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the various establishments are pre-
served and sold, netting $4,000 an
nually.
There is need for every penny Of
this money, the expenses attendant on
the comfort Of the poor being enor
nous. To begin with, there are thir-
ty-two hospitals in Paris and twenty
eight asylums, some in the capital and
others rest resorts at the seaside or in
the mountains, which must be seen to.
Then there are pharmacies, butcher
shops, laundries. supply stores for the
poor. More than $4,000 is spent each
year on the care and extension of mu-
seums to instruct the poor, $4,000 on
books for them, and $4,000 in giving
them postage stamps to communicate
with their relatives.
No less than $155, 09e is devoted ex-
clusively each year to helping poverty
stricken mothers who might be tempted
to abandon their young children from
inability to feed them. All septuagena-
rians have the right to a minimum
pension of So a month and no ques-
tions asked. Others old or weak or
poorly paid, whatever their employ
ments draw. pensions OF from 81 to So
month. If they fall ill they have a
physician at their CALL, if the case is
Serious they ehave hospitals and SAN
atoria at their disposal
Fifty thousand Parisians depend alb
solutely for their income upon this sys-
TEN; 100000 are more than half de-
pendent upon it. Six thousand chill
dren are Supported, housed, fed and
educated; 10000 are kept under sur
veillanee and furnished with means
while left with relatives or friends.
Fortune Left to Buy Sugar PIums
Although the assistance pubique
has, generally speaking, a free hand in
managing the small estates of the Paris
poor, some testators have specified pre-
cisely what use is to be made Of their
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made it obligatory for the poor to re-
ceive each his share Of the general in
come. But the directorate decided that
forcing money upon people was little
too radical, and the rule was estab-
lished, still in force, that the money
and privileges belonged to the poor,
but they must apply for it and prove
their poverty.
Vast Estates of the "Poor"
The real estate owned by the Paris
poor and controlled for them by the
assistance publique represents an area
of nearly 100000 square feet. Thirty
years ago the area was almost double
this figure, but in view of the increased
eiously sold here and there and in
vested the proceeds otherwise.
The property includes II large houses
in Paris and numerous farms in the
suburbs, as well as 346 gardens and
grounds in Paris. The houses are rent
ed for 100000 as schools, factories or
apartments, whereas the grounds are
leased at $4,000 for all possible pur-
poses. BY the ingenious leasing of
privileges such as passage allowed
through certain grounds, windows al
lowed in the walls of adjacent houses,
ete-an additional $4,000 a year is
netted.
righteousness in gathering money
in order that more may be spent is a
notable trait of the assistance publique
administration. The hospitals, asylums,
home schools and other establishments
run for the benefit of the poor from
their own funds, necessitate numerous
incidental expenses, such as printing,
sewing, the manufacture Of shoes and
brushes, market gardening and pro-
duce. The assistance pGhlique found
that 1t cost practically no more to
slightly increase the output and by
selling the surplus $4,000 per year is
now realized. Even the leavings of
bones, grease, peelings and bread from
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money, while others have imposed con-
ditions, failing the fulfllment of which
the sum would be forfeited. Hospital
beds and scholarships are the uses
most frequently ordered. But others Of
more unexpected natures
One worthy woman who died an old
maid left an income Of $40 to be given
each year as a dowry to some deserving
girl. Numbers have since followed this
example, leaving sums varying between
$40 and 5000 to be given as dowries for
marriage or learning trades. A senti-
mental widow bequeathed $134 year
the poor. More practical, q man named
Moreau left SIC year for buying fian-
mel shirts Another man whose name,
Thibaud de Waxheim, proclaims him
foreigner to France and suggests per-
haps sad life of adventures before he
died in Paris, bequeathed. all he had,
representing an income of $3.50, to be
given each year to a boy orphan.
The records of .bequests made to- the
poor give singular insight into hu-
man nature. Piety and remorse seem
to have inspired most of the legacies;
vengeance against disliked relative
prompted others; while sheer seaptious-
ness seems to have governed many
Hundreds Of testators, leaving their
fortunes to the poor, have asked only
that an annual mass be said for their
souls, and the assistance publique
faithfully observing this part of its
trust, keeps several churches busy in
this way One benefaetor asked that
his family tomb be torn down and re-
placed by another of more graceful
model. a sketch of which was appended
to the will with request that 1t be
executed in granite. Gen. Fabyier, a
hero Of the Napoleonic wars, made the
Paris poor his residuary legatees on the
condition that the following epitaph be
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TO THE uNHApPiEsT OF MOTHERS

One testator founded three perpetual
hospital beds on condition that at the
head of each should stand statues of
four saints, Damien, Cosmo, Martin
and Margaret. Another left enough
money for three scholarships, with the
stipulation that each new beneficiary
should, as soon as chosen, sing the De
Profundis in memory of him. The
Baroness de Montaigne willed that each
year twelve children should be taught
trade from the interests on her es-
tates, the children being chosen by
drawing lots on which was written
God has been gracious to me-"
Whims of Other Donors
One of the principal benefactors
named Boulard, left his great fortune
on the sole understanding that those
benefiting by his charity should cele-i
brate his birthday each year by eating
fricasseed chicken. Thanks to another
request observed by the assistance
publique, an author who otherwise
would or perhaps should never have
been known to the world, came to light.
'I beg,"wrote Miss Zenobia Bousquet,
in her last will, that the executors who
settle my estate in favor of the poor.
shall have papa's works printed. I am
sure they deserve it, When the print
ing was done papa was no nearer to
fame than he had been, but the Paris
poor were richer by $4,000.
Family quarrels are responsible for
many large bequests. Gen. de Feu-
cheres left to the Paris poor $2,400,-
600, the totality of his wife's dowry.
He had thought he was marrying
royal princess and found out too late
that he had been royalty duped, and in
his indignation he refused to see her
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e->o
To be. helpful and good,
Unwearied procuring
The useful, the right:
A prototype so

To be helpful and good,
UnWearied procuring
The useful, the right:
A prototype so
OF the gods We grope after.
So cropping after gods, and finding
none, to this faith of his, both in his
precepts and his practice, he has GER
tainly been true. "The~ one command
ing law is that men shall do right, if
the very heavens fall" he says some
where. He is veritable Puritan in
politics, with passion for righteous
ness.
Much Interested in America
Most characteristic of the man waa
his presentation to Cambridge univer-
sity of the late Lord Acton's splendid
library, which Andrew Carnegie had
purchased as gift for his chum.
For some time,' he wrote to the
chancellor of the university, Il played
with the fancy of retaining the library
for my own use and delectation. But
I am not covetous of splendid passes7
sions; life is very short, and Such a
collection is filter for public and un-
dying institution than for any private
individual"
Sad rings that sentence-"life. is very
short'-from Mr. Morley, for he will
soon be within four years Of the al
IOIIeQ Span. 49,.
For many years he has wished to
visit America. Alfred Mosely wanted
him to come along when he. took out
his educational commission, but Mr..
Morley was then too busy with his
Life of Gladstone" to accept the in
vtation. Besides, as member of
delegation pledged to specific OBJ
iect he would hardly have found an
opportunity for doing much spying
around on his own account. He has
always been greatly interested in the
working machinery of American poll
tics. and is immensely pleased that he
will be able to witness the fierce bat
ties and final scenes of a presidential
election. Incidentally, while in New
York he will investigate Tammany a
bit and try to find out the secret of the
tigers strength. Educational and in
dustrial matters will engage lnueh OF
his attention, and generally he will try
to ascertain why Uncle Sam is forging
ahead of John Bull so fast. AS the
biographer of Golden and one of. the
great apostles of free trade 1t is not
likely, however, that he will become
convert to protection. He will be
heard occasionally in public, having
already consented to address the Pitts
burg Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 4.
He is one of the men who never per-
mits himself to be interviewed in Eng
land, and the American reporters will
probably find him as hard a PROPOSE
tion to tackle as the archbishop of Can
terbury.
Frederic Harland Morris.
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to ride behind the horse except when
on tolerably easy gradient. The
horse used to walk down the hill to
meet him and used to walk up again
in front of him, and it was not until
he reached the summit of the hill that
he entered the vehicle. While most
men can't abide cats, he is very partial
to them. preferring them to dogs. 1t
is perhaps because they are more adj
dicted to life Of quiet contemplation
and are not eternally on the go.
1t is rather curious to recall that
John Morley, who, when he first sought
to enter public life, was fercely as
sailed as an atheist, and denounced
from the pulpit because he once spell
ed God, Christ and the Holy Ghost
without the initial capital, was design
ed by his father, a Blackburn surgeon,
for the church. But in his oxford days
he fell under the influence of John
Stuart Mills teachings, and for him.
thereafter, the church was impossible.
1t was from Mills works he imbibed
that passion for justice which has al
ways distinguished him.
Coming to London in the early Cos,
when just over twenty, he sought to
make living by his pen, and went
through the usual Grub street expert
ence of young literary aspirants, at
one time having to sell some of his
beloved books to keep the wolf from
the door. But hard times did not last
long with him. His powers of logical
reasoning, combined with the charm
of his literary style, soon gained him
recognition, and he was invited to join
the band of brilliant young men who
were fighting the early battles of the
Saturday Review. The late Lord Sal
isbury, Sir William Hareourt and 9TH
er men who subsequently helped make
history were among his associates on
the Saturday Reviler, as it soon came
to be called. In 1867, when only twen-
ty-nine, he was made editor of the
Fortnightly Review, a position which
has been called the blue ribbon of the
English literary world. For fifteen
years he cont oiled it's destinies, and
meanwhile wrote some of his best
known books. Then he entered the
realm of daily journalism and for three
years was editor of the Pail Mall Ga
zette,-with w. T. Stead as his assistant.
Now Mr. Stead is first-class jour
nalist. though he has made several
found admiration for Mr. Morley, but
very different thing from running a
daily paper, and Mr.. Stead has frankly
stated his opinion that as a newspaper
editor Mr.. Morley was not success.
Mr.. Morley's mental characteristic,
he says in one of his character
sketches, sis not agility, but solidity.
This lack of nimbleness of mind was
drawback to him as an editor Of a
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again or touch her money. A vitriolic
old maid named Bonaime penned her
will as follows:
II wish that after my death all that
1 own shall be sold for the poor. My
family has no claim on me and can
raise no objections. They have shown
me only envy and jealousy. 1t is with
sense Of utmost qualification that +
leave what I have to people who have
done me neither good nor HARM"
Some seek an atonement. One sui
eide wrote: 1If I have resolved to
leave this world, it is because extreme
weakness no longer allows. me to bear
bravely the load of my slow and pain
full existence. My remorse at commit
ting an act contrary to religious law
leads me to hope thatsGod will forgive
me-"
Gen. de Laumiere.. killed before Pue-
bla in the Mexican war, was pursued
by compunction for having left tai
lor's bill unpaid. 81 beg my father
he wrote, ito seek In Paris one Jaquet
who was my tailor in 1884. I think I
must owe him 500 francs. If he or his
heirs can be found, 1900 francs are to
be given them. Otherwise. 2,000 shall
go to the Paris poor"
The Count de Chateaugiron wrote
on similar lines Il bequeath to the
Paris poor 500 francs, too slight rep
aration for the harm 1 have wrought
to creditors of my youth, whom I can
not find.'
Some slight dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed on the part Of the poor as to
the management of their property, and
a project is now on foot in virtue of
which the method of distributing mon
ey may be somewhat modified. The
minimum income allowed is, indeed,
only 27a cents q day given to those
who have other means. This sum, it
is said, is too insignificant to be of any
utility, and yet it is distributed so gen.
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Copyright, 1904. by Curtis Brown.

Copyright, 1904, by Curtis Brown.
m ARIs, Oct. 22-Rich indeed are
H. the Paris poor! They possess in
III their own right real estate
bringing in about 100000, and
stocks and bonds bringing in $250.0O0
per- anlHrnS they enjoy from various
sources clear income of more than
$7,000,O00; they have at their disposal
hospitals. sanatoria, asylums, schools,
lecture rooms and private physicians,
pensions for old age or illness or dis
ability. And all this not, as in other
cities, to be Solicited as a favor, but
coming to them as their due after the
simple formality of proving themselves
pauperS.
The truth is that no Partisan need
be. a paupeH unless he wants to be.
And the fact that from the total pop
ulation of 2,7I4,06S inhabitants 500, 900
OF. nearly one-ffth. are largely depend
ent upon the general revenues and in
stftHtions of the administration for the
poor would seem sufficient evidence
that, whatever the number of beggars
one may meet in the streets, few really
require help. N
Wnlie the EdflS poor came by their
wealth honestly through donations,
1egacies and state and city subven-
tions, the care of the vast property
thus represented could naturally not
be left to the poor collectively or to
any individuals among them. So an
organization known as the assistance
publique, with officers appointed by
the government to look after the pau
pers' wealth and invest it and dis
tribute its revenues in the fairest pos
sihle way, was devised. That was
nearly century and a quarter ago.
and through subsequent revolutions,
republics and, monarchies, it has con-
tinued to the present day with few
modificationsin its line of conduct save
that thes sums to be handled have
Quadrupled in recent years.
bRdeFo the revolution, in 1898, a law
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Gopyright;-59O4, by Curtis Brown.)
n ONDoNysOct. 22.-At last Andrew
Carnegie has succeeded in get
IL ting his particular crony, John
Morley-undoubted the most
intimate of his friends, and also the
man of late who has the most influ
ence over hirn-to promise to go with
him to America. So this interesting
pair will set forth in a few days, after
having talked it all over at Skibo cas-
tie for the last two weeks.
And the Right Hon. John Morley wilt
be worth seeing. He comes nearer than
anyone else to being the successor Of
his old friend Gladstone as England's s
most distinguished plain citizen, partly
because of his great name as man of
letters and partly because of the height
and general remoteness of the political
pinnacle on which he sits, looking down
rather sadly on the squabbling and
muddling that goes on below him.
There was a shrewd and sympathetic
picture of-Jofrn Morley in Israel Zang-
wills novel, 'The Mantle of Elijah,'
of which the statesman who is about to
visit. the United States for the first
IlIlle WAS ulilOQUlSOly Tile AcIO. InSTS-
in you can get some idea of the only
mansin political life on whom the king
has conferred the recently invented
Order of Merit-an order worth con-
siderably more to John Morley than
the peerage he could have had if he
had cared for such tawdry things as
cononetse -
CaTnegie's personal devotion to John
Morley is so pronounced as to have
become proverbial. Whenever the
statesman speaks. either in the COM
mons or on the stump, there-if he can
gets there's the Pittsburg- Skibo mil
lionaire, drinking in every word as il
it were gospel and applauding like n
schoolboyeeyery time he gets a chance.
Whenever Carnegie comes to London.
these two queerly assorted pals are
sure to be together most of the time,
and whenever the laird of SkiboNis in
the Highlands, the latchstring in al
ways out for his dearest friend.
Honest John"
1t is not to Morley's profound schol-
arshfp. his rare intellectual gifts. his
brilliant literary achievements or his
craftsmanship that he owes the unique
position Which he occupies in public
esteem here People may differ from
him on matters OF opinion-the ma
Jority have generally done so-but po-
htical friends and foes alike are all one
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daily paper. He was not born jour-
nalist. He was deficient in the range
Of his sympathies. DO power on earth
could command Mr.. -Morley's attention
in three -fourthS of the matter that fills
the papers. He is in intellect an aris-
tocrat He looked down with infinite
contempt on most of the trifles that in
terest the British tomfool, as the gem
eral reader used sometimes to be play
fully designated when considerations Of
management elashed with editorial as
pirationS. He had no eye for news and
he was totally devoid of the journal
istic instinct. To him newspaper was
simply a pulpit from which he could
preach, and as a preacher, like all of us
who are absorbed in our own ideas, he
was apt at times to be little monoto-
nous"
1t was rather hard on Stead to have
to submit to Morley's blue pencil and
to find his articles returned to him, as
he records, with all the most telling
passages struck out" for Morley was
a great stickler for severity of style
and restraint and SobFiety of express
sion.
But" writes Mr.. Stead, 'tthere was
never any trouble in the office. He be-
lieved in authority, and believed as
implicitly in obedience. No one ever
took~liberties with Mr.. Morley. Every
one went more or less in awe of him.
When the thundercloud gathered in his
eyes or the gout was prowling about
his extremities, we all minded our p's
and q's at the Pail Mall Gazette. But
we all liked him. and. for my part, l
had never worked with anyone before
with whom comradeship was at once
such pleasure and such stimu-
liant"
His Maiden Speech Failure
Morley was only twenty-seven when
he first tried to enter parliament-and
met with crushing defeat. Many years
he waited before trying again, and 1t
was not until he was forty-six that he
found a constituency with sufficient
faith in him to elect him. His career
in the house of commons has furnish
ed a striking exception to the rule that
only those who enter it in their young
manhood can achieve high parliament
tary renown. But his maiden speech
was a failure. 1t was carefully pre-
pared, full of weighty matter and read
beautifully, but as he painfully STUN
bled through it, with parehed tongue
and blanched face, it fell fat. 1t SEEM
destined to repeat the tragic parlia-
Stuart Mill.
one of the ablest speakers in the house
of commons was acquired by slow, dog
ged effort. He always had it in him,
but for several sessions could not get
it out. AS a platform orator he now
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His We'll Known Name

An English manufacturer who has just
returned from a tour in Scotland is relat-
ing an amusing incident which occurred
during his trip.
In a remote village in the lowlands he
came across an inhabitant of such vener-
able appearance that he stopped to chat
with him.
by the way, what is your name?" in
quired the treyelar. Robert Burns was
the answer. "Dear me, that's a very well
known name" mae doot it is, mon; I've
been blacksmith in this village for nigh on
sixty years. Kansas City Independent.
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placed as an eternal reproach on his
tomb:
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-12-31
Oyster Patea.

Chop three-quarters of a pound OF
cold, firm butter into a pound of -four.
When you have coarse powder. add
d small teacupful of iced water and
with spoon work into soft mass
Iurn upon Toured pastry board and
roll into thick sheet. Fold this IN
as you would sheet OF music and
roll out again, then fold up once more
ana once more roll out. Set on the Ice
Tor an hour or two, then roll into n
sheet half inch thick and cut into
rounds like biscuits Lay these In
piles of three layers and with n small
er cutter press half way through each
pile. Put into very hot oven and
bake quickly to golden brown. Take
from the oven, lift of the little cen.
tral round from each pate. and with
a spoon scoop out the soft inside
dough, leaving n cavity. Into this pur
creamed oyster mixture. Set in the
oven until very hot aud serve.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-12-31
Waters that Are Magnetic.

A reputable scientific publication Is
sponsor for the statement that there
exist In at least three places in the
State of Indiana springs or wells
whose waters possess marked magnet.
ism and are able to impart it to stee
objects dipped therein. This property
has been reported of other springs ir
various parts of the world, but such
tales have been received by scientific
men with caution
In this case the magnetism seems tC
arise from the fact that considerable
quantities Of carbonate of iron are dis
solved in the water. When it stands
for some time this decomposes into
carbOnic acid gas, which escapes, and
magnetic iron oxide, which falls to the
bottom Of the containing vessel as a
powder. When the decomposition has
ceased the water Is no longer mag
netic.
These springs are said to cause per-
ceptible deviation Of a compass nee
die, and a knife blade immersed for
five minutes In one Of the springs is
magnetized sufficiently to sustain nee
dies by it's point, retaining this prop
erty for thirty hours The water cor
rodes locomotive boilers, but when al.
lowed to stand still till the carbonate
has all decompOsed can be used with
impunlty.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-12-31
Progress Of American Press.

In addition TO Its other distinctions
the year 1904 marks the completion Of
two centuries since the first American
newspaper was started, ays Leslie's
Weekly. That paper was the Boston
News Letter, whose publisher and
editor was the postmaster of that
town. Although the News Letter con.
sisted of a sheet Of only7 inches by
1919, printed on both sides 1t was tn :
only paper that Englands colonies in
the new world had for over decade
and half. Philadelphia got the sec
ond paper established in America and
New York got the third All these
were technically weeklies, but often
| III the early days there we're Intervals
| of two or three weeks between their
| successive appearances. The first
daily paper in the new world was the
American Daily Advertiser, printed In
Philadelphia. After nearly century
had elapsed since the first newspaper
appeared on this continent--or In 1900
there were only fifteen dailies and
100 weeklies in the United States.
The contrast between those days
and to-day is striking. There are "a,
900 newspapers and periodicals. of all
sorts-weeklies, semi-weeklies, tri
Weeklies, monthlies and Quarterlies-
published In the United States in 1904
OF which 2,4OO are dailles and 10000
Weeklies. Any one or two or three
OF New York's daily papers of 1901
has a larger circulation than did nj
the daily and weekly papers published
in the United States In 1904.