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Philosophy of
He Had to Die to Wii
And Which Was the
Do They Do in Stock
Rate He Had Learned
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OofriM- Tyrannic; ShP0dV*S
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eld friends called at 161 West ThirtyI
fourth street to take a last look at the
I dead man and say a word of comfcK
I to fcis widow.
* There were gray haired students
' of chance who like Pat had turned a
mjj^F card in every civilized and some uncivilized
countries of the globe.
/ There were sad looking wrecks from
the underworld who at one.time or
another had felt Pat Sheedy's generosity.
" There were substantial business
men who had learned to value
his word and to enjoy his sunny
philosophy; there were curious fblks
who. having missed the opportunity
- of knowing Sheedy living, were bound
1 to see him dead, and there wire Sisters
of Mercy. All had a kind word
for the gambler.
"His good deeds far outnumbered
his bad," was the comment of one of
the sisters.
"No better man ever lived. Pat
was honest to the core," was the reply
that came from the widow as the
visitors tried to say something conf
soling. "The world called him :t
gambler, but Pat "find I didn't care
what the world said," she added.
Sheedy wasn't afraid to die. One
of the last things he said was:
"I'll take my chance with the others.
I guess St. Peter won't be hard
on me."
?heedy had been expecting death
almost daily ^or. six months, but
friends who visited him say that he
kept to the end the same cheerful
toutlook that he always had on tap
i in days of health, whether facing the
/ wheel flat broke under the shadow of
the pyramids in Egypt or laying his
' last dollar in less romantic hdunts in
this city.
"I'm not afraid. I know I'm going
to get a square deal. I'll have a better
chance there than I had here,
and I don't think I've done so worse.
The Maker plays no favorites," was
the way Pat commented on his approaching
end.
The gambler didn't knpw whether
the fact that he had confessed and
had received absolution would help
him much on his way or not.
{ "If it does, so much the better;
if it does not, tnen mere wui ue uu
harm done," -was his way of looking
at it.
. Sheedy used to argue that he was
a very much better man than some
respectable New Yorkers who weren't
classed as outlaws, lie had been
through the college of experience and
I had learned never to turn a deaf ear
to a man whose luck was down. That,
as Sheedy saw the world, was what
most people had not learned, and in
having mastered this lesson he figured
he was just so much better
j'fu than they were. "Circumstances
make a man what
he is," Pat has said. "We are not
! all pacers or trotters. We have our
own gait, and we. go that gait, and
that gait is fate. Why, even fat is
fate. I've never eaten more than a.
bird, and why am I dying of fat?
t It's my fate." '
Sheedy orten torn ins iriecas uy*i.
in all his ups and downs of life he
i derived his greatest happiness from
* making others happy. That was
what prompted Sheedy wheu he was
flush to give a helping hand to'such
notorious criminals as Adam Worth
and Ed Guerin.
Sheedy had no patience with the
conventionalities, that made one form
of gambling a criminal offense and
tolerated another as respectable.
"What is the great -speculator in
wheat but a gambler like myself?"
he used to say. "He has owned
millions and millions of bushels, but
he never possessed one ip *his life.
Only the law protects him and ostracizes
me. I've got my life insured for
the benefit of my wife; the company
I'm insured in bets I won't die this
year. That's the toughest game I
ever struck, too, for I have to die to
beat it, but for my wife's sake I've
gone against it. If 1 were to call
nrpsident of the comnanv a earn
bier they would tar and feather me;
yet I can't get it through my head
that he isn't just as much of a gambler
as I am when I step up in front
of the wheel."
Sheedy before he became an "art
connoisseur" made no bones about
describing his business.
"I call myself a business man because
gambling is my business," he
said. "I regard myself as a good
business man because I am a good
gambler. F.ew business men have
devoted themselves more untiringly
to their work than* I have to mine.
But the best of us fails at times, and
the faro banks have broken" me as
A many times or more times than I have
/ broken them. Everybody who knows
me knows that when I sit down at the
game and the fever comes over me
1 won't quit until I've got all the
bank's money or it has got mine. I
luivf.' guuK IUIU a. gauiunuj; nuuts a
fairly rich man and come out penniless.
I have gone in poor and come
out with a mighty big wad. I've gone
for weeks without money enough to
buy me a square meal. I've ha$ men
point at me and say, 'There's Pat
Sheedy. the lucky dog,' when I didn't
have the price of a shave in my
pocket: I always have managed to
/ keep up appearances because, when
f v the money was coming in. I bought
clothes against a dark Say."
Sheedy neve'r lost an opportunity
to declare that gamblers as a class
were more honest than other men.
Some of Sheedy's friends recalled the
prediction he had made shortly after
District Attorney Jerome had raided
Canfield's "art palace" in West Fortyfourth
street. Jerome made the raid
. on evidence snnnoKSd to have been
a obtained by "Sleuth" Jacob?. Jacobs
m charged that the Canfield game was
fx crooked. Jerome threatened to call
Sheedy to his ofiice to explain what
he knew about gambling in the city,
and Sheedy replied:
"I suppose the Dirtr'ct Attorney's
remarks concerning me wore brought
forth by sometiiins I said about his
gambler who has turned informer.
J have nc means ol knowing who the
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Pat Slieedy.
i the Life insurance Co.'s Bel?
Gambler? Said He, and What
s. Cotton and Wheat ??At Any
to Heto the Under Dog
man is. but I never duck anything I
have said. Therefore I repeat that
I do not believe this informer ever
set foot inside of Canfield's, and I
say again that Richard Canfield is the
greatest gambler in the world, bar
none, and that his game is as straight
as a Quaker meeting is solemn."
It wasu't many week3 after Sheedy
had said this that Mr. Jerome discovered
that Jacobs was faking and
that "he never had been inside thS
Canfield house. ^
Pat Sheedy was discreet. He declined
a challenge to get into an argument
with Mr. Jerome on the subject
of gambling.
"It's a great thing, my boy, to
know when you're well off," he said.
"The chap who's always in hot water
may think he's happy, but he
wouldn't know happiness by sight.
So long as I can make a living and
give a ton of coal now and then of a
hard wiuter to my mother-in-law and
con ray wife into believing that
she might have gone further and
fared worse I'm satisfied to rest easy
and not go around hunting for a controversy.
Any fcol can get into an
argument, but it's a wise man that
steers clear of it."
Sheedy's friends said that he probably
did not leave more than a few
thousand dollars, enough to keep his
widow for the rest cf her days. He
did not make this money by gambling,
but from his little art store in West
Thirty-fourth street. In fact, Sheedy,
it was said, quit the game a few years
ago as poor as when he entered it,
although in the course of his career
he had won several small fortunes.
Wo Mid that the nublic always had
j .
! a mistaken notion about the money
that gamblers make.
'"Put this down," he said, "that the
gambler has a harder time of it than
any other business man. Once in a
while he gets what slow going, plodding
folks might call a great deal of
money, but it never lasts long. More
often he is obliged to borrow his living
expenses from his friends, and
Pat Sheedy is no exception."
Sheedy had a high regard for the
English as gamblers.
"Englishmen will pay their gambling
debts before they will their
.tailors," he told his friends. "The
Germans, particularly German army
ofhc'ers, are about as good. I wish
I c<>uld say as much for my own
countrymen as I can for the English,
but when Americans gamble abroad
they sometimes forget that there is
none of their money left in the bank
at home and they are addicted to the
habit or arguing that money lost in
gambling can't be collected."
Sheedy had no use for the French
as gamblers.
"Don't speak of them," he used to
say. "Anything you can get out of a
Frenchman you ought to take home
and have framed. And the Italians
are worse than the French."
Many stories were told by Sheedy's
' old cronies of the hard times he had
in finding a place to lay his money
after he got his reputation as a "bank
breaker."
"At Hot Springs,'Ark.," said one,
"they barred Pat because he had lost.
He bought $500 worth of chips and
dropped the entire lot. The next day
he returned^ to the clubhouse, asked
for $5 00 more and the proprietor
said: 'Mr. Sheedy, I'm an old man
and I have to sleep nights; I'd rather
you wouldn't play in my house.' He
tried it in two other gambling houses
at the Springs, and in each place after
he had lost his first pile they barred
him. Then he left Arkansas in disgust."
a - fw!an/1i5 '-rvl
AIlULiiei Ul i. at a xi acuuo wim vi.
an experience be had had in Charleston,
S. C. He had bought a good
stack of faro chips and was about
5300 to the good, when the proprietor
of the place hoard somebpdy call him
Sheety'.
"Ain't your name Pat Sheedy?"
the dealer asked. \
"It is and I'm proud of it," said
the winner.
"Well, I'm sorry; but we can't let
you play any more," sc.'d the dealer.
"We haveh't any bank rolls handy to
meet your high rolling."
Some -of Sheedy's friends used to
circulate reports when Pat hit a
strange city that he wanted to wreck
a gambling house jtist for the sport
SUICIDE OF R
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Why Scorpion or Ven
Sting Itse
The venoms of serpents, fishes,
scorpions, centipedes, spiders, bees,
etc., as well as the blood of the eel,
owe their virulence to the presence of
toxins similar to those which are secreted
by bacteria. In both cases the
toxins are specific products of the activity
of living cells. They are very
poisonous, non-crystallizable colloids,
of unknown chemical constitution
The venom toxins are very sensitive
to the action of heat and light, are
easily destroyed by digestive ferments
and consequently are innocuous whei}
swallowed. There is a great variety
of these toxins. Snake poison alone
contains half a dozen distinct toxins
each of which exerts a specific a^tior
on the nervous system, the red or the
white blood corpuscles, etc.
it is nossible to nroduce in tiny ani
mal an artificial condition of immunity
to the effects of any animal
venom. This is accomplished by the
repeated injection of the venom ir
doses, each of which is too small tc
cause death. After a larger or smaller
number of injections the animal
acquires the power to resist the action
of many times the quantity of venoir
that would suffice to cause death if it
were injected into the veins of a nonimmunized
animal. The blood of the
: immunized animals now contains a
new substance, an antitoxin which
' has the property of neutralizing the
to:;in of the venom, and this blood
I (or rather its watery part, or serum)
may be employee1, to combat the toxic
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of it. aud they would sit back and r
watch every gambling house proprietor
worry for fear that Pat would }
select his "joint."
One man said that there wasn't a
good sporting man in the country
who would have refused to stake Pat
Sheedy at any game and without se- j
curity at that. He recalled an inci- |
dent that happened in Boston. | i
Pat had spent some time in Sara- I
toga and luck was against him. He t
came down to Boston, and the first p
night he was in town he went against p
a faro game that broke him. Pat f
walked into a certain bank whoso t
president had the reputation of being 5
a good fellow. He was ushered into ^
the president's office and said: j
"I came to borrow $1000 from your a
bank."
"What is your security?" was tho p
first question. ? p
"Simply my word," replied Pat. c
"That won't do in the banking v
business. Who are you?" asked the /
president. a
"Pat Sheedy, the gambler," wr?s a
the reply. f
"After a short talk," said one of a
Pat's friends, "the banker handed
over $1000 from his person/il ac- r
count. Two days later Pat entered
the bank and repaid it.'.' T
It was a loan of $2000 that Adam j
Worth made to Pat in John Condon's j.
gambling house in Chicago that led g
to the recovery of the famous Gains- c
borough painting. Fat was broke, g
when a stranger who had been winning
heavily pushed a roll of bills
into his hand. Sheedy demurred, but g
| the stranger insisted. Sheedy asked r
{for the stranger's name, but he g
laughed and said: "You'll see me
again." g
It was sixteen years after this that
the two met in Constantinople,
Sheedy as the proprietor of a gambling
house in that city and the
lender of the money, Adam Worth,
as an escaped prisoner. Sheedy fur- n
nished the money with which Worth ?
got out of Turkey and Worth gave
him the information which led to the
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New York Sun. i g
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L *X5H I7V GS J
fewORTH KyOWING^j
Five tons of human hair are annually
imported by London merchants.
Corn is our greatest crop, that, of r
190S being valued at $1,G16,000,000.
The Austrian Government will erect
five wireless stations along its coast.
At last count there were 1,318,000
persons in India dependent on State
aid.
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The per capita circulation of the
United States is exceeded by only one
other country of importance?France. ,
Leaf and twig diseases, difficult to
combat, are gradually lessening India's
annual production of coffee. .
On the shores of Cape Cod.there
were, during a period of twenty yearn
following 1SS1, as many as
wrecks of vessels carrying precious
cargoes of human teings and of
freight.
The first matriculation of women,
students at the universities in Prussia
has resulted in the admission of, 662
students, including forty-three from i
the United Kingdom.
, The cultivation of apples in Japan
hae markedly developed of late, the
annual production now reaching a
value of $1,500,000. The principal
centres iff apple production are the
Hokkaido and the northeastern provinces.
German East Africa has been raising
sisal hemp since 1893 from plants
imported from Fiorida. "
There is a union of hatmakcrs. at
Le Mans, France, in which the offices
of president, vice-president, secretary '
; and treasurer are held by one man. *
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A record of 1554 miles by motor
boat traveling at the rate of 27.J <
miles an hour throughoutthe distance <
has been accomplished by the Brer ,
, Fox II., which left Cincinnati recently
to make the long distance speed test
run to New Orleans.
ATTLESNAKES.
omous Animal Can Not *
If to Death.
, | action of the venom in a non-immun|
ized animal.
I The ichneumon, the hedgehog and
some other animals which devour ven !
omous serpents exhibit an eitraordi!
nary resistance to the effect of their
bites. This natural immunity is ex-'
plained by the "presence of antitoxins
, in the blood of these animals. Ser.
pents are also -little affected by their
. j own venom. In general it is almost
.' impossible to kill a venomous animal.
!, by inoculating it with the venom of its
i' own spccies, of which it can support
- very large dcse with impunity.
: These facts demonstrate the absurdity
of the stories cf rattlesnakes and
i scorpions committing suicide by
.! means of their own venom. It is asI
serted that a scorpion or a rattlesnake
. J imprisoned in a circle of red hot coals
. wil! sting or bite itself to death. This
I j is a physiological impossibility.?The
? Cosmos.
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, The Pleasnre of Poverty.
It is a disgrace to die rich.?Andrew
[ Carnegie.
i It is good to be born poor.-7-Sir
i Tiiomas J-ipton.
: It is glorious to have to struggle.?
John D. Rockefeller.
; It must be grand to be able tc
l despise money.?Chicago Record
i Herald.
> No contumely attends poverty.? i
1 Publius Syrus.
I don't think.?Lot of other fo>'
> lows.
'AJLAC1 OF BBILICAL
(ING IS UNEARTHED
Seat of Apries, Contemporary
of Jeremiah, Disclosed fay Exca.
vations at Memphis.
Professor Flinders Petrie, in givng
an account of the work of the
British School of Archaeology, said
he great result of this year at Memihis
has been the discovery of the
lalace of King Apries, the Pharoah
lophra of the Bible, who was a conemporary
of -Teremiah, B. C. 629?8S.
Hitherto no palace has been
mown in Egypt beyond the tower at
/ledinet Habu and some remains of
, rather earlier date.
Following are the details of the
>alace: Length, 400 feet, very imiressive;
breadth, 200 feet; middle
ourt, 100 feet square; painted colimns
forty feet high: seven stoneined
walls fifteen feet thick. The
.pproach to the palace led up through
l large mass of buildings to a platorm
at a height of about sixty feet
,bove the plain.
In the ruins a scale armor, hitherto
arely found in Egypt, was discovred.
Good bronze figures of gods
vere also found. "What Professor
'etrie described as the one supreme
tiece was a fitting of a palanquin of
olid silver, a pound in weight, decirated
with a bust of Hathor with a
;old face of the finest workmanship
if the time of Apries the Great.
A gateway and immense walls decending
deep into the mound indiated
that there lay ruins of succesive
palaces bifilt one over the other.
Professor Petrie predicted that in
Ix or eight years the excavators
night dig down to the earliest records
if the Egyptian Kingdom. *
THE GREAT LAWYER.
theory That He is Born and Not
Made is Asserted.
This is an age of investigation and
>f speculation. All sorts of inquiries
ire propounded, such as '.'What Is a
)emocrat?" And now we have the
[uestion: "What is a lawyer?" One
espectable and emjnent authority aniwers
that he must have a collegiate
raining and get his law learning in
i law school, else he can never expect
0 be other than a "case lawyer," and
lot much of that.
One opinion is that lawyers are
lorn, not made. Unless one have tha
'legal mind," all the college^ and all
he study in the world will not make
1 lawyer of him, and if he be gifted
pith the legal mind he will get to be
l great lawyer, although he never
law a college and never read half
he textbooks. Abraham Lincoln was
>ne of them.
Robert Eurns never went to colege,
but he ranks among the greatest
>oets of all the world. Ben Hardin
>f Kentucky never attended a law
ichool, but he was the equal of any
awyer our country has produced.
To be a great lawyer,'one must underitand
the philosophy, the science of
t. All the study in the world, in
:ollege or out of college, and all fhe
>xperience the court room, can sup)ly,
will not reveal the philosophies
)f the great principles of our jur:s>rudence;
and yet your greatest ^.w'er,
however much he understands
he reason, of "the rule," ^.ust make
limself acquainted with the history
>f the rule, when it was established,
md the conditions that call|d it into
ipinp
John Marshall was not a learned
awyer. He was not versed in the
precedents as Story w?.f, or as any
jther one of his associates on the
jench was; but he knew the principle
iTd applied it to every case, and he
lared not whether there was precelent
or not. If there was, all well
ind good; if there was not, he established
the precedent. Your, "ease
awyer" can give no opinion offhand,
tfe muSt search the precedents; but
/our great lawyer applies the philosophy
of the law to given facts and he
flings precedents to the winds if. they
ae contrary to his conception. Hence
from tDe bench we have "leading
:ases."
The" late William Lindsay, when on
the Supreme benyh of Kentucky, rendered
an opinion about rents for the
Dccupancy of real estate, or something
of that kind?for this paper is
a layman an(* cannot hope to he
fersed in the nomenclature of the
profession. Judge Lindsay adjudicated
in reversal of the precedents ol
America since its first settlement b>
the Anglo-Saxon and in reversal oi
the precedents of England for centuries,
and to-day his decision is a
precedent and is cited as conclusive
authority in the courts of Great
Britain.
Lindsay never attended a Km
school. He did not have to. He was
a natural-born lawyer.?^Washington
Pest.
Changed the Pronoun.
The old gentleman had prospered
in business and took his son intc
' * m r? m ?-? t\ onnro.
parinersmp. mc juumau
ciated this move, but in his newlj
added dignity became just a little bii
too much inclined to take things intc
his own hands. ? So his father resolved
to remonstrate.
"Look here, young man," he said
"let's have a little les3 'I' and a littl<
more "We' in this business. Yoi
must remember that you're the jun
ior partner."
A week later" the son appeared ir
his father's office looking a little anxious.
"I say, dad," he said, "we've bee:
and done it now."
"Done what?" snapped the parent.
"Well?er?we've been and mar
ried the typist."?Tit Bits.
Transfer of Sabbath.
"The attempts made by Englist
ana ttussian reiunncio nausi^i
the Sabbath to Sunday," says th<
Hebrew Standard, "remind us of on<
of Lincoln's stories. A schoolboy
was asked by a visitor: Suppose w<
call the cow's tail a leg, how man]
legs would the cow have?' Five,
was the boy's prompt reply. 'Wrong,
said the questioner: 'calling a cow';
tail a leg does not make it a leg.' "
Under a new lav/ in Alabama nc
man may carry and no man may sel.
a pistol less than two feet in length
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Table Flower Effects.
Do not feel that you must buy out
a hothouse and fruit stand in order '
to have a handsome dinner. table.
Wonderful effects can be had with a
few flowers and foliage. Also, do not
turn your table into a jeweler's shop.
?Indianapolis News.
Baby's Tray Cloth.
The neatest tray cloth or tablecloth
protector for baby who 'dines with
the family is made from white oilcloth,
but S3 covered with "its own
slip cover of heavy white linen as to
l be concealed from sight. Two pieces
of hemstitched or scalloped linen?
very heavy, smooth damask linen
without a pattern is best?are sewn
together along their edges so that
I there is a side opening intp which to
I slip the oilcloth.
One will be of little avail, unless
j every day is washday. This little
i comfort is necessary in sixes, to say
the least.?New York Times.
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Cleaning a Persian Cat.
Cats are very clean eaters, and always
like to have their separate
saucers, which should be of blue and
white enamel,, and kept spotless. A [
bowl is best for the ordinary cat, but
a Persian should have a plate, as they
are not so likely to get their long
hair into their food.
It is bad for these animals to lie
about on cushions or near the fire, as
they love to do, and^.hey should be
provided with an ordinary round basket.
Their coats should really be
brushed and combed every day, es
I petmji.v uuriiig me uiuuiuug. ocuuu,
i as otherwise they swallow such a lot
of the fur that/comes out in cleaning
themselves.?New York Press.
. Phlms and Ferns.
In cold weather it is a capital plan
to wrap a silk handkerchief round j
that portion of the roots of the palm I
which protrude from the earth, while
at night the plants should be drawn
away from the window, or the latter
covered for some distance from the
floor with 'three or four thicknesses
of newspaper, so as to exclude Jhe
draught.
One great fault which is often the
cause of failure in plant culture is
that of changingHhe temperature o
the room too rapidly. To bring'a
plant straight into a drawing room
from the nursery garden or greenhouse
is almost certain to affect its
j health. If possible, the first week
after its introduction into the house
it should be kept in a perfectly
equable temperature?between sixtytwo
degrees and sixty-four degrees
Fahrenheit. Draughts irnist be
avoided, while it is impossible to be
too regular and systematic in the
matter of watering.?New York Press. '
Much Milk Wasted.
There is no real necessity for thewaste
of milk that goes on in many
households in city and country: The
uses of milk are manifold, and saving
means only a little matter of looking
into the variety of ways in which j
it may be used.
. Eggs poached in milk are more :
delicate for the family and more j
nourishing for the invalid, says an
expert nurse. Breakfast rolls dipped
in milk before reheating in the oveiy
;are made much more crisp and dff
sirable. A very dry loaf of bread
soaked in milk ancT then rebaked will .
. be so rejuvenated as to befcome al- I
most a freshly baked loaf.
For the dyspeptic member of the I
famfly bread on which fast boilin'g
milk is poured will not be an indiges
tible supper. '
TnHian meal should be boiled with
milk as a healthy supper for little 1
children, and eaten^with cream as a ;
fat producing diet for too thin chil- i
dren. ^
Rice and farina hoiled in milk are j
more nourishing than the carelessly ,
thrown together cereals cooked in
tfater. In boiling Indian meal for
fried mush milk or half milk as a
' moistener will facilitate the frying
and produce a rich l^rown color and
1 a delightful crispness.
Morning's milk yields more cream ;
! than evening's, and that taken at
j noon yields least of all.?Indianapolis
News.
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Cheese Relish.?Scald ono cup of?.
xrQilc, add three tablespoons of grated
cheese; when cheese is melted, stir in
I two and a half rolled crackers, piece
) of butter the size of an English walnut
and a pinch of salt. , Serve hot as
' a relish with graham or ry^ bread.
t French Toast.?Beat three eggs
' until very Jight and stir with them
pot quite a pint of milk. Slice some
nice white bread and dip the slices
into the egg and milk, taking care
5 that both sides are covered with the
1 mixture. Then lay the slices on a
" pan well buttered and fry brown.
Sprinkle powdered sugar and nutmeg
1 on each piece and serve hot.
Banana-Pineapple Cocktail.?To be
j served on a hot day in place of soup.
Cut three bananas in thin round
slices, add the juice and pulp of one
graced pineapple, the juice of two
oranges and juice of one lemon.
Guard against getting it too sweet.
Set to cool ia the icebo::, and serve
with a little shaved ice or a small
1 piece of ice dropped in each glass.
Sni'.ii.?Take a nint Of
J I n?u.-.?Svy . - ?
\ dried green peas, wash and set to
"r simmer in a quart of water. Let simj
mer six hours. In the meantime chop
, fine three onions, fry in butter or
pork fat till onions disappear, add this
to (he peas and rub the>whole through
, a colander. Add enough water to
make it the right thickness and again
set on the stove. Fry or bake two
sausages cut in even slices, and when
I the soup is dene toss in the slices of |
sausages and serve.
Woman's Way.
Suddenly a stout woman who had
been sitting in a surface car arose
and rang the bell. The conveyance
stopped, but the passenger went to
another seat and sat down.
"I thought you wanted to get off,
madam." said the conductor.
"No!" she snapped. "I only -wanted
to sit somewhere else. I didn't want
to be jerked off my feet while the car
was in motion. That's all. I ain't
nowhere near home yet."
"Isn't that the limit?" asked th'e
conductor of a man on the platform,
A "Fresh Air" King.
King Gustav of Sweden, who enloys
a visit to England, is a man
of plodding ways. He is passionately
fond of the open air. Like the late
King Oscar, he is a mighty huntei
and a fine shot?probably the besl
shot in his kingdom. He has taken
enthusiastically to his military duties
and is never happier than when ic
command of one of the many regiments
of which he is honorary colonel.?Woman's
Life.
King Edward and the Church.
The King follows the example oi
Queen Victoria in attending the services
of the kirk when staying ir
Scotland. Like her, he is an Anglican
at Carlisle and a Presbyterian ai
Lockerbie. High churchmen hav<
been bitterly annoyed by the rigorous
fashion in which the Scottish Episcopal
Church has always been ignorec
by the court. This intruding ant
very pushing spct has never been rec
ognized at Balmoral in any way what
ever, and the hope that better timei
would arrive with a new reign hai
been entirely disappointed.?rLondoi
Truth.
Prnfifflhl<> P.Piifh rhmliinff.
Beach combers reaped a plenti-fu
harvest along the Thames embank
ment recently, the tide being so Iom
that In various places the river be<
was bared for twenty feet. Fully i
score were at work between Black
friars and Westminster, and araoni
the treasure trove found, .were foun
tain'pens, coins, metal boxes &nd ;
dainty watch, which had beei
dropped by careless sightseers.
The Easiest Way.
A company of select colored artist
were rendering a version of "Othel
lo." The scene between the Moor*an<
Desderaona had been reached, where
in Othello demands the handkerchie
which he has given his wife as a wed
ding amulet.
"Desdemona," he cried, "fetch m
dat han'kerchief!"
But the doomed lady only babblei
of C.assio, and her liege lord shoutei
again:
'T ast fo' de second time to git m
dat han'kerchief!" t
Still the fair one parried the dssui
with talk of Cassio, and the lordl:
Othello, now thoroughly incensed
bellowed:
"Woman, fo' de third and las' tim
I tell you to git me dat han'kerchief
Away!"
And as he was about to open hi
mouth agaii|r a big, leather-lunge
patron in the top gallery shoute
down at him: 1
"Fo' de Lawd's sake, nigger, wh
doan' you wipe yo' nose on yo|s!eev
an' let de show go on!"?Judge's L!
brary. * %
t
Working Girls Best Wives, t
"The working girl makes the bes
.wife in the world."
This is the firm assertion of Mis
Mary ItfacArthur, president of th
Women's Trade Union League ' c
Great Britain.
Miss MacArthur is a remarkabl
woman. Not yet thirty, she has bee
interested in trade unionism amon
women for more than ten years, an
has practically built up the Englis
organization, of which she is pres
dent, and which, now numbers full
210,000- women. It is a very big an
definite force in English labor movt
mente.
And in defiance of all the dolefi
masculine prognostications that girl
and women who work outBide th
home are ther.eby unfitted for Uje naj
ural feminine functions of Wlfehocl
and motherhood, Miss MacArthur ?
iterates: "It is the working wome
who piake the best wives?and th
best iriothers, too," she adds compoj
edly.?Kansas City Journal.
Skin Humor lasted lift Years.
"Cuticura did wonders for me. Fc
twenty-five years 1 suffered agon
from a terrible humor, completel
covering my head, neck and shou
ders, so even to my wife, I became a
object of dread. At large expense
consulted the most able doctors, fa
and near. Their treatment was of il
avail, nor was that of the ' Ho:
pital, during six months' efforts,
suffered, on and concluded there wa
no help for me this side of the grav<
i rtP on mo nno whr? ha
1 IJCU I ucai U Ul svuiv v/w.v
been cured by Cuticura Remedies an
thought that a trial could do no harn
In a nirprisingly short time I wa
completely cured. S. P. Keyes, 14
Congress St., Boston, Mass., Octobe
12, '09."
Fare Covered With Pimples.
"I congratulate Cuticura upon m
speedy recovery from nlmples whlc
covered my face. 1 used Cuticur
Soap, Ointment and Resolvent for te
days and my face clenred and I ai
perfectly well. I had tried doctor
for several months but got no result!
Wm. J. Sadlier, 1614 Susque^aDn
Ave., Philadelphia, May 1, 1909."
It the seven longest rivers of tb
world were placed end to end the
would lack 500 miles of encirclln
the earth. N.Y.?58
To Cure a Cold in Oi:c Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet
Drneepsts refund money if it fails to cur
I?. \V. Grove's signature is on each box. 25
In twenty-five rears the population <
Berlin has tripled itself.
iM
Y
Kissing His Chains.
Upton Sinclair, in a recent addres#
in New York, said, pointedly: '
' "These poor people who oppose soi
cialism remind me of a dog I once
8aw- V M
'"T"-- J? ?'? fVi/? animal
lUB dug S 1X1U??1B, ao vtiv
passed me, dropped off. I am against
muzzling, and so I kicked the wire -J?
; contrivance into the gutter.
"But the dog resented fay action
; by showing his teeth and growling -I
angrily. He picked up the muzzle ' ^
. and trotted home with it in his
, mouth."?Washington Star.
4 : )AHe
Wasn't Home.
"Sure you weren't at home on this ' $
, date?"
"Positive." *
s 4 "Bo careful," cautioned the attor
ney, "Any man might make a mis- .({
; take."
i "No chance for a mistake."'
i "Why are you so certain that yon
l were not at home?"
"That's the day my wife's culture . 33
. club met at our. house."?Washing-.
ton Herald.
? 1 m
"The Appian Way."
E The fa'rhous Appi'an Way was con-.
atructed by digging two parallel 45
' A ? ? .* ?- ot +?>0
I ireiicues, luree xect iu ucyiu, m vus
. bottom of which were placed two lay-." f.m
t ers of flat stones in mortar, upoa -'n
5 which a layer of cobblestones waB ri
placed, also laid in mortar; then came " 35
. a course of pebbles in concrete, over '
1 which were placed large) flat blocks i
I of smooth lava well joined together, "
- forming an eVen, uniform sruface. ft -p
- was primarily a military road, and ex- : J'
3 tended from Rome to Bruttdusium, a . ?.|j
3 distance of 350( miles. So perfect was- v
i the construction of this celebrated ?
road that it still eridts in places as - Igood
as ever, notwithstanding it was . ^
made more than twenty centuries
1 ago.?Philadelphia Press.
L Married-His Assistant.
3 Lee H. Meyer, fourteen lyears wltjh
a the Westlich^ Post at St. XjOqCb, had f
_ as an assistant Miss. Neoms u. tiara-'
5 away. He advertised for a wife, and . M
_ Miss Hardaway, in Jerseyville, 111.,
! on vacation, not knowing the Identity
! of the advertiser, answered. The M
romance resulted in their marriage. -,
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