\ APACIIES OF PARI Night Prowlers Whose Trade Is +, . Murder and Robbery. {THE TERROR OF THE POLICE. Desperadoes Rarely Use a Gun, _ but Work With the Knife, the Biud- eon or by "Tolling'=-They Have a 'Short and Bloody Career. yThere are very few nights in the ear when Paris policemen on thelr - ffounds do not stumble upon a body ly: ling in a gory pool. Sometimes the 'handle of a long, slender knife pro- trudes between the shoulder blades: sometimes an ugly gash bleeds from ear to ear; not seldom blood oozes from mouth, nose ~nd ears, as though the dead had not sustained any ap j arent wound, or three little starlike vuises may dot the temple, or a bluish 4.1@ an inch wide may mar the back + the neck, jast above the collar line *' es Apaches," the "cops" whisper each other (for Parisian police of: rs always go two by two), and they '| for an ambulance, much relieved "to have witnessed the incident. ve steel blade, the blackjack, the 3 knuckles, will serve the purpose he Apache, according to his vic- + size and presumable strength. a prey of small stature, however. Apache reserves what in his slang alls "tolling." A sharp blow dazes victim and throws him down; the iche's knees bore themselves into 1» chest, while bis hands seize the + S, lift the head and slam it a couple + times on the pavement until a dull. « thud tells of a fractured skull. Ontil an Apache is an adept at * ticking" bis man in very much the "ame way in which a Spanish torero -.4 \Spatches a bull, with a single tbrust fetween the shoulders, or at cracking r i > PICKING HUSBANDS. 4 \ Woman's Cynical View of the Ger- man Marriage Market. The men in Germany do not marry. {hey are married. They are more or fess passive articles of sale, which ttand in rows in the matrimonial shop window with their price labeled in arge letters in their buttonhole, wait- ing patiently for a purchaser. They tre perfectly willing, even eager, vic- tims. They want to be bought, but their position does not allow them to trasp the initiative, and they are thankful when at last some one comes ilong and declares herself capable and willing to pay the price. The girl and ber mother, with their purse in band, pass the articles in re- riew and choose out the one which best suits their means and faucy. "TY shall marry an officer," one girl told me some time ago with the easy tonfidence of a person about to order a new dress, and, lo and behold, be- fore the year was out she was walking | proudly on the arm of a dragoon lieu- tenant! I even knew of three women who swore to each other that they would marry only geniuses, and here also they had their will. One married a great painter, one a poet and another, a famous diplomatist. That they were all three peculiarly unhappy is not a witness against the system, but a proof that geniuses may occasionally be very uncomfo-table partners. In this case the purchasers were rich and popular and could therefore make their choice. Others of lesser means would have had to content themselves with jan officer, cavalry or infantry, accord-: ing to the "dot," or a lawyer, or a doe- tor, or a merchant, and so on down the scale.--Miss Wylie's "My German Year." . Queer Ways In Which Ideas Are Sometimes Put Into Words. # Skull bone at one slam, he is held in iittle esteem and never allowed to tackle "big jobs" in a dangerous neigh borhood, for Paris is a well policed city. The night bawk must strike like lightning, empty the dead man's pock ets In a wink and slink away into the dark, Therefore Apaches very seldom \carry guns; the knife ts silent. 'Toll- Ing, too, is safe--so many people are Iknown to have Slipped and fractured ftheir skulls! Unless the yictiin is es- pecially well dressed there is not much jof an inquiry. When it is all over the gang, which atters like a flock of frightened spar- rows, meets again at some wineshop fwhere no one is welcome who is not "in the business." } Apaches never try to conceal their 'social status. Thelr very clothes are ® sort of warning to the public. They even affect a peculiar walk, the body bent from the loins, shoulders bunched trousers pockets. ito molest them? : The Apache is a marked man. Joins a gang at three or four and twen- ity, and by thirty or thirty-five he has gone. The maws of a jail bold him for the balance of his earthly exist- ence. He knows that. He expects it. _ Wherefore while his freedom lasts there 4s no desperate chance he will not take t>-get at the gold that alone could Save him. Apaches are not born; they are made--made by the peculiar laws of France. Every citizen of the repnb lic, withont distinction of rank or «lass Must serve under bis for two years. fit escape that servitude. At the end of his term in the ranks every Freneb- man seeking employment must pre- Sent as meats of identification his cer- Uficate of honorable die-harge. Then it 18 that tragedy looms up for some unfortunates. Woe to the one whose certificate mentions the '"Afri- can battalions!" The African battalions, garrisoned at the edge of the Sahara desert, are made up of all the boys who bad the misfortune of being arrested before they reached the age of twenty-one. Trivial as their offenses may have been, whether they were due or not to the Indiscreet exuberance of youth or to some absurd entanglement, they fre sent to the desert outposts, kept on convict fare, sleeping mostly in trenches which they dig, watched over by sentries that shout to kill. Under the broiling sun that lays them down fast with fever and chol- era they build roads, crept over the next day by the snod. They are "the front" whenever Arabs or Moroccans threaten to shake off the French yoke. When they fall by the wayside they fre tied to a horse's tail. When they protest spnrs cause the horse to rear, And when the creepy water of sand Wells, bullets from the sentries or from the nomads and the hoofs of vicious horses have spared them they return to their native city with hatred in 'Mheir hearts, with the loathsome mem- 'orles left by association with the de- Praved and the morally diseased. ) Lhey return to their native elty to ina doors and bearts locked to them. Whelr military book, which they must Produce, proclaims them jailbirds. Who wants to employ an ex-convict? (uring their two years in the African anferno they have atoned for their er- rs of the elghteenth or nineteenth ear. For the second time they bave ttled thelr account with society. hd pow society refuses them a ance to show that they bave (for me of them have) shed the old bide. fto prove that a uew heart ts beating th their breasts. | Hard fs the plight of av ex-consin fn France.--Andre Fridon in New York @ribnve. CONMITY'S fag Naming the Baby. Down iv Prineeton there is a baby our months old who has not yet been the parents, for they are anxious td w what the child is to be called, he other day a friend of the father \ him on the street and said: | "Named the baby yet?" "No, not yet,"' was tho answer. and hands plunging deep into the | But who would dare | He | Only the poysically un- Curions ways of expressing ideas in Pnglish may be expected from foreign- | ers, as, for instance, when the French- /man, who made a call in the country jand Was about to be introduced to the (fatufly, said: "Ah, ze ladies! Zen I vould before, if you please, vish to purify mine 'ands and to sweep mine | hair," A Scoteb publican was complaining /of his servant muid. He said that she could never be found when want- ed. "She'll gang oot o' the honse," jhe said, "twenty times for once she'll come in." A countryman went to a menagerie |to examine the wild beasts. Several | gentlemen expressed the opinion that | the orang outang was a lower order of the human species. Hodge did not | like this idea and, striding up to the | gentleman, expressed his contempt for it in these words: "Pooh! He's no | More of the human species than I be." "Mamma, is that a spoiled child?" | asked a little boy on seeing a negro baby for the first time. A shop exhibits a card warning ev- erybody against unscrupulous persons "who infringe our title to deceive the public." The shopman does no: quite Say what he means any more than the proprietor of an eating house near the dock, on the door of which may be read the following announcement con- | veying fearful inieltigence to the gal- jlant tars who frequent this port: "Saflors' vitals cooked bere."'--Phila- delphia North American. Definition of True Humor. The seuse of humor is the "saving Sense" principally because it saves us from ourselves, The person who can- ; net laugh at himself now and then is to be pitied. Moreover, the person who cannot take good naturedly the occasional bantering of others is in the same class of disagreeables. A well directed shaft of raillery will often find the vulnerable point in our armor of self complacency and show us where our self satisfaction is all wrong. True humor, however, must Spring as much from the beart as from the head. Its essence must be truth and friendliness, not contempt. There never was a good joke yet that told a He or besmirched a reputation. Humor which carries with it a sting to wound the sensitiveness or delicacy of one who does not deserve to suffer 's not true humor.--San Francisco Chronicle. Professional Instinct. "Romeo and Juliet," with the origi- nal company, had reached its erucial moment, Juliet waa Staggering about the stage, regarding her afflicted lover. "Ob, cruel poison!" she wailed. She raised her lover for a moment in ber arms. A wildly excited medical student in the gallery sprang to his feet, "Keep him up, Juliet--keep him up!" he bellowed. "I'll run out and fetch he stomach pump!" A Run of Luck. Violet----I never had such a stréak uf luck. He fell in love in Panis, proposed in Rome and bought the ring in Na- ples. Pierrot--Did your luck end there? Violet---Oh, no! While we were at Monte Carlo be won evough from papa for us to get married on.--London [l- lustrated Bits. "The Laocoon." The famous work "The Lavcoon" was modeled by the great artists of Rhodes about A. D. 70. It represents the death of the Trojan hero Laocoon, priest of Neptune, and his two sons, as described by Virgil. It was discoy- ered near Rome in 1506 and purchased. by Pope Julius I. It is now in the Vat« ican. "The Laocoon," like "Hamlet," has provoked a world of comment, but all agree that it is one of the master- ristened. It has worried the friendg Pieces Of artistic expression.---New, York American. Shy, but Observant. ' The average man's wife is a shy lit. tle woman who can see more out of her sitting room window than he can | | "Well, why don't you neéme him?' ' 4 ; _ bee from the top of a skyscraper,--«' i re at's use? He's cxtegoren Galveston N | "But whet difference: doss that ene Nobody Knows It All, i AT the ditterenee tm the world. No man is 0 wise that the mete twealdn' a8 'good to name barefoot in street cannot teach dia woatterh call bim by 18 ange bim a trick or two. -- Detroit Brea' We : Presa, ODDLY EXPRESSED. . LOTTERY IN ITALY Gambling Under the Auspices of the Government. THE DRAWING IN PUBLIC. } Watches This Ceremony With In- tense Interest--The Prizes and the Chances of the Players. the public lottery of Italy: | Fily maintained by the favor of thd | state under the following laws. | Second.--It is administered by the | minister of finance, under whom tha | chiefs are chosen for their respective | funetions. |. Third.--The lotto is formed by nines ' ty, numbered from 1 to 90, inclusive, ' five of which drawn by chance eter. mine the successful, | Fourth.--One can "play the lotto" in the following manner: On one number (very rarely played), | On all five numbers (very rarely' played). | On two numbers--the "ambo." |. On three numbers, which is known as the "terno." | On four numbers, which is known as ; the "quaterno." Fifth.--_When one number is played the winner is paid ten times and @ _half bis output; when two numbers are played the winner is paid 350 times his output; when three numbers | are played the winner is paid 5,250 | times his output; when four numbers are played the winner is paid 60,000 | times his output. Therefore if one has by any chance bought a No. 1 ticket and wins the four numbers (quaterno) he wins $60,000. At 5 o'clock on every Saturday after- noon throughout all Italy the drawing of the lotto takes place. In Naples the ceremony is held at the end of a foul, filthy alley known as the Impre- sa, back in a great courtyard, in full view of the people on the baleony of an old palace. From early in the aft- ernoon until the fatal hour the streets of Santa Chiara and the alley fill up: | with the crowd whose hope on this day is to be deceived. The streets are always so full of life that for this extra crowd, jostling. pushing and eager, there would seem to be no place, It is comprised of the very poor. The better classes watch for the telephone or the showing of the numbers in the various banks in the city to discover: their fate, but in the Impresa the: crowd of people is as dense as a shad- ow. There are many bere who have paid their last cent for a ticket. There are many here who are in debt for the shoes they wear und wil! never be able to pay for them. But at the stroke of the church clock the blinds of the bal- cony open and the parapbernalia of the lotto are brought out--a_ long green table, on which is placed a crys- tal ball bound with silver, and an iron, box containing winety other little box- es, In which the ninety numbers are tocked by the state. The officers of this performance are coolly indifferent, and the only figure deserving of note is that of the little orphan child, dress- ed in snowy white, chosen by law from the orphan asylum to draw up from the crystal ball the five magic num- bers, At the sight of these familiar, looked for objects the crowd begins to cry and chant, to beseech and evoke. It begs the little orphan child to draw well. And the child in his white robe, his innocent eyes on the mass of peo- ple, looks down on the beggars with their yellow locks and on the appeal- ing mass. One by one the balls are taken out from their sealed boxes, dis- played to the people and dropped into the big bowl. They have blindfolded the little bam- bino, and he stands on a chair, for he is only eight years of age and is small, in full sight of the people. The balls hay- |Ing been shaken around for the last time, the child puts his hand in and draws. The first number that be pulls ' out is called forth--"No, 5." Now, every Italian who has bought No. 5 for place has either won or lost. No one holds this number in this crowd, however, and there is a murmur--and a fresh adjuration for the child to dyaw well. |The people who have drawn for the /terno and the quaterno still have their 'chance. 'he child draws again, this time No. 47, and the holders of the 'terno are now the interested ones, for the next will be their last chance. The }enthusiasm breaks forth again with murmurs and cries and prayers, and |the quiet child before the urn in bis | white dress hears them and trembles, |for he knows that he is menaced. Be- | fore the people there is a blackboard, 'and a man posts up the numbers as | they are drawn--5, 47, 11, 10 and 80. | And this series of five is discussed, jyelled at, challenged. cursed, for not }one in the crowd has drawn a fortu- |nate number. The child's eyes are un- |bound, and he is put down and set | free. The balls are returned into their | boxes sealed up aud carried away un- | der the eyes of the crowd, which after 'waiting for a moment, unable to be- | Heve its ill fortune, breaks up and dts- rupts. Apathy is thrown upon the ma- jority as much as such a state of mind is possible to a Neapolitan mass as | they begin in groups to discuss the ' failure of their schemes and their com- _ binations.--Marie Van Vorst in Har- | per's Magnzine, A Rain Trap. 'In a time of distressing drought, says a writer in Tite Yorkshire Post, a harassed amateur agriculturist step- | ped into a shop to buy a barometer. The shopman was giving a few stereo- typed instructions about indications and pressures when the purchaser impatiently interrupted him. "Yes, yes,' said he, "that's all right, but what I want to know is how do you set it when you want it to rain?" 'Each In His Own Field. ' Papa--See that spider, my bay,. jspinning his web. Is Rak wonderful Do you reflect that, try as he may, no! | man: could a that web? ee Johnny-- t of it? See me spin: this top? Do you reflect, try as He: |may, no spider could spin this top? -- An Eager, Excited, Turbulent Crowd King Humbert 1. made the rules for | | are not imposed, eo ae Make Life There Joyous and Bar Out Business Worries. Whatever your lot in life, keep joy with you, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine, It is a great healer. Sorrow, worry, jealousy, envy, bad temper, create friction and grind away the delicate human machinery So that the brain loses its cunning. Half the misery in the world would be avoided if the people would make a business of having plenty of fun at home instead of running everywhere else in search of it. "Now For Rest and Fun." Business 'Troubles "No When you have had a perplexing day, when things have gone wrong with you and you go home at -night exhausted, discouraged, blue, instead of making your home miserable by going over your troubles and trials just bury them, Instead of dragging them bome and making yourself and your family unhappy with them and | Speiling the whole evenning, just loci | everything that is disagreeable in your | Office. | Just resolve that your home shall be | & place for bright pictures and pleas- | | ant memories, kindly feelings toward | everybody and "a corking good time" | generally. If you do this you will be | surprised to see how your vocation or | business wrinkles will be ironed out _in the morning and how the crooked things will be straightened. The Cookbook, When blending flour and water try using a fork instead of a spoon. {Individual chicken salads are attrac- tive when the salad is molded in cups of aspic jelly on lettuce hearts, with a rosette of mayornaise dressing on top. While odds and ends of roast meat may be used for soup, care should be taken hever fo use any charred pieces, as the smallest particle will give the soup an unpleasant flavor. Left over boiled hominy fried and 'served with tomato sauce is delicious. ' Butter a hot frying pan and spread the hominy over it. After it browns fold it over and then send it to the table with the sauce or with cold sliced to- matoes. Sporting Notes. Lord Rosebery bas again first call on | Jockey Danny Maher. Leland Stanford university may again make rowing an intercollegiate Sport. Harry Niles, the Boston American in- fielder, may go after-fiying machine | records at the end of the baseball sea- son, This year's Columbia socker team is almost intact and gives every promise of winning the intercollegiate cham- . | pionship. Horace Hutchinson, British amateur golf championships, fs | Visiting this country and trying out | some of the prominent links, Impertinent Personals. "Next season I shall outdo Salome," says Dancer Maude Allan. Does Miss Allan propose to have herself skinned? --Chicago Record-Herald. John D. Rockefeller gets up ai 5 o'clock every morning. We do not know why, for he has cinched every worm worta while.--Cincinnati Com- mercial Tribune. There is a rumor that Japan has decided to make the former emperor | | of Korea a whang. Just to show a friendly spirit, the United States ; might, after Japan has made him a | Whang, confer upon the 'former em- peror the title of doodle.--Chicago Reec- ord-Herald, Aviation. There are about 800 aeroplanes in France, 700 of which have been made in the last ten months. In the province of Bradenburg, Ger- many, there is a scale of fines for avi- ators flying over towns and villages, the maximum fime being $15. Fines however, on steerable balloons. . An interesting feature in the patent development of the year in Great Brit- ain was the number of applications filed in the field of aeronautics, being more than three times the number filed during the preceding year. English Etchings. Nearly one-fifth of the deaths in England occur in public institutions. Nearly two-thirds: of the crime in London is perpetrated between 2p. m. on Saturdays and 9 a. m. on Mondays. Prison rations of England give 51.4 ounces of food daily to the prisoner doing hard labor, but only 46.8 oumces in the case of a prisoner doing light labor. Tales of Cities. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, covera thirty square miles, has 350,000 houses and 2,000,000 population. Bucharest is a city of 300,G00 people, covering a great territory, But on its traction lines there run only 188 horse cars and ten electric cars. Tuberculosis is the greatest scourge of overcrowded Vienna. Seventy per sons in 10,000 die froin this disease in the working class quarter of the city as compared with sixteen in the other districts, oot Brave as a Boy. Weigler--I see that Gausler has been * given a medal for bravery. Match- leyette--Well, he probably deserved it. He always was brave. 1 remember when he was a boy that he was the only one in the neighborhésd who would go to his mother when she beckoned with one hand and held the other behind her hack.--Chicago News. The Diamond. the diamond is the hardest known, it is also brittle aay be fractured by a blow. But at ie weet between two hard steel | faces a hydraulic press and a % pressure applied | ~~ FUN IN THE HOME. 7, , i The Hours of the Day. ! The ancient Egyptians divided the }day and night into twelve hours each, ;@ custom adopted by the Jews and: \Greeks probably from the Babylon- ians. The dey was first divided into' hours in Romt by L. Papirius Cursor, whe about B.C. 293 erected a sun dial in the temple of Quirinus. Prior to the invention of water clocks (158 B.C.) the time was called at Rome by -publie criers. In England in early times the measurement of time was uncertain. One expedient was by wax candles, three inches burning an hour and six wax candies burning twenty: four hours, or a day. His Last Breath. =f, : - THEY ARE RESULTS OF YEARS | MISRULE IN COREA, IDLENESS AND PO NOISE OF THUNDER. Due to Heating of Gases Along the Line of Electric Discharge. To Professor 'lrowbridge we owe an experiment to explain the noise of thunder. It has usually been thought that the noise is caused by the clos- {ng up of the vacuum created by the passage of lightning, the air rushing in from all sides with a clap, but the intensity of the noise is rather dis- proportionate, and it is now supposed that the thunder is due to the intense heating of the gases, especially the gas of water vapor along the line of the electric discharge, and the conse- 7 The Menotorny and Decay That Char- acterize Corean Towns Awe Outcome come, But Are. Inevitable. of QGorruption That Dates Away Back Into Middle Ages--Japanese : and Their Methods Are Not Wel--- The isolation which earned for Co Allowed Here." | _ These are good home building mottoes. - First.--The public lottery is tempora- | = Bee isa invariably found is a perpen- winner of -the | quent conversion of suspended mois- ture into steam at enormous pressure. In this way the crackle with which a peal of thunder sometimes begins The reflections upon the valte et: breath, writes a correspondent, recal}: an old riddle which asked what it waa that no man wished to take and no man wished to give up. The answer was, His last breath. Charles Lamb: had an epicurean desire concerning his own last.breath, half of which' at any rate comes home to many of us. | Macready heard him exsress the hope that he might draw it in through a ipe and exhale it in a pun. Certain- y that would be the most precious breath on record.--!.ondon Chronicle. steam explosions on a small scale, caused by inductive discharges before the overlapping steam explosions, and the final clap, which soundest loudest, would be the steam explosion nearest to the auditor. In the case of rum- from cloud to cloud. When the flash passes from the earth to the clouds the clap is loudest at the beginning. Professor 'Trowbridge gave sub- stance to these suppositions by caus- ing electric flashés to pass from point to point through terminals clothed in soaked cotton wool, ani he succeeded in magnifying the crack of the elec- tric spark to a terrifying extent.--Lon- don Graphic. THE BIG DIPPER. {t Is the Hour Hand of the Woodman's Celestial Clock. The pole star is really the most im- : 2 | portant of the stars in our sky. It and hearing, a mole frequently locates | marks the north at all times, It alone the nest of a partridge or pheasant | : oa above his run and, penetrating tt from | stars seem to swine rowed It see in below, eats the eggs. The adult mole tweniy-teak aes is practically blind, but there are .em- But the pole Bint of Polatis ia. not x bryonic indications that the power of | very bright one, and it would be bard sight in the race has deteriorated. | to identify but for the help of the so ~-- | called pointers in the "Big Dipper," or "Great Bear." The outer rim of the dipper points nearly to Polaris at a distance equal to three times the space | that separates the two stars of the dipper's outer side, Various Indians ealled the pole star the "Home Star' | and the "Star That Never Moves," and the dipper they call the "Broken Back." The "Great Bear" is also to be remem- bered as the pointers for another rea- | Son. [tis the hour hand of the wood- | man's clock. It goes once around the horth star in about twenty-four hours, the reverse way of the hands of a watch--that fs, it goes the same way as the sun--and for the same reason-- that it is the earth that is going and leaving them behind.--Country Life | In America, A Mole's Nest." Among common animals few have | been jess studied in their life history | than the mole. Mr. Lionel B. Adams ' says that under the "fortress" which the. mole coustructs above the surface of the ground will always be found a | Series of tunnels running out beneath the adjacent field. A curious feature | aetyine run penetrating about a foot | below the bottom of the nest and then 'turning upward to meet another run. A mole is never found in bis nest, al- though it may yet be warm from his | body when opened. Guided by smell | A Japanese Peculiarity. "When a Japanese servant is rebuk- ed or scolded," says a traveler, "he must smile like a Cheshire cat. The etiquette in smiles is very misleading at first. I often used to think that Taki, my riksha 'boy,' meant to be im- pertinent when he insisted on smiling when | was angry at him. But when he told me of the death of his little child witb a burst of laughter I knew that this was only one of the curious details of etiquette in this topsy turvy land." re ee i One Definition. "Papa," asked a little boy, "what ts a legal blank?" "A legal blank, Johnny," replied his father, "is a lawyer who never gets a! | case."--Chicago Record-Herald. { ; A Blow Arrested. '| An erganist who on the eve of a fes- tival was taken suddenly ill secured |@ deputy to take his place. The depu- ity, on the authority of St. James' Budget, was a gentleman who played been working for more than two hours ® Nah iy ae sors oe ae | Smeered when she glanced in the mir- waere His principal 'played only single | i notes, and consequently using a much ;ror. "I certaifly thought you knew | : . : | a. eat you larger quantity of wind. / i 99 = " | is Siegen ete ae ee When about three parts through with » $ : | the "Hallelujah Chorus" the wind sud- mea |} denly gave out. Going round to the f g is § Se Se : Seen ee The man shrugged his shoulders. "If | back of the organ to ascertain the rea- you had wanted fair treatment you son, the deputy found the blower in | av > s 84 sy a neds ggciorern he | the act of putting on his coat prepara- retorted. jought from what you tory to going home. » that v | told me that you wanted brunette. "What do you mean by such bebay- Chicago News. for?" the deputy angrily expostulated. "Look here, sir," the blower returned | with warmth, "if you think I don't know 'ow many puffs it takes to blow the **Allelujah Chorus' you make a big mistake!" Dissatisfied. The haughty looking woman upon whose features the dermatologist had | DBD Be. Eternal Lamps. A common superstition that the ancients possessed the art of making lamps which would burn forever for a long time obtained, and it was claimed that one such lamp was dis- covered in the tomb of Rosicrucius, Science, however, has long set this, together with other superstitions, forever at rest, since it has been de- monstrated that fire will not burn in a chamber from which the air hag been exhausted. Helped the Thief. "A simple, honest Scotch farmer had taken a sack of meal to dispose of in Aberdeen castle market," Says Mrs. ; Mayo in her "RecoHections 'of Fifty Years." "It was in the days when people were banged for any petty theft, and an execution was in prog- ress, the culprit being a sheep stealer, The worthy countryman stood aghast when a stranger bustled up with the question: "What's a-do?' "*A hanging,' said the other, awed, 'for stealing a sheep.' Got It Exact. "Why is it that the butcher always sends me more meat than | order, nev- er by any chance less?" complained a young housekeeper to her husband. "Let me give him an order," said he, and, stepping to the telepbone, he call- ed up the market. | ""Eh, what won't folks risk for "Send me two pounds of porter- | sears cried the stranger. 'Will ye house," he ordered, "and. say, if you | Just give me a hand up with this ve ! "--k can't cut two pounds make it a pound | 5@ck? and a balt." The farmer promptly complied. It was only afterward that be discov- He got the two pounds by the next delivery.--New York Sun. ered he bad helped a thief to make of with the sack of meal be had brought to sell!" A Fearsome Order. She--Dear me, 1 hope the man at the next table ts not a tighter, but his order sounds like it! He~What was it? She--He told the waiter to bring him a club sandwich and something to drink with a stick in it.--Baltimore American, ree Force of an Oi! Well, Oil has been ejected from the Bakn wells with such force and accompanied with so much sand that steel blocks twelve inches thick placed over the mouth of the well to deflect the gow were perforated in a few hours and had to be replaced. The casing with Which the wells were lined was often tern to shreds and eventually collaps- ed, avd bandreds of thousands of tens of sand which accumulated ju the vi- cinity necessitated the services of large bodies .of. workmen.--Lewdon \ ne True. An Irishman on applying for relief and being told to work for a Nving re- plied, "If 1 bad all the work iv the world [| couldn't do it." The Swish of the Rod. faut, A college president in an address 4 on pedagogy said: A Sate Sot, "And one of the most remarkable A man can never guess bow big the changes in the last thirty years of | bats or sleeves or skirts of women teaching is the abolition of corporal | will be next season. but he stands punishment. A boy of this genera. | ready to bet tbat no fashion cenrer tion is never whipped. But boys of | can make big shoes for woten popu the last generation must have be- lar.--Atehisou Glube. lieved that their instructors all had MADE ASTM SO 8 for motto: nl dhieas a = 'The swish is father. to 'the | It is itaidlk ati a oe is ee ' t ANS Gain VOTO GADLO rays taught. a cp cman cs to refer to "the weaker sex" on ae Grass Matches. gount OT the tereasung doubt ti. uke A stiff grass which is grown abun, | feaders. mind wtneh sex ts ues nt / dantly in India is used for sticks in | London Saturday Review meking matches in that country. a a Heel a a ene } : si Disagreeable Econom~. The Silver Lining, Husband--You are not economical, In life troubles will come which look as if they would never pass away. The night and the storm jook as if they would last forever, but the coming of the calm and the morning cannot be Wife--Well, if you don't call a woman economical who saves her wedding dress for a possible second marriage I'@ like to know what you think econ- jomy is tke, might be regarded as the sound of | the main flash. The rumble would be bling thunder the lightning is passing 'rea the name of the Hermit Kingdom has also preserved its peculiar cus- In the costumes of toms unchanged. the people, which seem more suitable for a comic opera than practical use, the priniitive construction of houses' and the national customs Corea to- day is practically the Corea of a thousand years ago. To-day the traveler who crosses: from Japan may land: at the harbor. of Fusan, because it hag been seleet- ed as the railroad centre of the coun- try by the Japanese. The first im- ression upon landing is the absolute lack of any coler. Southern Corea is! 'practically destitute of trees. Its for. ests were chopped down, the story, goes, in order the more easily to do away with the country's former scourge, the tiger; more probably the reason was that the people needed! wood and with typical improvidence forgot to plan for the future. The impression of the country on i nearing land is therefore 6 derkness,| the town itself adding only the gleam, tog white of sandy, sun-baked streets) and costumes equally white in effect! 'if not too hate examined, for the Coreans, men and women alike, save) those of the upper classes, wear curi-! ous white cotton garments consistin of long baggy trousers and a long co# of simple cut that closes with a bow near the right shoulder. For the mar ried men the effect is made even more, ridiculous by a black hat, narrow af brim and high of crown, under which their long hair must be gathered in a knot, The appearance of Corean towns and cities, even of Seoul, the capital, is monetonous and depressing once the impression of universal and com- plete poverty, filth and decay has worn off. For though social distinc-' tions are said to be as strict in this country as they are in others they! have no outward expression in the mode of living, for with the exception: of court and king the nation lives in; mud huts, usually of two reoms, cov- ered with straw roofs and opening in' the back on small yards or compounds surrounded by mud walls of varying but formidable height. Sanitation in spite of the efforts: of the religious missions and the Japan- eso is praetically non-existent; the, heating in winter is done in a kang, a stove similar to that of the Chi. nese, in which the fire is made under- 'meath the stone floor. It gives no! warmth at all or makes the room un- endurably hot, besides being very: dangerous. The chimney is s hole in: the side of the houge near the ground, | In the compound domestic animals are kept if the family possesses any, and in one corner sunk~ into the | ground are the kimshi jars. Kimshi! is the universal winter food, a pre- paration of cabbage, tomatoes, onions and red peppers tightly packed, cov- ered with straw and set aside to fer- ment. The older the mixture and the stronger the odor the greater "lelicacy {t is considered. The street picture increases the im- pression of a hopeless poverty against which the people have ceased to strug-| gle. There is little activity. A few ox! drawn carts go slowly lumbering by! and occasionaily men pass carrying enormous loads on their backs, for in; Uorea man is the commonest beast of! burden. The majority of the population in various states of dress and undress! are stretched out in the little spots! of shade, sleeping, laughing or teas-| ing one another. Idleness leads 'to! scuffles here and there, but as'a rule graceful lethargy prevails. Naked' children play in the dirty sewer water which usually runs through a ditth in the middle of the iitreet. Every- where is indescribable filth and a calm acceptance of it. The reason commonly given for the condition of this pauper kingdom is the official corruption, which is of such ancient date that it has almost become honorable. From the king to the lowest man in authority stealing, or squeezmg as it is called in the east, was the common means of exist- enve, openly carried on. If any citi- zen built a house, owned property, or showed other indication of means he or one of his relatives was promptly imprisoned and the family was fore ed to ransom him. What the official stole from the peo- ple the courtier took from his inferior and the king helped himself univer- sally. When the people had nothing left. the king sold to wealthy noblas the right to coin money, which they made the most of by using any in- ferior metal and by continuing even after the right had expifed. The coun- try was soon so full of debased coins that at one port there were quotations current in 1901 for ()1 Government nickels; .(2) first-class counterfeits; (3) medium class counterfeits, and (4) counterfeits 80 poor as to be passable only after dark, The resuls of 'this system was that all manner of 'work. was discouraged until: labor fel into Xliseredit. Why aMass Wealth that would ssurely be Hy ie Jye eles % i¢ ; sto'en? One _cle&s. copied the Jessen ot idleness from' its superiors with , the result that oven the poorest" end | Jowliest. citizen considered "Inbor' be. | neath him, oa | The Coreans can make no effective | Opposition to the Japanese, for pover- ity, Inck of arms and organization ;make their efforts useless against the and -well-train Japanese army, | Inst Japanese suneriority as a Trace aw Fira tye : = pand Fananese advantages of expen. nee and training in matters: polit; 1 g $ political end social, The Untesrn, "iy : CAamesd cannals pf Creat antiqatity CO Hamerous . detailed dscounts af upnosedly fabulous u : eisdrn, Cn the desedptions itentge ta) With thse handed dowt ry the earhest times in the mythology ae: occidental countries. From this it is inferred that at somo time in the re- mote past there actually did exist a single horned equine or cervine ani mal of some sort. ae e stayed. ; ' The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another, ta ' euaednetneieeemenveriear ee ie eened Prosperity demands of us more ware and moderation than adver- 'sity, chee will become indented, A Apa Sins naa ae ng outing for the inner man as well,-- | Philadelphia Record. Golng, that is not putient doing. --Tim- othy Titcomb, ; ; ey iiecenarnanienenne An Inside Outing. Wigg--The best outing a man ¢an ke is an ocean trip, Wagg--Yes, an She Knew Him. She--You know, Harry, am concerned, I am only become your Wife, b you know-- ' oo Pe h }O-do with tt? ; : to live with oe Syteseca She-- No, Har to_live with father, you know. 80, far ag I, too. happy | ut my father, as your father got, There is no well doing, no godlike got Ty, 'out you may have ~~ 1 'i EI am OCR i RR. SCN I Ne Cis Rion sat t *