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probable that the amount of insurance car
ried by his men would be greater than in any
other company engaged in the service.
Mr.. Wanamaker carries insurance on his
life aggregating S1,600000 and has
policies in almost every company in Eu-
rope and this country. Most of the
American insurance companies have an
nounced their willingness to allow their
policy holders to engage in military serv-
ice without any extra charge, but it is
most likely that all of Mr.. Wanamakers
policies are exempt by reason of being in
force for more than three years. 1t is only
natural that his employees, whom he would
insure would enlist in his company so
that il the fortunes OF war should go
against the Wanamaker column, while the
nation would be called upon to mourn
the loss of many good men. the insurance
companies would be called upon to pay out
about 50 900, 900. Some time ago it was stated
that the leading. life insurance companies
proposed equipping magnificent santa
rum to which their heavy policy holders
with consumptive tendencies should be sent
and cared for 1t was argued that to keep
these heavily insured gentlemen alive long
enough to pay few additional premiums
would make the venture paying invest
ment Perhaps at this time the same in
surance companies will pool their issues
buletproof suits and asbestos overcoats
WASHINGTON. d. c.. April 21-The de-
partment has bought the Yorktown of the Old
Dominion line and the Yumuri of the Ward
line. With these additions, the fleet of con-
verted vessels now includes the pick of the
liners and coasting steamers running under
the American flag. But of greater moment
than any Of these developments is the re-
opening of negotiations for the purchase
of two warships and several torpedo boats
from Chile and Argentina. One of the
cruisers is the Chilean O'Higgins. just COM
pleted at an English yard, aud regarded as
one of the most formidable of her class
atloat.
PORTLAND, Me-, April 21-The United
States engineer corps, aided by volunteer
electricians and engineers, is hard at work
getting ready the harbor defence mines
The battery at Portland head, Fort Prebe.
and the signal station at Two Lights have
been connected by telephone. The crew of
workmen at Diamond island has been in
creased, and the construction OF the
Notifications there is being rushed. A
call was issued late last week for voluI-
teers to Join the two divisions of naval
militia forming here, and over rs young
men, including 30 Danes and Swedes, who
have seen service at sea. came forward and
asked to be enlisted. The newly organized
divisions have commenced drilling. Among
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BERLIN, Germany, April 21-Senor San
doval, the Spanish agent here, has gone to
Kiel to test Is Schwartzkoff torpedoes,
which he has bought for Spain, before their
shipment to that country. The United States
embassy has been notified and will request
the German government to prevent the
shipment Of the torpedoes II war breaks
out before they are on their way to Spain.
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declined to yield to their appeals and will
not withdraw the resignation. He desires to
be appointed upon General Lees staff when
that officeris placed In command Of brigade
tired. may be Theodore Roosevelt's sue
cessor as assistant secretary Of the navy.
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others who have rendered the governor of
Maine and the president Of the United
States their services in the event OF war is
Gen. Charles P. Mattocks of Portland, the
commander of the old fighting 17th Maine.
WASHINGTON, d. O., April 21--senators
of all shades of opinion on the Cuban ques-
tion regard as very important the announce
ment that Great Britain has decided to
treat coal as contraband Of war in her West
Indian possessions in case Of war between
this country and Spain. While the decision
is apparently impartial, the senator's say that
the effect necessarily will be entirely in their
terest Of the United States, because Of the
fact that this country is so near where the
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LONDON, England, April 21-The great
powers have definitely decided not to inter
fere in any way in the event of war between
Spain and the United States. The European
statesmen are not anxious to arouse the
military and naval ambition of America.
They realize that any offensive continental
concert at this time would be certain to
stir up the American people profoundly
and result in gigantic American navy
which might upset the balance of the mill
tary power of the world. 1t is the final de-
liberate policy of Europe and any statement
to the contrary is mere invention of Spanish
agents.
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ST. LOUIS. Mo-. April 2l-Senor Mariana
Rivera, who represents the Spanish govern
ment here as consul, declares his intention
to remain and does not believe there will be.
any untoward demonstrations against the
80 or 40 Spaniards who are here.
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tic liners from Halifax. Being convinced
that all hope of peace is over. the minister's
personal desires are that the remaining for
malities be dispatched as speedily as possible.
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lated. In estimating the amounts on
the basis of those declared necessary
for a years provisioning to the Klon-
dixie and multiplying them by sixty the
result will give 5000 pounds of sugar
and 1850 pounds of salt. This would be
sufficient sugar to sweeten the rain fall
ing on an acre of ground. There would
be enough salt to model the figures of
ten men overtaken by the fate of Lots
WIFE
To complete the total it would be only
necessary to add ton of butter and a
round of cheese about $50 pounds in
weight Nor are condiments to be over
looked, when it is remembered that the
dabbing of mustard and the sprinkling
of pepper are continued for sixty years.
This adds to the list 100 pots of mus
tard and fourteen pounds of pepper.
The quantity of fruit eaten is more va
riable The apple of a lifetime would
be about fifteen feet, the orange and
pear about three and a half feet in size.
The plum would be SO big and heavy
that the man who had eaten the fruit
would be unable to move it.
Calculating, therefore, on daily ra-
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expected quarter that everywhere
groups of people discussed Zollinger's
motives.
AS rule in Central America the man
who kills a President is the man who
wishes to succeed him in office and it
V as hard for the Guatemalans to I'M
derstand that a man would kill the
President to avenge the death of
friend.
Whatever the people had thought Of
Barrios living, they preserved re-
Spectful silence as BarrioS dead was
carried to his final resting place. The
casket was borne on the shoulders OF
the army officers of highest rank, the
cabinet ministers and the dean of the
diplomatic corps attending. Along the
avenue lined on either side with soldiers
they bore the casket, followed by the
mounted police, the Indian school with
their band, the Jefe Politico, Justices
of the Peace, Director Generals, sub
secretaries, consular corps, magistrates,
the diplomatic corps, military band and
cadet corps in full dress. Directly FOL
lowing the casket was the deceased
Presidents favorite horse. 1t was an
impressive scene with all the pomp and
military display fitting for one who had
so often led the army and fought, if
not always wisely, we'll.
And with Reyna Barrios, as with his
uncle. Rufino Barrios, the theater
end. A strange coincidence. But
Ruino Barrios had left the thea
ter amid cheers and applause to meet
death on the field of battle Reyna
Barrios, Kissed by the people, had died
by the hand of an avenger. Still in
both cases on the ewes of their death
the name "Barrios" blazed from the
stage of the opera house.
Another strange coincidence or prank
of fate, or what you will: There was
strange jumbling of the number Sin the
fate OF this man whose career had be-
gun when he was but eight years old
and rode beside his uncle, Rufino Bar
rios, in the latter's first and unsuccess-
full attempt to seize the Guatemalan
Government.
President Reyna Barrios fell on a
street of Guatemala, in front of house
No. s at minutes past February 8.
Truly the number was prominent
figure in his very eventful life.
JOSE ESCOLDIDO.
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ton Of one and one-half pounds of
bread, a pound of meat, a half pound
of fish. two pounds of vegetables, and
fruit and half pound of divers other
eatables, there would be a total of five
and Gne-half pounds of food a day, or
almost ton in one year and fifty-three
and three-fourths tons in sixty years.
Liquids consumed by human being
present no less astounding result. A
half-pint of tea or coffee in the morn
ing, as much water, beer, &C., at mid
day. and perhaps pint in the even
ing, besides a pint of milk, tea, beer
and wine during the day, make three
pints per day, about five hundred
quarts year, and in seventy years
$4,000 quarts. 1t would take vessel
$500 times greater than an ordinary
bucket to hold such an amount of Ii
quid.
Taken all in all, q healthy man with
good appetite and moderate thirst
consumes in seventy years ninety-six
and a half tons of solid and liquid
foods. If the consumer weighs, say
$50 pounds, he will eat and drink dur
ing his lifetime 1880 times his own
weight. Transforming all this food
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sin. 1 edged my way to the front to
get a look at him and when l saw his
features under the blood and dirt l
turned sick with horror.
No wonder 1 had been struck by
something familiar about the fleeing
assassin. 1t was Oscar Zollinger
who is hep" why did he kill him."
came from all sides
a planter from QueZaltenango pushed
forward. He told me coming down
here that Juan Aparicio had been
foully murdered and that President
Barrios would some day suffer for his
misdeeds. He said Juan Aparicio had
been the best friend he had on earth. ;"
"He might have known said an
other, that he could not escape"
He was willing to pay the price of
death for revenge" replied the planter
l reached the Presidential mansion
just as the carriage drove up with
Nine. Barrios, who had been staying at
her villa in the suburbs of the city.
Every time l met Nine. Barrios L Won
dered whether she would not have
gladly exchanged her money and posi-
ton to be again free and happy in her
girlhood home in New Orleans. 1t had
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been whispered that madame was un-
happy There were lines about her
eyes and mouth that seemed to bear
out this bit of gossip. But if it were
so his sudden death had swept away
all cold feelings.
"Reyna!" "Reyna!" she whispered In
q dazed, heartbroken way as they lifted
her from. the carriage.
The crowd before the entrance of the
house confirmed her worst suspicious.
He is deadi" she said, pitifully, and
tainted away.
The crowd parted and she was borne
within doors.
How Zoliinger knew that the Presi-
dent would venture forth at just that
hour was the question on every lip.
The only solution offered and the gen.
orally accepted one is that by some
means he got hold of the telephone
message sent the President by a lady
requesting him to call at $50 that even
ing. Despite the protests of his officers
Barrios replied that he would come.
Complete quiet prevailed in the city
that night. While it was generally ex-
pected that Barrios would meet such a
fate the end came from such an un-
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of bread, rolls, biscuits etc. The COM
bined quantity for six decades would
weigh about 66,150 pounds. Nodded into
a loaf of bread the giant loaf would
occupy a space of 440 cubic meters.
If one eats daily about three pota
toes, with a combined weight of one
fourth of a pound, there will have
been consumed in a lifetime giant
potato that would almost fill a rail-
way passenger car, and so heavy that
a corps of porters would be unable to
unload it.
Vegetables consumed In the same
period present a no less formidable ar
ray. In sixty years one person de-
yours a half million peas, and if these
were imagined in single pod it would
take an hours tramp to traverse the
length of the giant vegetable. No less
massive would be the carrot con-
sumed Lettuce leaves, by the same
calculation, would cover the floors of
twelve rooms, while the quantity of
cabbages, beans and minor vegetables
would fill twenty farmers wagons.
Taken for granted that an ordinary
consumer eats daily for breakfast two
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slices of ham or bacon, for lunch a
veal outlet and for dinner half
pound of beef-an estimate by no
means exaggerated-the following
startling comparisons may be
evolved:
The rashers of bacon, ranged one
beside the other would extend for
three-fourths of mile. 1t would take
an hour and a quarter to walk past
the line of outlets. The beef would
resolve itself into twenty oxen and the
pork into a like number of pigs.
Summed up, the combined quantities
of beef eaten would create a giant OK
70 $50 pounds in weight and more than
sixteen feet high. Compare for a mo-
ment this monstrous beast with the
tiny baby that will eat and digest the
former at the rate of one pound day
in a lifetime of sixty years,
If to the meat consumed one adds
daily portion of a half pound of fish.
there will be an additional amount of
%. 600 pounds. There is also the little
item of 10000 eggs to be considered
The amount of sugar and salt con-
sumed can only be specifically calcu-
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stuff into mechanical labor, the
strength derived would be sufficient to
lift S7,eO0,OOO tons one foot from the
ground, or to raise the Forth bridge at
Edinburgh, which weighs 264, 100000
pounds, to a height of 1926 feet.
Excluding the first twenty years of
lifetime, the quantity of cigarettes con-
sumed by a regular smoker who smokes
a dozen every day would in fifty years
reach the number of two hundred and
nineteen thousand, or monster rolled
cigarette more than sixteen feet in
length and about five feet thick, beside
which the taliest man would resemble
a veritable dwarf. A cigar smoker
consuming six of his favorite brand a
day would, during his lifetime, smoke
a gigantic cigar of more than sixteen
feet long and almost two and a half
feet thick 1t would weigh 4410 pounds
and would take the suction power of a
steam engine to puff it.
AS the smoking habit is not neces-
sary to existence, it is easily seen how
much money a smoker wastes in the
course of years. A pipe smoker con-
sumes in his lifetime half-ton of to-
baccO.
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eaten in an ordinary lifetime by the
normal man, when contrasted with him
in the original form of pigs and oxen,
assume the proportions of antediluvian
monsters.
These startling ana1ogies are of the
nature to delight the hearts of doctors
who maintain that men are accustomed
to eat far more than is necessary to
sustain their bodies. The calculations
given below are made from estimates
of the food consumed by a person in a
lifetime of seventy years, with
healthy appetite for solid and liquid
nourishment. With a proper allowance
for the years Of infancy and old age,
when the amount consumed is de-
creased probably one-half, the esti-
mates are based on a term of sixty
years.
In sixty years, therefore, a healthy
man consumes daily at least pound
and half Of bread food. in the form
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BEFORE THE GUARDS COULD RAISE tt

as we walked out of the hotel to-
gether.
At the corner we parted, and 1 con-
tinued my way alone. The streets We're
almost deserted, and. as l walked L
unused upon the chances of the assassi-
nation of the second Barrios l thought
he could be in no immediate danger,
for he realized his perilous position
and would guard against treachery.
Within a block and a half from the
Presidential mansion 1 took out my
watch to note the time. 1t was min
utes past s.
Approaching me I could distinguish
three men. AS they neared l recog-
nized the President in his long military
overcoat. followed by guards.
When 1 reached. the building for
merIy occunied by the German legation
the Presidents party was directly OPP
posite.
Suddenly I heard rapid footsteps;
there was a flash, a quick report and
the President fell.
I still had my open watch in my hand
and mechanically glanced at it. After
ward 1 remembered that it was exactly
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8 minutes after s.
A second later came another shot.
l ran across the street. One glance
at the President was sufficient He
was dead.
Fleeing in the opposite direction was
a tall form that looked familiar. The
guards were running after the assas7
sin. There was now one but myself to
stand watch over the dead President.
Before the end of the block was
reached another figure and then an
other Joined the guards.
l remember 1 thought they must be
policemen who had heard the firing.
A few feet ahead of the pursuing crowd
and running fast 1 could make out the
tall form of the assassin.
Then came another shot. The assas-
sin must have fallen, for seven or eight
shots followed in@quick succession
BY this time the crowd was beginning
to gather around the stricken Presi-
dents form. Several lifted it and bore
him TO his home scarcely two blocks
away.
/ hurried forward and Joined the
crowd standing around the dead assas-
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self a wife?
All things considered, feel that the
one refusal of an offer made in good
faith should be sufficient to excuse the
man from the tax, because the entire
spirit of any proposed tax should be
that it is inflicted solely on the theory
that man must do what is in his power
to aid society in it's moral growth.
If one believes with the poet that
Marriages are made in heaven"
can only suggest to the gentler sex the
advice of Cowper:-
Missesi the tale I relate.
This lesson seems to. carry
Choose not alone proper mate,
But a proper time to marry.
This not alone would be q far reach
ing step toward the avoidance of the
contemplated tax, but would make the
seeking of divorce an exception.
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done sufficient penance for his mis-
take in not having taken unto himself
wife.
Regarding the two dollar tax con-
templated by the New Jersey statute
/ think the amount named too small.
The tax should be graded according to
the income and means combined of the
man who is taxed.
My idea about the money received by.
the imposition of such bachelor tax
would be that it be distributed among
the brides of the poor as wedding dow
ries, which, while being tax on bach
elorhood, would place premium on
marriage.
Now. as to the reverse What about
a man who has been Tilted? Should
he not have a rebate? If his is bona
fide refusal of marriage, should he not
be entirely excused from paying tax?
Has he not completed his mission
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so because he prefers that mode of life.
So if you touch his vulnerable spot
not his heart, but his eXchequer-and
tax him, grading the tax from the years
of youth to a larger tax as age sue
ceeds, you not alone assist the State,
but possibly force him from his opin-
ion and lead him, or rather cause him
to lead, bride to the altar.
1 yield to none in my knowledge of
the insuperable infelicities which oc
cur in some married lives, and admit
that some are due TO early marriages.
By early marriages / mean marriages
which are contaminated when the bride
and groom are not of a sufficiently I'M
derstandable age to appreciate the life
contract into which they are about to
enter. Yet it is my impression that a
young man at % has a sufficient idea
of the step he is about to take to view
that as about the period Of life when
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a man should make a proposal Of mar
rage. If within year or two subse-
Quent-say at "a or rs years of age
a man has not convinced himself of
the necessity of married life, why a
light tax ought to begin with the
twenty-fifth year, and be graded from
year to year, the tax becoming larger
as the bachelor becomes older.
OF course when man arrives at the
proverbial threescore and ten it seems
as criminal to marry then as not to
have married when life blood was at
it's best, the physique the strongest and
the intellect acutest. 1 should as
strongly advise against a marriage
after sixty-five as | would against one
under twenty. If the tax were graded
to sufficient Furnishing extent, by the
time a bachelor would have reached
his sixty-fifth year of age he would in
my estimation. be considered as having
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Z INTERESTING calculations made
recently by German statistician
go to disprove the well-worn ad-
age of Goldsmith that man wants
- but little here below" Man wants
a good deal, and that is made evil
dent by the quantity of food he con-
sumes in lifetime-the food that goes
to form the basis of his physical life.
Somewhat surprising in regard to
weight and quantity is the substance
consumed in a single day by the ordi-
nary human being with healthy ap-
petite When the quantities consumed
in weeks, months and years are calcu-
lated and presented to the eye in strik-
ing contrast to the consumer, the eff
feet is little less than startling.
Loaves of bread. big as houses, are
the result. The quantities of meat
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peopled. When / said l would die
bachelor, I did not think I should live
till l were married"
So there is still hope for every bache-
lor to join the matrimonial state. AS
for me- 1 am a bachelor by preference,
and as such feel l have right to say
mans proper mission in life is not cor
rectly fulfilled so long as he remains
in what is fallaciously called state
of single blessedneSs.
When I add that in many instances
bachelors continue bachelors from
economy, it is because l know that your
simon pure bachelor is selfish. He is
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IT AS it not Benedick, in Much
~ | Ado About Nothing" who
NI when being chaffed about
" v marrying. replied
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7 STOOD but few feet away, and
distinctly saw Oscar Zollinger shoot
Jose Maria Regina Barrios, Presi-
dent of Guatemala. An hour before
= I Lad seen this same Oscar collin