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tumorous Jlrpartmcnt. He Never Told. It was clear that he was from the country. For several minutes he stood on the sidewalk, oblivious to the smiles and comments of passersby, gaping up at the top story of a tall trust company building across the way. Then he scratched his head and stroked his chin. "Wa-ai," he muttered, "It may be all right, I suppose, but I might as well find out for sartln." He crossed the street, pushed his way into the trust company offices and approached the nearest window, The brass plate over It was inscribed "New Accounts." "Well?" asked the man behind the window without looking up from his ledger. "Wa-al" drawled the man from the country, "It may be all right an' correct. uv course; but while I wuz lookin' over"? "The book-keeper'll fix that for you. Third window to the left." After slight hesitation the countryman doubtfully made his way over to the bookkeeper's window. "Well, sir, what can we do for you?" demanded the bookkeeper. "Nothln". I don't know why they sent me over to you?I ain't got any account here. I wuz Just wonderln' whether you happened to know"? "Information department," said the bookkeeper brusquely. "Sixth window to the right." The countryman started to say something, but the bookkeeper had resumed his writing. He walked over to the "lnrormauon wiuuuw. "Say!" he opened up, without waiting for an Invitation: "You folk need not be so tarnation flossy. I Jest wanted to tell yer durned old company that their"? "Complaint department. Last window, rear," growled the clerk. The countryman glared. For a moment he seemed undecided: then, his Jaws set with determination, he strode down to the complaint window. "Well, what's the trouble with you?" demanded the complaint clerk. "Ain't none!" snapped the countryman. "I jest wanted to say to yer gosh-blamed old company that it appears to me as their bulldln' Is"? But he got no further. "Fire! Fire! Fire!" came the cry from all parts of the building. Instantly everything became bustle and confusion "Fire! fire!" "Hump!" grunted the disgusted countryman as he followed the crowd out "They'd a-knowed it a half an hour ago If they'd only listened to me."?Judge. Saved Him From Disgrace. In one of the old families of Charleston, S. C., writes Mrs. Ravenel in the Youth's Companion, there was an Important personage. Jack, the butler, i Jack disputed with another old man, Harry, the butler of Mrs. Henry Izard, the reputation of being: the best and most thoroughly trained servant In the town. From the judging of the wines to the arrangement of a salt spoon there was nothing which these withered brown potentates did not decide and maintain. Nothing would have astonished either more than that master or qglstress should dissent from his verdict. Jack was intolerant of anything which he considered a breach of the etiquette of the table. Nothing could have Induced him to serve a gentleman before a lady, or a younger before an elder brother. To place fruit and wine on a table cloth Instead of upon the mahogany was to him a falling from grace. On one occasion he was much annoyed when a senator from the upcountry twice asked for rice with his , fish. To the first request he simply remained deaf; at the second he bent down and whispered Into the senatorial ear. The genial gentleman nodded and suppressed a laugh; but when the servants had left the room he burst Into a roar and cried: "Judge, you have a treasure! Jack has saved me from disgrace, from exposing my ignorance. He whispered, 'That wouldn't do, sir; we never eats rice with fish." Rattled By Altitude. "I heard something new In the barberlng business this morning." said the gray-headed man to a New York Sun reporter. "I am occupying a room on the top floor of a skyscraping apartment hotel. This morning I sent for a barber to come up and shave me. He came, but when he saw what an altitude he had attained he looked uneasy. "Would it inconvenience you to come down to the regular barber shop?" he asked. "I answered that it would not particularly put me out, but that I would like to know the reason for his request. " "The fact is,' he said, *1 never like to shave anybody at this distance above the ground. No barber likes to, We seem to be particularly sensitive tc height. It makes us nervous. Most barbers will not undertake a job above a certain number of feet in the air. Ol course, if you insist I will shave you here, but you would probably get a better shave 10 floors below this one." "Well, Just out of natural cussedness, I refused to humor that fellow's whim. As a consequence he nearly cut my throat. Whether he did it through nervousness, as he claimed, or yure cussedness of his own, I don't know, Whatever It was that Is a peculiarity of barbers that I'd like to have explained." ? Ji'st That.?There Is a certain old gentleman who partakes of the qualitY\a it mlnptl hilt whose lack of "polish" is a sad trial to his oldest daughter. The old gentleman, as he expressed It, "go thai with both feet when some dude investers come pirntln' round the range." Not long ago the family were gathered In the library, one of the windows of which was open. "That air?" the father began, but was quickly Interrupted. "Father, dear, don't say 'that air,? say 'that there,' the daughter admonished. "Well, this ear?" he again attempted. but was as quickly brought to a halt. "Nor 'this 'ere'; 'this here' is correct," he was told. The old gentleman rose with an angry snort. "Look here, Mary," he said, with asperity. "Of course. 1 know you have been to school and all that, but I reckon I know what I want to say. an' I am going to say it. I believe I feel a cold in this ear from that air, and I'm going to shut the window!"?Harper's Weekly. iUistrllancous grading. IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. > I News and Comment Clipped Fron > Neighboring Exchanges. ' CHESTER. , Lantern, June 25: The negro, Johi I Adams, who, as reported in Friday' Lantern, was shot by another negrc I Monroe Sims, at Carlisle Thursday an* I brought here to the hospital, died Fri day evening. Adams and Sims botl i claim Chester county as their home i Misses Bthel and Ellse Latlme and Anna Steele McCaw of Yorkvllle [ spent from Saturday morning unti yesterday morning at the home of th? , Misses Latimer's brother, Mr. Car i Latimer, on their return home fron the Jamestown exposition Mr John R. Culp, son of Mrs. J. R. Culj of this city, suffered a partial stroke o paralysis a few days ago. The posta from Mrs. Culp did not fetate to wha extent he was paralyzed except that hii tongue was involved. Mr. Culp is it the railroad business in Remington , Va Mr. Sherman, the lmmigran agent, said Friday that he could brinj us a shipload of immigrants every weel of the Wittekind variety, if we wante< them, but declared that they would bi neither satisfied nor satisfactory Those present were unanimous am emphatic in saying that, that variety ii not wanted During a thundei storm Friday afternoon, Mr. A. N Grant's house in the Armenia neigh' borhood. was struck by lightning. Th< bolt 9truck the roof of the house, tear ins two holes in It and followed th< rafters to the side of the house thei ran across tearing off a piece of weath er boarding and celling. When It reach' ed the second floor It Jumped on to th< telephone wire and was grounded. Mr Grant says it Is one time a telephom wire did good service. None of th< family were hurt. LANCASTER. News, June 21: Mrs. R J. Mackorel and children of Yorkvllle, who hav< been visiting the former's parents, Ma Jor and Mrs. J. M. Riddle, returne< home Monday Mr. W. F. Nlsbe of the Jacksonham section, killed i blue crane last Friday that was flvi feet in height and measured six feet three inches from tip to tip of wings Mr. M. G. Hunter, son of Mr Joseph Hunter, and Miss Ella Barton daughter of Mr. Robert Barton of thi cotton mills village, were married las Sunday. The ceremony was perform ed at the Methodist parsonage by thi pastor, the Rev. R. E. Turnipseed The depot at Caskey station, on thi Southern, was blown down during i wind storm a few dayis ago. The rail road company will be "put to lti stumps" to erect another like the ol< one, for It was a majestic oak tree... A destructive hail storm visited a con slder&ble portion of Flat Creek town ship last Friday evening. The storn was heaviest about Flat Creek churcl and in that vicinity. A number o fa rmu u-?re hndlv danmared. A mom the farmers whose crops were mos seriously injured are Messrs. M. C Gardner, Amos Cook, Jack Morgai jtnu Charles Dunn Mrs. Whltaker wife of Mr. Romulus Whltaker of Fla Creek township, died one day las week, at their home on Mr. John Bird*! place. She was about twenty-flvi years old and is survived by her hus band and three children. Her maldei name was Baker. The burial was a Flat Creek church The Rev. 0 W. Carmlchael of Moreland, Ga., ha: accepted a call extended him to th< pastorate of the Lancaster and Shilol A. R. P. churches. He will enter upoi ' his work July 1. Mr. Carmlchael wa: graduated this year from the Erskin< Theological Seminary and is a younj minister of much promise. He ha already made many friends and ac quaintances in Lancaster and in th< Shiloh community, having recentlj preached at both places. He is twen ty-two years old and unmarried The colored Odd Fellows of Lancaster Kershaw, Jefferson and Flat Rock ha< a big celebration at Pleasant Hill las Sunday. In addition to the members a large number of women and chlldrei were present, many of them from Ches terfield and Kershaw counties who hat never seen nor heard of an automobile While the celebration was in full blast men, women and children singing shouting and hugging, and some eat ing, a couple of Lancaster autos appeared on the scene, honking, pufflnf 1 and sputtering. Instantly there was i transformation in the picture. A genI n w, 1 Kaon mo iKn ni*rlt?r nf f hi day, the terror-stricken people falling over one another In their frantic efforts to reach tall timber. Even th< stuffin" was scared out of a lot of baked Chesterfield chickens. About foui acres of somebody's cotton were ton ! up by frightened horses and mules try ing to keep up with the rapidly moving procession of fleeing humanity. A Fla Rock nigger said afterwards that ai 1 automobile looked to him like Satai and made a noise like judgment day When heard from yesterday some o ! the Jefferson negroes were still run ( ning and headed for the Pee De< . swamp. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 25: Mrs. R ' J. Sifford left yesterday for North Au gusta, Ga., where she will spend two o: i three weeks with her parents, Rev . and Mrs. J. L. Stokes Mrs. W. K ' Douglas of Due West. S. C.. is expecte< tomorrow to spend the day with he ' brother. Mr. J. W. Klrkpatrlck. Shi : will be accompanied by Mrs. J. F i Thomson of Yorkville, who will be he > guest while here An ordinanci passed by the city council last weel ' places a penalty of $50 on the owne of a bulldog who gives the animal th< freedom of the streets without having first properly muzzled him?the dog I The first of the building trade; to organize in Gastonia are the brick : layers. On May 17th Bricklayers am I Masons' International Union No. 5i was organized with thirty-nine mem bers, the membership included all thi workers of this kind in Gaston count; ' save about six. Tbe omcers or im I union are: President, J. E. McAllis ' ter: secretary, R. L. McAllister: treas ury, R. \V. White. Meetings are hel< ; every first and third Friday nights... At a called meeting of the directors o ' the Trenton cotton mill which was heh yesterday afternoon an extra dividem of 15 per cent was ordered paid thi stockholders. The meeting of the di l rectors was held for the purpose o disposing of a part of the surplus funi and this dividend which is paid fron the already accumulated surplus is it i addition to the regular setni-annua ! dividend The Gastonia Poultn [ association held a meeting in the citi 1 hall Thursday and elected the follow: ing officers: President, Rev. W. H Hardin, vice J. H. Separk; 1st vlet president, J. N. Roberts of Lowell; 2t i vice president, P. P. Hopper of Dallas; .Id vice president, C. M. Nolen o: Gastonia; secretary, J. L. Beal of Gastonia; treasurer, Dr. L. N. Glenn; Mr W. L. Ormand of Bessemer City wai elected superintendent of shows, anc Mr. B. L. Smith of Stanley, was namec n as assistant. AN ASTUTE ADVERTISER, n The English Merchant Who Believec s In Letting the Public Know. The tragic death of Mr. Whltely ol London, who was the h^cd of the largest store in the world, has recalled tc old friends various Incidents in his life. Mr. Whltely advertised his store as a "Universal Provider." He claimed he could furnish anything that was asked, from a paper of pins or needles to an elephant, for he actually had a zoological garden, where were many animals for sale. One day. says the World's Events Magazine, an old friend called at the store, one whom Mr. Whltely had not seen for a long time. After the usual greetings, the friend, slapping Mr. Whltely on the shoulder, said, "You claim, do you not, that your store Is a universal provider?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am pr 'tlyou cannot ask for anything that I cannot provide." "I will prove you," said the friend. "I want a wife." "That's all right," was the quick response. "You are in earnest?' "Surely I am," said the caller. Immediately Mr. Whltely called an errand boy and said, "You go to the millinery floor," naming the floor, "and tell Miss C. that I wish her to report 3 to my office at once." 1 Miss C. came and the merchant Introduced her to his friend, and said to ' the young lady: "This man has come 3 here for a wife, and I recommend you. To my knowledge he is a good man 3 and rich. Will you marry him?" 3 Miss C. was greatly surprised, and after a little talk asked for a few days to consider and make more acquaint1 ance with the gentleman. 9 The couple were married within a week, and so far as the world knows 1 they live happily in London. t If they are not happy, they keep it i to themselves. 8 Before the store was ready, there was . much speculation as to its success. ! Upon the opening day Mr. Whltely ' was on the alert to see who would be ? his first customer. 8 A lady, past middle age, was the first, t She bought some choice goods, taking - them with her, as she wished her b mantua-maker to have them quickly. She had paid for her goods and was 9 ready to leave the store when Mr. i Whltely stepped to her side and said: - "You are my first customer. I would b like to have your name and address, for J I wish to send you a present:" She thanked him, told her name and address and asked: "Am I, then, the first buyer in this great undertaking? i Let us pray!" She knelt just where i she had stood, as did the astonished f clerks that were nearby and Mr. r Whltely. In a few earnest words she t asked God's blessing upon them all. ' Each year, as long as the woman i lived, when Mr. Whltely celebrated the anniversary of the opening of his t store, he remembered his first cus t tomer with a suitable gift. s ??? s SAVINGS BANKS. i First One Was Established by Parliat ment In 1907. ' In March, 1807, an act was passed b in the British parliament which cree ated the first savings bank and estabt lished a system which has extended i over a large part of the civilized globe, s says Leslie's Weekly. The United s States, which was both young and i poor at the time, was a little slower 9 than some other countries in follow ing England's lead, but we did this 9 early enough to get "honorable menf tion" by the historians and statlsti clans who wrote about the system around the middle of the nineteenth century. The Philadelphia Savings 1 fund association opened for business t in November, 1816, and the Provident Institution for Savings started In Bos1 ton in December of that year. That was the beginning of the savings bank 1 as an institution in the United States. ?. In recent times we have far surpassed , England in this field, and have taken , the first place among the nations. - New York, with deposits of approxl mately $1,400,000,000, heads the list r of states in the extent of use of savi ings banks, with Massachusetts. $650, 000,000, second. New York city, of i course, is far ahead of other towns in ? the country, and the Bowery Savings bank, with deposits of over $104,000,5 000. leads all the Institutions of that sort in the world. i* The deposits in the savings banks of i the United States in 1907 are three - and two-thirds times as great as the I entire Interest-bearing debt of the nat tlonal government. They exceed the i aggregate tangible, marketable prop1 erty, real and personal of the whole United States In 1840. And all of this f vast accumulation of $3,400,000,000 represents the savings, and only a part 3 of the savings of the laborers, mechanics, clerks and the rest of the humbler wage earners of the coun try. r Professional Snake Killers. "Last year the number of men. - women and children who met a terri1 ble death in India from the bite of r poisonous snakes amounted to 25,387. e Besides this there were about 4,500 killed by wild animals?chiefly tigers; r to say nothing about 66,000 cattle. e Every conceivable measure has been 4 taken to mitigate this appalling.annual r destruction, but with little avail." So s writes W. G. Fitzgerald, in the Tech? nical World Magazine. ' The venomous snakes of India most s destructive of life may be placed in " the following order. First of all comes ' the deadly cobra, responsible for near? ly nLne-tenths of the fatalities; and " then the krait kuppur, Russell's viper, e the hamadryas and rajsamp. The f water snakes kill a good many, as we s shall see, but they are comparatively " rare. A regular organized warfare is " waged upon India's myriads of repi tiles, and in each district a regular head tax is paid upon each cobra and f other snakes killed. ^ "Last year the number of snakes J destroyed was 762,221, for which res wards amounting to nearly 57,000 ru" pees were paid. The greatest destruef tlnn to life annears to have been in * Bengal, where 11,131 people were kill1 ed and neurly 1,000 cattle. In thin 1 province alone 55,054 poisonous snakes ' were destroyed. ' The officials charged with this curlf ous work were scattered over the whole vast area, from the Hlmaluyas to southern Madras, including Bomi bay Provinces, the Northwest Prov' Inces and Oudh; the Punjab, Central " Provinces, Burma, Assam, Hyderabad f and others." "SIMPLE LIFE" WISDOM. ? When Should an Active Man Retire 1 From Hit Work? ' When Herman Woldmann for many years supervisor of German In the public schools, resigned his position, the other day, that he might spend the I rest of his life In the country, making his peace with nature he had snubbed so long and getting acquainted with f strange nooks and crahnles of his own nature, the average hustling American > suspected the sanity of the man If he i didn't put his opinion on record. There were many years of service in Mr. . Woldmann; years, too, in which he i could keep on earning money. With two such cogent reasons?service and < salary?why should any man be so foolish as to leave his post? A foreigner would get the Woldmann point of view In a jiffy, says the Cleveland Leader, and, were he not swerved from his own poise by the mad rush about him, might even envy him. It wouldn't be necessary to bring a German Into the problem for confirmation, because almost any foreigner would do. This sanity Is not the endowment or the acquirement of the German mind alone. The stolid Britons have It, and the volatile French, who are, In their final solution, not so peacocky as the children of Uncle Sam. In many ways the Englishman leads a self-centred. If not a selfish life. He considers himself a great deal and the other fellow only a little. He makes his home his castle and, like the snail which carries his house around with him, John Bull's aloofness goes with him when he takes his walks abroad. Yet, under this crust of personal worship, lies a strong feeling of national responsibility. Having paid' his duty to himself, he proceeds to pay his duty to the state. He doesn't work all his life and he doesn't play away the years that he takes away from business. He gives them to his city or his country. It Is his ambition to be a town councilor or a member of parliament. And when he gets Into one or the other place he works faithfully, according to his lights, for the good of his constituency and the strengthening of the nation. France Is the home of thrift Never a land where the money Is so widely and so wisely distributed. There are * ? * ? ?? *kA?Ai ?A nno lew cuiu.ssui ii/i iuiics met ci iiv u*?v moneyed man ranks with the greatest capitalists of this country or England. Four-fifths of the nation's wealth Is held by people ranging from moderate 1 circumstances down to what we would call poverty here. Eight and one-half i million people live on their own farms. Every one works and saves, up to a certain period. Middle age Is the time when the Frenchman ceases to labor 1 and begins to loaf. By that time he has accumulated enough to keep him quietly till his death; to give his daughter her dot, his son his start In life. He, too has civic obligations and civic ambitions. But he has romance, too; the love of nature's sentiment and sentimentality. Daudet's Mayor who lost himself In the woods and was nibbling vollets and writing poetry, when found, was symbolical. He stood for a national idea. INSTANTANEOUS CITY. Grew From Nothing in 1889 to "42,000 In 1906. ^ "Oklahoma City Is possibly the finest example of speedy and magnificent metropolis building In the world," says Appleton's Magazine. "Seventeen years ago it was a piece of open prairie, with a sluggish creek, which has no right to be dignified as a river, meandering and elbowing through the fertile soil. Why the site was selected no one knows. It sort of looked good to them," is the explanation of an orglinal 'boomer.' Guthrie, the temporary capital, thirty miles to the north, had a much better start and was better situated as regards general physiographic conditions. "Oklahoma City grew from the noth1 In^nf 18BQ tn 000 nennlein 1906. Last 1 year there were twenty-two miles of fine asphalt streets, seventy-five miles of brick and cement sidewalks, twelve miles . gas mains and natural gas being piped In, twenty-five miles of electric street railway of the most modern types of cars, fifty-two miles of sewers and sixty-five miles of water mains. There were four national banks, three state banks and one trust company, with deposits aggregating over 56.000,000. The bonded Indebtedness of the city was only 5743,000, in the face of the erection of several public buildings and all the city betterments. "That' which has made Oklahoma City the star town of the state has been public-spirited co-operation and a square jawed determination to win on the part of a large portion of her citizens. In 1894 she seemed doomed to extinction. They built railroads when they had no money left for food. The town revived and boomed until 1898, when the mud holes and unthinkable sinks In the main streets became o byword In the state, and seemingly again Jeopardized the city's future. The citizens then built twenty-odd miles of the finest asphalt streets and three times that amount of sidewalks. "The most fascinating side of Oklahoma City to the tenderfoot Is the number of men who arrived In 1889 or shortly after with about 37J cents In their pockets and since then have made fortunes. One man," as the article In Appleton's Magazine Informs us, "who bought his first town lot from a dissatisfied staker for 51.85 two days after the opening, sold his hotel for $ 140,000, and this represents but a small part of his holdings. A second became a street-railway magnate, another a big banker, and still another a large railroad contractor." Ingersoll's Arraignment. Robert G. Ingersoll's arraignment of alcohol will still bear reprinting. It is as follows: I do not wonder that every thoughtful man Is prejudiced against this dammed stuff called alcohol. Intemi perance cuts down youth In Its vigor, manhood in Its strength, old age In Its weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachment, blights parental hope, brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness not health; death, not life, i It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. ta ?.Uttumnf lom Invlfna nV?nl. XL ICCHJJ i iiruuiuvio*!., i??*ivon vn?^. era. Imports pestilence and embraces consumption. It covers the land with Idleness, misery and crime. It Alls your jails, supplies your almshouses, 1 and demands your asylums. It engenders controversies, fosters quarrels and cherishes riot. It crowds i your penitentiaries and furnishes vl tlms for your scaffolds. It Is the life blood of the gamble the element of the burglar, the pr< of the highwayman and support i the midnight incendiary. It count nances the liar, respects the thW esteems the blasphemer. It vlolat obligation, reverences fraud and hoi ors Infamy. It defames benevolenc hates love, scorns virtue and slande Innocence. It Incites the father i lintntiiii his holnlcaa nffnnrlnfir. hell the husband to massacre the wit and the child to grind the parricld axe. It burns up men, consumes won en, detests life, curses God, desplsi heaven. It suborns wltnesse nurser perjury, defiles the Jury be and Btalns Judicial ermine. It di grades the citizen, debases, leglslatur dishonors statement and disarms tt patriot. It brings shame, not hono: terror, not safety; despair, not hop* misery, not happiness, and with tt malevolence of a fiend it calmly sui veys Its frightful desolation and ur satisfied havoc. It poisons felicit; kills peace, ruins morals, blights cor fldence, slays reputations and wlp< out national honor, then curses tf world and laughs at its ruin. It dot all that and more. It murders tl soul. It is the sum of all vlllainle the father of all crimes, the moth< of all abominations, the devil's bei friend and God's worst enemy. THEY 8IMPLY DROP OUT. An Explanation of the Myeterioua Dii appearances of Many Persons. A criminal cannot mysteriously dii appear, for many of them try an fall, says the New York Tribune, bi an honest man can step out of h house, take a car at the corner an never be seen again. Death Is alwaj the explanation of the mystery pr< ferred by the friends and the famll of the disappeared, for any other th< ory Is less kind, and a broad charlt treats the disappeared and the dea alike, and of them says only good. But there are other explanation one of the strangest being in the cai of the Middletown (Conn.) man, wh disappeared 36 years ago and then r< turned home. He went away a strli ling, impelled by an "odd notion." H had no quarrel with his family. H was mourned by them as dead, an funeral service was held by them b cause they conjectured that he ha been drowned In a shipwreck. A the while he was working on a fan only 12 short miles away. Thlrtj six years "slipped by" without his r< visiting his nearby home, and when li returned he was "shocked" to lear that his parents were dead. Here Is dlsappearence in its acutest form, fc there was no known reason?in fac no conceivable motive?and all th while a return home was easy, bi family tied and all the sentiment which attract men homeward froi all the quarters of the earth were ur equal to drawing this man 12 mile What again,- after the passage of 3 years, impelled him thither? Wht was the "odd notion" which drove man to do what this Connecticut ma did? The normal man has roots Just e much as a tree has. He lives by h sentimental attachment to persons an places. Hawthorne tells of a dlsaj pearance which he opines "will nev? be repeated." Wakefield left his wil mysteriously, took up his domlcil within sight of hers in a great cit; and 20 years later returned. It 1 nearly of a piece with this Connect cut case. Hawthorne analyzes the dii appearer's motives. It was an "od notion" in the first place whlc prompted Wakefield, and there was n definite purpose of a prolonged sta; Habit and the unwatched slippln away of time and a certain absur vanity and wrong-headedness accoun ed for all the rest. The Connectict ?"?*? mamma nvrvlonntinrt rt# V*1 XIIO.11 gave mo Daiuu CA^iauauuu vi. u vagary, except, of course, there w? no acknowledgment of vanity an wrong-headedness. If wilful dlsaj pearance Is not a disease, It Is a mai vel of human oddity. It Is a grlevoi experiment at best. Hawthorne ot serves: "Amid the seeming confuslo of our mysterious world, individual are so nicely adjusted to a system, an systems to one another and to a who! that by stepping aside for a momer a man exposes himself to a fearfi risk of losing his place forever. Llk Wakefield, he may become, as it wen the outcast of the universe. ODD FEATS OF RATS. Burglary Committed on a Breadbo Supposed to Be Secure. A man who was graduated fror Yale In 1884 is now a bachelor. H lives in a very old house in the north west section of Washington, says Th Post. The few attentions his hous receives come from a charwoman c great age and little activity. Henc there are rats on the premises. They are remarkable rats, and whe you are told of their achievement by their landlord you are inclined t be Incredulous. Yet you cannot den the evidence of their Intelligence. In the kitchen is a large cupboarc On It3 broad shelves rests a rathe heavy tin bread box. Generally I contains bread. For a long time the tin cover kef the rats out. Then the rats held coun cil of war, appointed a committee o ways and means and lived ofT potat peelings until the report came in. The committee did Its work wel It decided that as the rats were poor ly equipped to cope with tin boxes I an upright position it behooved ther to proceed against the box, push i off the cupboard and allow the well known law of gravitation to do th rest. The plan was a success. Mornln after morning when the owner of th bread box came Into his kitchen h found the box on the floor In confu sion. The bread was gone to the laj crumb. Successive falls -dented the poor ol box out of shape, and while the owne Is a mild-mannered person he can afford new bread boxes every weel So he drove two large staples into hi cupboard, fastening them against th box. Since then the rats have had n bread. Another feat the rodents accom plished handily is even more remark able. The owner of the house keep his flour In a large cylindrical car The top fastens on snugly. The industrious rats have succeede In removing the top from the can o a dozen different occasions. The open ed can is tipped over and the flour 1 consumed, presumably with great re joicing. It requires quite a bit of strengtl to remove the cover with the fingers and how the rats succeed, using thel tough little noses and paws, is beyom any explaining. But the evidence were there, and the Yale bachelor 1 an honest man. c- AFRICANS NOT ALL BRUTAL. >r, Moundans Bear Farming Tools Instead >P of Warlike Weapons. That the native African Is not alB" ways and Invariably a poor, half nak' ' ed brute has been proved by the re08 ports and photographs brought back to n" France by the "Moss mission," an exe' pedltlon sent to the French Congo ohAiit Alchfoon mnnthu aor* ff>r the t0 purpose of determining gome unsetfs tied boundary questions, says the Chle' cago Chronicle. South of Lake Chad a' Commandant Moll discovered a peacel" ful race of agriculturists and shep88 erds. Intelligent and hospitable, ripe for 9' civilization, living In pastoral slmpllc>x Ity. 8" Everything about the Moundans Is e' picturesque and Interesting. They are 16 a vigorous and handsome race and ' very brave, but, contrary to the al8' most universal practice of the Africans ie In regions where white rule has not r" been established, they never carry arms. On the contrary, the Implement y' oftenest seen In their hands is a hoe. l~ Nevertheless they appear to have deJ9 scended from warlike ancestors, and 10 were probably driven southward from ;a their original mountain home by some 10 conquering chief. Reminiscences of 8> this past may be seen ln> their semi5r military architecture, which does not resemble that of any of the neighboring peoples. At a little distance on* " ?*ii i?in.? ? irt Ol uieir viuujses iuum nivc a. iwi nu^ city. The Moundan village, of which Lere Is an excellent type, is inclosed by a series of round towers connected by walls from two to three meters In d height. Inside, parallel to the Incloe11 lng walls, Is a circle of cupolas, each 18 one pierced with a single hole. These ld are the granaries, the most important rB buildings of the town. l" They are erected on piles supported !y on great stohes, which places thenl J" beyond the reach of termites and roy dents as well as of dampness, and the d only entrance Is through the hole In the vaulted root. Between the outer Bl wall and the granaries are the homes ,e of the people, while the residence of 10 the chief faces the entrance. J. ? WALL 3TREET'8 8H0RN LAMB8. [e Never Seen Among the Gay Crowds d About the Big Hotels. What becomes of the men who lose d in Wall street? They are seldom heard " of. The visitor to New York gets the 11 notion that the gay crowd of men at r" the Waldorf?the "uptown 'Street,' "? 5" comprises them all. But this crowd Is ie altogether mlsrepresentatlve and has n no true sign value, says a writer on a Wall street In the New Broadway ,r Magazine. You can retain your equity llbrlum easily in watching them, by 16 remembering that Walker of New Brltain, Is hiding somewhere, a fugitive ts from justice; that Blgelow of Milwau11 kee, Is In prison; that there are many l" other men who went down hard with s> big crashes, and that, for every one of the big men, there are 10,000 little men, lt whose losses are smaller but not one a whit less fatal. You would find some n of them tonight In New York If you knew in what window to look, figuring 18 anxiously and endlessly, looking over 18 Insurance papers to see If further loans ^ are permissible. Their wives are sewlng; their daughters are studying ste!r nography. You will find others hange lng about hotel lobbies, and the mo10 ment you catch their eye, or grip their P' hands, you know that they are nerv'8 ous, distraught, broke, restless?typical Wall street victims. J" The others, professionals, parasites, satellites, winners, you will find in the h cafes and hotel restaurants, making l? up a large part of the crowds at SherV ry's and Delmonlco's, Martin's and Rectors, the Waldorf, Manhattan, Asd tor, St. Regis and Holland House. Wall street, by day, demands the Great it White Way at night. From the mo18 ment the market opens till Its close 18 the game Is a fast and furious one of d sharp trickery, clever dodging, rall> lery, bluffing, hypocrisy, lying. Nerves r" are constantly tense; the brain must be 13 clear and quick at every move. Suc>" cessful lying uses up gray matter, and n the flash and festivity of the Tender18 loin at night Is Just unnatural enough d to fit In and offer the kind of recrea ie tion desired. it PERIL8 OF THE 8EA. ;e There Is Now ? Smaller Number of Fatalities Than Ever. It Is an old story?the tragedy of the ocean. This winter and spring the story is being told over and over many times, says the St. Louis Republic. The season will go down in the n history of catastrophe as one of moe ment. Fogs and speed and passion for i- travel, to say nothing of unaccountae ble Inefficiency of the Individual, have !e been responsible for much of the cur>f rent disaster. e Naturally there arises the question of whether ocean tragedies cannot be n lessened. The answer comes In the :s cheering knowledge that of the numo ber of men and women who tempt the y sea there Is now a smaller proportion of fatalities than ever. Thousands now 1. cross the Atlantic where in the old t days only scores undertook the passage It offered by vessels that merely sailed. As long as the elements of wind and >t water in their might remain unconi trolled, as long as a million miles of n rock-bound coast remain unpatrolled. o as long as the wandering race pursues its wanderings, so long will we have 1- these tragic happenings of the deep. There can be even now a long step n In the direction of improving the n standards of human efficiency. CarryIng companies, not only on the sea, I- but on the land, must not expect too ? much of their human machines. They must not expect good results if lowST ftrno mart u ro om nlnvor^ of o rorl nnoH " l.T PC IIIV.II U.4 V. Cllipivj tu at U> 1 V.UUV.VU ? wage for the purpose of making: dlv? e Idends, and when they employ the l~ high wages they must not make the d burden too heavy for the same reason of economy. The cheapest man Is the d man who costs the most If he gives T his best service within his capacity 1 as a human cog In the great machine C- of present day endeavor. Is )>t Why Penmen Get Tired. 0 The average person has no Idea how much muscular effort Is expended In writing a letter. A rapid penman can write thirty words In a minute. To do IS this, he must draw his pen through ' the space of sixteen and a half feet. In forty minutes his pen travels a furd long, and In five hours a third of a n mile. In writing an average word. " the penman makes In the nelghbors hood of sixteen curves of the pen. in us in writing miriy wurus iu mc minute, his pen would make 4 80 ^ curves; 28,000 curves in an hour, and '* 86,400,000 in a year of 300 days of r ten hours each. The man who suci ceeded in making one million marks s with a pen in a month was not at all s remarkable. 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