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A QUEEF. CREATURE. Stegosaurus One of the M<4t Peculiar Ever Known. With the strange armor plate standing up along its spine and a head and brain relatively more diminutive than those of any other known land vertebrate, the stegosaurus, > preserved in Jurassic strata of Colorado and Wyoming, was one of the most unique of the gigantic dinosaurs P. W OilmnrpJ VI 1UCI3V6V1V UUU^a. v. ... , of the United States national museum, who has been studying the remains of this monster, states that its . "weight when living has been estimated at between seven and ten tons, * its length at about 20 feet and its height to the top of the highest dor^ salplate at about 12 feet. The small and feeble teeth indicate that its diet was very succulent plants?probably in low, swampy regions. It had the dinosaur characteristic of massive -hind legs with small fore legs, but its ancestors are believed to have been bipeds. Growing weight of body and armor made it slow moving with apparently just enough brain to direct the mechanical functions of life. The armor of neck, back and tail was formed by two rows of erect plates, the plates of one row alternating with ; >* those of the other. * The animal ] seems to haver typified a kind of pre- , paredness for passive defense, with , bulk and armor as protection, but so , inert and sluggish that even its powerful tail, with only unwieldy, side J movement, was no weapon against an ftntivA foe. 1 Ten Thousand a Week. i . < ' ? Charlie Chaplin, it is announced, ' V lias ^"signed a contract with a film ' company to act for the movies at,a ' salary of something over ha'f a mil- ' lion dollars a year?$520,000, to 'oe exact?in addition to which he has J received a bonus of $150,00.0 in reI turn for making the agreement. The ^ I I moving picture people who have capI I tared. him feel that they are very, 1 very lucky and they are celebrating 1 T their victory joyously. For weeks ] Charlie has been in New York auc- ! tioning himself off to the rival bid- ] ^ ders who were after him and his stay there has been constant round of royal entertainments. It will be 1 hard, doubtless, for him to come back 1 to the simple life after the wining 1 and dining to which he has been sub- ; jected. His vast audience is calling . him, however, and there are signs of impatience which he will hardly be ' - ( able to ignore. The people will do ( V without Shakespeare and never mur- . mur, but unless-there is a fresh ' Chaplin caper at least once a week ^ dangerous discontents are bound to burst forth. How rapidly do.we progress in! ( some directions! Only a few years ago j , * we plumed ourselves on the money we1 j . spent on baseball players. Why some j of them, /we bragged, sold for as much , as twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars, and their salaries were as 1 high as ten thousand dollars a year! ( Only the other day there were boastC ings of the fifty and sixty thousand . dollars a yeai* paid to the great artL ists who draw the daily comics for L ' the papers. How pitifully small such , L yages now seem. It is really a k ' shame that these geniuses should receive such slight encouragement. i Chaplih has not been so ill advised as they. He knows his worth and while half a million a year for the ^ % foremost slapstick comedian of his time may be short of the mark, it is at least respectable. : f ' The news of what Charlie has ac- 1 complished will be blazoned through- ; . out the land, and the people will re- < >joice. Of dourse if any lawyer or . :' doctor or preacher or butcher or 1 grocer should devise a scheme for ; "cleaning up" such a "pile" in a , year's time he would at once be denounced as a dangerous citizen; , hut with Chaplin the case is differ- j ent. Those who believe the story of j Charlie's new contract will maintain . at all hazards that he is worth what- ; ever he gets. Doesn't he .make1 the people laugh? The rest will at least get a laugh out of the story. They , think they know "press agent" stuff when they see it.?News and Courier. Fire Proof Shingles. Wopden shingles that resist the spread of fire, instead of aiding it, r have been produced experimentally by chemical treatment at the Wisconsin forest products laboratory. The air-dried shingles are treated with a solution of borax in water, kiln-dried until the moisture is reduced to 10 per cent., then treated with a zinc chloride solution, and after again drying are found to be so impregnated with an insoluble sodium borate that soaking two weeks in running water does not destroy the fire proof quality imparted. Though the treated wood may be made to burn slowly, it does not burn with flame, the cell walls being coated with the infusible salt. The solutions must he applied under heavy pressure, and the process is expensive unless large quantities of shingles can be treated. i Ik A LETTER TO MR. W . Which Shows That Human Nature Changes Little in a Century. Open letters in verse or prose to the president of the United States are the fashion. Here is a model one in prose "To Mr. W? "As censure is but awkwardly softened by apology, I- shall offer you no apology for this letter. The eventful crisis to which your double policies have conducted the affairs of your qountry requires an investigation uiicramped by ceremony. There was a time when the fame of America, moral and political, stood high in the world, and to be an American citizen gave a title to respect in Europe. The W? of politics had noi then appeared. Elevated to the chair of the presidency, you assumed the merit of everything to yourself, and the natural ingratitude of your character began to appear. From such a beginning what else could be expected than what has happened?? a mean and servile submission to the insults of one nation; treachery and ingratitude to another. Traitor to His Friends. "It has for some time been knowD by those who know him that Mr. W? has no friendships; that he is incapable of forming any; he can serve or desert a man, or a cause, with constitutional indifference; and it is the cold hermaphrodite faculty that imposed itself upon the world, and was credited for a while for prudence, moderation and impartiality. Being now once more abroad, I began to Qnd that I was not the only one who had conceived an unfavorable opinion of Mr. W?; it was evident that his character was on the decline as well among Americans as among foreigners of different nations. "Among other things which I confess I do not understand is the proclamation of neutrality. When the profession of neutrality on the part of America was answered by hostilities on the part of Britain, the object and intention of that neutrality existed no longer; and to maintain it after this was not only to encourage further insults and depredation, but was an informal breach of neutrality. That the government of England considered the American government as pusillanimous is evident from increasing insolence of conduct. Prudence Before Principle. 'The character which Mr. W? has attempted to act in the world is q, sort of nondescribable chameleoncolored thing called prudence. It is, in many cases, a substitute for principle, and is no nearly' allied by hypocrisy that it easily slides into it. His genius for prudence furnished him in this instance with an expedient that served, as is the natural - , ? and general^nature of expedients, to diminish the embarrassments of the moment and multiply them afterward. ? > "A man versed in the quibbles of the law may find a way to cheat some Dther party without that party being able to take the law of him. But when this is attempted on the national scale it is too despicable to be defended. The injury which Mr. W?'s administration has done to the char acter as well as to the commerce of America is too great to be repaired by him. In what a fraudulent light must Mr. W?'s ^character appear to the world when his declarations and ! his conduct are compared together. Apostate or Imposter? "It is laughable to hear Mr. W? talk of his sympathetic feelings, who has always been remarked, even among his friends, for not having any. It is the ingratitude as well as the pusillanimity of Mr. W? that has brought upon America the loss of character she now suffers in the world, and the numerous evils her commerce has undergone and to which it is yet exposed. The British ministry soon found out what sort of men they had to deal with, and they dealt with them accordingItr TViin in 4-Vift frrmin ri nnnn urliinVi 1J X IllO id Lll^ 5IU U11U upuil VYUiVU America now stands. All her rights of commerce are to begin anew, and that with loss of character to begin with. And as to you, sir, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or imposter; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you never had any." That is the way to talk to the president of the -United States. Owen Wister may blush to see how little the art of invective has advanced since the Anglophobe Thomas Paine wrote these words and more like them to President George Washington. Sad to Hear. "I heard something very sad this morning," said a mistress to her servant, in explanation of her not feeling well, as the girl commented upon Vicip miotrace'c onnooronno I iivi LUioii o appwai au^^? "Well," said the girl, "I can feel for you, ma'am. I heard something sad this morning, too." "You did?" asked the mistress. "Pray, tell me what was it?" "The alarm clock, ma'am." EFFECTS OF TOBACCO. Experiments Made to Determine Results of Smoking. Tobacco smoking and coffee drinking have rapidly become marked characteristics of the American people, but whether these habits are proving seriously injurious is still a matter of disagreement* ui lODacco, the production in the (united States exceeds $416,000,000 a^year in value, while the home consumption is more than 578,000,000 pounds. In an extensive investigation Dr. John Aikman has made some interesting experiments on 27 young men, aged 16 to 31, each of whom was given one cigarette to smoke under quiet conditions, and on each of whom the effects, carefully observed, were found to be quite marked. The pulse rate, especially, was notably stimulated. In 16 out of^the 27 the increase was over eight beats a minute, and the average increase among these was 14 a minute. The influence on the blood pressure was more irregular, some of the smokers showing a fall, some a rise and some no change. From these experiments and many varying opinions, it is concluded that little is known of the real effects of tobacco smoking, but Dr. Aikman is inclined to believe that the enornious increase in the use of tobacco has had something to do with the great increase of diseases of the circulation in the last few years. KqKtt VOX U Ui t&JU The baby usually cuts his first tooth when he is 6 to 8 months old, and by the end of the first year, has ordinarily, 6 teeth. He should have 12 teeth at 18 months of age; 16 when he is two years old, and before the end of the third year the entire set of 20 "milk" teeth. > The process of teething 'in a healthy baby cannot properly be held responsible for the illness commonly attributed to it. The first half-dozen teeth rarely give the baby any pain, but as the double teeth appear there is occassionally at the. same time a little disturbance, such as loss of appetite, and possibly evidence of slight indigestion, which may last for a few days. But if the disturbance is more serious than this, some other reason for it should be sought. Teething takes place through the weaning period and during the second year, when mistakes in feeding are so often made which upset the baby s digestion, even if they do not make him seriously ill. On this account it is often unjustly blamed for making the baby sick, when the real reason lies in the fact that he was overfed or improperly fed, or perhaps that the weather was veTy hot. It must be remembered that excessive heat aggravates any ill the baby may have, and is quite sufficient in itself to make the baby sick. It is necessary in summer, therefore, both on account of the heat and because of the disturbances connected with weaning and teething, to take great care of the baby in 4*1 respects, and especially to feed him with great caution. Directions for feeding the baby are given in a pamphlet called "Infant Care" which will be sent free to anyone who asks for it, applying to the Chief of the Children's Bureau, U. S. department of labor, Washington, D. C. The baby may not -gain in weight during the cutting of his various double teeth, but it is not a serious i A A _ I. it. . * _1_ A f ? mauer 10 nave me weigm remain stationary for a short time. The baby will quickly regain the lost ground when he is well again, and eating his full rations. The mother should never allow anyone to persuade her to give the baby patent medicines, sticli as soothing syrups to relieve the pain ol teething. If they do relieve it they probably contain opium in some form, which is much worse for the baby than the suffering. It is a safe rule never to give medicine of any sort to a baby, save that which is ordered by a doctor. From the time when the double teeth make their appearance throughout life the teeth should have daily care. For the baby a very soft brush is necessary and the utmost care should be taken not to injure in any way the delicate tissues of the mouth when brushing the tiny teeth. After the baby has several teeth, the mother should see to it that no particles of solid food are left between them after the baby has eaten. If the first set of teeth is well taken care of, the second set will be healthier, and in addition the child will have been taught a good habit that will last all his life. There is considerable variation in the time that the teeth first appear, but if the baby has no teeth by the time he is one year old, he should have medical attention to see if any disease is causing this unusual delay in the development of the teeth, or wnetner it is aue to improper aiet. One way to live without work is to work somebody else. Money may get tight occasionally but it never stutters. SO DECEPTIVE Many Bamberg People Fall to Realize the Seriousness. Backache is so deceptive. It comes and goes?keeps you guess* log. Learn the cause?then cure it. Possibly it's weak kidneys. That's why Doan's Kidney Pills are so effective. They're especially for weak or disordered kidneys. Here s a Bamberg case. Mrs. S. M. Kinard, Broad St., Bamberg, says: "Last spring I suffered from a severe attack of backache ana it caused me much annoyance and pain. Any bend or sudden movement sent a sharp pain through my kidneys * had headaches and I often felt as 11 I was falling. The kidney secretions were unnatural. Others of the family bad found Doan's Kidney Pills very beneficial and 1 began taking them. One box brought the very best of relief, removing all. symptoms of the trouble in a short time." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't limply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Kinard had. Foster-Milburn 04., Props., BufTalo, N. Y. W. RENTZ, JR. 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