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'\i<V -i-? v * * ' V '"Z ' ^*A*-*. " ; 1-. *' -> > .;Tf ," ' "*' 4 % _ II ? PIPES MUST BE KEPT CLEAIC Pur* Water Imposaibl* Unlesa All 8ourc?* From Which It f? Drawn Are Immaculat*. It is not sufficient to purifj the water we drink at its source. Unless ine pipes tnrougn wmcii it is carried are thoroughly clean?ed ^there will still remain serious danger of typhoid and other water-home diseases. Mains through which polluted water hsr* flowed become coated with deposits which ihu*t lie wholly removed before they can lie regarded safe carriers for pure water. - 0n- { less Ihe pipe3 are thoroughly cleansed j by some mechanical method it will lie years before the danger of %n- ; tamination resulting from the pre- j viouslv foul water supply will be en- i tirely eliminated. This fact doubtless explains some of t'ne outbreaks of typhoid which I occur even after filtration plants are installed. These outbreaks in most cases are nrobublv not due to imner feet operation of the filters, but to the stirring up of old deposits in the mains. A slight increase in th^ n.te of flow through water mains will start these old deposits and destroy the wliolesoineness of the most carefully filtered water. ANCIENT SPORT OF COURSING Long Popular in Greek and Latin Countries, and Established Pastime In England. (Ireek and Latin authors refer'to the sjiort of coursing, but during the middle ages it was little heard of. The first set of rules drawn up to govern the sport and for determining the merits of a course whs placed an record by Thomas, duke of Norfolk, in the lime of Elizabeth of England. There was generally private coursing at that lime. The oldest coursing elnh is that at SwatTham in Norfolk, and it was established in 1706 by Lord Or ford, hi 1780 the Ashdown I'ark club a^us established. During the next seventy years many clubs or societies sprang up throughout England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, ihe Altcar club lx?ino- formal in 1K25. The Waterloo cup is run at i iho Altcar meeting every spring, j This famous gathering takes place on the earl of Sefton'a estate close to luyerpool. |t has for years been recognized as the leading affair of its kind. Only in South Africa is a Waterloo run off on antelopes, the reason being that the African hare , will not standi up before a brace of ; greyhounds. I \ WORSE YET. '"Say, ki?l, your dad has owed mo a dollar for a year."' 4 4. I\ - L> _ - I I i?ai h noriung. Ma savs lie owes everything to her."?New Haven' Journal. _ ? . . DEFINED AT LAST. Mix?What's your idea n? an optimist ? Bix?A (lead-broke individual ordering oysters with the hope that he can pay for his dinner with the pearl. 1 HIS PATH TO SUCCESS. ' To sure vd one must keep inwlose touch with the public.'* '"That certainly is essential for a pickpocket.**?Boston Evening Transcript. THATS DIFFERENT. "Always keep your plans to yourself if you would succeed," advised I he sage. "But suppose you happen to he v an architect?" aeflted the fool. NOT A TRUE SPORT. "I told him I would stake my reputation on it." "And?" ."He said he wasn't offering odds." i HA. HAI Middle?The sea is very treacher- ; up kxlllt. Kiddie?Yea; full of craft, isn't it?-?Harvard lampoon. THE TREATMENT. "She's an nleal girl?ahe'a always dressing up." ''Then counteract th?t by gmug I her a d rearing down." | HIS DRAWBACK. "Whyt pa. I am astonished to hear you speak of Henry a* you do! lie is one of the beat mm going." , "Jlot Jm/mverfom* _ - v ' 'jfev ', '- s r'v''u S^-' CIRCULAR MOTION SWIFTEST BodUt Falling by Circle Move Faster Than When Going In Direct Line. ^ What is the line of swiftest descent? To anyone not acquainted with the lawa of rnathematiea n proposition sucffas this would appear absurd, the most obvious answer being a straight line. However, it has been proved by mathematicians that the line of swiftest descent is a curve called the cycloid. ? It is this curve that the engle unconsciously utilises in his wonderfully swift swoop to his prev. The 1 analysis of the curve is simply a straight line motion combined with a circular motion. The best illustration showing this is a cartwheel is it rolls along the ground. Any point on the rim of the wheel is describing a cycloid, and no point is at any time, describing a circle or going <n a straight line. A pecnliar thing is deduced from this knowledge, and that is that no point on the rim of a wheel rolling 031 a surface goes round the center of the wheel, for the center is describing a straight line and all the points on the rim are describing cycloids; thus, as no circular motion exists, the statement holds. NEEDED IT BADLY Book Agent?Now, sir, this l?ook? The Man at the Door-?I ain't got no use for no book. Book Agent?But you need this one, sir. It is called "The Art of Conversation and Correct English*' CHLOROFORM FAILS ON SNAKE. A large chicken snake killed near Oscar, three miles east of here, furnished a curiosity in the fact that it was noticed to l>e gorged, and the 41IIHMi<ilinn iv a a tlial llm U ?I-1 """ ",u% ,,,c *1 I" llllu swallowed a fowl. It was cut open and its interior found to contain, anions other things, a four-ounue bottle of chloroform. Tlie hot tie was intact, 51 nil the cork in place. The drug was identified by t.enrgo Whitley, upon whose place the snake was killed, as a bottle that he purchased ahout a week ago to treat a sick horse.?Temple (Tex.) dispatch tn New York World. TRAMPLED AND TORN. "It must be awful to l>e trampled under foot, as some of th*>se poor defeated soldiers arc!" "It is?" "What do you* a tenderly reared girl, know of the horrors of war?" "1 danced with a beginne? at the ball last night." GENTLY PUT. "How did the minister get around mentioning the deail man's many creditors?" '"Said he would be missed in many places."?Philadelphia ledger. ADORATION. Bridegroom (to the bride, who has an awful cold)?Even your coughing sounds melodious, beloved! I could listen to yon for hours!?Fliegonde Blaetter (Munich). OVERLOOKED. "Nature is strangely neglectful." "Iii what way?" "In not making m spider web footed." LONG RANGE. "They say they've got a cannon now mat will shoot -5 miles." "Incredible 1 Why, it will take only four of them to ahoot a hundred r JUST SO. "What's a barbecue, dad T "A barbecue is an affair where yon junat k your iipa orer grab that you'd lara jr?u aoM up at at haaa." ======s=^^ j SCOUTS RATTLER THEORY . New Yorker Upaeta Belief That Rattleanakee Produce a Rattle in Each Year. 'When I was in Orange, Tex., one time," said a. New Yorker who travels around "a good deal, "somehow the talk at the hotel turned to j rattlesnakes; how big ttf?*y'd get and how big they woyldh't get; what they'd do and what they Wouldn't do, the environment of Orange being in no way shy of material for object lessons on the subject. By and by *. apt. Hid Davis. the famous South Texas hunter and fisherman. was moved to say: "'I don't believe in the theory that a rattlesnake grows a rattle for every year of bis life. I killed a rattler once that wasn't much more (ban a couple of feet long, and be bad 14 rattles. The one that Jxidge Wingate shot up at Slade's camp onlv bad six.' " 'Was the judge's snake a pretty ; good sized one, captain?' said I, for i I always want to be shown. " 'Ob, fair to middlin' size,' replied Captain Ed. 'It bad a yeaHin' fawn in it.' "Exact dimensions after that I didn't think it was necessary to call for." FARM COMFORTS i F _ Howe?This bard begins his poem with "Only a pallet of straw for me." Wise?H'm! He must have been summering at a country boarding house. HARDEST ONE TO GET. Frederick F. Moore, the author, smiled the other evening when the conversation in a Washington club turned to the subject of conundrums. He saitl be was reminded of a conversation between Pat and Mike. Bat and Mike were taking a walk through the country one Sunday morning when the former suddenly unused and turned to his companion with a reflective smile. 'Mist a minute, Moike," said he. "Kin yc7. till me why the kissin' av vez gurrel is loike a bottle av olives ?" "Shure, an' Oi kin not!" was the quick ros|H>nse of Mike. "Do yez thinlf thot Oi am wan av thim incoyklapaydins?" "Begorra, an' it's an aisy wan, Moike," wns the uriuful reioinder of Pali. "If ye/. kill pit wan the rist come aisy." A KNOWING WIFE. "Henry, you've been to the mces aguin." "What makes yon think so, my ilear?" "The baseball season is over now, and except when the home team is defeated nothing makes you come home with a more woebegone expression of countenance than losing two dollars on a horse race." TO BE SURE. "I'm rather skeptical about some men who pretend to reform." "Why not give them the benefit of the doubt? The man who says, 'Pray for me' is usually more in earnest than the man who savs, 'Vote for roe/ " DONE PROPERLY. "How is it you were so long over your work today?" she asked. "Sure, ma'am," replied the servant, "you were watching ine most of the time."?.Tudire. ^ PARADOXICAL. "There is one queer thing about Bibblcs' tipsy aiorios." "What's that?" "They have so mneh ?lnf humor." BUSINESS KIND. !**Tber?' gmj a man of atcrliag worth." "U bo i? be?" Tie'* m ^iivcrauiitk. | KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING Roputed Toper Had an Object in Keeping Fact of Reformation a Secret. A man with a purple face entered one of those public houses where tea, coffee or aocna can he obtained a'" easily as beer, and, after a casual glance at the stranger at the window ! seat, ordered a pint of tea. But | bring it in a beer jug, Sam, he said, I Confidentially to the Inmllnrrl "I ' darpn't risk bein' seen drinki?' tea." This was too much for the stranger's curiosity. "Pardon ine % he could not resist saying, "hut why do you try to delude people in that way? There's ro disgrace in preferring tea to heer -?quite the reverse, in fact." "J know that, guv'nor," was the I placid answer. "But the truth is j Pin the only old toper in the district, And if I let it be known that I'd | re formed the village temperance-society would have nothing toft to do." "And a 'very good thing, too, [ should say." the stranger remarked. "Not for me, guv'nor; not for me," said the reputed toper, shaking his ! head. "My wife <hx?s the washing at the Temperance hull, and if she | loses her job through the place being shut up whore's my hit o' 'bacca money to come from?"?London I Tit-liits. I FIND EDEN HARD TO LOCATE I I Authorities Differ Radically aa to the Placing of the Historic Birthplace of Mankind. There is no subject which has so invited and so battled conjecture as ! the Gardeifot Eden. The three con-j I tinents of the old world have been snbjeeted io the most rigorous search. The account given in Genesis of the situation of I'M en is not such as to enable us to identify it with any exj isting locality. It is said to have had a garden in the eastern part of i it, and we are told that a river went ' out of Eden to water it, and from j thenee it was parted into four heads, j which were called, respectively, Pison, Gihon, lliddekel and Euphrates (Plirat). The Pisfln is said to J compass t)ie whole land of Havilah;i I I ho Hi linn ?f EVK:?=~ 1 . ui j .1 11 ^UUHIl |, | and the Hiddckel to go toward the east of Assyria.. Of tlie rirers mentioned the 1*11 rat of the original seems to have been correctly identified with the Euphrates, and the name Iliddekel apjtears elsewhere in ????????????? 9 "??? Ms ^? the Scripture to'he applied to the Tigris; hut it is impossible to say what places were meant by the names Pison, Oihon, Havilah and Cush. THE CHAMPIONS. "What is Boston chiefly noted for?" "Culture, I believe, but just now it is credited with furnishing more baseball players to the stage than any other city in the world." UNCONSCIOUS AGREEMENT. "What do you think of Blahson'sl new bungalow?" "Too rococo." "Hum?well, I don't wish to differ with you, of course, but it struck me as being rather too lossy." A CONCESSION. "Am I to understand that you believe love is all .in all?" asked the sentimentalist. "Not all in all," answered the cynic, "but 1 am willing to concede that love has its big moments." HI8 ADVANTAGE. J The victim of footpads was recounting his experience. "It is true that I was not armed." he explained, "but I was well legged." QUEER. "You hear queer things now and ! J then." ">\ nat have you heard?" "The grocer complaining ahout the high cost of feeding his family." A MATTER OF SPELLING. "He's a bally angel for this show," ? said the Englishman. "Yes," agreed the manager, "a ballet angel, as you might say." GETTING ON. "Thev're getting up in the world." "So?" "Yes. They've begun to take ice in the winter time."?Octroit Free Press. t -CAN'T BE DUPLICATED. I "How is Mrs. CTunbly's French i pronunciation?" j "Strongly individual." j "What do you mean by that?" j \ "Lke nobody else's on earth." * * ~ ""'"fflitifflM White nnijlMfflffi ^> i r:' r , " ?li.. . . ' . i ' a; TRIBUTF TO BOOK OF JOB Recognized by Thomas Carlyle as On* of the Gneat Masterpieces of Literary Work. i . T call the Book of Job, apart from all the theories about it, one of the grandest .things ever written. One feels, indeed, us if it were iiot Hebrew?such a noble universality, different from noble patriotism or sectnrinoism, reigns in it, A noble book ! All jnPh's hnnl.- ' Tt iinnrfipct ^,T/lr,o4 statement of the never-ending prohle'ijv-ftuan's destiny and God's tf-ays . with him here on this earth. And all in such free, flowing outlines; gra$d in its simplicity and its epic melody apd repose of reconcilement. There is thV seeing eye. the mildly understanding heart. So true every way; true evesight and vision fo? -all things, material things no less than spiritual. The horse, "thou hast clothed his neck with thunder!"? "ho laughs at the shaking of the spear!" Such living likenesses were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow, sublime reconciliation: oldest elmrnl melody as of the heart ot mankind; so soft and great?as the summer midnight, as the world with its seas and stars! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bihle or out of it, of e?jual literary merit. SUITABLE MOOD. "What did your husband say when you told hi in you wanted a new parlor carpet for a gift?" "lie was floored." THE QUICKEST. "Is there any way of suspending the unwritten law?" "Oh, ves; by hanging the advocates." EVIDENCE. lie?Didn't it ever oeeur to vm? that 1 was in love with you? She?Certainly; haven't you ever noticed me laughing to myself. MAKING ALLOWANrr ? w "Is tfie boy trustworthy ?" '*1 consider him so. I'd trust him as far as I could sou him. Of course I'm it ijjhtv near-sighted." Mrs. R\e?Did the lawyer for the ' defense submit you to a cross-examination ? Mrs. W've?No, indeed: lie was as pleasant about it as he could be. \\ 5sS r \\ t [ 11 ^ % II ??'i W II5 r ife // ^ C * i ? pg