3he was much mys- '
fled. "I cannot understand why n
ley should give it to me and not to c
)u, when they know you much betr
than me," was her perplexed com- v
ent on the incident.?London Morn- t]
g Post.
' w
The Judge Felt Safe.
"Some of the West India islanders
ive learned that when a foreigner
isbehaves on their fhores it is bet- , f
r to suffer in silence :han to mete c
it punishment at the risk of a de- 1
ending gunboat from the miscreant's
,tive land," said Frank H. Griffiths,
Kingston, Jamaica. "A Judge in
lytf, however, recently took occa- j
m to pay off old scores and to re- j
em his self-respect in the case of j
offender brought before him. , w:
"To his first question, as to the na- ! Is
nality of the accused, the ir.terpre- i fr
had answered that the prisoner ' B;
.s from Switzerland. J ui
" 'Switzerland.' said the Judge, ,
id Switzerland has no sea coast, ! wi
s it?' I en
" 'No sea coast, Your Honor,* said . pi
j interpreter. j sn
" 'And no navy.' continued the ; an
ige. j co
" 'And no navy, Your Honor,' was po
i reply. br
' 'Very well, then,' said the Judge, I it
re him one year at bard labor.' "? j an
ishington Herald. I otl
j thi
Where to Lire Long. ; ba
Sfarmouth is living up to the repu- j H?
ion Charles Dickens gave it when | wi
advised the purchase of an annu- ! u <
and residence at Yarmouth to at1
rha a nf \f<athticn loh
fhe annual report of Its medical j ,
cer of health, issued yesterday, I
:es that in 190S the average rate ! l)e
nortality was much below the pre- ' C(n
us ten years and was two per cent. g
er than the corrected average I ^
th rate for the seventy-six great '
ns. so that on Its population of !
300 no fewer than 100 lives were j o)?d
last year as compared with the ! tjlc
talitv in the country generally.? the
idon Standard. me
Rare Exception. ^
I rather ids myself on one ro|,
is," said the young father. "Al- ^in
jgh I have the brightest, smart- piu
cutest, best youngster I ever saw. m,,
ever brag about him."?Kansas \\-a
Times.
; U said that In the last five years *
membership in temperance so- ? (
!es in Germany has more than
bled. E#^.
atil
S The Circus the Father of J
S Contemporary Drama. I
No problem is more fascinating to
the student of Elizabethan drama
than to attempt to trace its splendid
achievement to its earliest sources.
The quest leads one back to primitive
folk plays, to secular improvisations
and mediaeval renderings of sacred
story; and all study of perfected1
types shows clearly here'and there
the determinato influence of these
first attempts.
It is odd that no one has undertaken
a similar investigation of our
American drama, a species of art so
distinctive from drama proper that
| we are not only justified in seeking
| but are compelled to seek a partially, .
different origin. The material drawn
from American life, developed by;
American 'talent, and appealing to
American audiences has peculiar,
characteristics pointing irresistibly,
in conception development, and execution,
to our first artistic achievement,
the American circusr and inquiry
as to origins takes us back to
our own?shall I say mediaeval days?;
?when Mr. P. T. Barnum was perfecting
the entertainment that was
to burst upon the eyes of an aston- ' ,
Ished world.
Though we can hardly be said to
have evolved new species, we have
given such marked coloring to existing
types of comedy that we may fairly
claim the credit of creating new
varieties. The local color- play, the
society play, the melodrama,, the
1 comic opera, flourish as strictly national
productions upon our soil, differentia
being perhaps more firmly,
established in the. case of the first
two than of the others. In all,, motif,
plot, characterization, setting show
unmistakably the influence of the
great prototype already suggested.
Circles and circles of unrelated action;
swift galloping from one to another
lest the audience should have
time to think; the ruling out of cause
and effect, in order that something*,
no matter what, may happen everyj
minute?do not our plots betray their
origin in the planning of a circus
day? I venture to affirm that in no
other country can legs wriggle so
6wiftly, can the swinging and leaping
Df the trapeze performer go so alertly;
and firmly on. I would pit our contortionists
and our hoop-jumpers
against those of all other lands. With
equal firmness I assert .that in no
other drama does action follow so
swiftly, so unconnectedly as In our
own.?From "The Point of View," In
Scrlbner's.
WOPJ)S OF WISDOM. \
______ -j
When a gentleman is short, does
he become a gent?
Tho cnnfal nllmhoi* VinlUtrfla
* uv WWV1W1 M?liVT^O l>U??b
ill's well that ends swell.
The most exclusive people in the
tvorld are either in society or jail.
The man with an iron will should
)e careful not to let it get rusty.
Many an otherwise good man has
seen spoiled by too many ancestors.
Don't strike a man just because he
nsists that he is your match.
The girls with the most cheek don't
io the most blushing.
Honesty is the filtration that causes
i clear conscience.
The bibulous chap is generally
nore celebrating than celebrated.
Second thoughts are only best
I'hen they are not more expensive.
It is just as well to have a short
cquaintance with the fellow who is
lways broke.
Many a man who doesn't know one
lote from another attempts to sing
lis own praise.
A woman can always accomplish:
aore with tears than a man can with'
uss words.
Discretion, being the better part of
alor, prefers to do its fighting over
lie telephone.
An idle rumor gains currency, %
'hich is more' than an idle man is
pt to do.
The fact that virtue is its own re?
ard is what makes some people good
>r nothing.
Children should be like church
ells, which always do as they are
>lled.?From "The Gentle Cynic,!'
i the New York Times.
A Novelist's Pipes.
A recently published interview,
ith the famou3 novelist and dramatt
contains the following paragraph,
om which it would seem that Mr.
irrie is more attentive than ever to
ily Lady Nicotine:"
"I spent exactly sixty-five minutes,
ith the great dramatist. When: I
tered he was smokiDg a calabash
pe of generous proportions. He
loked it out in a purposeful, way
d laid it on the mantelpiece to
ol. Then he felt in. his, right coat
cket and produced a handsome
iar. This he loaded and lit.. When
was done he laid it on the- shelf
d took out a second briar from anler
pocket. He smoked it out,, and
en assuring himself that the. calash
was cool again went back to it.
> smoked three and a half pipes
thin the hour and finished ujp with
ngarette."?Tit-Bits..
Bird Slaughter in Florida"Unless
the wholesale butchery of
ds in Florida is stopped, there will
none left in that section of the
intry," said H. A. Austin, who
?nds a large part of his time in
> South.
In the last three years the everdes
of Florida have been stripped'
every vestige of bird life to supply
; world's millinery markets with
( plumage of the heron that for
rly bred there iu countless nam's.
Now (hat the heron has pracUly
gone from Florida, the bird
ibers are killing almost any other
d of tropical bird that they can
i. It is a fact that Florida is alsr
barren of birds at this time."?<
shington Post.
European shipping companies are
'ering severely because trade andj
ffic in the Levant and on the far.
;tern lines are almost at a stand*
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