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corps is equally punctilious in paying
them. On account of the war between
Russia and Japan the relations OF the
ambassador and minister are necessa-
rily very strained and they aVold
meeting each other a. much as posi-
BILE. The etiquette of the corps, how
ever, requires greetings between these
diplomats if they should meet in any
public place and the rule is observed,
but no with very good grace.
Both the diplomats have business at
the state department and on Thurs
days, which IS diplomatic day, the en-
counters between them are sometimes
amusing. The japanese minister has
been known to prolong his visit to Sec
rotary Hay in order to keep the Rus
sian ambassador cooling his heels in
the reception room, and sometimes
Count CasSini get in ahead of Takahira
and then the little Jap has to wait
sumo. Occasionally they meet In the
reception DON OF in h corridor,
when the Jap makes his most formal
bow, and the ambassador, with his
English monacle in his eye, returns
the salute rather frigidly.
An arrangement has now been effect
ed that will prevent encounters be-
tween the distinguished diplomats.
The Japanese minister hereafter will
call at the state department in the fore
noon and transact his business. While
Count Cassini will do the same in the
afternoon, and thus they hope to es-
caps each others presence. Cassini is
slightly near-sighted and Takahira is
hard of hearing. One of their first en-
counters after the breaking out Of the
var was at the white house, when Cas-
SIM thought Takahira had not bowed
to him. When he took the latter to
task the little Jap replied: "Mr. Am
bassador, l did bow to you most mark
eddy"
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ARE OF IDENTICAL ORIGIN.
Whale and Lion Said to Have Sprung
from One and the Same
Source

AS everyone knows, or ought to
know, the whale is not a fish. but
mammal, and biologists have long ron.
dered about it's family tree, says a
scientific paper. In Eocene times the
ancestors of mammals were beginning
to take shape somewhat like those OF
to-day and to lose the grotesquesneSs
inherited from their reptilian progen'
itors. To be sure. animals were very
different from those Of today. Horses
were no larger than dogs and had
five toes, while cattlelike tinoceras,
twice the size of an OK, with six horns,
tusk-like teeth and five toes, cropped
the heritage of Wyoming. Along with
these peculiar plant feeders there
dwelt some very primitive flesh eat
ers, to which Prof. Cape gave the
name Of creadonta.
The scene shifts to modern times.
Prof. Fraas, of Stuttgart, Germany. is
delving in the rocks near Cairo, Egypt,
He is getting out huge jaw bones that
have been petrified. The jaw bones
are those of whales and the rocks nea
Cairo were, in Eocene times, the sea-
shore. The professor has studied his
whale jaws and compared their teeth
with other fossil teeth. Now, he tells
us in a recent Abhandlungen that
these teeth of ancient whales are like
those of the ancient carniverous
c%reodonts. From this he argues that
in Eocene or earlier times some prim-
tive flesh eater took to an aquatic
life. From these old times to the pres
ent whales have been becoming more
fishlike.
1t is hard to believe that the raven
GUS lion and inoffensive and toothless
whale of to-day had a common an
cestor, yet they both have the same
tastes for blood, only the whale swal-
lows his food whole.
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HOW TO OBSERVE THE DAY
Make Your Thanksgiving Practical
by Making Others Happy
How to Do It.

One way, and a most cOmmon-Sense
one, is by paying bills, certainly the
small ones, and more especially those
that are owing to working people, or
to clearinghouse keepers, butchers,
bakers, grocers or landlords. Money
kept in circulation will keep many
wants supplied, many little holes
stopped, and if anyone must wait, 1t
should ordinarily be the man of means,
the one who can best afford to do SO,
not those who depend on the days in
come to supply the daily needs, says
the New York Observer.
During a little disappointment in her
first housekeeping arrangements, a
young h~ousekeeper found it necessary
to send out her washing instead of hav-
ing it done in the house as she had
been doing. 1t then became one of her
unwritten laws to pay when the clothes
were brought home. At n time they
came a day earlier in the week than
| usual, and the two dollars were not
ready. AS it was Thanksgiving day,
the h~ousekeeper, who was giving a din
ner, tried to get a larger bill changed
by one of her guests. AS she could not.
| she told the child that she would stop,
| with the money, on her way to the
office the next day.
81 shall never forget the expression
on that child's face" said the lady in
referring to the incident, "and |
thought that l knew what it meant. Ex-
cusing myself from my guests, temper
arily, I rushed out to the nearest gro
Gerry, bought some trifing article that
l needed, and almost ran with the
change, the six blocks to the home
where my laundress lived, to find her
sitting down to a Thanksgiving dinner
Of bread and water for the children
with a little pot of tea added for the
mother. You can hardly imagine the
good feeling that was mine, as | re-
turned to my own festivities, when ]
knew how much of comfort the honest
pay for honest work must have brought
to that humble home
Hire all the work done that can pos
sibly be afforded, and hen see that the
pay is prompt, if you would be prac-
teal in making Thanksgiving day a
happy one among the unfortunate. See
to it, too, that yon do not turn a deal
ear to all who ask for employment
when your own wants are supplied, fol-
| the need of labor is greater than the
need of charity, and you may be able
to suggest work to others where you
cannot relieve In person, and so put the
destitute and dependent in the way OF
| self-helpfulness, which is the greatest
Of all charities.
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DO you want to drown them right
here in the coaches like rats in a cage?'
inquired Moore.
"Of our not"
Then what are you going to do? Give
them wings? Of course you are not.
The way is open before us as far as we
can see, and we've got to run for it and
trust to Providence not to get shut off.
Go back and tell your passengers the
kind of a hole we are in and hear what
they have to say. Be quick about it, too;
do you see that water crOwding up on
us?"
The waves of the rushing food Tapped
the shore in a soft pounding that was
as insidious and as sure as an epidemic,
The fireman shook himself and began
%shoveling coal into the furnace mouth.
Moore touched a cock here and there; a
squirt of boiling water from one, a sizz
Of steam from another, and he looked
satisfied with the signs.
Shake her up, Dick" he urged. 1--WE
have got steam enough to 90 on, but
we've got to have enough to go like
blazes. There's business ahead"
The conductor returned in a short
time reporting that the passengers were
unanimously in favor of taking all
chances and make a rush for safety.
Now, Moore" said the conductor,
cts up to you to get us out Of this.
Maybe you can't do it, and We'll have
to go down together, or swim for it.
You've got to let her go for all she's
worth and get there or bust. Are you
ready?"
"All aboard" Moore sang out cheer
fully for answer, but with a firmness
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WHO Is MORE CULLIBLE?
The City Man Is Not a Bit Behind His
Country Cousin in This
Respect.

SIS the man of the country more guilt
BILE than the man Of the city," ashed
an observant man, in the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. There is a suspicion
that an answer in the affirmative would
fit the case. Yet, it may not be so.
An interesting experiment has recently
been made, according to a story that
comes out Of New York, and the result
seems to have been a little disastrous.
According to the story this attempt to
prove that the residents of the country
districts are more gullible than those
of the city has nearly resulted in a jail
sentence for a college student employed
He is said to be a member of a we'll
known family in Maine, and vas a
student at Brown university in the class
of 'O6.
Financial reverses sustained by the
family compelled him to seek work in
the city, and he became a conductor not
long ago. In July a friend of the con
ductor residing in Maine received a
letter Offering to sell him, at low rates,
counterfeit money made in Mexico.
The Maine man turned the letter over
to the secret service officials and the
conductor Don after was arrested. He
was indicted and has been in Jail since
July. The prisoner explained that the
letter was only a joke and an expert
ment in sociology, finally giving the
district attorney his true name, which
he formerly had concealed. Investiga-
ton proved the story to be true, and
when the case came before Federal
Judge Holt the district attorney ex-
planned. The judge ordered the joker's
plea of not guilty to be withdrawn,
entered n of guilty and then suspend
ed sentence. He warned the student of
sociology, however, to be more careful
in his future experiments.
But this does not by any means set
tie the important question, and despite
the common belief in the gullibility of
the nan from the country now and then
we run across a happening which shows
he has an element of shrewdness which
will often put the city man to a hard
test of his wits"
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showing he had the best courage of
his class, and their courage is of the
kind that is even better than that of
soldiers.
The engine was fairly humming now,
and the steam was Sizing out of her,
hot and dry; insistent upon having its
energies exerted to the utmost.
I'm ready if you are" cried Long,
slanming the doors of the furnace,
a storm.
Moore took a long look ahead, and
swept his ayes around the waters that
were closing in on him. He tried his
valves and cocks and saw that every
thing was in good shape, and with a
word to his cab mate he slowly opened
! the throttle for the race before him.
The engine responded to the impulse
Of the steam as gradually it forced a
way through the steel vitals, tugging
and straining for a moment and gather
ing speed as the throttle opened wider.
| She seemed to be stiff at first from long
standing, but as she warmed up she
loosened her joints and at the end Of
the first mile she vas whirling along
with the throttle wide open. The race
for life against the insatiate flood had
begun and Jim Moore sat with eyes
stIaining forward owe his engine as a
driver looks over his horse, flying
through the last quarter with the wire
just ahead. Twenty miles meant only
as many minutes under ordinary cir
cumstances, but these were not ordinary
circumstances. A hundred lives and a
great engine and train of cars were in
the engineers keeping, and an angry
food, eager to destroy, was creeping
swiftly upon him to take them to itself.
Five miles out into the rushing sea
and as the last car of the train rolled
across a trestle it swayed under the
~contending forces of weight and water
and fell into the torrent, leaving in an
instant a gap where an instant before
the train had been. On they sped, and
the bridge over the river was in sight.
The water had risen to the tracks be-
tween the train and the bridge, and
Moore hesitated. 1t was as If he were
plunging into the very river itself, for
there was a wide spread Of water in
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left that party in 1896 on the money
issue and has since been a most siren
uous republican. For several weeks
this fall he was assigned to a speech
making tour with Speaker Cannon. It
was a happy combination. Cannon
was the big gum, who fired the heavy.
solid shot, while Bede peppered the au.
dience from a rapid-lre machine gun
loaded with bon mots, jokes and apt
stories. Bede has a James Whitcomb
Riley face and would be a success on
the vaudeville stage as a comic mon
ologist.
Mr.. Bede's humor is not forced. but
is usually inspired by his surroundings
and some of his best illustrations come
to him on the spot. While addressing
a crowd of working people at a noon
day meeting in Wisconsin, he noticed
on the outskirts of a throng a woman
who had evidently just left her kitchen.
She was a large, fat female and was
dressed comfortably, If not elegantly,
in a wide-1owing mother hubbard. The
Quaint figure at ono appealed to Bede
and quick as a fash he declared:
my friends, the democratic platform
reminds me of a mother hubbard; 1t
covers everything and touches moth
ing"
At another place, in West Virginia,
he was discussing the vice presidency
as an obscure position and one OF lit
tie Importance. This was to offset the
argument that state pride ought to in
fuence votes in that state for Vice
Presidential Candidate Henry CASA
way Davis. "Why, my friends" said
the Minnesota orator, "the vice presi-
dent is like the figure 9 with the tail
cut off"
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Peculiar Steed.

AT a little dinner the other night the
statement was made that the colored
race had longer memories than white
folk. Mark Twain, who was present,
agreed with the remark, and to prove it
told the following:
Some years ago, when south, l met
an old colored man who claimed to have
known George Washington. | asked
him If he was in the boat when Gen.
Washington crossed the Delaware, and
he instantly replied: 'Lor', massa. |
steered dat boat Well said |, do you
remember when George took the hack
at the cherry tree?' He looked worried
for a minute, and then. with a beaming
smile, said: Why, suah. massa, | drove
that hack mahself.'"-N Y. Herald.
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GIRL AND WOMAN
CARE NEEDED AT THE CHANGE
PRO.l ONE TO TIE OTHER.
Many n Life Spent In Suffering Because
Troubles Were h11owed to Develop
At This Time.

Many n Life Spent In Suffering Because
Troubles Were allowed to Develop
At This Time.
Every mother of agrowing girl should
remember that there will come a time
when her daughter will be a girl no
longer but will share with her the bless.
ings of womanhood. Unless nourish.
ment keeps pace. with growth the founda.
tions Of a life Of suffering are laid at
that time. Mrs. John MacKinney, Of
No. 478 Thirteenth street, Detroit, Mich,
writes a timely word. She says:
"Idid not get proper care at the first
critical time in my life and for seven
teen years I suffered as a result. L had
dizzy spells, felt a constant fear that
something dreadful was about to happen
and was afraid to go out alone. My
breathing was very short and I had pal
pitation of the heart SO badly that /
could not go up stairs nor walk even
moderately fast. I was so nervous that
I could not Jt still. At different times
for years I was under the care Of the
best physicians in Detroit and l tried a
number of advertised medicines. Moth.
ing helped me until, on the advice of q
neighbor, 1 tried DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. / felt relieved before
the first box was finished and I kept On
taking them until 1 was cured.
"Last winter my little girl had rheu.
matism and ] gave her DR.. Williams'Pi
Pills and she got well right away. My
niece was thought to be going into con-
sumption and, upon my advice, she tried
the pills. They cured her cough and she
is now we'll and strong. My entire fam.
lily are enthusiastic over DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People and we can
not say enough in their praise
These pills effect such cures be.
cause they go to the root Of the disease.
Other remedies act on the symptoms
these marvellous vegetable pills remove
the cause of the trouble. They have
proved themselves to be an unfailing
specific Cor all diseases arising from inn
pure blood and weakened nerves-two
fruitful causes of nearly all the
ills to which humankind is heir. DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are
sold in boxes at 80 cents a box, or six
boxes for $3.50, and may be had Of all
druggists, OF direct from DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
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which he is making All annual for.

tune.
The governor says that the industry
is fast becoming one of great CONNER
cial Importance. Eleven years ago JO-
siah Harbert, of Phoenix, imported IL
ostriches from South Africa and placed
them on his farm. The birds gradually
became acclimated and as their are
was more thoroughly understood they
began to thrive. The Matching was
done by means of a large incubator and
proved very successful. One feature of
the experiment was hat the birds in
the Salt river valley grew several
inches taller than the African ostriches
and their feathers were OF a finer quail
ity. When full-grown the Arizona os-
trich stands eight feet high and weighs
200 pounds. In describing M ostrich
enterprise and the character of the
product, the governor says:
THE male has black plumage and
the female drab, the male producing
rich, glossy feathers, far superior in
quality to those of the female. The
feathers are plucked every eight
months and are sold as high as SIPS
a pound in eastern markets. AS much
as a pound of feathers is taken from
one bird at a single clipping. The
principal food of the ostrich in the
Salt river valley is alfalfa and they
are allowed to run in large pastures.
where they feed ~contentedly and lat
ten easily. The industry is advancing
and the climate of the valley seems
to be particularly adapted to the sue
cessful raising of these birds.
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ognized when caught. Over 41,O00 were
thus marked and it is expected that
they will afford a sound basis for max
ing deductions.
The tagging of these fish is inter-
esting. The tag is a small piece OF
metal securely fastened by wires to
the dorsal or the ina fin or to the gill
cover of the fish. The tag bears a num-
Der so that the fish will be recognized
when afterwards caught. The expert
ments are intended to supplement the
previous work of the bureau along the
same lines.
1t is the purpose to show conclusive
ly what percentage OF artl1cially
Matched salmon return to the rivers;
the length of time the fish remain at
sea; the extent to which salmon re-
turn to the parent stream or wander
to adjacent streams; whether the
young Of Sacramento river and Rogue
river salmon, when planted in the Co
lumbia basin will go back to their ma
tive streams in any noteworthy num-
bers; whether the young of the late
runs of salmon return only as late fish
or as both early and late fish, and vari-
GUS other important practical facts.
The cooperation of Gamers, fisher
men, anglers and citizens is earnestly
solicited in making these experiments
of value. They are requested that
whenever a marked salmon is caught
the date and place of capture and the
weight should be noted and this infor-
nation, together with a strip of the
skin, including the two marked fins.
be sent to the United States fisheries
bureau or to any of it's employees or
stations.
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ment on this day
of the week.
II can always tell by the smell of
this corridor when Thursday comes"
said a clerk in the state department
the other day, passing through the
corridor leading to Secretary Hays
office.
"Why, you are a regular almanac.
How do you do it,"
well, Thursday is diplomatic day
and representatives Of the diplomatic
corps come to pay their respects to the
secretary of state. They nearly all
wear rank perfumes and by noon there
is a smell in this part of the state de-
partment which rivals a musk fac
tory"
This habit of using perfume is gen.
eral among the subordinates of the dip
lomatic corps and almost universal
among the representatives of the latin
nations. The ambassadors are not
guilty and some of the ministers know
better, but those from southern coun-
tries in Europe and this continent lead
themselves with various artificial odors
and it is almost possible to locate a
diplomat geographically and to guess
his rank by the quantity and quality of
the perfume he uses. The further south
a foreigner lives and the lower his dip
lomatic rank the stronger his perfume
seems to be-.
This perfume nabit is so obnoxious
that some of the hotel proprietors de-
cline to have the lesser diplomats as
their guests. 1t is related that of
the South American representatives
made himself conspicuous at Atlantic
City this summer by pouring musk on
his bathing suit before he went into
the water.
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termine the sue
cess of artificially
Matched salmon in
the rivers of the
Pacific coast. This
year a lot of young
Chinook salmon
were selected for
special experiment
tation with a view
to determining va
rious points in the
life of the fish.
Before the young
salmon were re-
leased they were
tagged so that
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Nothing Great.

A very plain man, whose homely
features Whistler, the famous painter.
had depicted with uncompromising fidel-
ity, came to him at the end of the last
sitting and said: Come, come, Master
Whistler, you can hardly tell me that
that is a great work of art" Perhaps
not" said Whistler, nonchalantly, but
then, my dear sir, you can hardly tell
me that you are a great work of nature"
Mail.
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Washington h e
Russian ambassa-
dor and the Jap
anese minister are
engaged in a SORT
of game of hide
and seek" Count
Cassini is the dean
of the corps and
C u S t o m requires
that certain court
estes be paid to
him by the other
members. He is
%punctilious in re-
quiring these at
+arttnpc onH tho
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dOfS, ministers OF
their representa-
tives call and pay
their respects to
the secretary of
state. The gather
ing of different
nationalities is in
teresting, t h g i r
%diverting
and their dress of
varied cut and de-
sign. They are a
sight for the lady
clerks in the de-
partment, who find
m Il C h entertain
nt an tLin Inu
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managers nave us
covered the value
of a humorist. In
most of the parties
of p binders
sent out over the
country one mem
Der has been Sc
Iected for his abil-
ity to entertain and
amuse the audi
n C One of the
best in this line is
c. o n 6 reSSman J.
Adam Bede, of
M i n n esota. Mr..
Bede was a Cleve-
J- ~~o-a% h,,t
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Just Comfortable.

Uncle-Bobby, l suppose you've been
a good little boy?
Bobby-No, l haven't.
"Why l hope you haven't been very
bad?"
"Oh, no; just comfortable."-Smith's
Weekly.
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terror pays q gOOC
deal of attention
to n of the terri.
tory's new indus
tries, that of os-
trich farming. Ac.
cording to his pre-.
dictiOns the for.
tunes to be made
out of ostrich
plumes are nor
certain a n d i n
time will be great.
er than those dug
out of the gold
bearing hills ani
mountains of that
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Good ThinO

Church-Why, he loved that girl
when she was only a baby on her moth
ers' knee!
Gotham-Oh, then, he knew she was
going to come into money all along.-
Yonkers Statesman.
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Tired Of Fruit.

Mrs. Benham-You used to say that
| was the apple of your eye.
Benham-Well, what of it?
Nothing, except that you don't
seem to care SO much for fruit as you
cnce did."-Cassell's Journal.
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Use Strong Perfumes.

Diplomatic day at the state depart
ment is quite an event. The ambassa-
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O|PL0MAT|CQUARREL
STRAINED RELATIONS IN THE
CORPS AT WASHINGTON.
JAP AND RUSS ARE FRIGID
South American Representatives Are
Given to the Use of Strong Per-
fumes That Are Obnoxious
Other Capital Gossip.

Washington.-Now that most of the
diplomatic corps have returned to
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Ostrich Farming.

The governor of Arizona in his an
nual report to the secretary of the in
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A Salmon Experiment

United States Fish Commissioner
Bowers is conducting a series of ex-
nnrinpntS tn de-
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Value of a Humorist.

In the general apathy that has pre-
vailed during this campaign political
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in It. mountains of that
country. Even
now ostrich farming is represented as
one of the most profitable of the indus
tries of Arizona. A farmer on Salt
river has a flock Of 1000 birds, from
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SENTENCED TO HARD LABOR.

"Of course you don't have to work OH
Thanksgiving, do you?"
Il should say l did. l always have to
carve the turkey."-Chicago Record.
Herald.