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is IT A PLEASURE TO DIE ?
London Writer ConIbats the Idea
That IL Is A2ohi1in8 to Shuttle
Oh This Mortal Coll

The popular idea that the act of
dying is painful process often
causes fear of death. But death
from even the most painful mortal
diseases is usually preceded by a
period of cessation from suffering
and partial or complete insensibility,
resembling falling asleep or the
pleasant gradual Inconsistencies
caused by an anaesthetic. according
to a writer in the London Spectator.
The common phrase death agony"
is not warranted by what occurs in
natural death. which is n complete re-
lief from all pain. When death is
owing to heart failure or syncope
it is sudden and painless-perbaps
pleasant. Death by hanging, there is
reason to believe, is attended by a
voluptuous spasm. Death by decapi-
tation or electricity is only a mo-
mentary shock, hardly felt Death
by poisoning varies in painfulness ac-
cording to the poison employed.
Opium and other narcotics probably
give paiHless, perhaps l'e"a"n''
dreamful death. Hemlock, as we
know from the account of the death
of Socrates, causes a gradual insen-
sibility from below upward. On the
other hand, arsenic, strychnine, car
bolic and mineral acids, corrosive sub
Innate, tartar emetic. and other me-
tallic poisons intiict slow and tortur-
ing death. Prussic acid and cyanide
of potassium cause quick and painful
death.
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speedy Americani.ation

Nothing pleased me more in the
states than to go into one of the
public schools and watch America
Americanizing. The Americans take
hold of the immigrants children and
fiatten out whatever may be too un-
American in their mental makeup be-
meath the steam roller of the Eng
lish language, with the result that no
citizens are more ebulliently loyal
than the second generation of aliens.
Nor can it be long before the intro
ductlon of the American public school
system into Cuba and Porto Rico
drives stiff wedge into the domin-
ion of Spanish and makes English the
necessary language for an ambitious
colonial. American policy is, and al
ways has been, Of the hard-headed
Bismarckian type, rarely to be
swayed by sentiment; they believe in
education as we believe In cricket,
and it is no great rashness to proph-
esy that within few years Spanish
will be leading at most furtive, twi-
light sort of existence in the high
lands Of Spain's ancient colonies, and
that a Cuban or Porto Rican of the
towns and seaports who does not
speak English win be as rare as n
Welshman who knows only Welsh
Sydney Brooks, In National Re-
yipw
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NEW HAT FROM PORTO RICO.
summer Ueadgear Mndc of Grnss nad
Is Light and Cool But Won't
stand WcttlnK.

One of the things our new island pos
sessions have brought us Is new
kind of summer hat. II comes from
Porto Rico and is made of woven grass,
says the New York sun.
The color is bright tan. the shape
OF the Fedora, and the cost is small.
The hat has not become very popular
yet, but few are seen in New York
streets and many more in the sub
urbs.
In its simplest form the hat has
wide band OF the same material and
the same color wound around the
crown, but some of the bands are dyed
red and blue, and the hats Ornamcntcd
with these are very gay indeed.
variation from the usual form Is Il
sombrero shape with an extra wide
brim.
The advantages of the hats are
lightness and coolness. The slightest
breeze penetrntes the woven grass.
The principal disadvantage is that If
once wet they shrink. and TO counter
act this as far as possible each hat
contains a strong leather swenibgnd.
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ones bosom or sver his waistcoat,
and 1t must not "esal"-i G., hnve a
black, charred ring just behind the
ash on the burning cigar. This is
sure to give bad favor and taste.
The leaf also must burn freely, and
when lighted hold firm for reason
able time. 1t must have soft, sill
very texture, glossy surface and the
elasticity of piece of kid, so that it
may be drawn smoothly and closely
about the cigar Flavor is not want
cd in Connecticut tobacco, for If
there be much of it it is sure to be
bad. Perfect burn, color and texture
can be got in the northern climate,
but delicate and agreeable flavor
has not yet been obtained. Flavor is
conditional upon soil and fertilizers.
1t is desirable, therefore, that the
leaf be neutral, without taste, as far
as may be. We get the flavor wholly
in the Cuban filler. To obtain these
qualities of leaf is the problem of
the grower--a much more comph-
Gated one than meets the ordinary
farmer.
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GREAT BEAUTIES.
Among the Women of Cash
mere, India.

Many of the women of India, and es-
pccia!ly those Of Cashmere, are beauti-
full. In typical Hindu beauty the skin
is just dark enough to give rich,
soft appearance 10 the complex
ION, says London journal. The
features are regular, the eyes mid and
black and shaded by long silk,n loshes,
the hands and feet are small ans well
formed, the dcmeGnor is modest, the
manner is gentle, the voice low and
sweet. There are fne-looking women
among the middle class IIindus, as well
as among the upper ten, and even
among the lower class the faces are
often very pleasing. Many a Hindu
woman who has, perhaps, little pre-
tensions to beauty of face, has, never
theless, the step and carriage of n
princess, and if one is not too fastid-
ious about perfection of eyes and
mouth and nose her figure as she walks
down the street with her load on her
head is truly beautiful sight.
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File on Alligator. Teeth.

A remarkable operation was per-
formed by dozen keepers on l3foot
alligator which is kept in the Bronx
zoo at New York. The alligator. which
is powerful animal, showed signs of
tierceness for some time. He wound
up one morning by killing an eightfoot
companion in the same tank. Then il
was decided that the big ones teeth
should be cut. A rope with a sling
was lowered over his head and drawn
,aut; the tail was similarly treated.
Each one of the legs was next secured
in like manner. BY patience and re-
pehted trials lasso was got into the
ponderous jaw. The alligator gave
bite and the rope parted like thread.
Then wire rope was secured. This
was finally got into place,
Sticks were pried between the jaws
TO keep them from lashing together.
Thus held, the reptile lay helpless and
the work of saving off some Of the
longest and most dangerous teeth was
soon accomplished.
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A FINE FIELD FOR WOMEN.
More Than 1000 Employed at the
Pan-Amsrican Exposition In
Various Capacities.

Upwards of 1000 women find daily
employment at the exposition in all
capacities from wedding gardens and
tending flowers and washing dishes
up to managing exhibits, They earn
wages that run from two dollars to
50. so week mp to $50, with an average
that is probably considerably below
ten dollars More are employed in the
Midway than in any other section of
the exposition. There they are ticket
sellers, ticket takers, cashiers. wait
resses, ballyhoos performers and man
ayers. Nearly 500 Of them are doing
work of one sort or another in the
Midway, says n Buffalo exchange.
In the main show outside of the Mid
way they are employed in greatest
numbers as Mattresses in the restau-
rants scattered about the grounds.
These are nearly all in the low grade
as far as salary is concerned. In the
great Manufacturers ard Machinery
buildings they find work to do that is
much better paid. Some of the ex-
hibits are in the sole charge of women
exhibits that depend very largely on
the skill and cleverness of the attend
ants for theis success and popu-
larity This is especially true OF all
the food exhibits. e-S-.s.
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1T ASTONISHED HIM.
fshncnt Was Nothing Moro
Than Natural

Standing in front Of Locust street
stable the other afternoon was a
man in oyeralls, pulling bales of hay
up into the loft with the aid of a
rope and pulley. He looked the pic
ture of health, and the exertion was
as nothing to him. says the Philadel-
phia Record. Presently along came
another man. He was fat and pudgy-
looking. and his skin had an un-
healthy color. His general appear
ance betokened the overfed club
man. He was carefully groomed, and
was evidently man of leisure. He
stood for perhaps a minute watching
the other man at work, and then
he said: Would you mind letting
me take your place for awhile?
am troubled with Indigestion, and
have been suffering all day. l think
that would do me good"
The stableman's eyes seemed ready
to pop out of his head. Sure" he
said: sure" The pudgy dyspeptic
carefully removed his gloves and
grasped the rope. II was hard work,
and it made him red In the face, but
he finally landed the bale where an
other man in the loft could take it
in. Then he tried another and an
other, and kept it up for about ten
minutes. When he rclinquished the
rope TO the stableman he slipped a
coin into the Iatter's hand, saying:
Thank you, very much. That has
done me more good than all the
medicine in the world" AS he dis
appeared around the corner the la
borer was heard 20 mutter: We'll,
I'll be d-d!" That was as near as
his vocabulary could come to doing
Justice to the occasion.
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AGE LIMIT FOR CARRIERS.
End of the Period Of Activity as Sci
by the Post Office Author
ities.

We notice with interest and salts
faction that it has been decided to raise
the age limit established by the civil
service rules for the admission of ap-
p!icants for employment in the postal
department as clerks and letter car
riers. Heretofore no applicant for EN-
ployment as letter carrier who had
passed the age of 40 years has been
received, bat this will not be the case
hereafter. 1t was the opinion OF the
postmaster general, an opinion in
which his associates in the cabinet
concurred, that It was not reasona Bile
to restrict admission to the service
in the capacity OF letter carrier to per-
sons of 40 years Of age or less, and
it was accordingly decided that both
for clerks and letter carriers the age
limit should be extended TO As years,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
1t was judjcious and discriminat-
ing conclusion. There has Of late years
been a marked tendency to close the
door of employment against men who
had Just reached or who had barely
passed what Is considered middle age.
There are many corporations who will
not take into their employment any
one who has passed his fortieth year.
and this disposition threatened to ex-
tend until the middle-aged man who
for any reason found himself obliged
TO secure work In some fresh field OF
activity would be unable to get any
thing to do. The step which has just
been taken in the case of post Office
clerks and letter carriers indicates the
inception of reaction against this
movement. We hope that it will eA-
tend. A man who is in the forties is
still in the prime of life, and in most
cases he continYes capable of valuable
| service for at least a decade longer.
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Condition.. os speed on Railroads.

Railronding has already been q pro-
life source OF profit TO the inventor,
but before speeds materially higher
than those now used can be generally
adopted he must he called upon to
again improve the railroad in It's every
member, - Everyeody's Magazine.
The rail Joint must either be abol-
shed altogether, making the lines con-
tinuous by welded joints, rs is done
in the best street railway practice. or
a mechanical joint better than any
yet made must be invented. But more
important than all will be methods Of
preventing collisions while dispatc-
ing trains at short intervals. Since
electricity will be the motive power,
ii is possible that this may be so ap-
piled as to make it impossible for two
trains to be run into each other even
by intent
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

I'm glad we don't live at the north
poIe," "Why?'' I'VE shouldn't have
any summer vacation there. ."-Lus'
tige Welt.
"One of my uncles lived to be 90
and my grandmother died at sS.'
That's nothing; my mother-in-law
isn't dead yet."-Philadelphia Times
Bystander-"Who struck the man
His face is oil covered with blood
Bikopp-"He amt hurt. Somebody
hit him with cherry pie!"-lndian'
apolis News.
That acknowledgements prob
ably thinks he improves on Shake
spcare." Howl" by holding the
camera up to nature."-C!eveland
Plain Nealer.
Here's story about surgeon
who amputated his own hand. Dc
you believe it?" II suppose it's pos
sibie. Perhaps he took ether first
Philadelphia Record.
Hinton-'So your son has grndu'
ased from college. What is he going
to do?" Holden-"Well, for the pres
ent he is going to sit round and tel
therest of us all he thinks he knows
Boston Transcript.
She-"I don't believe you're telling
the truth" He-"iou are most an
noying sometimes. l suppose YOU
think you can read me like book
She-"Oh, no! Like paragraph,
should say."-Philadeiphia Press.
Ma" said little four-year-old, "l
saw something run across the kitch
en- floor this morning without any
legs. What DO you think it wasT
The mother guessed various iegless
worms and things, and then gave II
up, when the little fellow said;
why. ma. it was water!'|Contem
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HAS shHARsdIEss AUTOMOBILE
A Warrington Man Has One Tna'
Turns on Its Rack When II
Runs Away.

r. II. Warner, of Washington, made
rather peculiar and what might have
been a most disastrous visit to blg
sewer now in course of construction
in the capital city. He recently pur-
chased a loconrobile to aid him in in
vest;gating different sections OF his
district.
One morning, says the Star, he went
out to pay his respects to Andre"
Gleeson, an old friend of his, who is
constructing the big sewer referred
to. He was accompanied by his son.
They soon reached the banks OF the
James Creek canal. AS the road was
very narrow and said TO be impossible
little farther on, Mr.. Warner en-
deavored to effect backward motion
on the part Of the horseless carriage,
and in so doing caught his sleeve In the
wrong valve, and in an instant the We
hiele few like an eagle over the big
wall bordering the james Creek canal
and plunged the two occupants into
the air, both making somersaults. MIR.
Warner came down in a channel just
large enough to hold him, which had
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NIAGARA WILL NOT RUN DRY,
For the Reason That There ARE
Three New Sources Of Water Sup
My for the Great Lakes.

The Sun on the 30th ult. contained
an article with the caption; "Will
Niagara Run Dry2" In reply l beg
to say no. Why? writes Francis
Wayland Glen. In the New York Sun.
First-Because when the Georgian
bay and Ottawa river canal is con-
structed with 25 feet of water over
the lock sills the waters of Lake
Nippissing, Trout lake and Lake
Talon will discharge into Georgian
bay and therefore raise the water
!evel of Lake Huron. Trout lake is
30 feet deep, and is fed by the per-
petual snow and ice OF the upper
part of the valley Of the Ottawa.
Seccnd--A canal can be cut from
Lake Nipegon to Lake Superior.
Nipeson is large and deep lake,
and is also fed from many streams
which rise in the region OF perpet-
ual snow md ice.
Third-When a ship canal Is con-
structed through Rainy lake and
Rainy river to Lake of the Woods,
another large body of water would
lischarge into Lake Superior. These
three sources of supply will more
than counterbalance the discharge OF
water through ship canal from
Chicago to deep water upon the llli-
nois river.
The Canadian government Is pro-
testing against our building the Chi
ago drainage canal, although Lake
Michigan Is entirely within United
States territory. If Canada has any
rights in Lake Michigan which we
are bound to respect, then we have
rights in Georgian bay which Canada
is bound to respect.
We have the same right to protest
against constructing ship canal
from the Georgian bay to Montreal
for the admission of war vessels into
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recently been dug through the mud to
carry off surface water. The locomo-
bile turned a complete somersanlt and
knocked the dashboard, side bars and
top rigging into thousand pieces.
The whole incident occupied only
few seconds. and when Mr.. Warner re-
covered from his surprise he found
himself under the locomohilc, which
was turned bottom upward. with the
engine still in motion and the wheels
revolving at rnpid rate. while his son,
who had lnnt.d on his feet. was sur
yeyinn the situation with solicitude.
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the upper lakes that she has to OBJ
-ject to our constructing n canal from
Lake Michigan through the Illinois
river for drainage purposes.
Hon. Andrew II. Green, with his
usual foresight, has been urging the
creation of an international commits
sion for the purpose of dealing with
international waters, and also for the
purpose of suggesting a continental
system of international deep-sea
canals.
There is no more important ques-
ton for the electors of this republic
than the creation Of that commits
sion,
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HOW TO JUDGE OF TOBACCO.
A Hard White or Light Gray Ash said
to be the Sign of q Good
Cigar.

Color burn and texture are the
three things which the grower of to-
bacco has chiefly to consider. At
present the trade calls for a light
cinnamon-brown shade, which must
be uniform, not mottled. The leaf
when rolled on cigar and smoked
must leave a white or light ash,
which does not fake off and fall into
Daily camera., 1901-08-20
An EntcrprIsinR Jap.

A Yokohama correspondent sends
the following tradesman's card as
showing how the modern jap assimi-
ila,es American methods: "Jewelry-
maker. A finest in town. WhiSky-boy
No. II Aioicho Itchome. Show this
card to jinrikshaman. Our shop is
best and obliginS worker that has
Everybody known and having articles
genuine japanese Crystals and all
l. 'Eds of Curios. Gold or silver plate
in 1Isctroplate or plain mending.
c,-v; No IN Laid, work own name or
raon.e. vsms or any design according
70 ordersAwe can work how much diff
fcult .JobSrith lowest prices insure,
pleace try. once try Don't forget
name WHISKY !"-Chicago Chronicle.
HAS A HARMLESS AUTOMOBILE
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Australian Apples.

Parts of Australia are becoming
lively rivals to Canada and the United
States in the European apple trade
Tasmania. especially, has been found
a first-class apple-raising country
There are 1873 acres in apple orchards
there and the product in 1899 was 363,
ol5 bushels.-N Y. Sun.
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Ihr Suanllcal EaSnn

The smallest Free Mason in the
world is Casper II Weis, of Philadel-
phia, who has taken the degree OF
master mason. Brother Weis, who is
"a years old, was born in Morschingcn,
Bezirk, Rhineland. is matchmaker by
trade, and stands 5 feet II inches in
his stockings. He belongs to Richard
Yaux lodge, No. 3S4
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The Uganda RAILWAY.

The Uganda railway is laid as far as
mile is0. The line viii be laid to the
Victoria Nyanza hv November next,
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NeWland's Additions

to the city of Boulder These lots are very de-
sirable for residence and the price is right and
terms reasonable. Below we give a partial
list of properties we have for sale.
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CLOVIS In the Dark.

The diamond if laid in the sun and
then carried into q dark room shows
distinct phosphorescence,
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iiiopnth and HomeGpath Together.
About q dozen hospitals in Massachu-
setts have both allopathic and homeo.
pathic physicians on the staff
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If you want to sell or buy property call OH US.
We are resident agents for the best insuranc.
companies. We write fire, life, accident ane
plate glass insurance, and If in need CT any.
thing in that line give us a call.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-09
Racial Clannishness.


society
recently announced o a
~ persons
condesnds
child the individual
be by Al CALIFORNIAN
THE tendency
a
of invariably
inherit the inferior qualities
benefited by the vein mixed blood Indian
quarter or egbod descendants not nTequnty shows the benefit Of
the incubation America
types physical beauty
be found the United States
ing
The which
of today
mortal and proudly
Of
from
savhoIdng
Increased the list of their hats without attending public
slaves.
Of country
nothing
o Of ancestry
prevalent America than imagine
accomplished American
VINO SPECIMENS IN every lespectsons Whon
proud
families Semitic blood
nmariage with
the result of higher culture
habit Of thought
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-09
AN UNHAPPY QUEEN.

n UEENS ARE But WOMEN, after all Their
| hearts ache and bleed, their tears flow; their
= nights are full of anguish and their days of
mourning as are the days and nights of the great I'M
crowned sisterhood. With wearers of the purple We
are accustomed to associate dignity, imperiousness,
serenity We see them only in the lmehght, and from
our places in pit parquet gallery, applaud or hiss,
as the fancy seizes
Rarely do people remember that there is another
side to royalty place behind the scenes where the
paint comes off and the print replaces the purple.
Queens love mot wisely, but too well" do their
sisters. They know the bitterness of unrequted at
lection the woe OF loveess marriage It Is unusual
not that this should be but that domestic nfeicties
of royal couples become known.
The case in point Is that Of Queen Wilhemina of
Holland. around whose girish sovereignty veil of
romance has always been wrapped. All the world
knows of her sorrow the GROWING chapter IN the book
Of dial that has lately been written around English
and ropean nobility To the little queen whose life
has en- wrecked almost It's threshold the sympathy
of t world viii 90 out Her cousort, Prince Henry,
Is by all accounts conscienceiess rogue ever
slit a throat or beat a wife.
If report speaks truly he Is a drunken YagaDond
who should he placed IN penal servitude. But like all
the trusting loving women who have lived before her.
who live now and who viii live hereafter, Whemina
bears herself proudly before her people. She IS will
ing to forgive the great wrongs done her. to forget the
past and to live for the future. That's the woman of
1t. If Prince Henry should be seized today by a mob
of excited Dutchmen Wilhelmina would be the first
30 intercede for him.
So it Is with the great majority of her kind. VIII
Iellnna attracts the sympathy OF the world because
of her high position. Yet she sowed the wind and is
reaping the whirlwnd- The match with Prince Henry
of her making, and against the wisies of her
advisers In lcGer walks of life it would be said that
she is getting what she deserves, but no woman de-
serves misery.