SM ALL-TO WW BOY NOT GONE He Plays the Same Old Pranks and Has the Same Old Youthful Exuberance. Not long ago a writer in a western exchange bewailed the passing of the true boy, the boy of natural impulses with a streak of old Adam, and a fine contempt for the minor ordinances, the Cleveland Plain Dealer remarks. He was the boy who plotted and exe cuted mischief of the boyish type, who made himself a nuisance, perhaps, to the community in which he ran wild, yet never mixed meanness with mis chief. In short, he was the old-fash ioned boy, the embodiment of life and spirit and impishness. In his place, as the writer points out. we have the hulking street corner boy, who travels in gangs and becomes the bane of the police guardians. No doubt the author of this disser tation had in mind the boy of the rural community, not the city boy, but the small-town boy. That type of boy isn't found in the cities. They are too hampering for his soaring soul. He needs room, he requires a tolerant community, ho wants a congenial at mosphere. It may be imagined that the author of the lamenting screed, having looked out through his urban window and noted no boy of the old fashioned type, believes he end his joy ous type have passed. The small-town boy still exists, how ever. Every little while his boyish pranks provide material for the coun try correspondent. He plays the same old tricks; he exhibits the same old brand of boyish exuberance. The oth er day he slipped into a Delaware church where a revival service was in progress, and left a half frozen hor net's nest beside the stove. When the hornets thawed out they organized an exploring expedition and the congrega tion promptly endeavored to leave the edifice in a body. There is no use of worrying over the decline of the small-town boy. He hasn't declined. PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL COURTS Tribunals First Created In France Have Accomplished Good, Accord ing to This Writer. As long ago as 1806 France created Industrial courts, and the example has been followed by Germany, Switzer land, Italy and 3elgium, says George Creel in the Century. "A president, who represents the public, and an equal number of workers and em ployers sit as a jury rather than as a court. Lawyers are barred; the par ties to the dispute take turns relating grievance and defense, and in conse quence of this simplicity, 90 per cent of the cases are adjusted without for mal hearings. In event of threatened strikes or lockouts, the courts have the power to sit as boards of arbitra tion, and lt is only In rare cases that satisfactory agreements ' are'" not reached." Compare the simplicity of this pro cedure with the American method of frequent trials, frequent appeals, re versed decisions, remanded cases, court costs, lawyers' fees and months of delay, a gantlet that no poor mau dares to run. The dollar out of which an alien is cheated may mean to him the difference between a bcd or a park bench and certainly his sense of in justice will not inspire him with re spect for democratic institutions. Department Store Efficiency. That this is the age of commercial ism is even shown by the visitors to New York city. Formerly they has tened to see Eden musee, Grant's tomb and other notable landmarks. Now theil- first stop is at the depart ment stores, and these seem to be a continual surprise and an ever-increas ing source of astonishment. It is hard for the visitors to realize that under -one roof everything one needs from :the cradle to the coffin can be ob tained, and with no more difficulty or . delay than the small town merchant ?takes to wrap up a paper of pins. Few realise what constant supervision must be exercised over every depart ment to see that losses are cut to the -minimum, and that not only every larticle must he kept In its place, but 'also that the warehouses must be well stocked with goods to take care o? any early calls for renewing the stock, j An example of the high efficiency un ?der which this class of stores ls run lean be seen in the fur storage depart ment of one of the local stores. Dur ing the last summer they stored over '8,000 articles valued at nearly a mil ? lion dollars, and their total losses on the same were ,$2 5.-Wall Street Jour nal. Earliest School Books. Among the recent discoveries In the archeological excavations In ancient Babylonia are some stone tablets be lieved to have been used as school books in the first regular school ever :held in the world. They have been added to the collection of the Uni wen: 5 of Pennsylvania. \ Tr o prehistoric text-books have mai. proving that they were used in a sc 1 conducted in a temple in Nip pur re than 2300 years B. C. This sch is known to have bee? in ex iste at least one thousand years ant records have yet been found to :ate the existence of any pre cer it. The tablets contain notes ui veral sciences, evidently made up e stone surface by a stylus. Se of them contain two forms of ch -rs, indicating that the pupils at od to copy the work of the te. HISTORIC TREES PASS AWAY I Historians and Antiquarians Can Only Regret, While Entirely Unable to Prevent Their Loss. It is too bad that nature will not al low trees, or some trees, at any rate, to live forever. In many places In this country, in the East particularly, the guides or the local historians once began their holding tales with "Under that tree." The famous colonial and revolutionary day trees are gone or are going. Some of the present day events which are likely to have patri otic or other sentimental interest for posterity might be staged purposely under thrifty trees of long-lived spe cies. The charter oak is gone, the old elm of Boston Common ls gone and the elm at Cambridge under whose shade Washington took command of the con tinental army is gone. The trees which Alexander Hamilton planted, one for each of the thirteen original states, have either died of old age or have succumbed to the encroachment of a civilization which takes little heed of sentiment or of natural beauty. And the treaty tree at the base of which the whites signed a compact (which unquestionably they broke) with the Wequadequeek Indians is dead. It waa under this tree at Sleepy Hollow that Washington Irving wrote of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. The old cottonwood at Eighteenth street and the lake in Chicago died many years ago. A part of it is pre served in the building of the Chicago Historical society, but a bit of dead timber is as nothing to the living tree. The sequoias of California come pretty clo?? to living forever. They certainly live long enough to satisfy for ages mankind's sentiment concerning deeds done in their shadow. It is a pity that the ancient eastern and middle west ern elms, cottonwoods and oaks were not all sequoias. Trees ought to be spared for their own sakes, but when they mark the scenes of stirring na tional events they ought to be tended with double care and solicitude. LIKE THE RATTLE OF RAIN How the Trilled "R" and the Short "A" Have Been Employed by Masters of the Language. The trilled r and the short a after it make a sound which is often won derfully suggestive of the thing de scribed by the word which they initiate, or of the mood of the speaker using such a word. You feel this in words of very di verse meanings; In rapture and in racket; in ransack and in ravage; in rally and rampageous; even in raffle. All these words seem to do their work with a certain unction, and they are capable of absorbing the unction of the speaker in a remarkable degree. When a man relates that he was very hungry, hear how he rasps on the first See how Burns almost compels sym I pathy with the wastrels of life against the "douce folk that live by rule" in tho mere rattle of his r's and vigor of his a's: Y?i are sae grave, nae doubt ye're wise; Nae forty tho' ye do despise The halrum-scarum. ram-stam boys, The rattlln' squad: I see you upward cs.st your eyes Ya ken the road. Good humor, dislike, anger, scorn pass over these words in the act of utterance like rain or hall over a wheat field. Venerate Hooded Cobra. The hooded cobra, or Naga, still has his devotees in Bombay city, and from Kashmir to Nepal in the Himalayan repion throughout the Deccan and southern India, and on the west coast in particular, this curious veneration of snake gods survives, says the Times of India. An interesting account of the worship is given in the latest an nual report of the archeological de partment. The usual form of Naga worship is the vow taken by childless wives to install a snake stone if they are blessed with offspring. Closely allied with this idea is the worship of trees, and pipal and margosa trees planted together-"married," as the saying goes-come in for a share of the devotion paid to the snake stones set up in their shade. It is believed, says this account, that women will bear children if tiley walk round the married trees one hundred and eight times every day for forty-five days consecutively. Unfortunately no au thentic case is cited of the efficacy of this prescription, but the offerings brought in gratitude by women to the shrines may be taken as favorable evi dence. Self-Lighting Smudge Pot. By the invention of a simple thermo static controlling device, a Los An geles man has developed an ingenious apparatus for rendering the smudge pots used by orchardists self-operat ing, says Popular Mechanics. The ap pliance, which may be fitted to any standard type of pot, is regulated by a small copper rod. When the atmos pheric temperature drops to a prede termined point the contraction of the rod is sufficiently great to release a cup containing an acid. The liquid is poured into a small chamber provided in the smudge pot. This holds a chemical substance which burns upon the addition of the acid, producing a flame that ignites the crude oil used in the pot. The thermostat may be adjusted so as to release the acid when the temperature falls to any spe cific degree. With this apparatus in use, as. orchard may be protected from frost without personal attention being given lt. An Epoch-Making Meetinj Physicians. (Ella A. Boele. Pr?sident Now W. C. T. UO The New York Academy of icine is easily the most influe organization of physicians in York City, and on Thursday ning, April 6, the entire eve was devoted to tho subject of 1 hoi. The first address, illustrated lantern slides, was giveu by Francis G. Benedict, director ol Boston nutrition laboratory of Carnegie Institution. His topic "The Investigation of the Infiu of Alcohol on Man, with Spi Reference to Psychological Effe Dr. Benedict described in detail laboratory experiments for the covery of the truth about alco and not satisfied with this, confir his conclusions bj' the results of perience. He announced that out of six show the depressiona feet of alcohol on the neuro-mu lar system, and a decrease in mu lar power of from ten to four per cent. The results of his exj mentation have been explained i monograph which is to be issue< a public document by the Un States Government. As his inv< g?tions wore begun without bia made a deep impression upon physicians who heard him, altho we who are engaged in the tem ance reform know that they sin confirm investigations of a sim nature made by others. The topic of the next paper "The Relation of Alcohol to 1 sonal Efficiency." This discus* was opened by Dr. C. E. A. W low, professor of Public Health Yale University, and a member the Public Health Commission New York State. His conclusi as to the effect of alcohol were i phasized, because he had studied matter from the standpoint of 1 ounces of alcohol or more a daj quantity not usually considered cessive. He said that the use even that amount was responsi for a greatly increased death ri and announced that the war ab tion of the sale of alcohol was bi confirmation of the depressional feet of alcohol on efficiency, called attention to the fact tha very moderate use of alcohol in i form had a bad effect in mak people liable to pneumonia and rendering their recovery impo ble. Dr. Charles R. Stockard, p fessor of Public Health at Y University, confined his remarks the results of experimenl^!f77|)q?j|j the effect of alcohol on the proge of fish and guinea pigs. He show how the exposure of the eggs fish to the fumes of alcohol for hour resulted in deformities, wh the feeding of alcohol to guir pigs resulted in an increase in t four forms of abnormalities whi physicians characterize as abortio still-born, deformities and monste He showed that these results w< found when either father or mott used alcohol, but were increas when both father ?nd mother us it. As be concluded bis talk said that while his experiments h not been made with the human ei bryo, they had been made with fi and guinea pigs, and that as phy cians they could draw their o\ conclusions. Dr. Bernard Sachs, another lea ing physician accepted everytbir that bad been said and concludt by saying, "Why do people use ? cohol? Some of them do is becau they are tired, and worn out," ar he added the warning, "Do not ai wines or liquors under these cireur stances. They always leave d pression," and then his advice wi to use a cup of hot coffee when strone stimulant was needed. Dr. Haven Emerson, Commi sioner of Health of the city of Ne York, was present throughout tr. evening, and iu his address exnresi ed bis hearty sympathy with ever: thine that had been said and ai nounced his desire to chance th name of a division of Public Healt works from the Department of th Bureau of Contagious Diseases t the Bureau for the Prevention o Disease. He said this would be a endorsement of the campaign of th Board of Health against alcohc and appealed to physicians to sup port the Health Department in wha it is doing. Dr. Kellogg of Battl C'eek announced that he neve found it necessary to use alcoholic liquors for medicinal purposes a Battle Creek. In ah that grea company of five hundred physician only one dissenting voice was heard Dr. Abraham Jacobi, a man nov over ninety years of age, who saic that he had found only ene use fo alcohol and that was in what ii known as the Jacobi treatment fo; diptheria in its last stages. No on< confirmed his statement. The fiv< hundred physicians present wen deeply impressed with the results ol the investigations of these leaden in their profession and it was ar epoch making meeting. tobacco ^^^^^^^^^^SL enjoyment ^^^^^^^^^M as you never thought Wp^S/^SmS?j???k could be is yours to %k^X--^^^???? command quick as I ^z^M0^0MM you buy some Prince vi^JSA mM^??W^^^BM Albert and fire-up a |N^^J^M^^iPP^S pipe or a home-made ^^