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i$ttnorou$; department. Who Paid Har Faro??When the conductor came through he stopped before Mrs. Standish and said. "Pa? ur?ur?urs, please." Mrs. Standish swallowed a peppermint lozenge whole and said: "My husband will pay for me." The conductor looked around on the serried ranks of femininity doubtfully. "Were is he?" he asked. "On the back platform. He stayed out there to smoke." "There are a dozen men out there," was the reply. "How am I to know which one belongs to you? What kind of looking man is he?" "Handsome. He is tall, he wears a blue overcoat, and he's got the nicest black mustache, and the kindest brown eyes you ever saw." The conductor went away, only to return a moment later. "Say," he said, "he won't pay. He says you ain't his wife." "Well, what do you think of that?" gasped Mrs. Standish. "You must have asked the wrong man." "That's what I thought. To make sure I got the right one I asked every man out there. Mrs. Standish blushed deeply. "This is outrageous," she said. "1 can appreciate a Joke as well as anybody, but that is carrying it a little too far. Oh, dear, I do wish the car wasn't so crowded so I could get out there. Tell him, please?the dark-eyed man?that I don't want to make a scene, but that if he doesn't quit playing the fool and pay my carfare I'll be obliged to come out there in a minute. "Yes, ma'am," said the conduuctor. Again he retired to the rear of the car. When he came through the next time he nodded at Mrs. Standish encouragingily. "It's all right," ne saia. ne paiu up." After a while the car stopped at Mrs. Standish's street. She went out the front way and waited for Standish to join her. But the car passed and he did not appear. She stood at the corner looking anxiously up and down the street. Soon another car stopped and Standish got off. "You needn't say a word," he said. "It's your own fault A truck got In the way and I couldn't catch that car you got in to save my neck. I called to you to get off, but you didn't hear and I worried all the way uptown. I knew you'd be hopping mad because I didn't come inside." "Oh, no," said Mrs. Standish, "I'm not thinking about that. What I am worrying about is, what on earth did that man think who paid my car fare?"?New York World. Certain of the Calf.?When Senator Jonn >v. Kern wan a origin anu prviuising young lawyer out at Kokomo, Ind., he represented one side of a case In which the whole controversy hinged on the identity and ownership of a certain calf. The chief witness on the side against Kern was a colored man. He contended that the calf belonged to his friend, Mr. Jones. When Kern examined him the conversation ran something like this: "How do you know this was Mr. Jones' calf?" "Well, sah, I had seen it around the place so much that I jes, natu'lly got acquainted with it. I seen it there with the cow?its maw?and I noticed it p'tlcu'ly because it had funny marks on it. When you see a calf ev'ry day you simply become familyah with it" "What kind of a looking calf was it r "It was a red calf, sah, with white ears and a white nose." "You're sure it had white ears and a white nose?" "Yes, sah, that's what attracted my notice, sah, them white ears and white nose." "And it belonged to Mr. Jones?" "Yessah." "Now suppose that all the testimony here should show that the calf in this case was a white calf with red ears and a red nose. What would you say about that?" "Well, sah, I reckon I'd say it belonged to Mistah Jones."?Washington Star. A Rash Conclusion.?"Then I am to understand that this is your final' an swer, MIbs Stubbles?" "My final answer." "Nothing can move you?" "Nothing." "Then my life will be a lonely one and my fate a harsh one, for my uncle with whom I lived has just died and left me?" "That fact somewhat alters the case, Henry. I cannot be harsh to one who has sustained such recent bereavement. If I could believe that you are sincere?" "Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles!" "You have certainly made an impression on my heart. Give me time to think of it." "How long?" "After all, why think of It. Henry? I am yours." "Oh, Genevieve!" "Do not squeeze me so hard, Henry. Your poor uncle! Was he long ill?" "Three days." "It is too bad. You say he left you?" "Yes; he has left me." "How much?" "How much? I said he had left me. He had nothing else to leave. I am u , aione in inc wunu iiuh , nuiuncoo, penniless, but with you by my side? why's she's fainted!"?Pittsburg Gazette. The Coet of Living.?Representative Ira Copley, of Tilinois, tells this little joke on himself. In one of his campaigns, Copley used for purposes of illustration in his arguments against low tariff, a personal experience in buying plates. "I had occasion to buy a dozen china plates for a wedding present," stated Copley, "and they cost me $2 each. Now when I was down in Panama I found I could buy those same plate3 from the government for about 60 cents apiece. What is the answer? Not the tariff, because the tariff on those plate was only a couple of dollars a dozen. The difference was due to our expensive methods of distribution. I can show you?" At that point he was interrupted by a man in the audience with bushy red whiskers. "I'd like to ask a question," said the man, with great politeness. "Certainly," said the genial and urbane Copley. "The thing I desire to know," explained the man, "is this: What possible Interest can I have in plates costing J2 apiece, when the price of foodstuffs is so high that after buying a plate I would have nothing to put on it?"?Washington Post. IBisrfUanrous Stalling. BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY Examples of Human Virtue That Have Made the World Better. [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; biR all furnishing an admirable chart of conduct 10 be emulated or avoided]: PRIDE. Sentiments. There is no affection of the mind so much blended in human nature and wrought into every constitution, as pride. It appears under a multitude of disguises, and breaks out in ten thousand different symptoms. Every one feels it in himself, and yet wonders to see it in his neighbor. The same pride which makes a man haughtily Insult over his inferiors, forces him to cringe severely before his superiors. Nothing is more manifest than that there is a certain equality to which all men have a natural right, unless it be their meanness to give it up. Man is a sinful, an ignorant and a miserable being, and these three very reasons why he should not be proud are, notwithstanding the reasons why he is so. Were not he a sinful creature, he would not be subject to a passion which rises from the deep depravity of his nature; were not he an ignorant creature, he would see that he had nothing to be proud of; and were not the whole species miserable, he would not have those wretched objects of compassion before his eyes which are the occasions of his passion, and which makes one man value himself more than anoth er. Of all human actions, pride seldom obtains the end; for, aiming at honor and reputation, it reaps contempt and derision. Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but the title and genealogy; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise either goodnature or good manners. It is an insolence natural to the wealthy to affix, as much as in them lies, the character of a man to his circumstances. "Take away," said Lactantius, "pride and boasting from rich men and there will be no differ ence between a poor and a rich man." Pride and ill-nature will be hated in spite of all the wealth and greatness in the world; but civility is always safe. To be proud of knowledge is to be blind in the light; to be proud of virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote; to be proud of authority is to make your rise your downfall. If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. The best way to humble a proud man is to take no notice of him. Example*. Demetrius, one of Alexander's successors, who considered vain pomp and superb magnificence as true grandeur, rendered himself contemptible to the Macedonians in the very circumstance by which he thought to obtain their esteem. His head was enriched with the novelty of a double diadem and his' robes seemed fitter for a stage than a court. The ornaments of his feet were altogether extraordinary and he had long employ ed artists to make him a mantle on which the system of the world, with all the stars visible in the firmament, were to be embroidered in gold. The change of his fortune prevented the finishing of his work, which remained for ages after a monument of his pride, and of the modesty of his successors, who neither wore it nor so much as suffered it to be completed. Rut that u-hlrh ronHdl'Prl him still more odius, was his being so difficult of approach. He was either so proud and disdainful as not to allow those who had any affairs to transact with him the liberty of speech, or else he treated them with so much rudeness, as obliged them to quit his presence with disgust. He sufTered the Atheninan ambassadors to wait two whole years before he gave them audience; and one day, when he came out of his palace and seemed to have more affability than was usual for him to assume, some persons were encouraged to present a few petitions to him. He received them with a gracious air, and placed them in one of the folds of his robe; but as he was passing over a bridge on the river Axius, he threw all the petitions into the stream. A prince must certainly know very little of mankind, not to be sensible that such a contemptuous behavior is sufficient to provoke his subjects to revolt from his authority. This proved to be the case with regard to Demetrius, for his pride and insolence rendering his government Insupportable, he was expelled from the throne.?Plut. in Demt. No person at first ever experienced less than Timotheus the inconstancy of the fortune of war. He had only to undertake an enterprise to accomplish it. Success perpetually attended his views and desires. Such uncommon prosperity did not fail to excite jealousy. Those who envied him caused him to be painted asleep, with Fortune by him. taking cities for him in nets. Timotheus retorted coldly, "If I take places in my sleep, what shall I do when I am awake?" He took the thing afterwards more seriously. and being angry with those who pretended to lessen the glory of his actions, declared in public that he dlU not owe nis success 10 ioriune, but to himself. "The goddess." says Plutarch, "offended at his pride and arrogance, abandoned him afterwards entirely, and he was never successful from that day."?Plut. in Sylla. Menecrates. the physician, who was so mad as to fancy himself Jupiter, wrote to Philip, king of Macedon, as follows: "Menecrates Jupiter to Philip, greeting." The king answered. "Philip to Menecartes, health and reason." Hut the king, who understood raillery, and was very fond of it when well applied, did not stop here, but hit upon a pleasant remedy for his visionary correspondent. Philip invited him to a grand intertainment. Menecrates had a separate table at it, where nothing was served to him but incense and perfume, while the other guests fed upon the most delicious dainties. The first transports of joy with which he was seized, when he found his divinity acknowledged, made him forget that he was a man. but hunger afterwards forcing him to recollect his being so, he was quite tired with the character of Jupiter and took leave of the company abruptly.?Aelian, 1. 11. c. 51. One day when Alcibiades was boasting of his wealth and the great estates in his possession, (which generally blew up the pride of young people quaintly) Socrates carried him to a geographical map, and asked him to tind Attica. It was so small that it could scarcely be seen upon that draught; he found it, however, though with some difficulty. But upon being asked to point out his own estate there, he answered: "It is too small to be distinguished in so little a space." "See, then," replied Socrates, "how much you are affected about an imperceptible point of land." This reasoning might have been urged much further still, for what was Attica compared to all Greece, Greece to Europe, Europe to the whole world, and the world itself to the vast exfont nf the infinite orbs which sur round it! What an insect, what a nothing, is the most powerful prince of the earth, in the midst of this abyss of bodies and immense spaces, and how little of it he does occupy! Xerxes, king of Persia, at a vast expense, had caused a bridge to be built upon the sea for the passage of his forces from Asia into Europe. The space that separates the two continents was formerly called the Hellspont, but now the Strait of Dardanelles or Gallipoll, and is seven stadia in breadth, but a violent storm, rising of a sudden, broke It down. Xerxes being informed of what had i? ?,i into n trim.snort of imppcuru, m M .M.w ? passion, and In order to avenge himself of so cruel an afTront. commanded two pair of chains to be thrown Into the sea, as If he had It In his power to shackle and confine It, and that his men should give It three hundred strokes with a whip, and speak to it in this manner: "Thou troublesome and unhappy element, thus does thy master chastise thee for having affronted him without reason. Know that Xerxes will easily find means to pass over thy waters in spite of all thy billows and resistance." The extravagance of this prince did not stop here, for he added cruelly to his pride and folly, making the undertakers of the work answerable for the events, which do not in the least depend upon the power of man. He ordered all the "persons to nave their heads struck off that had been charged with the direction and management of the work.?Herod, b. viii. c. 83. HISTORY OF SPECTACLES Earliest Known Pair Was Made Before Year 1500. What were supposed to be the earliest known pair of spectacles were those belonging to Willibald Plrkheimer in the Wartburg, recently found by Qreef, of Rerlip. Greeff has described a still earlier pair, however, probably made before the year 1500, which were brought to his attention Dy suaholt, of Leipzig. These were found in an old volume of incunabula by the well-known antiquarian bookseller, Jacques Rosenthal, and were presented by him to the Germanic National Museum, at Nuremberg, where they now are to be seen In the section devoted to costumes and personal omamnts. The frame Is of tanned blackened leather of obvious Nuremberg make, and, like the Plrkheimer spectacles, of the old traditional "nose-rider" shape but they are clumsier and thicker than the Plrkheimer pattern of 1520-1530. The lenses are lacking. In view of these characteristics and of the fact that they were found in an old fifteenth pfnturv fnlln OreefT and Sudhoff seem to have no doubt that they were made before 1500. Greeff also traces the evolution of the true modern spectacles from the old nose-riders (the originals of the pince-nez), and describes the blnocles, which came into fashion in 1796, consisting of two lenses mounted on a scissor-shaped handle, the original of the modern lorgnette. The earliest form of the true spectacle glasses was invented and introduced by M. Thomin, and were essentially "temple spectacles," the shanks extending no furth er than the temples. There were two kinds, one with a small end-platelet, which was represented in a portrait by Pelham, an English painter of ,ie eighteenth century, of which a copper plate was made by J. Clark; the other, which is to be seen in Graffs portrait of Chodowiecki (1795), with a characteristic large circular fastener at the end of the shank, which held the spectacles against the temple. The next stage was that of the "ear spectacles, which at first had crude, heavy, clumsy shanks, jointed at the end, like those in the Beethoven House, at Bonn, which were further improved by slitting the ends or by means of an oliveshaped fastener. The next improvement, consisting of a Jointed appendage to the shank, was made in 1752 by the London optician, J. Ayscough. A later variant of this joint passed downward and backward underneath the ear. Still another variety of this joint was so arranged that it could be bent back when the glasses were not In use. These were called extension spectacles. Up to the beginning of the eighteenth century the lenses were still very large and round, but after that time they began to be octagonal, square, rectangular and finally oval. About the same time the bridge began to change in shape, first assuming the form of a K placed sidewise. The origin of the present fashion of large circular lenses set in delicate tortoise-shell mounts is a pastel portrait of the painter Chardin in the Louvre, executed by himself in 1760, the spectacles in which were copied with great success by recent French opticians and are known in Paris as Chardin spectacles. The same type is familiar to us in a well known portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Four or five years ago, says GreefY, a young woman or lady of fashion would have been horrified at the notion of wearing spectacles of such an unsightly type. Today she would regard It as not only chic, but the neignt or elegance, fienry or peupie in America are inclined, no doubt to revive the traditions of "old Ben Franklin's days" for similar reasons, although the optical advantages and the comfort of these large lenses are obvious.?American Medical Journal. A Giveaway.?After he had kissed her and pressed her rosy cheek against his and patted her soft, round chin, she drew back and asked. '"George, do you shave yourself?" "Yes," he replied. "I thought so," she said. "Your face is the roughest I ever?" Then she stopped, but it was too late, and he went away with a cold, heavy lump in his breast.?Exchange. SWINDLES WITHIN THE LAW Alluring Schemes With Which Sharpere Ensnare the Unwary. Two suave young men presented themselves at the entrance of a home In the residence district of St. Lsmis ( and with a show of deference introduced themselves to the girl who opened the door. Would she accept a chance, they begged to know, by ( which she might obtain a valuable portrait of herself, a genuine aquarelle, for nothing? They displayed cards representing themselves as agents of an art gallery, which purported to have been established for the respectable period of 30 years. It appeared that they had two envelopes, one of which the girl ] was to draw. If she chose the lucky , one the picture would be hers. And If she were so uniucKy as iu um? mc other envelope, she would be under no ( obligation to buy the picture. That could be discussed later. The girl yielded to the temptation which makes the word "free" almost irresistible to human nature. She drew an envelope. Wonderful to say, she picked the "lucky" one. The agents complimented her upon her good fortune and then casually asked her to sign a receipt for the picture, as a part of their dally report at the office. They gave her a printed blank and showed her where to place her name. In her Joy over getting a "work of art" for nothing, the girl signed without reading. Before departing the canvassers incidentally informed her that there would be an expense of $1.98 Just "to cover the cost of material," etc. Later on, it developed, she was expected to buy a "twenty-four-carat gold frame." which would be supplied for $5. No such art gallery as they professed to represent wa* listed in the city directory. The address given was that of another firm. The names of the managers of the firm printed on the contract were not in the city directory. This is one of the methods of making a living, frequent in large cities, which Detective Chief Allender, of St. Louis, says are "within the law." On numerous occasions, he says, he has [ presented evidence of this same pic- , J ture-frame graft, only to be informed , | by the prosecuting attorney that there was no case against me swiuuieis. mc only safeguard, he believes, would be for men and women to learn to call a policeman whenever they are offered ("something for nothing." , A variation of this scheme is to so- , licit orders for enlarging photographs of deceased members of families. The , victim does not learn until later that the order which he or she signed in- ( eluded an order for an expensive picture frame. To compel collection the original photograph is held, and, as it is often the only one in the possession ( of the family, the game frequently succeeds. A similar dodge was used in a sub- , scription campaign. A woman who was already a subscriber of a publication ( was informed that if she would enter her name for another 18 months she , would receive a silver percolator, of which she was shown an attractive picture. She agreed, and in due time received the premium. It was a percolator and it was silver plated, but it was so small as to nave , been better suited for a dollfe cupboard than for the family tea table. To cap the climax the victim discovered that, in signing the subscription order, she had also agreed in writing to pay 50 cents extra for 18 months, ( or $9 in all. The percolator cost perhaps $1,50. This plan has been varied by using a carving set, of pigmy ] size, as a premium. Both are declared , {to be "within the law." ( The most prevalent of these "legal grafts" is declared by Chief Allender to be that of overdrawing bank accounts. There are more complaints ( under this head, says he, than under any other of the class, the extent of ( the practice being almost incredible. Not once, but several times a day, mer chants, shopkeepers and others report that they have accepted checks in pay- j ment for purchases, invarlablj- giving cash as change, and then had the , checks returned with the mark, "No Funds." ( The police investigate and nearly ( always learn that the sharper has at one time had an account in the bank j drawn upon sufficient to redeem the , check. "Any honest man is likely to , make the mistake of overdrawing his account," Is the defense, and the offender, although it is morally certain he knew his account was without funds, is given the benefit of the doubt. Of course, the money may eventually be collected, but there can be no criminal prosecution. A new swindle, which is not literally "within the law," but is practically so, because me vicum noi umy uum not know he has been robbed but apologizes profusely to the sharper, is described by Allender as being prevalent in Chicago, and as likely to spread to other cities unless merchants are forewarned. He calls the operators "surething-thieves." A man enters a store, makes a fiftycent purchase, tenders a twenty-dollar bill, gets his change and departs. An hour later, when the shop is at its busiest, a second man, of prosperous appearance, enters and also makes a half dollar purchase. He pays with a dollar bill, but when the change arrives exclaims, not too loudly or indignantly, that a mistake has been made. He gave the clerk a twenty-dollar bill, he declares. The flustered clerk calls the floorwalker and the floorwalker summons the proprietor. They all attempt to convince the cusiomer he is mistaken. He holds his ground with the calm and polite but also Arm air of a man who is too sure he is right to become angry. but who also is determined to stand up for his own. At last he clinches the debate. "I guess I'm what you call a crank," he says with a smile, "but I've had the short-change game worked on me before. So I've got the habit of keeping a memorandum of the numbers of all bills I have." He pulls out a purse and a memorandum book and shows the proprietor that he ht s listed the number of every one of the bills in the purse. "This," he concludes confidently, "is the number of the twenty-dollar bill I Just gave your clerk. You will find it in the cashier's till." Sure enough, the identical twentydollar bill is found in the till, and the proof is convincing to the proprietor. After glaring malevolently at the clerk, he begs the visitor's pardon humbly and presses $19.50 upon him. The two confederates meet at an appointed place and divide the proceeds. The clerk is usually discharged. And even when the merchant finds a shortage in his cash he is inclined to attribute it to sorrie other cause than the wiles of his customer, so strikingly has been the evidence of the memorandum book with its list of numbers. The "fake-directory" game, according to Allender, is also one that is not often prosecuted. An agent calls upon a business man and represents that he Is soliciting advertising for a new di rectory. The merchant ?s inviieci 10 contract for apace, but is informed that no money will be collected until the work is published and the business man sees his advertisement in print He" Signs an agreement to this effect. But the contract is so craftily worded and printed that it can be cut in two in the center without severing a letter, with the result that the part bearing the merchant's signature becomes a simple promissory note, collectible upon demand. After some months, when the transaction has become hazy in his memory, the note is presented for collection, always by "an Innocent purchaser." The victim, seeing his own undoubted signature attached to a no'.e may be confused into paying, as the sum is some such small amount as (25 or $50. The "fake employment agency" Is operated chiefly upon foreign-born laborers. The swindler opens an office, with lurid signs advertising that he has work to offer in railroad camps at $2.50 a day and board. Each appli cant pays a fee and is gratified by seeing his name written in a book. A day and hour are appointed for his departure to the camp, and not until they arrive does he learn that he has been fleeced. He has no evidence better than a verbal.contract. He appeals to the police, but the bird has usually flown. One Austrian, according to the records, recently obtained $3 each from 150 countrymen in one day by means of a well-staged "employment office." On every hand honest persons are besieged by more or less ingenious schemes to separate them from their money. Some of them are old, but they still And victims even after they have been exposed repeatedly. Such Is that of the man who, hatless and coatless as If he lived or worked near by, rushes into a restaurant where there is preferably a girl cashier. He has a quantity of change in one hand and a stamped and addressed envelope In the other. He requests o *OA Kill In rati rn fnr tho r>hin P'P n q he wishes to mail a remittance. The cashier gives him the bill, and thinks she sees him put it.in the envelope and seal It. But on counting the change, she finds it amounts to only $19.95. "My goodness!" exclaims the man in Burprise. "Here, take your $20 while I run around the corner and get another nickel." He tosses the envelope on the counter, sweeps up his $19.95 and disappears. The cashier waits a little while and then opens the envelope. It contains a blank sheet of paper. Rural visitors arriving in St. Louis at the Union station are subject to ambuscade by a systematic band of swindlers. One of them sold the Gads Bridge to a farmer for a few hundred dollars, and another sold the Pierce building to a second countryman. A third farmer was robbed of $150 in broad daylight in a "matching game" played on the head of a barrel on Olive street, between Third and Fourth Btreets; and another was so duped that he rushed home to Montreal to get $1,000, which his sharper friends were planning to steal from him on his re turn. He was saved by the suspicions of his banker, who refused to give him the money, and communicated with the St. Louis police. This eager gull was furious at his banker and the police, whose meddling he said, prevent ed him from making a profit of (3.000 on a horse-race. Women from the country are the prey of men who advertise for housekeepers, and on their arrival in the city steal their baggage or borrow their money and vanish. One such sharper, now under arrest in St. Louis, Is 70 years old and has just been released from the penitentiary. A humorous sidelight on the case is that he Is accused of stealing (20 which he did not know he took. He Is charged with stealing a woman's suit case containing clothes. Among them was a pair of Bhoes, in the soles of which the owner had hidden two ten-dollar gold pieces. The prisoner's chagrin when he learned he had overlooked his loot was tragi-comlc.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Going and Coming.?Pat was standing near the car track when he noticed an automobile coming up the street, and to be safe he stepped back a little. The automobile went past, and just as it was passing the driver had occasion to turn off the track. When he did the automobile. skidded on the track, causing the back end of it to swing around, striking Pat and knocking him down. Pat was seen to get up and look after the car and say, "Now, p'hat do ye think o that? Whin ye stand In front o' thim they run over ye, and whin ye git out o' the way to let thim pass they turn around and kick ye." The postofllce department of India maintains a life insurance branch, which has over 23,000 active policies, with ?n ntre-ree'ate insurance of J10. 000.000." R<? BAK POW Absolut ROYAL?the n of all the bald: the world?eel great leavenln purity. It mat biscuit, bread, < Insures you ag alt forms of ac go with the low ARMIES AND WAR European Armies Do Not Want to Do Real Fighting. Europe's million-strong armies do not want to light. That is why there are no great wars. This is the new discovery of political philosophers, and thereby they aim a nasty gibe at the foreign offices. The foreign offices just now are shaking hands with themselves over the supernal wisdom with which they keep the peace; they are saying: "What great men we are; how astute, moderate, resourceful, pacific; how magnificently, despite fiery soldiers and fierier newspaper men, we compe *>eace. Did we not stop the Balkan conflagration spreading, though every one una agreeu lor a ceniury that the Balkans would set Europe aslaughtering? How wise the world is growing!'' Foreign Minister Sazonof? has been saying this (about himself; Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey says the same thing (about himself); and Foreign Minister Count Berchtold is about to say the same thing to the delegations. And now along come the political philosophers, and vow that this is all humbug. The unpected Armageddon was avoided not by the wisdom of the stupid diplomats, but for a much weightier reason?because the armies do not want to fight. The armies will never fight willingly again, because they are far too big, complicated, bureaucratlcally organized, comfortable, brightly uniformed, nicely pensioned. War, henceforth, will be fought by small Powers, by barbarous Powers, and by Powers with no armies worth mentioning. Where there are genuine, big, splendidly organized, first-class armies there will be no war. The armies are not such fools. The first clue to the discovery that armies do not want to fight was given by Russia's minister of war, Sukhomlinoff, who made the novel declaration that militancy (that is, the fighting spirit), is the very opposite of militarism (that is) the army spirit). Sukhomlinoff, of course, does net say that Russia's army will not fl.'ht ? that would cost him his job. But in his comments on a lecture delivered to artillery officers at Vilna, he said much the same thing. He said that great dangers for a fighting spirit lie in organization, redtape, formalism and bureaucratic methods, all Indispensable^ things In the management of an army machine like Russia's, which controls a million and a half men. The organizing spirit and the fighting spirit are opposite, incompatible things. The old Russian military spirit was the fighting spirit. That led to the conquests of the 18th century, and the brilliant campaigns of SuvorofT, greatest of mere fighting men. This stage is now passing. The army which fought in Manchuria was admirably organized, but its fighting spirit was weak. It was all organization. "The danger of a modern army is that it may fall a victim to its own perfection." This thesis was applied to Turkey by the lecturer, Staff Officer Illnsky. He dated the downfall of Turkey's military power to the day when the TurKs triea 10 organize. me; pivduced a staff of fairly well-educated "clerk-officers," who kept regimental accounts much better than did the old Turks, but who could not and did not want to fight. The more they reformed the more helpless they ogt. The ill-organized Turks of 1877-78 resisted for over a year the vast Russian armies, but the "Germanized army of 1912 went down before a handful of petty states. The Turks in 191? did not want to fight. "They have got a well-organized corps of bourgeois, peaceful officers, whose only aim is to draw their monthly pay and to serve long enough for pensions. Europe's armies resemble them in that the organization is an end in Itself. It must not be spoiled. Fighting would spoil I it; and, therefore, there must be no fighting." SiiWhomiinofTs theorv that militar ism is killing militancy has been much of late in the Austrian and German army press. Militarism, it is admitted, is spreading. The typical continental great state is becoming, in all Its relations, merely a branch of the army. But such states and such armies have no desire to fight. The moore deeply rooted the militarism, the less wish there is to put the system to the war test. vhl!..agm thmarf itrmllq misFVfeTT In Germany the army, or military spirit is undoubtedly higher than ever. The miltiary caste is absolutely on top. But there is no sign of miltancy. Commanding generals are apointed because they are good administrators, who 9?(> that their men are DroDerly fed and who save for the state as much as possible out of the annual uniform allowance. The head of the war department js never a fighting man.? Richard Linton in Philadelphia Ledger. Carrying a Point.?"You made some enemies," said the consoling friend, "but you carried your point "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "Sometimes a man carries a point with about the same amount of personal comfort that he derives from sitting on a tack."?Washington Star. "tir Venice has a newspaper founded 313 years ago. m Ulll LING DER elyPure tost celebrated a t ng powuers 111 lebrated for its g strength and ces your cakes, 2tc^ healthful, It alnst alum and lulteratlon that 'priced brands. i IA watch for < When you go off roughing it a going to give yourself all the w< keeping an expensive watch d safe ? Or are you going to t; INGERSOLL WATCH ?1 I FOR SALE BY II? 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