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tumorous frpartmrat. No Evading the Evidence.?Expresident Taft, at a dinner at the Hotel Taft in New Haven, satirized the iconoclastic modern view of our law courts. "To hear these absurd fellows talk," he said, "you'd think our courts were so corrupt that the multimillionaire, when he went to law, prepared his case as Calhoun Clay did his. "Olav of Nola Chucky was haled to court on a charge of chicken stealing. | " 'Are you the prosecutor in this case?' the judge asked him. "'No, sah; I'm de man what stole de?I mean not guilty. To, Honah, not guilty, sah.' "This bad break on Calhoun's part was overlooked, and he was told to proceed with his defense. His defense staggered everybody. It was alibis? not one alibi, but eleven. Eleven different men each swore that on the night and at the hour of the theft of the chickens, Calhoun Clay had been at his residence. "The Judge acquitted Cal, and in doing so said: M 'I'm morally certain dat de* 'cused stole de birds, but I'm here ter obey de laws of evidence, and accordln' to dem, how could de prisoner have been Uftln' chickens when he was en joy In' v. ? in ohnnt *11 de houses in Lo max county? Prisoner, you has 'leben alibis, and you goes free.' M'Yas,' said Calhoun Clay proudly, as he rose to depart, 'and I'd oughter had twelve alibis by rights. I give dat shiftless Wash White a quartah ter come here and swear dat I was at his house, too; but Wash'll never earn no money till dey pays fo' sleepin'.'" He Had His Revenge.?He was a surly and quarrelsome old farmer and the only person of any importance who had managed to avoid clashing with him was the mild-mannered vicar. But even this forbearing gentleman lost his temper when the farmer impudently turned his horses loose in the church yard and refused to take them out again. High words ensued and the vicar so tar forgot himself as to call the farmer a "broken-down old mule." Off went toe tanner on me uuwui and crashed noisily into the village lawyer's office. "The vicar has Just called me a broken-down old mule!" he bawled. "What am I to do?" Now, the lawyer had once received a severe rebuff from the fanner and had waited for years for a chance to repay It. Here was his opportunity and he seized It with both hands. "Don't come to me about that," he said, coolly. "I can't patch you up. I'm no veterinary surgeon."?Daily Magazine. XT Representative Dan Anthony, of Kansas, enjoys automobiling. Last summer he struck a little Kansas town, shortly after sundown In his flne, big car equipped with all modern devices. "Hey, there, fellow, you'll have to light up your lamps," ordered the town police force who happened along just then. "Very well," said Anthony, and he touched a button that threw on the . electric lights front and rear. The cop was greatly taken back, for It was his first meeting with electric lights on an automobile. He could scarcely believe what he saw. "See here, mister Just don't get gay with me," he ordered, rather savagely, when he had caught his breath; "when I tell you to light up your lamps I mean for you to step out and light 'em!" Sad Ignorance.?Assistant District Attorney Clark was conducting a case in the criminal court. A large, roughshouldered negro, was in the witness chair. "An* then," said the witness, "we all went down in the alley, an' shot a few craps." "Ah," said Mr. Clark, swinging his eye-glass Impressively. "Now, sir, I want you to address the Jury and tell them Just how deal you craps." "What's that?" asked the witness, rolling his eyes. "Address the jury, sir," thundered Mr. Clark, "and tell them just how you deal craps." "Lemme outen heah," said the witness, uneasily. "Firs' thing I know this gemman gwine to ask me how to drink a sandwich."?San Francisco Argonaut. One No Harder Than Other.?A city official was one of a party which attended the funeral of a Chinaman. He exhibited a great deal of interest in the curious services at the grave, and noticed that, among other things, a ^Itnlr n-QO loff thoro hv thp Hp * UOO icu uuvn V ?-?r ? ? parting: mourners. Calling one of the Chinamen aside, he asked: "Why did you leave that duck on the grave? Do you think the dead man will come out and eat It?" "Yeppee," replied the laundryman, "alle samee as le white deadee man come around and smellee flowlers."? New York Globe. Hadn't Lost Temperature.?An old darky was taken ill and called in a physician of his own race. After a time, as there were no signs of improvement, he asked for a white doctor. Soon after arriving, Dr. felt the old man's pulse, and then examined his tongue. "Did vour other doctor take your temperature?" he asked. "I don't know, boss," replied the sick negro. " I hain't missed nothing but my watch as yit" *9" Mr. Balfour could enjoy a story against himself. Sir Henry Lucy tells this one: During this stay in Dublin he met a Catholic priest who did not belong to the National party, and asked if in his opinion the Irish people were as bitter against him as they represented to be. "Since you have asked me, I will tell you the truth," said the priest. "If our flocks hated sin half as cordially as they hate you, there would be no use for priests in Ireland."?Continent. *3TAnd whom does this statute represent?" asked Mrs. Green, who was "doing" the museum under the guidance of her most sophisticated friend, Mrs. Brown. "That is Psyche," replied Mrs. Brown, "executed, I believe, in terracotto." "O. the poor thing!" exclaimed Mrs. Green. "How barbarous they are in those South American countries!"? The Lutheran. PtetttUnrou? parting. BEACON LIGHT8 OF HISTORY. Examples of Human Virtus That Have Mads ths World Bettor. [Under this heading from time to time will be published a series of authenticated extracts dealing with historical examples of the good and bad in human nature, mostly good; but all furnishing an admirable chart of conduct to be emulated or avoided]: INDUSTRY. Sentiments. Love labor; if you do not want It for food, you may for physic. He Is idle that might be better employed. The Idle man Is more perplexed what to do than the Industrious in doing what he ought There are but few who know how to be idle and innocent. By doing nothing, we learn to do ill. The ordinary manner of spending their time is the only way of judging of any one's inclination and genius. He that follows recreations Instead of his business, shall in a little time have no business to follow. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to All up its empty spaces, as the reading of useful and entertaining authors; and, with that, the conversation of a well-chosen friend. A man of letters never knows the plague of idleness: when the company of his friend i falls him, he finds a remedy In reading, or In composition. Action keeps the soul in constant health, but idleness corrupts and rusts the mind; for a man of great abilities may, by negligence and idleness, become so mean and despicable, as to be an incumbrance to society, and a burden to himself. Examples. Demosthenes was extremely affected with the honors which he saw laid to the orator Calllstratus, and still more with the supreme power of eloquence over the minds of men; and not being able to resist its charms, he gave himself up to it: from thenceforth he renounced all other studies and pleasures, and during the continuance of Calllstratus at Athens, he never quitted him, but made all the improvement he could from his precepts. The first essay of his eloqu nee was against his guardians, wh<- n he obliged to refund part of his tortune. Encouraged by this success, he ventured to speak before the people, but with very ill success. He had a weak voice, a thick way of speaking, and a very short breath; notwithstanding which, his periods were so long, that he was often obliged to stop in the midst of them for respiration. This occasioned his being hissed by the whole audience. As he withdrew, hanging down his head, and in the utmost confusion, Statyrus, one of the most excellent actors of those times, who was his friend, met him; and having learned from himself the cause of his being so much dejected, he assured him that the evil was not without remedy, and that the case was not so desperate as he Imagined. He desired him to repeat some of the verses of Sophocles or Euripides to him, which he accordingly did. Statyrus spoke them after him, and gave them such graces by the tone, gesture, and spirit, with which he pronounced them, that De-1 mosthenes himself found them quite different from what they were in his own manner of speaking. He perceived plainly what he wanted, and applied himself to the acquiring of it. His efforts to correct his natural defect of utterance and to perfect himself in pronunciation, of which his friend had made him understand the value, seem almost incredible, and prove that an industrious perseevrance can surmount all things. He stammered to such a degree that he could not pronounce some letters; among; others, that with which the name of the art he studied begins; and he was so short-breathed, that he could not utter a whole period without stopping. He overcame these obstacles at length, by putting Bmall pebbles into his mouth and pronouncing several verses in that manner without interruption; and with walking and going up steep and difficult places, so that at last no letter made him hesitate and his breath held out through the longest periods. He went to the sea-side; and whilst the waves were in the most violent agitation, he pronounced harangues, to accustom himself, by the confused noise of the waters, to the roar of the people and the tumultuous cries of public assemblies . Demosthenes took no less care of his action than his voice. He had a large looking-glass in his house, which served to teach him gesture, and at ""a/1 HoaIclm hafnrp hp win via iiv uovu w viw.Mi..., - spoke in public. To correct a fault, which he had contracted by an ill habit of shrugging up his shoulders, he practised standing upright in a kind of very narrow pulpit, or rostrum, over which hung a halbert, in such a manner, that if in the heat of the action that motion escaped him, the point of the weapon might, at the same time, admonish and correct him. His application to study was no less surprising. To be the more removed from noise, and less subject to distraction, he caused a small room to be made for him under ground, in which he shut himself up sometimes for whole months, shaving on purpose half his head and face, that he might not be in a condition to go abroad. It was there by the light of a small lamp he composed the admirable orations which were said by those who envied him, to smell of the oil, to Imply that they were too elaborate. "It is plain," replied he, "yours did not cost you so much trouble." He rose very early every morning and used to say that he was sorry when any workman was at his business before him. We may further Judge of his extraordinary efforts to acquire an excellence of every kind from the pains he took In copying Thucydide's History eight times with his own hand in order to render the style of that great man familiar to him. His pains were well bestowed, for it was by these means that he carried the art of declaiming to the highest degree of perfection of which It was capable; whence It is plain, he well knew Its value and importance. When he was asked several times which quality he thought most necessary in an orator, he gave no other answer than "punctuation," insinuating by mak'ng the reply three times successively, that qualification to be the only one of which the want could least be concealed, and which was the most capable of concealing other defects; and that punctuation alone could give considerable weight even to an indifferent orator, when, without it, the most excellent could not hope the least success. As to Demosthenes, Cicero tells us that his success was so great that all Greece came In crowds to Athens to hear him speak; and he adds that merit so great as his could not but have the desired effect. Alfred the Great was one of the wisest monarchs that ever swayed the sceptre of England. Every hour of his life had Its peculiar business as signed it He divided the day and night into three parts of eight hours each; and though much afflicted with a painful complaint assigned only eight hours to sleep, meals and exercise, devoting the remaining sixteen, one-half to reading, writing and prayer, and the other to public business.?History of England. Pliny, in one of his letters, where he gives an account of the various methods by which he. used to fill up every vacancy of time, after several employments, which he enumerates, says: "Sometimes I hunt but even then I carry with me a pocket-book that whilst my servants are busied in disposing the nets and other matters I may be employed in something that may be useful to me in my studies, and that if I miss of my game I may at least bring home some of my thoughts with me and not have the mortification of having caught nothing." NOTED WOMEN OUTLAW8 Members of Gentler 8ex Who Have Acted Part of Dick Turpin. Fired, apparently, by the romantic stories of highway robbers of the Dick Turpin and Claude Duval type, a Mexican girl was recently caught in the province of Chihuahua trying to relieve a wealthy planter of several thousand dollars on the "stand and deliver" principle. Masked, mounted and armed with a formidable revolver, she waylaid the planter, who, by a ruse, succeeded in disarming her and then discovered to his amazement that she was the 18-year-old daughter of a neighbor, a beautiful girl, who ultimately confessed that she had been led into her remarkable escapade b;' a desire for adventure and excitement after reading certain thrilling romances. It is strange how history reepats itself. The case of this Mexican girl has a parallel In that of ? young lady of title who was captured on Putney Heath about the middle of the eighteenth century while trying to emu laie cne aeeus ox me iiiKiiwuyiuen ui that period. As a matter of fact. It was a highwayman who discovered her. One night, when he was out on the road, he suddenly found a pistol leveled at his head and was ordered to "stand and deliver." Catching his assailant ofT "his" guard, however, the highwayman with practiced skill whipped out his revolver and fired and in the melee that followed, disarmed the one who threatened him. He then discovered that his opponent was one of the beauties of the neighborhood, who, having learned swordplay and shooting, had decided to take to the road In order to obtain the money to pay for the fashionable extravagances which her somewhat penurious husband denied her. To the credit of the highwayman It must be said that he dissuaded the pettlcoated robber from pursuing such a perilous calling and saw that she reached home safely. In the history of England, however, there have been several Instances of women nignwaymen who nave met with almost as much success as the redoubtable Dick Turpln and Claude Duval. There was Moll Cutpurse, for Instance, who from being an ordinary pickpocket or purse thief?in those days long purses were worn at the girdle, and Moll became an expert at cutting tham and filching their contents, hence her curious nickname? developed into a daring night-rider. She frequented Hampstead Heath and relieved many wealthy coach travelers of their vegetables. She worked single-handed, dressed and rode like a man, and, although she was captured on several occasions, managed by extensive bribes to prevent the appearance of wit nesses. She ultimately died in her bed at the venerable age of 74. Moll was nothing if not original, and as a bequest she left a large sum of money for the purchase of gloves to be distributed among her friends and acquaintances; then, saying that she had been rather singular during her life, she directed that she should be burled face downward. Another highwayman Moll was Moll Jones, who also began her career or crime as an ordinary pickpocket, and ultimately went on the road. Her career, however, was short, for, after committing several robberies, she was captured and hanged at Tyburn when she was only 30 years of age. A similar fate befell Anne Holland. who Joined her husband on his midnight raids against travelers on Putney Heath. Anne Holland was born in a slum of London and was first heard of as a barmaid. Ultimately she married a man named James Wilson, who developed into a clever footpad, and when he was hanged for his crimes she promptly took to the road herself. She obtained much property of value and was regarded in those days as a female demon, for she thought nothing of shooting down those who resisted her in the dead of night. She was, however, ultimately captured, and shared the fate of Moll Jones at Tyburn. Another extraordinary case of man and wife becoming highwaymen in partnership is afforded by the careers of Mr. and Mrs. Bracey, who were both hanged at Tyburn within a year of one another. Joan Bracey's life is one of the most romantic stories in the annals of old-time crime. She was the pretty daughter of a wealthy farmer, and when she met Bracey, a daredevil of the high roads, sne tnrew in her lot with his and quickly became a highwayman's ideal companion. The pair proved very successful, and many a stage coach did they waylay. Joan's career, however, was a short one. One day she robbed a person of quality, a justice of the king's court, who was relentless in having her sought out. She was caught, identified and sent to the gallows before she was 21.?Boston Herald. Witches in England.?Centuries have passed since "witches" were executed in England, but in very recent times they have suffered physical harm. Doctor Jessopp knew a Norfolk man who died in 1883, and in the sixties had joined with his two brothers in a night expedition to the house of an old woman. They took her out of bed, and In the presence of half a dozen other people, threw her into a pond, "where she would Infallibly have been drowned, but that some who were not so mad as the rest, cried out that she was sinking: to the bottom and must be saved." The conclusive evidence against her was that she kept a black cat and wore a black silk dress on Sundays. In 1882 there was still alive, a master In an elemen COMING. The I : V "* - - ^ *' THIS STOCK us at a Low I _ I turnover with a quick we knew bargains. Oui predated, as is creasing patron ing public bee methods, our , see us. We'll you money on ; We are of BIC Dry Goods, ii Woolen G Silks ii La White P-K an. i -r t r. Hosiery it Men's M< ; Laces, Embroi* Make Th Or at your coi Day is a Good SAM] McNeel Building \ I ^ Every \ n X It means a | cooking. 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