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yrs Lose Lives in Disas: In Welland Canal t Steamer La Canadienne ) : Gates of Lotk Swirl of Water Rushiiig Out f Leck Catches Children Playing the Bank -- Twos Escaps and h s Perish. . Thorold, Ont., June 21--Threc small boys were . drowned amounting to several thousand dol- Jans Was 'caused last evening when he' Canadian Government survey steamer La Canadienne broke through out gates of lock 22 and sank to "bottom "of the Welland Canal. In addition to the drowning of the boys and the severe damage to the canal nd the steamer, all the belongings of the crew were destryred. 'The steamer was on her way from 'Quebec to Lake Buperior, and reach. 'ed lock 22 in safety. After the gates had been partially closed, an order was given to go ahead. The tying 'line had not been secured fast on the Tubbing post, and before the engineer could give an order to reverse the steamer had been pushed into the per gate. The rush of water caused | r to collide with the foot-gates, en snapped and floated on about yards. Water poured into the lock and forced the steamer back on to the locks, 'tearing a great hole in her | The pum of no avsil, within hal! an hour she had mk. A number of the members of crew escaped barely with their lives and lost all their belongings. A large quantity of maps and official re- cords, charts, etec., were saved. A huge section of the bank along the west pier was torn and the road as far as 18 was damaged. Five small boys v-re playing on ' the bank of the canal, and when the water rushed out of the were caught in the swirl. Gecrge Bretherick managed to save his life | by running away. Hugh Macuire, Government surveyor, saved the life | of David Bouck. The three other lads. Willie Tacke, aged five; Willie | Wellace, aged five and Leonard Bret- | wick, four years old, were drawn into the water and drowned. The children 'were the sons of English people, who had been living in this vicinity only a shert time. They were in the habit qf playing on the banks of the canal. Had they hurried across to the waste wier bridge, a short distance to the the flood of water from the upper level embankment. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The Niagara Falls City Council yes- terday entertained the members of the British Manufacturers' Association touring Canada. The bank statement for May just is- ed has as its principal feature Iarge jncreases in deposits, assets, liabilities' And call Canada: Call logns {n Canada have decreased. ; A fire which originated from & gasoline explosion, almost totally wip- ed out the year-old village of Edan- port, north of North Battleford, Bask., yesterday, on the Jackfish branch of the C.N.R. Tenders are being called for for the erection of a wireless outfit at Point Edward. The Northern Navigation Co. intend to equip their boats with outfits as soon as the land station is S3tipped. . 5 en was instantly killed by Sheil irruthers, when he and otb- er robbers ghowed fight at Mammoth 'Bprings, Ark., yesterday. The other two, Bito Burrow and Lifus Davis, promptly surrendered. Motoring from peler, F. R. Lalor, M.P. for Haldi- mand, met with an accident when his sutomobile collided with a telephone pole. Mr. Lalor was thrown through' # glass wind-shield and had his band Badly cat. : NA . The reorganization of China haa been matle possible by the complete understanding reached yesterday by the bankers representing Great DBri- tain, the U. 8., Germany, France, Russia and Japan, to China $300,000,600. loan = Committed For Trial. Torbnto, June 21.--Dr. W. Beattie Nesbitt, the former president of the Farmers' Bank, was formally ecom- mitted for trial when he appeared before Magistrate Denison in the po- lice court yesterday afternocn. The charges on which he is committed 'for trial are fdur of signing fa'se returns to the Goverhiment while he ! was president of the bank. H. H. De- wart, K.C., who is representing Dr. Nesbitt, protested that no evidence of the doctor having done anything knowingly wrong had been brought out, to which the magistrate restorted that he was not trying the case, The 'bail of $30,000, on which Dr. Walter McKeown and the defendant are ties in equal , was re. ts ». i ----------------w , a Glasgow Honors President Falconer. London, June 21.--Principal Fal- coner of Toronto University is to re- ceive the honorary degree of LL.D. from Glasgow University. Rt. Hon. R. L. Borden, Premier of nada, has been elected a L.ember the Royal Colonial" Tustitute. Object to Sunday Carip: Woodstock, June 21.--The Minister- "Association has passed a resolu- jon: condemning the movement of the Regiment, Oxford Rifles, to on Sunday, and urging the Mid. A nd" the and damage ! lock they | west, they would have escaped, but caught them and swept them over the | loans outside of Brantford to Hes. | SETI AMS F vIeW, "LN0BE Tervent In 'this great fight for the rule of the Joone, and for social and industrial , 'which has now also become a clear-cut. fight for honesty against dishonesty - and theft, desire me to lead the fight, I will do so." --Theo- Roosevel t. Teddy Not Ardent Sufiragiats, New York, June 21.--Theodore Roosevelt has declined to join the New York Men's League for women's suffrage. Immediately after the re- ! cent anveuncement by Col. Roosevelt | that he was for women suffrage, the - secrefary of the league called at the former ident's office, and left a membership blank for him to sign. The secretary has now received his snawer. It says that "Col. Roosevelt the present time does not wish to avail himself of your kind offer." PARKER 1S CHAIRMAN. He 1s Temporary Convenor of Deme- I cratic Convention, Baltithore, June 21.--Former Judge Alton B. Parker of New York was se- lected yesterday as the temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention by the arrangement com. mittee. The choice of Judge Parker was made against the protest of Wil- liam J. Bryan, whose friends sub- | mitted the names of four other can. | Eight of the | | sixteen votes of the committee went | | didates for the honor. to the New York jurist. while Repre- | sentative Henry of Texas received | three votes, Benator-elect Ollie Jamen of Kentuc! three votes, Senator Kern of Indiana one vote, and Bena- tor O'Gorman of New York one vote. As the eampaign managers of those seeking the Presidential nomination were playing for position with respect to the nomination, the vote in oppn- sition to Judge Parker was in conse- quence split up. With Judge Parker the committee chose Urey Woods of Kentucky as temporary sccretary and John I. Martin of Missouri as temporary ser- | geant-at-arms. The selection of the | arrangement committee is in no sense final, and must be passed upon next | Monday at a full meeting. Report had it last night that a tele- gram had been despatch to Chicago to William J. Bryan asking that he | come at once to Baltimore. Beveral | national committeemen said after yes- terday's meeting that they expected | that a fight by Mr. Bryan and his | friends would be made on the floor | of the convention against Judge Par- | | ker's selection. Evelyn Dressag Well. | White Plain, N.Y., June 21.--Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of Harry Thaw, took the stand again yeeterday riorn- ing to testify against her husband. | Che was smartly dressed in a white serge suit, and wore a black straw | hat with a yellow plume. Mra. Thaw testified that her hus. band made a proposal at the Grand Hotel in New York, in 1904, that they {| both commit suicide. He had the I details all planned, she said. They ! were to engage rooms not the Waldorf | and drink poison. He had cven fixed | the hour. Bhe refused. fhe testified further that Thaw had | complained to her that the food given him while he was in the Tombs was oisoned. He also complained that | he could not eat the potatces they | gave him at Matteawan because | "there were large lumps of salt petre | in taem." | Evelyn Thaw's testimony was inter- rupted when it was learned that Mrs. | Busan Merrill, who rented apartments | in New York to Thaw, was in the | building. Bhe had been sought [or | days by the state. Police Drove Away Pickets. Montreal, June 21.--The monotony of the garment worker§' strike, which has been dragging along without in- cident, was relieved somewhat yester- day when the police swept down the | streets on which factories are still being operated and drove away pick- eting strikers, arresting five for not moving on fast enough when told to do so. The strikers have retaliated by swearing out warrants against several | of the employers' private detectives, | | alleging strong-arm methods. H | The arrested pickets have pleaded not guilty. | Boy Killed In Elevator. | Ottawa, June 21.--William Grant | Young, a lé-year-old boy, was almost instautly killed yesterday morning | while learning to operate the elevator in 8t. Luke's Hospital. He was lit- erally hanged. the head being caught and the body hanging outward. Death was due to strangulation. Conscience Money to Government. Ottawa, June 21.--ITon. Dr. Reid, | Minister of Customs, received yester- | | day in an unsealed envelope $5.20 | conscience money, forwarded through | the Bishop of Chicoutimi. It had beon | given up by a repentant smuggler. SAT FOR FIVE MINUTES i Republican Convention Held Up by Credentials Committe." Two Brief Sessions of Chicago Gath- ering Are Held and When Crowd Is Kept Indoors on Account of Rain Police and Convention Offi- cials Remain' on Platform to Pre- vent Roosevelt Making a Spesch. Chicago, June 21.--Five minutes was the entire duration of the two sessions of the Republican national convention yesterday, with a recess of four hours between. The first session, convened at noon, last four minutes; the second, one 4 roof Militia to The feature ofthe noon session 'the ht of the Very Rei: Waller 4. Sumuer, dean of the Pr el t and Victor | 'copal Cathedral of 'Bt. He Will Ctay In the } Min ae 8. 'Paul of Chicago, and 'which followed it. This prayer differ- ed from that offered st the opening session on Tue n Father Callaghan adhered strictly te the us- ual form of Roman Ok ritual; likewise from 'the roe 'Wednes- "day by Rabbi Stols, wh 'less and general in'its coler. fliet rE HA 'that | cepted. " m % | ing | deal | vaded the' applause. |' | liam Galbraith the _ master of rin vocasioh wis the west gal- thering into 'e want Ted- started all right, but almost Hadley and Cummins us gan an opposition. tur- "with the vesult that wi less than a, 'there was simply. one meaningless chaos. of noise. Present. ly + group of 'men in, the south gal- lery, k of 'the platform, ht our or. five ones into : play i afl" oh i ing rainstorm, was in pro- gress outside, so the people Ryo Tae effort of a man in Jery to swing the great un son with the cry " simply stood where they were and Ff each tc his taste.' - Under coyer .oi the racket, and at first' unnoticed by the crowd, there began to gather on the platl a servative Has Forty | i pendent Liberals: Ele: C body of 'policemen; first one, then a other, then three, till'in a tew min- utes there were ranged along the curved edge and at the back of the Janeen some twenty blue-clad po- ice.. And they were under the T- ' sonal command of Assistant Chict Schuettler Then it began to be noticed that Chainnan Root, Secretary Gleason, Sergeant-at-Arms Stone and his asso- sistant, Col. Thayer, had never left the platform at all. And the crowd began to understand the reascn for this conspicuous show of force. One of the reasons for the immense crowd which had gathered yesterda was the general impression that Col, Roosevelt would come tc the conve tl factions, perhaps a bolt sf the Rcose- velt adherents; possibly sn attempt to hold a rival convention simultan- eously on the floor of the rame hall. | There had been a tremendous addi- tion to, almcst a doubling of the po- lice force on duty at the hall, and in the morning Chief of Police McWeeny had taken personal command at the Colliseumn. To the person uninformed as to the swiitly changing develop- | ments of the day, the promise of ex- citement was exce plsnatly alluring. The crowd which waited for the umberland, where thi Conservatives ran on ticket, two of them Bt. John City, Yo Counties, the Oppo ' lost their deposi Opnosiion leader, ed in Westmoreland. Flemming headed to 0. | The result of | giveg the Governm pendents 2, and | Gloucester polli place on Mo Thi storm to cease was good-humored, but | it was a situation full of possibilities, | and the convention officials were tak- | no chances. As it was, Chief Schuettler was about to turn the peo- ple out into the storm. So far a good more than an hour a police guard surrounded the platform ard the convention officers kept their places on the stage, while the great crowd velled itself tired. At last the rain began to slacken and the police got busy at once; gent- ly but grimly edging the people out. By that time they were ready to go. In the Colliseum Annex the creden- | tial committee was hearing the first of the contests. It was word {rom the committee that the work could net be finished in time for any session yesterday which brought about the | quick adjournment. Whether business will proceed to-day when the conven- tion is called to order 'at 11 o'clock, will depend chiefly upon whether the all-night session of the credential committee completes the werk of pre- paring the roll of the convention. Mutiny at Mukden. Pekin, June 21.--The Chinese troops station in Mukden mutinied Wednes- tims of their ferocity and hundreds of houses were destroyed by roving bands of mutineers while the jewelers stores were first looted and then | burned. Foreigners and their property were scrupulously respected by the troops. The women and children found refuge at the British consulate. Te city is quiet to-day but all the stores are closed and strong Chinese guards-are posted at the oily gates. NORTHERNERS ARRIVE. New Ontario Boosters Are Assembling In Toronto. Toronto, June 21.--Toronto was in- yesterday by an army of Northern Ontario boosters. Immediately after their train drew into the station the delegates went to their headquarters, where the prelim- inary meeting was held. Every man wore a huge badge on his lapel, ad- vertising the north. "Come and pros- per with us; Algoma offers good farms and best markets," said one white badge, while another bore the in- scription, 'Sudbury, the hub of the north," All were optimistic of the | result of their invasion, believing that Toronto and old Ontario would come to realize by it the true worth of the new and undeveloped section up north. It is expected that about 600 will arrive to-day for the day's boosting campaign. There will be no brass band or fireworks; the invaders are serious in their publicity pursuit, and business-like campaign. Those who landed last night were principally from western portion of New On- | tario. A large delegation from Bud- bury and the east will arrive to-da for the procession to the Parliament Buildings. At noon the Board of Trade and City of Toronto tenders a luncheon | in the Mutual Btreet Arena after which owe hour's speaking will be indulged in. At eight o'clock a large public mass meeting takes place in the arena and will be addressed by i delegates from all parts of the virgin north and local prominent people. "What we want Cl is pub- licity ; publicity built the west and our land is just as advantageous to the settler," said a speaker, and this was practically the keynote of last night's meeting. But an obstacle pre- | sented itself when the North Bay | and Budbury delegates locked horns | with the rest of the northerners on | the question of land grants being giv- en to colonization railways to open i country to the north and south N Bay, and' 3 gates, opposed. | | Celebrated Mass In Orange Hall. Catholic" Church was bu and the Orangemen then use of their hall to the local ; for sei . The offer was gl and mass was ¢ there for a considerable time. The incident was: related. | 0f s day evening. Many natives were vic- | they look for results by a serious and | * Montreal, June 21.--A happy ex- ] ; rtesies bet nge- len ahd "Roman Catholics been hed at Waterville, Que. The riest y ac- ted PREMIER FLEMMING. | besides two vacant ones, newly ere. | ated. The parties stood: Government, | 84; Opposition, 12. Complete details have not been re- | cetved and majorities are about as | near as can be figured out yet. Ma- | jorities are top-government man over | top-opposition. he results were: | Northumberland -- Allain, Gdvern- ' ment, 2,875; Hon. John Morrisey, | servative, 2,068; Swimb, Ind. 'Conser- | vative, 3,017. | Queen's County--Woods and Blipp, | Government, elected, 425 majority. | Bt. John City--Wilson, Tilley, -Lock- | hart and Grannan, Government, 2,000 | Bt. John County--Baxter* and Car- son, Government, 500. Charlotte--Grimmer, Clarke, Taylor, Guptill, Government, 900. | ent--Laundry, Bourque, Sheridan, | Government, 500. Kings--Murray, Government, 700. Carleton--Flernming, Munro, White, | Geyernment, 600. | estmoreland -- Black, Humphrey, | Melanson, Mahoney, Goverdment, Jones, af City--Price, Govetnme t, ! | Gov. ! 3 3 ork--McLeod,. Pe : Moorehouse, Govern: Bunbury--Glasier and' ernment, 800. Albert--Prescott and ernment, elected. Y, jon, Gov- Hole Victoria--White and Carer, Gov- ernment, 100. Opposition, 600. y estigouche--Howart and Government, 400. | | | Madawaska--Pelletier asd Dugal, | | | ulligan, Incinerated In Auto Wreck. Hempstead, N.Y., June Albert Baumgartner, of Hemp , was burned to death and six prs injur- ed in a collision yesterday between a . high-power touring car" a run- about near the grands © of the Long Island motor parks The two machines were' Baumgartner being pi the touring car. A | flames covered the wreck. | eried for help but his' were unable to aid him af incinerated before their | | Winnipeg, June 21.--Ii session of the Manitoba Conference Wednesd ference declared its do its utmost to destory slave traffic," and the Dom ernment will be mem make procurers and pro ject to lile imprisonme Montreal's Amateur Montreal, June 21.--The "made this year of the firsh built in Montreal by ont (tors has been successfully mated on Mr. Cousine | the Bois Fran road by ! Reid, a local emateu | - The machine is const lines of a Bleriot. Shot Wifes on High River, Alta., lisle Bertrand, a merchant wife three times Wedn: killing her instantly place" on the. princip rand ig in jail 5: ee ety cette . Sifton Still Winnin London, June 21,--At the tional Horse Show here, Ho Sifton's Hercules divided third awards with N ers, Glenross and Somerset, : another dependent | pverpment ! D. THE The Only 'MERRIAM WEBSTER Rebridged dis siiassean din No, 1 feed. oba ap h bid were still but as Was reported. | were mad, Thursday scores ton 12; Philadelphia 6, cago 3, St. cinnat! 4% Friday games--New York ut Boston, w York 3i, Bos Brooklyn 2; Chni- | Philadelphia at Brooklyn, Chicago at St. Louis, Pittsburg at Cincinnatl American League. Clubs-- orton Philadelpli Chicago { Washington ! Detroit ..... Government, 2,354; Btewart, Ind. Con. ' | .. 18 38 296 i: toxton 13, New York J; Philadelphia 5+8, Washington €--1; t. louis ut Chicago, ran; Detroit 7, Cleve lund 2. i'riday games: Boston at New York, Washington at Philadelplia. Canadian League. Clubs. London Ottawa Hawiiton Brantford Guelph . St. Thomas Berlin ... Péterboro 'a 20 E Tuursday scores : London 2, periin 1 Hamilton 7, Puterboro 4; Brantford at St. Thowas, rain; Ottawa 3, Guelph 1. Friday games: Brantford at London, Berlin at Hamllton, St. Thomas at Pet- erboro, Guelph at Ottawa, y SIOGHOMY. How Your Character Is Written In Your Face. In your forehead and eyes the ac- complished character reader scans the pages of an open book. It is you Dickson, | yourself who are telling him cf your character, be it stable or unsteady, hereie or ¢owardly. Hae knows that , if your head is justly proportioned to | Fehind well-developed brows, | divided the rest of your body it reveals steadi- ness and force of character; it too large, that it usually indicates gross. ness and stupidity. : If it is too emall it tells of feeble- neas and ineptitude of mind, if not af constitution. The physiognomy of your forehead is seen in the form of the frontal bone, its height and pro. portion, regularity or irregularity. This indicates the disposition and measure of your facilities, your meth- od of thinking and feeling. Pathog- nemy is to be studied in the skin, its color, tension, and relaxation. It gives evidence of the passions, the actual state of the spirit within, and the use it has made of its natural gifts. Frreheads seen in profile may be into three broad classes-- those that are projecting above, flat on the eyebrows, those retreating rom an those perpendicular. Generally speak- ing, people with prominent eyebones act promptly, on the judgment, per- haps the passion of the moment. they err very seldom, for their gifts of intuition and extremely rapid de- | duction guide them rightly. | | y | High foreheads, lacking in this quick spirit, pause and consider the matter before taking action, and, be- ing less imaginative, less passionate, less resourceful and tactful, they can- rot afford to make mistake. The man of action has a short fore. head and prominent brows; the man of intellect high, well-developed tem- ples. A forehead square on the tem- ples and retreating into the hair on either side is indicative of lasting memory and well-balanced judgment. The typical forehead of a leader of men is that of Viscount Kitchener-- | Won. Lost. P.C. t 8 bil 651 | tario 'millers | Louis 4; Pittsburg ¢--3, Cin- ; W an A | Wheat grades, and the tone 0c | | | ut © % to $8 rive 5 bid Some demand 0. 3 north and sales of about 1 made at $103% i. ton > aa wheat flour continues quiet, but as improved . demand ii if is strong with Mi Oats--Canadian western, No. 3, BY do., Ny. Ro: xt: tei do. No. 3 uc "to ike: xtra. Ho. § Barley-- Manitoba feed, Sho -- Ma, : ing Ju 10 SLOT. : 10 Sass mpi: our--Manitoba spring wheat fenth eas .80; 5, $5.9 pir Pak L nter patants, cl $5.40 to 35.50; rollers, $0.95 to #6; don bass E00 holed oats--Barrels, $5.08; bags, 90 Ibe. Miilfeed--Bran, i shorts, middlings, $28 to 2 moutlie, 5 Adal Hay--] ton, car lof No. 2, per Cheese--Finest w fod "ire; te te co ees ter--Cholcest cream H seconds, 24c to 2 "4 7. His» 4 av Beieciad, "to 260; No, 3 stock, Potatoes--Per bag, car lots, $1.58 wn noss--Abattowr killed. HES 16 Pork--Heavy Canada short barrels, 35 to 45 pleces, $26; ds, cut backs, barrels, 45 to 55 pleces, ). Lard--Compound tierces, on 1bs., 10%: wood pails, 20 Ibs, net, llc; pure, tierces, 3, $5.80 , wi straight to $2.45, a, Mc; pure, wood palls, 20 Ibs. net, ' CATTLE MARKETS. Toronto Live Stock. TORONTO, June 20.--Receipts of live stock at the City Yards were 60 carloads, comprising 572 cattle, 609 sheep, 2573 hogs, 162 calves and 1M horses, i Butchers. olce cattle w i mand extending from et i oro. 8¢ Briges ra Milkers and 8pringers. ces did not change, hold; at the old figures, with a good rR thorn. The figures quoted run In a wide sweep of from $40 to $70. : Beef Cows. The fair to medium grades fell from & tjuarter to 4 balf.cent a pound with the offerings good. The better grades run from $.50 to $6.25. Canners, which have ng In strong in number of late, 'were quoted at §2. . Sheep The number offered was just one less than Wednesday, and the prices held around the usual mark. Heavy ewes were quoted at $4 straight. Light ewes were strong st from $6 to $5.50. Bucks were not much in demand with prices set at $3 to $4 Lambs. Bpring lambs quoted at from $9 to $10 were in demand. In a few Instances sales at §11 were reported, but these were mere- ly instances where the buyer sorted out a cholce lot. Calves. The offerings were considerably lighter than usual, only 162 coming into the mar- ket, and the range in prices was from 28. bs were quoted at M straight, the tension in the vem! market forcing a slight advantage during the week, Hogs, The offerings were exceedingly heavy-- 2578--and the prices remained at $8.28 f.0.b, with $3.60 paid for the fed and wat: East Buffalo Cattle Market. EAST BUFFALO, June 20.--Cattle--Re- and 100 to 18c higher; heavy, xed, $1.76 to $1.85; yorkers, $1.20; pigs, $1.15 to $7.25; roughs, $8.75 to 3.85: stags, to 36; dairies, 31.60 to F1.MW. Sheep and lambs--Receipts 1000 head: active, - Lambs yearlings steady: Rt I RR ; yearlings, $1.78 to 38: wes, $4.25 to wi sheep, mined, Live Stock. short, compressed, with eyve-bones and thick, straight brows, | square and receding on the temples. People with this manner of forehead cannot fail to judge character of cir- cumstances with quickness and sc- curacy; they store away observations in a retentive memory and act en Tusi with pi t and de- cision. 5 It is singular to note that Bismarck and Li Hun Chang both showed the ' Qistinoti of i t so 'sharply as brows A An 1 of these and Jebus por ho gta gd € nes tha 'oject and the | weak. Beeves, CHICAGO, June '20.--Cattle--Recelpts 4000. Market strong for beeves, others 40 to $8; western steers. to 38: noe ers, $4.20 to $6.90; Market active, © and heifers, $2.20 to $8; calves, $6.50 to $8. Hi Reoel) oo higha : 10c to isc higher. Light, $7.2 to ( ; 25 to 91.10; wt heavy, X to 47: bulk : No Military Needed, TL is McKean, chief 'Penfisgisania, was & man stature and a Sery temp $6.10 to $0.50; Texas steers, | of Dickens' List of Names. ! It is not really surprising that the pames of Dickens' characters, odd ss | they are, should be found in real ifs for it was trom lite that many of them were taken: Nome, as we kuow, were copied from the names over shop doors, etc. But this was not the novelists only source of selection. Among bis papers John Forster found carefully | drawn up lists of names, with the sources from which be obtained them, | and the longest lists were those drawn trom the "Privy Council Fducation Lists." Some of the names thus noted are too extravagant for anything but reality--Jolly Stick, BIll Marigold, George Muzzle, William Why, Rober! Gospel, Robin Scrubbam, Sarah Gold sacks, Catherine Two, SBophla Dooms day, Rosetta Dust, Bally G'mblet.= London Chronicle, kL --- ail fiddle ot the Sphinx. The sphinx--some sort of fabled © monster--proposed a riddle to the peo- | ple of Thebes, it is said, and murder- ' "ed all who could not answer it. ' Oedipus finally solved it, and in cha- i grin the sphinx put hersell to death. | he riddle was as follows: 'What ces on four feet in the morning, two | eet in the afternoon and three ab night?" The answer given by Oedipus was this: "Man, because he crawls as | a child, walks upright in_ his full strength and walks with a staff when an old man." 1 "Cursory. % A hantsman called on Hodge $0 settlé for damage done by a run te hounds and found only Mrs. Hodge at homme. 3 | "Has your husband," he inquired, "made an examination yet?" ; "That he have, sir," replied Mrs. Hodge, with a curtsey. "Rather a cursory examination, I suspect?" ; "Oh, dreadful, sir. Buch lang. | widge I never heerd--never!" And the good woman held up her hands at the bare recollection. : There is one place in a ship where the voyager may be at rest. is write er discovered it during a mid-Altantic storm when he went down to the bath- room, tumbled into a warm sea bath and floated. The vessel was perform- ing the most amazing antics, but the water in the bath kept its usual grav- ity, and the bather floated with a smile upon its bosom.--London Tatler. "Buch Is Life. "It's a hard bike Be qendach ne's business without plen Sapi- ay observed the man with the wing chin. | Or Youire right," "agreed the man with the mange nose. "If a fellow hasn't oh lanky 9 Sackiseg'be ties 0:40 8 fa of tepping.' pA ER All One Race. Prof. Keith in a London lecture on the evolution of man said that the resemblance of the prehistoric mon- keys found in the Fayum, in upper Egypt, to South American monkeys in- dicated the common origin of the ane thropoids of the old &nd new world. ------------ A Half Partner. A--That woman who just went rows, 1 suppose. % fo fo see hie joys: joy 5 vors which he snatches quis - forgetting that thet, while one assistant in there pre Seoally She Ae Slee + seeming] eply © n various: work eer with the shop, buf | roality standing in close proximity $0 the door, snd ready to circumvent any: such trickery. y : adopts quite different tactics. af the incident had he not Sapre to notice that the necklace had att to it a tag of bufl eolor, lo Rin the shop b.re white tags is the r of your joys and a ho? the counter: ings as sutomatic elosin; doors, snd! serving' The clever jewelry thief, however, "Take for instance, the man v o a shor. time ago, became known as a regular; if not a very wealthy, customer al's West End {Landon} jewsiers. Jit on the counter. lonk more closely at a certain diss mond ne¢klace which he had previone. ly admired, and the obliging jewsief took it otit of the case to show him, After duly praising it, the custom: et handed 1 back and the jewels would have taken no further note mediate urmised that sorise! 4 The man was detail snd search revealed that he had | original peckiace while the other handed back to the jeweler was 'sn imitation. %% It appeared that during the seven sits paid by the customer he hs made a close study of the neckince | it lay in the case takiug in th: mit utest details and from memory had st - imitation made {rom paste diamonds, correct enough ih every' particular to deceive a'moet anyone; and this le had « 'hanged for the real neck~ lace while adm: it. made the small mistake of attichi to it a wrong-colored taz the jewels might still be bemcaning the loss a $2.500 necklace. This palming of reel jewe handing back imitations is a lav game with jewelry thieves," by the greatest care 8! hands bo prevented. An, of this trick has, by the' tried very suegessfuliy both in and in New York. A mnartly-dre: woman "ith a pretty ehrild--usuasily & gitl--drives up to a fashionable pi Fo er"s and asks to inspect a selection of stones. Naturally the ¢hfld displays a certain curiosity, which is appats ently checked by the Isdy, who fre. quently ad hed the tof with worda: "No, darling not t:uch these things. hands aw-y."' 3 The child seems so innocent of wroppduing iat the jeweler pon nothing, perhaps e child in conversation, sad while so doing that he offers the lady sa opportunity fot gubstituuing > soue paste stones for the real. , Mes chance occurs, the lady will de the jewelers attention {rom 'the for a moment and allow thie precocious youngster, who, of eourse, has be trained for the part, to effect a sib stitution of the imitation for the resl. And then there is the oid d still worked very successfully, of | fixing w ;iece of cobbler's wax in the holiow heel of a boot, accidentally knocking off a ring or so from : counter, treading on ii, and after subs mitting to = search the s eweler and ici a ndignity, walk- ta, worth per haps $200 or $300. fo "Fhe half-eaten apple scheme is ali | an old onc, but even flow is fully, T perator enters store munching an apple, and while examining uncut stones, presses ong into the apple, casually Sauers 0 the door, auu throws it out. ¥ 4 returns and buys a little somaethi His conieerute «n the outside the apple and The b Haoaty umbrei Z ook out 1 you must Keep yoof ief is Tis he' 13 . but when if 3 he rie