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Muscular Parents.

Many women, unwilling of a complex
sympathetic nervous system and Of an
important tract of involuntary muscle
tissue, conscientiously believe and
scrupulously act upon the belief that
in pushing their muscle powers to an
extreme they are indirectly developing
the potential limbs of unborn babes. I
have before me as I write a review of
patients, friends. and acquaintances, at
one end whereof stand the two most
beautiful children, physically, intellect
ually, and morally, I know, and these
are the children of quiet, emotional,
but intensely womanly woman, whom
the world would call delicate, though
she is not at all delicate in the sense
Of lack of health, but delicate only in
the absence of that robustness which
is degeneration from the womanly
type.
I contrast the straight, beautiful
limbs and the beautiful faces, the fine
physical health, and mental attributes
of these two children with the puny
sickness, the speetacled, knock-kneed
physiques of the children of that Wo-
man have placed at the other end of
the scale, a handsome, muscular per-
son, who is an adept with her tennis
racket and a jealous cyclist. Qf any
thing the father of my types beautiful
is somewhat less strong man is the
father of the poor little degenarates
for whom my Amazon mother is respon-
sible.) Between these two extremes
my examples fall into their places with
an almost logical sequence.
In every instance the children of the
less muscular and less robust women
carry off the palm, some in beauty,
some in intelligence. some in high men
tai or moral development That The
children of the more robust mothers
are not all kneck-kneed and puny
need scarcely say, but they are in every
instance inferior-if not always physi-
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A SPORTSMAN'S REVERE.
He Meditates on What He Would
Do in Case Of Emergency.

Say, come over to the other side of
this island; look down there where the
shadows of the trees darken the wa
ter and give to it a look both murky
and cayernous. What do you think is
going on down there? Under those lily
pads is the lair of a cut-throat; deep
in the semi-gloom he lies motionless
till his prey comes carelessly by; then
there Is darting gleam; blood is spill
ed; murder is done; a six-inch pickerel
has swallowed a five-inch sinner. A
mud turtle is coaling down there and
filing his scuttle butts. That sedate
looking bullfrog is studying his part
and resting preparatory to singing a
baritone solo in the concert at 8 %. M
See that hole in the reeds and bushes
over there? You may think those
shrubs grow on the land, but they do
not. You might think that hole a tun-
mel in a hillside, but it is not; it's a
canal; and, now, supposing you were
dwarfed to Lillipution or to Palmer
Cox Brownie, and taking a sardine box
for a gondola and souvenir coffee
spoon for paddle, you move into that
maze. Do you think you would be
gondolier in venibe9 Well, you would
iiOI DE- oQ sAVi1Q DE d
and suffering thing in Dante's I'm
ferno,' and New Jerseys pride, the
mosquito, is an imp with forked tail
on the wrong end and knows all about
anti-toxine and just where to inject it
for the desired end. The water snakes
would tip you over, and if you had as
many legs as a blue bottle fly the musk
rats would pull every one of them.
Well, supposing you are just what
you are and shower should come up
while the sun was still shining and
rainbow end rested in the top of that
big pine tree on the mainland. Wouldn't
you take that boat, go over there, climb
that tree, and then, supposing just as
you reached out to grab that rainbow
you lost your balance and fell down
through the branches and landed a
straddle of a darn big bear, and looking
backward like Edward Bellamy, sup
posing you should see a big snake-a
boa constrictor-eome billowing toward
you with open mouth, intent upon
swallowing you and the bear, too.
What do you suppose you would do?
Would you fall off or hang on and
kick that bears ribs to make him run? :?
like to sit out here and think about
these things and decide what I would
do if the chance occurred.-Forest and
Stream
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Returning Good for Evil.

"I came upon a couple of boys fight
ing on the street the other day" said
the portly man, as he laughed at the
recollection. They were both smeared
over with eggs and were fighting like a
couple of young wildcats.
AS usual thing I do not believe in
interfering with quarrels among chill
dren, believing that it is better to let
them fight it out and settle their differ
ences in their own way.
But they We're fighting so fercely
and were using such bad language that
/ thought it best to separate them.
Getting hold of their collars. /
pulled them apart and demanded an
explanation.
He threw rotten egg at mel
shouted the younger of the two as he
struggled to get at the other boy again.
Tut, tut, said I; you should have
returned good for evil
7 did, he sobbed, the reaction hav-
ing set in The one I threw at him
was good one! Detroit Free Press.
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Dewev,s Gable Cutting.

Here is a mighty good story, and
probably a true one, that Captain
Coghlan told at the Winfield meeting:
Dewey sailed into Manila harbor,
fought his battle, and then cut the
cable. The English Admiral wanted
to help him, but didn't dare. So the
English Admiral sailed over to Dewey
and said: "Ah, / see you have cut a
cable Yes" answered Dewey.
Which one?" asked the innocent Eng
lish Admiral. And then Dewey know
ing for the first time that there were
two cables, rustled back, grappled for
the second cable and cut it.-Lawrence
(Kan) Journal
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Very Much Pleased

AT Lamaraue's funeral in Paris the
crowd took out General Lafayette's
horses, as the famous soldier was re-
turning home from the service. and
drew his carriage to his hotel with
many evid noes of enthusiastic love and
admiration. The scene was a stirring
one and friend. in referring to it some
weeks afterward, said. you must
have been very much pleased" Lafay-
cite looked at him for a few moments
in silence and then said, with whim-
sical smile: Yes. I was very much
pleased-very much pleased indeed
But never saw anything more of my
horses, my dear friend"
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ers in hight and is cast and ready for
mounting. 1t will be placed on the
peak of Rocciamelone. near Susa,
which has a hight of 3.53T meters
above the sea. The dedication of the
statue will take place before the close
of this month.
Francisque Sarcey's bust has been
refused by the Comedie Francaise on
the ground that the gallery of the the
ater is intended for actors ana play
wrights only. and not for critics.
New York Tribune: John B. Cauld-
well, director of fine arts of the United
States commission to the Paris expo,
sition of 1900 said recently, in conver~
sation that the national jury for paint
ing, which will hold its sittings in New
York City, would probably be composed
of from fifteen to seventeen members.
about half of whom will be selected
from New York where the great mass
of painters are. There will be two and
possibly three selected from Boston
and thereabouts. and two from Phila-
delphia, While three or four will be
chosen to represent the art cen.ers OF
lIlE w est AAio Jal VIII piOOcNply 4C~
view the work of all the Eastern
painters, whereas the jury which will
sit in Chicago. which will in one sense
be a sub committee Of this national
jury, will pass upon all work sent in
by the Western artists. There will be
a separate jury in Paris to pass upon
the work of the United States painters
living abroad. This jury will probably
not meet till January The Western
jury will probably be composed of one
or two Western spainters added to the
sub committee. In this way uniform
standard of selections will be maintain
ed. The jury for sculpture will be
much smaller, and there will be only
one for the work produced in the
United States, the other sculpture jury
convened in Paris. There will also be
arrangements made for small juries to
pass upon the architectural exhibit. as
well as that of miniatures and of illus
trations. Regarding the Hanging or
Installation Committee which Will act
in Paris, Mr.. Cauldwell said that it is
his present intention to act as Chair
man of that committee. and the men
from this side will have proper rep
resentation on it, so as to insure per-
fectly fair treatment to the artists in
the United States
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cally, certainly in mental quality or in
human charm-to those of the more
womanly type.
Indeed, were it true that the habit of
muscular activity eonduees to rhe well
fare of the race, the children OF the
working classes would be as much su-
sperior in brain and physique to those of
their more leisured neighbors as they
are in fact inferior.-Nineteenth Cen
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Weather Forecaar.

For Northern California-Fair Monday,
continued warm weather in the interior;
fog on coast with cool weather and fresh
westerly winds.
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Virginian Taken for a Sea Serpent.

Three lads who mistook William
Barnes, a wealthy resident of Port Nor
folk, for a sea serpent and shot him
through the chin while he was swim
ming at midnight on Friday, were ar
raigned before a magistrate on Satur-
day and their cases continued for one
week. Parsons, the boy who fired the
shot, declares that he and his compan-
ions We're frightened by the antics OF
Barnes, who is an expert swimmer, and
when headed for their boat feet fore
most, squirting water. they thought him
a ferocious monsters of the deep and
fired Barnes will recover.--Alexandria
Gazette.
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enthusiast who doubles himself up,
gazes straight down at the flying road
bed and lets himself loose. There is
the genuine menace. When he meets
a crisis, the crisis may escape, but the
menace and his victim are taken away
in ambulances. Let woman ride and
fills the landscape with motion and
color. Ii She neglects her home--jf the
biscuit be soggy, the children un-
washed, the husband ungroomed, that
is another matter. But no examina-
ton, no discrimination. In the divorce
court man and woman are on the same
level
DEPOSITS OF KAOLIN.
Fresno Democrat: A San Francisco
contemporary notes that an important
discovery of kaolin, a potter's clay, IS
reported to have been made near san
Diego, and that preparations are in
progress for the sale of the mine for a
large sum. It may not be out of place
to mention that extensive deposits Of
koalin Of the finest quality are found
on the MADEIRA side of the San Joa-
quin, not more than twelve or hfteen
miles from this city, and that a per-
severing prospecting expedition Would
probably reveal the existence of such
deposits all along the San Joaquin, IN
MADEIRA and Fresno Counties alike,
where the river runs out on the plains
Kaolin is simply decomposed feldspar,
one of the principal ingredients IN the
granite of the Sierras, and which Wnen
washed down by the river, settles IN
holes or eddies of the river bed, to be
revealed to-day in pockets at depth
of from fifteen to fifty feet in the soft
rock and clay Of the prehistoric chan
mel.
TROUBLE MAKERS.
Santa Barbara News: In common
with many others, we feel very i'm
patient at the utterances of the gen
tlemen who appear to care for no other
occupation than walking about the
streets sowing discomfort, preaching
sedition and making miserable men
who ought to be happy. It is our be-
lief that such men would be DONG
more good to their friends-if they are
friends of men who depend on their
labor for support Of self and family
by a little encourag cement. They might
for instance, tell how very much bet
ter off the American mechanic is than
his brother in England, where he is
obliged to work more hours at far less
pay: where he is unable to dress as
well; where he can have meat only oc,
casionally and the common delicacles
never at all; where it is the rarity to
find a laborer owning anything, much
less a home; where the poor man IS
denied the right to vote, and can, there
fore, have no hand in changing condl-
tions: where education even in Merry
England is not for eyerybody-free as
air as it is in America. God be praised
for it. Tell the boys all this - you
know it is so for practically every
man Jack of the sandlot agitators was
either born abroad or is only one gem
Grafton from there
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A man and his dog often look alike.
1t is rarely that they act alike, the
balance of good behavior being in "a
vor of the dog.
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The best regulator OF the digestive or
gans, also best appetizer known, Is An
gostura Bitters, the genuine of DR.. ).
G. B. Siegert & Sons. AT all druggists.
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Recent auction prices for paintings in
London are interesting. They includ-
ed the following: Reubens' THE Holy
Family $4,000; Rubens' "The Con-
version of st. Paul." $3.50; Rubens'
THE Woman Taken in Adultery" 3d.
150; Frans Halls Portrait of Gen
tleman," $4,000; Frans Halls Portrait
of a Lady" $4,000; George Romney' 3
Portrait of Mrs Frances Newbery,' .
$S, 250; Hoppner's Portrait of a Lady, =
supposed to be Mrs. Shelley, $1,000.
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Senator c. M. Shortridge has pur-
chased the San Jose Herald" and on
the Sth instant made announcement of
his assumption of control. Under his
proprietorship the Herald" will now be
a Republican paper. 1t has already
been enlarged and frightened. 1t viii.
be conducted as an evening paper and
the new helmsman announces that its
policy will be impartial, fearless and
progressive; that it will be the advo-
cate of no faction, the voice of no mere
partisan, but that it will stand for it's
conceptions of the right, the highest
best interests of society, and for the
fullest possible development of the
resources and industries of it's COM
munity.
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New York Post: One of the con-
spicuous pictures of this years Salon
was the Departure Of the Conscripta
at Luxor" by Georges Clairin, who has
been styled not inaptly the French
Verestschagin. He paints the horrors
of war because he has a horror of it.
He is an advocate of universal peace.
His whole life, writes M Gribayedoft
in "Black and White" has been over
shadowed by a most dramatic event
the death at his side of the friend OF
his youth and foster brother, Henri
Regnault, the marvellous painter of
Oriental scenes and of that extraordi.
nary work of art, the portrait Of Mar
shall Prim on horseback. now in the
Luxembourg. The two young men had
just returned from an extended tour
in the Orient when the war of 1870
broke out After Sedan both threw
aside brush and easel and joined, as
simple privates. the so-called batail-
Ions de marche of the Garde Mobile.
It was in this capacity that they took
part in the defense of Paris, fighting
side by side, as they had worked.
Finally, on the evening of January 19,
1871, after a hard days skirntsning
in front of Buzenyal. the retreat hav-
ing sounded. both started for the rear.
But Regnault had a cartridge left, and,
telling his chum that he proposed to
have a last shot before leaving, he sud.
denly disappeared in neighborins
bush. Clairin halted and awaited the
others return. but was soon called by
a Sergeant. He passed a restless night
watching for his friend. and the next
morning went out in search of him. He
was dead with bullet through the
temple. IT have never got over the
shock I experienced on that OCCASION
relates M. Clairin. ITO me Regnault
was more than a brother. His tragic
death has made of me a hater of war
and militarism.'
Johannes Gelert. the New York
sculptor, tells the story of how he ex.
planned at length the mysteries Of his
art to a prospective sitter. When he
had concluded the man said he under.
stood that a statue was a piece of
marble, but not how one cut away the
stuff that was around it.
Queen Margherita of Italy has opened
a subscription for the erection of a
statue of the Virgin on one of the
crests of the Italian Alps. The statue,
by the sculptor Stuardi. is three met
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SHOULD HAVE.

Tulare Register: There is a lot of
should have talk going the rounds
now, all being done by Democrats and
relating to- the Philippines. Democrats
always were strong on telling what
should have" been done, but the ques-
ton is not a Should have affair 1t
is should be- proposition and gem
tlemen discussing the Philippines
should stick to the question before the
house: Are We to lick 'em or not lick
'or1a 2
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OF SCORCHERS

San Diego Union: A would-be reform
er in the East, Cowell by name, sug-
gests that all women who ride bicycles
shall be compelled to undergo rigid ex-
examination, show their capacity to
guide the machine, and give bonds to
keep the peace. He further declares
that "a woman who starts out on q
wheel is a menace to public safety un-
less she can steer the machine through
any crisis" Whereupon the Boston
Journal vigorously replies: THE
menace to society. if there be one at
large on any wheel, is the male scorch-
er--the round-shouldered, long -necked,
gaunt-yisaged. redeyed, thin-legged
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Francisque Sarceys bust has been
refused by the Coincide F'rancaise on
the ground that the gallery of the the
ater is intended for actors ana play
wrights enly and not for critics.
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a subscription for the erection of a
statue of the Virgin on one of the
crests of the Italian Alps. The statue,
by the sculptor Stuardi. Is three met
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ed to do so by foreign officers, and
never spoke to foreign officers"
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N. LABOR BOLDLY DEFIANT.
Continued from First Page.

ed to do so by foreign officers, and
never spoke to foreign officers
Replying to Col. Jouaust Dreyfus
said that while he was at Muhlhausen
he rode his brothers horse and did not
remember anything about the horse
mentioned by German.
Kulman, the livery stable keeper, who
employed German at the time, testified
that he never rode with Dreyfus, as
stated by German, that he never went
to the manoeuvres in company with
Dreyfus, and absolutely denied all Ger
mains statements. In conclusion Kul-
man emphatically reiterated that he
never rode with Dreyfus. He said he
was well acquainted with the whole
Dreyfus family.
Maj. D1nfreville testified that he had
known German since 1894. He added
that German informed him that Drey-
fUs attended the German manoeuvres.
Witness had never said that an officer
German saw in Bots de Boulogne was
Dreyfus, for the simple reason that he
did not know Dreyfus German, on
being recalled, asserted that he certain
ly thought Maj. DTnfleville told him
the officer referred to was Dreyfus
Lieut.. Bernheim testified that while
in garrison at Rouen he furnished Ester
hazy with information and documents
regarding the artillery, in which Ester
hazy was much interested. The witness
was never able to recover the docu-
ments. He supposed at the time that
Esterhazy was anxious to increase his
military knowledge.
Replying to NJ Demange, Lieut. Bern
helm said he had not testified at the
Esterhazy trial because his testimony
was then considered to be of no great
value
Lieut.. Brugere, the artillery reserve.
the next witness called, said it was per-
fectly easy for any officer to closely in
spect the ''120 snort" gun. Moreover,
he added, detailed explanations and in
formation regarding the brake were
given 10 the officers present when the
gun was fired. On two occasions, wit
ness also said, when the gun was fired,
he noticed the presence of a group of
non-artillery officers. Therefore, the
Lieutenant pointed out. it was plain
that access to the gun was quite easy.
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In May, 1894, Lieut.. Brugere continued,
the new firing manual was distributed.
A copy was given to each battery, and
as the Captains lectures were not fully
understood. further copies of the firing
manual were printed and all officers and
non-commissioned officers could obtain
as many as they liked. In some regi-
ments evea the ordinary gunners Sc
cured copies, and among these favored
regiments, Lieut.. Brugere pointed out,
was the Sixth artillery stationed al
Rennes. (ExcitementD
The witness said he gave his copy
of the firing manual to an infantry OF
ficer. May II, 1894. The Societe de
Tir A Canon, of Paris, also reprinted
the manual and distributed it among its
members.
Captain Carvalho, Of the. artillery,
also testified to the ease with which
the "120 short" gun could be Inspected.
He said the gun was frequently oper-
ated in the presence of non artillery
officers, who were told everything they
desired to know, including descrip-
ton of the hydro-pneumatic brake.
Regarding the 1895 firing manual,
witness said copies were obtainable IN
1894 in all the regiments of the army,
and asserted that he had purchased a
COPY of the manual, which he placed at
the disposal of the court. At this
juneture NJ Labori read letter from
a spy named "Corningue," stating that
he had copied the firing manual in the
room of Major Panizzardi, the Italian
military attache at Paris, in the pres
ence of Col Schwartskoppen, the Ger
man military attache at Paris referred
to as "A' and "B."
Major Hartmann, of the artillery,
was the next witness for the defense.
He testified on highly technical sub
jects, his evidence being the same as
given before the court of cessation, and
as already published early in the year.
He spoke in loud, energetic tones and
occupied the whole of the remainder of
the session. The Major will continue
his testimony tomorrow.
The court at 11:45 a. m. adjourned
for the day.
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is the invention of French scientist
whose name is Dion. 1t was first used
to massage the eyes and to cure or ar
rest the progress of myopia. 1t is a
very simple affair, consisting of two
tubes not unlike microscopes in APP
pearance. These, with another tube
are fastened to band of steel which
fits closely over the bridge of the nose.
At the outer end of the center tube is
graduated dial which registers the
exact pressure on the eyes. The other
tubes fit over the eyes. They can be
placed at the exact point where the
massage is needed. The press re can
be calculated to a gram. The patient
never suffers pain, and at the end Of a
few minutes he feels only slight IA
tigue.