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^ Ijgf; Very Odd Mistakes ; That We All Make. i| I -*?v? ftt & & jg many buttons have you , It* I 011 ^0Ul W:lisl(-'oat? This j?J % is no catch, .lust a simple ** -*|l quest ion. ami if you can answer it without counting. why, it shows that you possess powers of perception above the average. It is an absolute fact that nine men out of ten cannot ffell offhand liow many buttons there .are on the garment they put on every ( morning and take off every evening, says Pearson's Weekly. < This is just one of these things which exemplifies how absolutely most people ] fail to cultivate their powers of obser- ] ration. Here is another: A watch is a fairly familiar object. < yet if you are asked whether the num- j bers on the face correspond with the ] Roman numerals what would you say? ; Ninety-nine persons out of a hundred 1 H? "would answer "Yes." Yet the ninetyPS|ti j? * nine would be wrong. The symbol for i four is not the customary IV., but < IIII. < One could multiply such instances to 3 almost any extent. It is safe to bet al- j ' most any man except an architect that 1 lie does not know how many stairs j there are in any particular flight in ; _ his own house, even though he has climbed them thousands of times. It is not that we have not the faculty -of remembering such facts. That we 1 <Io possess this is proved by the comparatively astonishing feats of mem- 5 ory each of lis performs daily in his -or her especial line of occupation, n ( A cook will carry in her head hun- j 1 -tlreds of different recipes, a shipping 1 clerk hundreds of addresses, a shep- * ipr- "herd can recognize in an instant a sin- ( ;gle individual sheep out of a flock of T several hundred. The mischief is that s so few of us train our powers by ob- * serration outside our own particular f Jines. I PerhaDS nowhere is this better erem- 1 "plified than in courts of law. c In a recent murder case a man sus- * t>ectetl of the crime was seen on the * road near the house by three different A persons. One. a sweep, said that the individual was rather short and stout. I ||: Trad a beard and mustache, and wore 1 Bp dark suit of clothes and a bowler f liat. A second witness.'a woman, de- 1 ff -clared that the man was above me- 5 j|; * <3ium height, had a black beard and I ??> 'whiskers, but no mustache, and wore a 1 -cap. Of his clothes she was not sure. f p'l "but thought they were light in color. 1 The third witness, a young laborer, * gpir ^vas positive that the man was short."thin, elderly, had a gray beard and Ipe mustache, and wore a brown coat and t -corduroy trousers. Luckily for the , _ -cause of law and justice, it eventually ' turned out that the suspect was in no- t Rjjr. -cent, for the real criminal was after- ^ |||?. iwards discovered. Motor car cases furnish some instrne- , l|||f tive reading as to the value of evi-ilence. A driver was charged last/ * Pp year at Brentwood with driving at expf. cessive speed. Two policemen de- j. Hp clared that the five and a half miles ^ |il? between Brentwood andx Ingatestone g||.. were covered in eighteen minutes. ^ Questioned as to the color of the car. j|| -one policeman said that it had red 11 psrnes: that owner pointed out that his I "l -car was dark green. Yet he was con- i *" Ticted and fined. j t There is no point in which average ||j tinman judgment errs more completely < Bp; than in the estimates of distance, length, depth, height and speed. An I-amusing proof of this was recently " offered by the Mayor of a certain soutb country town. Edmund Davis, a well-known motorist, convicted of traveling at excessive c speed in the borough in question, made s an offer to give x.">00 pounds to the ( poor of the town if the Mayor could cs-, c tirnate his speed within two miles an ^ liour ca three successive trials. But ^ -the Mayor, no doubt, mistrusting his c powers, did not even reply to Mr. r Davis* sporting challenge. r An interesting experiment was tried * at Berlin in December last, with a ^ view to throwing a light on this ques- ., tion of the conflict of evidence. Its v originate:- was the well-known I'rofos- c sor Von Liszt. v He got up a quarrel between two of ^ the pupils in his class of students. ^ Only the two pupils and the professor j knew that the quarrel was to take } place. To the twenty-three other per- s sons in the room the whole affair came ( as a total surprise. j The quarrel, it was arranged, was to , take place in two parts, firstly, the ex- 5 change of abuse an.l angry epithets; secondly, the use of a pistol and walking stick. The pistol was. of course, j loaded cnly with blank cartridge. . At the time appointed the quarrel took place amid tremendous excite- j ? *- ^ A/1 I M r\1lf Uear. JLlie jumu suctcru-ou in itiii- r ting a stop to it and getting hold cf the ( HSipsf .smoking pistol. A At the end of tlm kor.r he told his ^ ||v; -class that the quarrel had been a sham c -one, but asked t!;e .voting men to con- ;1 si (I or it as real. A week later he lec- ? k"h- tr.red c:i the uifiiculties of evidence. t W]~. a id afterward tcok in private the testi- ( ir.ony cf those who had witnessed the j I&?-". quarrel. " ^ Cut of these twenty-three weil educated young men the evidence of no two was exactly alike. No fewer than eight different names were given as 1 pv that of the originator of the fight. 1 The actual tiring of the pistol was t rl~ . accurately described by nearly all, but I there were four separate versions of i 1he exact period of the quarrel nt i which it was fired. The professor's "v town attempts to quell-the disturbance t was told in elr*-t different versions and ] the.result absolutely confirmed the fu- | tility of corroborative evidence in a j court of law. Tl*? sense of si.aht is deceived in a [umdred ways which are rarely considered. For instance, stand and watch tile revolutions of the cups of the ane- j inometor?the instrument used for ! measuring the velocity of the wind. You may so::? for several minutes | its carefully as you please, yet at the ! end of that time still be puzzled as to j the real direction in which they are | turning round. The more uncertain tlio j wind and the greater consequently the j variation of speed, ti:e more is the dif- j ticulty of the task increased. Again, standing below a high bnild- j ing and looking up. many will aver J that the wall is not exactly perpendic- j ular. but inclines overhead in a threat- | en ing manner. The longer the wall ox- j tends the stronger becomes the illu- j slon. Another simple illustration of the dif- J acuity experienced by most people in i making exact observation is the failure j to notice mistakes in type. In a recent ' experiment copies of uncorrected j proofs were distributed among a num- j her of scholars in the highest grade of j i primary school. The average age of Ihe class was fourteen years. The average number of errors found | was only twelve. Some of the children >n3y found three. The actual number I b WW tMIAffVjtLtl'AnO 1 r\T?Aft'f- t ui.ti u [7iui?:j'.->ny;iui [uuut- I reader was for \v-oue. A particularly j Interesting point about Jiiis experiment { was that the eider children, as a mie. found fewer wis rakes than the younger. Proof of Earth's Curvature. Although it was demonstrated more :han 2000 years ago that the earth is globular in form, there are certain persons who maintain that it is flat, i! \bout thirty years ago a controversy J >n the subject waxed so hot that it j | vas determined to put the matter to ! lirect experiment in order to settle ! he question once for all. The place j 'hosen was near Bedford. England, j vhere there is a straight six-mile :1 stretch of water. At both ends and n the middle of this water posts were ' u-ected, each of the same definite J might above the water level. Upon ooking with a telescope along the tops >f these posts it was clearly seen th^it he centre one overtopped the others < >y about six feet, owing to the cur* ' rature of the surface of the earth. These experiments were recently re- t >eated'in a more scientific manner by 1 I. Yule Oldham, who read a paper on i he subject before the Glasgow meet- < ng of the British Association. The ;ame result was obtained, with the im- ' lortant difference that by the employnent of a tele-photographic lens and 1 amera the six-foot prominence of the ] niddle post was recorded in an unmis- i akablc manner. A Masculine Trait. j "Men as a class are certainly not in j ; lie habit of boasting of their good j , ooks," said Miss Zaida ben Jusuf, he distinguished photographer. "At |. he same time, though, every man is J aire, and rightly sure that there is ir. |4 Lis face some unique and admirable [ [uality, and on account of this qual- J ty he would not change faces with j my one. ''There is an Arabian story," Miss on Jusuf resumed, "which brings out veil men's liking for thorn own faces md their distaste for the faces of their j eiiows. i i "Two camel drivers, according to the ! tory, met in ihe market place and the | irst said: ' *1 met a man to-day who declared ! hat I resembled you.' ' 'Tell me who it was,' said the other, that I may knock him down.' " 'Oh, you need not trouble,' said the irst camel driver, *1 did that at once.' " -Cincinnati Enquirer. Petrarch's Laura. Apropos of the celebration of the J iOOth anniversary of Petrarch's birth, j ays the Westminster Gazette, a dis- j ussion lias arisen as to the identity f Petrarch's Laura. The old story : vas that she was Laura di Xoves, or ; L'Ancazune?a member, at all events, i >f an old Provenclal family?who maried one Hugo de Sade, of Avignon, nd was the lineal ancestress of the larouis de Sade, of inglorious memory, j )n investigation, however, this story; J ppoars to rest upon little beyond the | insupporied word of a certain ighteenth century Abbe de Sade, who vanted to flatter his vanity with an nteresting genealogy. M. Gebbart, | he well-known French writer on the | Renaissance, inclines, on the other j Land, to the opinion that the immortal iweetiieart of the poet is quite mii lentitiable, was almost certainly of r.o \ importance and was of plebeian or:* ;in. Do Wo L'?t Too Much or Too Little? A safe generalisation on this subject s that those wiio can have all the food hey desire are very apt to cat for the >leasure of eating, and commonly eat 00 much. This, however, is not true >f most of those who have to earn their jread by daily industry in occupations vhicii earn them the prevailing rate of rages. Very few of this class are >verfed at any period of life, and that 1 more generous diet would be to their idvantage is more likely to be true ban that they need to be advised to *at less. Bad cooking and monotony n diet are much commoner evils.?New fork Times. Wouldn't Hod nee Hour* A recent attempt to reduce the daily lours of female factory workers at Freiberg. Germany, was opposed, on ( he grounds that competition with taly, Japan and China would not pernit it, and that, if factory life were nauc too attractive, domestic help vould be still more difficult to obtain :han it is now. \ , Wonder GREAT BRONZE ST; Kamakure GLASS HOUSES j FOR CONSUMPTIVES ; _____i Sun Parlor in the New Ho in Philad forced in through metal conduits at a | height a little above a man's head. J When cooler it finds an exit through { ventilators raised a foot above the i floor. Belliu<l each pavilion, and con- { nected with it by the glass-covered j porch, Is a building of glazed brick, j containing the kitchen, bath and toilet j rooms, and in the basement the ma- j ehinery for heating the air, also the j blower, run by electricity, for forcing i it into the pavilions. In the auxiliary 1 building, as in the pavilion itself, all the surfaces are as smooih and non- 1 absorbent as possible. d FLOWEKIHQ ttT/TERT. Central Asia now puts in a claim far the most remarkable of all the bulbous plants. It bears the imperial title of "Monarch of the East." In color and appearance the bulb resembles a large potato, and its extraordinary property is that it flowers with out me am 01 eariu, sanu. sn/nu>. water, or anything else. The dis coverer of this phenomenon says: "The tiower sheath sometimes reaches a length of nearly two feet, is of a redbrown color, tipped with red and yellow, while the inner parts of the flower are equally brilliant." He also adds thai the bulb of this extraordinary of Japan m * & ' & $' *$ " vf ^ gte*. I \>TUE OF BUDDHA, i, Japan. ilonf nnnric rmli- +i-? I-.n Yil o in *1 l HE originator of tlie idea of ^ the scientific treatment of O f O consumption by sunlight, % $ Hr. Biggs, the chief resident physician of the Philadelphia Hospital, has induced the municipal authorities to erect 5ix pavilions, at a cost of Sil4.000, for the express purpose of giving the plan a thorough trial. The buildings are now completed and will be furnished and ready for occupation v.'ithin a few flays. Each pavilion is separate 1n itself, with walls and roof of glass, and only sufficient metal work in its construction to support the framevvork. The floors are of cement, so as to be as smooth and nonabsorbent as possible. Each pavilion is twenty-seven feet wide and thirty-six feet long. Running around the building is a six-foot porch, also surrounded by glass. The glass is arranged in frames ten feet in height. By means of an automatic device one side cf the building or all four sides j a may be thrown open. The glass above i c the doors is worked in the same way, J r so that in warm weather each tier of J v glass frames may be opened, turning i 1 the pavilion into little more than a J s shed with a glass roof. The inside i s giass is ribbed sufficiently to make it j f opaque. The glass of the porches is j s transparent. c The buildings are intended for use i ' *? T .1 4-1* ~ _ Do til winter ana summer. iu mc ?wu- t ? ter they wil! be heated by warmed air 1t MU lit ilUUUC VUJJ IV W J/iUVS.U AAA V* j ;aucer, without water, in a warm 'oorn, when, without showing either eaves or roots, the flower makes its ippearanee, usualiy early in the year, I hriving entirely upon the nourish- j nent contained within the buib. A? soon as the flower has faded j .way, and a growth appears to be j oming from the bulb, it should be j' >otted up in good soil and freely J vatered. Later on an umbrella-shaped eaf is formed on a stout stalk re- l enabling brown granite in color, and j ometimes reaching a height of threa ; net. In autumn this leaf fades, and as i oon as it has died off. the bulb is lifted j ait of the soil, cleaned up, and placed i u a dry condition in a warm room, j vhen the previous year's display will j >e repeated.?New York Times. spital For Consumptives iclphia. | iffl Of TI ITBOPOlfs | " j > r; A"--- - ! Hon. GEO. B. AVCLELLAN, of New York. BAILEY'S PHILIPPIC. ,. J j Texan Scores- President for Alleged Social Equality Proclivities in Opening Campaign Speech. A New York dispatch says: The campaign in Brooklyn was opened Thursday night by a meeting held un-. ir<r?ar'a der the ausp.cts ui ua o Democratic Club, at which Senator Jo J seph W. Bailey, of Texas, was the principal speaker. Resolutions endorsing the nomination of Parker and Davis ' were read, and after an introductory i address in which, he viewed the politi- J cal si:uation. Edward M. Shepherd,! chairman of the meeting, introduced I Senator Bailey, who was greeted with prolonged applause, in part he said: "Not content with having nominated j a candidate who had taught, by his J personal example, the pernicious doctrine of social equality between the ' Anglo-Saxon and. the African races, the republican party has gene still further, and, as if bent upon the mischievous design of aggravation in racial antagonism. it has deliberately proclaimed its intention to reduce the representation of certain states in congress and in the electoral college, but the people ot those states will not consent to be represented by ignorant and inferior men. "Bo the men who made and who adopted that platform Know that if their threat should be carried into execution the south would not be the only sufferer? C\> those men not know that this country is so closely and so J firmly knit together that the whole ! must suffer from every injury inflicted ! on any part? The millions invested in southern railroads are practically all, fnreian holninsr. the DroDer ty cf northern and eastern men. "But there is another and higher standard. This attempt to resurrect sectional differences is in painful contrast with the teachings of that great and kindly man who was elevated to the presidency by an election and not by a tragic event. As this nation stood with uncovered heads around the martyred McKinley's grave, men of every section blessed his name and memory because he had restored good will between the brothers who had been estranged by the civil war. The sorrow over his untimely death was universal and as genuine in Mississippi as it was in Massachusetts. And yet, his successor. who promised to follow in McKinley's footsteps, has reversed McKinley's policy and is now fomenting discord where McKinley had peace." "The race problem which now confronts the southern people will tax their highest wisdom and their moot unselfish patriotism in its solution. Except for a single and nameless crime against he women of our land, there Is no thoughtful man in all the south who does.not deprecate lynch law. "If, however, there are amongst us men who justify the lawless spirit, which sometimes expresses itself in a public lynching, they could not find, in all the range of English literature, a more pointed and complete defense of such conduct than has been furnished by the republican candidate for the presidency in his work, 'Ranch Life and Hunting Trail,' in which there is the following: ' " Thirirxr tho Ins* rtr thrpp vpnrs the stock men have united to put down all these dangerous characters, often by the most summary exercise of lynch law. Bands of horse and cattle thieves have been regularly hunted down and destroyed in pitched fights by parties of armed cowboys, and, as a consequence, most of our territory is perfectly law-abiding.' ''The president, as if relating a commonplace incident, adds this mild statement: "'A little over, two years ago, one committee of vigilants in Montana shot ! or hung nearly sixty?not. however, j with the best judgment in all cases.' "I rejoice to know that whatever may be done and said in the southern states which thoughtful men cannot in* j dorse, it has never happened among us j that any man .with intelligence enough j to write_ a book or with character | enough to command an election to an ! important office has ever justified I lynching as a punishment for tbeftJAPAN NOTIFIES POWERS. W'll Take Summary Action Unless Russia Promptly Disarms Ships. Japan has addressed a note to the powers informing them that unless Russia forthwith disarms her warships . 0.1 1 T .-11 f/* I in snangiiai, japan win ut? iuiicu | take whatever steps she deems nece.v j sary to protect her interests. Mr. Takahira, Japanese minister as j Washington, called at the state de-! partment Saturday and left with Mr. A'dee, acting secretary of state, the communication of the Tokio government. I DEATH IN MAD DOG SITE. Voung Boy Dies in Frightful Agonies of Hydrophobia. As a result of the bite of a /ox terrier jffx weeks ago, ii (Ie Thomas Igoe, aged 9 years, sen. of Captain and Mrs. Thomas F. Igoe, of Summerville, S. C.. died Sunday afternoon in the Tabernacle infirmary, at Atlanta, Ga., after undergoing the most frightful agonies of rabie3. . CORPSES PILED IN HEAPS ' 1 Most Frightful Carriage Follows Ropeatcd Assaults of Dauntless Japs 4 on Forts Around Port Arthur. ?. . N Associated Press dispatches from Che Foo state that the recent assaults by the Japanese around Port Arthur > have b~en of the most desperate cnar? acter and were marked by losses which almost stagger belief. Advices received in Che Foo Thurs?. c? day state that the attempt of the Japanese to capture fort No. 1 cost them fully 10,000 men, killed and / wounded. Four desperate charges * were made by the Japanese on the v ! 1 fort, but each time they were forced to fall back before the terrible fire of the Russian batteries. The second, third y and fourth charges of the Japanese Tj were made over the corpses of their comrades who had fallen in the first ^ dash. * yj?2 When the atack ceased the ground for 300 yards in front of the fort was ?. , , literally covered with the bodies of the mikado's soldiers. Many of the Japanese were shot down at the ditch sur-? rounding the fort. This assault was ^ made lender the eyes of Field Marshal Oyama, who arrived several days ago, and is directing operations \ against $ Port Arthur. t- oeooiilt r?ri "Pnrt Pt^phan the 1U tuu acouiMv v** *. ? ? - . r,^ Japanese were more successful, for they carried the position though at a loss of about 3.000 men. -Two charges In force were made before the Japan- I ese captured the positions, so desperately did the Russians cling to the fort. In the last charge the Japanese swept into the fort in overwhelming numbers and literally wiped out the ** Russian garrison. It is said that not * one in ten of the Russians escaped. Fort Ttsehan is a most importaifc position in the chain of forts surround- ^ Ing Port Arthur and its possession by the Japanese gives them a point of vantage from which to use their artillery against the other forts. So constant has been fighting that there has been no time to biiry the * t dead. Corpses in great numbers are strewn all around the port in various stages of decomposition. t Chinese arriving in Che Foo say that ! thousands of vultures are constantly hovering over the battlefield. ; battleships dismantled -? Meet Welcome Order Received by Russians in Shanghai Harbor^ { ^ An Associated Press dispatch from ?! Shanehai savs: An order was re* ceived Wednesday night from the Russian minister ordering the cruteer Askold and torpedo boat destroyer Gro ^ zovoi to be disarmed. ; There was considerable anxiety in official circles throughout the day. first, an order went forth that the vessels remain four days longer. Then negotiations were begun for another four days. This request was eagerly ^ and ^rsistently pressed by the Russian minister at Peking, but it wau ab soiutely refused by the Chinese gov- ' ernment Then an order reached - i Shanghai to push work on the vessels and go out to what seemed certain death Sunday. The abject distress of ^ t the Askold's crew when this news was received was pitiable. From the first the officers and crew have urged disarmament, but the minister at Pe- ^ king would not consider the suggestion. The dock managers notified the Russian officials that the Askold's hull would not- be repaired by Sunday. More telegraphing to Peking followed ^ and finally the welcome order to dfs-' mantle was received by the Russian admiral. Uncier the supervision of the customs authorities representing China, the Askold and Grozovci will go out of commission, and as soon as they are patched up they will take their places alongside the gunboat * Mandjur, which was dismantled last March, and remain tied up until the war ends. By this action Russia loses two units cf strength, but serious complications with the powers are happily averted. ' % ! OFFICE HOLDERS ARE WARNED. I : , * , ' Instructed Nc'c to Violate Civil Service Law During Campaign. ' \ In view of the approaching election, the civil service commission at Washington has addressed a letter to the _ * j heads of all departments and bureaus ? i calling their attention to violations of I the civil service law in past connec! tion with political campaigns and inj closing a circular containing a warn- V ng against the demanding or payment of political assessments or partisan activity of office holders. | - , after nine years. * Another Reward is Offered by Georgia wk?vci n?r Tor vrm mjrci*. A reward of $250 has been offered for the arrest of Will Myers, the young white man who escaped from the Fulton county jail in Atlanta nine . 4 ;years ago, while under sentence to be Ranged for the murder of Forest Crow ley. 1 The reward was offered by the gov ernor on tire request of Solicitor Gen < eral Hill, who has information til*1 ' might lead to the yrest of Myers. ^ * *