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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. FWVILROAD THROUGH THE FARM. There’s that Hack ul>omoraatlon, that 1>H locomotive there. It’s An' An’ that Hack al>omeraatioa, Mj; locomotive there, smoke-tail like a plrut flag, a-vravin’ through the air; I must set twelve times a day, an’ never raise my arm, ✓ see thet gret black monster go a- snortin’ through my farm. My father's farm, my grandsir’s farm— I eome of Pilgrim stock— M y Kreat-greut-great-greut-grandslr’s farm way bhek to Plymouth Rock; Way hack in the sixteen hundreds it was in our family name, An' no man dared to trespass till that tootin' railroad came. farm, I sez, “You can't go through this ^ you hear it flat an' plain!” An then they hlahlied about the right of “eminunt domain.” “Who’s Eminuut Domain?” sez I; “I want you folks to see Thet on this farm there ain't no man so eminunt ez me.” An’ w’etl their gangs begun to dig I went out with a gun, An’ they rushed me off to prison till their wretched work wuz done. - “If I can’t purtect my farm,” sell, “w'y, then, it’s my idee You'd better shet off enllin’ this ‘the coun try of the free.’ ” There, there, ye hear it toot ngin nil’ break the |>encoful calm, 1 tell ye, you black monster, jxm’ve no business on my farm! An men ride by In stovepipe hats, aa' women loll in silk, An’ lookin’ in my barnyard, say, “See thet old codger milk!” Git off my farm, you stuck-up doods, who set in there an’ grin, I own this farm, railroad an' all, on* I will fence It iul Ding-ding, toot-toot, you block ol* fiend, you 11 find w'en you come back. An’ ol’ rail fence, without no bars, straight across the track. An’ built then you stuck-up doods inside, you Pullman upper crust, Will know tills codger'll hold his ftirmnn’ let the railroad bust. You’ll find this railroad all fenced in— ’twon't do no good to talk— If you want to git to Itoaton, w'y jest take yer laigs an’ walk. —8am Walter Foss. * s. DANGEROUS WOMAN. * ■ M«n I HAT a spltbdid figure that lady has; I wish we could get glimpse of her face. If it match es her form, she must be a superb ly beautiful wom an,” I remarked to Tom Poole, my detective friend. “ She is prob ably plain enough In features,” re ap o n ded Poole, not given to hide thuir when they are t, as you say, I “Women Paris, but that, not liking that city, she | waa going to Edinburg in a similar ca pacity. No reply came to the telegram we sent, and Miss Dalryniple seemed in no hurr£ to go away. And Sarah Grlbble, the younger of the two girls, would not be friendly to the stranger, notwith standing her mother's remonstrance/. “Her gentleness Is nothing but art, mother; her amiability is assumed. You are blind to her real character: she If a compound of cunning and selfishness,•* said Sarah. The rustic of a droas outside the door caught Sarah’s sharp cara, and sudden ly oixmiug the door, she found Miss Dalrymple standing there. With a flash of withering scorn Sarah confront- eded her. “Is it necessary to stand with your ear to the keyhole, listening to our con versation?" she asked. "Surely you cannot mean It, Miss Sarah? You do not know what cruel things you arc saying! But I will leave; I have no wish to create discord be tween a mother and daughter.” After her departure I learned that she had sold her traveling trunks to Mrs. Grlbble, on the excuse that they were far too large for her small word- nd>e, which she took away In a glad- stone bag. 1 resolved never again to play the knight errant In such a fash ion to strange damsels In distress. “Would you like to see how the mem bers of the ‘swell mob’ enjoy them selves?” asktsl Tom Poole one evening some two months after my adventure •with the bine-eyed orphan. “There Is a kill and supi>er to-night to raise funds for the defense of that scoundrel Bat- sou, who nearly killed one of our men when caught committing a burglary, as you will remember." The Janitor at the door demurred at first, and mildly declared that w$ had uo rlglrt of entrance, the affair going on upstairs being quite a private one, but Tom Poole declared that If any fur ther delay took place In opening the door Ik? would raid the place. That threat was effectual, for possibly some of the gayly dressed men anti women had property In flieir possession for which they would have found It diffi cult to account. “IK*you hoc any one you recognise?' he whispered. “No,” 1 replied, puzzled. “The lady whose figure you admired at St. Pancras,” he went on; “see, there she Is, with her face 'turned to the girl behind her.” I looked in the direction indicated, and wne more puzzled than ever. The girl possessed the splendid form of the veiled lady we had seen at St. Pan- ems, and her hair was of the mldy gold that was so much affected some time ago by the ladles; In all other re spects she was exactly like Miss Evelyn Dalrymple, the glorious blue eyes, es peclally. But Evelyn's hair was dark bro when I took her home with me Gribble’s, hence my bewilderma^vj Bu * as the girl turned In ourjUp^^ am , had a clear view doubts vanished, been right; the orp ONCE DERIDED ANIMAL IS N KING OF BEASTS. e of riding on a mule to pay a to Queen Isabella, lip IL, son of this same Isabella, e great Charles V., was present- , ith a mule by Mary, daughter oi * King Henry VIII. of England, during „ „ „ ^ their betrothal. When he went over M , r ,ra r , erT ?T r P T*° f ^ England to claim her as his bride Well a. a Luxury iu War Tim—hI U « t0 ° k 8 °« n . g fort y beRatlful maleS *<» Many Good Qualities. i the U60 of hlS retinae. nered the Hiator 7 ia ricb in instances that inn »y what Fell, knowing that yon can be trust ed, I will tell you. Complaints of rob beries of passengers’ luggage from rail way platforms have beeu so frequent of late that I have been detailed for the special duty of capturing the thieves. And from inquiries I have made, I have reason to believe that one of those thieves Is a woman.” When we turned Imck she had disap peared. Poole peeped Into the ladles' waiting rooms, but she had evidently left tlie station. “1 verily believe that woman ‘spot ted' me, lii spite of my get-up.” said the detective in a vexed tone. “I must try another role.” Several weeks passed, and Poole had not seen the lady. I bad twitted him with his waut of success In Identifying the handsome lady with the luggage rob beries, and he took my banter very coolly. >'* A few evenings afterward 1 was at Euston, seeing oft a friend who had been staying with me for a few days. The train had just left, and 1 was go Ing away by the main cut ranee, when a hansom drove up at full speed, and Us occupant, a tall young lady, got quickly out." “You’re too late, miss; the Scotch ex press has gone,” said a porter. *‘0, heavens, what shall I do?” And the lady covered her face with her hands and sobbed bitterly “Can I be of any service to you?’ I asked. She raised her veil Ami looked at me with what I thought w^re the loveliest, most glorious eyes I hutd ever seen— eyes large, molting a mil of a beautiful blue. \ “I will trust you, sir. A>r I like your face. I started from Paris hist night, sir, on route for Edinhurni. At Dover this evening I discovered that I had lost my purse, but as I \u as booked through, and had my route ticket In my # glove, that would not ImvV mattered much if I had caught the train that has Just gone. I am a strangjer In Lon don, and I have no money. What am I to dp? The cabman took pity on me at Victoria and brought me here." “Come with me. My landliidy will put you up; sl»e Is a good soul, wind has two daughters of her own. Do not hes itate; I cannot think of your gaping to a hotel.” I handed her Into the hansom, ^ a the top of which were two large k ither trunks, and handsomely rerannt piled the generous cabman on our arri’ |il at my lodgings in Kensington. My landlady and her daughters 1 re ceived their unexiiected guest with lev cry appearance of cordiality. Dnrl eupper Miss Evelyn Dalrymple, as s! atyled hersalf, briefly narrated her tory, telling os timt she was an orpba: tad been companion to a lady living er face, my rah Grlbble hud was a fraud, a /ear afteryard I at the central staflonT Manchester, seeing a chum off to South Wales by the 10:80 express. The train had Just gone when a cab dashed up, and a lady alighted. It needed only a glance to satisfy me that Evelyn Dal rymple had again turned up, and evi dently lu her old character, for on the cab were two trunks and a large port manteau. Before she could fix upon a train that would enable her to get away wfrth her booty, 1 had hurriedly told a railway constable what I knew of the lady, and she was arrested. At the sessions a string of convictions were proved against her, and the ap pealing glances of her beautiful blue eyes were powerless to Induce the re- corder to "give her another chance.” “You are a dangerous woman, and society must be rid of you for a coisdd- enfble period. Ten years’ penal servi tude.” The Government has cornered mule market, and the breeders of nraUp in consequence are reaping a harvest During the late years of peace with the incoming of steam and electric power, and the flourishing of horse shows, misfortune has multiplied ppon mules, and their extermination has b threatened. War has now, howe proved the elixir of life to the i business, and that long suffering mal, so o/ten jeered at for being “with out pride of ancestry or hope of pos terity,” has become the very cornet stone of the Cuban invasion. , The first mules brought in sold foi an average of $40 each. Now the same grade of animal is held at about $140. The Government agents in St. Louh have paid onl more than half a millior dollars for mules, and they are stil buying. Those lately purchased aver aged nearly $100 each. From St. Louis the agents will g» down to Atlanta, the second large* male market, and continue the pur chase of mules. The mule will be as essential as tip regular army for the invasion of Cuba The mule is a necessity as well as * luxury in war time. His advantage* over a horse are legion. He is th« type of toughness. He will do more work than a horse and live on less. As a pack animal he is far superior. - Ha is like a camel in his ability to go with out water. The mule can live on dry leaves cr almost any kind of provender and do good work. He will stand any kind of quantity of abuse or hard usage and never murmur. His is the patience of Job. He is somewhat stubborn and hard headed, but the sense that is lit erally beaten into him is as nsef ul to him and his employer as any other sense. He can trot in mud knee deep all day without weariness, and he is a far bet ter swimmer than the horse. In the lowlands, marshes and Varied streams of Cuba all these qualities will prove his superior usefulness. For surefootedness and climbing ability the mule’s only superior is the mountain goat. It is e. fact well known that the mule & this country and all countries is pfar excellence the animal of the stee'p and narrow trail. To any traveler $ would seem absurd to attempt t£?use a horse or any beast but a muljg to scale the Alps, cross the cliffs aoid crags of the Yosemite, or deseed the perilous trail into the ^uyon of the Colorado River. One can ride a well trained mule into a well or up a tree. He is the eiue qua non for a campaign through the mountains of Cuba. Old troeptrs tell me that as a war anijnal the mule has all these advantages and gfeny others. Said an old veteran: “A mule can discover water miles off. And he will never ^0 to have exalted the mule. All lovers of history will rejoice that the war prom ises to bring back fo the mule some thing of his former value and prestige. —New York Herald. Queer Fishing Custom*. '~ A few years ago the fishermen of Preston, Lancashire, used to go fish ing on Sunday, the same as on other days. A clergyman of the town preach ed against Sabbath desecration, and prayed that they might catch no fish. Ami they did not! But they found out how to make his prayers of no avail The fishermen used to make a little effigy of the parson In rags, and put the small "guy” up their chimneys. While his reverence was slowly smok ed and consumed, the fish bit—like ev erything! The fishermen of the Isle of Man always feel safe from storm and disaster If they have a dead wren on iKinrd. They have a tradition that at one time an evil spirit haunted the her ring pack and was always attended by storms. The spirit assumed many forms, and at last It took the shape of a wren and flew away. Since then If they have a dead wren with them they feel certain that all will be safe and snug. On the Norfolk coast they think that fleas and fish eome together. An old fisherman near Cromer was heard to say: “Times pi that you might look in my flannel shirt and see scarce a flea, ami then there ain’t but a few herrings; but times there are when my shirt's alive with ’em, and then there's sartln to be A sight o’ fish.” Flannel-shlrted anglers, please -note! How They Will Fight. "Do you think any of these warlike editors will fight lu case we have war with Spain?" "You enn bet all you’re worth they 1—fight shy of the recruiting offices.” A XHaaembler. "He said he would kill himself if wouldn’t marry him.” . “Welir’ “He didn’t do it: the mean thlngl” « will let you know stire whenever he comes within two miles of it. ' His voicoi is not musical, but it is easy to understand. “Again, his ears are not big for nothing. He is as watchful as a oat. Any unnsaal sound will awake him, He can tell the tread of hostile foot steps or any movement of tho enemy at any hour of the night, and he will never fail to let yon know of it. “The geese that saved ancient Car thage are nothing in watchfulness to the army mule. A mule will speak out and tell you about a thousand things that a horse would let pass by without saying a word.” As a pack animal, when the back has to be need in lieu of vehicles, the mule is the only animal He will carry everything yon put on him. He will travel with it forever. He will never break down. Wading marshes, swimming rivers, climbing mountains —it is all the same to him. He fat tens on hardship. Mules are used nearly altogether at army posts. They carry the couriers, pull the ambulances, plow the pota to patches. A good mule team will pull an ambulance six miles an hour for twenty hours and never give forttf a sign of complaint. Any one of them at the end of that journey of 120 miles will protnply elevate to the ceiling any man who will try to tickle his foot. While a mnle can even stand cold hette" than a horse, his powers of en dur nice find best illustration in hot climates. He is the product of South ern countries. He is always immune against yellow fever or any contagions disease. The climate of Cuba has no terrors whatever for him. He is not as swift as the horse in an artillery charge, but he will poll these engines of war all day without fatigue. And he will listen to the roar of cannon without batting an ear. His nature is not musical The sound of battle has neither terror nor charm for him. He stays where you put him andhe raises the white flag never. Statistics show that this nseful beast baa not been appreciated of late. Though the hero of the last war—as he will be of this—his tribe has been suffered to decline since then. There were 60,000 fewer mules in the United States in 1897 than iu 1896, His tribe numbered slightly more thar a million and a quarter in 1878, And had a total valuation of $125,500,000. Though there were nearly two and a quarter million mules in 189t, they were worth only slightly motb than $90,000,000. Mules were worth $100 each in 1873, and in 1897 they were worth $40 each. The mnle is a great favorite in Spain. When Coiambus came back from his discovery of America it re quired a royal decree to give him the Buffalo Beef la Tekoa. Buffalo beef, and. especially buffalo veal has been a not uncommon diet of Takoaites, and despite the efforts to put a stop to the destruction of the flock of the many half and quarter breed buffalo, the meat still comes into town occasionally, brought by the Indians from the reservation in Idaho, almost adjoining Tekoa. A splendid six-months-old calf, handsomely marked and with splendid hair and well-defined hide, was branght in recently and sold to a local butcher, who, wise enough to appreciate its worth, wired larger markets of his prize, and was rewarded by an offer of forty cents a pound—head, pelt and all The head was not brought in, and the butcher would not dispose of the pelt, so a second offer of 33 i cents a pound for the carcass, shorn of pelt, was accepted, the purchaser paying tho freight. “If the calf had been brought in two months earlier,” explained the butcher, “I could readily have sold the carcass for $1 a pound to Chicago par ties, and had I taken the precaution to preserve it in cold storage and figured with caterers while the meat was ripening I might have done as well at this date.” The carcas of the calf caused no lit tle comment, owing to its superior ap pearance. The pelt is really superior to that of a full-blooded buffalo, as the hair was as fine as silk and quite long, the coloring perfect, the marks with out a blemish or mistake. There are several herds of half, quarter and mixed blood buffaloes in the reservation. One old Indian has me hundred or more, so tne local butchdr here says, of which none are under qoarter-bred, while some are full-blooded, and all are carefully bred. A month ago an Englishman bought several youngsters, and bnt a week or so since an Eastern financier purchased a bull aud two heifers from this Indian, both paying $50 each for their animals, says ‘this butcher.—Portland Oregonian. U«lief For Fainting. Syncope, or fainting, results from an inadequate supply of blood to the brain. The patient’s head should, therefore, be lowered, and all tight bands loosened in order to promote free circulation. Let there be a gen erous supply of fresh air, being care ful at the same time to avoid draughts. Friction maybe applied to the extra iti4s, always remembering to towards, not from, the hefrt. ■ ‘MlSw smelling salts are often need as a restorative. In the ease of strong smelling salts, one should never hold the bottle for any length of time dose to the nostrils of an uneonsoious person, but pass it to and fro at some little distance from the face. Perhaps the safest way is to hold the cork or stopper of the bottle near the patient’s nostrils, as that will answer all purposes aud pre vent injurious effects.—New York Ledger. Meat* In France. The JFrench are very temperate in food and drink, a cup of coffee with a piece of bread being considered quite sufficient until noon, when the de jeuner a la fourchette is served. This consists of a first course of eggs or macaroni, a second of one chop each or stew, and a third of fruit and cheese. Plenty of bread (always good in France) is eaten during the meal, but butter rarely. Dinner, usually at seven o’clock, is a little more elab orate meal, from which soup and salad are seldom omitted, and black coffee. Owing to the fact that so much chicory is used, French coffee is not much to the taste of Anglo- Saxons. I have never yet had wliat I call a cup of “good” coffee in France, while at Vienna and Munich it is simply delicious. Coffee being very dear in France (sixty cents per pound for good quality) may account for the excessive use of chicory.—What to Eat. . Chess au Ancient Game. When Alexander was sighing fgp: more worlds x to conquer, aud when CleopaUa was conducting hersel! more as a queen than as a lady, grave gentlemen, realizing the trifling na ture of a king’s ambitions or a queen’s affairs, were playing chess. Long be fore tho days of either of those mon archs persons with brains to be ex pended upon something worth while were playing chess. It is more than five thousand years old, this alleged pastime. Recent excavations in the pyramid field o Sakkara sh<?w that. North of the pyramid of King Tetu, or King. Teti, two grave chambers have been discov- ured which were erected for two high officials. In one of the rooms there is a wa painting which shows the royal sports They hunted and fished in those days, and they played chess. Tradesmen Monk*. Most of the monks at King Will iam’s Town, Cape Colony, are trades- jnen and do their own carpentering, {bricklaying, blacksmithing, etc., be sides teaching school AU the build ings they occupy were erected by themselves. , • ■ - Indication That the Twentieth Ccntnry May lie the “Age of Glass.” A dispatch from Mancie, lad., says ‘ hat a glass firm there has received an erder for 600 glass fence-posts, to bo of the nsnal size and grooved for the reception of wire. It is added “The order has caused some speculation and is probably an introduction of an im- jortaat article in trade.” It is an in- eresting illustration of the tendency of modern science and inventive genius •» discover new uses for old materials. One day it is the conversion of the >ith of the cornstalk into a valuable article of commerce, and the next the application of glass to a practical pur pose hitherto unthought of. We have lad the age of iron and of brass, the golden age, and almost too much of silver. Who knows but the twentieth century may be the age of glass? It has not been very long since the metals or hard woods were regarded as the only fit materials for use where strength aud durability were required. Now paper is converted into materials for house building, furniture, railway car wheels, boats and utensils of vari ous kinds. Glass is used for even more purposes, and its increasing cheapness aud improved mettiods of working are likely io bring it into still wider use. No other material .in vented by man can be compare‘d(with it in the service it has rendered, both in common life and in chemistry, as tronomy and other sciences. Pure beyond the possibility of contamina tion, indestructible by any chemical agency,'the right hand of science, the foundation of the telescope and micro scope, the material for thousands of utensils aud ornaments, and now to be utilized for fence-posts, it comes ae near, being the keystone of civiliza tion as anything that can be named. It is a long reach from oiled paper windows to the myriad uses to which glass is put to-day. As late as the sixteenth century iu England only the dwellings of the wealthy had glass windows. It is reasonably certain that Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, first saw the light through lattice windows or oiled paper, and he was probably a grown man before he looked through a glass window.“It was first manufactured iu Londbn seven years before he was born, and could hardly have come into general use for a score of years or more. Shakespeare makes many ref erences to glass and glasses in his plays, but it is always to a mirror, the glass that reflects, or to drinking glasses, which were common in Eng land before window glass was. He also makes numerous references to windows, but they are the eyes,.the windows of the soul, or open latticed spaces in the wall of a house. The divine William knew a great deal about wine glasses and ale glasses, but very little about glass in any other form. If he shaved himself, he probably used a piece of polished metal as a mirror, and the chances are he never looked in a glass mirror until he went to Lon don. Shakespeare knew pretty much everything that was knowable or think able in his time, but he never dreapied glass fence-posts. pDr Wi V\l * . ka Incident That Proves the Strocgest Chalfl May Be Defective. A recent incident in London serves to prove that the strongest chain of cir cumstantial evidence may be defective. A visiter at the American circus ex changed comments with a welldressed stranger who sat by his side, and used his own opera-glass freely. Midway In the performance the stranger re marked. "I have been here several times, and know the best features of the show. I advise you to watch closely with your glass what is now going on in the farthest ring. It is one of the most in teresting numbers of the programme.” The advice was followed. The visi tor watched eagerly the performance In the distance, and when it was finish ed, thanked his neighbor for the hint, saying that it was well worth seeing. The stranger assented, and after mom entary delay left his seat, saying that he would not stay to the end, as he had seen the show several times. “It is your first visit here,” he added, "and you would better remain for the last act, which is the oest of the even* ing.’’ Not long afterward the visitor mis sed his watch, and felt sure i". had been stolen by the stranger while the opera- glass was In use. The police at Scot land Yard advised the victim the next day to advertise for the watch*and also to open negotiations with several of the largest pawnbrokers for its recov ery, leaving with them a description of it. In the course of a week he re ceived a call from one of the pawn brokers. “This looks like your watch,” re marked the dealer, “but I can’t believe that it is.” A gold watch was produced and at once identified. It corresponded ex actly in size and design with the mis sing watch. It bore the name of the same watchmaker on the inner case, and also the number and date. “I am certain that it is mine,” was response. “Describe the man who pawned it.” This was done. The description tal lied quite closely with that of the vis itor’s unknown acquaintance at the circus. “You have bought It from the pick pocket,” he added, “and must help me in having him arrested and convicted.” The pawnbroker admitted that the evidence was strong enough to convict the man, but added that he had absol ute faith in his innocence. He asked the loser to write to the watchmaker, and ascertain whether, by any chance, two watches had been marked with the same number. This was done, and a reply was re ceived, stating that, by accident, two watches had been marked with the same number and were exactly alike. One of them had been sold to an En glishman, whose name was given in the letter. The pawnbroker, when the name was repeated, exclaimed; "That is the name of the mail, who pawned the watch because he was pen niless! I knew that he could not be a , ket.” Nevertheless. Great Is truth and mighty above all things. —Esdras. One of the sublimest things in tho world is plain truth.—Bulwer. Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.—Comper. Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.—Pit man. Never was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.—Mrs. Jameson. The desire of appearing clever often prevents one becoming so.—Roche foucauld. The true way of softening one’s troubles is to solace those of of others. —Madame de Maintenou. Pride, the most daugercus of all faults, proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.—Dillon. A man who possesses wealth pos sesses power, but it is a power to do evil as well as good.—A. 8. Roe. He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he who does a certain thing.—Morcus Anton inus. Of all our infirmities vanity is tho dearest to us; a man will starve his other vices to keep that alive.— Franklin. When we advance a little into lifo we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief in the world.— Paxton Hood. I give you it as my deliberate and solemn conviction that the individual who is habitually tardy in meeting an appointment will never be respected or successful in life.—W T . Fisk. A life merely of pleasure or chiefly of pleasure is always a poor aud worthless life, not worth the living; always unsatisfactory in its course; always miserable in its end.—Theo dore Parker. Navartheless. the inhocent map' would have been convicted if fie had* been hastily arrested. The circtim- sfantial evidence would have been re garded as conclusive. The Origin of Cnde Sam. At a place named Troy, on the Hud son, a commissariat contractor named Elbert Anderson, of New York* had a store yard. A Government inspector named Samuel Wilson, who was al ways called “Uncle Sam,” superin tended the examination of the provis ions, and when they were passed each cask or package was marked “E. A.— U. S.” the initials of the contractor and of the United States. The man, a facetious fellow, whose duty it was to mark the casks, on being asked what the letters meant, replied that they stood for Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam. The joke soon became known, and got into print, and soon the term “Uncle Sam” was known throughout the United States.—De troit Free Press. The Chipmanzee Eats Animal Food. Few people are c.ware that the large chimpanzee so popular and well known as “Sally,” in tta zoological gardens of London, was not infrequently sup plied with animal food, whicu she evi dently consumed with great satisfac tion. It has been observed also that the gorrilla? and chimpanzees In the zoological gardens in Berlin have a marked preference for animal food, of which they enjoy a small proportion. As above noticed, their organization indicates that while they are certainly "mixed feeders”—that is, obtain their food from both the animal and vegeta ble kingdoms—they have been accus tomed to consume a larger proportion of vegetable matter than Is usually adopted by man. And, lastly, having regard to the evidence wnich inquires into pre-blstoric records of man’s life have reviealed, as well as to our know ledge of his existence since, with what we have learned respecting the habits of savage tribes of recent date, it Is impossible to doubt that his diet has long been a mixed one. Among the last-named class, we know that a cer- tain quantity of animal food is always greatly prized as a welcome variation from the roots and fruits which must doubtless have largely contributed to sustain his daily life.—.Vow York Times. Famous Flag in Chicago. George C. Mages, who sent the pen nant cf the battleship Maine to Chica*- go a few weeks ago, returned yester day from his trip to Cuba with another historic emblem. It is the flag that covered part of the graves of 161 American sailors on the occasion of the memorial service at Havana. March 4. * The service was proposed by Mr. Mages, and was participated in by- forty tourists from the United States. The Cubans In Havana promise to make it an annual memorial celebra tion for the dead sailors of the Maine. Mr. Mages has exhibited the flag in several places of historic interest. It has been raised and cheered - on son* of the Southern battlefields on Its way back to Chicago, and Ur owner says he hopes to see it yet raised with the pen nant of the Maine over the ruins of old Morro Castle, Two Cuban seamstresses sewed the Stars and Stripes together for the tour ists who made the arrangements for the memorial service.—Chicago Inter- Ocean.