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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31
By George AIDE.

Just when Tess figured herself a
Back and called her Sis. 1t was a loud
Hick who had been watching her on
the Dock.
Il like your Nerve!" exclaimed Tes-
sic, giving him the Eye.
"Now you behave or I'll give you
a mean old Slap right on the Elbow"
said the Hick, saying which he seated
himself between Chauncey and
Therese
Gladys, dost think you could learn
to love me?" he asked, taking her by
the Lace Mitt.
1t is needless to say that Chauncey
was very Indignant. He felt it his
Duty to protect the poor Girl, but
somehow he found himself blocked off
and there was no chance to get in a
Word.
The Hick was telling Therese that
her Eyes were not Mates and that he
didn't care so much for the way her
Hair was put up and she was toast
ing him for Keeps and threatening to
hand him If he didn't let go of her.
Finally she got so mad that she ask
ed him to come to the back part Of
the Boat so that she could tell him
just what she thought Of him.
That was where Chauncey found
himself alone with the Waterscape.
Tessie never came back, for she had
found her Meal Ticket.
MORAL: The League Rules do not
go at Picnic.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

ion bushel crop of wheat with several
millions of the 5,000,0 900 acres Of the
available farm land it embraces left
unbrOken for pasture and hay. The
population is now about 100000, but
when it becomes settled with a family
to every $50 acres, allowing five persons
to each family, it will have population
close to 100000. To this hopeful
prophecy would like to add another
one to the effect that when the time
comes for the large crop and the big
population, there will be flying over it
all the beautiful flag that has silver
stars on it.
Awakening Is General.
There is one important fact to be
taken into consideration when contem-
plating the development of Canada.
The entire dominion is undergoing q
general awakening to it's commercial
interests. The forward movement is
not confined to any one district, but
prevails from ocean to ocean. The ad-
vance is stronger and more marked in
sections, but the whole country is COM
ing to participate in the spirit Of prog
ress. The significant feature of the
situation is the leadership of the Yam
KEGS. American men and American
money are the leaven of the forming
loaf. A man in Toronto told me that
"the Yankees had discovered Ontario"
Local capital that had been timid took
courage when money began coming
into the province from over the border.
The result has been the same in all
the provinces. The prestige of the
Yankee as a safe and judicious invest
or is such that his lead is followed in
stantly wherever he goes. His venture
is a tonic to trade in any region. This
is equally true of the Yankee pioneer;
wherever he goes the Representatives
Of all nations flock after him. Prob
ably 10000 farmers from the States
have come into the Northwest terri
tories this season, and their invasion
has brought a general scramble after
their heels. Americans are buying i'm
mense tracts of this land as an invest
ment. The explanation of this move
ment is simple. The Canadian may
tell you that the Americans recognize
that dominion law and government are
superior to those of the United States,
and are making the change on this ac-
count, but this is not the reason at all.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

ms beard was gray. Lincoln said when
Eyer you see man like that 1t is an in
ulcatIon that he has overworked his law.
Boom to Be Lasting.
Winnipeg has had one boom which burst
IKE bubble, but the present period Of
activity is not likely to have such an un-
fortunate termination. It is already the
Rome OF the great northern wheat belt.
and on account of the lay of the land its
importance is certain to increase rather
than diminish. Along early in the summer
the reapers begin to sing their humni1g
song down in Oklahoma, and the refrain
rides In volume as it sweeps across the
yellow fields of Kansas, Nebraska, Mime
sofa, the two DakotaS and sweeps across
the. border into Manitoba and the North
west territories. This song of the reaper
and the thresher Is swelling into a thund-
erous annual anthem, which is freighted
With the greatest portent for all humanity
When the vast stretches Of fertile prairie
are finally subjugated by the pillow. the
bread they will yield will almost be
enough to cause the elimination of the
words of hunger and famine from the
comes Winnipeg will be a great metropo-
lis. The children of the gray bearded
promoter will not have to tread the plank
walks and sing the praises of new real
estate for living. They will probably
be able to ride in an automobile with the
money left them by their garrulous old
father who had sand in his boots and a
great faith in the future of his country.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

Divide by $50 years months. 90
But, of course, If you are already
siXty-nine years and six months old,
you should be even less afraid of death
In calculating the chances of long
life the savant mentions many long
lives. Among them are those of a
resident of Goa, who is said to have
reached his four hundredth year in the
enjoyment of all his intellectual facul-
ties, a Scotchman who lived to be over
zoo years old, and various monks of
Mont AthOS who have reached $50
years. He asserts that Servian sta
ustics for 1897 show three persons be-
tween 135 and 140 years old eighteen
from 126 to 1875, 123 from 115 to 1875,
and 290 from 105 to 115. In 1890 there
were, he says, in the United States
1881 persons over 100 years old and
twenty-one in London.
M. FinOt does not believe that the
average length of human life has been
reduced, but, happily, contends that it
is constantly increasing owing to the
progress of hygiene.
On the contrary, H. Henri de Varigny
writing in ILLUSTRATION, asks:
Has the man of today a chance to
live longer than the man of 1000 years
ago?"
LOgevity of the Egyptians.
He concludes that the Egyptian who.
1000 years ago, lived to be sixty-eight
years old, was likely to live longer than
Will an Englishman of today who is
sIxty-eight years old. NJ De Varigny
bases his conclusion partly on the re-
searches made by Spregelberg, of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31
LIVE AS LONG AS YOU PLEASE

Strassburg, on the age of Egyptian
mummies. De Varigny explains:
Evidently there was among the
Egyptians a natural selection result
In from environment, that does not take
place today, at least to the same de-
gree, among civilized people. The
Egyptians who reached the age of
weight years had ro..lst consti-
tutions and therefore their chances of
longevity were exceptional. Mortality
was higher among the children and the
adults, and there was a kind of selec-
ton by death.
1.-The man of today is not stronger;
he is possibly weaker. But the ma
jority of the people live under condi-
| tons more favorable to longevity, be-
cause we know what conditions to
promote. In other words, the greater
expectation of average life is the re-
suit of the progress of sanitary science
in the fullest sense, and not the re-
suit of an increase of vitality. 1t is
the consequence Of the evolution of
mans intellect rather than of the evo-
luton of his body" III
For these and other reasons M. De
Varigny declares that although the
chances of life have increased for in
fancy, youth and the prime of life, they
have not increased for old age. But,
after all, he is only an exponent Of the
theory of the survival of the f1ttest
1t would vastly interest these two
Frenchmen and all students of this i'm
portant and interesting question to
read the papers which DR.. Maurice
Fishberg is contributing to the Jew
ish magazine, the Menorah.
DR.. Fishburg, who practices largely
on the lower east side of this city,
writes on the New York Ghetto. He
points out the extraordinary fact that
the wards in this city where the rate
of mortality is lowest are the wards so
densely populated by Russian Jews.
He explains this longevity by the the
Dry that the prosecutions of ages have
eliminated from the Jewish race it's
weaklings:
"Only those who were strong, heal
thy and energetic could venture to re-
main Jews"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31
she is Stanislaus' model he has not
drawn her as she looks
Miss Enan ikas CononI;poan+e

she is Stanislaus' model he has not
drawn her as she looks
Miss Egan Likes Compliments.
II cannot deny that was pleasurable
even If I don't believe it. confess,
like any other woman, I like compli-
ments. I have been told that I have
the Stanislaus carriage. l haven't, but
that's what people don't understand.
Another unpleasant thing in being
so distinguished in this way is that
no matter what do it makes me look
as If were conceited. l try very hard
to be unconscious, and by so doing
probably seem very conscious.
Nov I really am not conceited at
all, and it not my fault if people say
I resemble the type which the artist
by his brilliancy has made so admira
BILE. If it was 1 who said 1 looked like
her should be called conceited. But
it is not I who say so; it is the peo-
ple-strangers.
But 1 really did hear a genuine
compliment the other day, if 1 do say
so. OF course the man was young,
very young, but he was so genuine in
his enthusiasm that it was excusable,
and l cannot help smiling at his out
burst of f1attery. This is what the
young undergraduate really said:
'Stanislaus girl, Stanislaus girl. WHY.
she is SO hard and stiff; and you are
all curves.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

Y y 1NNIPEG, Man., Aug. est
A is long jaunt from Halifax
AAE to Winnipeg. The traveller
u u must pass through hundreds
of miles of territory that make
him think of "the country that
God forgot" If he spends his
time in looking from the car win
dow it will surely give him the blues,
for the prospect is mainly dreary one.
Hour after hour the train squirms
along through acres and acres of
brown and barren rocks, which are
tumbled in wild and picturesque pro-
fusion. The trees are small and dead
and there is a certain pathos in the
picture they present. Their slender
trunks are as bare and white as if
some consuming breath had been
blown upon them. But it is said there
are green spots in all deserts, and in
this northern waste there are hundreds
of beautiful lakes, whose clear wat
ers fash in the sun, and where pure
and chate lilies flourish in natural pro-
fusion. We have a way of thinking
nowadays that the frontier is gone
that there isn't any more "out West"
That may be the case, but there is still
son Bay store, the CLINT of the Indian
fishermans paddle and the flat-roofed
dugout of the white hunter and pros
pector bear witness to the fact that the
new order of things has not been
worked altogether; that the wilderness
is not yet driven back all along the
line.
Great Wheat Belt.
After you cross the Red river the
aspect changes. Winnipeg marks the
beginning of the great Canadian wheat
belt, where the pioneer is asserting his
mastery over the prairie and exacting
from it the tribute of golden grain
which means sustenance for the hun
CRY. One feature which was loudly ap-
plauded during the fireworks at the
Winnipeg exposition was a large set
piece representing a yellow sheaf of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

given by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Horse Shoers' Union.
Tess was more than nine and could
take care of herself at any point along
the Line. The Girls who worked at the
same Plant often said that Tessie was
a regular Case and full of the old
Harry, but just the same she was Aw-
full Nice.
She had a changeable Figure and a
Complexion that showed up best at a
Dance.
Although somewhat shy on Happy
Clothes she managed to leave a small
Ripple behind her whenever she plow-
ed along Main Street, showing her
Buckles. Usually she wore her Sailor
pulled down to her Eyebrows and
cast frightened Chances to right and
left, as if to say, Gee, 1 wonder if
some Fresh Guy is going to speak to
me?"
But some of them didn't.
Therese was her Official Name and
she used it on her Cards, each of which
had q Colored Picture of Flowers in
the Corner Mother got the name in
a Story-Paper.
The Bertha Clay Habit seemed to
run in the Family. Tessie loved to
work her way into q Tea-Gown and
then get couple of Pillows under her
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31
Sarcasm that Failed.

He is tsuch a little man-only three
years old-yet he insists upon intruding
his presence and advice upon his elders,
often to their intense annoyance.
1t was only few days ago that his
mother and his Aunt Belle were dis
cussing some household problem-some-
thing which an infant was not sup
posed to know anything about. Sudden
ly Cliff appeared on the scene, and in
a moment was informing both Of the fem
mime members of the family just what
the facts were.
"Oh! Wisdom, when did you arrive?'
exclaimed Aunt Belle, thinking that she
might be able to "squelch'' the young
ster.
Just come dis mint replied the mite,
not in the least abashed by the sarcasm.
And Aunt Belle gave it up as a hopeless
case.-Boston Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31
Copyright 1902, by
Robert Howard Russell,

ME- there was a Cum Chew
er named Tessie who iron
ed up her White Dress and
bought seven yards of Rib
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

al Correspondence.
y INNIPEG, Man., Aug. est
is a long jaunt from Halifax
81 to Winnipeg. The traveller
u must pass through hundreds
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-31

Why should not men live as long
as they please; live to be at least 100
years old, or 10 years or 100?
Men should be afraid of the fear of
death; not of death itself. If we fol-
low this rule there is no reason why
we should not all become centenarians
at least.
NJ. Jean Finot, a French scientist
thus puts and answers this all i'm
portant question in the Revue dEcon-
omie Politigue. He asks, too, in eff
feet:
why do men grow old at alp"
For three reasons.
l. Want of physical exercise in the
open air.
2. Poisoning by microbes which the
phagocytes have not succeeded in de-
stroying.
3. Fear of death.
Please understand that by "phago-
cyteS, scientists mean lymph corpus
cles, or white blood corpuscles, which
they regard as capable of devouring
of destroying the disease producing
microbes which they meet. So that, of
course. If your "phagocytes'' do their
whole duty you will live the longer.
In a word the learned M. Finot de-
cides that if men make up their minds
not to fear death, not to diminish their
vitality by such a wearing dread, they
can live pretty much as long as they
want.
But
IF man fears death it will carry
him away. And yet it is quite pleasant
to die; no sensation could be compared
with it,"
How does a servant even as wise as
M. Finot prove that it is quite pleasant
to die?
He quotes Heine, who related the
sensations he experienced while flee
ing with his companions from the top
of one of the Alps and who ESCAPED
death as by a miracle:
AT first a sense of beatitude, then
complete insensibility to touch and
pain; finally an extreme rapidity of
thought and of Imagination, which in
a few seconds enabled him to recollect
the events of his whole life.
Not Death We Should Fear.
Therefore it is not death we should
fear, but the fear it inspires in u.s.
We are wrong, says Socrates, to fear
death, as 1T is our greatest possession
on earth, and Seneca adds that 1T is
the best of the inventions of life, while
Montesquieu concludes that we should
shed tears for men when they are born
and not when they die"
NJ. Finot quotes a mathematical for
mula which he ascribes to DR.. Rich
ardson by which any one, whether or
not he shunS the fear of death, can
calculate his probable length of life
Add the ages of your father and
mother to those of your two grand
fathers and two grandmothers; divide
the total by six, result the exact num-
Der of years you should live
Thus: set down the ages of your
immediate ancestors:
faIner 69 Upa re
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
The Mouth.

An exchange tells of a
school boy who was compelled
by his teacher to write an
essay on the mouth and this
is what he wrote: "The
mouth is the front door of the
face; it is the aperture of the
cold storage of our anatomy.
The mouth is the hot-bed Of
toOthache. The mouth is the
crimson aisle to the liver; it
is the fountain of patriotism
and the tool chest for pie,
Without the mouth the poll
tician would be a wanderer
on the face of the earth and
90 down toa dishOnored grave.
1t is the grocer's friend, the
orators pride, the dentists
hope. 1t is temptations
lunch counter when attached
to a maiden, and tobacco's
friend when attached to a
man. 1t puts some men ON
the rostrum and others in
Jail. It is the home of that
unruly member, the tongue.
Without it married life would
be a summer dream and the
dude would lose half his at
fractions.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
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The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
telephone Etiquette.


There yet remains to be
written anGauthoritative man
ual on Telephone Etiquette
Not that the subject has not
received attentiOn-far from
it. But where shall we find
a code of rules governing the
relations of the caller and the
called so just and so sensible
that all may accept it as the
final law on the subject, and
so accepting, abide by iii?
Mr.. Smith, a busy man of
business, summons his office
boy, and says: "Please get
Mr.. Jones on the wire" The
boy does as directed. 1t hap
pens that neither man has at
tanned the luxury of a desk
set. Accordingly, when Jones
is informed by his boy that
Mr.. Smith wants to talk 70
him over the telephone, he
lays aside what he is doing
and walks to the instrument.
There he hears the familiar
''Hold the wire d minute,
please" and waits patiently,
or perhaps impatiently, until
Smith is notified that Mr..
Jones is ION the wire" and
goes to the telephone in his
turn. Jones has wasted some
seconds or minutes perhaps
of his valuable time. Smith,
on the other hand, has lost no
time. He could have saved
Jones the waiting by direct
ing his boy to call up Jones'
Office and ascertain if he we're
in. Receiving an affirmative
answer, he could then have
stepped to the telephone and
called for Jones, waiting him
self until Jones responded.
But in that case Smith would
have waited, and Smith does
not care to stand around any
more than Jones does. Little
vexations, like great prob
lens, depend so much on the
point of view. What we need
is a system of rules that shall
be equally respected by Smith
and Jones, whether either be
the seeker or the sought.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
Didn't Get His License.

Brooks Howard, a young
farmer of Johnson county,
KY, aged twenty-four, and
Miss Arisona Carpenter an
eighteen-year-old girl of the
same locality, came to this
city on marriage intent, says
the Ironton Register. Upon
applying for a license Howard
admitted that he had a wife
living, but stated that she
was in an insane asylum and
thought that equivalent to a
divorce. He was disillusion-
ed when the license was re-
fused, and with his prospec-
tive bride, resumed his long
journey to the old Kentucky
home
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
Turned the Tables.

Badger fightingat Winches-
ter has been suspended, says
the Mt. Sterling Gazette. A
crowd of about one hundred
rOped in a New York clothing
drummer last week, and he
happened to be 'next. " He
pulled the badger (?) out and
when the crowd gave him the
laugh, he pulled two big guns
and began shooting into the
crowd. They die not know
he was shooting blank cart
ridges, and it was a sight the
way they ran. One prOmi-
nent grocer got hung on a
BRAIDED wire fence, and he
had to send home for a pair
of trousers before he could
return to his business. The
pitcher went to the well once
too often.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
Disastrous Experiment.

Henry Rosenthal tried to
show that his fifty years had
not made him lose the agility
of his youth by climinga tree.
The result was that he was
taken home with serious in
juries to his back, says the
Henderson Journal.
Mr.. Rosenthal, who is the
secretary of the Ben Hur
Lodge, went on the lodge ex-
cursion Sunday to Race creek
near the mouth of Green riv-
er. The men in the party
were showing their agility by
climbing trees and Mr.. RO-
senthal joined in the sport.
He climbed up about eight
feet from the ground when by
some means he lost his hold
and fell to the ground.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25
STRENUOUS
LANGUAGE.
OF San Juan Hill Still Remem-
bered by Horse Roosevelt
Rode.

Dick, the horse ridden by
President Roosevelt, then
Colonel Roosevelt, during the
Cuban campaign, attended
the exercises at the unwilling
of the Confederate monument
at Forest Hill Cemetery on
Decoration day. He was rid
den by County Marshal
George Maxwell.
Dick is the property of j.
L. Runde, who conducts the
copper works opposite the
County Jail, and it was he
who loaned him to Mr.. Max
well. The horse is a dark
bay, marked with black on
his neck. He is a handsome
fellow and very intelligent.
Mr.. Runde bred and raised
him. He is 10 years old,
stands 154 hands high and
weighs $1,000 pounds. He
was sent to Tampa for Colo
mel Roosevelt's use by Mr..
Runde.
Il wanted to do something
for my country" said Mr..
Runde, 80 l tried to enlist
when war was declared
against the Spanish. I was
refused because of my age,
so l began to ponder what I
could do. Finally 1 thought
of my horse and l decided TO
make him my substitute.
The horse went through the
entire Cuban campaign, and
was returned to me from
Montauk Point after the
Rough Riders disbanded.
Colonel Roosevelt offered me
a fancy price for the horse,
but as l wanted him myself l
refused it."
The deputies at the County
Jail say that when Mr.. Runde
is DESTROYS of producing
speed in Dick he leans we'll
over him and yells, "Give
'em HI" It is said that
Dick acqaired the knowledge
of this term during the cam
paign in Cuba, and that when
he heard it close above his
ears he knew it called for the
putting forth of his most
strenuous efforts.-Ex.
The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1902-06-25

It is said that a girl in Iowa
recently walked five miles in
a storm to get married. She
will probably not havet to walk
more than a few rods in the
rain or snow to get an armful
of wood or a scuttleful of coal
or wade knee deep in the snow
TO hang a clothes line in the
future, and the worst storm
she will experience will be
when dinner is late and the
baby and the old man are both
cross.