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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."'
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i?ai h noriung. Ma savs lie owes
everything to her."?New Haven'
Journal. _
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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."
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HIS DRAWBACK.
"Whyt pa. I am astonished to hear
you speak of Henry a* you do! lie
is one of the beat mm going." ,
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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-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."
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TRIBUTF TO BOOK OF JOB
Recognized by Thomas Carlyle as On*
of the Gneat Masterpieces of
Literary Work.
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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
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"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.
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